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Hardcover. Goethe has long been enshrined as the greatest German poet, but his admirers have always been uneasy with the idea that he did not produce a great epic poem. This title proposes that Goethe did compose an epic poem, which has been hidden in plain view: "Faust". Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 292 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571133441
- ISBN
- 9781571133441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.89
€ 114.89
Paperback. Series: Writers & Their Work S. Num Pages: 96 pages, Fr. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780746307809
- ISBN
- 9780746307809
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.67
€ 41.67
Paperback. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415610193
- ISBN
- 9780415610193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.97
€ 25.99
€ 24.97
Hardcover. Situated opposite the mouth of the Orinoco River, western Trinidad has long been considered an entrepot to mainland South America. This book offers a literary perspective on matters too often perceived as the sole preserve of sociological, anthropological or geographical studies. Series: American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382882
- ISBN
- 9781781382882
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.83
€ 137.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Geddes & Grosset (New Lanark)
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- SKU
- KAK0010916
- ISBN
- 9781842051542
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Thoroughly expanded and updated, this widely acclaimed Companion provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The New Companion offers comprehensive coverage of the criticism of Gothic writing, and of the various theoretical approaches that it has inspired. Editor(s): Punter, David. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119062509
- ISBN
- 9781119062509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.62
€ 46.99
€ 45.62
Paperback. Discusses the fundamental role played by such authors as Benjamin, Bloch and Lukacs in the shaping of Critical Theory. This book addresses more practical issues related to critical theory. It looks at elements in Benjamin's aesthetics and then in Adorno. Editor(s): Ludovisi, Stefano Giacchetti. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 208 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874130720
- ISBN
- 9780874130720
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.85
€ 67.85
Hardcover. From the tenant of 221b Baker Street to the Golden Age of detective writing between the wars, P.D. James shares her personal thoughts about a genre which has fascinated her for nearly fifty years as a novelist. Widely regarded as the queen of the detective novel, this book by P.D. James is sure to appeal to all aficionados of crime fiction. Num Pages: 160 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 310. 160 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. From the tenant of 221b Baker Street to the Golden Age of detective writing between the wars, P.D. James shares her personal thoughts about a genre which has fascinated her for nearly fifty years as a novelist. Widely regarded as the queen of the detective novel, this book by P.D. James is sure to appeal to all aficionados of crime fiction. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSK. Dimension: 206 x 139 x 19. Weight: 306.
- Publisher
- Bodleian Library
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851243099
- ISBN
- 9781851243099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.11
€ 17.99
€ 14.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Shanghai Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602202597
- ISBN
- 9781602202597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.92
€ 14.99
€ 14.92
Hardback. Offering essays, this book explores a panoply of subjects from the mastery of translation to the best day job for a poet. It is a journey with literature's most irresistible flaneur. It is a story of love between a reader and his treasured books. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571323661
- ISBN
- 9780571323661
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 25.26
€ 38.99
€ 25.26
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Facts on File Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780816048984
- ISBN
- 9780816048984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This volume presents global perspectives on Asian American literature by accomplished scholars from Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the US. It covers a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across a wide spectrum of ethnic groups. Editor(s): Huang, Guiyou. Series: Introducing Ethnic Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620135
- ISBN
- 9780748620135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.74
€ 40.99
€ 36.74
Paperback. Through a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language. Translator(s): Brault, Pascale-Anne. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823269518
- ISBN
- 9780823269518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.46
€ 23.99
€ 22.46
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772120370
- ISBN
- 9781772120370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.48
€ 54.99
€ 39.48
Paperback. An essential exploration of our greatest writer Series: Ideas in Profile. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 231 x 22. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781253373
- ISBN
- 9781781253373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.04
€ 14.04
Paperback. Studies in the History of the Renaissance is a highly influential defence of aestheticism. Pater redefined the practice of criticism through his readings of some of the paintings, sculptures, and poems of the Renaissance, and shocked contemporaries for sponsoring a hedonistic ethic with his infamous 'Conclusion'. Editor(s): Beaumont, Matthew. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: ACND; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199535071
- ISBN
- 9780199535071
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45
Hardback. Breath (1969) is the focus and the only theatrical text examined in this study, which demonstrates how the piece became emblematic of the interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, and of the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance. Num Pages: 256 pages, 20 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: AG; DD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474421645
- ISBN
- 9781474421645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.32€ 99.72
€ 104.32
€ 99.72
Hardcover. From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking, this is an introduction varied tradition. Editor(s): McGuinness, Patrick. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3H; 3J; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841598055
- ISBN
- 9781841598055
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.36
€ 15.99
€ 12.36
Paperback. Tracing the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, this work offers a different view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 345 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJK; HBLL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814752234
- ISBN
- 9780814752234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.18
€ 36.99
€ 31.18
Paperback. The play script of Jonson's satirical farce, including an extensive introduction, with biographical notes and information about the staging of the play, as well as detailed notes beneath the text on each page. Editor(s): Cook, Elizabeth. Series: New Mermaids. Num Pages: 224 pages, c 5 photographs/line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408110201
- ISBN
- 9781408110201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.12
€ 14.99
€ 14.12
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Schirmer/Mosel
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783888149542
- ISBN
- 9783888149542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.53
€ 58.53
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140182859
- ISBN
- 9780140182859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.91
€ 17.99
€ 13.91