Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Most studies of ancient slavery have grown out of historical and literary research. In the flood of books and papers on the subject, the archaeological evidence has often been ignored. This title fills the gap by confronting, the archaeological evidence for slavery. It concludes with chapters on restraint and slave revolts. Series: Greek Language. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CJBG; DSBB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 406. Series: Greek Language. 360 pages. Most studies of ancient slavery have grown out of historical and literary research. In the flood of books and papers on the subject, the archaeological evidence has often been ignored. This title fills the gap by confronting, the archaeological evidence for slavery. It concludes with chapters on restraint and slave revolts. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CJBG; DSBB. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 21. Weight: 396.
- Publisher
- Bristol Classical Press
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780715617724
- ISBN
- 9780715617724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.50
€ 32.99
€ 28.50
Hardcover. This chronology covers the whole sweep of Evelyn Waugh's varied and eventful life and career, including his numerous friendships, his active social life and his exotic travels. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Publisher
- PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
- Number of pages
- 172
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333638941
- ISBN
- 9780333638941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.20€ 83.08
€ 133.20
€ 83.08
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 119 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750959643
- ISBN
- 9780750959643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.46
€ 19.99
€ 18.46
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Shanghai Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602202597
- ISBN
- 9781602202597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.92
€ 15.99
€ 14.92
Paperback. Presents data about Anglo-Islamic social and historical interactions. This book provides a unique direction in the study of England's geographic imagination. It illuminates the subtleties and interchangeability of stereotype, racism, and demonization that must be taken into account in any depiction of English history. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; 1FB; 3J; DSBD; HBJD1; HBJF1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110150
- ISBN
- 9780231110150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Paperback. The story of the poet Osip Mandelstam, who suffered continuous persecution under Stalin, but whose wife constantly supported both him and his writings until he died in 1938. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; BGA; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 149 x 33. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781860466359
- ISBN
- 9781860466359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.95
€ 21.99
€ 15.95
Hardback. Editor(s): Serour, Aleya. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774164958
- ISBN
- 9789774164958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.95
€ 20.99
€ 19.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 157 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QFH; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 157
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559978
- ISBN
- 9781875559978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.66
€ 19.99
€ 14.66
Paperback. Editor(s): Clarke, Nana Ayebia; Currey, James. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 232 x 26. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956930767
- ISBN
- 9780956930767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.50
€ 29.99
€ 29.50
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691636566
- ISBN
- 9780691636566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.27
€ 142.27
Paperback. Offers recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, it connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. Num Pages: 320 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 190 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Sasquatch Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570616501
- ISBN
- 9781570616501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.69
€ 17.99
€ 16.69
Paperback. Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405121613
- ISBN
- 9781405121613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.87
€ 42.87
hardcover. Explores a new area of ancient literary theory and criticism by examining how landscape and metaphor shape discussions of style. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521769556
- ISBN
- 9780521769556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.55€ 97.90
€ 122.55
€ 97.90
Paperback. A collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis, examining the novels of his mature period: "American Psycho" (1991), "Glamorama" (1999), and "Lunar Park" (2005). It also examines the alchemy of acclaim and disdain that accrues to Ellis, and reviews the literary and artistic significance of his work. Editor(s): Mandel, Naomi. Series: Continuum Studies in Contemporary North America Fiction. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300. American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park. Series: Continuum Studies in Contemporary North America Fiction. 176 pages. Editor(s): Mandel, Naomi. A collection of critical essays on the American novelist Bret Easton Ellis, examining the novels of his mature period: "American Psycho" (1991), "Glamorama" (1999), and "Lunar Park" (2005). It also examines the alchemy of acclaim and disdain that accrues to Ellis, and reviews the literary and artistic significance of his work. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight: 300.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826435620
- ISBN
- 9780826435620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.55
€ 41.99
€ 37.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 92 pages, 45 illus. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 279 x 7. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Grantha Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 92
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890206567
- ISBN
- 9781890206567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.07
€ 36.99
€ 30.07
Hardback. She draws a direct link between the disparate theories of focus articulated in eighteenth-century literature and modern experiments in neuroscience, revealing that contemporary questions surrounding short attention spans are grounded in long conversations over the nature and limits of focus. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19, 2 colour illustrations, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 259 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420127
- ISBN
- 9781421420127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.09
€ 54.99
€ 46.09
Paperback. Talks about culture and comparison. This book inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. It argues that inclusiveness is not a sufficient response to postcolonial and multiculturalist challenges because it leaves the basis of equivalence unquestioned. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731980
- ISBN
- 9780804731980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.18
€ 33.99
€ 31.18
Hardback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 30 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGH; DSB; JFFK; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231182089
- ISBN
- 9780231182089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.81
€ 36.99
€ 26.81
Hardcover. Offers a collection of critical essays on the prize-winning contemporary British poet, Don Paterson. This book shows that Paterson is a figure who actively negotiates his place within literary history, as well as confronting that history with lyric grace, humour and directness. Editor(s): Pollard, Natalie. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748669417
- ISBN
- 9780748669417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.34€ 99.72
€ 103.34
€ 99.72
Hardback. This book is a genealogy of reconciliation in modern Ireland. As Seamus Deane has written, reconciliation stands at a nexus between politics and aesthetics in Irish writing, and has therefore often been a vehicle of colonial ideology. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 167 x 242 x 25. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782050681
- ISBN
- 9781782050681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 39.00€ 31.26
€ 39.00
€ 31.26
Hardcover. Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent poetry in Western literature. Translator(s): Dubin, Nathaniel E. Num Pages: 1024 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 143 x 49. Weight in Grams: 966.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 982
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871403575
- ISBN
- 9780871403575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.08
€ 31.99
€ 27.08
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590170427
- ISBN
- 9781590170427
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.10
€ 17.99
€ 16.10
Paperback. Editor(s): Bell, Michael Davitt. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199539123
- ISBN
- 9780199539123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.59
€ 11.99
€ 10.59
Paperback. After a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge. This edition uses the most authoritative text, with a wide-ranging critical introduction. Editor(s): Harding, Brian. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537808
- ISBN
- 9780199537808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.95
€ 9.99
€ 8.95