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Hardback. Liu Yuan's "Lingyan ge", a woodblock-printed book from 1669, re-creates a portrait gallery that memorialized 24 vassals of the early Tang court. This book presents a study that examines the dialogues created among the texts and images in "Lingyan ge" from multiple perspectives. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 218 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3JD; AKLB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1610.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
450
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032804
ISBN
9780674032804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.00
€ 55.91

Hardcover. Brings together a group of women interested in, even consumed by, the region they inhabit physically or mentally. This volume contains self-narratives that propel themselves and their authors to the centre of critical debates concerning the status of the subject, the nature of self-representation, the globalisation of the regional, and more. Num Pages: 278 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 656.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
278
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1ST
Condition
New
SKU
V9788778387110
ISBN
9788778387110
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.24

Hardcover. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 279 x 221 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Pearson Education (US) United States
Edition
8th Edition
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780137028757
ISBN
9780137028757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 292.79

Hardcover. This English-language study of Francois Mauriac's "Bloc-notes", presents these poignant, incisive editorials on social justice, war, and human rights in postwar France as both symptomatic of a culture imbued with the past and emblematic of a Christian humanist's ethical approach to history and memory. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813213804
ISBN
9780813213804
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.10

Mabel Lang's long career as a scholar and teacher has given her a unique perspective on one of the most important authors in western literature. This book brings together several of her most thoughtful papers on figures and issues including the 400, Cleon, and Alcibiades, and joins them with new material on narrative technique. Editor(s): Hamilton, Richard; Dickey, Eleanor; Rusten, Jeffrey S. Series: Cultural Legacies. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBAH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Michigan Classical Press United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780979971341
ISBN
9780979971341
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.86

Hardcover. Thucydides Historiae Vol. I: Books I-IV Editor(s): Powell, J. E.; Jones, Sir H. Stuart. Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1942
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198145509
ISBN
9780198145509
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.25

Hardcover. Series: Apple-Zimmerman Series in Early Modern Culture. Num Pages: 269 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: AN; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575911267
ISBN
9781575911267
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.45

Hardcover. Editor(s): Brokoph-Mauch, Gudrun. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781572410435
ISBN
9781572410435
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.31

Hardback. Translator(s): Shepherd, David A. Num Pages: 289 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481105
ISBN
9781611481105
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.52

Drawing on a rich array of sources, including her father's striking account of his childhood in China, Tiger Writing not only illuminates Gish Jen's work but explores the aesthetic and psychic roots of the independent and interdependent self--each mode of selfhood yielding a distinct way of observing, remembering, and narrating the world. Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 208 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 111 x 27. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674072831
ISBN
9780674072831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.39

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138682825
ISBN
9781138682825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.86

Hardback. This book describes the recent Scottish independence referendum as the latest incarnation of a contest between two times - on one hand, an ideally continuous time beyond determination underpinning financial sovereignty, on the other the interruptions to this ideal continuity inherent in human action. Num Pages: 106 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; DSA; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 225 x 14. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137545930
ISBN
9781137545930
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.84

Hardback. Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history. Translator(s): Guberman, Ross. Series: European Perspectives. Num Pages: 432 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 32. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231102506
ISBN
9780231102506
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.17

Paperback. Not only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation, metaphor, and history. Translator(s): Guberman, Ross. Series: European Perspectives. Num Pages: 432 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231102513
ISBN
9780231102513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 31.19

Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 17. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481655
ISBN
9781611481655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.68

Hardback. This book is an interdisciplinary volume that explores the social, psychological, and historical impact of acceleration through the medium of culture. Its eleven original chapters highlight the wide range of cultural responses to acceleration in literature, film, the visual arts, architecture, and popular culture. Editor(s): Fuchs, Anne; Long, Jonathan. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 288 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137411860
ISBN
9781137411860
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 150 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 217.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349054824
ISBN
9781349054824
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.40

Paperback. A memoir of the author's early life and time starting out as a novelist, as well as diaries recording her in old age. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571203963
ISBN
9780571203963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.54

Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 263 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AH; DNF; DSBB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Bucknell University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754351
ISBN
9780838754351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.83

Paperback. Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; GTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349298105
ISBN
9781349298105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.16

Hardcover. Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Ed.
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230117983
ISBN
9780230117983
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.92
€ 47.12

Paperback. Argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling are represented in the form of literal devices and plots Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823249978
ISBN
9780823249978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.99

Paperback. Birgitta Mark's comprehensive study of mysticism and cognition shows how mystical experience covers three aspects of a person's general experience: mystical ideas, mystical states of consciousness and mystical development. John of the Cross is used as a particular example. Editor(s): Wegener, Mogens. Series: Studies in Religion. Num Pages: 273 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPJ; HRCS1; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 170 x 21. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772888040
ISBN
9788772888040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.56

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137542878
ISBN
9781137542878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.65

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