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Hardback. Tracing an ambivalence toward pleasure from the early modern to the modern era, McEleney shows how contemporary critics have recapitulated Renaissance humanist ideals about aesthetic value. Against a longstanding tradition that defensively advocates for t Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823272655
ISBN
9780823272655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.60

Paperback. This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349433513
ISBN
9781349433513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Hardback. For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita and Doctor Zhivago from the twentieth century. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 330 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745636856
ISBN
9780745636856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.22

Hardcover. Offering new readings of major eary modern English poets such as Spenser, Milton and Donne, Kneidel counters the trend among literary critics to associate early modern religion with Pauline inwardness and self-formation by showing how these writers took Saint Paul as a model of rhetorical skill and political acumen. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; HR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230573680
ISBN
9780230573680
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 46.64

Paperback. Tom has returned to his family's farm in Kenya for the summer vacation between school and university when he is swept up by the events of the Mau Mau uprising. This poetic sequence illuminates a period in British colonial history. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102. Very good copy .Poetry
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KEX0303664
ISBN
9780224084444
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 8.00

Paperback. A collection of poems, that is wide-ranging in its subject matter yet is everywhere concerned with watchfulness. Heedful, hard won, head-turning, heartfelt, it features poems that attempt to bring scrutiny to bear on everything, including scrutiny itself. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571316052
ISBN
9780571316052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.48

Hardback. The essays in this volume discuss the changing purpose of reading from late antiquity to the Renaissance. "A most unusual, fascinating, and rich book, very well written, with copious scholarly notes."-Choice Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812236026
ISBN
9780812236026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.27

Paperback. Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large. Editor(s): Peer, Larry. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349291663
ISBN
9781349291663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New
SKU
KSS0003076
ISBN
9780140075687
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. The Epic of Ram by Tulsidas has become the most beloved retelling of the ancient Ramayana story across northern India and an influential literary masterpiece. This volume recounts Ram s birth on earth, his youthful adventures, and the celebration of his marriage to Sita." Translator(s): Lutgendorf, Professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies Philip, PhD (University of Iowa). Series: Murty Classical Library of India. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088610
ISBN
9780674088610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.57

Hardcover. This book explores three crucial stages in Dickens' on-going voyage of discovery into what has been called the 'hidden springs' of his fiction; arguing that in three of Dickens best known novels, we witness Dickens responding to some identifiable force represented as coming from underneath the ground plan of the book in question. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2011th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110885
ISBN
9780230110885
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 5. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852246228
ISBN
9781852246228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.65

Paperback. How do we live with our parents after their death? How do we tell their story when they are gone? This book addresses these questions. It recreates a common experience - the loss of a father or a mother - and exposes the often tortuous paths of mourning and attachment that we follow in the wake of loss. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 b&w photos, 4 figures. BIC Classification: DSB; VFJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253213792
ISBN
9780253213792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.12

Hardcover. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 143 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2AB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137596703
ISBN
9781137596703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 46.31

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Tachyon Publications United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781892391117
ISBN
9781892391117
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.59

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AHM; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801447082
ISBN
9780801447082
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.11

Paperback. This is the first critical introduction to the theories of discourse advanced by Foucault, Althusser, PUcheux and Hindess and Hirst. Num Pages: 154 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631148395
ISBN
9780631148395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 47.83

Paperback. Good copy,some light shelf wear,
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTK0095373
ISBN
9780140620337
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A collection of poems that conveys the energy - physical, creative, spiritual, erotic, imaginative, playful, ethical, and political - that has carried Nicole Brossard to a uniquely significant vision of the human spirit. It presents poems in French and English on facing pages, highlighting the rhythms in Brossard's sonorities. Editor(s): Forsyth, Louise H. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554580477
ISBN
9781554580477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.62

Paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear and some yellowing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KOG0005536
ISBN
9780856403699
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Fraleigh, Matthew. Series: Cornell East Asia Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BJ; DNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University East Asia Program
Edition
paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947518
ISBN
9781933947518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 455 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1MBN; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Victoria University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780864734631
ISBN
9780864734631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.03

Hardcover. Examining Albert's reading of "The Book of Causes", this text asks: how does he view the relation between faith and reason to identify creation with emanation from God; and how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism to find in a 5th-century Neoplatonist the key to Aristotle's meaning. Series: Publications in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCB; HPJ; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268023515
ISBN
9780268023515
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.74

Paperback. Shuntaro Tanikawa has been the most inventive modern Japanese poet, ever since he published Alone in Two Billion Light Years (1952), his first book, aged twentyone. This new selection supplements his original Selected Poems published by Carcanet in 1998. Translator(s): Elliott, William I.; Kazuo, Kawamura. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
9781784100681
ISBN
9781784100681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.54

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