Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy. Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Cl...
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
paperback. Opens the beauty and power of Arabic poetic masterpieces to Western readers. Num Pages: 408 pages, 42 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSC; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253215369
- ISBN
- 9780253215369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.47
€ 33.99
€ 30.47
Paperback. Three of the most renowned praise poems to the Prophet, the mantle odes span the arc of Islamic history from Muhammad's lifetime, to the medieval Mamluk period, to the modern colonial era. This book not only demonstrates the relevance of these poems to contemporary scholarship but also reveals their power and beauty to the modern reader. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSB; DSC; HRHC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 330
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222060
- ISBN
- 9780253222060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.59
€ 32.99
€ 29.59
Paperback. Series: Myth and Poetics. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801480461
- ISBN
- 9780801480461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.41
€ 42.99
€ 38.41
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643991
- ISBN
- 9780691643991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.33
€ 128.33
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691641454
- ISBN
- 9780691641454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.83
€ 183.83
Hardcover. Does reading novels cultivate our sympathetic imagination and real-world good citizenship? This book brings together resources and challenges for the literary study of empathy and the psychological study of fiction reading. It also engages with neuroscience and contemporary psychological research on empathy. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 541.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195175769
- ISBN
- 9780195175769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.25
€ 91.25
Hardcover. Argues that the sublime is important in understanding the late 19th-century shift from romanticism to modernism. The author studies the work of three French authors conventionally considered pivotal figures in the trajectory from romanticism to modernism: Hugo, Baudelaire and Lautreamont. Num Pages: 248 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5563 x 3633 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780804717861
- ISBN
- 9780804717861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.26
€ 86.26
Hardback. This text provides a literary and/or cultural context for each of Wolff's novels for young people, discusses the characters in terms of the plot and style, analyzes particularly literary elements as appropriate, and summarizes critical response. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810848580
- ISBN
- 9780810848580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.49
€ 105.49
Paperback. A tightly focused study of the ubiquity of Indian objects in Victorian novels Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472051342
- ISBN
- 9780472051342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.66
€ 31.99
€ 28.66
A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary Hi...
Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Ed.)
Hardback. Reframing ongoing debates within literary studies in dynamic new ways, A Sea of Languages will become a critical resource and reference point for a new generation of scholars and students on the intersection of Arabic and European literature. Editor(s): Akbari, Suzanne Conklin; Mallette, Karla. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 672.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 328
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 3rd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802098689
- ISBN
- 9780802098689
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.62
€ 76.62
Paperback. Analyzes the ways in which literature and philosophy draw boundaries around identity. This book features the works of Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, and Ana Castillo that enable us to examine how identities shift and intersect with others through processes of 'incarnation'. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB; JFFG; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823230853
- ISBN
- 9780823230853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.25
€ 51.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Theatre Communications Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781559365000
- ISBN
- 9781559365000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.70
€ 18.99
€ 17.70
Paperback. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748634552
- ISBN
- 9780748634552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.62
€ 33.99
€ 30.62
hardcover. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 1356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 736
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138177192
- ISBN
- 9781138177192
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 192.71
€ 192.71
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780389208822
- ISBN
- 9780389208822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.98
€ 120.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837624168
- ISBN
- 9783837624168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.50
€ 52.99
€ 37.50
Hardback. Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this monograph traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. Series: Protest, Culture and Society. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382. Transnational Memories of Protest and Dissent. Series: Protest, Culture and Society. 180 pages. Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this monograph traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 15. Weight: 382.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457547
- ISBN
- 9780857457547
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.58
€ 163.58
Hardcover. This text examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epics figurative economy. Num Pages: 496 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 38. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719179
- ISBN
- 9780804719179
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.31
€ 96.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, 4 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; HDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 225 x 33. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837628104
- ISBN
- 9783837628104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.16€ 51.25
€ 66.16
€ 51.25
Hardback. W.H. Auden and Hannah Arendt belonged to a generation that experienced the catastrophic events of the mid-20th century, and they both sought to respond to the enormity of the novel phenomena they witnessed. "Regions of Sorrow" explores the remarkable affinity between their works. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 320 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC; DSK; HBJD; HBTZ1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745109
- ISBN
- 9780804745109
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.20
€ 170.20