Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. A profound reconsideration of how Blanchot work figures theologically in some of the major currents of twentieth-century thought. Hart reveals Blanchot to be a thinker devoted to the possibilities of a spiritual life with the possibilities of leading an ethical life in the absence of God. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226318110
- ISBN
- 9780226318110
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€ 40.99€ 31.01
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Paperback. American historical writing has traditionally been a form of moral reflection. However this study argues that, in the disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its redemptive potential, and adopted the methodology of the social sciences. It describes the reasons for this change. Num Pages: 318 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; HBA; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Paperback Printing
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226316178
- ISBN
- 9780226316178
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 30.99
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Paperback. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book assembles scholars to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern conceptions of political theology. Editor(s): Hammill, Graham L.; Lupton, Julia Reinhard. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HPS; HRAM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226314983
- ISBN
- 9780226314983
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 31.94
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Paperback. Paul Hamilton here redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. Through analysis of the aesthetics of Schiller, Rousseau and works by Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and others, Hamilton adds greater clarity to our understanding of romanticism. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226314808
- ISBN
- 9780226314808
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.86
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Hardcover. Combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic. This title offers a mode of historical and textual analysis that displays the wide range of resources imaginative language. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226311296
- ISBN
- 9780226311296
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Condition: New
€ 59.20€ 49.58
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Paperback. During the second half of the 18th century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. This work explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism permitted educated women to imagine themselves as political subjects. Num Pages: 354 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226310527
- ISBN
- 9780226310527
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Condition: New
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Paperback. This work explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking - especially rumour, slander, insult, vituperation and curse - and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226309897
- ISBN
- 9780226309897
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.08
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Paperback. Contends with challenges to the validity of the poetic imagination, from Adorno's maxim 'No poetry after Auschwitz,' to the claims of religious authority upon truth, and the ultimate challenge posed by the fact of death itself. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226309743
- ISBN
- 9780226309743
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.15
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Hardcover. In the spirit of Blake's vow of 'mental fight,' this work contends with challenges to the validity of the poetic imagination, from Adorno's maxim 'No poetry after Auschwitz,' to the claims of religious authority upon truth, and the ultimate challenge posed by the fact of death itself. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226309736
- ISBN
- 9780226309736
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Condition: New
€ 94.72€ 77.43
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Paperback. Argues that love poetry in the Renaissance was not simply a reflection of the times but a means of cultural transformation. Using poetic examples and historical documentation, this book rewrites the relations between the Renaissance and colonial Latin America, and between poetry and history. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20 halftones, 1 map, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KL; 2AB; DSBD; DSC; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226306704
- ISBN
- 9780226306704
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.15
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Hardcover. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. Greenblatt shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226306667
- ISBN
- 9780226306667
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.66
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Paperback. The third and fourth books of Cicero's "Tusculan Disputations" deal with the nature and management of emotion. He presents the insights of Greek philosophers on the subject, reporting the views of Epicurians and Peripatetics and giving a detailed account of the Stoic position. Translator(s): Graver, Margaret (Assistant Professor of Classics, Dartmouth College, USA). Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; DSBB; DSK; HPCA; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 228 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226305783
- ISBN
- 9780226305783
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.12
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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.
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- 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€ 29.15
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Paperback. Explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226304755
- ISBN
- 9780226304755
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.51
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Paperback. Translator(s): Garnett, C. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSK; FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332. 302 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSK; FC; FYB. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 16. Weight: 322. Translator(s): Garnett, C.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226300689
- ISBN
- 9780226300689
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.64
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Paperback. This is the second volume of two, Harold C. Goddard takes the reader on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his plays and genius. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 305 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 135 x 204 x 21. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1960
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 305
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226300429
- ISBN
- 9780226300429
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.44
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Paperback. This is the first volume of two, Harold C. Goddard takes the reader on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his plays and genius. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 407 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 492.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1951
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 407
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226300412
- ISBN
- 9780226300412
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.44
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Hardcover. How did slavery and race impact American literature in the 19th century? This book argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers like Frederick Douglass wrestled with the demands for silence and circumspection that accompanied the antebellum fear of disunion and the postwar reconciliation between the North and South. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226294131
- ISBN
- 9780226294131
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Condition: New
€ 94.72€ 77.43
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226293981
- ISBN
- 9780226293981
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Condition: New
€ 69.86€ 57.86
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Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 108 x 12. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226293967
- ISBN
- 9780226293967
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.62
€ 32.99
€ 25.62