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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Against prevailing views on what it means to enjoy power as individuals, cultures, or nations, this book looks at the making of cultural and national identities in modern China as building success from failure. Num Pages: 344 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBF; DSBH; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 634.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751766
- ISBN
- 9780804751766
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Condition: New
€ 81.31
€ 81.31
Hardback. In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 549.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751858
- ISBN
- 9780804751858
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€ 113.28
€ 113.28
paperback. Aesthetic Democracy argues that the possibility of social and political democracy depends primarily upon art and aesthetics, and that it is art which determines the possibilities of human freedom. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 281.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751896
- ISBN
- 9780804751896
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€ 26.99€ 25.32
€ 26.99
€ 25.32
Paperback. Identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's "La Princesse de Cleves", Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", and poems by various authors. This book offers a counterpoint to anti-Enlightenment revaluations of passivity that have made non-mastery and non-appropriation the fundamental task of the ethical subject. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804752893
- ISBN
- 9780804752893
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Hardback. Offers a study of autobiographies by French and Francophone African writers and filmmakers, all of whom reject simple first-person narration and experiment with narrative voice and form to represent fragmented subjectivity. This work investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, and across the colonial encounter. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804753562
- ISBN
- 9780804753562
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Condition: New
€ 81.92
€ 81.92
Paperback. In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754194
- ISBN
- 9780804754194
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€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Hardback. The Marriage of Minds examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy in married life. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 992. Weight in Grams: 467.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754668
- ISBN
- 9780804754668
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Condition: New
€ 71.51
€ 71.51
Hardback. Although Irene Nemirovsky was Jewish, she frequented authors and politicians on the extreme right. This biography analyzes the discrepancy between Nemirovsky's real and imagined identities, and explores a literary work that revisits in a different way Jewish identity, exile, betrayal, and the solidarity of persecuted people. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804754811
- ISBN
- 9780804754811
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€ 33.99€ 28.66
€ 33.99
€ 28.66
Hardback. From Conrad to Rushdie, from Du Bois, to Nggi, Worlds Within explores the changing form of novels, nations, and national identities, by attending to the ways in which political circumstances meet narratives of the psyche. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754903
- ISBN
- 9780804754903
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Condition: New
€ 86.98
€ 86.98
Paperback. The book provides a lucid and systematic theory of the work of literature and its major aspects. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 table, 22 figures. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 3. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804755160
- ISBN
- 9780804755160
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.37
€ 27.99
€ 26.37
Hardback. Romanticism After Auschwitz reveals how one of the most insistently anti-romantic discourses, post-Holocaust testimony, remains romantic, and proceeds to show how this insight compels a thorough rethinking of romanticism. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 384 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804755245
- ISBN
- 9780804755245
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Condition: New
€ 81.63
€ 81.63
Hardback. Breitwieser's close readings reveal that the thwarting of mourning, partly linked to nationalist feeling, was a central issue for many American authors, but that those who successfully reclaimed mourning came to strange and fresh understandings of the actual world. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804755818
- ISBN
- 9780804755818
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Condition: New
€ 81.63
€ 81.63
Paperback. This is an interdisciplinary study of the major cultural and political scenes of a decade marked by dramatic -and sometimes traumatic-change. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJPK; DSBH; GTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804756631
- ISBN
- 9780804756631
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. This book is a collection of essays about the invention-and disappearance-of the 'Semites' and the lingering effects, both institutional and theologico-political, of this invention. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HR; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 330. Weight in Grams: 218.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804756952
- ISBN
- 9780804756952
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.26
€ 25.99
€ 24.26
Hardback. Consequences of Consciousness shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as they explored both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757034
- ISBN
- 9780804757034
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Condition: New
€ 71.75
€ 71.75
Hardback. This book examines how, at the turn of the 19th century, Japanese fiction used melodrama's binary morality-the battle between good and evil-to generate alternative models of family to answer the needs of a modernizing society. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 figures, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757775
- ISBN
- 9780804757775
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Condition: New
€ 81.63
€ 81.63
paperback. Skirting the Ethical presents highly original readings of six pivotal works that, disrupting our conventional concept of morality, point us towards a non-prescriptive mode of ethics, as an ever-to-be-renewed rethinking that has much to do with the act of interpretation. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 figure, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757904
- ISBN
- 9780804757904
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.37
€ 27.99
€ 26.37
Hardback. Presents the interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-1970); the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996); and, Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grunbein (born 1962). Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758314
- ISBN
- 9780804758314
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Condition: New
€ 86.69
€ 86.69
Paperback. This book explores the movement from a world of sacraments to the "sacramental," in which the impulses once met by sacred ritual are displaced onto wider cultural forms, a poetics that becomes the province of mystery. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758338
- ISBN
- 9780804758338
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.26
€ 25.99
€ 24.26
Hardback. Kottman's readings of the drama of William Shakespeare and others against two major treatises in political philosophy-Plato's Republic and Hobbes's Leviathan-contest the figural ground from which political philosophy emerges and suggests how a Shakespearean sense of the 'scene' might open up new avenues for thinking about politics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758345
- ISBN
- 9780804758345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.58
€ 76.58
Hardback. In Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, Khalip approaches romantic subjectivity's fascination with anonymity as an ethics of engaged withdrawal or strategic reticence, arguing that anonymity is an alternative model of being that resists the requirement to inhabit a social category and remains open to change and re-description. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758406
- ISBN
- 9780804758406
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Condition: New
€ 81.91
€ 81.91
Paperback. In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere-from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism-and places representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere and the politics of liberalism. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBD; DSK; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758475
- ISBN
- 9780804758475
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. This study offers fresh readings of milestones in twentieth-century Chinese fiction, film, and drama and argues that they have questioned the faith in historical progress and in the viability of a sphere of free debate. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; AN; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758499
- ISBN
- 9780804758499
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Hardback. Housing Problems provides fresh readings of major writers, Goethe, Walpole, Freud, Heidegger, Poe, H.D., and Oppen, by bringing together the fields of literature, philosophy and architecture. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 216 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: AM; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758543
- ISBN
- 9780804758543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.57
€ 108.57