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Paperback. Argues that while intertextuality is constitutive of all textuality it may be foregrounded in certain literary works, genres, or styles. This book surveys the field in order to ground the poetics of intertextuality in the history of its idea from Kristeva to New Historicism and citationality from Genette's late structuralism to text theory. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557535030
ISBN
9781557535030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.05

Hardback. This book examines how, at the turn of the 19th century, Japanese fiction used melodrama's binary morality-the battle between good and evil-to generate alternative models of family to answer the needs of a modernizing society. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 figures, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804757775
ISBN
9780804757775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.90

Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Mandarin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0004207
ISBN
9780413143600
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Num Pages: 652 pages. Dimension: 240 x 162. Weight in Grams: 1044.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Number of pages
652
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674484702
ISBN
9780674484702
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.29
€ 135.69

paperback. Considers the presence and use of texts in religious and political ritual in Early China. Through balanced attention to both the received literary tradition and the range of excavated artefacts, manuscripts, and inscriptions, this title reveals the rich and multilayered interplay of textual composition and ritual performance. Editor(s): Kern, Martin. Num Pages: 362 pages, 7 bw photos,. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987873
ISBN
9780295987873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.76

Hardcover. An historic publication in which the legendary German poet and dramatist emerges, quite like Goethe, as a poet driven by Eros. Translator(s): Constantine, David; Kuhn, Tom. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 213 x 16. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liveright
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871408563
ISBN
9780871408563
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 21.80

hardcover. This volume continues in the tradition of rigorous scholarship established by the first, providing crucial details on the evolution of Capito's thought to Reformation scholars. Translator(s): Rummel, Erika. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 257 x 178 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1170.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802099556
ISBN
9780802099556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 191.15

Hardback. Editor(s): Vosburg, Nancy; Collins, Jacky. Num Pages: 282 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480207
ISBN
9781611480207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.05

Paperback. 8vo .Good Copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Canongate Books
Edition
Main
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0261830
ISBN
9781841954516
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 410 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
410
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691644882
ISBN
9780691644882
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 192.54

Paperback. The Vita Secundi is a Greek text of the second century AD. The substantial introduction to the edition deals with the motives for the work's translation into Spanish, tracks the extent of its diffusion in Spain, and analyses in detail the textual history of the Spanish version. Editor(s): Bizzarri, Hugo O. Series: Exeter Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 46 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBB; HBJD; HBLH; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 203 x 8. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
46
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859896757
ISBN
9780859896757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.48

Paperback. aeo Offers an overview of how linguistic theory can be applied to the oral and written literatures of the world. aeo Illustrated with examples from around 100 different literary traditions, quoting texts in the original languages, fully translated and explained. Series: Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 171 x 245 x 17. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631192435
ISBN
9780631192435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.16

paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804009454
ISBN
9780804009454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.90

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854113795
ISBN
9781854113795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.05

Paperback. Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768764
ISBN
9780804768764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.38

Paperback. Celebrates Shakespeare's influence on American culture. This book contains essays which explore Shakespeare's influence on America's cultural history from a variety of perspectives. It includes essays from the colonial period, to the adoption of Shakespeare as an "American genius" in the nineteenth century, to twentieth-century musical comedy. Editor(s): Vaughan, Prof. Virginia Mason; Vaughan, Alden T. Num Pages: 192 pages, 88 color illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSGS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7128 x 5499 x 14. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295987156
ISBN
9780295987156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.13

Hardback. This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem--Miller's text on the right, Asensi's on the left. Miller analyzes the changes in the contemporary research university in the West; Asensi provides the first comprehensive interpretation of Miller's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732437
ISBN
9780804732437
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 254.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837618143
ISBN
9783837618143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 36.28

Paperback. Detailing the volatile relationship between the black violinist George Bridgetower and Beethoven, this is a "masterful collection" (Los Angeles Times). Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393338935
ISBN
9780393338935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HBLC; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268033255
ISBN
9780268033255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.87

Paperback. The fourth novel in the internationally acclaimed Inspector Van Veeteren series Series: The Van Veeteren Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Pan
Edition
Main Market
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330512503
ISBN
9780330512503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.65

Hardback. Fresh study of the intricate roles played by gender, visibility, and the idea of romance in Malory's Morte. Series: Arthurian Studies. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842422
ISBN
9781843842422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.48

Hardback. Addressing the ways alliterative poems share concerns with history and the often-dangerous confrontation of the present with the past, Christine Chism shifts her focus away from the emphases on meter, dialect, and provenance that have routinely marked studies of alliterative poetry. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 356 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 659.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812236552
ISBN
9780812236552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.22

Paperback. The title poem is accompanied by the 24-part sequence "Free Rein", with its broad political and human perspectives. The author has also written "Heart's Desire" (1978) and "Selected Poems" (1985). Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 5. Weight in Grams: 98.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857540567
ISBN
9781857540567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.48

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