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Hardback. Theatres of War is the first full-length study to be devoted to the 'Committed' theatre that flourished in modern France from 1944 to the mid-1950s. During this crucial decade, authors responded to the issues of their time by contributing a number of tense controversial plays to a distinctive genre of realist theatre. Editor(s): Freeman, E. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCQ; DSBB; DSBH; DSC; DSG. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 515.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859894852
- ISBN
- 9780859894852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.73
€ 132.73
Paperback. * Challenges the idea that Modernism was conservative and reactionary. * Relates the modernist impulse to broader cultural and historical crises and movements. * Provides a guide to the development of Modernist literature. * Covers women writers, writers of the Harlem Renaissance and openly gay and lesbian writers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631213079
- ISBN
- 9780631213079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.14
€ 50.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; 3JJ; DSBH; HBJF; HBTB; HBTW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 239 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146630
- ISBN
- 9780231146630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.95
€ 36.99
€ 26.95
Hardcover. Contains important statements regarding the poet's personality, Roman sexual morality, attitudes to love and marriage, and the practice and psychology of ancient religion. This work subjects the two poems to analysis, and yields insights into the ritual drama enacted, the mythical and erotic dimensions, and the depiction of male and female. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772882888
- ISBN
- 9788772882888
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.37
€ 34.37
paperback. "An extraordinary acute interpretation of these poets and their aims and accomplishments." -Virginia Quarterly Review Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393007206
- ISBN
- 9780393007206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.27
€ 26.99
€ 23.27
Hardback. Series: American Philological Association Philological Monographs. Num Pages: 676 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGT; DN; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1162.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 676
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555401115
- ISBN
- 9781555401115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.22
€ 116.22
Paperback. This book, first published in 2000, examines Romantic poetry in relation to the philosophical, political and anthropological discourse of the period. Series Editor(s): Butler, Marilyn; Chandler, James. Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780521028202
- ISBN
- 9780521028202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.17
€ 52.17
Paperback. This is the definitive edition (including drafts, notes, and ancillary materials) of Paul Celan's Meridian, the most important poetological manifesto of the second half of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Boschenstein, Bernhard; Schmull, Heino. Translator(s): Joris, Pierre. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739528
- ISBN
- 9780804739528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Hardback. Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Editor(s): Archibald, Elizabeth; Johnson, David F. Series: Arthurian Literature. Num Pages: 220 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843863
- ISBN
- 9781843843863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.00
€ 96.00
Paperback. The first major work of literature written in Catalan and arguably the first European novel. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADC; DSBB; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Bilingual
- SKU
- V9781855663046
- ISBN
- 9781855663046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.32
€ 26.99
€ 26.32
Hardback. Series: Clemson University Press. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Clemson University Digital Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781942954231
- ISBN
- 9781942954231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.12
€ 140.12
Hardback. The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804794459
- ISBN
- 9780804794459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 146.57
€ 146.57
Hardcover. Offers a study of the English translations of Hans Christian Andersen's "Tales and Stories", and of the people who made them. This book demonstrates the interdependence of the English translations, many of which prove to have been made with little or no use of the original Danish text. Num Pages: 389 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 185 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1010.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 389
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788778388568
- ISBN
- 9788778388568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.11
€ 36.99
€ 27.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816649969
- ISBN
- 9780816649969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.93
€ 26.99
€ 26.93
Hardcover. A Companion to Greek Mythology presents a series of essays that explore the phenomenon of Greek myth from its origins in shared Indo-European story patterns and the Greeks contacts with their Eastern Mediterranean neighbours through its development as a shared language and thought-system for the Greco-Roman world. Editor(s): Dowden, Ken; Livingstone, Niall. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 672 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HRKP3; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 177 x 254 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405111782
- ISBN
- 9781405111782
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 206.11
€ 206.11
Hardcover. How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio - a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years later to Shakespeare (and Fletcher). Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745661841
- ISBN
- 9780745661841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.81
€ 71.81
Hardback. Examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. This book also demonstrates the importance of gender, kinship, and sexuality to the making of democratic civic ideology. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSG; JFC; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691115832
- ISBN
- 9780691115832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.20€ 66.96
€ 88.20
€ 66.96
Paperback. This title is a selection of the poetry of John Gay (1685-1732) who was part of the 'association of wits' that included Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift. His wit is characterised by a benign and ironic sense of the fallibility of humankind. Num Pages: 95 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 95
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547023
- ISBN
- 9781857547023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.44
€ 12.44
Hardback. The letters in this volume record the last years of Mrs. Piozzi's life. Her correspondence from 1817 to 1821 reads like extensions of her private journals and may be seen as affirmation of hope and ambition as well as decelarations of frustration, grief, anger, and self-pity. Num Pages: 576 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; BJ; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 983.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133950
- ISBN
- 9780874133950
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 176.83
€ 176.83
Hardback. From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this book presents the literature and culture of the American South. It includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region. It explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Huston. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 672 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; DSB; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 186 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631224044
- ISBN
- 9780631224044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.44
€ 197.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157834
- ISBN
- 9780231157834
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.96
€ 36.99
€ 26.96
Hardback. Papers presented at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association held at Princeton University. Editor(s): Meer, Zubin. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739122648
- ISBN
- 9780739122648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.66
€ 150.66
Paperback. This book presents a critical analysis of Portuguese Nobel Laureate Jos Saramagos three novels, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989). Num Pages: 207 pages. BIC Classification: 1DS; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536976
- ISBN
- 9781557536976
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.09
€ 58.09
Paperback. The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examines the entire canon of Spenser's work and the social and intellectual environments in which it was produced. It explores technical matters of style, language, and metre, the poet's use of sources and subtexts, and the reception of his work amongst editors, critics, writers, and visual artists. Editor(s): McCabe, Richard A. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 852 pages, 23 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 173 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198709671
- ISBN
- 9780198709671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.08
€ 77.08