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Paperback. Placing sensibility in dialogue with classical and early-modern antecedents as well as contemporary animal studies,this book uncovers crucial connections between eighteenth-century poetry; theories of communication; and post-absolutist, rights-based politics. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226239392
- ISBN
- 9780226239392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 26.81
€ 33.99
€ 26.81
Paperback. Ten young people leave Florence to escape the Black Death of 1348, and organize life in the countryside through the pleasure and discipline of story-telling. David Wallace discusses their 100 "novelles" along with Florentine culture, gender issues and the wider influences of the text. Series Editor(s): Stern, J. P. Series: Landmarks of World Literature. Num Pages: 132 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 150.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521388511
- ISBN
- 9780521388511
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Condition: New
€ 26.14
€ 26.14
Paperback. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did symbolic as well as literal damage. This book includes two interlinked essays that proposes the notion of virtual traumato that describe the cultural wound that this name-date both deflects and relays. It examines the historical and philosophical infrastructure of the notion of war on terror. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFC; JPWL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823231249
- ISBN
- 9780823231249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.91
€ 47.91
Hardback. Intervenes in transatlantic and hemispheric studies by positing that America's not a particular country or continent but a foundational narrative, in which conquerors arrive at a shore intent on overwriting local versions of humanity, culture, and landscape with inscriptions of their own design. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 423.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232383
- ISBN
- 9780823232383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.49
€ 91.49
Hardback. Proposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this book focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in the realm of culture. Num Pages: 188 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804724111
- ISBN
- 9780804724111
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.58
€ 79.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; DSBD; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804717991
- ISBN
- 9780804717991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.06
€ 36.06
Paperback. A chronological guide to influential Greek and Roman writers, Fifty Key Classical Authors is an invaluable introduction to the literature, philosophy and history of the ancient world. Series: Routledge Key Guides. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; GBC; HBJD; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415165112
- ISBN
- 9780415165112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.41
€ 33.41
Paperback. In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting--edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity. Series: Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745627922
- ISBN
- 9780745627922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.40
€ 27.40
Hardback. At the nexus of Kantian aesthetics, literary analysis, and the history of medicine, Perverse Romanticism makes an important contribution to the study of sexuality in the long eighteenth century. Num Pages: 376 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801890413
- ISBN
- 9780801890413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.26€ 53.75
€ 59.26
€ 53.75
paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780520069817
- ISBN
- 9780520069817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.29
€ 37.99
€ 27.29
Landress explores the intricacies of fiction about Orthodox women in contemporary contexts, offering a subtle interpretation of the conflicts in Orthodox women's lives as they weave their way through daughterhood, motherhood, politics, and personal dilemmas, negotiating between tradition and modernity. Num Pages: 275 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781618111715
- ISBN
- 9781618111715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.54
€ 138.54
Hardcover. Contributes to the interdisciplinary theory of 'word and image', and the history of the relationships between 'sister arts'. This title offers a fresh perspective of traditional Western art form as reflected in the eyes of a Hebrew survivor of twentieth-century Holocaust atrocities. Num Pages: 197 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSBH; DSC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194505
- ISBN
- 9781845194505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DND; 1DST; 2ACSD; DSBH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 860.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772899268
- ISBN
- 9788772899268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 38.77
€ 54.99
€ 38.77
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550027860
- ISBN
- 9781550027860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.43
€ 26.99
€ 23.43
Paperback. A study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue of Penelope and Odysseus ("Odyssey 19"). It makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication important for the interaction between the two speakers. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053359
- ISBN
- 9780674053359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.81
€ 21.99
€ 19.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041373
- ISBN
- 9780268041373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.92
€ 38.99
€ 34.92
Hardback. The first general introduction to Ovid written in English in over 20 years, this book provides a unique and accessible introduction to the complete works of Ovid. Using a thematic approach, Volk lays out what we know about Ovid's life, presents the author's works within their poetic genres, and discusses central Ovidian themes. Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405136426
- ISBN
- 9781405136426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.84
€ 41.99
€ 41.84
hardcover. Aeschylus: Agamemnon Volume II: Commentary 1-1055 Editor(s): Fraenkel, Eduard. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 881.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199271719
- ISBN
- 9780199271719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.92
€ 93.92
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1057.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 632
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691648552
- ISBN
- 9780691648552
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 296.77
€ 296.77
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691609881
- ISBN
- 9780691609881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.32
€ 56.32
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 2PGP; DSBB; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1963
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226323985
- ISBN
- 9780226323985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.66
€ 20.99
€ 17.66
Paperback. This book examines the early development of the fantastic tale through the works of of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Theophile Gautier and Prosper Merimee; and Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the literary form. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738606
- ISBN
- 9780804738606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.92
€ 38.99
€ 34.92
Paperback. This superb study explores the imaginative transformation of the city by African, Asian, Caribbean and South Pacific writers since the 1950s. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415344609
- ISBN
- 9780415344609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.47
€ 53.47
Paperback. This book proposes the "formless" as a way of thinking through the impasses of contemporary politics. The writing of the formless, as it can be traced in the work of Lezama Lima and the Cuban Revolution, is the point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time. Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADSL; 3JJ; DSBH; HRAM2; JFSL4; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823274086
- ISBN
- 9780823274086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.46
€ 31.99
€ 28.46