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Hardback. This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the vernacular in modern China but also on the critical role of the rise of the vernacular in world literature, invoking parallel cases from countries throughout Europe and Asia. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109391
- ISBN
- 9780230109391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.81
€ 63.81
Paperback. Drawing on four decades of work and also including other poems, this selection of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's poetry displays the extraordinary luminosity characteristic of her style - its delicate, meticulous observation, great scenic imagination, and unusual degree of comfort with states of indetermination, contingency, and flux. Series Editor(s): Hillman, Brenda; Bedient, Calvin; Hass, Robert; Gander, Forrest. Series: New California Poetry. Num Pages: 154 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 208 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520246027
- ISBN
- 9780520246027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 24.27
€ 32.99
€ 24.27
Hardcover. In this book, Judith Thompson restores a powerful but long-suppressed voice to our understanding of British Romanticism. Drawing on newly discovered archives, this book offers the first full-length study of the poetry of John Thelwallas well as his partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104488
- ISBN
- 9780230104488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.90
€ 64.90
Paperback. Now heartening, now heartbroken, this title turns a magnifying glass on the world to reveal its fascinating strangeness. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 4. Weight in Grams: 92.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903039953
- ISBN
- 9781903039953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.88
€ 20.99
€ 18.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 210 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780868199382
- ISBN
- 9780868199382
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.00€ 17.78
€ 22.00
€ 17.78
Paperback. 224 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): McLeish, Kenneth. These translations of "Oedipus the King", "Antigone", "Acharnians" and "Peace", are here reissued in paperback. They are written to be accessible for use in schools and for performance, and contain no Greek text. Cateogry: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DD; YNDS. Dimension: 128 x 182 x 14. Weight: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duckworth Publishers
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853995835
- ISBN
- 9781853995835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. A lively reexamination of the 'alien' as metaphor in film and fiction. Case studies include The Fly movies, Alien series, and Dracula. Editor(s): Cartmell, Deborah; Hunter, I. Q.; Kaye, Heidi; Whelehan, Imelda. Series: Film/Fiction. Num Pages: 208 pages, index. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745314006
- ISBN
- 9780745314006
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.02
€ 36.99
€ 29.02
Paperback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; JFCX; MBX; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349292677
- ISBN
- 9781349292677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 143.04
€ 143.04
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691609713
- ISBN
- 9780691609713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.90
€ 51.90
Paperback. Maps the presence, position and use in the narrative of a variety of material objects in Marguerite de Navarre's "Heptameron". This work includes a selection of objects, ranging from tapestries with scripture passages woven into the borders, fine arts paintings, chalices incised with proverbs, emblems, table linens, and more. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 270 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534491
- ISBN
- 9781557534491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.09
€ 58.09
Paperback. The poems in this new collection, by arguably the most important living Irish woman poet, seek out the delicate intersections between generation, identity, and the deep losses inflicted by history on those who can bear them least. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781847772176
- ISBN
- 9781847772176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.80
€ 13.99
€ 10.80
Paperback. aeo Provides the first ever student edition of this highly influential and, outside the library, otherwise unavailable text. aeo Represents a key critical intervention in the public sphere by a major canonical Renaissance poet. aeo Makes available a controversial and founding document in English colonial discourse. Editor(s): Hadfield, Andrew; Maley, Willy. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631205357
- ISBN
- 9780631205357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.56
€ 48.56
Paperback. The first introduction to the classical Chinese theater of Ming drama contains highlights from six of the best plays of the period and lively commentary on each, providing the context necessary for Western readers to grasp the scope of the genre. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 262 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2AB; 3H; 3JB; 3JD; AN; DD; DSBB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press New York
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102636
- ISBN
- 9780231102636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.76
€ 45.99
€ 32.76
Paperback. Presents the 14 writers - Nicholas Ruddock, Leon Rooke, Hugh Graham, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Bruce Meyer, Priscila Uppal, Veronica Gaylie, Christine Miscione, Lisa Foad, Maggie Dwyer, Josip Novakovich, Bart Campbell, Lisa Pike and Linda Rogers - shortlisted for the CVC literary prize. Editor(s): Vanderbilt, Gloria. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Exile Editions Canada
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781550964905
- ISBN
- 9781550964905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.24
€ 18.99
€ 18.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 135 x 13. Weight in Grams: 205. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Text in English and Irish
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0007760
- ISBN
- 9781859182482
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's career, from Lanark to Mavis Belfrage. Num Pages: 187 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 0. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754146
- ISBN
- 9780838754146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.36
€ 114.36
Hardback. Drawing on ideas from linguistics, logic, and sociology about the grammar of conversations, the author considers the rhetoric of conversation in Dicken's novels. Series: AMS Studies in the Nineteenth-century. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- AMS Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780404644703
- ISBN
- 9780404644703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.11
€ 145.11
Paperback. Argues that the emergence of historiography and romance was linked to large-scale transformations in the structure of power attendant on Capetian and Anglo-Norman state-making. This book provides a different understanding of the large variety of overlapping institutional, epistemological, and practical structures of power. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 176 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268041205
- ISBN
- 9780268041205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.10
€ 34.99
€ 31.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571314475
- ISBN
- 9781571314475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.52
€ 16.99
€ 15.52
paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714527222
- ISBN
- 9780714527222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.12
€ 11.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1966
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401185035
- ISBN
- 9789401185035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.57
€ 100.57
Hardback. Offers a comprehensive reconsideration of the life and literary works of Paulinus of Nola (ca 352-431), a Roman senator who renounced his political career and secular lifestyle to become a monk, bishop, impresario of a saint's cult, and prominent Christian poet. This title traces Paulinus' intellectual and spiritual journey. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 404 pages, 3 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2ADL; BG; DSBB; HRCC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 404
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520217096
- ISBN
- 9780520217096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.18€ 52.29
€ 67.18
€ 52.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349169719
- ISBN
- 9781349169719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.07
€ 34.07
Hardback. Editor(s): Vrana, Heather. Series: Key Texts in Anti Colonial Thought. BIC Classification: 1KLC; DQ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474403689
- ISBN
- 9781474403689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.29
€ 152.29