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Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSR; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611484045
- ISBN
- 9781611484045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.06
€ 145.06
Hardback. Compiling in one volume the basic writings of these three seminal thinkers of ancient China, each from a different philosophical school, this book reveals the richness and diversity of the ancient Chinese intellectual world. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Num Pages: 480 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 38. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1967
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- n
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231025157
- ISBN
- 9780231025157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.92€ 56.44
€ 72.92
€ 56.44
Hardback. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 189 x 32. Weight in Grams: 962.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810859043
- ISBN
- 9780810859043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 175.61
€ 175.61
Paperback. In the nineteenth century, Alfred the Great was a figure who rivalled King Arthur in the popular imagination. This book asks why Alfred was so important in Victorian Britain, examines the ways in which he was rewritten by authors and artists of the time, and investigates how Alfred is no longer a national icon. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; ACV; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719073571
- ISBN
- 9780719073571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.65
€ 26.99
€ 26.65
Hardcover. Drawing from the fields of literature, politics, law and history, the contributors make visible the political and ethical terms of "Invisible Man", while simultaneously illuminating Ellison's understanding of democracy and art. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813123127
- ISBN
- 9780813123127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.96
€ 46.96
Hardback. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403987785
- ISBN
- 9781403987785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.20€ 78.47
€ 88.20
€ 78.47
Hardback. A study of the representation of astrology and celestial portents in the medieval and later literature of Ireland and Wales, Fiery Shapes examines the mysterious figure of the druid, who was allegedly able to read the future from rainclouds; Taliesin and Merlin; and the Welsh gentleman poet of the later Middle Ages and beyond. Num Pages: 256 pages, Six black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; DSBB; DSBD; HBLC1; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9780199571840
- ISBN
- 9780199571840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 197.40
€ 197.40
Hardcover. Explores the performative role of canonical literary works from the 1920s, providing a more nuanced understanding of high modernism and resituating it within literary history. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139108
- ISBN
- 9781571139108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.34
€ 96.34
Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett
Innes, C.D.; Marker, Frederick J.
Paperback. This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most influential European proponents of modernism in the European Drama: Ibsen, Strandberg, Pirandello and Beckett. Editor(s): Innes, Christopher; Marker, Frederick J. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802082060
- ISBN
- 9780802082060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 38.16
€ 40.99
€ 38.16
Hardback. Highlights references to nineteenth-century US slavery and anti-Black racism in literary and photographic projects begun during the late 1920s and early 1930s, including novels by William Faulkner and Nella Larsen. In this book, each text explores the conservative, even coercive social character of such links between psyche and history. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780823231478
- ISBN
- 9780823231478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.33
€ 59.33
Paperback. Features the Victorians' fascination with the old north. This title explores the ways in which the terms 'Viking' and 'Viking Age', both unknown in 1800, were invented, explored and popularised during the nineteenth century. It presents an account of the construction and translation of the Viking Age in Queen Victoria's Britain. Num Pages: 456 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AB; DSB; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- D.S. Brewer
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859916448
- ISBN
- 9780859916448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.57
€ 40.99
€ 33.57
Hardcover. Anamorphic devices challenge viewers to experience different forms of perceptual oscillation and uncertainty. This title seeks to demonstrate that much of the literature of the Spanish Golden Age is susceptible, and indeed requires, oblique readings. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557532275
- ISBN
- 9781557532275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.00
€ 69.00
Hardback. An analysis of the complex relations between narrative, theory, interpretation and homosexuality in the work of Marcel Proust, Roland Barthes, Michel Tournier and Renaud Camus. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724173
- ISBN
- 9780804724173
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.04
€ 81.04
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691136127
- ISBN
- 9780691136127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 32.93
€ 46.99
€ 32.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Edition
- Original paperback
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572411562
- ISBN
- 9781572411562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.84
€ 29.99
€ 21.84
Hardback. Editor(s): Biderman, Shai; Lewit, Ido. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231176446
- ISBN
- 9780231176446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.49€ 78.42
€ 103.49
€ 78.42
Paperback. In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631168140
- ISBN
- 9780631168140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.37
€ 51.37
Paperback. Editor(s): Hand, Felicity; Firth, Kathleen. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: AS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900715409
- ISBN
- 9781900715409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.56
€ 28.56
Hardback. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures. Editor(s): Mostow, Joshua S. Num Pages: 700 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; 2G; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 700
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113144
- ISBN
- 9780231113144
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.30€ 107.00
€ 142.30
€ 107.00
Paperback. Sheaffer's two-volume biography of American platwright Eugene O'Neill-the second volume of which won a Pulitzer Prize-makes use of previously unknown documents and numerous interviews to present an insightful look at O'Neill's troubled life. Num Pages: 568 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815412434
- ISBN
- 9780815412434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.14
€ 25.14
Hardcover. Editor(s): Salwak, Dale. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445. Keywords: "Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - Literary Studies,Subjects - Biography - General,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - General,S"
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KHS0048261
- ISBN
- 9781403904768
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000311
- ISBN
- 9781845194192
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Eighteenth-Century Brechtians is a collection of essays by a well-known author on comic and radical political theatre. It looks at stage satires by John Gay, Henry Fielding, George Farquhar, Charlotte Charke, David Garrick and their contemporaries through the lens of Brecht's theory and practice. Series: Exeter Performance Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; AN; DSBD; DSG; HBJD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859899970
- ISBN
- 9780859899970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.49
€ 134.49
paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 384
- SKU
- KRA0006680
- ISBN
- 9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95