Literary Studies: From c1900 -
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Gibran, Rihani & Naimy
Anqa Publishing (UK)£15.95| /The three Lebanese writers discussed in this volume -- Kahlil Gibran, Ameen Rihani and Mikhail Naimy -- all emigrated to the USA early in life. The...
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Her Side of the Story
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /This book explores contemporary ways of reading some important New Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940. Interpretations of t...
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Hieratic Texts From Tebtunis
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£56.99| /This book contains a selection of hieratic texts from the ancient town of Tebtunis hymns and litanies, rituals of protection, a mythological narr...
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Holding On
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£13.99| /Cathy Sosnowsky's poems stand testament to a grieving mother's love for her son who died in an accident just days after his seventeenth birthday. A...
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Iris Murdoch & Her Work
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-VerlagOriginal price £28.99Current price £22.90| /Iris Murdoch and Her Work assembles eighteen essays on the work of Iris Murdoch by scholars whose researches on Murdoch are already well-known. The...
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James Joyce
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-VerlagOriginal price £25.00Current price £19.90| /This book follows the increasing focus on Irish identity in Joyces major works of prose. This study traces the development of the idea of Ireland,...
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Lea Goldberg
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£26.99| /Lea Goldberg is considered an icon of poetry in Israel, but is practically unknown outside the Hebrew language borders. To date, she has only publi...
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Madame Bovary
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /In his Introduction, MacKenzie discusses Flaubert's life, the writing of Madame Bovary, the world in which the novel is set, and its publication an...
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Madison Jones' Garden of Innocence
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)£23.25| /Madison Jones is the author of eleven novels, among them are The Innocent, An Exile (film: I Walk the Line), A Cry of Absence, Season of the Strang...
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Major Figures of Modern Austrian Literature
Ariadne Press (US)£40.99| /The fifteen essays cover the life and works of the major authors representing the generation who began their literary careers before Word War 2, we...
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Major Figures of Turn-of-the-Century Austrian Literature
Ariadne Press (US)£45.99| /The purpose of this projected seven-volume series is to help make the major figures of Austrian literature from 1800 to the present accessible to a...
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Making Use of History in New South African Fiction
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£21.99| /A study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counter-discourse in Mongane Serote's "Gods of Our Time", Mike N...
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Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Margaret Laurence instinctively turned to the epic mode to create archetypal narratives of loss, exile, and redemption. Drawing on the Bible, Dante...
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Miscellany of Demotic Texts & Studies
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£77.99| /Third in the series of texts of the The Carlsberg Papyri. It contains a series of contributions on a variety of Demotic subjects including a new ve...
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Moving to the Clear
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£11.99| /This is the first full-length collection of poems by poet and scholar Jason Dewinetz. From the sun drenched Okanagan Valley of B.C. to "Géricault's...
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Narratives of Loving Resistance
Ariadne Press (US)£13.99| /The two stories contained in this edition -- 'Love at First Sight: A Recollection' and 'History of a Promise' -- reveal Erich Hackl's unique and lu...
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Personal Modernisms
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the "lost generation" of writers of the 1930s and 19...
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Perverse Serenity
Spinifex Press£10.95| /When a feminist and a monk fall in love, poetry results.
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Poems from the Madhouse (Young Adult Edition), 2nd Edition
Spinifex Press£9.95| /This powerful collection of poems intrigues readers of all ages, but has a strong resonance for teenagers. Young people are at a particular risk of...
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Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
Massey University PressOriginal price £26.99Current price £23.99| /Continually in print since 1951, when it was established by leading poet Louis Johnson, this annual collection of new poetry, reviews and essays is...
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Prophecy, Populism, Propaganda in the 'Octavia'
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£10.99| /Prophecy, Populism, Propaganda in the 'Octavia'
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Robert Service
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£33.99| /One hundred years ago, a shy bank clerk sent a collection of his poems south from the Yukon to be privately published and shared with a small group...
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Salman Rushdie
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£35.99| /Frank analyses five of Rushdie's novels, Grimes, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses and The Ground Beneath Her Feet. Claiming an intell...
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Scholia metrica anonyma in Euripidis Hecubam, Orestem, Phoenissas
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£5.99| /Edited with prolegomena, critical apparatus, appendix and index.
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Second Degree Tampering
Sybylla Press (AUS)£10.95| /This book explores the (dis)connections between writing and women's experience. Key western narratives of women's identity are questioned, as are t...
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Spaces in Between
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This is a retrospective selection of poems by Governor General's Award-winning poet Stephen Scobie. Arranged in chronological order from 1965 right...
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Summer Was a Fast Train Without Terminals
Spinifex Press£12.95| /To love in a language prised from my wishbone. To sing a landscape where village girls burst the moon with giggles. To dance through the fattest ey...
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Tartuffe and the Misanthrope
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...
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Tartuffe and the Misanthrope
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a...
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The Comedies of Machiavelli
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy mor...
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The Golden Ass
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£39.99| /Relihan uses alliteration and assonance, rhythm and rhyme, the occasional archaism, the rare neologism, and devices of punctuation and typography, ...
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The Jew of Malta
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£30.99| /This edition answers the needs of both beginning and advanced students: It features the text of Marlowe's play with modern spelling and punctuation...
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This Way the Road
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£13.99| /Inspired by working at the Royal Ontario Museum, gifted poet Nina Berkhout spins a catastrophic yet enduring tale of love set amidst the chaos of a...
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Two Lips Went Shopping
Spinifex Press£11.95| /A new poetry collection by Canberra poet, Lizz Murphy. Share in Lizz Murphy's experiences on the shop floor, her frustrations with today's supermar...
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Vancouver Walking
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£11.99| /Journey along Vancouver's colourful city streets, past its landmarks, through the sounds and smells of Chinatown. Ramble along the seawall on Engli...
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Walden Two
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£17.99| /A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1...
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Walden Two
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£39.99| /A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1...
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War & Literature
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£33.99| /This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since...
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We Are Not Avatars
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /Renowned poet and editor John Barton collects his most provocative essays, public lectures, and reviews produced over the past twenty-five years. B...
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Were the Bees
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£11.99| /This is an innovative collection of poetry from a fresh Canadian voice. Andy Weaver explores the boundaries of the poetic form to create a playful ...
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Wild Strawberries
Presa Press (US)£15.99| /"Wild Strawberries" collects fifty-nine new poems previously published in three dozen plus literary journals such as Backwards City Review, The Cal...
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Wire Dancing
Spinifex Press£11.95| /Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and priv...
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Works of Peter Handke
Ariadne Press (US)£39.99| /Since his now famous appearance on the literary stage in 1968 novelist, playwright and poet Peter Handke has remained on the forefront of the liter...
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Writing Home
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£28.99| /When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war mig...
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Writing Within / Without / About Sri Lanka
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£28.99| /Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issu...
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