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Hardcover. EPUB Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 393 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 27. Weight in Grams: 598.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278455
- ISBN
- 9780230278455
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€ 68.31
€ 68.31
Paperback. Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the Untied States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297740
- ISBN
- 9781349297740
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. First printed in the United States during the American Revolution, the Bible underwent many revisions, translations, and changes in format as different editors and publishers appropriated it to meet a wide range of changing ideological and economic demands. Num Pages: 276 pages, 45 half-tones 4 tables 3 graphs 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 582.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804743396
- ISBN
- 9780804743396
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854113627
- ISBN
- 9781854113627
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 37.10
€ 43.99
€ 37.10
Hardcover. Considering how literary texts address the transformations that Brazil has undergone since its 1985 transition to democracy, this study proposes that Brazilian contemporary literature is informed by the struggle for social, civil, and cultural rights and that literary production has created spaces for historically disenfranchised communities. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADP; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277558
- ISBN
- 9781137277558
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Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. A Companion to Ancient Epic presents for the first time a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman epic. It offers a multidisciplinary discussion of both long-standing ideas and newer perspectives. Editor(s): Foley, John. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 696 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 188 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 696
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405105248
- ISBN
- 9781405105248
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Condition: New
€ 222.25
€ 222.25
paperback. Hyperides was ranked in antiquity as second in greatness only to Demosthenes amongst the Ten Attic Orators. His execution in 322 BC for opposition to Macedonian rule left Dinarchus as the last of the Ten to survive. Editor(s): Worthington, Ian. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages, text, translation and commentary. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856683077
- ISBN
- 9780856683077
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Condition: New
€ 69.80
€ 69.80
Hardback. * A major new examination of the ways in which Vidal's writings on history, politics, sex and religion throw into focus our understandings of the United States. * Ranges widely - from Vidal's defence of homosexuality in his earliest works to his most recent writings on the war in Iraq. Series: Polity Celebrities Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745633626
- ISBN
- 9780745633626
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Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Paperback. Challenges the view that the fifteenth century was the 'Drab Age' of English literary history. This book seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. It shows how the poets, and scribes constructed Chaucer as the 'poet laureate' Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691029238
- ISBN
- 9780691029238
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Condition: New
€ 53.00€ 42.58
€ 53.00
€ 42.58
Hardback. A comprehensive collection of 20th century research on Joseph Conrad, this volume outlines the shift from a humanist and anthropological interest in Conrad as a 'metaphysical' author to the appreciation of Conrad as a nihilist and skeptic of the modernist epoch. Editor(s): Seeber, Ulrich; Windisch, Martin; Goebel, Walter. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880336178
- ISBN
- 9780880336178
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.85
€ 23.99
€ 17.85
Hardback. This work examines ethical problems raised by a number of key 20th century theoretical and fictional texts by authors such as Levinas, Sartre, Beauvoir, Yourcenar, Duras and Genet. It argues that even ethical texts frequently depict conflict as an insurmountable aspect of human relations. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333733714
- ISBN
- 9780333733714
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Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardback. This volume focuses on the adaptation of Greek tragedy between 1970 and 2005 in order to interrogate the relationship between tragedy and postmodernism; analysis of a range of adaptations from this period demonstrates intertextual engagements with prototype texts that have much in common with the main ideas expressed in poststructuralist thought. Series: Classical Presences. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199664115
- ISBN
- 9780199664115
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Condition: New
€ 157.79
€ 157.79
Hardback. Following the vicissitudes of friendship between the sexes in some of England's key writers, the author traces a history of idioms for today's friendships--their vulnerability, limits, and potential for change. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721684
- ISBN
- 9780804721684
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Condition: New
€ 168.52
€ 168.52
Hardcover. In contrast to many 20th-century Swift studies, this text looks at Jonathan Swift as a practical exponent of the popular and impressario of the literary image, and thus provides a view of print culture, the commodification of the author and the history of popular culture. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 423.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239596
- ISBN
- 9780312239596
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Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Paperback. Editor(s): Ching, Barbara; Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149174
- ISBN
- 9780231149174
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.68
€ 36.99
€ 27.68
Paperback. Featuring contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century. Editor(s): O'Neill, Michael; Callaghan, Madeleine. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631215103
- ISBN
- 9780631215103
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Condition: New
€ 42.59
€ 42.59
Hardback. This annotated bibliography is a record of all editions, translations, and scholarship written on The Monk's Tale and the Nun's Priest's Tale in the twentieth century with a view to revisiting the former and creating a comprehensive scholarly view of the latter. Editor(s): Goodall, Peter. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate; (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 29. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 530
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802093202
- ISBN
- 9780802093202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.97
€ 128.97
Hardcover. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403976130
- ISBN
- 9781403976130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Women's Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity: The M...
Joannou, Mary, Joannou, Maroula
Hardcover. An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230285774
- ISBN
- 9780230285774
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by studying the texts. They will be of use to those teaching and studying African American women's writing in colleges, universities and adult education groups as well as teachers involved in teaching in schools to A level. Editor(s): Wisker, Gina. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003460
- ISBN
- 9780230003460
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Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Paperback. A philosophical exploration of Suzanne Collins's New York Times bestselling series, just in time for the release of The Hunger Games movie Katniss Everdeen is "the girl who was on fire," but she is also the girl who made us think, dream, question authority, and rebel. Editor(s): Michaud, Nicolas; Dunn, George A. Series Editor(s): Irwin, William. Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118065075
- ISBN
- 9781118065075
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Condition: New
€ 22.78
€ 22.78
Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; JFFK; JFSJ; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349534470
- ISBN
- 9781349534470
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Series: Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions. Num Pages: 608 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1FC; 3H; 3J; DSB; HBTB; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 233 x 40. Weight in Grams: 946.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271010731
- ISBN
- 9780271010731
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Condition: New
€ 55.29€ 47.91
€ 55.29
€ 47.91
Paperback. An anthology that traces the representation of consciousness and mind creation in English literature from 700 to the present. Editor(s): Herman, David. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803211179
- ISBN
- 9780803211179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.36
€ 36.99
€ 34.36