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Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555973049
- ISBN
- 9781555973049
€ 21.99€ 21.82
€ 21.99
€ 21.82
Paperback. This classic study examines the place of literature within Marxist cultural theory, and offers an assessment of the contributions of previous thinkers to Marxist literary theory. Series: Marxist Introductions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JPFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Oxford Paperbacks
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198760610
- ISBN
- 9780198760610
€ 52.92
€ 52.92
Paperback. "Dracula" (1897) is one of the most commonly studied gothic novels and has been hugely influential through adaptations in fiction, on stage and in cinema. This book introduces its context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife, leading students to an understanding of the text. Series: A Reader's Guides. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216. A Reader's Guide. Series: Reader's Guides. 176 pages. "Dracula" (1897) is one of the most commonly studied gothic novels and has been hugely influential through adaptations in fiction, on stage and in cinema. This book introduces its context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife, leading students to an understanding of the text. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826495372
- ISBN
- 9780826495372
€ 23.30
€ 23.30
Hardback. This study discusses whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those intended for written circulation and private performance, establishing a rigorous methodology for the reconstruction of the native perception of clarity in the original contexts of textual reception. Series: Oxford Classical Monographs. Num Pages: 352 pages, 15 black-and-white figures. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; CF; D; DN; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198795902
- ISBN
- 9780198795902
€ 120.49
€ 120.49
Paperback. A biography of Robert Desnos (1900-1945), which re-evaluates the surrealist movement through the life and works of one of its founders. Desnos was as famous among the surrealists for his independence of mind as for his elaborate "automatic" drawings and his brilliant oral and written performances during the incubational period of the group. Num Pages: 282 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803218413
- ISBN
- 9780803218413
€ 25.99€ 23.89
€ 25.99
€ 23.89
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of ...
Finch, Annie Ridley Crane, Varnes, Kathrine L...
Paperback. Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems from the "haiku" to rap music and trace their history" Editor(s): Finch, Annie; Varnes, Katherine. Num Pages: 456 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472067251
- ISBN
- 9780472067251
€ 39.82
€ 39.82
Paperback. Text in French, with introd. and notes in English. Series: French Texts. Num Pages: 111 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 187 x 123. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 111
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631004806
- ISBN
- 9780631004806
€ 19.75
€ 19.75
Dissecting Hannibal Lecter: Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris
Benjamin Szumskyj, Foreword by Daniel O'Brien
Paperback. A comprehensive study of author, Thomas Harris' popular works which focuses particularly on Harris' internationally known antihero Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter in the classic novels "Red Dragon", "Silence of the Lambs", and "Hannibal". This work examines several themes within Harris' trilogy. Editor(s): Szumskyj, Benjamin. Num Pages: 240 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786432752
- ISBN
- 9780786432752
€ 46.49
€ 46.49
Paperback / so. Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138266582
- ISBN
- 9781138266582
€ 55.30
€ 55.30
Paperback. Editor(s): Chandler, John. Series: MIP Teams Middle English Texts Series. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; 3H; DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 8. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Medieval Institute Publications
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580442046
- ISBN
- 9781580442046
€ 17.38
€ 17.38
Hardback. These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country. Num Pages: 1904 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSBD; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 3578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1904
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851961542
- ISBN
- 9781851961542
€ 210.79
€ 210.79
Paperback. Explores the portrayal of subjectivity in Don DeLillo's fiction. This title proposes that author's characters' conception of self is determined by the tension between a desire for connection and a longing for isolation. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH; EB; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783034317115
- ISBN
- 9783034317115
€ 51.99€ 49.76
€ 51.99
€ 49.76
Hardcover. Aiming to trace the tension between orality and textuality, which can be discerned in the poetry of the Northern-Irish writer, the author delineates using deconstruction, how they inform and structure Carson's poetic oeuvre. Series: Mediated Fictions. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783631647455
- ISBN
- 9783631647455
€ 51.99€ 49.76
€ 51.99
€ 49.76
Hardback. Editor(s): Artieres, Philippe; Bert, Jean-Francois; Potte-Bonneville, Mathieu; Revel, Judith. Translator(s): Bononno, Robert. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 211 x 21. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816693238
- ISBN
- 9780816693238
€ 30.99€ 29.82
€ 30.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. The Pen and the People explores how eighteenth-century men and women learned to write letters, why they used them, and the impact of letter writing on their lives and wider culture. Capturing actual dialogues between correspondents, it reveals the intimate lives of ordinary people. Num Pages: 368 pages, 34 black and white images. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199602186
- ISBN
- 9780199602186
€ 39.89
€ 39.89
Paperback. A comprehensive, chronological survey of the basic models of rhetoric as they developed from the early Greeks through the twentieth century. The author discusses rhetorical theories and practices in the context of the times of political and intellectual crisis that gave rise to them. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114897
- ISBN
- 9780226114897
€ 31.01
€ 31.01
Paperback. This work is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. The sustained effort of 30 years of labour is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and its history. Editor(s): Hodge, David. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745437
- ISBN
- 9780804745437
€ 27.99€ 25.96
€ 27.99
€ 25.96
Paperback. Editor(s): Banash, Professor David. Num Pages: 344 pages, 42 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628923674
- ISBN
- 9781628923674
€ 27.99€ 27.55
€ 27.99
€ 27.55
Paperback. The aim of this short book is to introduce Chaucer, "The Canterbury Tales", and far more briefly, some of his other works to the beginning student or reader. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 274. Good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0305389
- ISBN
- 9780631225621
€ 4.64
€ 4.64
Paperback. A comparative study of the texts by eight female authors writing in French and German - Marie Darrieussecq, Amelie Nothomb, Lorette Nobecourt, Alina Reyes, Sibylle Berg, Jenny Erpenbeck, Monika Maron and Charlotte Roche - in terms of an aesthetics of disgust and asks to what extent disgust can be seen as a useful tool for feminist criticism. Series: Studies in Contemporary Women's Writing. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSB; DSBH; DSBH5; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783034308625
- ISBN
- 9783034308625
€ 53.99€ 52.00
€ 53.99
€ 52.00
Hardback. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 574 pages. BIC Classification: ACXD7; DSBH; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 150 x 41. Weight in Grams: 902.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 574
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810858473
- ISBN
- 9780810858473
€ 145.27€ 144.47
€ 145.27
€ 144.47
Hardcover. Alongside readings of modern novels (including work by David Mitchell, Zadie Smith, Jackie Kay and Andrew O'Hagan), Gerry Smyth offers an extended theoretical analysis of the relationship between music and fiction, as well as a critical overview of the role played by music in the canon of British fiction since the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573284
- ISBN
- 9780230573284
€ 99.79€ 96.48
€ 99.79
€ 96.48
Paperback. Identifies and explains a surprising affinity for medievalism and medieval studies among the leading figures of critical theory. This book contains original essays by Bataille and Bourdieu - translated English - that testify in various ways to the strange persistence of medievalisms in French postwar avant-garde writings. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226349749
- ISBN
- 9780226349749
€ 33.39
€ 33.39