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Paperback. Series: Focus Classical Library. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585102815
ISBN
9781585102815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.92

Paperback. Sophocles' "Electra" tells the story of the revenge Orestes and Electra take on their mother, Clytemnestra, for he murder of their father Agamemnon, after he returns from the Trojan War. This edition of the play is preceded by a critical introduction and is accompanied by explanatory notes. Translator(s): Carson, Anne. Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195049602
ISBN
9780195049602
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.31

Paperback. A collection of plays that focuses on three playwrights' - Peter Meineck, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig, and Paul Woodruff - treatment of the same events in the House of Atreus. It is suitable for those interested in Greek literature, theater history, or mythology. Translator(s): Meineck, Peter; Luschnig, Cecilia Eaton; Woodruff, Paul. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209640
ISBN
9780872209640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.75

A collection of plays that focuses on three playwrights' - Peter Meineck, Cecelia Eaton Luschnig, and Paul Woodruff - treatment of the same events in the House of Atreus. It is suitable for those interested in Greek literature, theater history, or mythology. Translator(s): Meineck, Peter; Luschnig, Cecilia Eaton; Woodruff, Paul. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209657
ISBN
9780872209657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 33.80

Paperback. Designed to help electronic literature move into the classroom, this book addresses its major genres, the challenges it poses to traditional literary theory, and the complex and compelling issues at stake. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding how electronic literature draws on the print tradition. Series: Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language & Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, 15 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268030858
ISBN
9780268030858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.12

Hardcover. Develops a theoretical framework for understanding how electronic literature both draws on the print tradition and requires reading and interpretive strategies. Grounding her approach in the evolutionary dynamic between humans and technology, the author argues that neither the body nor the machine should be given absolute theoretical priority. Series: Ward-Phillips Lectures in English Language & Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, 15 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268030841
ISBN
9780268030841
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.85

Paperback. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, 8+ colour and halftone illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843311546
ISBN
9781843311546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 29.66

hardcover. Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, 8+ colour and halftone illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Anthem Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition, First ed.
SKU
V9781843311560
ISBN
9781843311560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.80

Paperback. Editor(s): Johns, Jorun B. Num Pages: 309 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
309
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572411456
ISBN
9781572411456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268009205
ISBN
9780268009205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.59

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691646077
ISBN
9780691646077
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.54

Paperback. Provides an introduction to the context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife of the novel "Middlemarch". This guide presents an account of its critical reception. It also discusses the cultural afterlife including film and TV adaptations. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study. Series: A Reader's Guides. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826495525
ISBN
9780826495525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.49

Paperback. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's ambitious and challenging epic, 'Aurora Leigh' is illuminated for twenty-first century readers by Michele C. Martinez's Reading Guide. A clear commentary on core sections of the poem, as well as a range of interpretative frameworks, offer a genuinely new appreciation of this great poem. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310. A Reading Guide. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. 224 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's ambitious and challenging epic, 'Aurora Leigh' is illuminated for twenty-first century readers by Michele C. Martinez's Reading Guide. A clear commentary on core sections of the poem, as well as a range of interpretative frameworks, offer a genuinely new appreciation of this great poem. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Dimension: 232 x 159 x 11. Weight: 296.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639724
ISBN
9780748639724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.49

Paperback. A collection of essays on Elizabeth Bishop drawing on work presented at the first UK Elizabeth Bishop confrence, held at Newcastle University. It brings together papers by both academic critics and leading poets, including Michael Donaghy, Vicki Feaver, Deryn Rees-jones and Anne Stevenson. Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852245566
ISBN
9781852245566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.69

Paperback. The poet Elizabeth Bishop is said to have a prismatic way of seeing. In this companion to her poetry, making connections between modern art and modern poetry, Bonnie Costello aims to give a sense of the poet and her ways of seeing and writing. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674246904
ISBN
9780674246904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.56

Hardback. This book offers a discussion of Elizabeth Bishop's translations through close-readings of a selection of poems, with particular attention to the features that relate them to translation, and suggests that translation can be seen as a poetic principle that can be related to the poet's original works. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781498520638
ISBN
9781498520638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.62

Paperback. Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. This book presents her biography that pieces together the story of Bishop's life and traces the writing of her poems. Num Pages: 602 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1018.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
602
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520203457
ISBN
9780520203457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.58

Paperback. Features the 20th century American poet's work. This book explores Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, from her early days at Vassar College to her last great poems in Geography III and the later uncollected poems. It draws on psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory. It connects the poems with their process of composition. Num Pages: 192 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474402361
ISBN
9781474402361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.83

Paperback. This study charts the evolution of Bishop's poetry, aided by newly discovered diaries, previously unpublished work and early drafts. It focuses on the poet's 20-year residence in Brazil, and attempts to provide a new understanding of Bishop's treatment of love, sex and gender. Num Pages: 306 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231076630
ISBN
9780231076630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.52

Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772896243
ISBN
9788772896243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.66

Hardcover. This anthology of the Irish writings of the Anglo-Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973 gathers together, for the first time, her Irish writings including her lectures, essays, reviews and reports and includes an extensive introductory essay by the editor as well as annotations and a critical bibliography . Editor(s): Walshe, Eibhear. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184493
ISBN
9781859184493
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 36.30

Paperback. This textual study attempts to subject the works of the Anglo-Irish writer, Elizabeth Bowen, to a poststructuralist re-reading from a lesbian feminist perspective. Hoogland's current research is preoccupied with configurations of lesbian sexuality in novels of "female development" in the 50s. Series: Elizabeth Bowen. Num Pages: 390 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; CF; DSBH; DSK; JFFK; JFSK1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
New York University Press New York
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814735114
ISBN
9780814735114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.65

Hardcover. A collection of essays that broadens the critical framework of Elizabeth Bowen scholarship and extends Bowen criticism by mapping her work's position in relation to contemporary critical concerns and its location in relation to twentieth-century literature generally. Editor(s): Osborn, Susan. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 238 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Cork University Press Cork
Number of pages
172
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Edition
first edition, edited by Susan Osborn
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859184356
ISBN
9781859184356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.00
€ 31.26

Paperback. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age. This biography traces Elizabeth's youth in rural Knutsford, her married years in the tension-ridden city of Manchester and her wide network of friends, her religious and feminist arguments of nineteenth century Britain, with enjoyment, passion and wit. Num Pages: 704 pages, 8pp b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571203598
ISBN
9780571203598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.26

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