Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. Editor(s): Forsdick, Charles; Hogsbjerg, Christian. Series: The C. L. R. James Archives. Num Pages: 464 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KJH; 3JF; 3JH; DSR; HBJK; HBTQ; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 772.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361848
- ISBN
- 9780822361848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.81
€ 127.81
Paperback. A study of the historical, ideological, and formal interdependencies of the novel and human rights, this book demonstrates that the twentieth-century rise of "world literature" and international human rights law are related phenomena. It argues that international law shares with the modern novel a particular conception of the human individual. Num Pages: 436 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 436
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823228188
- ISBN
- 9780823228188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.07
€ 46.99
€ 42.07
Paperback. This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography. Series: Ancient Society and History. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- second edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408361
- ISBN
- 9781421408361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.01
€ 45.01
Hardback. An innovative and moving study, The Calendar of Loss illuminates how AIDS mourning confounds and traverses how we have come to think about loss and grief, insisting that the bereaved can confront death in the face of shame and stigma in eloquent ways that imply a fierce political sensibility and a longing for justice. Series: The Callaloo African Diaspora Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, 19, 19 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSK; JFSL3; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421416557
- ISBN
- 9781421416557
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.77
€ 51.77
Hardback. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary texts, this title analyzes the role of gesture in medical and religious ritual, in the gladiatorial arena, in mourning practice, in aristocratic competition of the late Republic, and in the court of the emperor Tiberius. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; AFC; AFK; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; JHMC; JMAL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691074948
- ISBN
- 9780691074948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.64
€ 114.64
Hardback. Tragedies of overliving remain disturbing because they remind us that life is rarely as neat as we expect and hope it be and that endings often come too late. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801879647
- ISBN
- 9780801879647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.14€ 52.65
€ 57.14
€ 52.65
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1942
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231087704
- ISBN
- 9780231087704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.59
€ 130.59
Hardback. Umberto Eco published his first novel, The Name of the Rose, in 1980, when he was nearly fifty. In these "confessions" the author, now in his late seventies, looks back on his long career as a theorist and his more recent work as a novelist and explores their fruitful conjunction. This book takes readers on a tour of Eco's own creative method. Series: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 124 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674058699
- ISBN
- 9780674058699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 39.58
€ 47.99
€ 39.58
Hardback. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this challenging and lucid work offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power. Num Pages: 228 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728119
- ISBN
- 9780804728119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.21
€ 129.21
Hardback. This is a broad-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink aesthetic and literary studies in terms of an "anthropology" of symbolic media generally. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734639
- ISBN
- 9780804734639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.93
€ 113.93
Hardback. This work is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. The sustained effort of 30 years of labour is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and its history. Editor(s): Hodge, David. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804745420
- ISBN
- 9780804745420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.21
€ 129.21
Hardback. Through close readings of Tanizaki's and Freud's major writings from the 1930s, the book proposes new answers to classic feminist questions about perversion. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762335
- ISBN
- 9780804762335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.87
€ 71.87
Hardback. The short, both tragic and happy life, of Julian Bell, poet, younger member of Bloomsbury, son of Vanessa Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, from his birth in 1908 until his death in 1937 in the Spanish Civil War. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804774130
- ISBN
- 9780804774130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.84
€ 76.84
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816679768
- ISBN
- 9780816679768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.01
€ 26.99
€ 25.01
Hardback. Ego Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes's philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes's ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but a mouth that opens to utter: ego sum. Translator(s): Morin, Marie-Eve. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HPM; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823270613
- ISBN
- 9780823270613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.85
€ 113.85
Hardback. Translation of Cours de linguistique generale. Editor(s): Meisel, Perry; Saussy, Haun; Rosen, Jeremy. Translator(s): Baskin, Wade. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings. BIC Classification: CF; DSA; HPCF7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157261
- ISBN
- 9780231157261
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.76€ 79.57
€ 104.76
€ 79.57
Paperback. In The Extravagant, Robert Baker explores the interplay between poetry and philosophy in the modern period. He aims to illuminate adventures of "extravagant" or "wandering" language that is in the world. Also shaping the book is that a dialectic of instrumental reason and creative negativity has been at work throughout modern culture. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268021825
- ISBN
- 9780268021825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
€ 32.99
€ 29.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 616 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 976.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033231
- ISBN
- 9780268033231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.12
€ 46.99
€ 42.12
Paperback. A study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had 'earned Paradise.' It adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece to illuminate the human quest for 'earning Paradise.' Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 2AHA; DSBB; HDDK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023796
- ISBN
- 9780674023796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.42
€ 19.99
€ 18.42
Hardback. Philology--the discipline of making sense of texts--is enjoying a renaissance within academia. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and time periods in which it has been practiced and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is essential to human understanding. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: CFGA; DSB; HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 159 x 37. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674052864
- ISBN
- 9780674052864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.89€ 51.34
€ 55.89
€ 51.34