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Paperback. Since the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. This title presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative. Translator(s): Kovacs, Maureen Gallery. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSB; DCF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804717113
- ISBN
- 9780804717113
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.87
€ 16.99
€ 16.87
Paperback. Editor(s): Smith, Paul Julian; Bergmann, Emilie. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 448 pages, 7 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 34. Weight in Grams: 780.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316152
- ISBN
- 9780822316152
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.76
€ 35.99
€ 32.76
Paperback. In a resolute deviation from the governing totality of the phallus, the very site of difference, Reading from Behind offers a radical reorientation of the anus and its role in the collective imaginary Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783607549
- ISBN
- 9781783607549
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Condition: New
€ 23.47
€ 23.47
Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSR; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 235 x 30. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810872288
- ISBN
- 9780810872288
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Condition: New
€ 150.70€ 88.66
€ 150.70
€ 88.66
Paperback. Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 328 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint, Subsequent
- SKU
- V9780801482410
- ISBN
- 9780801482410
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.25
€ 43.99
€ 39.25
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333658017
- ISBN
- 9780333658017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.69
€ 101.69
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403904034
- ISBN
- 9781403904034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.69
€ 101.69
Paperback. The text of this 1902 novel is again that of the fully corrected and annotated reprint of the New York Edition (1909), together with James's preface and the two frontispieces he commissioned for the New York Edition of The Wings of the Dove. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393978810
- ISBN
- 9780393978810
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.85
€ 18.99
€ 17.85
Paperback. Janet Todd is one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women writers. The author discusses women and issues of gender from the Restoration to Romanticism. She examines the complex connections between art and life as revealed by women authors. The author's previous books have sold well. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745610559
- ISBN
- 9780745610559
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Condition: New
€ 23.77
€ 23.77
Hardback. What was the Enlightenment? Seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, this title departs from genealogies that trace it back to political and philosophical developments in England and the Dutch Republic. Num Pages: 184 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184470
- ISBN
- 9780226184470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.20€ 75.95
€ 90.20
€ 75.95
Reading Victorian Poetry offers close readings of poems from the Victorian era by a highly renowned scholar. The selection includes a range of canonical and lesser known writers. Series: Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405193924
- ISBN
- 9781405193924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.81€ 90.46
€ 99.81
€ 90.46
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312229290
- ISBN
- 9780312229290
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. This original study suggests that James Joyce, like Yeats and his fellow Revivalists, was attracted to the west of Ireland as a place of authenticity and freedom. It shows how his acute historical sensibility is reflected in Dubliners, posing new questions about one of the most enduring collections of short stories ever written. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781380024
- ISBN
- 9781781380024
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.47
€ 29.99
€ 27.47
Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters
. Ed(S): Attar, Karina F.; Shutters, Lynn
Paperback. Editor(s): Attar, Karina F.; Shutters, Lynn. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 253 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; JNM; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349502844
- ISBN
- 9781349502844
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Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Hardcover. This book focuses on how Austen's life and work is being re-framed and re-imagined in 20th and 21st century literature and culture. Tracing the connections between Modernist Austen in the early C20th and feminist and post-feminist appropriations in the later C20th, it examines how Austen emerged as a complex point of reference on the global stage. Editor(s): Hanson, Clare. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319462
- ISBN
- 9780230319462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.65
€ 80.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349431458
- ISBN
- 9781349431458
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Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Hardback. The third set in the series, "The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 78" edited by Peter Kitson, and "The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Volume 7" edited by Kate McGowan, aims to provide comprehensive, narrative bibliographical coverage of the best work of 1997. Editor(s): Kitson, Peter. Series: Year's Work. Num Pages: 1600 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; GBCR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 142 x 100. Weight in Grams: 2132.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 1600
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631218166
- ISBN
- 9780631218166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 391.14
€ 391.14
Paperback. Editor(s): Ching, Barbara; Wagner-Lawlor, Jennifer A. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149174
- ISBN
- 9780231149174
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.43
€ 35.99
€ 26.43
Hardcover. Editor(s): Grady, Frank. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780933784307
- ISBN
- 9780933784307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.43
€ 68.43
Paperback. While the structure and themes of the "Divine Comedy" are defined by the narrative of a spiritual pilgrimage guided by Christian truth, this work reveals that Dante's engagement with the great Latin poets Vergil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius constitutes a complementary narrative centered on psychological and artistic self-discovery. Series: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268044121
- ISBN
- 9780268044121
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 41.37
€ 45.99
€ 41.37
Paperback. Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349333189
- ISBN
- 9781349333189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Hardback. The short, both tragic and happy life, of Julian Bell, poet, younger member of Bloomsbury, son of Vanessa Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, from his birth in 1908 until his death in 1937 in the Spanish Civil War. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804774130
- ISBN
- 9780804774130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.67
€ 68.67
Paperback. Editor(s): Acheson, James. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349215249
- ISBN
- 9781349215249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 157.17
€ 157.17
hardcover. A series of innovative studies in the textual and literary criticism of Latin literature and their mutually supportive relationship. Editor(s): Hunter, Richard; Oakley, S. P. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. Num Pages: 379 pages, 14 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 24. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 379
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- V9781107116276
- ISBN
- 9781107116276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.03
€ 85.03