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Hardcover. Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's career, from Lanark to Mavis Belfrage. Num Pages: 187 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 0. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754146
ISBN
9780838754146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.76
€ 29.92

Hardcover. Examines the whole of Flora Thompson's oeuvre including the poetry, short fiction, and essays that she published in women's periodicals before World War II, her book of poetry, "Bog Myrtle and Peat" (1921), and two posthumously published works, "Still Glides the Stream" (1947) and "Heatherley" (1979). Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838642061
ISBN
9780838642061
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.46
€ 48.02

Hardcover. This book examines Verga's heroines in the social and cultural context of 19th-century Italy. The work highlights the ways in which social reality and cultural fantasy clash with women's individuality. Num Pages: 209 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838640173
ISBN
9780838640173
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.76
€ 45.68

Hardcover. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838639078
ISBN
9780838639078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.38
€ 33.73

Hardcover. Editor(s): Hamalian, Leo. Num Pages: 259 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838633083
ISBN
9780838633083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.85
€ 34.49

In Who Can Afford to Improvise?, Pavlic makes powerful connections between Baldwin, the structure of song, and the cultural politics of his time as well as their resonances within contemporary popular music and debates around issues of class, race, sexuality, and global warfare. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AVC; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 626.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823268481
ISBN
9780823268481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.36
€ 34.35

Paperback. Maintains that the representation of social and political others as animals can be mitigated but never finally abolished Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823245215
ISBN
9780823245215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.65

Paperback. A rigorous and exuberant exploration of language Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823242054
ISBN
9780823242054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 22.50

Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823239153
ISBN
9780823239153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 91.53
€ 89.52

Paperback. Captures their white refractions in vignettes that teach us the truth of the coincidence of contraries, of how the impure lodges in the pure. This book offers a series of prose poems that draw their inspiration from the great Sufi poet of mediaeval Andalusia, Ibn Arabi, whose fervent love poetry both scandalized and transformed Islamic culture. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 116 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBT; BGA; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231157
ISBN
9780823231157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 14.41

Paperback. Focuses on relations between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, including the role of the narrator, the nature of the textual source, the dynamics of influence, and the bearing of allegorical narrative on lyric vision. Num Pages: 452 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 220 x 146 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
452
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823228485
ISBN
9780823228485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 22.06

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
MOREHOUSE PUBLISHING
Number of pages
114
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819221513
ISBN
9780819221513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 11.74

Paperback. Editor(s): Slater, Maya. Translator(s): Slater, Nicolas Pasternak. Num Pages: 474 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DNF; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 807.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Edition
1st English edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817910259
ISBN
9780817910259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.54

Hardcover. Describes the exploits of sorcerers and lovers Translator(s): Mallinson, James. Series: Clay Sanskrit Library. Num Pages: 610 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
NYU Press
Edition
Volume Two
Number of pages
650
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814795583
ISBN
9780814795583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.02

Hardcover. A collection of tales based on "The Long Story", a lost (and perhaps legendary) repository of Indian fables, in which prince Naravahanadatta wins twenty-six wives and becomes the emperor of the sorcerers. Translator(s): Mallinson, James. Series: Clay Sanskrit Library. Num Pages: 556 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 115 x 24. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
NYU Press
Edition
Volume One
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814788165
ISBN
9780814788165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.55

Paperback. The One Thomas More carefully studies the central humanist and polemical texts written by More to illustrate a coherent development of thought Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813221861
ISBN
9780813221861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.30

Paperback. influential treatise, Apologie for Poetrie (c. 1582), Michael Mack also Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813221168
ISBN
9780813221168
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.92

Hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813218854
ISBN
9780813218854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.78

Paperback. Translator(s): Korossy, Laszlo. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813218618
ISBN
9780813218618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.03

Paperback. Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaneys poeticshis concept of what poetry should be and what its uses areand relating them to his practice as a poet. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813218564
ISBN
9780813218564
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.52

Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813217901
ISBN
9780813217901
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.78

Hardcover. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813217895
ISBN
9780813217895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.34
€ 66.86

Hardcover. A collection of scholarly essays on a wide variety of contemporary (post 1980) Catholic literary works and artists. It introduces readers to the various writers and texts in the tradition. It is suitable for literary scholars and readers interested in the intersection of religion and literature in general and in Catholic literature in particular. Editor(s): Reichardt, Mary R. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813217390
ISBN
9780813217390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.78

Hardcover. Starts from the assumption that, whether we like it or not, we live in a postmodern environment, one characterized by turbulence, fluidity, relativity, commotion, uncertainty, and lightning-fast communication and change. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813216843
ISBN
9780813216843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.34
€ 62.83

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