Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. Tells the story of the development of poetic competence to uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources and exemplars of that complexity. This book demonstrates poetic competence through a person's ability to influence the attitudes and behaviour of others with poetic discourse. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Publications. Num Pages: 375 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021402
- ISBN
- 9780674021402
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€ 49.99€ 41.33
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Hardcover. Examines some of the responses of Japanese authors to the transformation of Tokyo in the early decades of the 20th Century. This book explores the themes and formal strategies of the modernist literature that flourished in the 1920s, focusing on the work of Hagiwara Kyojiro (1899-1938) and Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951). Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 180 x 31. Weight in Grams: 644.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021297
- ISBN
- 9780674021297
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€ 47.99€ 39.32
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Paperback. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 270 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 179 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674019621
- ISBN
- 9780674019621
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€ 21.99€ 20.21
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Paperback. "The Life and Miracles of Thekla" offers a unique view on the reception of classical and early Christian literature in Late Antiquity. This study examines the "Life and Miracles" as an intricate example of Greek writing and attempts to situate the work amidst a wealth of similar literary forms from the classical world. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 290 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674019614
- ISBN
- 9780674019614
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€ 21.99€ 20.21
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Paperback. In Greek thought, "barbaroi" are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's "Histories" attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 214.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 100
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017900
- ISBN
- 9780674017900
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€ 17.99€ 16.19
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Idema, Wilt L.; Li, Wai-yee; Widmer, Ellen. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 525 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 181. Weight in Grams: 886.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017757
- ISBN
- 9780674017757
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€ 59.74€ 54.40
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Paperback. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 168 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016644
- ISBN
- 9780674016644
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€ 30.99€ 26.25
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Hardcover. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016521
- ISBN
- 9780674016521
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€ 44.99€ 37.31
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Hardcover. This is a study and edition of Bcom Idan ral gri's "Bstan pa rgyas pa rgyan gyi nyi'od". Probably composed in the last decades of the 13th century, this systematic list of Buddhist Sutras, Tantras, Shastras, and related genres translated primarily from Sanskrit languages, holds an important place in the history of Buddhist literature in Tibet. Editor(s): Schaeffer, Kurtis R.; Kuijp, Leonard W. J. Van. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSBB; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 350 x 204. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674014596
- ISBN
- 9780674014596
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€ 49.99€ 41.28
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Paperback. This study investigates how Pindar's obscurity has been perceived and confronted, extorted and exploited. It addresses issues including the recovery and appropriation of classical texts, problems of translation and representations of lyric authenticity. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 350 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674012578
- ISBN
- 9780674012578
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€ 30.99€ 26.33
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Hardcover. In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop, Deborah Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 513.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011885
- ISBN
- 9780674011885
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Hardcover. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. Editor(s): Zeitlin, Judith T.; Liu, Lydia H. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 620 pages, 94 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSB; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1036.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 620
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010987
- ISBN
- 9780674010987
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€ 59.74€ 54.35
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Hardcover. "Rulin waishi" (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is an 18th century landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. Through a close reading of this novel, the author seeks answers to such questions as: what accounts for the literati's enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 325
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010956
- ISBN
- 9780674010956
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Hardcover. Lhamon's reading shows us how these plays built a public blackness and how they engaged a disaffected white audience, who found in Jim Crow's sass and wit and madcap dancing an expression of rebellion and resistance against the oppression and confinement suffered by all ordinary people. Num Pages: 478 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DQ; DSBF; DSG; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 167 x 38. Weight in Grams: 900.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 478
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010628
- ISBN
- 9780674010628
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€ 82.02€ 73.52
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Paperback. The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, was the setting for the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". This text examines the testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these performances. Series: Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009639
- ISBN
- 9780674009639
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Hardcover. One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. This is a study of such texts. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 668.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009561
- ISBN
- 9780674009561
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€ 47.99€ 39.26
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Paperback. The transcription of a collection of lectures, given at Harvard between 1967 to 1968, by the author Jorge Luis Borges. This book details Borges's theories on poetry, prose forms, literary history and the philosophy of literature, drawing on examples from literature across the world. Editor(s): Mihalescu, Calin-Andrei. Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 184 x 10. Weight in Grams: 140.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674008205
- ISBN
- 9780674008205
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€ 34.99€ 29.48
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Hardcover. This is a collection of poems, from charms recollected out of childhood to nursts of eloquence, wonder and waggish wit along the way to discovering what it is to be a poet. Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 144 pages, 19 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 183 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 252.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674007918
- ISBN
- 9780674007918
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€ 51.54€ 47.31
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Hardcover. This volume analyzes the representation of gender and desire in elite, male-authored literary texts in China dating from roughly 200 B.C. until 1000 A.D. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3D; 3F; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; HBLC; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674005273
- ISBN
- 9780674005273
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.47
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Hardcover. This text maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives, including "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "A Tale of Heroic Lovers". Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DQ; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674005129
- ISBN
- 9780674005129
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€ 43.99€ 36.75
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Hardcover. This work examines the theories of reading developed by John Locke to show how a revolutionary attitude towards authority was disseminated throughout the colonies. The book traces the Lockean legacy through 18th century children's literature to show how his emphasis on "consent" was influential. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSY; HBJK; HBLH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674002982
- ISBN
- 9780674002982
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Condition: New
€ 94.92€ 84.47
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Paperback. This work explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation, as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674002630
- ISBN
- 9780674002630
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€ 21.99€ 20.36
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Paperback. "What is the real business of the critic?", Charles Rosen asks of George Bernard Shaw in one of his essays. It is a question he answers throughout this collection as he demonstrates and analyzes various critical approaches. Num Pages: 272 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVGC5; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674002029
- ISBN
- 9780674002029
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€ 35.99€ 30.61
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Paperback. * Contains both original research and accessible coverage of the key issues -- makes it ideal for students of Chaucer at all levels. * Completely new approach -- the volume highlights themes and issues, rather than being arranged by Chaucera s works. Editor(s): Brown, Peter. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 536 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 180 x 28. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631235903
- ISBN
- 9780631235903
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Condition: New
€ 56.26
€ 56.26