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Hardback. Crossing Central Europe is a pioneering volume that focuses on the complex networks of transcultural interrelations in Central Europe from 1900 to 2000. Editor(s): Smith-Prei, Carrie. Series: German & European Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ACG; AS; DSB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442649149
ISBN
9781442649149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.60

Hardback. This volume is an analysis of the development of female heroic subjectivity in relation to an essentially male quest for individuation, the Romantic myth of Faust. It examines the female Faust figure in the realist novels of Stendhal, Gauthier, Keller, James and Morgner. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. . An excellent, clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press University Park
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KRS0018887
ISBN
9780271007595
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 5.49

Paperback. Shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. This work investigates three problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691094922
ISBN
9780691094922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.29
€ 42.00

Paperback. Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. Num Pages: 160 pages, 5 bw illus. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 7. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472569066
ISBN
9781472569066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.92

Paperback. This study by Helene Monsacre shows how Western ideals of inexpressive manhood run contrary to the poetic vision of Achilles and his warrior companions presented in the Homeric epics. Pursuing the paradox of the tearful fighter, Monsacre examines the interactions between men and women in the Homeric poems. Translator(s): Snead, Nicholas J. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 22 x 15. .
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674975682
ISBN
9780674975682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.50

paperback. "Originally published in French as aEcritures en transhumance entre Maghreb et Afrique subsaharienne: Littaerature, oralitae, arts visuels, 2007 aEditions l'Harmattan"--T.p. verso. Translator(s): de Jager, Marjolijn. Num Pages: black & white halftones, colour illustrations, maps, figures, colour plates. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780813932101
ISBN
9780813932101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.58

Paperback. "Originally published in French as aEcritures en transhumance entre Maghreb et Afrique subsaharienne: Littaerature, oralitae, arts visuels, 2007 aEditions l'Harmattan"--T.p. verso. Translator(s): de Jager, Marjolijn. Num Pages: 255 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813932095
ISBN
9780813932095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 86.18

Paperback. Neuter summarizes H#le=ene Cixous's early concerns - self, language, meaning, relations, #criture feminine - by laying bare metaphors, incorporating existing material, and developing text by association, fragmentation, and play on signifiers. Translator(s): Birden, Lorene M. Num Pages: 143 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 213.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
143
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482133
ISBN
9781611482133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 106.96

hardcover. Helene Cixous has dreamed for years of "The Book-I-Don't-Write," but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781509500543
ISBN
9781509500543
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.61

Paperback. A collection of six essays, translated from the French, in which Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexes - viewed as a paradigm for all difference, the organizing principle behind identity and meaning - manifest and write themselves in texts. Translator(s): Liddle, Ann; Sellers, Susan; Cornell, Sarah E. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674144378
ISBN
9780674144378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.10

Hardback. Death Shall Be Dethroned is the shadow book of Los, a Chapter, Helene Cixous tells us. It came along after Los, but it was always there "hidden" in her notebooks, in the Beethoven notebook, say, the one Jacques Derrida gave her. But when it tapped at the window, she ignored it until the day she had to let it in. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781509500642
ISBN
9781509500642
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.61

Paperback. Translator(s): MacGillivray, Catherine A.F. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC; DSK; FA; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816621170
ISBN
9780816621170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.88

Paperback. This book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous is an account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia; Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" muses on a host of motifs, including his varied responses to "Savoir." Illustrator(s): Pignon-Ernest, Ernest. Translator(s): Bennington, Geoffrey. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 120 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5741 x 5411 x 9. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804737951
ISBN
9780804737951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. Death Shall Be Dethroned is the shadow book of Los, a Chapter, Helene Cixous tells us. It came along after Los, but it was always thereNhidden in her notebooks, in the Beethoven notebook, say, the one Jacques Derrida gave her. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138. .
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781509500659
ISBN
9781509500659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.70

Paperback. Twists and Turns is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "with love's force one hates. " And yet, "everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745663289
ISBN
9780745663289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.04

Hardcover. Twists and Turns is a tale on the scale of Greek myth, about the inescapable entanglements of family relationships, that can lead one, in hyperbolic mode, to envision murder and suicide, for, as Cixous writes, "with love's force one hates. " And yet, "everything twists and turns": this is a tale with profoundly touching reversals. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745663272
ISBN
9780745663272
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.59

Paperback. Isn t it particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work? Frederic-Yves Jeannet asks Helene Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. [I]t s only in writing, on paper, that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of me for me. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745653877
ISBN
9780745653877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.04

Hardback. Isn t it particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work? Frederic-Yves Jeannet asks Helene Cixous in this fascinating book of interviews. [I]t s only in writing, on paper, that I reach the most unknown, the strangest, the most advanced part of me for me. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745653860
ISBN
9780745653860
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.65

Paperback. In So Close , the internationally renowned writer Helene Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt at home and, from a young age, knew she must leave. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644363
ISBN
9780745644363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.98

Hardback. In So Close , the internationally renowned writer Helene Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt at home and, from a young age, knew she must leave. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644356
ISBN
9780745644356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.65

Paperback. Zero's Neighbour is Helene Cixous's tribute to the minimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness in his writing like nobody else: Samuel Beckett. Translator(s): Milesi, Laurent. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 188 x 123 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
92
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644165
ISBN
9780745644165
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.78

Hardback. Zero's Neighbour is Helene Cixous's tribute to theminimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness inhis writing like nobody else: Samuel Beckett. Translator(s): Milesi, Laurent. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 196 x 124 x 14. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
92
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644158
ISBN
9780745644158
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.22

Hardback. A major new book by one of the leading feminist writers in France today. Cixous explores the themes of love, memory, language and loss. This is a work of literary fiction and at the same time a philosophical work: like Sartre, Camus and other great writers, Cixous blends together fiction and philosophy. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy; Chevalier, Marion Frances. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745639888
ISBN
9780745639888
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.32

Paperback. Editor(s): Segarra, Marta. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231145312
ISBN
9780231145312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

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