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Paperback. These poems -- more than a hundred haiku, several tanka, and three kanshi -- are arranged chronologically within each genre, revealing the development of Masaoka Shiki's (1867-1902) art and the seamless way in which he wove his life and illness into his poetry. Watson's introduction deftly explores the course of Shiki's life and places him in relation to Japanese history, literature and thought. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DCF; DNF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231110914
- ISBN
- 9780231110914
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.94
€ 32.99
€ 23.94
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Matthews, Tom. Num Pages: 120 pages, 5ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBW; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 145 x 10. Weight in Grams: 164. 113pp
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Poetry Society
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0197884
- ISBN
- 9781902121000
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405141543
- ISBN
- 9781405141543
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Condition: New
€ 40.00
€ 40.00
Num Pages: 79 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 79
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813116556
- ISBN
- 9780813116556
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Condition: New
€ 29.62
€ 29.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 46 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Granville Island Publishing Canada
- Number of pages
- 46
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894694049
- ISBN
- 9781894694049
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.91
€ 18.99
€ 13.91
paperback. Provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. Focusing on the tragedies' dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, this book refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Greece and Rome Live. Num Pages: 176 pages, 4-colour cover illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904675723
- ISBN
- 9781904675723
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.94
€ 30.99
€ 30.94
Hardback. In this critical work, the author spotlights some of the autobiographical kernels in Morrison's novels and a study of the novels, demonstrating that each is a thematic and structural offshoot of the preceding one, evidencing a pattern of growth in Morrison's consciousness of the exploitation and oppression of people of African descent. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910680
- ISBN
- 9781575910680
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Condition: New
€ 119.53
€ 119.53
Hardback. Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251322
- ISBN
- 9780823251322
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.90
€ 105.90
hardcover. The publication of this volume heralds the first scholarly edition of Richardson's complete works, a long-awaited event in eighteenth-century studies. Editor(s): Rivero, Albert J. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson. Num Pages: 664 pages, 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1180.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 664
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521848954
- ISBN
- 9780521848954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.39€ 149.41
€ 156.39
€ 149.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 39. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611490381
- ISBN
- 9781611490381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 173.02
€ 173.02
Paperback. Ramon LLull (1232-1316) was born the son of a prosperous Catalan merchant and spent his youth pursuing worldly pursuits, until a series of powerful visions of Christ moved him to devote his life entirely to serving God. Num Pages: 176 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADC; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HRCS1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780856686344
- ISBN
- 9780856686344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.40
€ 30.99
€ 27.40
Hardback. Draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. This book addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 color illus. BIC Classification: DSB; HPM; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691151588
- ISBN
- 9780691151588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.10
€ 38.99
€ 28.10
Paperback. Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768764
- ISBN
- 9780804768764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.38
€ 27.99
€ 25.38
Paperback. By revealing the investment of eighteenth-century British prose fiction in contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the family were estranged, reconstituted as novel concepts, and then finally presented as national social norms. Num Pages: 408 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Anniversary ed.
- SKU
- V9780804741880
- ISBN
- 9780804741880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.69€ 50.82
€ 51.69
€ 50.82
Hardback. Series: Anthem South Asian Studies. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BM; DSB; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Anthem Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843317975
- ISBN
- 9781843317975
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Condition: New
€ 133.94
€ 133.94
Paperback. This collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 --1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period. Editor(s): Pearsall, Derek. Series: Blackwell Critical Readers. Num Pages: 720 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; 3JB; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631199373
- ISBN
- 9780631199373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Hardback. This complete and annotated bibliography is the largest and most comprehensive of works published in English about Greece, its people, and modern times. Num Pages: 704 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 2AB; DSBH; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 229 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1911.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 704
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810836587
- ISBN
- 9780810836587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 318.09
€ 318.09
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846319457
- ISBN
- 9781846319457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.29€ 61.55
€ 63.29
€ 61.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; HRA; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780691049649
- ISBN
- 9780691049649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.87
€ 32.99
€ 23.87
Hardback. Covering a range of countries - Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Ukraine - this title presents history of Eastern European literature. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133067
- ISBN
- 9780231133067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.91€ 97.06
€ 129.91
€ 97.06
Hardcover. Num Pages: 180 pages, 4ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 29. 179pp
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press University Park and London
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KON0831947
- ISBN
- 9780271004266
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.99€ 4.99
€ 20.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691649177
- ISBN
- 9780691649177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.94
€ 133.94
Paperback. The English Handbook: A Guide to Literary Studies is a comprehensive new textbook providing essential practical and analytical reading and writing skills for literature students at all levels. The Handbook features coverage of all key areas, from sonnets to irony to close textual analysis. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405183758
- ISBN
- 9781405183758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 30.90
€ 31.99
€ 30.90
Paperback. A study of J.R.R. Tolkien's zeal for medieval literary, religious and cultural ideas, which provided the seeds for his own fiction. It discusses not only such classics as "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion", but focuses on his minor works as well. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 357.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813190204
- ISBN
- 9780813190204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.08
€ 32.08