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Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801476631
- ISBN
- 9780801476631
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. A critical study of the work of contemporary American novelist Don DeLillo, which includes the comments of rock critics, syndicated columnists and scholars of American literature. It contains an expanded "Rolling Stone" interview with the author and extracts from his novels. Editor(s): Lentricchia, Frank. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822311447
- ISBN
- 9780822311447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.45
€ 27.99
€ 26.45
Hardcover. Presents a survey of the literature of Greece and Rome that covers the period between Homer around 700 BC and Augustine around AD 410. This title highlights what is important historically and of continuing interest and value in classical literature. Each chapter focuses on a particular genre or area of literature. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 368 pages, 4. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 688.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631231325
- ISBN
- 9780631231325
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.99
€ 142.99
Hardback. Connects the woman healer and the go between in early Iberian literature to the concurrent professionalisation of medicine Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754528
- ISBN
- 9780838754528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.44
€ 116.44
Paperback. Using Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and many of his essays as a starting point, Kenneth W. Warren argues that Ellison expresses the problem of who. or what could represent and speak for the Negro in an age of limited political representation. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 319. Weight in Grams: 208.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226873800
- ISBN
- 9780226873800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.01
€ 31.99
€ 25.01
paperback. This study offers a broad range of approaches to medieval society's understanding of mothering and the uses to which the practice and imagery of mothering could be assumed by females and males alike. Editor(s): Parsons, John Carni; Wheeler, Bonnie. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 402 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBLC; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Routledge United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815336655
- ISBN
- 9780815336655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.05
€ 60.05
Hardback. Offering a new approach to narrative theory by arguing that chance is the unrepresentable Other of narrative, this book traces the theme of chance in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Joseph Conrad's Chance, and James Joyce's Ulysses, and relates the novelistic treatment of chance to philosophical and scientific thinking. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721745
- ISBN
- 9780804721745
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.92
€ 82.92
Hardcover. According to traditional narratives of immigrant assimilation, Jews freely surrendered Yiddish language and culture in their desire for an American identity. This book offers a challenge to this conventional literary history, returning readers to a threshold where Americanization also meant ambivalence and resistance. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14 illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2ACY; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631514
- ISBN
- 9780815631514
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.46
€ 44.46
Hardback. The first major study of the profound impact of international communist politics and culture on Spanish letters Series: Hispanisms. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADS; DSB; JPA; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252034695
- ISBN
- 9780252034695
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.88
€ 49.88
Paperback. Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched. This work reflects the fields that Bal has most profoundly influenced: literary study, interdisciplinary methodology, visual analysis, and postmodern theology. This work brings together a collection of her work that distills her broad interests and areas of expertise. Num Pages: 496 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 722.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226035857
- ISBN
- 9780226035857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.27
€ 52.99
€ 41.27
Editor(s): Calotychos, Vangelis. Num Pages: 258 pages, 12 black & white halftones, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 2AHM; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSC; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611474657
- ISBN
- 9781611474657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.32
€ 137.32
Paperback. Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSGS; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137564320
- ISBN
- 9781137564320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.30
€ 64.30
Hardback. This work argues that adaptation (hon'an) was a valid form of contemporary Japanese translation that fostered creative appropriation across many genres and among a diverse group of writers and artists. In addition, it invites readers to reconsider adaptation in the context of translation theory. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; CFP; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312239954
- ISBN
- 9780312239954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.25
€ 64.25
Paperback. Editor(s): Ebbesen, Sten. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 172 x 14. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772899237
- ISBN
- 9788772899237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.28
€ 38.99
€ 28.28
Hardback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABC; CFFD; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816631858
- ISBN
- 9780816631858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.42
€ 51.42
Paperback. Editor(s): Knight, Stephen. Series: MIP Teams Middle English Texts Series. Num Pages: 738 pages, 72 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 184 x 258 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1304.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Medieval Institute Publications United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 738
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580440677
- ISBN
- 9781580440677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.72
€ 53.72
Hardback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5753 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346661
- ISBN
- 9780822346661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.81
€ 115.81
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
€ 13.99€ 12.52
€ 13.99
€ 12.52
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135384
- ISBN
- 9781571135384
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.17
€ 98.17
Paperback. Recovers the history of 19th- and early-20th-century African-American reading societies. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 440 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329954
- ISBN
- 9780822329954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HRCL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632278
- ISBN
- 9780691632278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.81
€ 108.81
Paperback. A collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. It covers the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. It features theories of Native literature, the history of Native literature studies, and themes of trauma and memory as well as changing mythologies. Editor(s): Pulitano, Elvira. Num Pages: 336 pages, Index. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803260344
- ISBN
- 9780803260344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.49
€ 27.99
€ 26.49
Paperback. Offers a sustained reading of Blanchot's The Step Not Beyond that is prepared by interpretive presentations of a number of his important writings of the post-war period Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251032
- ISBN
- 9780823251032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Hardcover. "Rulin waishi" (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is an 18th century landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. Through a close reading of this novel, the author seeks answers to such questions as: what accounts for the literati's enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010956
- ISBN
- 9780674010956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07