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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts have reformulated our understanding of ancient Chinese thought. They show that ancient Chinese philosophy was and is much richer and more complex than we ever imagined, and they chart the path from belief in powerful spirits and gods to the discovery of universal laws and order. Translator(s): Tadd, Misha. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBD; HPDF; HRKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546968
- ISBN
- 9781137546968
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.55
€ 116.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822316695
- ISBN
- 9780822316695
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Hardback. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801443695
- ISBN
- 9780801443695
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Paperback. Series Editor(s): Melikoglu, Koray. Series: Studies in English Literatures. Num Pages: 210 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783898219785
- ISBN
- 9783898219785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 23.22
€ 31.99
€ 23.22
Hardback. In this book Zeina G. Halabi examines the figure of the intellectual as profet national icon, and exile in contemporary Arabic literature and film. Staging a comparative dialogue with writers and critics such as Elias Khoury, Edward Said, Jurji Zaidan, and Mahmoud Darwish, Halabi focuses on new articulations of loss, displacement, and memory. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; HBJF1; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474421393
- ISBN
- 9781474421393
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.94€ 103.82
€ 106.94
€ 103.82
Hardcover. Joseph Conrad is not only one of the world's great writers of English literature, but was a writer who lived a particularly full and interesting life. This biography analyzes several aspects of Conrad's life and works: his problems with the English language; his borrowings from French writers; and his attitude toward socialism. Series: Studies in English & American Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 806 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1358. A Life. Series: Studies in English & American Literature & Culture. 806 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. Joseph Conrad is not only one of the world's great writers of English literature, but was a writer who lived a particularly full and interesting life. This biography analyzes several aspects of Conrad's life and works: his problems with the English language; his borrowings from French writers; and his attitude toward socialism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 33. Weight: 1290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571133472
- ISBN
- 9781571133472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Hardback. An historical and political reading of late-nineteenth-century British novels by Olive Schreiner, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. A. Henty, and Sarah Grand. Examines how these novels represent the emergence of a fantasy of the state as a heroic actor. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 411.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823241996
- ISBN
- 9780823241996
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
paperback. This is the first book to survey all of Klein's poetry, prose, and journalism, published and unpublished, and place it in the context of its times. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Canada
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802072344
- ISBN
- 9780802072344
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 39.95
€ 44.99
€ 39.95
Hardback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988900
- ISBN
- 9780295988900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.27
€ 128.27
Paperback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Editor(s): Zalloua, Zahi. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988917
- ISBN
- 9780295988917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.25
€ 39.25
Hardcover. This book demonstrates how the competitive context in which Athenian comic drama was performed shaped the poetry and plots of Aristophanes' plays. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 302
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521764070
- ISBN
- 9780521764070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Hardcover. Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 249 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ACND; DSB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219977
- ISBN
- 9780230219977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747571124
- ISBN
- 9780747571124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardback. InImages of Matter, a collection of essays first presented at the Eighth Citadel Conference on Literature, the contributors address the complex relationship between words and images. Editor(s): Bruce, Yvonne. Num Pages: 283 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611492668
- ISBN
- 9781611492668
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.99
€ 138.99
hardcover. This work analyzes Paz's political thought, arguing that it is rooted in two separate and often antagonistic traditions, Liberalism and Romanticism. This work also provides a discussion of the political culture and democratization of Mexico. Series: Culture and Politics Series. Num Pages: 170 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 170
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742511279
- ISBN
- 9780742511279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.75
€ 135.75
Hardback. Yves Bonnefoy is considered as foremost French poet of his generation. This title features both epigrammatic concision and narratives that meander with the poet's thought as he struggles to understand and express some of the undercurrents of human life. It also includes Bonnefoy childhood cityscapes and explores the tricks memory plays on us. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverley Bie. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857422279
- ISBN
- 9780857422279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.45
€ 21.99
€ 18.45
Paperback. This bilingual edition of the contemporary master's fifth work, Ce qui fut sans lumi, re, includes an extensive new interview with the poet in English translation. Translator(s): Naughton, John T. Num Pages: 192 pages, x, 180 p. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226064482
- ISBN
- 9780226064482
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Hardback. Translator(s): Rogers, Hoyt. Series: SB-The French List. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857424242
- ISBN
- 9780857424242
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.56
€ 17.99
€ 15.56
Paperback. A collection of eleven stories, a play and five poems. The authors featured were all influenced by "Akai Tori" (Red Bird), a Tokyo children's literary magazine and also wrote for adult audiences. The stories are striking in that they differ little in style and content from those written for adults. Num Pages: 188 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; 5AF; DQ; DSY; YQF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780765605566
- ISBN
- 9780765605566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.94
€ 57.94
Hardcover. Translated from Japanese, this study exposes English-language scholars to the complexities of the relationship between food, culture, the environment, and literature in Japan. Yuki explores the systems of value surrounding food as expressed in four popular Japanese female writers: Ishimure Michiko, Taguchi Randy, Morisaki Kazue, and Nashiki Kaho. Translator(s): Berman, Michael. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137497789
- ISBN
- 9781137497789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.34
€ 116.34