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Paperback. This introduction to modern Greek literature highlights writers and works which have enjoyed critical or popular acclaim, and emphasizes the relationships linking them together. It examines the romanticism of the 19th century, the modernist influence and the post-war experimentation. Num Pages: 438 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AHM; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- Rev and Expande
- Number of pages
- 438
- SKU
- V9780198159742
- ISBN
- 9780198159742
€ 131.51
€ 131.51
Paperback. A study of the art of Dostoevsky and the literary and historical context in which it was created. Through analyses of the work of Balzac, Dickens and Gogol, Fanger identifies romantic realism, the transformative fusion of two generic categories, as a powerful imaginary response to the modern city. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- SKU
- V9780810115934
- ISBN
- 9780810115934
€ 47.56
€ 47.56
Paperback. Series: Shakespeare and Theory. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- SKU
- KSS0001157
- ISBN
- 9781472590459
€ 18.95
€ 18.95
Paperback. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- SKU
- V9781349422944
- ISBN
- 9781349422944
€ 83.43
€ 83.43
Paperback. Patricia Leavy, herself both a highly published qualitative researcher and a novelist, explores the overlaps and intersections between these two ways of understanding and describing human experience, including a methodological introduction and five stories showing these methods in action. Series: Developing Qualitative Inquiry. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: DSK; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Left Coast Press
- Number of pages
- 316
- SKU
- V9781611321548
- ISBN
- 9781611321548
€ 48.08
€ 48.08
Hardcover. The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowen's prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the characters' identity. Series: Mediated Fictions Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives. Num Pages: 142 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 255 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- V9783631670255
- ISBN
- 9783631670255
€ 31.99€ 30.59
€ 31.99
€ 30.59
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 192
- SKU
- V9780826494733
- ISBN
- 9780826494733
€ 31.54
€ 31.54
Hardback. 'The Battle of Maldon', along with 'Beowulf' and Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History of the English People', is perhaps the best known text of the Anglo-Saxon age. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 16 black and white plate sections. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DN; DSBB; HBW; HRCC2; JFCX. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- SKU
- V9781784537913
- ISBN
- 9781784537913
€ 73.86€ 72.24
€ 73.86
€ 72.24
Paperback. C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations. Series: Canto Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- SKU
- V9781107688650
- ISBN
- 9781107688650
€ 19.09
€ 19.09
Paperback. "The Frame translation of the complete essays was initially published in 1957 in The complete works of Montaigne."--T.p. verso. Editor(s): Frame, Donald M. Translator(s): Frame, Donald M. Num Pages: 908 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5766 x 3887 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1225.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1958
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press Stanford, CA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 906
- SKU
- V9780804704861
- ISBN
- 9780804704861
€ 41.99€ 37.17
€ 41.99
€ 37.17
Paperback. "Cadenus" is primarily concerned with the relationship between Swift and Vanessa (Esther Van Homrigh), "Swift's Most Valuable Friend" with that between Swift and Stella (Esther Johnson). Both help to determine the precise nature of this triangle, and the impact it had on his writing and career. Illustrator(s): Brocquy, Louis Le. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; BGH; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 136. . Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd Dublin
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- SKU
- KEX0220095
- ISBN
- 9781843510178
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. This text presents an advanced introduction to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, focusing on the concepts of carnival, dialogism and historicism. It examines the impact of the historical context in the Soviet Union and to the importance of his own dialogic mode of discourse. Series: Contributions to the Study of World Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; DSA; DSBH; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 459.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- SKU
- V9780313295263
- ISBN
- 9780313295263
€ 67.68
€ 67.68
Paperback. This volume looks at the literary and intellectual development of the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It examines narratives by and about its people and how notions of savagery and civilization were used in the writings of the dominant class, while also tracing the rise of nationalism. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; 2ABM; 3JH; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- SKU
- V9781558493919
- ISBN
- 9781558493919
€ 31.17
€ 31.17
Paperback. This volume covers the period from 1765 up to the Edwardian age, exploring the richness and literary diversity of the gothic form: from the original eighteenth-century gothic of Ann Radcliffe to the melodramatic fiction of Wilkie Collins. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- SKU
- V9780582237148
- ISBN
- 9780582237148
€ 62.58
€ 62.58
Paperback. This volume completes the Higgins Bestiary. From salad love with Molly Cushen to a young American wife in Spain and the Jacaranda Street tease in Johannesburg, Higgins is obsessed with the terrain of lost or thwarted love. Num Pages: 416 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 446. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- SKU
- KSS0002196
- ISBN
- 9780099286356
€ 4.64
€ 4.64
Hardcover. This book provides a full-length critical study of William Morris's late works and demonstrates their essential role in promoting the continuing importance of Morris's ideas. It provides a new way of understanding their relevance to his writings on art and architecture, nature and the environment, and politics and Socialism. Series: Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; EB; HBLL; HBTB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- SKU
- V9783034309301
- ISBN
- 9783034309301
€ 73.69
€ 73.69
Paperback. Thoreau's encounters with nature, the author argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity and political complacency. Bennett pursues this theme by constructing a series of dialogues between Thoureau and modern contemporaries. Series: Modernity and Political Thought. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; HPCD; HPCF; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 146 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 176
- SKU
- V9780742521414
- ISBN
- 9780742521414
€ 45.99€ 45.52
€ 45.99
€ 45.52
Paperback. Leading Irish poet Derek Mahon has written some of the key poems of our age. In this landmark study, Hugh Haughton opens up Mahon's work before our eyes, balancing critical overview with illuminating close readings. This work is one of the critical cornerstones for the understanding of Northern Irish poetry. Num Pages: 416 pages, 9 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- SKU
- V9780199592623
- ISBN
- 9780199592623
€ 45.05
€ 45.05
Paperback. This collection takes its point of departure from Walter Benjamin's concept of the historical constellation, a concept which puts "contemporary" as well as "Romanticism" in play as period designations and critical paradigms. The book regards Romanticism as a thought experiment that poses questions for our own "now" time. Editor(s): Khalip, Jacques; Pyle, Forest. Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 344 pages, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; DSBH5; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- SKU
- V9780823271047
- ISBN
- 9780823271047
€ 34.99€ 31.84
€ 34.99
€ 31.84
Paperback. A literary walking tour of New York City as seen through the eyes of American and British writers. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Empire State Editions
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780823274253
- ISBN
- 9780823274253
€ 23.99€ 22.28
€ 23.99
€ 22.28
Hardcover. Covers a variety of authors and topics related to the New Criticism of the 1920s-1950s in America. This title traces the history of the New Criticism as a movement, considers theoretical and practical aspects of various proponents, and assesses the record of subsequent engagement with its tenets. Editor(s): Drake, Alfred J. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- SKU
- V9781443823302
- ISBN
- 9781443823302
€ 50.97
€ 50.97
Paperback. Revelatory conversations between renowned writers at New York City's legendary bookstore. Editor(s): Strand, Jessica; Aguilar, Andrea. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780393352085
- ISBN
- 9780393352085
€ 15.99€ 15.90
€ 15.99
€ 15.90
Paperback. Tells the story of a ten-year-old in top hat, cane and a red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's 'Get Happy' by an alarmed mother at the bedroom door exclaiming, in shame and exasperation: 'Son, you're a boy'. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSC; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- SKU
- KKD0001902
- ISBN
- 9780099283393
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Miller offers a complete course on the Latin erotic elegists, helping to trace the genre's rise and fall, and to understand its relation to the changes that marked the collapse of the Roman republic and the founding of the empire. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; FP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 496
- SKU
- V9780415243728
- ISBN
- 9780415243728
€ 48.08
€ 48.08