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Hardback. Art's Undoing is about radical aestheticism, the term that best describes a recurring event in some of the most powerful and resonating texts of nineteenth-century British literature. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251117
- ISBN
- 9780823251117
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.65
€ 114.65
Paperback. This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the "Law of Historical Memory." Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, films, television, and comics, the volume overturns the notion that Spanish history is pathological. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349482795
- ISBN
- 9781349482795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.19
€ 63.19
Hardcover. Editor(s): Wagner, John P.; Kunis, Alexander J. Num Pages: 207 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: D; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 183 x 18. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612099842
- ISBN
- 9781612099842
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 217.79€ 147.90
€ 217.79
€ 147.90
Paperback. Winner of the 2008 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Lynn Emanuel The elegies in "Temper" interrogate the way grief leaves us confrontational, in a state of fracture. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 203 x 8. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822960409
- ISBN
- 9780822960409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.40
€ 19.99
€ 18.40
Hardcover. " The best publisher alive or dead".... C P Snow.Good copy in slightly worn dustwrapper.First edition.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1950
- Publisher
- Gollancz
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First British Edition
- SKU
- KEX0304100
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. Those who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore argues that, far from confirming humane values, literature more often than not violates them. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; JFC; JFMD; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 228 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745627649
- ISBN
- 9780745627649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.42
€ 25.42
Hardcover. This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton's voice in those debates. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604698
- ISBN
- 9780230604698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Paperback. A selection of extracts documenting the friendship between Louis Bouilhet and Gustave Flaubert. Editor(s): Raitt, A. W. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 83 pages, bibliography, colour frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF; DD; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 83
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859894418
- ISBN
- 9780859894418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.18
€ 39.18
Hardback. An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable behaviour for women, but are among Shakespeare's bravest, wisest and most vivid creations. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348097
- ISBN
- 9780230348097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Paperback. This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of alienhood that stems from gendered otherness. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; JFSJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349342549
- ISBN
- 9781349342549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 134 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Presa Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 86
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780980008159
- ISBN
- 9780980008159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.83
€ 19.99
€ 14.83
Paperback. The third volume in Soyinka's series of memoirs, the sequel to "Ake and Isara". In a mixture of fact and fiction - to protect the innocent and nail the guilty and shape an often intolerable reality - it tells of the coming of age of a writer and political activist; and of a nation's betrayal. Num Pages: 397 pages, 1 b&w line. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DNF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002011
- ISBN
- 9780413744203
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. Examines the revolution in Sanskrit poetics initiated by the ninth-century Kashmiri Anandavardhana who replaced the formalist aesthetic of earlier poeticians with one stressing the unifunctionality of literary texts, arguing that all components of a work should subserve a single purpose - the communication of a single emotional mood (rasa). Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 470 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032736
- ISBN
- 9780674032736
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.66€ 54.39
€ 59.66
€ 54.39
Paperback. A landmark collection of early English books, with many gorgeous illustrations Num Pages: 256 pages, 133 full-color photographs. BIC Classification: 3JB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6782 x 5334 x 15. Weight in Grams: 762.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252075537
- ISBN
- 9780252075537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.79
€ 45.99
€ 40.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 217 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781927063453
- ISBN
- 9781927063453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.60
€ 20.99
€ 15.60
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479686
- ISBN
- 9781137479686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. This work argues that the artistic quality of realist texts is better appreciated by approaching them from a cognitive perspective, rather than from a linguistic or formalist one. The aim of writers, like that of cognitive scientists, is to track the arc of learning from experiences. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299176600
- ISBN
- 9780299176600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.40€ 59.04
€ 64.40
€ 59.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216196
- ISBN
- 9780812216196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 35.67
€ 40.99
€ 35.67
Paperback. This work explores the relationship between Mary Wollstonecraft's moral, political, social, and aesthetic philosophy. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349429936
- ISBN
- 9781349429936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.34
€ 63.34
unknown_binding. Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Little does she know that his path back to her has been blocked by astonishing and terrifying trials. Will he overcome the hideous monsters, beautiful witches and treacherous seas that confront him? Translator(s): Fitzgerald, Robert. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099511687
- ISBN
- 9780099511687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 8.82
€ 12.99
€ 8.82
Hardcover. The Bible is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book examines the Bible as a work of literature, focusing on its language and verbal structures and on the imaginative quality of its thought. Num Pages: 488 pages, black-&-white illustrations, maps, index, bibliography, cross-references, chronology. BIC Classification: DSRC; HRCG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 188 x 28. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Facts on File
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816070657
- ISBN
- 9780816070657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.82€ 79.36
€ 87.82
€ 79.36
Paperback. Delves into the cultural history of the freak show and offers nuanced context within the larger social changes in the United States. Reveals disturbing truths about early twentieth-century prejudices and opens a space for exploring the profound social impact of contemporary events. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120983
- ISBN
- 9780230120983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.11
€ 63.11
Hardback. Ceplair's book details the course of Hollywood screenwriter Sonya Levien's exceptional career at Fox and MGM and her most interesting projects and colleagues. It examines her relationship to the important political and labor movements affecting the motion picture industry. Includes an extensive filmography. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; APFB; BGF; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810830929
- ISBN
- 9780810830929
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.47
€ 101.47
Hardback. This interdisciplinary study sets out at once to theorize and historicize plagiarism. In the first part there is a vigorous debate about the ethical, philosophical, artistic and legal implications of plagiarism. Individual essays in part two provide historical case studies. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3J; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 291
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333998410
- ISBN
- 9780333998410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61