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Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889204300
- ISBN
- 9780889204300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 43.11
€ 50.99
€ 43.11
Hardback. A meditation on the human relationships to language and the exigencies of its figuration. Num Pages: 220 pages, 10 half-tones 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804734073
- ISBN
- 9780804734073
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.80
€ 154.80
Hardcover. Illuminating obscure aspects of cultural negotiation and denaturalization in numerous Metaphysical texts, this work examines poetry and prose by Donne, Marvell, Lanyer, Crashaw, and Herbert. It challenges readers to recognize the "strangeness" of these writings in their original contexts. Num Pages: 214 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333760215
- ISBN
- 9780333760215
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.82
€ 104.82
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Advances. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403945921
- ISBN
- 9781403945921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.81
€ 64.81
Paperback. Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie's work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346742
- ISBN
- 9781137346742
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 41.36
€ 44.99
€ 41.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801488887
- ISBN
- 9780801488887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 40.31
€ 44.99
€ 40.31
paperback. Deals with the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s in a poetic style. This book focuses on the deranged, destabilized, and, confused state of mind created by living on the scene through a lengthy war. It is filled with details that transcend the narcissism of the main character, while giving clues to the culture of the time. Translator(s): Tanoukhi, Nirvana. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series. Num Pages: 108 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292705074
- ISBN
- 9780292705074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.96
€ 17.99
€ 17.96
Paperback. A bold, first collection by an exciting new poet. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- White Pine Press United States
- Number of pages
- 108
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781893996069
- ISBN
- 9781893996069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.28
€ 14.99
€ 13.28
hardcover. Series: Macmillan Hardy Studies. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1985th Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333383285
- ISBN
- 9780333383285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 157.17
€ 157.17
Paperback. This collection of seventeen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844303
- ISBN
- 9781843844303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.48
€ 32.99
€ 31.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2005
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349529339
- ISBN
- 9781349529339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.88
€ 122.88
Hardcover. This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels, showing them to be deeply rooted in British literary history and cultural memory. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230575332
- ISBN
- 9780230575332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.87€ 43.83
€ 50.87
€ 43.83
Paperback. This study posits that the narrative of sibling love as a culturally significant tradition in nineteenth-century American fiction. Ultimately, Emily E. VanDette suggests that these novels contribute to historical conversations about affiliation in such tumultuous contexts as sectional divisions, slavery debates, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJK; HBL; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349449583
- ISBN
- 9781349449583
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.39
€ 63.39
Hardcover. Examines the influence of court culture on the creation of the anthology and the significance of imitation and convention in its lyrics. The author aims to situate the Huajian ji within larger questions of Chinese literary history, particularly the influence of cultural forces on the emergence of genres and the development of romantic literature. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 181 x 34. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021426
- ISBN
- 9780674021426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.37
€ 52.99
€ 44.37
Hardback. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBB; DSBD; DSG; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403961945
- ISBN
- 9781403961945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.69
€ 64.69
Paperback. In Whores of Babylon, Frances E. Dolan offers a study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. This study examines legal and literary representations during three crises in Protestant/Catholic relations, the Gunpowder Plot (1605), the Popish Plot and Meal Tub Plot (1678-80). Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; HRCC7; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268025717
- ISBN
- 9780268025717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.74
€ 33.99
€ 30.74
Paperback. A guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. It offers a comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. It looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity. Editor(s): Kinney, Arthur F. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 648 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 180 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405121798
- ISBN
- 9781405121798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.12
€ 55.12
Hardcover. Through politics, religion and his relationship with Wordsworth, the book builds to a new interpretation of the poems where Coleridge's daemonic imagination produces its myths: The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel. Re-reading the origins of Romanticism, Leadbetter reveals a Coleridge at once more familiar and more strange. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103214
- ISBN
- 9780230103214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.60
€ 71.60
Paperback. Editor(s): Christie, S. Num Pages: 206 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349351725
- ISBN
- 9781349351725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Paperback. A translation of Osbern Bokenham's "Legendys of Hooly Wummen" (1443-1447), the first all-female hagiography. Translated from Latinale Middle English, it contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology and high-medieval history. Translator(s): Delany, Sheila. Series: Mediaeval Studies: Sources & Appraisals S. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB; DSC; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268012953
- ISBN
- 9780268012953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.54
€ 32.99
€ 29.54
Paperback. Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappraisal of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sheds light on the book's unclassifiable status as part imaginative fiction, documentary effort, ethnographic study, and modernist prose. Editor(s): Blinder, Caroline. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349287475
- ISBN
- 9781349287475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.27
€ 63.27
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
€ 50.99€ 39.42
€ 50.99
€ 39.42
Paperback. Critics such as Stephen Greenblatt, Catherine Belsey and Jonathan Dollimore, demonstrate the vitality and variety of Renaissance drama and offer critical reassessments of a range of plays. Editor(s): Kastan, David Scott; Stallybrass, Peter. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; AN; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415901666
- ISBN
- 9780415901666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.68
€ 51.68
Paperback. Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) is the towering intellectual giant of early twentieth-century Spain. He wrote novels, plays, poetry and many essays, but is best remembered for his fictional works and for his major philosophical meditation on the nature of existence. Editor(s): Macklin, John. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856688683
- ISBN
- 9780856688683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.37
€ 27.99
€ 26.37