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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This book examines the issues of language, landscape, cultural memory, and social practice in early modern Japan through a fundamental reassessment of haikai. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; 3JD; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730990
- ISBN
- 9780804730990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Paperback. Presents a portrait of "The Tale of Genji's" reception and reproduction, taking into consideration a wide variety of genres from no plays to Genji paintings to the modern novel. This volume explores the popularization of the Genji, considering parody, pastiche, and re-creation in various popular and mass media. Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo. Num Pages: 416 pages, 80 illus. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 592. Media, Gender, and Cultural Production. 416 pages, ill. Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo. Presents a portrait of "The Tale of Genji's" reception and reproduction, taking into consideration a wide variety of genres from no plays to Genji paintings to the modern novel. This volume explores the popularization of the Genji, considering parody, pastiche, and re-creation in various popular and mass media. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231142373
- ISBN
- 9780231142373
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 31.01
€ 42.99
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Paperback. Focuses on the early modern period in Japanese literature. This anthology introduces English readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon (satiric sermons), kibyoshi (satiric and didactic picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon (reading books), kokkeibon (books of humor), and gokan (bound books). Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo. Num Pages: 552 pages, Numerous woodcut prints to be reproduced from previous edition. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 26. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- Abridged
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231144155
- ISBN
- 9780231144155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.64
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Paperback. Shirane and Suzuki examine how the Japanese canon of "classics" (The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho) was constructed as part of the creation of Japan as a modern nation-state and as a result of Western influence. Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo; Suzuki, Tomi. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741057
- ISBN
- 9780804741057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
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€ 34.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804717199
- ISBN
- 9780804717199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; CF; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674379374
- ISBN
- 9780674379374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.10€ 65.85
€ 72.10
€ 65.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBH; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780936347721
- ISBN
- 9780936347721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.38
€ 27.99
€ 21.38
Paperback. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 274 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270477
- ISBN
- 9780823270477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.01
€ 37.99
€ 34.01
Hardback. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 274 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 237 x 28. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270460
- ISBN
- 9780823270460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.57
€ 108.57
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720748
- ISBN
- 9780804720748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.63
€ 81.63
Paperback. Editor(s): Colacurcio, Michael J.; Bresky, Luke. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811236
- ISBN
- 9781554811236
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.67
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Paperback. This book will be of interest to anyone-in any discipline-who takes the past as a serious object of study. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; DSA; HBJD; HP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Fortieth Anniversary Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421415604
- ISBN
- 9781421415604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.39
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Paperback. The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies. Editor(s): Doran, Robert. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 424
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894800
- ISBN
- 9780801894800
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.85
€ 38.99
€ 32.85
Hardcover. This book is the first major study of one of Spain's most celebrated younger novelists, Belen Gopegui, whose work stands apart from other writers of her generation for its uncompromising focus on the social function of literature. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662339
- ISBN
- 9781855662339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.09
€ 98.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 481. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- SKU
- KIN0037033
- ISBN
- 9780813008516
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. There is something offensive about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defences of it. The author argues that poetry exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. He also specifies four poetic offences - gesture, drama, fiction, and trope. Series: Robert B Heilman Books. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 232 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295987590
- ISBN
- 9780295987590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
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paperback. Presents a tool for choosing books for children of all ages. This title offers practical guidance on sorting through the bewildering array of picture books, pop-up books, books for beginning readers, young adult titles, classics, poetry, olktales, and factual books. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 407. Weight in Grams: 375.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Edition
- Third
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252069284
- ISBN
- 9780252069284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.18
€ 25.99
€ 24.18
Paperback. Editor(s): Dubrow, Heather; Strier, Richard. Num Pages: 388 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226167664
- ISBN
- 9780226167664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.13
€ 52.99
€ 41.13
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801452741
- ISBN
- 9780801452741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.51
€ 71.51
Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231165143
- ISBN
- 9780231165143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.35€ 56.86
€ 73.35
€ 56.86
Hardcover. Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 240 x 28. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812248579
- ISBN
- 9780812248579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 85.18€ 31.57
€ 85.18
€ 31.57
Paperback. Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. This title argues that instead of moving on, we need to look backward and consider how this history continues to affect us in the present. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 206
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032392
- ISBN
- 9780674032392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.73
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Paperback. Whether sorrowful or sassy, the poems in this new collection bear McHugh's signature: a lively love for the very language she bewares. Series: Wesleyan Poetry. Num Pages: 86 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 86
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819565068
- ISBN
- 9780819565068
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.93
€ 16.99
€ 16.93
Paperback. From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. It covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral story-telling, Eddaic verse and skaldic verse. It shows how a range of authors from Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney have been influenced by this literature. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DNC; 2ACSC; 2ACSX; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631236269
- ISBN
- 9780631236269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.69
€ 46.99
€ 45.69