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Hardback. This 26th annual volume of the Index was produced with the cooperation of 298 periodicals from Canada, US, and the Caribbean, and includes nearly 7000 entries for individual poets, and over 20,000 entries for individual poems. Series: Index of American Periodical Verse. Num Pages: 682 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; DSBH; DSC; GBCR; GBCY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 40. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 682
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810835450
- ISBN
- 9780810835450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 228.04
€ 228.04
Paperback. Translator(s): Ladinsky, Daniel. Num Pages: 67 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 213 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 67
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140196238
- ISBN
- 9780140196238
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.69
€ 20.99
€ 18.69
Paperback. A ground-breaking collection of newly-commissioned essays on medieval literature and culture. Encourages students to think beyond a narrowly defined canon and conventional disciplinary boundaries. Reflects the erosion of the traditional, rigid boundary between medieval and early modern literature. Editor(s): Brown, Peter. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 688 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 173 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 688
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405195522
- ISBN
- 9781405195522
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Condition: New
€ 57.22
€ 57.22
Paperback. Editor(s): Hanawalt, Barbara A. Series: Mediaeval Studies at Minnesota S. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816620203
- ISBN
- 9780816620203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.14
€ 27.99
€ 26.14
Hardback. Carefully surveys the Greek literary experience of fifteen hundred years. Num Pages: 327 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 23. Weight in Grams: 681.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1950
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 327
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231017671
- ISBN
- 9780231017671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.83
€ 132.83
Hardcover. Overviewing the legal thriller, where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and judges, this book takes a gender focused approach to analyzing recent titles and argues for the genre both in the way its narrative pattern parallels that of an actual court trial, and how it reflects the concerns of contemporary society. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407290
- ISBN
- 9781137407290
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. This collection asks pressing questions about how and why we study performances of Renaissance drama, challenging prevailing views and suggesting new methodologies for the field. How does an emphasis on Shakespeare limit us? What can we learn from non-traditional theatre? Why should we rethink the value of studying what happens onstage? Editor(s): Werner, Sarah. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230205307
- ISBN
- 9780230205307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642710
- ISBN
- 9780691642710
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.20
€ 113.20
Hardback. Translator(s): Walsh, Donald D. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643908
- ISBN
- 9780691643908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.26
€ 112.26
Hardback. In the 1890s, when Henry James turned to the theatre, he was unceremoniously booed off the stage. Since the 1940s and 50s his fiction has nevertheless been consistently interpreted by composers and film directors. This book traces the historical development of these adaptations. Editor(s): Bradley, John. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJP; AN; APF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333792148
- ISBN
- 9780333792148
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.60
€ 128.60
Hardcover. A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545787
- ISBN
- 9781137545787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403972224
- ISBN
- 9781403972224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.23
€ 139.23
Hardback. Explores the construction and emergence of 'Bohemia' in American literature and culture. This title presents a study that follows la vie boheme from its earliest expressions in the US until its explosion in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804760836
- ISBN
- 9780804760836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.24
€ 86.24
Hardback. The displacement in science of positivist notions of observation by a realist model of knowledge provided inspiration for Japanese writers. This work looks at the ideological incarnations of scientific realism in modernist works. It focuses on the struggle of science and art to reclaim the invisible as an object of representation and belief. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 32. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674027947
- ISBN
- 9780674027947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.70
€ 44.99
€ 37.70
Hardback. Brings together the important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, to provide a contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. This book aims to understand the likenesses and differences which existed between Israel and the surrounding cultures. Editor(s): Pritchard, James B. Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East. Num Pages: 744 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSBB; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 285 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1926.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 548
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691035031
- ISBN
- 9780691035031
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 204.27€ 161.01
€ 204.27
€ 161.01
Hardback. This title records the the details of the relationships W.B. Yeats had with important figures in the cultural and public life of his time and traces his prolific literary output, providing a vivid witness to an extraordinarily important, rich and crowded life. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 641.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333460061
- ISBN
- 9780333460061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.99
€ 128.99
Mapping Malory: Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Mor...
Kenneth Hodges Dorsey Armstrong
Hardcover. Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial element in Sir Thomas Malory's M orte Darthur and contributors shine a light on questions of politics and genre to help readers better understand Malory's world. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 244 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034854
- ISBN
- 9781137034854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.45
€ 127.45
Paperback. This collection of essays by leading and emergent critics of twentieth-century fiction offers a wide-ranging and provocative reassessment of the British novel's achievements after modernism. Editor(s): Mackay, M.; Stonebridge, Lyndsey. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349540877
- ISBN
- 9781349540877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book analyzes the relation between print cultures and eighteenth-century literary and political practices and, identifying Queen Anne's England as a crucial moment in the public life of gossip, offers readings of key texts that demonstrate how gossip's interpretative strategies shaped readers' participation in the literary and public spheres. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230546714
- ISBN
- 9780230546714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.49
€ 67.49
Paperback. Presents a brief history about the Jews in Babylon (Iraq), and their Hebrew creativity. This book focuses on the years 1735-1950 and presents the secular Hebrew poetry written in Babylon at that time, the folktales, journalistic articles, and epistles, research of Hebrew literature, a story and a play. Num Pages: 247 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 2CSJ; DSB; HBJF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557535146
- ISBN
- 9781557535146
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.66
€ 56.66
Paperback. During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one, directly shaped by tensions over the exercise of judgment by a woman on the throne. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349475773
- ISBN
- 9781349475773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Paperback. Considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This book draws on social theorists such as Kant, Weber, Simmel, and Elias to explore the connection between social and literary form. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268031060
- ISBN
- 9780268031060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.19
€ 40.99
€ 36.19
Paperback. Jazz is born of collaboration, improvisation, and listening. This book weaves an argument about how individuals can preserve and improve civic life in a democratic culture. It will appeal to scholars across disciplines as diverse as political science, performance studies, musicology, and literary criticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVC; AVGJ; CFG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226218212
- ISBN
- 9780226218212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.69
€ 32.99
€ 25.69
Hardcover. This study examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality and between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the homosexual? Moving from the Gothic to the late Twentieth-century, from Europe to America, it interrogates what is queer about Catholicism and what is modern about homosexuality. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; HRCC7; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008311
- ISBN
- 9780230008311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.63
€ 128.63