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Hardback. A comprehensive critical analysis of 19 novels, Donna Jo Napoli: Writing with Passion provides an understanding of how Napoli's life and profession as a professor of linguistics influences her writing for young adults. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810874466
- ISBN
- 9780810874466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.23
€ 95.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSB; DSGS; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Paperback
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226763668
- ISBN
- 9780226763668
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 30.97
€ 40.99
€ 30.97
Paperback. Organised with the assistance of an international advisory committee of medievalists, this is a standard guide to the Latin language and literature of the period from c 200 AD to 1500. It should be useful for the study of Latin texts and documents in any fields of medieval studies. Editor(s): Mantello, F. A. C.; Rigg, A. G. Num Pages: 768 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; CFK; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 173 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813208428
- ISBN
- 9780813208428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.82
€ 58.82
Paperback. Series: New Accents. Num Pages: 334 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1900
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415606899
- ISBN
- 9780415606899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.78
€ 50.78
hardcover. This is the first and only guide to Scottish Romanticism. It captures the best of critical debate as well as presenting exciting new approaches to a distinctively Scottish Romanticism in literary theory, religious studies, music and song and the thematic use of non standard English. Editor(s): Pittock, Professor Murray. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748638451
- ISBN
- 9780748638451
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.08€ 90.12
€ 94.08
€ 90.12
paperback. In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, the author creates a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. It shows you a wily fox being outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock the author. Editor(s): Temple, Robert K.G. Translator(s): Temple, Olivia; Temple, Robert K.G. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140446494
- ISBN
- 9780140446494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
€ 9.75
Hardback. The themes of magic and the supernatural in medieval romance are here fully explored and put into the context of thinking at the time in this first full study of the subject. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 239 x 32. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842217
- ISBN
- 9781843842217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.36
€ 113.36
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 494
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135469
- ISBN
- 9781571135469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.82
€ 130.82
Paperback. This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 275.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780823242559
- ISBN
- 9780823242559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.45
€ 33.99
€ 33.45
Paperback. The modern era in the theatre is remarkable for the extraordinary role and influence of theoretical practitioners, whose writings have shaped our sense of the possibilities and objectives of performance. This study offers a critical exploration of the theoretical writings of modern practitioners. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ANC; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 143 x 220 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333775424
- ISBN
- 9780333775424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 38.69
€ 46.99
€ 38.69
Paperback. Series: Shofer Supplements in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 267.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557536013
- ISBN
- 9781557536013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.09
€ 53.09
Paperback. In this account of the symbolic network or organizing myth that underlies Goethe's poetry the author aims to elaborate an interpretation of Goethe's lyric poetry and to demonstrate the significance of that poetry to the development of European Romanticism. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 484 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726948
- ISBN
- 9780804726948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 39.99
€ 40.99
€ 39.99
Paperback. Series: Focus Classical Library. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585101481
- ISBN
- 9781585101481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.27
€ 17.99
€ 14.27
Paperback. By investigating the minutest details of life among dysfunctional household items through the discourses of philosophy and science, as well as in literary works by Laurence Sterne, Jean Paul, Friedrich Theodor Vischer, and Heimito von Doderer, Kreienbrock reconsiders the modern bourgeois poetics that render things the way we know and suffer them. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823245291
- ISBN
- 9780823245291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.89
€ 33.99
€ 33.89
Paperback. Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, this book locates the works, which reflect crises in the evolution of Western law in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114705
- ISBN
- 9780691114705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.80€ 45.66
€ 58.80
€ 45.66
Paperback. Recovering politically potent poems aiming from "the long lost father of modern Black poetry" Editor(s): Tidwell, John Edgar. Series: American Poetry Recovery Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780252074684
- ISBN
- 9780252074684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.81
€ 24.99
€ 24.81
Hardcover. This book examines Willa Cather's conceptions through her numerous works. Hively's study combines Cather's interest in the historians, the philosophers, and the mythographers, to examine nine of her novels on three levels. Num Pages: 212 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819194817
- ISBN
- 9780819194817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.08
€ 110.08
Paperback. Where did American literature start? The familiar story of Emerson and Thoreau has them setting up shop in Concord, Massachusetts, and determining the course of American writing. This title overhauls this story of origins as it shifts the context for these literary giants from the civilized East to the wide-open spaces of the Louisiana Purchase. Num Pages: 213 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; 2ABM; DSB; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 45.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press California
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520231856
- ISBN
- 9780520231856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.73
€ 33.99
€ 24.73
Hardback. An examination of the ways major modernist novels use the physical book to track the passing of time in which reading necessarily unfolds, this study explores the sense of finitude and transience that the works of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf share with and transmit to their readers. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270972
- ISBN
- 9780823270972
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.82
€ 112.82
Hardback. The author is one of the most celebrated and influential American poets. A stylist of the highest order, he imbued his correspondence with the literary artistry he brought to his poetry. This title deals with his works. Editor(s): Smith, Rod; Baker, Peter; Harris, Kaplan. Num Pages: 512 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 545
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520241602
- ISBN
- 9780520241602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.68€ 50.14
€ 64.68
€ 50.14
Paperback. This volume offers comprehensive analyses and new translations of Kalidasa's three extant plays: "Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection," "Urvasi Won by Valor," and "Malavika and Agnimitra." Num Pages: 387 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 387
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231058391
- ISBN
- 9780231058391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 38.90
€ 54.99
€ 38.90
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955507953
- ISBN
- 9780955507953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.37
€ 27.99
€ 25.37
Paperback. This incisive biography begins withthe spectacularly tragic last day of the militant Japanese novelist, perhaps best known for his monumental four-book masterpiece The Sea of Fertility. Num Pages: 352 pages, 39. BIC Classification: 2GJ; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815410744
- ISBN
- 9780815410744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.56
€ 20.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JMM; JMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138654211
- ISBN
- 9781138654211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.30
€ 58.30