Literary Studies: General
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Mixed Bag
Sagging Shorts£13.99| /Of all of Raymond Smullyan's many books, this perhaps best captures the timeless delight of the casual conversation of this American polymath. A se...
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Modern Austrian Prose
Ariadne Press (US)£39.99| /The sixteen articles compiled here are devoted to individual prose works published after 1970 that reflect the "Austrian tradition" within the fiel...
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More One-Act Plays: Acting for Students
Meriwether Publishing (US)£20.99| /The success of One-Act Plays for Acting Students prompted this follow-up book of twenty-eight contemporary short dramas by nationally known playwri...
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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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Myths of Love
Linden Publishing£17.99| /Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America';s favorite sex therapist, analyzes ancient myth and its relevance to 21st century relationships in her new book Myths...
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Narrating the Other
Monash University Publishing£25.99| /The first extensive study of Japan in Australian literary consciousness, this is a broad chronological exploration of Australian writers representa...
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Narrative Ambiguität
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£80.99| /This book studies the transformations of the figure of Faust found in the Faust books dating from the 16th to the early 18th century, which laid th...
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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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Neo-Latin Contexts in Croatia and Tyrol
Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Co.KG£80.99| /Research during the last decades has demonstrated the critical importance of Neo-Latin literature for the formation of cultural identities on both ...
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New Intersections
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£18.99| /These essays deliver innovative and valuable aspects for a new reading of parts of late 19th century Latin American cultural critique, but above al...
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New Studies of the Autograph Manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Neuva coronica y buen gobierno
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /In 2001 the Royal Library in Copenhagen launched a digital facsimile on the Internet of the unique manuscript Nuevà corónica from 1616 by the ethni...
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Nikephoros
Weidmann£93.99| /In June 2014, to mark the appearance of volume 25 of the journal NIKEPHOROS, a conference was held in Graz on the theme of sport in antiquity. It d...
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Noctes Atticae
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£38.99| /Noctes Atticae - Articles on Greco--Roman Antiquity & its Nachleben
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Novelness of Bakhtin
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /During the last 30 years, the Russian thinker M M Bakhtin has achieved great international recognition for his work with -- among other subjects --...
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Odes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /Horace's Odes enjoys a long tradition of translation into English, most famously in versions that seek to replicate the quantitative rhythms of the...
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Odes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£57.99| /Horace's Odes enjoys a long tradition of translation into English, most famously in versions that seek to replicate the quantitative rhythms of the...
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Odysseus at Troy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£19.99| /This book contains translations of three plays:Ajax, Hecuba, and Trojan Women. They are all centered around the mythological theme of the Greek war...
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Oedipus Tyrannus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators...
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Oedipus Tyrannus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£25.99| /Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators...
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Oidipous at Colonus
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Oedipus who is banished from Thebes and confronts an array of obstacles that stand between ...
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Okonomien des Begehrens, Okonomien des Erzahlens
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£57.99| /In the short quivering narratives of the late Middle Ages, called mars, love and sexuality are "negotiated" in a very literal sense: love and sexua...
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Old Sumerian & Old Akkadian Texts in Philadelphia II
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This book contains the 'Akkadian Texts' -- i.e. texts written in the Akkadian Language or script ductus -- the Enlilemaba Texts and the Onion Archi...
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On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydi...
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On Great Writing (On the Sublime)
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£25.99| /Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydi...
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Oracular Tales in Pausanias
University Press of Southern Denmark (DK)£38.75| /Pausanias' Description of Greece is the only or at least the most important source to more than 60 percent of the oracular tales. This makes the wo...
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Oral Art Forms & their Passage into Writing
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£42.99| /What happens when oral texts are removed from their original medium and written down? This collection examines the complex interrelationship betwee...
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Oresteia
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed is modern without betraying the grandeur and complexity--particularly the image...
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Ormond; or, the Secret Witness
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£23.99| /As it tells the story of Constantia Dudley, from her family's financial collapse to her encounters with a series of cosmopolitan revolutionaries an...
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Ormond; or, the Secret Witness
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£57.99| /As it tells the story of Constantia Dudley, from her family's financial collapse to her encounters with a series of cosmopolitan revolutionaries an...
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Outline of Russian Literature
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£54.99| /Russian literature begins with the nineteenth century, that is to say with the reign of Alexander I. It was then that the literary fruits on which ...
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Pals leizla
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£10.00| /Edition, with parallel text translation, of the Old Norse account of the Vision of St Paul and its Latin analogue.
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Paradiso
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£57.99| /Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse tran...
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Paradiso
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£20.99| /Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse tran...
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Paris Spleen, and La Fanfarlo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Paris Spleen , a diverse collection of fifty prose poems, is provided here in a clear, engaging, and accurate translation that conveys the lyricism...
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Paris Spleen, and La Fanfarlo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /Paris Spleen , a diverse collection of fifty prose poems, is provided here in a clear, engaging, and accurate translation that conveys the lyricism...
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Parmenides
Focus Publishing (US)£12.99| /This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, ...
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Parthenope
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This collection of studies is a sequel to Hägg's popular survey, 'The Novel of Antiquity' (1983), and a companion volume to his recent 'The Virgin ...
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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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Petese Stories II
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£60.99| /The Carlsberg Papyri 6 (CNI 29) contains the edition of a new manuscript with Petese Stories from the Tebtunis temple library, dating to the period...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£10.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoctetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£30.99| /First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...
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Philoktetes
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£12.99| /This is an English translation of Sophocles' tragedy of Philoctetes, an archer who had been abandoned on Lemnos by the rest of the Greek fleet whil...
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Plato: Complete Works
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£63.99| /Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edi...
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...
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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£39.99| /This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...
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Plotting with Eros
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£47.99| /The intricate relationship between the erotic and the literary is a recurring theme in Western literature, with a starting-point in Plato's dialogu...
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Poems and Fragments
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£12.99| /Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...
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