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Paperback. Tracing the history of modernism in cinema, this study provides readings of a range of classic films made between 1925 and 1980 by such filmmakers as Carl Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson. It argues that the act of vision and visual experience are problematized in literary modernism. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231071833
- ISBN
- 9780231071833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.90
€ 48.90
Hardback. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611481907
- ISBN
- 9781611481907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.45
€ 114.45
Hardcover. Includes poems that display the talent of the man whose verse entranced America from the time of the Great Depression until his death in 1971. Editor(s): Smith, Linell Nash. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 38. Weight in Grams: 910.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566637039
- ISBN
- 9781566637039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.89
€ 25.89
Paperback. An introduction to the issues surrounding the emergence of the Irish Novel since the eighteenth century, and an analysis of a number of contemporary Irish writers Series: Contemporary Irish Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary; (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745312156
- ISBN
- 9780745312156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 27.71
€ 35.99
€ 27.71
Paperback. Essential interviews with makers of the San Francisco Beat Scene by one of their own. Editor(s): Meltzer, David. Num Pages: 425 pages, 30 B&W photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- City Lights Books United States
- Number of pages
- 425
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872863798
- ISBN
- 9780872863798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.05
€ 36.99
€ 31.05
Paperback. Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 274 191pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571225651
- ISBN
- 9780571225651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.35
€ 11.99
€ 9.35
Paperback. aeo Provides the first ever student edition of this highly influential and, outside the library, otherwise unavailable text. aeo Represents a key critical intervention in the public sphere by a major canonical Renaissance poet. aeo Makes available a controversial and founding document in English colonial discourse. Editor(s): Hadfield, Andrew; Maley, Willy. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DNF; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631205357
- ISBN
- 9780631205357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 46.61
€ 47.99
€ 46.61
paperback. Tells the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. This volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring how and what women have read through the ages and across cultures and civilizations. Num Pages: 344 pages, 60 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300197204
- ISBN
- 9780300197204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.88
€ 19.99
€ 13.88
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Akron Press United States
- Number of pages
- 72
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937378547
- ISBN
- 9781937378547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.74
€ 26.99
€ 22.74
Paperback. Terence Hawkes looks at King Lear, Measure for Measure, A Midsmmer Night's Dream and Coriolanus, as examples from this century of how Shakespeare's plays function as a language through which we generate meaning. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 453. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Previous owner's name to ffep. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0011619
- ISBN
- 9780415074513
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Features the South Indian devotional poems that show the dramatic use of erotic language to express a religious vision. Written by men during the fifteenth to eighteenth century, the poems adopt a female voice, the voice of a courtesan addressing her customer. Num Pages: 158 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2F; DCQ; HRK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 36.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520080690
- ISBN
- 9780520080690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 25.62
€ 35.99
€ 25.62
Hardback. Ranging over all George Eliot's fiction and drawing as well on her letters, essays, and translations, in this book the distinguished critic Neil Hertz documents Eliot's lifelong questioning of the nature of authorship and of what it might mean, in the language of one of her early letters, for her "not simply to be, but to utter." Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743891
- ISBN
- 9780804743891
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.85
€ 138.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Wisdom Tree India
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788183282062
- ISBN
- 9788183282062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.95
€ 16.99
€ 12.95
Hardcover. An abbess in the Franciscan abbey of Longchamp, Agnes of Harcourt wrote a biography of Isabelle of France and a letter detailing Louis IX's involvement with the abbey, both of which provide a window on 13th-century religious life. This translation also contains an introduction to her life and work. Editor(s): Field, Sean L. (Assistant Professor of History, University of Vermont, USA). Translator(s): Field, Sean L. (Assistant Professor of History, University of Vermont, USA). Series: Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3H; BG; DN; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268044039
- ISBN
- 9780268044039
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.94
€ 111.94
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843843429
- ISBN
- 9781843843429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.15
€ 88.15
Hardback. This work offers the perspectives of poets, journalists, and scholars as they discuss their views on creativity, the teaching of writing, and the importance of a sense of place in their work. Editor(s): Beattie, L.Elisabeth. Series: Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Edition
- 11
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813121246
- ISBN
- 9780813121246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.86
€ 44.86
Hardback. This book examines the early development of the fantastic tale through the works of of the German romantics Ludwig Tieck, Achim von Arnim, and E. T. A. Hoffmann; the subsequent French rediscovery of the genre in works by Theophile Gautier and Prosper Merimee; and Edgar Allan Poe's contributions to the literary form. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738590
- ISBN
- 9780804738590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.80
€ 154.80
Paperback. Who are the invisible kings? Why do two bears follow them round Britain? And what happens when a gypsy's curse comes miraculously to life? This book reveals extraordinary worlds where the real and imagined converge in stories and charms, just this side of science and magic. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 155 x 7. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857549058
- ISBN
- 9781857549058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.67
€ 19.99
€ 17.67
Paperback. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- KOG0002241
- ISBN
- 9780140431254
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of native California includes a selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs drawn from a wide sampling of California's many native cultures. Introductions provide cultural and biographical context. Editor(s): Luthin, Herbert W. Num Pages: 651 pages, 12 black & white photographs, 5 maps, 4 musical examples, 1 line figure, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 2ABM; DQ; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- Annotated.
- Number of pages
- 651
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520222700
- ISBN
- 9780520222700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.10
€ 38.99
€ 28.10
paperback. Offers a collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies that addresses the basic problems in reading his work. This title looks at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in 'gaps' or spaces 'in between'. Editor(s): La Bossiere, Camille; Morra, Linda M. Series: Reappraisals: Canadian Writers. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Ottawa Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780776605319
- ISBN
- 9780776605319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.76
€ 23.99
€ 20.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 256 x 182 x 21. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 277
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585101054
- ISBN
- 9781585101054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.28
€ 51.99
€ 36.28
Paperback. Maxwell uncovers both black literature's debt to Communism and Communism's debt to black literature, reciprocal obligations first incurred during the Harlem Renaissance. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; JFSL3; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231114257
- ISBN
- 9780231114257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.39
€ 36.99
€ 26.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 616 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 976.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033231
- ISBN
- 9780268033231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 45.62
€ 51.99
€ 45.62