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Paperback. Through an analysis of literary representations of work, this work explores how late medieval authors, influenced by the labor-related crises of the fourteenth century, sought to articulate the meaning of work in fresh and contrasting ways. It analyzes the Middle English terms to show how words for work were related to status and class attitudes. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268034986
- ISBN
- 9780268034986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.83
€ 29.99
€ 26.83
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 685.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691647678
- ISBN
- 9780691647678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 177.18
€ 177.18
Paperback. Edwin Morgan returns to the stage with an examination of the life of Jesus as a man among men. Jesus is portrayed as a human figure in an inhuman time. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 136 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857544985
- ISBN
- 9781857544985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.21
€ 30.99
€ 25.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Edition
- Annotated
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441109637
- ISBN
- 9781441109637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.65
€ 44.65
Hardback. Text and translation of comic plays sheds light on a fascinating era of theatrical production. Editor(s): Parsons, Ben; Jongenelen, Bas. Num Pages: 308 pages, 5, 5 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DD; DQ; DSB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 169 x 25. Weight in Grams: 690. A Critical Anthology. 308 pages, 5, 5 black and white. Editor(s): Parsons, Ben; Jongenelen, Bas. Text and translation of comic plays sheds light on a fascinating era of theatrical production. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACD; DD; DQ; DSB; DSG. Dimension: 241 x 169 x 25. Weight: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843842910
- ISBN
- 9781843842910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.48
€ 99.48
Hardback. This book examines the depiction of physically ugly characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented in the era, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719068744
- ISBN
- 9780719068744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.43
€ 151.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 81 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 6. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Currency Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925005141
- ISBN
- 9781925005141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.68
€ 19.99
€ 14.68
Hardback. A comprehensive study of American poetry from colonial times to the present day, which features a wealth of views and reviews by contemporary American literary critics. The poets discussed range from Longfellow and Poe to Ginsberg and Plath. Editor(s): Parini, Jay, Ph.D.; Millier, Brett Candlish. Num Pages: 894 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 64. Weight in Grams: 1407.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 894
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231078368
- ISBN
- 9780231078368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.22€ 55.59
€ 71.22
€ 55.59
Hardback. Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire. This insighful new text offers the first systematic survey of evidence for the spread of theater outside Athens and the impact of the expansion of theater upon actors and dramatic literature. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: ANC; DS; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405135368
- ISBN
- 9781405135368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.02
€ 130.02
Paperback. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Wolfhound Press
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KAC0004399
- ISBN
- 9780950345420
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Theorizes the cultural reactions - within the realms of visual arts, literature, and the social sciences - to the oppression of the Chilean dictatorship. This title considers the importance of Walter Benjamin for the theoretical self-understanding of the Latin American intellectual left. Translator(s): Richard, Nelly; Tandeciarz, Silvia R. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; DS; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3556 x 6. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333395
- ISBN
- 9780822333395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.45
€ 29.99
€ 26.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 5 black and white drawings and photographs. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seren
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781722688
- ISBN
- 9781781722688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.35
€ 24.99
€ 21.35
Paperback. Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. Illustrator(s): Rackham, Arthur. Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; YFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 70.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853261213
- ISBN
- 9781853261213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.41
€ 6.41
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Tachyon Publications United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781892391414
- ISBN
- 9781892391414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.82
€ 16.99
€ 15.82
Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most ambitious of its kind. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 442
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872207448
- ISBN
- 9780872207448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.05€ 42.92
€ 55.05
€ 42.92
Paperback. * A beautifully written story which brings into focus the personal - a man's reconciliation with his father - and the big-picture-political: how South Africa comes to terms with its past Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349113708
- ISBN
- 9780349113708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.95
€ 16.99
€ 12.95
Paperback. This volume examines the creative work of the avant-gardist John Cage, from an interdisciplinary perspective. His activities as a composer, performer, thinker and artist are explored. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 halftones, 11 drawings, 4 colour plates, 1 table, 22 musical reproductions. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6; AVH; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044088
- ISBN
- 9780226044088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 32.17
€ 41.99
€ 32.17
Paperback. Drawing on the cosmopolitan sensibility of scholars like Anthony Appiah, Vinay Dharwadker, Martha Nussbaum, Bruce Robbins, and Amartya Sen, this book argues that to read the body of South Asian American literature justly, one must engage with the urgencies of places as diverse as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Burma, Pakistan, and Trinidad. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1KBB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592130818
- ISBN
- 9781592130818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.55
€ 33.99
€ 30.55
Paperback. Long Day's Journey into Night was written in 1940 but not staged until 1956, after O'Neill's death. Unashamedly autobiographical, it is, as he puts it himself in the dedicatory note, 'a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood', a harrowing attempt to understand himself and his family. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1966
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780224610735
- ISBN
- 9780224610735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.71
€ 12.99
€ 9.71
Paperback. Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251339
- ISBN
- 9780823251339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.59
€ 32.99
€ 29.59
Paperback. A collection of poems that conveys the energy - physical, creative, spiritual, erotic, imaginative, playful, ethical, and political - that has carried Nicole Brossard to a uniquely significant vision of the human spirit. It presents poems in French and English on facing pages, highlighting the rhythms in Brossard's sonorities. Editor(s): Forsyth, Louise H. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554580477
- ISBN
- 9781554580477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.74
€ 25.74
paperback. Num Pages: 83 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Josef Weinberger Plays United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 83
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856762215
- ISBN
- 9780856762215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.95
€ 13.99
€ 12.95
Hardcover. Throughout, the work takes full account of developments in stage history which have altered thinking about Shakespeare's stage. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Weight in Grams: 47. Fine in fine cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing age and shelfwear. Previous owner's name on ffep. Lightly toned, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0029147
- ISBN
- 9780521212557
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Represents a city's underworld, and the laws of corruption and delay. This novel projects these things in a vision that embraces black comedy, cosmic farce, and tragic ruin. Illustrator(s): Browne, Hablot K., (Phiz). Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 800 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 504. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KKD0010044
- ISBN
- 9781853260827
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95