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  • Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction
    A J Dalton / Hazel Butler
    WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 2018 - NON-FICTION.2 of the papers have been nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017: Kim Lakin-Smith and Juliet McKenna.JULIET MCKENNA'S PAPER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NON-FICTION 2018!“Gender identity and sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction” is the first Call for Papers of Ac...
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    22,39 €

  • Soyinka’s Language
    Obioma Ofoego
    This book explores in depth the uses of language in Wole Soyinka’s plays, poetry and prose. The author approaches Soyinka’s works through meticulous close readings, giving the writer his due by capturing the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of his language.   ...
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    50,30 €

  • The Lonely House
    Paul Brody
    During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but ...
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    6,16 €

  • Attah, v’HaLevy, v’HaGeir
    Menashe R. Frank
    Attah, v’HaLevy, v’HaGeir is an eclectic compilation of divrei Torah based on the parashat hashavuah. Over an eighteen year period, on a weekly basis, Menashe Frank recorded at least one interesting, provocative or inspirational d’var Torah that he heard or read.  Contributors range from close personal friends to the greatest Torah scholars in history.  His handwritten notes ev...
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    26,66 €

  • Twentieth Century Korean Literature
    Chiangje U / Kwangho Yi / Nam-ho Yi
    This short volume offers essential information and a basic framework for understanding twentieth-century Korean literature. Growing out of a continuous tradition of over 2,000 years, twentieth-century Korean literature, termed “modern Korean Literature” by Korean scholars, has been shaped by profound social and political transformations on the peninsula. Those decades of great ...
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    23,43 €

  • Dubliners
    James Joyce
    Unabridged value reproduction of Dubliners by James Joyce is the 1914 classic written during the heyday of Irish nationalism. Every vignette stands alone, yet every vignette is part of the same tapestry, producing both a personal and profound effect for the reader.Shocking for his time because of its realism, today Dubliners is a portal back to the gritty reality of the Irish e...
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    17,61 €

  • Canterbury Tales
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    The Canterbury Tales was Chaucer’s magnum opus. He uses the tales and the descriptions of the characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church. Structurally, the collection resembles The Decameron, which Chaucer may have come across during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. The tales are told as part ...
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    35,78 €

  • Beat Transnationalism
    John Tytell
    Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca.In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting – via letters from that period...
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    16,04 €

  • HEAVENLY LOVE
    Edmund Spenser
    EDMUND SPENSER: HEAVENLY LOVE: SELECTED POEMSA selection of the great poems by Edmund Spenser. Edmund Spenser created a drama of England in his poetry. The ’dream’ occurs throughout his poetry, but finds its most concentrated expression in The Faerie Queene, with its epic treatment of the ’dream of Albion’, a myth-making vision of Blighty as the expression of Elizabeth I’s ma...
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    12,04 €

  • PARADISE OF GOLDEN LIGHTS
    PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
    PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: PARADISE OF GOLDEN LIGHTS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the odes, hymns and paeans of England’s breathless, angelic, anarchic poet. Famous poems, such as ’Ode to the West Wind’ and ’The Cloud’, are set beside extracts from Prometheus Unbound and Epipsychidion. New poems and new illustrations have been added to this edition. Percy Shelley is one of the...
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    12,19 €

  • Gawain and the Four Daughters of God
    Anne Hamilton
    A mathematical ’aventure’, exploring an interlocked, layered design within the four poems of Cotton Nero A.x. Key structural elements are identified as mathematical metaphors for theological concepts; e.g. 490 as ’seventy times seven’ alludes to forgiveness or 101 as a ’Pythagorean Comma’ alludes to the Music of the Spheres. The author concludes from an analysis of the numeric...
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    39,53 €

  • Thierry and Theodoret
    Domenico Lovascio
    Enthusiastically praised by Charles Lamb and A. C. Swinburne but unjustly neglected since the early twentieth century, Thierry and Theodoret dramatizes events from medieval French history. With its disenchanted depiction of royalty, its eerie instability in terms of genre, and its black comic overtones, Thierry and Theodoret strikes as a distinctive specimen of tragic drama in ...
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    157,39 €

  • Picturing Shakespeare
    Jean-Louis CLARET
    This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare’s texts - obviously destined for stage performances - to generate mental images and mental colours. Jean-Louis Claret, both a Shakespeare professor at Aix-Marseille University and an illustrator, proposes to shed light on the process that leads from the written text to visual illustration. ...
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    51,81 €

  • Ghalib ki takhliqiat aur nayi baazyaaft
    Nizam Siddiqui
    In the post-modern context of the 21st century, two memorable critical books have come out under the influence of 'Ghalib Shanasi' by Professor Gopichand Narang and Abdur Rahman Bijnouri. These two books have opened a completely new creative idea and meaning-making door in the golden series of Ghalib’s poetic art, which clarifies new ways of knowing Ghalib’s thought and poetry....
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    26,00 €

  • Urdu Novel ka Irtiqaa
    Dr. Syed Mohd Yahya Saba
    Urdu literature has been going through ups and downs in every era. But in every era poets and writers have paved new ways for it. Poets and writers with their tireless efforts adorned Urdu literature with different genres. The genre of novel in Urdu literature is also the result of these efforts. In this book, a research review of the evolutionary stages of this genre of Urdu l...
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    19,15 €

  • Ayyub Khawar - Funn aur Shakhsiat
    Aijaz Ubaid
    The way that Ayyub Khawar expresses himself is very unique. The tone of a poet’s speech is what sets them apart from one another. Everybody finds their own juice in the complex blend of modernity and classicism found in Ayyub Khawar’s poetry. In addition, Ayyub Khawar is a very skilled producer and director of television plays, with a long list of well-known dramas and serials ...
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    20,11 €

  • Intikhab Alam - Funn aur Shakhsiat
    Idara Chaharsu
    Writers and artists of enlightened nations are righteous and philanthropic. One of them is the Chinese writer and poet Zhang Sui Xuan (Urdu name: Intikhab Alam) whose poetry has its own unique mood. In his poetry, there is grief of a lover, grief of the universe, personal confusion and collective problems, but the color of his poetry does not create an atmosphere of melancholy....
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    20,10 €

  • Muneebur Rahman - Funn aur Shakhsiat
    Idara Chaharsu
    Muneebur Rahman has a well-known position in the academic and literary world. His special field of academic research has been modern Persian poetry. He has played an important role in exposing Urdu poetry to new trends. His thought covers internal and external topics, in which different qualities of language and expression are found. Research articles and criticism on his publi...
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    19,78 €

  • Ghulam Murtaza Rahi - Funn aur Shakhsiat
    Idara Chaharsu
    Ghulam Murtaza Rahi’s poetry reflects his tastes in literature as well as his sentiments, emotions, and creative expression. He is a natural ghazal poet. In his ghazals, Rahi also does a fantastic job of striking a balance between classical skill and modern sensibility. The creative and conscientious nature of his ghazals stems from today’s social existence. Research pieces and...
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    20,07 €

  • Ratan Singh - Funn aur Shakhsiat
    Idara Chaharsu
    Renowned Urdu fiction author Ratan Singh hails from Punjab, the same region that gave birth to well-known authors of fiction like Bedi, Krishan Chander, Balwant Singh, Ashk, and Joginder Paul. Similar to these renown fiction writers, Ratan Singh has conveyed to his readers the anguish of migration with the same compassion and knowledge that he experienced firsthand. Research ar...
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    20,10 €

  • Baqar Naqvi - Funn aur Shakhsiat
    Idara Chaharsu
    Baqir Naqvi is a well-known poet, author, and translator of international recognition. Baqir is regarded as having a distinct place in Urdu writing, particularly under fiction and scientific subjects, in addition to being a poet with his own style of ghazals and poems. He has assembled a thorough compilation in three volumes that include writings by Nobel laureates as well as i...
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    19,81 €

  • The Drama of Love and Death - A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration
    Edward Carpenter
    Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 - 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early activist for rights for homosexuals. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, and a friend of Walt Whitman.As a philosopher he was particularly known for his publication of Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure in which he proposes that civilisa...
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    14,37 €

  • Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    With seething rage Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most influential works. Corruption and treachery bring this story to life as the king’s ghost demands that his son get revenge on his uncle Claudius for pouring poison in his ear. With his mother married to Claudius the new king Hamlet swears his friends to secrecy as they set out to get revenge. William Shakespeare is widely re...
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    12,60 €

  • The Invisible Man
    Herbert George Wells
    On a bitter evening in the depths of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives to the remote English village of Iping, his face swaddled in bandages.The Invisible Man tells the tale of Griffin, a scientist who has found a way to make himself invisible. To his anger and dismay, however, the experiment appears irreversible. Freed from the constraints of the law and rejected by a soci...
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    12,50 €

  • Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid
    José A. Pérez Díez
    A fully annotated critical edition of John Fletcher and Philip Massinger’s ground-breaking comedy Love’s Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615), a fascinating exploration of the journey of two transgender characters in an adverse heteronormative society. This Revels Plays edition offers a modernised text and a full critical commentary. ...
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    35,53 €

  • Bestsellers and masterpieces
    Bestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon offers a comparative critique of the development of the ’modern canon’ of medieval literature across European and Middle Eastern medieval studies. ...
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    44,13 €

  • Hyde Park
    Eugene Giddens
    Hyde Park is a striking Caroline example of London city comedy. This critical edition unpicks its valuable insights into the shifting nature of the genre and early modern conceptions of London and courtship. ...
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    35,95 €

  • Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition
    The first collection devoted solely to early medieval riddles, Riddles at work showcases recent research in this popular, new field. It brings together studies of Old English and Latin riddles, authors at various stages of their careers and a range of approaches, aiming to map out both the state of the field now and its future directions. ...
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    43,87 €

  • Graveyard Gothic
    This collection of essays considers the significance of graveyards in Gothic literature, film, television and video games. The chapters incorporate discussion of Gothic texts from around the world, offering a compelling new account of the graveyard’s importance as a key location for Gothic art and culture. ...
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    157,32 €

  • Tercera Guerra Mundial (2ª edición)
    Steve Hudson
    Los actuales conflictos y tensiones diplomáticas entre las grandes potencias mundiales empujan a la humanidad hacia una nueva guerra global. A estos conflictos y tensiones cabe añadir los ambiciosos intereses de las tres potencias mundiales más importantes: China, de la mano de Rusia, cabalga inexorable hacia el trono de primera potencia mundial ante el progresivo desgaste de E...
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    17,00 €


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