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Paperback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 267.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780823231546
- ISBN
- 9780823231546
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.49
€ 41.99
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Hardback. The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JH; DSA; DSBF; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823274017
- ISBN
- 9780823274017
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Condition: New
€ 133.98
€ 133.98
Paperback. Editor(s): Nikkanen, Anita. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 4KL; DB; DQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 219 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474266147
- ISBN
- 9781474266147
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.66
€ 25.99
€ 22.66
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856687303
- ISBN
- 9780856687303
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Condition: New
€ 31.17
€ 31.17
Paperback. This is a collection of essays that sets out to make and break the links between psychoanalysis and literature. It gives insights into anorexia and cloning, the work of Tom Stoppard and A.E. Housman, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, Nijinsky's diary and Martin Amis's "Night Train". Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DS; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571209736
- ISBN
- 9780571209736
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.55
€ 19.99
€ 14.55
Paperback. Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus' release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of humankind. The author examines the story of Prometheus. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 184 pages, 16 plates. BIC Classification: DSB; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 200 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691019079
- ISBN
- 9780691019079
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.72
€ 46.99
€ 33.72
Paperback. Translator(s): Grafton, Anthony. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 282 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691608761
- ISBN
- 9780691608761
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.70
€ 54.99
€ 39.70
Paperback. Editor(s): Arias, Martin; Hadis, Martin. Translator(s): Silver, Katherine. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780811222747
- ISBN
- 9780811222747
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.57
€ 19.99
€ 18.57
paperback. A collection of searching conversations - ranging from dialogues to tongue-in-cheek diatribes - on the issues that face literary and cultural critics. It bares professional concerns, relationships, ambitions, and insecurities about working in academe. It provides insider information for students contemplating an academic career. Editor(s): Hall, Donald E. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252069611
- ISBN
- 9780252069611
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.34
€ 42.99
€ 38.34
paperback. Stanley Fish raises a provocative challenge in this text to those who try to turn literary studies into an instrument of political change, arguing that when literary critics try to influence society at large by addressing social and political issues, they cease to be literary critics at all. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674712201
- ISBN
- 9780674712201
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.83
€ 35.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. Attempts to unearth the ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it. This book shows that various conflicts of our culture wars echo and recycle controversies over how literature should be taught. It also presents a history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBT; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 20 Anv
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226305592
- ISBN
- 9780226305592
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.74
€ 37.99
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Paperback. Analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist fusion of psychoanalysis and Marxism and Walter Benjamin's post-Enlightenment challenge to Marxist theory. This title argues that Breton's surrealist Marxism played a formative role in shaping postwar French intellectual life. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520201507
- ISBN
- 9780520201507
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.65
€ 36.99
€ 26.65
Paperback. "Production of Presence" is a comprehensive version of the thinking of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. most consistently original literary It offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in literary studies and in the humanities over the past 30 years. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 35. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804749169
- ISBN
- 9780804749169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.29
€ 26.99
€ 25.29
hardcover. "Production of Presence" is a comprehensive version of the thinking of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. most consistently original literary It offers a personalized account of some of the central theoretical movements in literary studies and in the humanities over the past 30 years. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804749152
- ISBN
- 9780804749152
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Condition: New
€ 108.31
€ 108.31
Hardback. Sets out to characterise criticism as a set of prodigal practices that exceed the constraints of primary texts, history, and theory. This work makes a case for celebrating the prodigal condition and for another escape - breaking out of traditional constraints towards a hybrid form that combines the critical with the creative. Num Pages: 167 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 167
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845191542
- ISBN
- 9781845191542
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Condition: New
€ 129.19
€ 129.19
Paperback. Sets out to characterise criticism as a set of prodigal practices that exceed the constraints of primary texts, history, and theory. This work makes a case for celebrating the prodigal condition and for another escape - breaking out of traditional constraints towards a hybrid form that combines the critical with the creative. Num Pages: 167 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 167
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845191559
- ISBN
- 9781845191559
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.71
€ 33.99
€ 30.71
Hardcover. Editor(s): Bulow-Jacobsen, Adam. Num Pages: 603 pages, with 37 plates. BIC Classification: CFL; DSBB; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 305 x 222 x 42. Weight in Grams: 2368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 631
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772892641
- ISBN
- 9788772892641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.47€ 75.16
€ 92.47
€ 75.16
Hardcover. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Rhetoric to Alexander provides practical advice to orators and was likely composed during the period of Aristotle's tutorship of Alexander, perhaps by Anaximenes, another of Alexander's tutors. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 672 pages, 1 line illustration, indexes. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 116 x 34. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Loeb Classical Library United States
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996564
- ISBN
- 9780674996564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.71
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Paperback. Translator(s): Emerson, Caryl. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816612284
- ISBN
- 9780816612284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.15
€ 26.99
€ 23.15
Hardcover. Although Problems is an accretion of multiple authorship over several centuries, it offers a fascinating technical view of Peripatetic method and thought. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 624 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 117 x 31. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996557
- ISBN
- 9780674996557
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.71
€ 33.99
€ 28.71
Hardcover. With Shakespeare as the inspiration for Designer Bookbinders second International Competition, this lavish catalogue features contemporary design on the subject of the Great Bard from some of the best binders worldwide. Editor(s): Koch, Jeanette. Num Pages: 112 pages, 253 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AKH; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Publisher
- The Bodleian Library United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851242580
- ISBN
- 9781851242580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Paperback. Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251339
- ISBN
- 9780823251339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.62
€ 31.99
€ 28.62
Hardback. Private Lives, Public Deaths draws on classical studies, Hegel, and modern philosophical analyses to describe how Sophocle's tragedy Antigone expresses a key concern of ancient Greek culture: the value of a living individual. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823251322
- ISBN
- 9780823251322
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Condition: New
€ 103.15
€ 103.15
Hardcover. Num Pages: 275 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duquesne University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820704821
- ISBN
- 9780820704821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.38€ 66.77
€ 79.38
€ 66.77