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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
€ 206.03
€ 206.03
paperback. Literature after Postmodernism explores the use of literary fantastic storylines in contemporary novels which begin to think beyond postmodernism. They develop an aesthetic perspective that aims at creation and communication instead of subversion and can thus be considered no longer deconstructive but reconstructive. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPCF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 301
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- SKU
- V9781349491971
- ISBN
- 9781349491971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 111.62
€ 111.62
Hardcover. Editor(s): Yoder, R. Paul. Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature S. Num Pages: 205 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; GBC; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate. Dimension: 248 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Modern Language Assn of Amer
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873527156
- ISBN
- 9780873527156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.56€ 95.35
€ 106.56
€ 95.35
Hardcover. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries is a comprehensive study of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - this study establishes sociable networks of days gone by. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110656
- ISBN
- 9780230110656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, 45 colour images. BIC Classification: DC; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469629070
- ISBN
- 9781469629070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.51
€ 33.99
€ 28.51
Paperback. This lively and provocative study offers a radical reappraisal of a century of Shakespearean theatre. Topics addressed include modernist Shakespearean performance's relation with psychoanalysis, the hidden gender dynamics of the open stage movement, and the appropriation of Shakespeare himself as a dramatic fiction and theatrical icon. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349418398
- ISBN
- 9781349418398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. It adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts have been rewritten by modern authors. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268029517
- ISBN
- 9780268029517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.00
€ 29.99
€ 27.00
Paperback. "The Story of Sapho" makes available for the first time in modern English a self contained section from Scudery's novel "Artamene ou le Grand Cyrus". This edition also includes a translation of an oration in which Sapho extols the talents of women to persuade them to write. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226143996
- ISBN
- 9780226143996
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
€ 32.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. Although these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women. Num Pages: 326 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894015
- ISBN
- 9780801894015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.10
€ 37.99
€ 32.10
Hardcover. "Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature" is a multidisciplinary exploration of the ways that African American hot musicminstrelsy, ragtime, jazz, and especially bluesemerged into the American cultural mainstream in the nineteenth century and ultimately dominated both American music and literature from 1920 to 1929." Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; AVGJ; AVGK; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Alabama Press
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817318659
- ISBN
- 9780817318659
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.57€ 60.05
€ 65.57
€ 60.05
Paperback. This resource provides information on a popular literary genre - the 20th century American short story. It contains articles on stories that share a particular theme, and over 100 pieces on individual writers and their work. There are also articles on promising new writers entering the scene. Editor(s): Gelfant, Blanche H. Num Pages: 952 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 952
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110990
- ISBN
- 9780231110990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 38.93
€ 54.99
€ 38.93
Paperback. Most of the commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed 'death'. Proposing the vitality of American poetry, this title features essays that trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- U OF M DIGT CULT BOOKS
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472050994
- ISBN
- 9780472050994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.51
€ 33.99
€ 28.51
Hardback. Modernism is still widely acknowledged as perhaps the most important and influential artistic and cultural phenomenon of the 20th century. Covering hundreds of different topics in a clear, incisive and critical manner, this reference maps the complex field of modernism. Num Pages: 528 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 180 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1266.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780313310171
- ISBN
- 9780313310171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.07€ 97.71
€ 110.07
€ 97.71
Paperback. An international trade emerged between 1870-1895 that incorporated the circulation of books among countries worldwide. A history of the social network and select agents who sold and distributed books overseas, this study demonstrates agents increasingly thought of the world as a negotiable, connected system and books as transnational commodities. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; HBTB; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349324958
- ISBN
- 9781349324958
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Paperback. The first book to trace Brazil s reckoning with dictatorship through the collision of politics and cultural production." Series: Critical Human Rights. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADS; 3JJP; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299297244
- ISBN
- 9780299297244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.54
€ 35.99
€ 30.54
Hardcover. Presents the history of development through the ages of Plato's "Atlantis" story - the imperialist island state that disappeared in a cataclysm, leaving Athens to survive it. Instead of simply focusing on the various attempts to 'find' Atlantis, the author re-examines the very different uses made of the myth in different contexts and periods. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBLA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780859898058
- ISBN
- 9780859898058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.66
€ 138.66
paperback. Editor(s): Bodunde, Charles. Series: Bayreuth African Studies. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: 2H; DSB; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 146. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Bayreuth African Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783927510661
- ISBN
- 9783927510661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.33
€ 18.99
€ 17.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1989
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349197675
- ISBN
- 9781349197675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.26
€ 69.26
Paperback. This text charts women's contributions to what the author calls the "War Story". It concentrates on the contemporary literature of the Arab world, showing how women who write themselves and their experiences into the "War Story" undo the masculine contract with violence, sexuality and glory. Num Pages: 309 pages, 32 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 1FB; 1FMV; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 309
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520206137
- ISBN
- 9780520206137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.50
€ 40.99
€ 28.50
Hardcover. Editor(s): Hayes-Healy, Stephanie. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3H; DSB; HBG; HBLC; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403969170
- ISBN
- 9781403969170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Paperback. This is an interdisciplinary study of the major cultural and political scenes of a decade marked by dramatic -and sometimes traumatic-change. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPK; DSBH; GTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756631
- ISBN
- 9780804756631
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.49
€ 34.99
€ 31.49
Hardcover. Ben-Bassat (English, Tel Aviv U.) discusses crises of ideology and identity in the fiction of contemporary American authors. She contends that the fiction of John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker has absorbed a diversity of prophetic modes from a diversity of Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754337
- ISBN
- 9780838754337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.54
€ 113.54
Hardcover. Series: Islandica. Num Pages: 214 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 2ACSX; DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Library, Division of Rare & Manuscripts Collections United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780935995206
- ISBN
- 9780935995206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.01
€ 75.01
Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761823445
- ISBN
- 9780761823445
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 77.31
€ 77.31