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Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. Peter Bing's seminal monograph chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos. Series: Cultural Legacies. Num Pages: 163 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Michigan Classical Press United States
- Number of pages
- 163
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979971303
- ISBN
- 9780979971303
Condition: New
€ 29.11
€ 29.11
Paperback. This book explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. Series: Gothic Literary Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780708324653
- ISBN
- 9780708324653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.33
€ 25.99
€ 24.33
Hardback. In 18 essays, Brooke Allen explores the lives and work of some of the last century's most brilliant and eccentric literary talents. These writers embody in their very different ways the various attitudes of their contentious century. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566635202
- ISBN
- 9781566635202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.95
€ 34.95
Paperback. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013: the extraordinary, warm and witty novel from the Orange Prize shortlisted author of When We Were Bad. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 298. Some light shelf wear else as new.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KTG0006019
- ISBN
- 9781447220008
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906817183
- ISBN
- 9781906817183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.95
€ 21.99
€ 15.95
Paperback.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780743482776
- ISBN
- 9780743482776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.78
€ 8.78
Paperback. Aims to reconstruct the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, the author makes a case for the agency - or the capacity to resist domination - of those oppressed. He reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 440 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBD; DSBF; HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323150
- ISBN
- 9780822323150
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.76
€ 35.99
€ 32.76
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691608822
- ISBN
- 9780691608822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Paperback. On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions of their everyday existence. A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of the early summer evening. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204. Clean copy.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0216123
- ISBN
- 9780747561576
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. * The first book to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings. * Highlights the unique nature of the society that, over a millennium, has produced French culture . Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745628394
- ISBN
- 9780745628394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.64
€ 69.64
Paperback. The ideal guide for students and theatre-lovers alike, the Companion explores the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre over the last hundred years. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 388. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. 256 pages. The ideal guide for students and theatre-lovers alike, the Companion explores the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre over the last hundred years. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSG. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 14. Weight: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641079
- ISBN
- 9780748641079
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.53
€ 47.53
Hardback. An almanac that deals with the art of Vladimir Nabokov. Editor(s): Leving, Yuri. Num Pages: 326 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235193
- ISBN
- 9781936235193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.42
€ 150.42
Paperback. Dr Stockmann attempts to expose a water pollution scandal in his home town which is about to establish itself as a spa. When his brother conspires with local politicians and the newspaper to suppress the story, Stockmann appeals to a public meeting - only to be shouted down and reviled as an enemy of the people. Translator(s): Hampton, Christopher. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 10. Weight in Grams: 165.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Henrik Ibsen and Christopher Hampton
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571194292
- ISBN
- 9780571194292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.48
€ 13.99
€ 9.48
Paperback. The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if its cultural significance had attained full maturity at birth. In Silent Urns, the author reveals how Greece attained such significance as the result of the attempt to reconcile individuality, freedom, history, and modernity in 18th-century aesthetics. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738484
- ISBN
- 9780804738484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.35
€ 27.99
€ 26.35
Hardcover. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Dedalus Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0004229
- ISBN
- 9781901233858
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardback. CP Cavafy (Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis) is one of the most important Greek poets since antiquity. This title plays with the complexities of ironic Socratic thought, suffused with the honesty of unadorned iambic verse. It offers a translation of the complex linguistic registers of Cavafy's Canon into English. Editor(s): Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios. Translator(s): Chioles, John. Series: Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard Department of the Classics United States
- Number of pages
- 420
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053267
- ISBN
- 9780674053267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.76
€ 32.99
€ 27.76
hardcover. Editor(s): Scott-Kilvert, Diana; Feldman, Paula R. Num Pages: 324 pages, Fr.Ill.M. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198126744
- ISBN
- 9780198126744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.03
€ 98.03
Paperback. Shows how Jane Austen became "Jane Austen". The author begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, then passes through the four critical phases of Austen's reception - the Victorian era, the First and Second World Wars, and the establishment of the Austen House and Museum in 1949. Num Pages: 240 pages, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226155036
- ISBN
- 9780226155036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.76
€ 32.99
€ 25.76
Hardback. Editor(s): Vrana, Heather. Series: Key Texts in Anti Colonial Thought. BIC Classification: 1KLC; DQ; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 241 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474403689
- ISBN
- 9781474403689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
Hardback. "What May Words Say..?" contains a comprehensive and in many respects unconventional interpretation of The Merchant of Venice. The play's development of ideas is unfolded in a literary analysis that focuses on the poet's words in their philological, historical, and philosophical contexts. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611470000
- ISBN
- 9781611470000
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.10
€ 133.10
Paperback. A collection of Gilbert White's letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist Thomas Pennant - White's intellectual lifelines from his country-village home. This title presents an evocation of the lives of the flora and fauna of eighteenth-century England. Editor(s): Mabey, Richard. Num Pages: 320 pages, notes, maps, bibliography. BIC Classification: DNF; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140431124
- ISBN
- 9780140431124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 8.55
€ 10.99
€ 8.55
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 612 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1028.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 612
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780691628202
- ISBN
- 9780691628202
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.95€ 65.58
€ 84.95
€ 65.58
Paperback. For 30 years Anvil championed the idea of poetry as a free space for the imagination and spirit. In the process the press has gained recognition as one of the liveliest publishers of British and international poetry. This book celebrates that endeavour with the author's selection of the most memorable poetry he has encountered since 1968. Editor(s): Jay, Peter. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856463013
- ISBN
- 9780856463013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.55
€ 14.99
€ 14.55
Paperback. One of Japan's most important modern poets, Tada Chimako (1930-2003) gained prominence in her native country for her sensual, frequently surreal poetry and fantastic imagery. This title presents a selection from Tada's extraordinary oeuvre, including nontraditional free verse, poems in the traditional forms of tanka and haiku, and prose poems. Translator(s): Angles, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520260511
- ISBN
- 9780520260511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 28.18
€ 37.99
€ 28.18
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