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Hardcover. Offers a study of the English translations of Hans Christian Andersen's "Tales and Stories", and of the people who made them. This book demonstrates the interdependence of the English translations, many of which prove to have been made with little or no use of the original Danish text. Num Pages: 389 pages, colour & b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 185 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1010.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
389
Condition
New
SKU
V9788778388568
ISBN
9788778388568
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.88

Paperback. Editor(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 254 pages, p. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
annotated edition
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856685590
ISBN
9780856685590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.47

Paperback. A revised and expanded version of the 1989 BBC Reith lectures. Other work by the author includes "Arpentage de la poesie contemporaine", and "Conrad and the West". Other work by the editor includes "America since 1920" and "Kissing cousins: an interpretation of British and American culture". Editor(s): Snowman, Daniel (Chief Producer, BBC, Features, Radio). Num Pages: 131 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; JFC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 187.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
131
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333533284
ISBN
9780333533284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.33

Paperback. Clean copy in original wrappers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The Collins Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0247789
ISBN
9781898256922
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The topic of 'the unconscious' has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. It shows the existence of the unconscious in a variety of ways Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415192095
ISBN
9780415192095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.00

Paperback. The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious. Editor(s): Fulton, Doveanna S. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2012
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349448555
ISBN
9781349448555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Hardback. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing. Editor(s): Harris, Johanna; Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230228641
ISBN
9780230228641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.43

Editor(s): Sebastian, John T. Series: MIP Teams Middle English Texts Series. Num Pages: 138 pages, 0 black and white; 4 full color. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178. .
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications United States
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580441810
ISBN
9781580441810
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.80

Paperback. Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry (Paperback). BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 137 x 3. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887483851
ISBN
9780887483851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.10

Paperback. Editor(s): De Bolla, Peter; Leask, Nigel; Simpson, D. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; HBJD1; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349514755
ISBN
9781349514755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.71

The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the "Butterfly Lovers" - a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is to Western culture - also relates a tale of two lovers held apart by social strictures. This volume offers translations of the earliest versions of the popular ballad. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841955
ISBN
9781603841955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.10
€ 41.27

Paperback. The topics of the individual essays vary, but read together, they offer valuable insights into why Morrison has become a much celebrated, widely taught author."-from the Introduction Editor(s): Peterson, Nancy J. Series: A Modern Fiction Studies Book. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Fifth or Later Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801857027
ISBN
9780801857027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.83

Hardcover. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 27. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312214524
ISBN
9780312214524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.81

Paperback. The "Contes et nouvelles en vers" of Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) were published at various times throughout his life, often these works threatened to get him in trouble with both Church and Academie. This translation covers the entire corpus in all their variety. Num Pages: 273 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Black Widow Press United States
Edition
Rev ed
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9780981808819
ISBN
9780981808819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.71

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 138 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1906
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
SKU
V9783662320631
ISBN
9783662320631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.89

Paperback. The incomplete autobiography of the writer and poet Louis MacNeice, contemporary and friend of Auden, Spender and Day Lewis. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 224. Very good copy with some minor shelf wear, minor edge wear to cover and spine, yellowing of pages
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KKD0012350
ISBN
9780571118328
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Employing concepts drawn from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, Guillory argues that canon formation must be understood less as a question of the representation of social groups than as a question of the distribution of "cultural capital" in the schools, which regulate access to literacy, to the practices of reading and writing. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226310442
ISBN
9780226310442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.15

Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations (Paperback). BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFD; JFFE; UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816696086
ISBN
9780816696086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.99

Paperback. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSBF; DSC; HRCG; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349370740
ISBN
9781349370740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Paperback. A major contribution to cultural and literary studies, "Gothic Canada "unearths two centuries of Canadian gothic writings to reveal uncanny traditions of trauma, repression, and monstrosity. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
1st
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888644411
ISBN
9780888644411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

Hardback. Includes Thoreau's reminiscences of his 1839 excursion with his brother John along the Concord and Merrimack rivers and all his impressions and observations entered in journals during the famous Walden sojourn. Editor(s): Sattelmeyer, Robert. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 680 pages, Ill.2M. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; BGA; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
616
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691061863
ISBN
9780691061863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.18
€ 101.11

Paperback. This book, now in paperback with a new preface, examines art and performance practices emerging from a more technological world. They are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic theorisation and analyses other approaches, including those offered by research into neuroesthetics. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; ANS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230293649
ISBN
9780230293649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.36

Paperback. Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation. Series: Sexual Cultures. Num Pages: 327 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ2; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
327
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814740958
ISBN
9780814740958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.18

Paperback. On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children. Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of German and wrestling coach, and his delicate wife Edith at a faculty party. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552992084
ISBN
9780552992084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.57

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