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Paperback. The short poems in this book reflect the spiritual insights of some of the greatest poets, saints, and sages known to Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and Native American traditions. Editor(s): Laude, Patrick; McDonald, Barry. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- World Wisdom Books United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780941532457
- ISBN
- 9780941532457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.49
€ 18.99
€ 17.49
paperback. The poignant - and at times very funny - new novel from the author of 'The Magician's Assistant', shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240. Very good clean copy showing minor age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate Ltd London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025428
- ISBN
- 9781841155838
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Hardcover. From jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns, this book delivers two dozen essays that revolve around the themes and obsessions that have characterized Rotella's writing from the start: boxing, music, writers, and cities. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DNF; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226729091
- ISBN
- 9780226729091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.94
€ 32.99
€ 25.94
paperback. This study interprets Flannery O'Connor's fiction on its own terms. By stepping back from prevailing controversies, the author turns to the short stories and novels themselves and forms an impression of them while seeking the answers to such questions as they necessarily suggest themselves. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823219117
- ISBN
- 9780823219117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.61
€ 41.99
€ 37.61
Paperback. Publius Papinius Statius lived from the 40s to the mid-90s AD. In his teens he moved to Rome, and there, some years later, he embarked on his own career in poetry. This title presents an introduction that locates Statius in his historical and literary context, considers the importance of his "Silvae", and presents a brief history of the text. Translator(s): Nagle, Betty Rose. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 bibliog. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 17. Weight in Grams: 359.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253216670
- ISBN
- 9780253216670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.41
€ 16.99
€ 16.41
Paperback. This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. Num Pages: 848 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 172 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 848
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405176088
- ISBN
- 9781405176088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.85
€ 63.85
Hardback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231539
- ISBN
- 9780823231539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.89
€ 104.89
Hardback. Editor(s): Felsenstein, Frank; Scrivener, Michael. Num Pages: 167 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 167
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611473353
- ISBN
- 9781611473353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.05
€ 115.05
paperback. Num Pages: 62 pages, 6ill. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 5. Weight in Grams: 155.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- David Paul United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 62
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780954054229
- ISBN
- 9780954054229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.38
€ 11.38
Paperback. An assessment of Heaney's poetry and prose, tracing his "contrary progressions" through phases of affirmation and despair. Hart explores Heaney's work from the 1960s to "The Haw Lantern", seeking in the poems those elements and traits that Heaney allusively indicates in his prose. Num Pages: 272 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815626121
- ISBN
- 9780815626121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.83
€ 27.83
Hardcover. First edition, third printing. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW price clipped, toned, showing some age and shelf wear. Ownership stamp on ffep. Lightly toned, text is crisp, remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- Book Club Associates New York
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0029203
- ISBN
- 9780374106843
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 28.00
€ 28.00
paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KAK0000770
- ISBN
- 9780747571117
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. For a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on African American characters? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? Jarrett traces the shifting definitions of African American literature and the authors who wrote beyond those boundaries at the cost of critical dismissal or obscurity. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812239737
- ISBN
- 9780812239737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.57
€ 71.57
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Lumsden, Anne Mieke. Num Pages: 62 pages, b/w drawings. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 5. Weight in Grams: 132. 62 pages, b/w drawings. Illustrator(s): Lumsden, Anne Mieke. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 5. Weight: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Katabasis
- Number of pages
- 62
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780904872460
- ISBN
- 9780904872460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.33
€ 11.33
Paperback. Presents an Icelandic saga which mixes realism with gothic imagination and history with tales of hauntings. This title dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. Translator(s): Palsson, Hermann; Edwards, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140445305
- ISBN
- 9780140445305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.99
€ 17.99
€ 14.99
Hardback. Examines the political significance of the concept of the imagination in key authors of British Romanticism, specifically Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Shelley, and argues that their work presents an alternative understanding of the secularization of the political and of the development of modern political sovereignty. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823257676
- ISBN
- 9780823257676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.11
€ 56.11
Paperback. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Editor(s): Falvey, E.Catherine. Series: Masterworks of Literature. BIC Classification: DSB; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780808404477
- ISBN
- 9780808404477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.65
€ 50.65
Paperback. Edwina Taborsky moves semiotics away from being a descriptive tool within the humanities and uses its powers of analysis on the organic and social nature of cognition. Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics & Communication. Num Pages: 229 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Toronto
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802071804
- ISBN
- 9780802071804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.89
€ 34.99
€ 31.89
Paperback. The Bloodworths come from Ackerman's Field, Tennessee. Theirs is a rough and violent past and Boyd Bloodworth - father of the hero, Fleming - is intent on continuing the tradition. The year is 1952 and E.F. Bloodworth, Boyd's father, has returned after 20 years of roaming. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571212149
- ISBN
- 9780571212149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. The poetry of Dan Lechay, collected in "The Quarry", constructs a myth of the Midwest that is at once embodied in the permanence of the landscape, the fleeting nature of the seasons, and the eternal flow of the river. He reminds us that nothing is more mysterious that the way things are. Series: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 5. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821415344
- ISBN
- 9780821415344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.65
€ 18.99
€ 18.65
Hardback. This resource provides information on a popular literary genre - the 20th-century American short story. It contains articles on stories that share a particular theme, and over 100 pieces on individual writers and their work. There are also articles on promising new writers entering the scene. Editor(s): Gelfant, Blanche H. Num Pages: 952 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1044.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 952
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110983
- ISBN
- 9780231110983
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.30€ 108.53
€ 143.30
€ 108.53
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559364508
- ISBN
- 9781559364508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.04
€ 16.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGL; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393353068
- ISBN
- 9780393353068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
€ 17.99
€ 16.51
Paperback. Michael Lerner collects the greatest Jewish writing of the 1990s in this first volume of a new series. It features pieces on Jewish culture, identity, and spirituality. Editor(s): Lerner, Michael. Num Pages: 464 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 36. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780787959722
- ISBN
- 9780787959722
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.73
€ 37.99
€ 29.73