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Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield International United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783483983
- ISBN
- 9781783483983
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.93€ 20.96
€ 133.93
€ 20.96
Hardback. Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final philosophical stance - reader-centred scepticism - has extensive practical implications. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416. Certain in Uncertainty. 240 pages. Taking a fresh approach to Byron, this book argues that he should be understood as a poet whose major works develop a carefully reasoned philosophy. Situating him with reference to the thought of the period, it argues for Byron as an active thinker, whose final philosophical stance - reader-centred scepticism - has extensive practical implications. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPK. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 20. Weight: 416.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 2010 ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231511
- ISBN
- 9780230231511
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardback. Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year in 2009, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Junger. Spending more than three years in the French capital where his principal duty was to mingle with French intellectuals and with visiting German celebrities. Num Pages: 140 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ACG; 3JJH; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBWQ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 140
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857451149
- ISBN
- 9780857451149
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.36
€ 151.36
Paperback. Contains essays that reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) - known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky - as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. This work features four selections from "Voprosy literatury i estetiki", published in Moscow in 1975. Editor(s): Holquist, Michael. Translator(s): Emerson, Caryl. Series: University of Texas Press Slavic Series. Num Pages: 477 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Number of pages
- 477
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292715349
- ISBN
- 9780292715349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Hardcover. Margaret Scott's two-volume edition of the Notebooks published in 1997 is a remarkable achievement. This edition remaps all the entries in the Notebooks not used in the Collected Fiction volumes, and presents the material in chronological order. This edition provides a fascinating, chronological account of Mansfield's life, as she wrote it. Editor(s): Kimber, Gerri; Davison, Claire. Series: Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield. Num Pages: 400 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748685059
- ISBN
- 9780748685059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 237.05€ 207.17
€ 237.05
€ 207.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 158 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSB; HRQM; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Mandrake
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906958657
- ISBN
- 9781906958657
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.98
€ 19.99
€ 14.98
paperback. Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332. An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Series: Canto Classics. 242 pages. Paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 12. Weight: 344.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107604704
- ISBN
- 9781107604704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.00
€ 21.00
Paperback. A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007234257
- ISBN
- 9780007234257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.61
€ 13.99
€ 10.61
Hardback. The book addresses three key questions in Victorian studies-property, the state, and national identity-and will interest scholars of the period as well as those in Irish studies, postcolonial theory, and gender studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781421403274
- ISBN
- 9781421403274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
Hardcover. Num Pages: 736 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; 3H; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 244 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1228.
- Publisher
- Chartwell Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780785834588
- ISBN
- 9780785834588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.96
€ 18.96
Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the "Paradiso". This work provides a profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have confused readers of "The Divine Comedy". Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 400 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 206 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 389
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019123
- ISBN
- 9780691019123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.49
€ 37.99
€ 27.49
Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. This book is illustrated with maps of Italy and the region Dante knew especially, diagrams of the circles of Hell, and plates. Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 392 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Number 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691018966
- ISBN
- 9780691018966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.52
€ 37.99
€ 27.52
Paperback. Presents a prose translation of Dante's epic. This translation is about Dante's extraordinary vision of Hell. It includes Italian text on facing pages, and features fully comprehensive notes as well as sixteen essays on special subjects. Illustrator(s): Turner, Robert. Editor(s): Martinez, Ronald L. Num Pages: 672 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 42. Weight in Grams: 962.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 682
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195087444
- ISBN
- 9780195087444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.85
€ 25.85
Paperback. Presents the Italian text of the "Purgatorio". Fifteen short essays explore special topics and controversial issues, including Dante's debts to Virgil and Ovid, his radical political views, his original conceptions of homosexuality, of moral growth, and of eschatology. Illustrator(s): Turner, Robert. Num Pages: 720 pages, numerous line drawings & 4 maps. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1072.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195087451
- ISBN
- 9780195087451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.93
€ 29.99
€ 29.93
Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with what he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page). Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 872 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 205 x 146 x 51. Weight in Grams: 878.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 872
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st Pbk. Ed. in 2 Vols
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019109
- ISBN
- 9780691019109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.19€ 50.63
€ 65.19
€ 50.63
Paperback. Provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the "Paradiso". This work provides a profound analysis of the poem's basic allegory, and the illustrations, diagrams, and map clarify points that have confused readers of "The Divine Comedy". Translator(s): Singleton, Charles S. Series: The Divine Comedy S. Num Pages: 624 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 172 x 203 x 35. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 1st Pbk. Ed. in 2 Vols
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019130
- ISBN
- 9780691019130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.19€ 50.63
€ 65.19
€ 50.63
Paperback. A compact, wide-ranging, and accessible guide to reading plays, The Drama Handbook stresses the importance of understanding performance conventions and production processes through history, and offers clearly defined and presented critical vocabularies. Num Pages: 432 pages, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 4KL; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198700708
- ISBN
- 9780198700708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.07
€ 50.07
Hardback. In The Drama of the Assimilated Jew, Lucienne Kroha makes Bassani's personal and literary journey accessible to English-language readers. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442646162
- ISBN
- 9781442646162
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.91
€ 81.91
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Arden Shakespeare
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904271512
- ISBN
- 9781904271512
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.57
€ 19.57
Paperback. 'York Notes Advanced' offer an accessible approach to English Literature. This series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, 'York Notes Advanced' introduce students to sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBD; DSG. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Canada
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582784352
- ISBN
- 9780582784352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Paperback. Based on the reprinted Revels Plays Edition of 1964, the notes to this play have been augmented to cast futher light on Webster's dialogue. A new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and discusses the play's themes, action and visual imagery. Series: Revels Student Editions. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719043574
- ISBN
- 9780719043574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.42
€ 15.99
€ 11.42
Paperback. In the early 1950s the author began planning a prose volume that would bring together some of his published essays, lectures, and reviews, together with freshly-written notes and aphorisms. This book combines earlier material with revised versions of many of his Oxford lectures. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571283507
- ISBN
- 9780571283507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.08
€ 26.99
€ 20.08
Paperback. This book explores the relationship of the public theatre to the question of what constituted the 'dead' in early modern English culture within a theoretical framework that makes use of history, psychoanalysis and anthropology. Num Pages: 288 pages, None. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748633630
- ISBN
- 9780748633630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.22
€ 41.99
€ 37.22
Hardcover. Num Pages: 395 pages, 1facsim,1port. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230. .
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press Ohio
- Number of pages
- 395
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0228306
- ISBN
- 9780821409602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99