Literature: History & Criticism
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Through Random Doors We Wandered
Odense University Press (DK)£19.50| /This book brings together a group of women interested in, even consumed by, the region they inhabit physically or mentally. They know that the Sout...
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Thunder Rumbling at My Heels
Ariadne Press (US)£30.99| /These essays deal with Ingeborg Bachmann, the most important and most widely read Austrian woman writer of the twentieth century. Her work spans th...
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Time of Unrememberable Being
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£32.99| /This study views the early work of William Wordsworth as partaking in a general Western European cultural movement in which the realm of the numino...
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Time, History, and Philosophy in the Works of Wilson Harris
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£33.99| /Gianluca Delfino's study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris's works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author...
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Timon of Athens
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£11.99| /George Lyman Kittredge's perceptive editions have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging acco...
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Too Far for Comfort
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£28.99| /A good biography is a well-staged illusion. It creates - on paper - a vivid, rounded, and immediate sense of lived life. In contrast to purely fict...
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Totalitarismus und Literatur
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£47.99| /This volume examines the genesis and effects of totalitarian ways of thinking in the German literature of the time and asks about the conditions un...
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Tragic Workings in Euripides' Drama
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£64.99| /Tragic Workings in Euripides Drama offers a substantially new theory and method for understanding Attic tragedy. Starting from anthropological ins...
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Treasures from the Misty Mountains
Collector's Guide Publishing (CA)£34.99| /It has been very difficult over the years for collectors to know just what has been produced from the works of Tolkien, and where it can be purchas...
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Turkisch-deutscher Kulturkontakt und Kulturtransfer
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /Much research has been and is being done on Turkish-German relations. However, the individual disciplines rarely meet to discuss their results for ...
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Turkish-German Studies
V & R Unipress GmbH£38.99| /This volume presents the breadth and scope of Turkish-German studies in the United States. The various chapters deal with the influence of Jewish i...
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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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Two Treatises -- Two Streams
Ibex Publishers (US)£100.00| /This book presents two important Persian-language works on music theory from the post-scholastic era (16th 18th centuries). They are Resalah-e Karr...
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Ugly Ducklings?
Odense University Press (DK)£28.00| /This is a study of the major English translations of Hans Christian Andersen's Tales and Stories, and of the people who made them. The basic assump...
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Ultra Soundings
Interactive Press£20.00| /Like travellers from fabled lands, voices come telling tales, sometimes shocking, sometimes familiar, sometimes magnetic, like echoes, like ultra s...
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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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Verge 2011
Monash University Publishing£16.99| /"Verge" is Monash University's annual anthology of Creative Writing. The 2010 volume was the sixth in the series. Verge showcases the best creative...
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Verge 2012
Monash University Publishing£11.99| /"Verge", the short fiction anthology of Monash University, was first published in 2005, creating a space for emerging writers of Monash to showcase...
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Verge 2014
Monash University Publishing£16.99| /"Verge" is Monash University's annual anthology of creative writing; this tenth edition features the best of Monash University's creative writers a...
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Verge 2020
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Navigating obsessions, commemorating loved ones, cooking a meal, drinking with friends, picking at our bodies, reckoning with our choices, finding ...
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Verge 2021
Monash University Publishing£13.99| /The death of a bird haunts the relationship between two siblings. A lonely narrator waits for a bus that never comes. A boy makes soup with his gra...
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Vergessen, was Eltern sind
V & R Unipress GmbH£66.99| /This study takes a critical look at the phenomenon of so-called father literature. Many literary scholars read "Criticism of the father as the symb...
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Verlorene Gleichnisse
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£21.99| /The Israeli Germanist and author Jakob Hessing dedicates his book to the transitions from sacred to secular text in modern times. The focus is on t...
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Veronica Brady
ATF Press£18.99| /Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was a nun, academic and activist. Her intellectual life, rmly rooted in Australian culture, was focussed on stripping th...
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Veronica Brady
ATF Press£25.99| /Veronica Brady (1929-2015) was a nun, academic and activist. Her intellectual life, rmly rooted in Australian culture, was focussed on stripping th...
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Verschrankungen
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£21.99| /With this translation of the essay Harpaja lezorech negia ("Let go to touch") published in Hebrew in 2005, for which he wrote the "portraits" anew,...
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Verstellung und Betrug im Mittelalter und in der mittelalterlichen Literatur
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /One of the well-known topoi of medieval literature is that the inside and outside of the protagonists show a high degree of congruence. This congru...
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Vintage Reading -- From Plato to Bradbury
Bancroft (US)£17.99| /"Whether a beginner or a seasoned veteran, this book appeals..." -- The Word, Summer 2001. This book brings the Great Books out from behind the hig...
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Vitality of the Arthurian Legend
Odense University Press (DK)£17.10| /Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Od...
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Voces del Plata
Iberoamericana/Vervuert£17.99| /Fernando Gualtieri, Juan Palazzo, Gustavo Riccio, Roberto Mariani y José Portogalo son losnombres de cinco autores ítalo-argentinos olvidados de un...
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Voices, Places
Paul Dry Books (US)£20.99| /How are voices like places? They move through us as we move through them. Celebrated poet David Mason explores surprising connections in geography ...
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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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Walt Whitman & the Persian Poets
Ibex Publishers (US)£100.00| /Where did Walt Whitman get his religious ideas? This book follows in detail the similarities of the religious beliefs of the American writer/humani...
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Walter Moers' Zamonien-Romane
V & R Unipress GmbH£42.99| /In 2009 a Bernese zoologist discovered a new species of spider in the Alps, which he named "Zamonian dwarf spider". The literary fantasy work Walte...
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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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We Never Sleep
Ariadne Press (US)£22.99| /In this masterfully constructed docu-novel Kathrin Röggla ventures into the dysfunctional, self-contained and self-destructive universe of a New Ec...
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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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When the bad bleeds
V & R Unipress GmbH£71.99| /The study "When the bad bleeds" examines the function of manticism in the English revenge tragedy of the Renaissance. Mantic elements are supernatu...
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Where the Truth Lies
Newest Press (CA)£19.99| /The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully". This book collects forty years of essays and speech...
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Who Needs Books?
University of Alberta Press (CA)£9.99| /"We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there's one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it." Wh...
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Who Shaped Science Fiction?
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£29.99| /This book combines the reading public's interest in science fiction with the always popular biography genre. The book contains one hundred concise ...
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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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Will not forget both laughter and tears
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Geishas and samurai, manga and animé come to mind when Japan enters the conversation. While these traditional and modern images about the island na...
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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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Witness
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£50.00| /This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...
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