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Hardback. A study of the prophetic tradition in medieval England brings out its influence on contemporary politics and the contemporary elite. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844471
- ISBN
- 9781843844471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.89
€ 87.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 66 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780970610645
- ISBN
- 9780970610645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.66
€ 25.66
Paperback. Focusing on the ancient modalities and conceptual filters through which the figure and the songs of Sappho were perceived, this book offers the anthropological and systematic investigation of the pluralities of what ancient discourses defined as the songs of Sappho. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674026865
- ISBN
- 9780674026865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.81
€ 21.99
€ 19.81
Paperback. This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. Editor(s): Matthews, John T. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118492086
- ISBN
- 9781118492086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.24
€ 65.24
Paperback. Translator(s): Kaldellis, Anthony; Polemis, Ioannis. Series: Michael Psellos in Translation. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033286
- ISBN
- 9780268033286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.78
€ 38.99
€ 34.78
Hardcover. This complete guide to ancient Greek rhetoric is exceptional both in its chronological range and the breadth of topics it covers. Traces the rise of rhetoric and its uses from Homer to Byzantium. Covers wider-ranging topics such as rhetoric's relationship to knowledge, ethics, religion, law, and emotion. Editor(s): Worthington, Ian. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 632 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CFG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 176 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1258.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405125512
- ISBN
- 9781405125512
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 201.33
€ 201.33
Paperback. Editor(s): Sondergaard, Svend; Keck, Egon; Wulff, Ellen. Num Pages: 419 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; CF; DSBB; HBJF1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 249 x 176 x 35. Weight in Grams: 892.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 419
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772890838
- ISBN
- 9788772890838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.30
€ 51.99
€ 36.30
paperback. This biography of William Wordsworth attempts to tell the story of his life through a rigourous reading of key and representative works of the poet. Its reading of the poems, in tune with current theoretical practice, offers a sense of the continuities in Wordsworth's life. Num Pages: 301 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823217168
- ISBN
- 9780823217168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 44.29
€ 49.99
€ 44.29
Hardback. Russian thinker, pedagogue, musicologist, amateur scientist, and public servant Odoevsky (1804-69) was mentioned in the same breath as Pushkin and Gogol during his day, and is now enjoying (we presume) a revival as a writer of Romantic and Gothic fiction. Cornwell (Russian and comparative literature Series: Studies in Slavic Literature, Culture & Society. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571819079
- ISBN
- 9781571819079
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.52
€ 156.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360. 248 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801477829
- ISBN
- 9780801477829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.47
€ 30.99
€ 27.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 57. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226267920
- ISBN
- 9780226267920
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.73
€ 33.99
€ 26.73
Paperback. The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631226987
- ISBN
- 9780631226987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.32
€ 33.99
€ 33.32
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635590
- ISBN
- 9780691635590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.22
€ 140.22
Hardback. This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of the First World War, and extending throughout the twentieth century. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823239252
- ISBN
- 9780823239252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardback. This first-time English translation of the Wakan roei shu includes insightful annotations after each passage and several explanatory essays. Editor(s): Rimer, J. Thomas; Chaves, Jonathan. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 2GJ; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231107020
- ISBN
- 9780231107020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.48
€ 108.48
Paperback. This collection of twelve essays reclaims "the Age of Goethe"--to call upon a literary designation of roughly the same period--as a time when same-sex erotic attraction suffused artistic production from Winckelmann's art treatises and Goethe's plays to Friedrich Schlegel's self-reflexive novel Lucinde and Kleist's letters. Editor(s): Kuzniar, Alice A. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726153
- ISBN
- 9780804726153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.28
€ 38.99
€ 27.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DSBH; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816669905
- ISBN
- 9780816669905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.41
€ 29.99
€ 26.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811224659
- ISBN
- 9780811224659
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.96
€ 16.99
€ 15.96
The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader. From Sherlock Holmes to Spiritualis...
Meyers, Jeffrey; Meyers, Valerie. Ed(S): Meye...
Hardback. Sampling works by the creator of Holmes and Watson, this collection features Doyle's detective stories, horror tales, journalism, historical stories, and the complete text of his science-fiction novel The Poison Belt. Editor(s): Meyers, Jeffrey; Meyers, Valerie. Num Pages: 544 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 35. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815412021
- ISBN
- 9780815412021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.39
€ 31.99
€ 29.39
Hardback. A resource for students and scholars alike, this volume provides information about Spark's oeuvre while featuring current, theoretically informed interpretations of individual texts. Editor(s): Herman, David. Series: A Modern Fiction Studies Book. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801895531
- ISBN
- 9780801895531
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.89€ 61.11
€ 67.89
€ 61.11
Hardback. In "Works and Days", the poet writes of farming, morality, and what seems to be a very nasty quarrel with his brother Perses over their inheritance. This book extracts from the poem a picture of the social structure of Ascra, the hamlet in northern Greece where Hesiod lived, most likely during the seventh century bce. Num Pages: 220 pages, 1 b/w photograph, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520236585
- ISBN
- 9780520236585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.70€ 62.38
€ 81.70
€ 62.38
Paperback. An engaging and provocative treatment of the principal features of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy and their applicability to cultural studies. Editor(s): Buchanan, Ian. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 233 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748610044
- ISBN
- 9780748610044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.84
€ 49.84
Paperback. Reinventing the Sublime looks at the return of the sublime in postmodernity, and at intimations of a post-Romantic sublime in Romanticism itself. The sublime is explored as a discourse of invention taking the Latin meaning of to come upon, find, discover that involves an encounter with the new, the unregulated and the surprising. .. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845196752
- ISBN
- 9781845196752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.90
€ 38.99
€ 34.90
Paperback. These essays examine a millennium of humorous and satirical writing in the Islamic world. Humor in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish narrative emerges here as a culturally modulated phenomenon that demands examination with reference to its historical framework and that, in turn, communicates as much about its producers as it does about its audience. Editor(s): Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 172 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066700
- ISBN
- 9780674066700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.84
€ 21.99
€ 19.84