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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. The human soul is for pre-modern philosophers the cause of both thinking and life. This double aspect of the soul, which makes man a rational animal, expresses itself above all in human action. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul traces Hamlet's famous inability to act to his inability to hold together these twin aspects of the soul. Series: Applications of Political Theory. Num Pages: 416 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; HP; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739102152
ISBN
9780739102152
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 81.77

Paperback. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFCA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415727
ISBN
9781421415727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.35

Hardback. The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421407524
ISBN
9781421407524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.10

Paperback. This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. It turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade contemporary culture. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804740722
ISBN
9780804740722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.87

Hardback. This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. It turns to Baudelaire and Flaubert in order to derive insights into the many temporal disorders (such as trauma, addiction, and fetishism) that pervade contemporary culture. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804740715
ISBN
9780804740715
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.13

Paperback. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic twists and startling juxtapositions, Dead Souls (1842) stands as one of the most dazzling and poetic masterpieces of the nineteenth century. This brilliant new translation by Christopher English is complemented by a superb introductory essay by the pre-eminent Gogol scholar, Robert Maguire. Editor(s): English, Christopher. Translator(s): English, Christopher. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199554669
ISBN
9780199554669
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

Hardcover. This book makes sense of the social, political, and conceptual consequences of the 2008 credit crisis by looking at the ways that our culture has sought to formally represent and politically respond to it. Series: Post*45. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JMG; DSA; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 289 x 2. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804799058
ISBN
9780804799058
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816694785
ISBN
9780816694785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.64

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816694778
ISBN
9780816694778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.86

Dead Hands traces the fascinating career of a curious imaginative device: the wandering, disembodied, or ghostly hand. Dexterously threading historical, theoretical, and formalist questions, the author situates this familiar gothic convention in its rich literary and intellectual contexts, from early modern English drama through American fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 line diagrams 8 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 21. Weight in Grams: 455.
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733854
ISBN
9780804733854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.92

Hardback. Identifying sacramentalism as the key to the poetry and spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, this study suggests that Hopkins most dominantly emphasized the sacramental Mystical Body of the Church and that his poems aspire to see past the outscape of nature and humanity to revelations of spiritual inscape. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: AC; DCF; DSBF; DSC; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838751381
ISBN
9780838751381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.28

Paperback. Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926131
ISBN
9780813926131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 127 pages, 1 port. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Edition
Paper edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781885445940
ISBN
9781885445940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.83

Hardcover. Translator(s): Fusco, Peter; Choe, Wolhee. Num Pages: 127 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 1FPK; DSB; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University East Asia Program United States
Number of pages
127
Condition
New
SKU
V9781885445544
ISBN
9781885445544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.57

Paperback. The fourth book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by one of the world's most accomplished translators and scholars of Japanese culture and literature, this volume offers unparalleled insight into Japanese poetry, drama, and criticism. Num Pages: 698 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1FP; 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 229 x 45. Weight in Grams: 972.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231114394
ISBN
9780231114394
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.57
€ 42.52

Paperback. A master at dramatic dialogue, captured in real-life conversation about his work Editor(s): Kane, Leslie. Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; AN; BGA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472067640
ISBN
9780472067640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.85

Hardback. This book supports the claim that David Mamet is possibly the first true verse dramatist by examining in detail his celebrated use of language as dramatic action. Five of Mamet's best known plays are studied in detail: Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo, A Life in the Theatre, Edmond, and Glengarry Glen Ross. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611470895
ISBN
9781611470895
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.38

Hardback. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490770
ISBN
9781611490770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.60

Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 272 x 28. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179447
ISBN
9780231179447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.42

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845198404
ISBN
9781845198404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.85

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