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Hardcover. Our common image of the Middle Ages, constructed partly from popular accounts by Tuchman and Huizinga, is a period in European history when cultural activity was in decay. This title convincingly challenges this notion by presenting evidence of a lively medieval court culture in the northern Netherlands. Translator(s): Pomerans, Arnold J. Num Pages: 392 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 2ACD; 3H; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780520067776
- ISBN
- 9780520067776
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.01€ 48.30
€ 62.01
€ 48.30
Hardback. Schanke analyzes Ibsen's evolution from iconoclast to icon. With actresses' essays and interviews about the playwright, index, bibliography, and illustrations of Ibsen productions. Num Pages: 366 pages, Illustrations, plans, transparencies, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 149 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810820999
- ISBN
- 9780810820999
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.29
€ 120.29
Hardback. Besides essays on dramatists like Soyinka, Walcott, Williamson, Nowra, Fugard, Walker, Pollock and Thompson, there are surveys of the dramatic literature and developments in the theatre in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Nigeria, Jamaica and Trinidad. Editor(s): King, Bruce. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFC; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 285
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333534175
- ISBN
- 9780333534175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.61
€ 186.61
Paperback. This chronology is designed to provide a digest of Conrad's life as it develops from year to year. It is written as a series of diary or chronicle entries and thus caters for the reader who may wish to check a single fact. The main contents are supplemented by a "Who's Who" and indexes. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 247.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 165
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349100293
- ISBN
- 9781349100293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 121.29
€ 121.29
Hardcover. What is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspective on these questions: against prevalent approaches, it explains a work's reputation in terms of its aesthetic qualities or as the result of dictates by social hegemonies (the power view). Num Pages: 219 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845193683
- ISBN
- 9781845193683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.90
€ 126.90
hardcover. Editor(s): Gaines, Robert A. Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries. Num Pages: 148 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- SKU
- V9781349951697
- ISBN
- 9781349951697
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.00
€ 123.00
Paperback. Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as "Through the Looking Glass", lurks the spectre of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. The author considers the relationships between adults and children, and adults and their own childhood selves. Num Pages: 464 pages, 39 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSY; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226448169
- ISBN
- 9780226448169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 30.81
€ 40.99
€ 30.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reissue
- SKU
- V9780679724766
- ISBN
- 9780679724766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.89
€ 12.89
Hardback. Talks about the Reizei poets as participants in a collective institution devoted more to the continuity of family poetic practices and ideals than to the concept of individual expression that is central to modern poetic culture. This book features an appendix of 100 poems from over the centuries, by poets who were affiliated with the Reizei house. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 7 charts, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSC; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 236 x 42. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674024533
- ISBN
- 9780674024533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.76€ 49.36
€ 53.76
€ 49.36
Hardcover. While assimilating theoretical insights from Aristotle to this day, this title contests, inter alia, the theory of comedy's ritual origin; challenges the age-old and continuing attempts to determine the structure of action that characterises comedy; and, suggests instead that structures of action are shared by all genres. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194772
- ISBN
- 9781845194772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.90
€ 126.90
Hardcover. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403997098
- ISBN
- 9781403997098
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Hardcover. Conversion and Reform analyzes the work of those British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of fiction to reposition the novel as a progressive political tool. Includes new readings of key figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Holcroft. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612297
- ISBN
- 9780230612297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.63
€ 64.63
Hardcover. Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media. Editor(s): Hernandez, Ellie D.; Gibson, Eliza Rodriguez Y. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431073
- ISBN
- 9781137431073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Hardback. What happens when we read imaginative literature? What do we learn from reading such texts? Reading complements our experience, sharpens our perceptions, gives us insight into how other humans live, enables us to understand other cultures and periods, and gives us aesthetic pleasure. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405130981
- ISBN
- 9781405130981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.65
€ 101.65
Paperback. Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones. Editor(s): Robbins, T.; Gonzalez, J. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349495740
- ISBN
- 9781349495740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.44
€ 63.44
Hardcover. This book discusses literature, theory and history in close relation. Its main focus is on comparative literature and history, culture, poetics, rhetoric, theatricality, genre and gender, and balances close reading with theory and historical context. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113398
- ISBN
- 9780230113398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
hardcover. This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535633
- ISBN
- 9780230535633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.15
€ 64.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349423804
- ISBN
- 9781349423804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.25
€ 122.25
Hardcover. This study explores the theme of exile in the literary career of V.S. Naipaul, approaching the subject from two perspectives: as an idea that recurs in Naipaul's writings and as a personal experience that has shaped his vision of the world. His works are examined in chronological order. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780870238208
- ISBN
- 9780870238208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.66
€ 45.99
€ 38.66
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- SKU
- V9783319484440
- ISBN
- 9783319484440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.49
€ 122.49
paperback. This highly original book explores whether globalisation might now be prompting a sub-genre of the novel adept at imagining global community. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748640034
- ISBN
- 9780748640034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.22
€ 33.99
€ 30.22
Hardcover. Num Pages: 283 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; AN; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472106257
- ISBN
- 9780472106257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.62€ 90.54
€ 100.62
€ 90.54
Paperback. The debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also informed the romantic period's most prominent literary works. This book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Catholic Emancipation, one of the romantic period's most contentious issues. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349326983
- ISBN
- 9781349326983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Hardcover. From Uncle Tom's Cabin to East of Eden, and from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and more. Series: Banned Books S. Num Pages: 321 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; WCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Facts on File
- Edition
- First edition.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816033034
- ISBN
- 9780816033034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.75
€ 51.99
€ 43.75