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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€ 36.40
€ 44.99
€ 36.40
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- University of Rochester Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580464369
- ISBN
- 9781580464369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.41
€ 111.41
Paperback. This pocket-sized alphabetic guide introduces popular terms used in the study of language and society. A central topic within modern linguistics, sociolinguistics deals with human communication and the use of language in its social context. This glossary provides full coverage of both traditional and contemporary terminology. Series: Glossaries in Linguistics. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10ill. BIC Classification: CFB; DSR; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Number of pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748616237
- ISBN
- 9780748616237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.01
€ 25.01
Paperback. Exploring how adults mistreat children, this book focuses on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline young listeners. Num Pages: 332 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: DSB; DSY; JFC; JFHF; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691000886
- ISBN
- 9780691000886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.75
€ 53.75
Hardcover. Offers a comprehensive analysis of Northern Irish poetry focusing on the colonial, political, and cultural underpinnings that have shaped artistic expression in a variety of ways. This book also focuses on both the better-known contemporary Northern Irish poets as well as their more obscure but no less significant counterparts. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DCQ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845194291
- ISBN
- 9781845194291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03
Paperback. A bracingly original dialogue on modernity, class, and difference in the 20th century Num Pages: 296 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781512600193
- ISBN
- 9781512600193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.99€ 37.61
€ 48.99
€ 37.61
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691629742
- ISBN
- 9780691629742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.02
€ 140.02
Paperback. Series: Text & Performance S. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 119.
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333339978
- ISBN
- 9780333339978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.30
€ 44.30
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641546
- ISBN
- 9780691641546
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.30
€ 134.30
Hardback. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474400657
- ISBN
- 9781474400657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.49
€ 194.49
Paperback. Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSJ1; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781350030374
- ISBN
- 9781350030374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.08
€ 49.08
Paperback. Equine Poetics is a literary analysis of horses and horsemanship in early Greek epic and lyric poetry. Drawing from the fields of comparative poetics and historical linguistics, the book sheds new light on fascinating and puzzling aspects of these central figures in early Greek verbal art. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 22 x 15. .
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674975705
- ISBN
- 9780674975705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.76
€ 21.99
€ 19.76
Hardcover. Editor(s): Andrist, Debra D. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; AB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845198367
- ISBN
- 9781845198367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.03
€ 124.03
Hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691654744
- ISBN
- 9780691654744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.91
€ 114.91
Paperback. Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation, Loyola University, Chicago, 2012. Series: Gender, Theory, and Religion. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HPQ; HRAM9; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231173698
- ISBN
- 9780231173698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.39
€ 29.99
€ 21.39
Hardback. This collection of 14 essays asks how Georges Perec has continued to influence of Media and Communication at us after his death. Swinburne University ofTechnology. What do Perec's descriptions of the minutiae of everyday life reveal about our use of information and communications technologies?. Editor(s): Wilken, Rowan; Clemens, Justin. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; HPN; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474401241
- ISBN
- 9781474401241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.56
€ 101.56
Paperback. Editor(s): Bekker-Nielsen, Tonnes; Pad, Marianne. Num Pages: 353 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 353
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763536707
- ISBN
- 9788763536707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.58€ 50.38
€ 65.58
€ 50.38
Paperback. The first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies. The Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area. Editor(s): Manning, Susan; Taylor, Andrew. Num Pages: 368 pages, No. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 173 x 19. Weight in Grams: 614. A Reader. 368 pages, No. Editor(s): Manning, Susan; Taylor, Andrew. The first volume of critical texts to define the field of Transatlantic Literary Studies. The Reader provides 42 exemplary readings that map the theoretical and literary aspects of this growing cross-disciplinary subject area. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Dimension: 243 x 173 x 19. Weight: 614.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748622870
- ISBN
- 9780748622870
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.05
€ 37.05
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
€ 148.21
€ 148.21
Paperback. Introducing Literary Theories is an ideal introduction for those coming to literary theory for the first time. It provides an accessible introduction to the major theoretical approaches. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 336 pages, glossary, bibliographies. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748614837
- ISBN
- 9780748614837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.49
€ 30.49
Hardback. A sustained analysis of Transatlantic women's literature of the twentieth century, focusing on narratives of travel and adventure, with an expansion of the Transatlantic concept beyond the familiar US-UK axis to encompass Canada, South America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748624454
- ISBN
- 9780748624454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.02
€ 107.02
Hardcover. A collection of 23 riveting essays on aspects of contemporary French culture by the superstars of the field. Editor(s): Brozgal, Lia Nicole; Kippur, Sara. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382639
- ISBN
- 9781781382639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.52
€ 135.52
Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624664724
- ISBN
- 9781624664724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 38.77
€ 54.99
€ 38.77
Hardcover. Fourth volume in Mike Ashley's acclaimed set on the history of science-fiction magazines. This volume looks at the 1980s. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382608
- ISBN
- 9781781382608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.52
€ 135.52