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Hardcover. An examination of the career of William Butler Yeats with special emphasis upon his connection with English Renaissance literature. Amongst other topics, it looks at the influence on his work of such writers as Arnold, Spenser, Jonson, Milton and Donne. Series: Studies in Anglo-Irish literature. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on dustwrapper but otherwise clean
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Schol, Print UK
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0005158
- ISBN
- 9780333521779
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349451456
- ISBN
- 9781349451456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.24
€ 63.24
Hardcover. Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing philosophical questions and establishing intellectual credentials, as Arthur P. Urbano argues in this study of biographies composed in Late Antiquity. Series: Patristic Monograph Series (Naps). Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA; HRCC2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813221625
- ISBN
- 9780813221625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.75
€ 84.75
Hardcover. This ground-breaking book applies trauma studies to the drama and literature of the ancient Greeks. Diverse essays explore how the Greeks responded to war and if what we now term "combat trauma," "post-traumatic stress," or "combat stress injury" can be discerned in ancient Greek culture. Editor(s): Meineck, Peter; Konstan, David. Series: New Antiquity. Num Pages: 324 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137398857
- ISBN
- 9781137398857
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 155.28
€ 155.28
Hardback. The first in-depth examination of Sinyavsky's satirical side,Literary Insinuations: Sorting out Sinyavsky's Irreverence not only discusses the relatively under-analysed area of playful and provocative writing, but also ties together a number of loose ends in the fascinating and often contentious field of Sinyavsky scholarship. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739104880
- ISBN
- 9780739104880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.89
€ 142.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages, 461 colour & 5 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 888.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837626728
- ISBN
- 9783837626728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.86€ 55.58
€ 71.86
€ 55.58
Paperback. Clean copy showing some age and shelf wear. Previous owner's name to title page. Remains a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Irish University Press
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0013059
- ISBN
- 9780716522027
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.00
€ 5.00
paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816641819
- ISBN
- 9780816641819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.93
€ 30.99
€ 27.93
Paperback. The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 459.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349372355
- ISBN
- 9781349372355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume II, Part B: 1885-1888
Morris, William. Ed(S): Kelvin, Norman
hardcover. Editor(s): Kelvin, Norman. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 568 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ; DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 971.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691636207
- ISBN
- 9780691636207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 264.48
€ 264.48
Hardback. The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603233
- ISBN
- 9780230603233
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.15
€ 64.15
Paperback. Written in the wake of Ireland's 2008 economic collapse, Thomas McCarthy's Pandemonium moves between lament and protest in search of a meaningful response in language. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 2. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784102968
- ISBN
- 9781784102968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.17
€ 14.99
€ 11.17
Paperback. Offers a collection of poems. This title demonstrates why the San Francisco Chronicle has called the author "a fresh and exciting voice in American poetry." Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149431
- ISBN
- 9780691149431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.00
€ 18.99
€ 15.00
Hardcover. Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230071
- ISBN
- 9780230230071
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; BGX; DSBB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319497747
- ISBN
- 9783319497747
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.78
€ 69.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 72 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Birch Brook Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780913559796
- ISBN
- 9780913559796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.55
€ 21.99
€ 17.55
Paperback. 8vo. Good copy.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st UK Paperback Edition
- SKU
- KEX0289490
- ISBN
- 9780006531159
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Offers us a glimpse into the life and mind of Medieval England. This is a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. Translator(s): Coghill, Nevill. Num Pages: 528 pages, notes. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364. Clean copies in quarter leather over boards. Frontispieces and all prints present. Remain fine in slip case. Slip case has minor wear and discolouring but remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOG0007325
- ISBN
- 9780140424386
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 40.00
€ 40.00
Paperback. Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi's poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile. From a baby girl's penchant for her parents' keys to a warrior's hunt for words, Wa Ngugi's poems move back and forth between the personal and the political. Series: African Poetry Book Series. Num Pages: 94 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 6. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 94
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803290679
- ISBN
- 9780803290679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.20
€ 18.20
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718893002
- ISBN
- 9780718893002
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.87
€ 64.87
Paperback. Presents the poems in their original contexts; and where alternate readings were suggested. It includes a brief explanation of poet's selection of texts and outlines his career. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 2. Weight in Grams: 852.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571336173
- ISBN
- 9780571336173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 14.87
€ 23.99
€ 14.87
Hardcover. This edition of Sturrock's work on structuralism includes an introduction from Jean-Michel Rabate, which makes some account of the book itself and then explores developments in the reception of structuralist theory in the past five to ten years. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631232384
- ISBN
- 9780631232384
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.97
€ 125.97
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345422804
- ISBN
- 9780345422804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.45
€ 13.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. The first full length translation into English of Peret's Le Grand Jeu (The Big Game, first published in 1928). Benjamin Peret (1899-1959) was one of the founders of Surrealism (with Andre Breton and Louis Aragon). The Big Game was Peret's best known work of the time and is still in print in France 80 years later. Translator(s): Kallet, Marilyn. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Black Widow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780981808864
- ISBN
- 9780981808864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.97
€ 23.99
€ 22.97