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Hardback. Although Bakhtin applied his theory primarily to the epic and the novel, Platter finds in his work profound implications for Aristophanic comedy, where stylistic heterogeneity is the genre's lifeblood. Series: Arethusa Books. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801885273
- ISBN
- 9780801885273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.06€ 56.44
€ 62.06
€ 56.44
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 548 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JF; ANB; APB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 485. 8vo. Good former library copy with neat labels inside front cover
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- SKU
- KEX0298748
- ISBN
- 9780691623191
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Hardcover. An engaging introduction to the great Azerbaijani Poet, Nizami, and his greatest works; a book for lovers of good literature everywhere. Editor(s): Herzig, Edmund; Wordsworth, Paul D. Num Pages: 218 pages, 6 coloured illustrations. BIC Classification: 2FMZ; DSC; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 132. .
- Publisher
- Gilgamesh Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908531742
- ISBN
- 9781908531742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.15
€ 26.99
€ 20.15
Paperback. Chronicles the writing and performing career of Herbert W. Martin, focusing on the way his life has informed his art and situating his creative work within the context of the African American tradition in poetry. Author Ronald Primeau examines Martin's place in American literature with particular emphasis on his multidisciplinary talents. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Kent State Univ Pr
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873388108
- ISBN
- 9780873388108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.40
€ 29.99
€ 25.40
Hardcover. A study and edition of one of the most ignored works of early Spanish literature because of its strong sexual content, this work examines the social ideology that conditioned the reactions of people to the events it describes as well as Fernando de Rojas's masterpiece, Celestina. Num Pages: 616 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 257 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1128.
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662896
- ISBN
- 9781855662896
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.01
€ 118.01
Paperback. Since its creation in 1894 by Joseph Snell Wood, the Society of Women Writers & Journalists has attracted the company of many famous women writers, journalists, poets and playwrights. This title reveals the long and fascinating history of the Society. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 235 x 9. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752451596
- ISBN
- 9780752451596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.24
€ 19.99
€ 18.24
Hardcover. Focusses on a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social function in the US. The author explores the direct and practical relationships avant garde poets have had with power politics, social organization and cultural movements. It provides detailed readings of major poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748682850
- ISBN
- 9780748682850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.39€ 100.65
€ 105.39
€ 100.65
Hardback. Ugo Foscolo's Tragic Vision in Italy and England examines an underexplored aspect of Foscolo's literary career: his tragic plays and critical essays on that genre. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442649262
- ISBN
- 9781442649262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.49
€ 77.49
Hardback. Both comical and horrific, 'The Three Perils of Woman' is essentially a combination of two stories on similar themes. One is set in the Highlands following the Battle of Culloden and the other in Hogg's Edinburgh. Daring in its subject matter, the novel touches on such delicate topics as prostitution and venereal disease. Editor(s): Groves, Colin; Mack, Douglas S.; Hasler, Antony J. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 512 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 42. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748604777
- ISBN
- 9780748604777
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.24€ 106.08
€ 111.24
€ 106.08
hardcover. A fully illustrated study of Shakespeare's awareness of traditions in visual art and their presence in his plays and poems. Num Pages: 333 pages, 83 b/w illus. 29 colour illus. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 196 x 24. Weight in Grams: 932.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107029958
- ISBN
- 9781107029958
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.41
€ 108.41
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780567672056
- ISBN
- 9780567672056
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 29.20
€ 48.99
€ 29.20
Hardback. This book is new in the way it tackles the problem of imagining performances of Shakespeare as you read his plays. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748623716
- ISBN
- 9780748623716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.53€ 95.24
€ 99.53
€ 95.24
Hardback. This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137467638
- ISBN
- 9781137467638
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319410050
- ISBN
- 9783319410050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.75
€ 111.75
Paperback. This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel. Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and tribulations of young adulthood. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748621743
- ISBN
- 9780748621743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.48
€ 36.99
€ 33.48
Paperback. How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries BC? Interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, this book Ober argues that the tradition originated in a high-stakes debate about democracy. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 646.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691089812
- ISBN
- 9780691089812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.89€ 47.89
€ 60.89
€ 47.89
Paperback. This book is a comprehensive introduction to the idea of intertextuality and the debates surrounding it, focusing on the four key thinkers whose work has been central to these debates - Kristeva, Barthes, Bloom and Genette. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745631219
- ISBN
- 9780745631219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.65
€ 26.65
Hardback. Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 halftone illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441132536
- ISBN
- 9781441132536
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.22€ 133.93
€ 152.22
€ 133.93
Paperback. William Shakespeare's plays are a guide to how individuals react to the competing pressures of statecraft and personal ambition, fear and love. This book not only considers these "cases" in the plays themselves, but also in the sources available to Shakespeare - the techniques Shakespeare used to transform history into drama. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Continuum
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826418807
- ISBN
- 9780826418807
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.36
€ 30.99
€ 22.36
Hardback. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 294 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253017581
- ISBN
- 9780253017581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.25
€ 92.25
Hardback. Originally published in 1996 by Mansell Publishing Limited. Editor(s): Haffenden, John. Series: Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474247580
- ISBN
- 9781474247580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.93€ 143.95
€ 163.93
€ 143.95
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. This book re-evaluates the rural English novel in the twentieth century in relation to the recognised artistic responses to modernity. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107039131
- ISBN
- 9781107039131
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.41
€ 108.41
Paperback. This book explores the principal thematic and aesthetic preoccupations in MacDiarmid's work, relating his poetry to key national and international concerns in modern culture and politics. Editor(s): Lyall, Scott; Palmer McCulloch, Dr. Margery. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641895
- ISBN
- 9780748641895
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.22
€ 33.99
€ 30.22