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Paperback. The first edition of its kind, The Great Fairy Tale Tradition is indispensable for students of fairy tales. Editor(s): Zipes, Jack. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 1008 pages, 20 illustrations, bibliog. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSY; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 892.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393976366
- ISBN
- 9780393976366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.78
€ 26.99
€ 23.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226519722
- ISBN
- 9780226519722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.45
€ 47.99
€ 37.45
Paperback. Acknowledges the impact of early grief on Wordsworth's poetry and integrates it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813. This title explains the importance of the poet's great, unfinished epic "The Recluse" to his work as a whole. It includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks. Num Pages: 400 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405113694
- ISBN
- 9781405113694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
paperback. Skirting the Ethical presents highly original readings of six pivotal works that, disrupting our conventional concept of morality, point us towards a non-prescriptive mode of ethics, as an ever-to-be-renewed rethinking that has much to do with the act of interpretation. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 figure, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757904
- ISBN
- 9780804757904
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
Paperback. This is the innovative, trail-blazing enquiry into the importance, range, and history of the publishers' series in America and in Britain, by the leading expert in this field. Series: Book History Series. Num Pages: 117 pages, 16 x colour, 9 x black & white. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DN; DSBF; KNTP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Edward Everett Root United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 ed
- Number of pages
- 117
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780954207533
- ISBN
- 9780954207533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.15
€ 55.15
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691601816
- ISBN
- 9780691601816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 59.42€ 46.44
€ 59.42
€ 46.44
Hardback. Takes the reader on an exploration of this genre, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1993. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1035.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 784
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810832602
- ISBN
- 9780810832602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 211.30
€ 211.30
Hardcover. From its first sentence to the last, this novella by Norman Maclean will captivate readers with its vivid images of the Blackfoot River, its tender yet realistic renderings of Maclean's father and brother and its uncanny blending of fly fishing with the affections of the heart. "Wise, witty, wonderful . . ".--Publishers Weekly. Illustrator(s): Moser, Barry. Num Pages: 161 pages, 13 2-color wood engravings. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226500607
- ISBN
- 9780226500607
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.83
€ 37.99
€ 29.83
paperback. Series: American Philological Association American Classical Studies. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 229 x 9. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A. United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780891303909
- ISBN
- 9780891303909
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.41
€ 47.41
paperback. Looking back not only at author's own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - he recalls the time when, poor, happy and writing in cafes, he discovered his vocation. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099285045
- ISBN
- 9780099285045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10. BIC Classification: ABK; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801444609
- ISBN
- 9780801444609
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.21
€ 72.21
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- James Currey United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847010131
- ISBN
- 9781847010131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.97
€ 114.97
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642741
- ISBN
- 9780691642741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.26
€ 150.26
hardcover. Figuring the Feminine argues that the bodies of women are crucial to the working out of such questions as the unsettling shift from orality to literacy, textual instability, cultural dissonance, and the resistance to cultural and religious hegemony. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780802090980
- ISBN
- 9780802090980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.61
€ 91.61
There was an active transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. This book situates this literature in its own historical terms. It addresses the shifting meanings of race and gender during this period and explores how black identity was cultivated within a capitalist economy. Editor(s): Carretta, Vincent; Gould, Philip. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3photos. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 1KB; 1KJ; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; JFSL3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122038
- ISBN
- 9780813122038
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.65
€ 47.65
Hardcover. Examines the attempts of several African American writers and playwrights to explore ruptures in memory after a traumatic experience and to develop creative strategies for understanding the inscription of trauma on the body in a racialized cultural context. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928838
- ISBN
- 9780813928838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.06
€ 59.06
Paperback. Tracing the move from the anticolonial, nationalist, and arabist literature of the early years to the relative cosmopolitanism and diversity of Maghrebi francophone literature today, this title draws on contemporary literary and postcolonial theory to "deterritorialize" its study. Series: Translation/Transnation. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 1HBM; 1HBT; 2ADF; DSBH; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691089379
- ISBN
- 9780691089379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.49
€ 46.99
€ 33.49
hardcover. A study of women's utopian spatial imagination in the 17th and 18th centuries, this book explores the correlation between identity and social space. The investigation is driven by conceptual questions, and seeks to link theoretical debates about space, gender and utopianism to historiographic debates about the social production of space. Series Editor(s): Poska, Professor Allyson M.; Zanger, Professor Abby. Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Num Pages: 208 pages, Includes 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780754652571
- ISBN
- 9780754652571
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.91
€ 185.91
Paperback. This edition of the anonymously-authored, Middle English poem, "Pearl", is offered with a verse translation, Middle English text, and a commentary. On each page, the Middle English text is faced with a Modern English verse translation. The book is designed for classroom use, specialists and others. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2 bibliographies, glossary. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268038113
- ISBN
- 9780268038113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.78
€ 36.78
Along with a fresh translation of Azuela's classic novel, this volume offers an introduction setting the work in its historical, literary, and political contexts. Related texts include contemporary reviews of Azuela's work, excerpts from John Reed's "Insurgent Mexico", and selections from Azuela's correspondence. Translator(s): Pellon, Gustavo. Num Pages: 192 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208353
- ISBN
- 9780872208353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Hardback. The "kissing-poem" genre was wide-spread in Renaissance literature; this book surveys its form and development. Series: Studies in Renaissance Literature. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844662
- ISBN
- 9781843844662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.97
€ 114.97
Hardback. Editor(s): Williams, Daniel G. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 29. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854114624
- ISBN
- 9781854114624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.38
€ 58.38
Paperback. This volume reflects on the late-1990s fascination with Sappho's "afterlife". The essays examine the changing interpretations of scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of Sappho's poetry. Editor(s): Greene, Ellen. Series: Classics and Contemporary Thought. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVGS; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206038
- ISBN
- 9780520206038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.68
€ 36.99
€ 26.68
Paperback. Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers and influence academic writing, both stylistically and conceptually. This title offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this perpetually relevant theorist. Translator(s): Winkler, Michael. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226772226
- ISBN
- 9780226772226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.82
€ 31.99
€ 24.82