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hardcover. The Arrow of Love examines visual encounters in medieval lyrics, exploring the ways in which poets employed contemporary optical theory both to revitalize classic topoi, such as Cupid's arrow, and to construct and develop subjectivities and gender roles. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611481396
- ISBN
- 9781611481396
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.05
€ 112.05
Hardcover. Turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. This title explores how the authoritative status of Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 2AHA; 3JB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226591483
- ISBN
- 9780226591483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.63€ 49.82
€ 58.63
€ 49.82
Hardback. Ego Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes's philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes's ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum. Translator(s): Morin, Marie-Eve. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPM; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270613
- ISBN
- 9780823270613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.01
€ 119.01
Paperback. Editor(s): Jain, Jasbir; Agarwal, Supriya. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd India
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788120736108
- ISBN
- 9788120736108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.48
€ 27.99
€ 19.48
Paperback. A stark and violent exploration of an American myth, this is a novel about the doomed gunslinger Billy the Kid. Editor(s): Schmidt, Michael. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784975135
- ISBN
- 9781784975135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Hardcover. The Wicked Wit Of Charles Dickens explores and reveals aspects of the author's personal and professional life, whilst celebrating his flair for witty and satirical observations about society and human nature. Contains lengthy extracts from scenes of great amusement in his novels, as well as pithy remarks uttered by his unique characters. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DN; FC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Michael O'Mara Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843175681
- ISBN
- 9781843175681
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.75
€ 14.99
€ 14.75
Paperback. A Student Edition of Sophocles' greatest tragedy in Don Taylor's acclaimed translation. With full commentary, notes and questions for further study this is the perfect edition for every student of drama, literature and classics. Editor(s): Varakis, Angie. Translator(s): Taylor, Don W. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: DB; DD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780713686760
- ISBN
- 9780713686760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.59
€ 9.59
Hardback. Written by eminent scholar David O. Ross, this guide helps readers to engage with the poetry, thought, and background of Virgil's great epic, suggesting both the depth and the beauty of Virgil's poetic images and the mental images with which the Romans lived. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405159722
- ISBN
- 9781405159722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.26
€ 113.26
Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages. Dimension: 244 x 165. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393249187
- ISBN
- 9780393249187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.87
€ 29.99
€ 26.87
Paperback. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0003231
- ISBN
- 9781905494934
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.13
€ 7.13
Hardback. Num Pages: 376 pages, 2 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501702112
- ISBN
- 9781501702112
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.92
€ 52.92
Hardcover. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought. Num Pages: 306 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; AS; DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 31. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Edition
- Apparent First Edition
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572410374
- ISBN
- 9781572410374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.66
€ 49.99
€ 35.66
Hardback. Clean copy.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0216199
- ISBN
- 9780747564164
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306. Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. 216 pages, 1 illustration. Shows how literary representations of transgressive sexuality expressed the longings of African Americans for individual and collective freedom. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352419
- ISBN
- 9780822352419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.97
€ 26.99
€ 26.97
Hardback. When he was twenty, C.H. Sisson found himself in Hitler's Germany, and a year later in Paris. Fifty years later, 'English Perspectives' presents his reflections on politics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856359804
- ISBN
- 9780856359804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.41
€ 35.99
€ 30.41
Paperback. The year is 1904 in the city of Dublin. Gretta and Gabriel Conroy attend the Morkan Sisters annual dinner on the Feast of the Epiphany and the last day of Christmas. An evening of laughter, music and dance ends in an epiphany for Gabriel. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571302123
- ISBN
- 9780571302123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.06
€ 13.99
€ 10.06
Paperback. Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book illuminates the poetic imperatives of pragmatism by tracing the ways in which Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens capture the moment of transition. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322962
- ISBN
- 9780822322962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.15
€ 28.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 410 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBJK; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 410
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865970373
- ISBN
- 9780865970373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Father Sergius and other stories (Russian and Soviet story)
1828-1910 Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Raduga
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KMK0005882
- ISBN
- 9785050020482
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Zero's Neighbour is Helene Cixous's tribute to theminimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness inhis writing like nobody else: Samuel Beckett. Translator(s): Milesi, Laurent. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 124 x 14. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745644158
- ISBN
- 9780745644158
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.33
€ 52.33
hardcover. In this collection of original essays, several prominent writers and critics of the genre examine the interface of theology and detection. Num Pages: 169 pages, Plans, transparencies, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 169
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810823822
- ISBN
- 9780810823822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.06
€ 106.06
Hardcover. A collection of seventeen biographical essays that provides a window into the social, cultural, and geographic milieu of women's lives in Louisiana. Within the context of the historical forces that have shaped Louisiana, it looks at ways in which the women either abided by gender norms or negotiated new models of behavior for themselves. Editor(s): Allured, Janet; Gentry, Judith F. Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 b&w & 7 colour photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3J; DNF; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820329468
- ISBN
- 9780820329468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.07
€ 153.07
Paperback. Translator(s): Nichols, James H., Jr. Series: Agora Editions. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 153 x 8. Weight in Grams: 186. Series: Agora Paperback Editions S. 128 pages. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA. Dimension: 219 x 153 x 8. Weight: 186. Translator(s): Nichols Jr, James H. (Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College, USA).
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801485329
- ISBN
- 9780801485329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.26
€ 16.99
€ 16.26
Paperback. One of the major cultural philosophers of our time addresses, in his powerful and allusive critical voice, Malraux's reflections on art and literature. The result tells us as much about Lyotard as it does about Malraux. Translator(s): Harvey, Robert. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 9. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737500
- ISBN
- 9780804737500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05