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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. Offers an English translation of the complete, uncensored text, which has long been celebrated as one of the most convincing and sensually rich portraits of the geisha profession. This book tells a sweeping story in which sexual politics compete with sisterly affection in a world ruled by material transaction. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Series: Japanese Studies Series. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231141185
- ISBN
- 9780231141185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.81€ 64.07
€ 82.81
€ 64.07
Hardback. Presents a reading of Albert Camus' novels, short stories, and political essays. This work focuses on Camus' conflicted relationship with his Algerian background and finds important critical insights into questions of justice, the effects of colonial oppression, and the cycle of terrorism and counter terrorism that characterized the Algerian War. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140867
- ISBN
- 9780231140867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.84€ 83.22
€ 108.84
€ 83.22
Hardback. Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time. This work explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development. It argues that narrative plays a key role in helping societies acknowledge their pasts. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory: Philosophies of Gender, Race, and Society S. Num Pages: 244 pages, 0 halftones, 0 color illus., 0 line drawings, 0 tables. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231140300
- ISBN
- 9780231140300
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.15€ 46.67
€ 59.15
€ 46.67
Hardback. Presents the range of Zeami's critical thought on theater and performance, which focused on the aesthetic values of noh and its antecedents, the techniques of playwriting, the place of allusion, the training of actors, the importance of patronage, and the relationship between performance and broader intellectual and critical concerns. Translator(s): Hare, Tom. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages, 28 illus. BIC Classification: DD; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 37. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231139588
- ISBN
- 9780231139588
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.30€ 90.18
€ 118.30
€ 90.18
Hardback. Traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of the authors Ueda Akinari, Natsume S'seki, Mori 'gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, 'oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. Focusing on interconnected themes, this book illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138925
- ISBN
- 9780231138925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.35€ 57.11
€ 73.35
€ 57.11
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138789
- ISBN
- 9780231138789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.07€ 51.02
€ 65.07
€ 51.02
Hardback. During the women's movement of the 1970s and 1980s, feminists in the United States and Britain reinvented the image of the woman letter writer. They wrote letters, exploring questions of sexuality, separatism, and strategy. This book provides a cultural study of these letters. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 b&w figures. BIC Classification: DS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137928
- ISBN
- 9780231137928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.11€ 79.73
€ 104.11
€ 79.73
Hardback. Introduces the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137867
- ISBN
- 9780231137867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.11€ 80.00
€ 104.11
€ 80.00
Hardback. Focusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137508
- ISBN
- 9780231137508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.11€ 79.73
€ 104.11
€ 79.73
Hardback. For more than a quarter century, William Logan has delivered clear-eyed and razor-sharp assessments of contemporary and classic poetry. Combining the sensibilities of poet and critic, Logan vividly conveys what he finds most memorable and most damning in a poet's work. Poets discussed include Shakespeare, Whitman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, and Czeslaw Milosz. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231136389
- ISBN
- 9780231136389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.11€ 79.73
€ 104.11
€ 79.73
Hardback. Translator(s): Briggs, Kate. Num Pages: 512 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: CBV; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231136143
- ISBN
- 9780231136143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.30€ 90.18
€ 118.30
€ 90.18
Paperback. Traces the emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. This book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, "The Voyage Out", through her last, "Between the Acts". Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134453
- ISBN
- 9780231134453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.51
€ 37.99
€ 27.51
Hardback. Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134408
- ISBN
- 9780231134408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.39€ 85.82
€ 112.39
€ 85.82
Hardback. Covering a range of countries - Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Ukraine - this title presents history of Eastern European literature. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133067
- ISBN
- 9780231133067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.68€ 101.49
€ 133.68
€ 101.49
Paperback. Figures such as E M Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and Virginia Woolf attempted to rethink Victorian design and reconstruct the form, function, and meaning of the home to meet the demands of modernity. This study reveals the personal and aesthetic connections among modern British writers, interior designers and architects. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133050
- ISBN
- 9780231133050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.52
€ 37.99
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Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130592
- ISBN
- 9780231130592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.52
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Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130585
- ISBN
- 9780231130585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.84€ 83.34
€ 108.84
€ 83.34
Hardback. Series: Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945. Num Pages: 288 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 182 x 23. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130462
- ISBN
- 9780231130462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.37€ 76.51
€ 99.37
€ 76.51
Paperback. The third book in Kristeva's trilogy on female genius,Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of this notorious French novelist who made it possible for women to write erotic literature. The result is an elegant and sophisticated critique filled with psychoanalytic insight. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 448 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 348 x 36. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128971
- ISBN
- 9780231128971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Hardback. Follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of Jacques Derrida. This book merges the biography and textual commentary in a portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverly Bie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 color illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128247
- ISBN
- 9780231128247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.64€ 72.84
€ 94.64
€ 72.84
Hardback. This neglected Greek satire is now available in English. Basing their translation on two critical editions of the 14th-century anonymous poem, Nicholas and Baloglou reveal the full texture of this unique genre of the Byzantine period. The authors provide analysis on form, style and context. Translator(s): Nicholas, Nick; Baloglou, George. Series: Records of Western Civilization Series. Num Pages: 576 pages, 39 illus. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 175 x 31. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231127608
- ISBN
- 9780231127608
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.30€ 90.18
€ 118.30
€ 90.18
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 327
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126915
- ISBN
- 9780231126915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.52
€ 37.99
€ 27.52
Hardback. Series: Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 186 x 20. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126861
- ISBN
- 9780231126861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.11€ 79.73
€ 104.11
€ 79.73
Paperback. Benjamin and Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. With material dating from 1918 to 1923, this text aims to make their more obscure work accessible to a wider audience. The topics discussed include messianism, language and divine justice. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJG; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126571
- ISBN
- 9780231126571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15