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Paperback. Grace Schulman's poetry is often about joy, the celebration of the miraculous, and the birth of beauty from adversity. This book discusses how she became a writer, with influences ranging from her aunt Helen, who leapt from a tower in Poland, to childhood memories of her father reading to her in a foreign language. Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472050871
- ISBN
- 9780472050871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.40
€ 29.99
€ 25.40
Paperback. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which women lived and wrote. It also places the work of established writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Naomi Mitchison and A L Kennedy in new contexts. Editor(s): Norquay, Glenda. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 12. Weight in Grams: 334. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. 240 pages. Editor(s): Norquay, Glenda. By combining historical spread with a thematic structure, this volume explores the ways in which gender has shaped literary output and addresses the changing situations in which women lived and wrote. It also places the work of established writers such as Margaret Oliphant, Naomi Mitchison and A L Kennedy in new contexts. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSB. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 12. Weight: 334.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748644315
- ISBN
- 9780748644315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.42
€ 41.99
€ 36.42
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
Hardback. The Companion provides a thorough, up-to-date and critical evaluation of Welsh's work. Editor(s): Schoene, Berthold. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748639175
- ISBN
- 9780748639175
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.53€ 95.21
€ 99.53
€ 95.21
Hardback. A biography of one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748611850
- ISBN
- 9780748611850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.22€ 143.95
€ 152.22
€ 143.95
Hardback. Drawing on examples from different local and regional contexts,Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution demonstrates the many remarkably local ways that revolution and empire were experienced in London, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Island, and points in between. Editor(s): Meranze, Michael; Makdisi, Saree. Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series. Num Pages: 396 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1DBK; 1KBB; DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; HBJK; HRAX; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 396
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442650695
- ISBN
- 9781442650695
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.46
€ 72.46
Hardback. Editor(s): Rooney, Paul Raphael; Gasperini, Anna. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 254 pages, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137587602
- ISBN
- 9781137587602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.28
€ 133.28
Paperback. This book provides a chapter-length discussion of the works of 20 major contemporary British novelists and features essays by many of the leading literary critics of the day. It offers new insights into complext contemporary novels and presents a new approaches to narrative, the new multi-cultural Britain, and the writing of historical fiction. Editor(s): Archeson, James. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474403733
- ISBN
- 9781474403733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.57
€ 37.99
€ 34.57
Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748633470
- ISBN
- 9780748633470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.24€ 105.29
€ 111.24
€ 105.29
Hardcover. A selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature that manages to relate many of the episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus and accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603846257
- ISBN
- 9781603846257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.98
€ 37.99
€ 27.98
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816694396
- ISBN
- 9780816694396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.68
€ 99.68
Paperback. Focusing on Annie Ernaux's writing trajectory, this title provides an analysis of Ernaux's individual texts. It highlights the contradictions and nuances in her writing, and demonstrates the intellectual intricacies of her literary project. Series: Modern French Writers. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853235477
- ISBN
- 9780853235477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.22
€ 33.99
€ 30.22
Paperback. Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children's literature. This book charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from "Where the Wild Things Are" to "Harry Potter". Num Pages: 396 pages, 24 halftones. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 25. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 396
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226473017
- ISBN
- 9780226473017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.79
€ 25.99
€ 20.79
Hardback. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810859654
- ISBN
- 9780810859654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.24
€ 169.24
Paperback. Series: Methuen Drama Engage. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 bw illus. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472580214
- ISBN
- 9781472580214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.30
€ 35.99
€ 30.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140874
- ISBN
- 9780231140874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.99
€ 36.99
€ 26.99
Paperback. A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories. Editor(s): Sandin, Lyn di Iorio; Perez, R. Num Pages: 289 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 429.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451135
- ISBN
- 9781349451135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardback. This book deals with narratives of cultural legitimation in nineteenth-century US literature, in a transatlantic context. Editor(s): Manning, Susan; Taylor, Andrew. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 618.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748635740
- ISBN
- 9780748635740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.10€ 111.49
€ 117.10
€ 111.49
Paperback. A student text. Attached to front cover is a card with a passcode to use to access additional readings at a Broadview Press complimentary website. Editor(s): Hallett, Martin; Karasek, Barbara. Num Pages: 200 pages, col. ill. BIC Classification: DSY; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 4th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554810185
- ISBN
- 9781554810185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.40
€ 24.99
€ 22.40
Hardcover. The essays take on aspects of eighteenth-century texts such as plot, genre, character, perspective, temporality, and more, coming at them from both a narratological and a historical perspective. Editor(s): M Kikalli, Aino; Steinby, Liisa. Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 4 full color. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089648747
- ISBN
- 9789089648747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.64
€ 151.64
hardcover. This book provides an in-depth introduction to the multifaceted life and times of Wallace Stevens, one of the great twentieth-century American poets. Editor(s): MacLeod, Glen. Series: Literature in Context. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 67.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107110496
- ISBN
- 9781107110496
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.62
€ 123.62
Hardback. This guide examines the production and reception of poetry by a range of women writers - predominantly although not exclusively writing in English - from Sappho through Anne Bradstreet and Emily Bronte to Sylvia Plath, Eavan Boland and Susan Howe. Editor(s): Halliwell, Martin; Mousley, Andy. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 117.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748623051
- ISBN
- 9780748623051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.53€ 95.24
€ 99.53
€ 95.24
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
Hardback. The ideal guide for students and theatre-lovers alike, the Companion explores the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre over the last hundred years. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641086
- ISBN
- 9780748641086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.68€ 89.82
€ 93.68
€ 89.82