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Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691136127
- ISBN
- 9780691136127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.36
€ 45.99
€ 32.36
Hardcover. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. Editor(s): Honings, Rick; Franssen, Gaston. Num Pages: 282 pages, 30 full color. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089649638
- ISBN
- 9789089649638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.82
€ 130.82
Paperback. Presents a collection of essays that centres on the implications of an intricate conception of Irish history and identity. This work emphasises both the historical considerations and the literary representations of Irish identities. It contains contributions by American, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish scholars. Editor(s): Westarp, Karl-Heinz; Boss, Michael. Series: Dolphin S. Num Pages: 179 pages, Illustrations, music. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; HBJD1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 10. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772883809
- ISBN
- 9788772883809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.46
€ 17.46
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571134615
- ISBN
- 9781571134615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.67
€ 42.99
€ 35.67
Paperback. Examines the full range of Carlos Fuentes' work. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719085918
- ISBN
- 9780719085918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.33
€ 40.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, Photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910170052
- ISBN
- 9781910170052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.95
€ 13.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. A comprehensive , ambitious, and demanding critique of eighteenth-century English and French fiction, Story and History rereads the major works of the period as components in a systematic exploration of how the ordering of experience by individuals might relate to larger orders of authority. Num Pages: 400 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2ADF; 3JF; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- No Edition Stated
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631175124
- ISBN
- 9780631175124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 49.03
€ 49.99
€ 49.03
Paperback. Ruminates on the life of the writer and the significance of language as art. This title takes as its central conceit a famous anecdote about Ernest Hemingway's early work: Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, going by train from their apartment in Paris to visit him in Switzerland, brought along, at his request, a suitcase full of his work-in-progress. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231115438
- ISBN
- 9780231115438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.01
€ 32.99
€ 24.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 232 pages, p. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856681783
- ISBN
- 9780856681783
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.90
€ 33.99
€ 29.90
Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; DSBD; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226456966
- ISBN
- 9780226456966
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 38.52
€ 49.99
€ 38.52
Hardcover. Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived in Iraq during the first century of the Abbasid caliphate. This book introduces the writings and Abbasid-period textual world of Al-Jahiz, the 'father of Arabic prose'. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; 3F; DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 240 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1036.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 592
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748683321
- ISBN
- 9780748683321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.72
€ 162.72
Hardback. "An invigorating annual for those who are interested in medieval textual cultures and open to ways in which diverse post-modern methodologies may be applied to them." Alcuin Blamires, Review of English Studies Num Pages: 248 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844570
- ISBN
- 9781843844570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.89
€ 87.89
Paperback. Translator(s): Lockert, Lacy. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691627861
- ISBN
- 9780691627861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.15
€ 48.15
hardcover. A fresh account of Irish Romanticism and the Irish novel in turbulent political times. Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 11. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107009516
- ISBN
- 9781107009516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.71
€ 89.71
Hardcover. This book is about an aspect of mediaeval Arabic culture and literature known in Arabic as mujUn (roughly 'libertinism, licentiousness, frivolity, indecency, profligacy, shamelessness, impertinence', etc.) Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1; HPDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 176 x 245 x 34. Weight in Grams: 852.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Gibb Memorial Trust United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780906094617
- ISBN
- 9780906094617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.15
€ 85.15
Paperback. Assessing existing traditions of autobiography and biography, this study seeks a method capable of conveying the distinctive content of women's lives while retaining the tenor of feminine subjectivity. The author draws on recent feminist research methodologies as well as anthropology and sociology. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814750759
- ISBN
- 9780814750759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.46
€ 31.99
€ 28.46
Hardback. Sick Heroes examines the cultural practices that created those remarkably offensive, though strangely appealing, romantic heroes that appeared in European and especially in French literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895491
- ISBN
- 9780859895491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.08
€ 140.08
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691634715
- ISBN
- 9780691634715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.85
€ 139.85
Hardback. The study shows, in chronological fashion, how African women writers in the past five decades have introduced a new, autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision, bringing nuance and vitality to the FGM debate. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756877
- ISBN
- 9780804756877
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.53
€ 101.53
Paperback. Series: Literature and Culture Handbooks. 256 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Kline, Daniel T. A resource for courses in medieval literature. It provides students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBB. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 17. Weight: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826494092
- ISBN
- 9780826494092
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.46
€ 39.46
Paperback. Opens up readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. This book shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159744
- ISBN
- 9780691159744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 34.74
€ 48.99
€ 34.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801488412
- ISBN
- 9780801488412
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 43.35
€ 48.99
€ 43.35
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 216 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691633787
- ISBN
- 9780691633787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.98
€ 102.98
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135674
- ISBN
- 9781571135674
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.15
€ 122.15