Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval ...
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Hardback. This work explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-12th century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks questions including what were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3H; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728102
- ISBN
- 9780804728102
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€ 97.23
€ 97.23
Paperback. This book is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Aleksandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name. Num Pages: 428 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 503.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 428
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- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804727990
- ISBN
- 9780804727990
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€ 46.99€ 45.13
€ 46.99
€ 45.13
Paperback. Bringing contemporary critical theory to bear on Beowulf, the author explores the literary originality of a poem often treated as oral and traditional. Num Pages: 220 pages, 4 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727952
- ISBN
- 9780804727952
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€ 29.99€ 29.10
€ 29.99
€ 29.10
Paperback. This book provides a historical context for racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the native writings of African-Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Series: Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727754
- ISBN
- 9780804727754
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€ 32.99€ 31.26
€ 32.99
€ 31.26
Hardback. By considering deconstructive theory and poetry in relation to the political radicalism of the Tel Quel group, this study argues that deconstruction presents greater possibilities for a reintegration of the political. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 505.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727600
- ISBN
- 9780804727600
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€ 86.40
€ 86.40
Paperback. Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727280
- ISBN
- 9780804727280
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€ 29.99€ 29.23
€ 29.99
€ 29.23
Hardback. This volume has a dual purpose. It aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to present cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature. Editor(s): Schalow, Paul; Walker, Janet A. Num Pages: 536 pages, 5 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 915.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804727228
- ISBN
- 9780804727228
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€ 108.91
€ 108.91
Hardback. Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727167
- ISBN
- 9780804727167
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€ 116.75
€ 116.75
Hardback. Cacciari discusses Vienna at a crucial turning point in Western thinking, as the 19th century ended, treating this extraordinarily rich concentration of people and events as the hub upon which wheeled into the 20th century. Translator(s): Friedman, Roger. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 1DFG; DSBH; HBJD; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780804727099
- ISBN
- 9780804727099
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€ 116.75
€ 116.75
Paperback. Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 287.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804726979
- ISBN
- 9780804726979
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€ 32.99€ 30.86
€ 32.99
€ 30.86
Paperback. In this account of the symbolic network or organizing myth that underlies Goethe's poetry the author aims to elaborate an interpretation of Goethe's lyric poetry and to demonstrate the significance of that poetry to the development of European Romanticism. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 484 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 712.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726948
- ISBN
- 9780804726948
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€ 40.99€ 39.99
€ 40.99
€ 39.99
Paperback. This is a full-length study of Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), generally recognized as the greatest playwright of Japan's classical Noh theatre. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5766 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726771
- ISBN
- 9780804726771
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€ 36.99€ 35.75
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€ 35.75
Paperback. This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3F; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726672
- ISBN
- 9780804726672
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€ 36.99€ 35.64
€ 36.99
€ 35.64
Paperback. This collection of twelve essays reclaims "the Age of Goethe"--to call upon a literary designation of roughly the same period--as a time when same-sex erotic attraction suffused artistic production from Winckelmann's art treatises and Goethe's plays to Friedrich Schlegel's self-reflexive novel Lucinde and Kleist's letters. Editor(s): Kuzniar, Alice A. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBD; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 367.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726153
- ISBN
- 9780804726153
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€ 36.99€ 35.75
€ 36.99
€ 35.75
Paperback. Providing a theoretical paradigm for understanding the relationship of history and literature in Russia, this book traces how major Russian writers of the past 200 years defined the nation's past through creating fictional and non-fictional works on historical themes. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 347.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780804725941
- ISBN
- 9780804725941
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€ 36.99€ 35.59
€ 36.99
€ 35.59
Paperback. Following the vicissitudes of friendship between the sexes in some of England's key writers, the author traces a history of idioms for today's friendships--their vulnerability, limits, and potential for change. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725910
- ISBN
- 9780804725910
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€ 36.99€ 35.75
€ 36.99
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Hardback. This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses of myth, violence, history, criticism, literature, and mass media. Editor(s): Ferris, David S. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 507.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725699
- ISBN
- 9780804725699
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€ 126.74
€ 126.74
Hardback. Through a series of theoretically informed readings, this book explores the uncanny effectivity of history in its seeming absence in canonical works by Burke, Wordsworth, Keats, and Baudelaire written in the shadow of the French Revolution and the Revolution of 1848. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 537.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725446
- ISBN
- 9780804725446
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€ 92.17
€ 92.17
Paperback. This work focuses on the centrality of illness - particularly psychosomatic illness - as an imaginative construct in Victorian culture, emphasising how it shaped the terms through which people perceived relationships between body and mind, self and other, private and public. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DQ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725330
- ISBN
- 9780804725330
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€ 32.99€ 31.62
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Paperback. This work argues that literature can be defined, and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. It identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the "ostensive moment" that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725316
- ISBN
- 9780804725316
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€ 33.99€ 33.47
€ 33.99
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paperback. The author breaks with old critical commonplaces that contrast Fielding's "masculinity" with Samuel Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities. She argues that a preoccupation with the tenuousness of gendered identity appears throughout Fielding's writings, and that Fielding shared that preoccupation with his contemporaries. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 421.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804725200
- ISBN
- 9780804725200
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€ 42.99€ 40.51
€ 42.99
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Hardback. Focusing on works by Rene Crevel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, and Herve Guibert, this book studies how the figures of homosexuality function at the limits of narrative, as part of the deep structure of narrative, and at the border between public and private discourse. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724678
- ISBN
- 9780804724678
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€ 81.15
€ 81.15
Paperback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 311.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724647
- ISBN
- 9780804724647
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€ 32.99€ 29.35
€ 32.99
€ 29.35
Hardback. An analysis of the complex relations between narrative, theory, interpretation and homosexuality in the work of Marcel Proust, Roland Barthes, Michel Tournier and Renaud Camus. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724173
- ISBN
- 9780804724173
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Condition: New
€ 81.04
€ 81.04