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Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813552750
- ISBN
- 9780813552750
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.63
€ 40.99
€ 40.63
Paperback. Editor(s): Dubrow, Heather; Strier, Richard. Num Pages: 388 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226167664
- ISBN
- 9780226167664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 39.42
€ 51.99
€ 39.42
Paperback. Sanders sheds fresh light on how drama shapes understandings of space and place in the seventeenth century. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 b/w illus. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107463349
- ISBN
- 9781107463349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.57
€ 34.57
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 799.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691632568
- ISBN
- 9780691632568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.01
€ 155.01
Hardback. The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 32. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225378
- ISBN
- 9780823225378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.59
€ 105.59
Paperback. Tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their country - the modern Iran - to journey to Europe in search of wisdom. This title explains the libertarian, critical spirit of the early eighteenth century. Translator(s): Betts, C. J. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AFS; BG; BJ; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442816
- ISBN
- 9780140442816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.82
€ 16.99
€ 14.82
Hardcover. Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADT; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5563 x 3633 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721172
- ISBN
- 9780804721172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.30
€ 133.30
Paperback. This edition of "The Mirror of the Simple Souls" is a translation of the French original. It relies primarily on the French, yet also takes other medieval translations into account. Translator(s): Grant, Judith (Lecturer, University of Auckland, Australia); Marler, J.C. (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, USA); Colledge, Edmund; etc. Series: Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DNF; DSBB; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268014353
- ISBN
- 9780268014353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.24
€ 46.99
€ 41.24
Hardcover. Series: ABC-CLIO Literary Companion S. Num Pages: 644 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1355.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 644
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874367577
- ISBN
- 9780874367577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.55€ 77.46
€ 80.55
€ 77.46
Hardback. In this series of essays Betsy Erkkila considers the historical and psychological dramas of blood-as marker of violence, race, sex, kinship-that have stood near the center of American literature, culture, and politics since the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 288 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812238440
- ISBN
- 9780812238440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.11
€ 89.11
Hardback. He then explores in detail how these elements of Menippean satire combine and operate in the literatures of classical Rome and early modern France and England, considering major texts by Varro, Petronius, Lucian, Swift, Boileau, Pope, and Richardson. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; 2ADL; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801882104
- ISBN
- 9780801882104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.04€ 62.08
€ 69.04
€ 62.08
Paperback. Illuminates the continuities among Gordin's Russian fiction and journalism, his work as a controversial Jewish religious reformer, and his Yiddish plays Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 4 illus. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295991337
- ISBN
- 9780295991337
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.87
€ 38.99
€ 34.87
hardcover. These stories introduce an emerging generation of women writers, including Chen Ran, Bikwan Wong and Chen Xue. By presenting fiction from the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the collection deliberately maps the literary contours of same-sex intimacy in cultural rather than purely political terms. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 224 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1F; DSBH; GTB; JFSJ1; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511378
- ISBN
- 9780742511378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 178.26
€ 178.26
Hardback. Examines literary modernism in its relation to the history of criticism by analysing the role of Aristotelian principles, and others. Despite their initially incompatible attitudes to literary history and criticism, this study discloses their convergence on the Aristotelian notion of formal affectivism, demonstrated through conceptual shifts. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845191719
- ISBN
- 9781845191719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03
Hardback. Focuses on the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cultural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the 1940s. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032842
- ISBN
- 9780674032842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 36.55
€ 44.99
€ 36.55
Terror and the Postcolonial is a major new comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. Editor(s): Boehmer, Elleke; Morton, Stephen. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405191548
- ISBN
- 9781405191548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.19
€ 164.19
Hardcover. In the early spring of 1358 Francis Petrarch was invited by his friend Giovanni Mandelli to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Petrarch declined, instead offering Mandelli this pilgrimage guide rather than his companionship. Translator(s): Cachey, Theodore J. Num Pages: 245 pages, 11 halftones, 39pp facsimile. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADT; DSBB; DSK; HRC; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- Facsimile
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268038731
- ISBN
- 9780268038731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 46.54
€ 46.99
€ 46.54
Hardback. What happens when we read imaginative literature? What do we learn from reading such texts? Reading complements our experience, sharpens our perceptions, gives us insight into how other humans live, enables us to understand other cultures and periods, and gives us aesthetic pleasure. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405130981
- ISBN
- 9781405130981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.61
€ 99.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Skoob Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781871438284
- ISBN
- 9781871438284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.95
€ 16.99
€ 12.95
Hardback. Nature Speaks recovers the common ground shared between physics-what used to be known as "natural philosophy"-and fiction-writing as ways of representing the natural world. In doing so, it traces how nature gained an authoritative voice in the late medieval period only to lose it at the outset of modernity. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 456 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248654
- ISBN
- 9780812248654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.16
€ 95.16
Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611470666
- ISBN
- 9781611470666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.40
€ 117.40
Paperback. The third and fourth books of Cicero's "Tusculan Disputations" deal with the nature and management of emotion. He presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicurians and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position. Translator(s): Graver, Margaret (Assistant Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College, USA). Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; DSK; HPCA; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226305783
- ISBN
- 9780226305783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.63
€ 36.99
€ 28.63
Hardback. Num Pages: 372 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DN; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674139909
- ISBN
- 9780674139909
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.37€ 110.55
€ 125.37
€ 110.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 268. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001559
- ISBN
- 9780393309461
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99