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Hardcover. Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109841
- ISBN
- 9780230109841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373069
- ISBN
- 9781137373069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772895604
- ISBN
- 9788772895604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.51
€ 49.99
€ 35.51
Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
. Ed(S): Frassetto, Michael; Blanks, David R.
Paperback. Editor(s): Frassetto, Michael; Blanks, David R. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBJF; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349416745
- ISBN
- 9781349416745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 101.41
€ 101.41
paperback. Livy is a popular author in schools and universities in all areas of the English speaking world. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 144 pages, M. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 231.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856685248
- ISBN
- 9780856685248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.34
€ 33.99
€ 30.34
Hardback. Editor(s): Schildgen, Brenda Deen. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137565433
- ISBN
- 9781137565433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.04
€ 97.04
Paperback. Argues that men must interrogate their own sexuality in dialogue with women in order to revise phallocentric discourse. Drawing on a range of genres, cultures and theoretical perspectives, this examination questions the assumptions behind the representations of manhood in modern literature. Editor(s): Murphy, Peter F. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- New York University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814754986
- ISBN
- 9780814754986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.30
€ 34.99
€ 31.30
Hardcover. This is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110205
- ISBN
- 9780230110205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.95
€ 132.95
Hardback. Gore Vidal has been entertaining - and occasionally outraging - the American public for 50 years. This study examines Vidal's recent and early novels, and considers the recurring theme of the decline of the United States. Series: Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313295799
- ISBN
- 9780313295799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.81
€ 63.81
Paperback. Children in Culture, Revisited follows on from the first volume, Children in Culture, and is composed of a range of chapters, newly written for this collection, which offer further fully inter- and multidisciplinary considerations of childhood as a culturally and historically constructed identity rather than a constant psycho-biological entity. Editor(s): Lesnik-Oberstein, Karin. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSY; JFC; JFSP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349324880
- ISBN
- 9781349324880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. An exploration of Samuel Beckett's drama, using the criteria that ensue from the works themselves, with particular attention given to the relationship between the medium and the message. This fully revised second edition includes chapters on the radioplays and film and television scripts. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902210544
- ISBN
- 9781902210544
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.08
€ 127.08
Hardback. An introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 870.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896818
- ISBN
- 9780859896818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.08
€ 138.08
Translator(s): Berg, Deena; Parker, Douglass. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DD; DNF; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872203631
- ISBN
- 9780872203631
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.03
€ 51.99
€ 37.03
Paperback. Series: Contemporary interpretations of Shakespeare. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 122
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349196838
- ISBN
- 9781349196838
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.73
€ 46.73
Hardback. Offers a study of autobiographies by French and Francophone African writers and filmmakers, all of whom reject simple first-person narration and experiment with narrative voice and form to represent fragmented subjectivity. This work investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, and across the colonial encounter. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804753562
- ISBN
- 9780804753562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.47
€ 85.47
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, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 180 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1198.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631206873
- ISBN
- 9780631206873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 272.75
€ 272.75
Paperback. Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus' release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. The author examines the story of Prometheus. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 184 pages, 16 plates. BIC Classification: DSB; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 200 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019079
- ISBN
- 9780691019079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.97
€ 45.99
€ 32.97
Paperback. The book will appeal to readers interested in the vital connection between literature and moral philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421417028
- ISBN
- 9781421417028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.21
€ 41.21
Paperback. Besides providing a new appraisal of Guillaume Apollinaire, the foremost French poet of early Modernism and WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project. Num Pages: 304 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898959
- ISBN
- 9780859898959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.66
€ 49.66
Hardback. Exploring as to how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world, this work shows that, there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive. Num Pages: 384 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3D; DSBB; HBG; HRCC1; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 31. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st edition
- SKU
- V9780199262892
- ISBN
- 9780199262892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 305.94
€ 305.94
Paperback. The second book of a major two-volume biographical study of the author William Makepeace Thackeray and his family, including new research that sheds light on the lives of his daughters Minny and Annie. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718892258
- ISBN
- 9780718892258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.66
€ 58.66
hardcover. Editor(s): Witzel, Michael. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 330 pages, 38 colour plates, 39 halftones & 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSBB; HRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 186 x 24. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Critical
- SKU
- V9780674018068
- ISBN
- 9780674018068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.15
€ 44.99
€ 37.15
Hardback. A comprehensive bibliography of the Argentine novel from its beginnings in 1788, the year Miguel Learte wrote Las aventuras de Learte, until 1990, when such authors as Osvaldo Soriano and Luisa Valenzuela published their popular novels. Num Pages: 1136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 2ADS; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 151 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810832428
- ISBN
- 9780810832428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 274.77
€ 274.77
Hardback. Presents the interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-1970); the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996); and, Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grunbein (born 1962). Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758314
- ISBN
- 9780804758314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.87
€ 91.87