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Hardback. This book assesses the emphases and complexities of Albert Camus' lifelong preoccupation with justice within the sociopolitical sphere, against a background of changing personal and historical circumstances. It provides a chronological account of Camus' developing ideas on the concept, as expressed in his non-fiction. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611473438
- ISBN
- 9781611473438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.45
€ 148.45
Paperback. Editor(s): Plakcy, Neil. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Cleis Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781573449281
- ISBN
- 9781573449281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.32
€ 16.99
€ 15.32
paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Flambard Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781873226278
- ISBN
- 9781873226278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.97
€ 9.97
Paperback. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 7. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571277216
- ISBN
- 9780571277216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.39
€ 12.99
€ 9.39
paperback. Presenting a study of the work of Joanna Russ, this book offers an introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ' work and assesses its development. It is suitable for students of SF and feminist SF. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780853236245
- ISBN
- 9780853236245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.36
€ 29.99
€ 26.36
Paperback. Nikos Gatsos' profoundly mysterious and magnetic poem "Amorgos", named after a Greek island he never visited and written during the Nazi occupation, is the single work on which his reputation rests. It was much admired by the Nobel laureates Odysseus Elytis and George Seferis, and was hugely influential on the postwar generation of Greek poets. Translator(s): Purcell, Sally. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 181 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Anvil Press Poetry United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856463020
- ISBN
- 9780856463020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.81
€ 15.99
€ 13.81
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Rep, Miguel. Series: For Beginners. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- For Beginners
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939994370
- ISBN
- 9781939994370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.29
€ 16.99
€ 16.29
Paperback. A collection of 17 essays first printed in "American Quarterly", the journal of the American Studies Association. To mark the Association's 50th anniversary, the editor has brought together works which provide a window into the history and evolution of the practice of American studies. Editor(s): Maddox, Lucy. Num Pages: 458 pages, 4, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; DNF; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 458
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801860560
- ISBN
- 9780801860560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 35.08
€ 42.99
€ 35.08
Paperback. Features poems, in which, the author examines the traces history leaves on the land and its inhabitants, while also exploring her own, sometimes uneasy, relationship to time and place in a mother tongue that has undergone French and German influences, connecting her historically to the Middle Europe of her ancestors. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 7. Weight in Grams: 104. 64 pages. Features poems, in which, the author examines the traces history leaves on the land and its inhabitants, while also exploring her own, sometimes uneasy, relationship to time and place in a mother tongue that has undergone French and German influences, connecting her historically to the Middle Europe of her ancestors. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 7. Weight: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Anvil Press Poetry
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856464454
- ISBN
- 9780856464454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.20
€ 16.99
€ 15.20
Paperback. Includes entries for approximately 100 leading contemporary authors, listing print and online sources, as well as web sites for obtaining information. This guide includes: a biographical sketch, including a quote from the authors and their major awards; a list of the authors' major works; and, research sources - biographies, criticism, and blogs. Series: Author Research Series. Num Pages: 268 pages, 1 b&w illustrations, 1 figure. BIC Classification: DSR; FM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591584971
- ISBN
- 9781591584971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 42.75
€ 43.99
€ 42.75
The Symbolic Design of Windsor-Forest. Iconography, Pageant, and Proph...
Rogers, Pat; Rosenberg, Marvin
Hardback. A study of one of the earliest major poems by Alexander Pope, this text reveals how he used the artistic conventions of the Stuart court - masque, architecture and heraldry - to create the last great Renaissance poem in English. The text shows the centrality of ?Windsor-Forest? in Pope's career and the centrality of Pope in the debates of his time. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874138375
- ISBN
- 9780874138375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.64
€ 133.64
Paperback. Editor(s): Hall, Edith. Translator(s): Kitto, H. D. F. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; 3D; 4KL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Reissue
- SKU
- KSS0003827
- ISBN
- 9780199537174
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Besides providing a new appraisal of Guillaume Apollinaire, the foremost French poet of early Modernism and WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project. Num Pages: 304 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898959
- ISBN
- 9780859898959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.86
€ 49.86
Paperback. A collection of Homeric poems, epics and tragedies from two and a half millennia of literature. Each poem is introduced with a commentary. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 99 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842820322
- ISBN
- 9781842820322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.18
€ 10.99
€ 9.18
Paperback. Explores a range of cultural representations of incest, from the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to mother-daughter incest in contemporary true crime novels, to Oprah Winfrey's television special Scared Silent, in order to examine expressions of survivorship. Editor(s): Champagne, Rosaria. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814715437
- ISBN
- 9780814715437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Hardcover. Examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. This book sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry. Series: Modern Language Initiative Books. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSC; JFC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993690
- ISBN
- 9780295993690
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.84
€ 128.84
Hardback. Offers an analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern Libya. This book examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed. Translator(s): Berman, Daniel W. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691114583
- ISBN
- 9780691114583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.70€ 63.85
€ 82.70
€ 63.85
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780374111199
- ISBN
- 9780374111199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.87
€ 36.99
€ 29.87
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Tachyon Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616960209
- ISBN
- 9781616960209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.22
€ 18.22
Paperback. Explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts. Focusing on pre-Conquest works, this book argues that Anglo-Saxon writers drew upon accounts of legendary royal wives to construct cultural ideals of queenship during a time when that institution was undergoing profound change. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033101
- ISBN
- 9780268033101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.65
€ 33.99
€ 30.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSA; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801477850
- ISBN
- 9780801477850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 45.34
€ 50.99
€ 45.34
Hardback. "An excellent consideration of the religious dimension of symbol in Coleridge's thought and its relation to English Romanticism."-Library Journal Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823221127
- ISBN
- 9780823221127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.33
€ 105.33
Paperback. Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlets. Num Pages: 48 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 6. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 63
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811220392
- ISBN
- 9780811220392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.54
€ 12.54