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Hardback. The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. It presents the history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 175 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691096742
ISBN
9780691096742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.18
€ 63.20

Hardcover. This book is a comparative and developmental study of the expression of feminist concerns in the novels of Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal, Anita Desai, and Shashi Deshpande, among the best known and most prolific Indian novelists writing in English, who have been self-consciously engaged with women's issues during the postcolonial era. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230236271
ISBN
9780230236271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 41.71

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CF; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674379374
ISBN
9780674379374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.72
€ 62.91

Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 Black-and-White Photographs. BIC Classification: 2FMC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Persea
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892554171
ISBN
9780892554171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.76

Paperback. This book is a study of As You Like It, which shows how the play represents issues of interest to literate playgoers of its time, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349371662
ISBN
9781349371662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardback. Series: Argumentation Library. Num Pages: 928 pages, 35 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFA; CFC; CFGA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319209548
ISBN
9783319209548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.39

Hardcover. Very good copy in good dustwrappers. DW has light shelf wear. Light foxing, remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
Calder Publications
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0015847
ISBN
9780714535562
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 311.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724647
ISBN
9780804724647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 301.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349213016
ISBN
9781349213016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99

Paperback. This lively and stimulating book guides students through the historical contexts, key figures, texts, themes and issues in sixteenth-- and early seventeenth--century English literature. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631220244
ISBN
9780631220244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.49

hardcover. Reflecting the developments in the field, this edition provides an introduction to science fiction, which is a popular area of modern culture. It presents a concise history of science fiction, along with explanations of key concepts in the genre. It also includes case studies drawn from "Dune", "Star Wars", and "The Left Hand of Darkness". Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415366670
ISBN
9780415366670
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.75

Hardcover. Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most beloved poets in America, and the poem Famous is literally her most famous poem. At once simple and profound, this illustrated version of the poem is a charmingly ironic take on what it means to be "famous". Illustrator(s): Desimini, Lisa. Num Pages: 32 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; WZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 3. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Wings Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609404499
ISBN
9781609404499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.03

Hardcover. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Viking
Edition
First American Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0026702
ISBN
9780670870073
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00

Paperback. 'The Fugitive's Properties' uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key 19th century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrel performance and early race films. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations, bibliog references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044347
ISBN
9780226044347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.17

Mabel Lang's long career as a scholar and teacher has given her a unique perspective on one of the most important authors in western literature. This book brings together several of her most thoughtful papers on figures and issues including the 400, Cleon, and Alcibiades, and joins them with new material on narrative technique. Editor(s): Hamilton, Richard; Dickey, Eleanor; Rusten, Jeffrey S. Series: Cultural Legacies. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBAH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Michigan Classical Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780979971341
ISBN
9780979971341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.05

Paperback. Winner of the 2013 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300201222
ISBN
9780300201222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.78

Paperback. Heartbreaking and uplifting, Me and You is a story about how hard it is to leave our old selves behind, the tough choices we sometimes have to make and how love and friendship can heal the most damaged of hearts. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 326. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAK0000571
ISBN
9781847562746
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A book about reading women's poems, rather than forming theories about them. Beginning with Katherine Philips, the first Englishwoman to achieve fame as a poet, it covers three centuries to the work of Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith, but does not include the many living women poets who deserve a volume to themselves. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845193348
ISBN
9781845193348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.50

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
annotated ed
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403976734
ISBN
9781403976734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.17

Hardcover. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1960
Publisher
Foreign Languages Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0002802
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Editor(s): Marcus, Leonard S. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations (some col.), photographs. BIC Classification: AC; DSB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 240 x 175 x 28. Weight in Grams: 859.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Candlewick Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Candlewick ed.
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780763635060
ISBN
9780763635060
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 12.05

Paperback. Presenting stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wolbuk writers (those who migrated to the North after 1945 and whose works were widely banned in South Korea) and by bringing politically engaged works together with experimental ones, this anthology articulates the ruptures and resolutions that have marked the peninsula. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231135139
ISBN
9780231135139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.75

Hardback. The volume begins with an introductory essay on the origins of British humour in the Middle Ages. Chapters then examine British literary humour during particular centuries. Each chapter begins with an overview of humour during that time period followed by entries for individual authors. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBB; DSBD; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 493.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780313297069
ISBN
9780313297069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.59

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403902122
ISBN
9781403902122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

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