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Isolated Self
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /Often overlooked by Kierkegaard scholars, On the Concept of Irony -- Kierkegaard's dissertation -- is in fact a foundational text that established ...
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Israel for Perplexed Beginners
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£17.99| /In his third book of the Israel for Beginners series, the author again uses his personal experience to highlight the challenges of non-natives (abo...
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Italian Music in Dakota
V & R Unipress GmbH£38.99| /The intersection between literature and music is a major feature in Anglo-American cultural history. The present volume analyzes the transatlantic ...
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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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Jane Austen & Company
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /Here we come to know Jane Austen by the company she keeps: her predecessors Fielding, Sterne, Lennox, and Burney, her contemporary Scott, and her s...
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Kanon und Diskurs
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£28.99| /The rise of literary history is closely associated with the rise of the modern national states, an "imaginary" parallel that catastrophically peake...
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Kein Zufall
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£80.99| /Contingency - it is repeatedly stated - was only "discovered" in the early modern period. Before that, all incidents, no matter how inexplicable, w...
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King Oidipous
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' famous tragedy of Oedipus and the fate he so much tries to avoid. Focus Classical Library provides clo...
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Kleist: Selected Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von...
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Kleist: Selected Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£47.99| /Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von...
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Konzepte der 'exotischen' Tierwelt im Mittelalter
V & R Unipress GmbH£90.99| /How strange the description of an 'exotic' animal can be in a medieval text and which properties or proprietates are here especially stressed, depe...
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Krieg und Literatur/War and Literature Vol. XIV, 2008
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /Eyewitness accounts of September 11, 2001 and the wars of the 17th century span the scope of the contributions in this volume. An analysis of the m...
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La réception de la littérature classique au moyen âge
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£46.99| /A collection of articles dealing with the reception of classical texts in the Middle Ages. The book was published in celebration of Professor Birge...
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Le Morte Darthur: The Seventh and Eighth Tales
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£15.99| /P. J. C. Field, the world's preeminent Malory specialist, has wisely chosen to offer here Malory's seventh and eighth tales, recounting the decline...
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Le Morte Darthur: The Seventh and Eighth Tales
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£42.99| /P. J. C. Field, the world's preeminent Malory specialist, has wisely chosen to offer here Malory's seventh and eighth tales, recounting the decline...
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Le Muse di Archilocho
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£10.99| /Le Muse di Archilocho - Ricerche sullo stile archilocheo
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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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Leib Weihnachtskuchen & His Child
Ariadne Press (US)£19.99| /Karl Emil Franzos (1848-1904), the son of a doctor, a liberal Jew, was born in Czortkow (now Chortkiv) and grew up in Czernowitz (now Chernivsty); ...
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Literacy in Medieval & Early Modern Scandinavian Culture
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)£14.50| /Over recent decades the concept of literacy has been an important field of discussion in Medieval and Early Modern studies, and questions concernin...
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Literary Legends of the British Isles
Schiffer£27.99| /Journey into the best of British Isles literati in this comprehensive and concise review of 50 of the greatest writers and poets. Learn how these d...
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Literature Redeemed
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie£42.99| /In the post-Soviet period, discussions of “postmodernism” in Russian literature have proliferated. Based on close literary analysis of representati...
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Living Waters
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£40.00| /Living Waters - Scandinavian Oriental Studies. In Honour of Frede Løkkegaard
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Lysistrata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes' comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric meters and free verse for t...
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Lysistrata
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£29.99| /This rollicking new translation of Aristophanes' comic masterpiece is rendered in blank verse for dialogue and in lyric meters and free verse for t...
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Lysistrata
Focus Publishing (US)£11.99| /This English translation of Aristophanes' most popular comedy will appeal to the modern reader because of its lively and imaginative plot, memorabl...
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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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Manuscript Transmission of the Anthologia Latina
Weidmann£53.99| /This essay does not concern the manuscript transmission of the short series of poems (the so-called minor anthologiae) and of the single wandering...
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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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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Ariadne Press (US)£40.99| /This portrayal of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is based on published and unpublished sources. Like many women novelists of her time -- pa...
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Medea
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy with...
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Medea
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£28.99| /This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy with...
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Medea
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy Medea based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and her revenge against her husband Jason. Focus ...
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Medea, Hippolytus, Heracles, Bacchae
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£21.99| /This anthology includes four outstanding translations of Euripides' plays: Medea, Bacchae, Hippolytus, and Heracles. These translations remain clos...
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Medicine and Humor from the Writings of Hans Sachs and Hans Folz, Meistersinger
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£243.99| /Hans Sachs (1494-1576), while also a cobbler, was the most prolific German author of the 16th century. He was the immediate literary successor in p...
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Medieval Drama
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£61.99| /This reprint (with updated 'Suggestions for Further Reading') of the Houghton Mifflin edition makes David Bevington's classic anthology of medieval...
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Medieval Narratives Between History & Fiction
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£56.99| /The rise of literary fiction in medieval Europe has been a hotly debated topic for at least two decades. Important progress has been made, but diff...
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Memoirs of Victor Hugo
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£97.99| /Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 26 1802 -- 22 May 1885) is recognised as the most influential Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often ident...
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Memorable Deeds and Sayings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as...
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Memorable Deeds and Sayings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£47.99| /Popular in its day both as a sourcebook for writers and orators and as a guidebook for living a moral life, this remarkably rich document serves as...
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Message to Erin
DC Books (US)£14.99| /This anthology is indispensable to anyone desiring a fuller knowledge of the lives and sentiments of this founding Canadian community. The book inc...
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Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and ...
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Middle English Poetry in Modern Verse
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and ...
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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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