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Paperback. Terence's Phormio , based on a Greek original by Apollodorus of Carystus, was produced towards the end of his short dramatic career in 161 BC. With its lively action, based on the traditional elements of love, deception and mistaken identity, the play provides an ideal introduction to the genre of New Comedy. Editor(s): Maltby, Robert. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 208 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 310.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856686078
- ISBN
- 9780856686078
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Hardback. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; HPCD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403976178
- ISBN
- 9781403976178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Hardcover. Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in the visual interpretation of African American literary texts using film, music, black masculinity, black feminist, and cultural theory. Editor(s): Green, Tara T. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137282453
- ISBN
- 9781137282453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Paperback. Traces Herman Melville's response to an array of nineteenth-century writings that includes literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. This book shows how Melville raised with verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation. Num Pages: 206 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSK; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 45.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1 Reprint
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520254558
- ISBN
- 9780520254558
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.50
€ 38.99
€ 28.50
Hardcover. Joseph Conrad is not only one of the world's great writers of English literature, but was a writer who lived a particularly full and interesting life. This biography analyzes several aspects of Conrad's life and works: his problems with the English language; his borrowings from French writers; and his attitude toward socialism. Series: Studies in English & American Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 806 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1358. A Life. Series: Studies in English & American Literature & Culture. 806 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Joseph Conrad is not only one of the world's great writers of English literature, but was a writer who lived a particularly full and interesting life. This biography analyzes several aspects of Conrad's life and works: his problems with the English language; his borrowings from French writers; and his attitude toward socialism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 33. Weight: 1290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571133472
- ISBN
- 9781571133472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.53€ 88.09
€ 98.53
€ 88.09
Hardcover. Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the seance. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HRQM2; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200050
- ISBN
- 9780230200050
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Condition: New
€ 111.99
€ 111.99
Paperback. What does it mean to live as a ghost? Exploring spectrality as a metaphor in the contemporary British and American cultural imagination, Peeren proposes that certain subjects migrants, servants, mediums and missing persons are perceived as living ghosts and examines how this figuration can signify both dispossession and empowerment or agency." Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349477487
- ISBN
- 9781349477487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.59
€ 68.59
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823250974
- ISBN
- 9780823250974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.25
€ 36.99
€ 33.25
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826488848
- ISBN
- 9780826488848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 28.42
€ 29.99
€ 28.42
hardcover. Richardson's complete correspondence with Lady Bradshaigh, long recognised as his most important correspondent, and her sister Lady Echlin. Editor(s): Sabor, Peter. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson. Num Pages: 1200 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; BJ; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 239 x 68. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1200
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9781107145528
- ISBN
- 9781107145528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 406.61
€ 406.61
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- STE Publishers South Africa
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781919855417
- ISBN
- 9781919855417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.13
€ 19.99
€ 18.13
Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; JFSJ; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349623013
- ISBN
- 9781349623013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardback. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DCQ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403940667
- ISBN
- 9781403940667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.58
€ 64.58
Paperback. These poems -- more than a hundred haiku, several tanka, and three kanshi -- are arranged chronologically within each genre, revealing the development of Masaoka Shiki's (1867-1902) art and the seamless way in which he wove his life and illness into his poetry. Watson's introduction deftly explores the course of Shiki's life and places him in relation to Japanese history, literature and thought. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DCF; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110914
- ISBN
- 9780231110914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.27
€ 32.99
€ 24.27
Hardback. With primary, though not exclusive, reference on the English side to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and on the French side to a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic material, Hilman focuses on distinctive elements that emerge within the English tragedy of the 1590s and early 1600s. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719082764
- ISBN
- 9780719082764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.64
€ 151.64
Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 4. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1930
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642940644
- ISBN
- 9783642940644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD1; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 295
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349380169
- ISBN
- 9781349380169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift focus from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479679
- ISBN
- 9781137479679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Paperback. A work on the Whitman disciples - the fascinating, eclectic group of nineteenth-century men and women who regarded Walt Whitman not simply as a poet but as a religious prophet. It presents a colorful portrait of an era of intense religious, political, and sexual passions, focusing on why Whitman's work continues to appeal to so many. Num Pages: 368 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146317
- ISBN
- 9780691146317
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.20
€ 25.99
€ 19.20
Hardback. Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike's works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2017
- SKU
- V9781571139429
- ISBN
- 9781571139429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.12
€ 107.12
Paperback. "This book investigates the political dimensions of Czech Shakespeare appropriation and production in the wake of the fall of communism, uncovering an anxious struggle between dimensions of Czech nationhood that comes to a head in a competition for a 'true' Shakespeare, and addressing key issues such as gender, globalization and national culture"-- Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 221
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349301102
- ISBN
- 9781349301102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.42
€ 63.42
Paperback. Consisting of studies in the poetry of the Pound tradition, this book is a classic study of poetic form by an expert in contemporary criticism. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810113800
- ISBN
- 9780810113800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.67
€ 30.67
Hardback. "This interesting comparative study of the relationship between blood and gender in medieval literature considers how blood is associated with cultural values and how those values might be understood in light of blood's ubiquity as a metaphor and literal agent.. Recommended."-Choice Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- SKU
- V9780812237139
- ISBN
- 9780812237139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.70
€ 69.70
Paperback. A practical approach to Charlotte Bronte's best-known novels, which shows how coherent criticism can be evolved from close reading. The book contains worked examples, with detailed guidance and suggestions for further work which should be useful for both teachers and students. Series: Analysing Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JNZ. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333747797
- ISBN
- 9780333747797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 28.30
€ 32.99
€ 28.30