Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve. Num Pages: 318 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231058940
- ISBN
- 9780231058940
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.40€ 86.32
€ 111.40
€ 86.32
Paperback. This volume offers comprehensive analyses and new translations of Kalidasa's three extant plays: "Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection," "Urvasi Won by Valor," and "Malavika and Agnimitra." Num Pages: 387 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 387
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231058391
- ISBN
- 9780231058391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.92
€ 54.99
€ 39.92
Hardback. Num Pages: 191 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 191
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231053785
- ISBN
- 9780231053785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.19€ 80.02
€ 103.19
€ 80.02
Hardback. Translator(s): Carlson, Mona; Hedges, Jane T. Num Pages: 524 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 524
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231052429
- ISBN
- 9780231052429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.89€ 109.08
€ 141.89
€ 109.08
Hardback. Num Pages: 381 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 381
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231051040
- ISBN
- 9780231051040
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.50€ 102.08
€ 132.50
€ 102.08
Paperback. A family cookbook with over five hundred recipes dating largely from Elizabethan and Jacobean times, the golden age of English cookery. Num Pages: 518 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; DSBD; WBA; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 518
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231049313
- ISBN
- 9780231049313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.47
€ 40.99
€ 29.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 140 x 3. Weight in Grams: 90.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 48
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231029889
- ISBN
- 9780231029889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.40
€ 40.99
€ 29.40
Hardback. Compiling in one volume the basic writings of these three seminal thinkers of ancient China, each from a different philosophical school, this book reveals the richness and diversity of the ancient Chinese intellectual world. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Num Pages: 480 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 38. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1967
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- n
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231025157
- ISBN
- 9780231025157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.70€ 57.58
€ 72.70
€ 57.58
Hardback. When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, author suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century's catastrophes at the expense of literature's prospective vision. Num Pages: 344 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226924953
- ISBN
- 9780226924953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardback. Demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts points to a deep engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. This book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othella. Editor(s): Cormack, Bradin; Nussbaum, Martha C.; Strier, Richard. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226924939
- ISBN
- 9780226924939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 79.56
€ 93.81
€ 79.56
Hardback. Expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. In this book, the author argues that manuscript compilations from fourteenth-century London reward interpretation as both assemblages and fragments. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3H; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226924915
- ISBN
- 9780226924915
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 79.56
€ 93.81
€ 79.56
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 85.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226902272
- ISBN
- 9780226902272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.36
€ 21.99
€ 19.36
Hardcover. Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. The author offers a fresh interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics". Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226875088
- ISBN
- 9780226875088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 79.56
€ 93.81
€ 79.56
Hardcover. Uncovers the history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era. Drawing particularly on overlooked works of pornographic fiction, this title offers an exploration of the importance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226857923
- ISBN
- 9780226857923
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.63€ 50.79
€ 58.63
€ 50.79
Paperback. Marianna De Marco Torgovnick's unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries in American life, of what it means to be an Italian American woman who became a scholar and literary critic. Num Pages: 192 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSB; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226808307
- ISBN
- 9780226808307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.13
€ 30.99
€ 25.13
Paperback. Poetry has long been regarded as the least accessible of literary genres. But how much does the obscurity that confounds the reader of a poem differ from, say, the slang or patois that captivates listeners of hip-hop? This book examines the shared incomprehensibilities of poetry and slang. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226803104
- ISBN
- 9780226803104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.90
€ 36.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, this title argues that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789972
- ISBN
- 9780226789972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.62
€ 35.99
€ 28.62
Hardback. Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. This title argues that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226789965
- ISBN
- 9780226789965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 79.56
€ 93.81
€ 79.56
Paperback. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, this book revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226781709
- ISBN
- 9780226781709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.80
€ 40.99
€ 31.80
Hardback. Seeks to understand why French literature of the period celebrated the very characters who were so persecuted in society at large. This book explores the relation between orthodoxy and deviance, authority and innovation, and will fascinate historians of ideas and literature as well as scholars of religion, critical theory, and philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226781693
- ISBN
- 9780226781693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.67
€ 63.67