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Hardcover. For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a theater of the mind. This book examines that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its historical context. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 halftones, 13 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APW; DSG; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226853505
ISBN
9780226853505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.93
€ 86.09

Paperback. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0220102
ISBN
9780863221279
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Hardcover. The study places Ukrainian Futurism within the context of other major Ukrainian literary movements of the time, and examines its relationship to Russian and West European Futurism. It includes critical analyses on the major works of the leading figures within the Ukrainian movement. Series: Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, 11 halftones, 11 colour illustrations, 9 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 2AGR; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 36. Weight in Grams: 890.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916458560
ISBN
9780916458560
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 34.32

Paperback. This first of a three-volume study of the early literary history of the Bloomsbury Group describes the intellectual, family and Cambridge backgrounds of Bloomsbury as they are reflected in the group's early or autobiographical works, covering Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. Num Pages: 332 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 429.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333606957
ISBN
9780333606957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.63

Paperback. Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate the evil marabou stork before it drives away the flamingo from picturesque Lake Torto. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Edition
New Ed
SKU
9780099435112
ISBN
9780099435112
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 5.70

Hardback. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HP; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403919120
ISBN
9781403919120
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.06

Paperback. Reframing Emily Dickinson's work, this book argues that the experience/faith paradox of her Late-Romantic imagination forms the mind and soul, as well as the heart, of her legacy. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230602373
ISBN
9780230602373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.23

Hardback. In this volume the author compares James Joyce's aesthetic theories, as explicated by Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and in the 'Scylla and Charybdis' chapter of Ulysses, with the theories of the early German Romantics. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611472844
ISBN
9781611472844
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.89

hardcover. This book examines Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521514750
ISBN
9780521514750
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.41

Hardback. A Companion to Euripides is an up-to-date, centralized assessment of Euripides and his work, drawing from the most recently published texts, commentaries, and scholarship, and offering detailed discussions and provocative interpretations of his extant plays and fragments. Editor(s): McClure, Laura K. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 252 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1110.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781119257509
ISBN
9781119257509
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 207.55

Paperback. By looking at Victorian poetry, prose, and the novel, these essays show how a particular religious discourse cuts across the literary, gendered, and the broader semiotic landscape of Victorian literature. Editor(s): Nixon, Jude V. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349528820
ISBN
9781349528820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781875559374
ISBN
9781875559374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.67

Paperback. A study of images of writing in scientific study, such as descriptions of nature as a book written in the language of mathematics, and the characterisation of DNA sequences as a code for the book of life. The authors argue that these images enable us to come close to realising the nature of scientific processes. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Editor(s): Lenoir, Timothy. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 476 pages, map. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804727778
ISBN
9780804727778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.41

Hardback. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 311.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312236243
ISBN
9780312236243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.52

paperback. Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years. Suitable for any scholar wrestling with Benjamin's work, this title offers a look at the man behind much of the twentieth century's most significant criticism. Editor(s): Scholen, Gershom; Adorno, Theodor W. Translator(s): Jacobson, Manfred R.; Jacobson, Evelyn M. Num Pages: 674 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: BJ; DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 159 x 37. Weight in Grams: 930.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780226042381
ISBN
9780226042381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 23.27

Paperback / so. Series: Neue Informationstechnologien Und Flexible Arbeitssysteme. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DD; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Deutscher Universitatsverlag Germany
Condition
New
SKU
V9783824443437
ISBN
9783824443437
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.17

Hardback. This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions. Editor(s): Smith, Prof Andrew; Wallace, Diana. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2009th Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230222717
ISBN
9780230222717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.82

Paperback. The living risk losing everything, but what they hold on to - love, faith, hope, truth - might change the world. It is this subversive possibility that speaks through these poems. This title gives an account of ruptured safety. Translator(s): Grossman, Edith. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329879
ISBN
9780822329879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.00

Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB; HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349381449
ISBN
9781349381449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.83

Paperback. Translator(s): Weinberger, G. J. Num Pages: 379 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
379
Condition
New
SKU
V9780929497709
ISBN
9780929497709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.56

paperback. Tells the story of the hard life in an Irish village, looking at characters such as the local tailor, the blacksmith and the farm-wife. The book combines laughter, pathos and innocence with the gossip of a closely-knit community. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJH; 3JJP; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 0. Weight in Grams: 204. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Brandon
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0003874
ISBN
9780863221422
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Investigating the omnipresent religious theme that runs throughout Russian culture, even in the antireligious Chekhov, the author argues that no other major European literature was as much preoccupied as the Russian with the tensions between religion and rationality. He highlights this unique quality of Russian literature and culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691145662
ISBN
9780691145662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.97

Hardcover. An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the last forty years. Drawing on writers from the canonical to the less well-known, it uses close readings to examine the personal, social and political consequences of representing pain in literature. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; JFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230367425
ISBN
9780230367425
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

Paperback. Translator(s): Wissing, Paula. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691605371
ISBN
9780691605371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.96
€ 44.27

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