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Paperback. The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. This title presents a selection of Sylvia Plath's poetry. It draws upon the collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and from Sylvia Plath's Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 123 x 7. Weight in Grams: 70.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main - Poet to Poet
- SKU
- 9780571222971
- ISBN
- 9780571222971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.40
€ 10.99
€ 8.40
Paperback. From the Frank Stanford archives: unpublished poems, drafts, letters, and audio. Editor(s): Wiegers, Michael; Weise, Chet. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Third Man Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780991336135
- ISBN
- 9780991336135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.04
€ 19.04
Hardback. A lively and provocative history of the great achievements of Irish poets from 1800 to the present day. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 530. Good clean copy in illustrated covers with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004314
- ISBN
- 9780521846738
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Fresh introduction to the dramatic and festive practices of England in the late Middle Ages. Covers a wide range of canonical and lesser known dramatic practices, with an emphasis on their social and cultural historical contexts. Series: Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745636030
- ISBN
- 9780745636030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.64
€ 69.64
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AB; 3D; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691630779
- ISBN
- 9780691630779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.25
€ 145.25
Hardcover. Stanislaw Lem: Philosopher of the Future brings a welter of unknown elements of Lem's life, career, and literary legacy to light in order to mete out cognitive justice to the writer who preferred to be known as the philosopher of the future. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 16. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781381861
- ISBN
- 9781781381861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.27
€ 135.27
Focuses on the work of Umberto Eco - one of Europe's best-known writers and intellectuals. This title covers the range of Eco's work, from his theoretical writings on semiotics to his best-selling novels. It assesses the influence of Eco's work on contemporary culture. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; HPCF; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745608495
- ISBN
- 9780745608495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.14
€ 84.14
hardcover. Num Pages: 337 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1002.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Sheridan House United States
- Edition
- Limited signed ed
- Number of pages
- 337
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955024382
- ISBN
- 9780955024382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.49
€ 38.99
€ 32.49
Hardback. From slave narratives to the Civil War, and from country music to Southern sport, this book presents the literature and culture of the American South. It includes discussion of the visual arts, music, society, history, and politics in the region. It explores the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Huston. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 672 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; DSB; HBJK; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 186 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631224044
- ISBN
- 9780631224044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.87
€ 192.87
Paperback. Editor(s): Marcus, James; The Staff of the Columbia Journalism Review. Series: Columbia Journalism Review Books. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFM; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 210 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231159319
- ISBN
- 9780231159319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.30
€ 32.99
€ 24.30
Paperback. Editor(s): Rippey, Theodore F. Series: Brecht Yearbook/Das Brecht-Jahrubuch. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; APT; BGL; DD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780985195618
- ISBN
- 9780985195618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.92
€ 76.92
hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; 3JD; 3JF; DSB; HBJD; HBLL; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226278285
- ISBN
- 9780226278285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 34.94
€ 45.99
€ 34.94
Paperback. Features the earliest surviving English poem, "Caedmon's Hymn", as well as one of the last poems to be written in the classical Old English alliterative style; some of the great elegies and epics, and a generous selection from "Beowulf". This title also includes a bibliography and reading list, with a note on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Translator(s): McCully, Chris. Num Pages: 100 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 9. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857549256
- ISBN
- 9781857549256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.45
€ 20.99
€ 18.45
hardcover. Ciaran Carson is one of the most challenging and inventive of contemporary Irish writers, exhibiting verbal brilliance, formal complexity, and intellectual daring across a remarkably varied body of work. This book considers the range of his oeuvre, in poetry, prose, and translations, and discusses the major themes to which he returns. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 237 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846314780
- ISBN
- 9781846314780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 43.03
€ 43.03
Paperback. States that "Epicene" is one of the most widely-studied of Johnson's plays. This book analyzed the play as originally written for the newly formed Children of the Queen's Revels, and performed at the little-known Whitefriars Theatre. It discusses the composition of the play, which took place during a critical period in Jonson's life and career. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard. Series: Revels Plays Companion Library. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719078385
- ISBN
- 9780719078385
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.60
€ 32.60
Paperback. North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. This book studies the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Num Pages: 320 pages, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226005522
- ISBN
- 9780226005522
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.55
€ 36.99
€ 28.55
Paperback. This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading alongside a number of his contemporaries and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer. Series Editor(s): Monteith, Sharon; Yousaf, Nahem. Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719074257
- ISBN
- 9780719074257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.65
€ 31.65
Paperback. "Women and Romance" includes historical as well as contemporary selections, personal letters as well as theoretical essays, and social science perspectives as well as literary criticism of the novel and the popular mass-market romance. Editor(s): Weisser, Susan Ostrov. Num Pages: 492 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 255 x 34. Weight in Grams: 938.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 492
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814793558
- ISBN
- 9780814793558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. From Goethe to Gide brings together twelve essays on canonical male writers commissioned from leading specialists from Britain and North America. These essays, aimed at final year undergraduates and postgraduates, focus on Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Hoffmann, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Heine, Fontane, Zola, Kafka, Gide. Editor(s): Orr, Mary; Sharpe, Lesley. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897228
- ISBN
- 9780859897228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.27
€ 42.27
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638720
- ISBN
- 9780691638720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.54
€ 123.54
Hardback. This lucidly written book looks at the interpretative audacity of five major "overreaders"-Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Zizek and Stanley Cavell-and asks what is at stake and what is to be gained by their approaches to literature and film. Num Pages: 240 pages, ill. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804763066
- ISBN
- 9780804763066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.18
€ 117.18
paperback. Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, the author describes the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; BGLA; DSB; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 138 x 32. Weight in Grams: 522. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 384
- SKU
- KRA0006680
- ISBN
- 9780571310920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Heinzelman, Susan Sage; Wiseman, Zipporah Batshaw. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 400 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; L. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 704.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Durham, NC
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822314950
- ISBN
- 9780822314950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.70
€ 35.99
€ 31.70
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780746309520
- ISBN
- 9780746309520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.93
€ 24.99
€ 22.93