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Hardback. What did it mean to be a woman in sixteenth-century Venice? This volume explores the role of Venetian women in sixteenth-century culture as well as the contribution of the writer Moderata Fonte to the centuries-old Owar of the sexes.O Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; 3JB; DSB; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472646
- ISBN
- 9781611472646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.36
€ 113.36
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226299495
- ISBN
- 9780226299495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.19€ 46.73
€ 55.19
€ 46.73
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691636993
- ISBN
- 9780691636993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.94
€ 153.94
Paperback. An anthology that features poems by various poets. Editor(s): Bradley, Anthony. Num Pages: 420 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 503. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000270
- ISBN
- 9780520058743
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Reassesses the Enlightenment's liberal legacies by revisiting the wide-ranging development of eighteenth-century letters known as "sentimentalism" Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 409.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823240074
- ISBN
- 9780823240074
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Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Paperback. Confronts the consciousness of an absent (though perhaps still existent) God in the writings of Thomas De Quincey, Robert Browning, Emily Bront, Matthew Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. This title surveys the intellectual and material developments that conspired to cut man off from God. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 34. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252069109
- ISBN
- 9780252069109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.07
€ 45.99
€ 40.07
Paperback. One of our most acclaimed translators of Chinese drama and a specialist of Ming period literature translates one of the greatest Chinese tragedies of the first half of the seventeenth century, available for the first time in English. Translator(s): Birch, Cyril. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 180 x 21. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121699
- ISBN
- 9780231121699
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Condition: New
€ 49.99
€ 49.99
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
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.28
€ 38.99
€ 27.28
Paperback. A survey of the roots and origins of Isaac Bashevis-Singer's works. Biletzky also explores the relationship between Singer and Shalom Aleichem and I.L. Peretz, offering an analysis which synthesizes the Jewish and the Yiddish in Singer's thought and writing. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819198297
- ISBN
- 9780819198297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.19
€ 82.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press Ithaca
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801488320
- ISBN
- 9780801488320
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.90
€ 41.99
€ 36.90
Paperback. His organization of the works and his supplementary material provide both students and scholars with a concise overview of Faulkner studies from its New Critical beginnings through its current engagements with theory and history. Editor(s): Duvall, John N. Series: A Modern Fiction Studies Book. Num Pages: 408 pages, 4, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801896996
- ISBN
- 9780801896996
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.69
€ 37.99
€ 31.69
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
€ 81.55€ 63.00
€ 81.55
€ 63.00
The Low Countries and the New World(s). Travel, Discovery, Early Relat...
Prins, Johanna C.; Brandt, Bettina; Stevens, ...
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761819455
- ISBN
- 9780761819455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.78
€ 112.78
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845196752
- ISBN
- 9781845196752
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.90
€ 38.99
€ 34.90
Paperback. Traces Pound's intimate engagement with specific occultists (W B Yeats, Allen Upward, Alfred Orage, and G R S Mead) and their ideas. This title argues that speculative occultism was a major factor in the evolution of Pound's extraordinary aesthetic and religious sensibility, much noticed in Pound criticism. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 225 x 12. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554582501
- ISBN
- 9781554582501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.58
€ 48.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837626001
- ISBN
- 9783837626001
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.46
€ 49.99
€ 35.46
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
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.84
€ 21.99
€ 19.84
Hardback. Proposing that its roots can be found in Great Plains nonfiction writing, this book explores the many facets of this vital form of critique, exploration, and celebration that weaves together such elements of narrative as natural history, cultural history, geography, memoir, and intertextuality. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803245020
- ISBN
- 9780803245020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.51
€ 51.51
Paperback. This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. Rollos investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and practice constructed the overarching cultural aesthetics that conditioned the production and reception of the genre of the novel in Byzantine society. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, 3 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 179 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017917
- ISBN
- 9780674017917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.59
€ 32.99
€ 27.59
Paperback. This study explores the allegorical-cum-symbolic mode in selected African, African American, and Caribbean literary works, and the discussion of these African, African American, and Caribbean writers' use of the allegorical mode is an attempt to recover the subtext of their works. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761851219
- ISBN
- 9780761851219
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Condition: New
€ 54.75
€ 54.75
Paperback. The 2007 manifesto in favour of a "Litterature-monde en francais" has generated new debates in both "francophone" and "postcolonial" studies. This book features leading scholars who help to assess the wider question of the evolving status of French Studies as a transnational field of study amid the challenges of globalization. Editor(s): Hargreaves, Alec G.; Forsdick, Charles; Murphy, David. Series: Francophone Postcolonial Studies. Num Pages: 307 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH5. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318108
- ISBN
- 9781846318108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.92
€ 38.99
€ 34.92
Paperback. A study of death, via author comments, as it appears in the works of contemporary poets providing a Christian appreciation of it within a context of tradition and circumstances. Num Pages: 157 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cowley Publications
- Number of pages
- 157
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781561012510
- ISBN
- 9781561012510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.93
€ 14.99
€ 13.93
Paperback. Editor(s): Falkeid, Unn, PhD. Num Pages: 256 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oslo Academic Press Norway
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788274773479
- ISBN
- 9788274773479
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.84
€ 40.99
€ 28.84
Paperback. Olga M. Davidson's major reassessment of the classical Persian epic the Shahnama argues that its poet is actually a character in the work who coexists with the heroes and kings celebrated in the poem. Documenting the text's oral performance tradition, Davidson shows that the heroic style of the Shahnama stems from ancient Indo-European traditions. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073210
- ISBN
- 9780674073210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 23.74
€ 27.99
€ 23.74