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Paperback. Looking for some new business insights? Forget about Wall Street. Learn a lesson or two from Arthur Miller and David Mamet on Broadway. Put down Forbes and Fortune for once and spend an evening with Chaucer and George Bernard Shaw. You'll pass an enjoyable evening and discover some fresh new management perspectives. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; DSB; DSK; KJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471371687
- ISBN
- 9780471371687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.83
€ 34.99
€ 27.83
This volume excavates the biblical and classical sources behind three early modern treatises that denounce the numerous sins of the tongue that cause damage in the Elizabethan society. Num Pages: 300 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611474695
- ISBN
- 9781611474695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 146.66
€ 146.66
Paperback. Through readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems and the blues, this book covers a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. It is grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning. Num Pages: 436 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226703404
- ISBN
- 9780226703404
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.66
€ 40.99
€ 31.66
Hardback. Taking an innovative approach, Jane Winston's "Postcolonial Duras" radically revises our understanding of both Duras and a crucial swath of French cultural and literary history by studying each one through the lens of the other. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 2ADF; 3JJ; DSBH; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312240004
- ISBN
- 9780312240004
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Paperback. Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349444632
- ISBN
- 9781349444632
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.98
€ 65.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DND; 1DST; 2ACSD; DSBH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772899268
- ISBN
- 9788772899268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.91€ 40.41
€ 50.91
€ 40.41
Hardcover. Editor(s): Fenton, Mary C.; Schwartz, Louis. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duquesne
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820704883
- ISBN
- 9780820704883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.55€ 62.96
€ 74.55
€ 62.96
Paperback. The canon of eighteenth-century poetry has expanded to include women poets, laboring-class and provincial poets, and many unheard voices. This book questions some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history. Series: Longman Literature in English Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582227774
- ISBN
- 9780582227774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 80.72
€ 80.72
Hardcover. Drawing on extensive archival materials held in England, the United States, and Canada, Bernard Shaw and the BBC presents a vivid portrait of many contentious issues negotiated between Shaw and the public broadcaster. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802089205
- ISBN
- 9780802089205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.96
€ 54.96
Paperback. A study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them. It portrays those qualities that cohere about women in the poem. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSBB; HRGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031982
- ISBN
- 9780674031982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.78
€ 27.99
€ 24.78
Paperback. Approach places, times and states of mind in a mosaic of knowledge, invention, memory and entertainment with this collection of poems. The personal and the public interact in many poems and others address personal histories and their creative consequences, alongside mythological motifs. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 109.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857547528
- ISBN
- 9781857547528
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.17
€ 21.99
€ 19.17
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
€ 133.69
€ 133.69
paperback. An anthology of the personal/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research. This book represents various disciplines, including mathematics, sociology, psychology, literature, religion and legal history. It also chronicles the origins of autobiographical criticism. Editor(s): Freedman, Diane P.; Frey, Olivia. Num Pages: 512 pages, 7 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BGA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332138
- ISBN
- 9780822332138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 33.15
€ 35.99
€ 33.15
Hardback. Translator(s): Berberova, Nina; Janacek, Gerald. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632537
- ISBN
- 9780691632537
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.02
€ 106.02
Paperback. Contains the author's essays that are personal on the surface, and stresses upon what impresses her in really good literature. Num Pages: 149 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780803263314
- ISBN
- 9780803263314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.58
€ 18.99
€ 18.58
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251285
- ISBN
- 9780823251285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.01
€ 37.99
€ 34.01
Paperback. This volume brings torether poetics and psychology to study the tragic chorus in Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus". Employing a flexible combination of Lacanian and object-relations psychoanalytic theory, Travis investigates the tragic text's conception of the problems of human existence. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847696093
- ISBN
- 9780847696093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.60
€ 75.60
Paperback. Challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. This title shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 243 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691121468
- ISBN
- 9780691121468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.61
€ 46.99
€ 33.61
Paperback. From Frederick Douglass onwards, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. This title explores how in their own work three major African American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave narratives through the great novels of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252071959
- ISBN
- 9780252071959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.88
€ 23.99
€ 21.88
Hardback. "Complex Pleasure" deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers: Lessing, Kant, Hslderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729390
- ISBN
- 9780804729390
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.48
€ 149.48
Paperback. This study of Benjamin's "The Origin of German Tragic Drama" views it as a critique of anthropocentric historical thinking, which introduces an ethico-theological dimension. It reconstructs this dimension by analyzing the stones, animals and angels that are scattered throughout his writings. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA; DSBH; DSG; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520226845
- ISBN
- 9780520226845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.56
€ 35.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. In these brief, readable, and insightful essays, Fr. Milward delves into the poetry of Hopkins and his central ideas on God the Trinity, the self, nature and people Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781932589221
- ISBN
- 9781932589221
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.21
€ 37.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, viii, 256 p. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226873985
- ISBN
- 9780226873985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.77
€ 37.99
€ 29.77
Paperback. This critical study is based on research into all Owen's surviving papers and books and discusses the significance for his poetry of many little known elements in his life. Hibberd views his war poetry as the culmination rather than the rejection of his allegiance to Romanticism. Series: Studies in twentieth-century literature. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333491041
- ISBN
- 9780333491041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.80
€ 58.80