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Literary studies: general

Paperback. This is a full-length study of Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), generally recognized as the greatest playwright of Japan's classical Noh theatre. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5766 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804726771
ISBN
9780804726771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633792
ISBN
9780815633792
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.93

Hardcover. Editor(s): Matthews, David. Series: New Chaucer Society. Num Pages: 530 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784338
ISBN
9780933784338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.77

Hardback. An attempt to collate a variety of approaches to the work of Dickens and his major contemporaries, from traditional scholarship to recent literary theory. The work emphasizes the connections between Victorian literature and society and highlighting the longevity of the Victorian literary period. Editor(s): Shattock, Joanne. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333447086
ISBN
9780333447086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.36

Hardcover. Poetry in its many guises is at the center of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's multifarious interests. This edition contains his complete poetical works. It opens with an introduction and chronological tables. Each poem is accompanied by a headnote and commentary that together provide its historical-biographical context and offer key textual variants. Editor(s): Mays, J. C. C. Series: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Num Pages: 1616 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 229 x 44. Weight in Grams: 2158.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
1616
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691004839
ISBN
9780691004839
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 379.36
€ 294.08

Paperback. Editor(s): Perez, R. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538621
ISBN
9781349538621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This anthology presents Aristotle's "Rhetoric" in its original context, providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes. It assesses the role and the techniques of rhetorical persuasion in philosophic discourse and the public sphere. Editor(s): Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg. Series: Philosophical Traditions S. Num Pages: 466 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
466
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520202283
ISBN
9780520202283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.99

Hardcover. By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AKD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230524811
ISBN
9780230524811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.23

Paperback. This book addresses a critically neglected genre used by women writers from Gaskell to Woolf to complicate Victorian and modernist notions of gender and social space. Their innovative short stories ask Britons to reconsider where women could live, how they could be identified, and whether they could be contained. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349471461
ISBN
9781349471461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.26

hardcover. As for Sinclair Ross is the story of a remarkable writer whose works continue to challenge us and are rightly considered classics of Canadian literature. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 350 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 746.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802043887
ISBN
9780802043887
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.04

Hardcover. Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity. Editor(s): Sell, Jonathan P. A. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230314221
ISBN
9780230314221
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.81

Paperback. The first truly continentally representative collection of modern African drama in any language, this Norton Critical Edition includes plays from Egypt, Algeria, the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya. Editor(s): Jeyifo, Biodun. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 672 pages, chronology, bibliog. BIC Classification: 1H; 2H; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 174 x 21. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393975291
ISBN
9780393975291
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.85

paperback. Considers the presence and use of texts in religious and political ritual in Early China. Through balanced attention to both the received literary tradition and the range of excavated artefacts, manuscripts, and inscriptions, this title reveals the rich and multilayered interplay of textual composition and ritual performance. Editor(s): Kern, Martin. Num Pages: 362 pages, 7 bw photos,. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987873
ISBN
9780295987873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.48

Paperback. Features prose translations that remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a language that echoes the effect created by Moliere's verse. This title discusses Moliere's life; Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, and the comic tradition; and, the setting, casting, and style of the plays. Translator(s): Steiner, Prudence L. Num Pages: 274 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841276
ISBN
9781603841276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.42

paperback. Essays examine the way stories are told, understood, and used to represent and make sense of the world. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226532172
ISBN
9780226532172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.89

Paperback. A defining work in the "Inner Emigration" literary movement, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's History of the Munster Anabaptists was written in 1937 as a criticism of the Nazi regime.This English translation includes documents, scholarly essays, and a detailed introduction." Editor(s): Lippe, George von der; Reck-Malleczewen, Viktoria. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBL; HRCC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2008
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349373000
ISBN
9781349373000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 149.87

Hardback. The largest, most comprehensive anthology of its kind, this volume brings together significant, representative stories from every decade of the 20th century.The selections reflect the various literary trends and approaches to depicting reality in the 20th century: traditional realism, modernism, socialist realism, and post-modernism. Translator(s): Brougher, Valentina; Miller, Frank; Lipovetsky, Mark. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 800 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DQ; DSBH; FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1814.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
800
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936235148
ISBN
9781936235148
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.25

Paperback. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 315 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFF; JFSL; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349297078
ISBN
9781349297078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.13

Hardback. Editor(s): O'Sullivan, Keith; Whyte, Padraic. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137603111
ISBN
9781137603111
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 151.36

Paperback. These essays offer assistance to the growing number of students, teachers, librarians, and parents who find themselves facing a censorship situation. Part I provides six author's perspectives on censorship by omission and commission and Part II provides responses and defenses of individual books. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 28. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810840386
ISBN
9780810840386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 120.38

paperback. This study examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and nihilism. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781904713081
ISBN
9781904713081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 91.06

Hardcover. Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137342393
ISBN
9781137342393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.91

Hardcover. Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of literary translation by showing that such translation is itself a form of experimental creative writing. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; CFP; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 170 x 25. Weight in Grams: 692.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859897709
ISBN
9780859897709
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.40

Hardcover. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403901323
ISBN
9781403901323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.27

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