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hardcover. This book offers a wide-ranging international history of environmental writing from ancient Mesopotamian and Asian works to the present. Editor(s): Parham, John; Westling, Louise. Num Pages: 459 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 165 x 236 x 2. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107102620
- ISBN
- 9781107102620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.10
€ 120.10
hardcover. This book is the first and only systematic, broad study of the history and character of American working-class literature. Editor(s): Coles, Nicholas; Lauter, Paul. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSR; GBC; JFSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 920.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107103382
- ISBN
- 9781107103382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.75
€ 117.75
Hardcover. A critical study of fictional responses by authors inside and outside Rwanda to the 1994 genocide. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJPR; 3JM; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781381946
- ISBN
- 9781781381946
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.66
€ 138.66
Hardback. The earliest anthology of Chinese poetry, the Book of Poems, has served as an ideal of literary perfection and also a major subject of literary criticism since imperial times. Rusk unravels the competitive, mutually influential relationship through which classical and literary scholarship on the poems co-evolved from the Han dynasty to the Qing. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 325 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 325
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674067011
- ISBN
- 9780674067011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.66
€ 44.99
€ 37.66
hardcover. This transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary work will be of interest to students, theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars. Editor(s): Smith, Bruce R. Num Pages: 2248 pages, 332 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 216. .
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107057258
- ISBN
- 9781107057258
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 650.76
€ 650.76
Hardcover. This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. Series: BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO LITERA. Num Pages: 584 pages, NO. BIC Classification: DS. Dimension: 253 x 178 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1042.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118451625
- ISBN
- 9781118451625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 213.73
€ 213.73
Paperback. In this, the first Reader of Geoffrey Hartman's work, significant essays reflect his abiding interest in English and American poetry, focusing not only on Romanticism but also on the transition from early modern to modern and including reflections on the radical elements in artistic representation. Editor(s): Hartman, Geoffrey H.; O'Hara, Daniel T. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620173
- ISBN
- 9780748620173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.74
€ 41.99
€ 36.74
Hardback. These essays investigate the materiality of the world in Spenser, Cary and Marlowe; its sociability, sexuality and sovereignty in Shakespeare; and the universality of spirit, gender and empire in Vaughan, Donne and the dastan (tale) of Chouboli, a Rastanjani princess. Editor(s): Frank, Marcie. Num Pages: 256 pages, 2 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270286
- ISBN
- 9780823270286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.66
€ 125.66
Hardback. This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead'. Num Pages: 176 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748615889
- ISBN
- 9780748615889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.00€ 111.49
€ 117.00
€ 111.49
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield International
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783482566
- ISBN
- 9781783482566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.29€ 22.91
€ 160.29
€ 22.91
Hardcover. First performed in 1727, Cardenio or Double Falsehood was based on a play originally written by William Shakespeare. This significant new edition traces the elements of his work to be found in the text we have today, opening up fascinating questions and ideas for all students of Shakespeare. Editor(s): Hammond, Brean. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 464 pages, 20 illustrations in introduction. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Arden Shakespeare
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903436769
- ISBN
- 9781903436769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.30€ 93.69
€ 105.30
€ 93.69
Hardback. Editor(s): Siegel, Ben; Halio, Jay L. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611491470
- ISBN
- 9781611491470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.78
€ 140.78
Paperback. The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource and one with a history. Series: Critical Quarterly Book Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444333848
- ISBN
- 9781444333848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.83
€ 28.83
Hardback. A new definitive edition of Stevenson's famous exploration of evil and greed. Editor(s): Katz, Wendy Roberta. Series: The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748608379
- ISBN
- 9780748608379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.30€ 100.65
€ 105.30
€ 100.65
Paperback. A biography of Nikos Kazantzakis. It describes his struggle with political questions that were in reality aspects of a fervent religious search. It features his experiments with communism in turbulent Greece, his visits to Soviet Russia, and the publication of his epic "Odyssey" in 1938. Series: Princeton Modern Greek Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHM; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691128801
- ISBN
- 9780691128801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.93
€ 45.99
€ 32.93
Hardback. In selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, ranging from Plath to Roth, Ahlberg reads contemporary narratives, particularly "transatlantic literature", as it imagines and navigates today's virtual spaces. Ultimately, Ahlberg's argument empowers the reader to reimagine a future for narrative in the Information Age. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479211
- ISBN
- 9781137479211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.06
€ 64.06
Hardback. Drawing on Woolf's novels, essays, reviews, letters, diary entries, short stories, and memoirs, the book explores the political and the ontological, as the individual's connection to the world comes to be defined by an involvement and engagement that is always already situated within a particular physical, societal, and historical context. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474421676
- ISBN
- 9781474421676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.30€ 99.72
€ 105.30
€ 99.72
Hardback. This book examines testimony in the works of Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, H.G. de Lisser, V.S Reid, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and argues that disruptions to imperial and national power and the legal and legal responses they inspired shape the formal practices of modernist and Anglophone literature. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823267811
- ISBN
- 9780823267811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.81
€ 125.81
Hardcover. Tells a life of Scott. This title increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, and enabling us to read James Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context. It provides a hitherto unknown contemporary perspective on Sir Walter Scott's life and work. Editor(s): Grader, Daniel. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 240 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408. 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. Editor(s): Grader, Daniel. Tells a life of Scott. This title increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, and enabling us to read James Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context. It provides a hitherto unknown contemporary perspective on Sir Walter Scott's life and work. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Dimension: 167 x 240 x 15. Weight: 408.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748669912
- ISBN
- 9780748669912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.30€ 99.72
€ 105.30
€ 99.72
Paperback. This invaluable Guide surveys the key critical works and debates in the vibrant field of children's literature since its inception. Leading expert Pat Pinsent combines a chronological overview of developments in the genre with analysis of key theorists and theories, and subject-specific methodologies. Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137335456
- ISBN
- 9781137335456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.05
€ 35.99
€ 30.05
Paperback. Editor(s): Edmond-Paul, Mary. Num Pages: 327 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 2AB; BGLA; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Otago University Press New Zealand
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877578212
- ISBN
- 9781877578212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.00€ 18.53
€ 21.00
€ 18.53
Hardback. Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in interpretation. It includes examples that are taken from film (Benjamin's test case), literature, music, painting and photography. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHBA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845192495
- ISBN
- 9781845192495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.90
€ 126.90
Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 238 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231177726
- ISBN
- 9780231177726
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.35€ 50.01
€ 64.35
€ 50.01
Hardback. Presents two complementary medieval anthologies containing lyrics by two outstanding Latin poets of the second half of the twelfth century. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 211 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674055575
- ISBN
- 9780674055575
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.00
€ 40.99
€ 33.00