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Hardcover. An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426734
- ISBN
- 9781137426734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.96
€ 122.96
Paperback. Lauded for his "rhythmical and supple writing, charged with despair and enchantment", Brian Friel's play "Faith Healer" was first produced at the Longacre Theatre, New York, in 1979 and revived by the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2001. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 127 x 5. Weight in Grams: 80. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0003516
- ISBN
- 9780571214587
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Treating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this volume explores its ideological dimensions. It focuses on the CR's discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature and propaganda art. Editor(s): Chong, Woei Lien. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives. Num Pages: 432 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 785.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742518735
- ISBN
- 9780742518735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 196.65
€ 196.65
Paperback. Editor(s): Murphy, Lizz. Num Pages: 373 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DQ; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559510
- ISBN
- 9781875559510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.67
€ 19.99
€ 14.67
Paperback. The three plays collected here mirror the era after King Charles II. In Etherege's "The Man of Mode", Dorimant meets his match. In Wycherley's "The Country Wife", Horner fakes impotence to fool husbands into giving him access to their wives. In Congreve's "Love for Love", the Valentine can win his beloved only if he loses his inheritance. Editor(s): Salgado, Gamini. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000424
- ISBN
- 9780140430271
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Although some critics have identified two phases in the poetry of James Wright and have isolated particulars of his movement from traditional to more experimental forms, few have noted also the elements of constancy in the evolution of his poetry. This book traces the unified growth of Wright's poetry. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821409091
- ISBN
- 9780821409091
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.11
€ 40.11
Paperback. Making extensive use of untranslated texts, Arnold Schmidt discusses the impact of Byron's life and works on the discourse of Italian nationalism between 1818 and 1948, his participation in Grand Tour and salon culture, and his influence on Italian Classicists and Romantics. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; DSB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349379651
- ISBN
- 9781349379651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 564 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 942.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691639871
- ISBN
- 9780691639871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 264.27
€ 264.27
Hardback. Driscoll argues that the attempted cultural erasure of class in Great Britain in the period since Thatcher has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in literature and theory. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230615274
- ISBN
- 9780230615274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 127.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559361811
- ISBN
- 9781559361811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.86
€ 15.99
€ 14.86
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691609720
- ISBN
- 9780691609720
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.87
€ 51.99
€ 36.87
Hardcover. Critics have argued that the field of postcolonial studies has become melancholic due to its institutionalization in recent years. This book identifies some limits of postcolonial studies and suggests ways of coming to terms with this issue via a renewed engagement with the literary dimension in the postcolonial text. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230252622
- ISBN
- 9780230252622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardback. Editor(s): Morris, Adam; Carvalho, Bruno. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319563176
- ISBN
- 9783319563176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Num Pages: 530 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 151 x 42. Weight in Grams: 992.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 530
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780936347653
- ISBN
- 9780936347653
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.06€ 72.61
€ 95.06
€ 72.61
Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear but remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John McNamee
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKE0000317
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This collection of twelve essays reclaims "the Age of Goethe"--to call upon a literary designation of roughly the same period--as a time when same-sex erotic attraction suffused artistic production from Winckelmann's art treatises and Goethe's plays to Friedrich Schlegel's self-reflexive novel Lucinde and Kleist's letters. Editor(s): Kuzniar, Alice A. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726153
- ISBN
- 9780804726153
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.40
€ 38.99
€ 35.40
Hardcover. Besides providing a new appraisal of Guillaume Apollinaire, the foremost French poet of early Modernism and WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project. Num Pages: 304 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 163 x 239 x 24. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898942
- ISBN
- 9780859898942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.98
€ 140.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 151 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Canadian Inst of Ukranian Study Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894865074
- ISBN
- 9781894865074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.49
€ 31.99
€ 23.49
Paperback. "The Life and Miracles of Thekla" offers a unique view on the reception of classical and early Christian literature in Late Antiquity. This study examines the "Life and Miracles" as an intricate example of Greek writing and attempts to situate the work amidst a wealth of similar literary forms from the classical world. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 290 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674019614
- ISBN
- 9780674019614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.08
€ 21.99
€ 20.08
hardcover. Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire is a new book of essays by distinguished US and UK scholars on this most influential and prolific of Victorian writers and thinkers. Editor(s): Dzelzainis, Ella; Kaplan, Cora. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719081330
- ISBN
- 9780719081330
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.39
€ 164.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Hargrove, Katharine T. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HRAF; HRCM; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- D & F Scott Publishing Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780941037402
- ISBN
- 9780941037402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.55
€ 21.99
€ 17.55
Paperback. This is an up-to-date reader of critical essays on J. G. Ballard by leading international academics, which includes a short biography, timeline and comprehensive guided further reading. Editor(s): Baxter, J. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349325955
- ISBN
- 9781349325955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. The challenging poetry of Jose Lezama Lima has not received the critical attention it deserves. This study rectifies the critical imbalance, foregrounding the poetry in a discussion of three issues that link together disparate areas of LezamaOs literary production: cultural assimilation, generation, and resurrection. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480917
- ISBN
- 9781611480917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.56
€ 114.56
hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813932637
- ISBN
- 9780813932637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.05
€ 64.05