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Paperback. The Icelandic sagas, composed between the twelfth and the nineteenth centuries, are one of the world's great literary treasures. Num Pages: 192 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACSC; DSBB; DSK; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 25. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2Rev Ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752428949
- ISBN
- 9780752428949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.17
€ 16.99
€ 16.17
Hardback. The 24 entries in this book provide extensive coverage of some of the most notable figures in African American literature, such as Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston. Editor(s): Page, Yolanda Williams. Series: Greenwood Icons. Num Pages: 519 pages, 25. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1179.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 519
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313352034
- ISBN
- 9780313352034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.06€ 97.39
€ 108.06
€ 97.39
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691648637
- ISBN
- 9780691648637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.08
€ 148.08
Hardback. Levy explores the classic Chinese novel The Story of the Stone(also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber), illuminating the work by interpreting its four major themes: the inversion of traditional family dynamics, the function of illness and medicine in a Buddhist society, the role of poetry in a dynastic Chinese society, and the use of poetry as a vehicle for spiritual retribution. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231114066
- ISBN
- 9780231114066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.76€ 80.88
€ 105.76
€ 80.88
paperback. Levy explores the classic Chinese novel The Story of the Stone(also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber), illuminating the work by interpreting its four major themes: the inversion of traditional family dynamics, the function of illness and medicine in a Buddhist society, the role of poetry in a dynastic Chinese society, and the use of poetry as a vehicle for spiritual retribution. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FP; 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231114073
- ISBN
- 9780231114073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.77
€ 45.77
paperback. Aspects of identity explored by eight distinguished authors from different academic disciplines. Series: Darwin College Lectures. Num Pages: 228 pages, 19 b/w illus. 10 music examples. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; PSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 12. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521897266
- ISBN
- 9780521897266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.98
€ 26.99
€ 24.98
Paperback. Describes the role of lesbian poets as theorists of lesbian identity and activism. This work includes historical writing about the women's and lesbian-feminist movements; discussions of works of Judy Grahn, Pat Parker, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Anzaldua; and, a chapter on the rise and hegemony of queer theory within lesbigay studies. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 173 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110334
- ISBN
- 9780231110334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.13
€ 46.13
Paperback. Examines the nineteenth-century captivity narrative as a dynamic, complex genre that provided an ample medium for cultural critique, a revision of race relations, and a means of elucidating the US-Mexican War's complex and often contradictory significance in the national imagination. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 10. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803220676
- ISBN
- 9780803220676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.08
€ 26.08
Hardback. This book offers the first full-length English-language biography of Avraam Uri Kovner, a fascinating and peculiar Russian-Jewish writer and criminal who lived at the end of the nineteenth century. It is also an examination of Russo-Jewish identity in the modern period and of larger questions of hybridity and performativity. Series: Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; HBJD; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732901
- ISBN
- 9780804732901
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.62
€ 96.62
Paperback. Is Lucan's epic "Civil War" an example of ideological poetry, or does it proclaim the meaninglessness of ideology? The author finds in the paradoxes of Lucan's poetry both a political irony that responds to the need for, yet suspicion of, ideology; and the redemptive power of storytellings. Num Pages: 236 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 170 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674005501
- ISBN
- 9780674005501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 35.06
€ 41.99
€ 35.06
Hardback. Examines the way divisions between Chinese rural workers and the state were recast in the 20th century as divisions between intellectuals and peasants. The author argues that this division was a central concern of the literature, resulting in a picture of a repressed peasantry, allowing them to become a focus of political and revolutionary protest. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804733199
- ISBN
- 9780804733199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.80
€ 96.80
Hardback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DN; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press University Park, Pennsylvania
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- First
- SKU
- KRS0017759
- ISBN
- 9780271008455
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardcover. This text seeks to return Marie Corelli, popular novelist of the turn of the 20th century, to conversations about the late-Victorian and Edwardian literary world. It reveals the profusion of the late-Victorian literary imagination and discusses how seriously we should take Corelli's aesthetic. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 13 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919157
- ISBN
- 9780813919157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.65
€ 61.65
Hardcover. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. Editor(s): Honings, Rick; Franssen, Gaston. Num Pages: 282 pages, 30 full color. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089649638
- ISBN
- 9789089649638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.82
€ 130.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12, 6 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFS; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801477812
- ISBN
- 9780801477812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.32
€ 32.99
€ 28.32
Hardback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501702112
- ISBN
- 9781501702112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.45
€ 52.45
Paperback. * The definitive and ONLY complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world's greatest living poets Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844080816
- ISBN
- 9781844080816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.21
€ 21.99
€ 16.21
Paperback. In this work of criticism, Chekhov's foremost Russian interpreter offers to Western readers a clear appraisal of the master's work. Editor(s): Pitcher, Harvey. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 177 x 21. Weight in Grams: 335.
- Publisher
- Ivan R. Dee
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566635233
- ISBN
- 9781566635233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.65
€ 17.99
€ 17.65
Paperback. Editor(s): Brinker-Gabler, Gisela; Zisselberger, Markus. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572411302
- ISBN
- 9781572411302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.80
€ 45.99
€ 32.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 203 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555974718
- ISBN
- 9781555974718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.40
€ 16.99
€ 15.40
Paperback. This study argues that ignorance is a part of the narrative and poetic force of literature and is an important aspect of its thematic focus: ignorance is what literary texts are about. It sees that the dominant conception of literature since the Romantic period involves an often unacknowledged engagement with the experience of not knowing. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719097430
- ISBN
- 9780719097430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.15
€ 40.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816695782
- ISBN
- 9780816695782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.95
€ 36.95
Paperback. Drawing on a wide rage of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719080852
- ISBN
- 9780719080852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.51
€ 33.51
Paperback. Reveals that the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients and often inhibit them from seeking proper treatment. By demystifying the fantasies surrounding cancer, this study shows cancer for what it is. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB; JFFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141187129
- ISBN
- 9780141187129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.13
€ 16.99
€ 13.13