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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Includes translated commentaries, dating from the sixth century, that show the persisting survival of Greek learning in an increasingly Christianised world. This work takes the form of a series of explanations and glosses of classical references in Gregory's original Sermons. Series: Translated Texts for Historians. Num Pages: 192 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HRAX; HRCX4; HRKP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780853239178
ISBN
9780853239178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.81

Hardcover. This text examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epics figurative economy. Num Pages: 496 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 38. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804719179
ISBN
9780804719179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.51

Hardcover. Focusing on its adaptation in the Chinese context, Catherine Vance Yeh traces the rise of the political novel to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s. Yeh explores in detail the tensions characteristic of transcultural processes, among them the dynamics through which a particular, and seemingly local, literary genre goes global. Num Pages: 441 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 746.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504356
ISBN
9780674504356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.24
€ 53.02

Hardback. Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Num Pages: 258 pages, 8 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2GDC; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137512253
ISBN
9781137512253
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.26

Hardback. A new generation of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention since the 1990s. Min Hyoung Song argues that their diverse work pushes against existing ways of thinking about race. Num Pages: 296 pages, 13 illustrations, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354383
ISBN
9780822354383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.52

Hardback. The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood. Editor(s): Gavin, Dr. Adrienne. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFSP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230348271
ISBN
9780230348271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 189 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763536721
ISBN
9788763536721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.72

Hardback. An account of language and drama between 1945 and 2005, synthesizing linguistic and dramatic knowledge in order to illuminate the ways in which anxieties and attitudes toward language manifest themselves in discourses on and around English theatre of the time, and how these anxieties and attitudes reflect back through the theatre of this period. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230013292
ISBN
9780230013292
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.49

paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691605791
ISBN
9780691605791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.23

Paperback. This classic text is the tale of a woman who becomes involved in murder without realizing the terrible price she will pay for it. This edition includes an introduction which analyzes the play in detail, and a commentary illuminating difficulties in the play for the modern reader. Series: Revels Student Editions. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719044816
ISBN
9780719044816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.92

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; 2ADS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847693276
ISBN
9780847693276
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 178.64

Paperback. Confronts widespread assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production and other cultural pressures, lyric's negotiations of gender, and the interactions and tensions between lyric and narrative. It is of interest to students across a range of historical fields. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421400426
ISBN
9781421400426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.10

Paperback. Editor(s): Gillespie, Susan H. Translator(s): Gillespie, Susan H. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJ; BJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816656172
ISBN
9780816656172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.12

Paperback. This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated the reading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349439683
ISBN
9781349439683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.48

Hardcover. This collection attends to western women's struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the centuries have attempted to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions. Editor(s): DelRosso, Jeana; Eicke, Leigh; Kothe, Ana. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HRCC7; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600256
ISBN
9780230600256
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.41

Paperback. This collection attends to western women's struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the centuries have attempted to reconcile their unruliness with their Catholic backgrounds or conversions. Editor(s): Kothe, Ana. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HRCC7; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349369669
ISBN
9781349369669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Paperback. This book, which features the autobiographical narrative of Mistress Mary Hampson, a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage, reconstructs the events in and around this harrowing tale and rescues a compelling and complicated voice from the past. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BGH; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804790550
ISBN
9780804790550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.41

Hardback. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319409962
ISBN
9783319409962
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.32

Hardcover. Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; AMN; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137002594
ISBN
9781137002594
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.13

Paperback. Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349433858
ISBN
9781349433858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 121.79

Paperback. .
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155226
ISBN
9781903155226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349526628
ISBN
9781349526628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 141 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
2004th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403961815
ISBN
9781403961815
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; HBJK; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403961822
ISBN
9781403961822
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.30

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