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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472033560
- ISBN
- 9780472033560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.46
€ 27.99
€ 24.46
Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781350010178
- ISBN
- 9781350010178
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Condition: New
€ 18.17
€ 18.17
hardcover. Offers a fresh interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid via a detailed study of its child hero, Ascanius, young son of Aeneas. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107115392
- ISBN
- 9781107115392
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.91
€ 111.91
Paperback. Readers of Herodotus' Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents, riddling oracles, and striking dreams. This book represents an examination of signs and their interpreters, as well as the terminology Herodotus uses to describe sign transmission, reception, and decoding. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 298 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 298
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674055889
- ISBN
- 9780674055889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.24
€ 30.99
€ 26.24
Hardback. 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: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 842.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620166
- ISBN
- 9780748620166
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Condition: New
€ 140.52€ 133.16
€ 140.52
€ 133.16
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. Amorous jealousy is not a monster, as Shakespeare's venomous Iago claims. It is neither prickly and bitter fancy, nor a cruel and mean passion, nor a symptom of feeble self-esteem. All those who have experienced its wounds are well aware that it is not callous, nasty, delusional and ridiculous. It is just painful. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPS; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509511846
- ISBN
- 9781509511846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.69
€ 71.69
Paperback. This volume offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Julian. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172 x 13. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748624508
- ISBN
- 9780748624508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.74
€ 41.99
€ 36.74
Hardcover. Editor(s): Knoppers, Laura Lunger. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Duquesne University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820704418
- ISBN
- 9780820704418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.71€ 61.59
€ 73.71
€ 61.59
Hardback. Speaking to the range of female experience during Early America, this rich collection conveys the acts of bravery, protest, and survival of women that contributed to the formation of an empire. Letters, diaries, and narratives, among other texts, serve as the point of entry into the overlooked topic of the female body as a site of contestation. Editor(s): Balkun, Mary McAleer; Imbarrato, Susan Clair. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137559906
- ISBN
- 9781137559906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.21
€ 65.21
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
€ 24.99€ 18.53
€ 24.99
€ 18.53
Hardback. Leading to protest and debate, same-sex desire in Indian literature and film has appeared in a wide range of works since 1970 including Vikram Seth and the films of Deepa Mehta. Using these works as a focal point, among many others, Ross argues that an Euro-American notion of homosexuality is reinvented when coming into contact with Indian culture. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; 2BM; APFA; DSBH; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137570758
- ISBN
- 9781137570758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Hardback. Reception studies have transformed the classics. Editor(s): Lovatt, Helen; Hodkinson, Owen. Series: Library of Classical Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSY; HBLA1; HRKP3; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781788310208
- ISBN
- 9781788310208
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.81€ 46.18
€ 128.81
€ 46.18
Paperback. This collection examines how J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to fashion a critique of the modern world that is postmodern in implication, subversive in nature, and oddly still traditionalist in motivation, in a way that is relevant to current debate over forging workable cross-cultural coalitions on pressing global problems. Editor(s): Chance, Jane; Siewers, Alfred K. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616790
- ISBN
- 9780230616790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 90.15
€ 90.15
New World Literacy: Writing and Culture Across the Atlantic, 1500-1700
Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Sanchez
Hardback. This book on the role of written and iconographic communication in the Atlantic World combines a broad outlook, geographically and chronologically, with the precise treatment of specific evidence extracted from the sources. This book opens up new worlds on the impact of books and images in the Atlantic World. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480269
- ISBN
- 9781611480269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.93
€ 149.93
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
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
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442637238
- ISBN
- 9781442637238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.56
€ 59.56
Paperback. Cicero was a prolific writer and a major political figure. The author argues that our understanding both of Cicero's oeuvre and of the practice and theory of public life is transformed if his writings are read as a unified whole in the context of Roman politics. Series: Duckworth Classical Essays. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Bristol Classical Press
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780715632796
- ISBN
- 9780715632796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.30
€ 33.99
€ 28.30
Hardback. This authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the war's upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. Editor(s): Einhaus, Ann-Marie; Baxter, Katherine Isobel. Series: Edinburgh Companion to Literature. Num Pages: 512 pages, 36 black and white, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; ACXD; DSBH; DSR; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 172. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474401630
- ISBN
- 9781474401630
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 204.92€ 191.30
€ 204.92
€ 191.30
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190607692
- ISBN
- 9780190607692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.67
€ 30.67
Hardcover. This critical study illuminates the neglected intersection of war, disease, and gender as represented in an important subgenre of World War I literature. It calls into question public versus private perceptions of time, mass media, urban spaces, emotion, and the increasingly uncertain status of the future. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312234492
- ISBN
- 9780312234492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.95
€ 143.95
Hardback. The Western genre provides some of the most iconic images of masculinity in the history of American literature. Challenging the notion of manliness in these Westerns, Cooper examines how contemporary authors such as Cormac McCarthy and Leslie Marmon Silko in fact expose the pervasive anxieties about what it means to "act like a man." Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 2AB; DSB; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137568991
- ISBN
- 9781137568991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.75
€ 95.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 386
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572411029
- ISBN
- 9781572411029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 37.22
€ 51.99
€ 37.22