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Literature: history & criticism

hardcover. These essays-which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan- describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures. Editor(s): Budick, Sanford; Iser, Wolfgang. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 364 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804724845
ISBN
9780804724845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.11

hardcover. This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected The Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan). Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804724623
ISBN
9780804724623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.63

hardcover. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 389.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723763
ISBN
9780804723763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.89

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720748
ISBN
9780804720748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.31

hardcover. Reading a range of texts significant in their own time but little studied today, the author presents a view of late medieval French poetry in all its subtle variety: its quirkiness, its rhyming, its frequent moral seriousness, its occasional bawdiness, and the ambiguities of its authorial I. Num Pages: 372 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804718288
ISBN
9780804718288
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

hardcover. Rhetoric is an area of study without accepted certainties, not yet parcelled into subdivisions and adhering to no fixed protocols. It is a noisy field in the cybernetic sense of the term: a fertile ground for creative innovation. This text embodies the interdisciplinary character of rhetoric. Editor(s): Bender, John; Wellbery, David E. Num Pages: 252 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804718172
ISBN
9780804718172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

hardcover. Theatre and print began their tense relations and imperfect alliance in the late 17th century. This text focuses on the most active phase of the career of William Congreve, a crucial juncture in the history of print and publishing and a time when the book trade was becoming a lucrative business. Num Pages: 304 pages, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804717519
ISBN
9780804717519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.25

hardcover. Here, the author aims to show how the poet Su Shi's complex personality was embodied in his work and traces the evolution of his poems from juvenilia to the poems written in exile in Huangzhou, where Su settled on a farm at East Slope. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 30. Weight in Grams: 629.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804715874
ISBN
9780804715874
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.90

hardcover. Presents Stevens' notebooks containing excerpts from his reading, his comments and aphorisms. Editor(s): Bates, Milton J. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 100 x 16. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804715492
ISBN
9780804715492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.57

Paperback. Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies. In this book, the basic argument is that neither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development. Series Editor(s): Johnson, David; Loomba, Ania; The Open University/BBC; University of Pennsylvania. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639939
ISBN
9780748639939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

paperback. This up-to-date selection of the most important published work lays out the principles of reception study and its major theoreticians. Editor(s): Machor, James L.; Goldstein, Philip. Num Pages: 367 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
367
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415926508
ISBN
9780415926508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.11

Paperback. A translation of Osbern Bokenham's "Legendys of Hooly Wummen" (1443-1447), the first all-female hagiography. Translated from Latinale Middle English, it contains the Augustinian friar's version of the stories of 13 women saints from gospel, apocrypha, martyrology and high-medieval history. Translator(s): Delany, Sheila. Series: Mediaeval Studies: Sources & Appraisals S. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB; DSC; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268012953
ISBN
9780268012953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.56

paperback. Presents Baudrillard's key concepts and examines his contribution to the analysis of specific domains, such as postmodernism, feminism, technology, art, war, time and politics. Series: Modern European Thinkers. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745316352
ISBN
9780745316352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.50

paperback. After his highly successful history of Prussia, the authorized biographer of Siegfried Sassoon examines the First World War through the lives of the poets who fought at the front. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DCQ; DSBH; DSC; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
SKU
9781447242000
ISBN
9781447242000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 5.80

Paperback. Translator(s): Yang, H. Series: Cornell East Asia Series,. Num Pages: 130 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell Univ East Asia Program
Condition
New
SKU
V9781885445179
ISBN
9781885445179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Hardback. A Companion to the Harlem Renaissance presents a comprehensive collection of original essays that address the literature and culture of the Harlem Renaissance from the end of World War I to the middle of the 1930s. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 180 x 29. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118494066
ISBN
9781118494066
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 210.47

hardcover. Editor(s): Jones, Anna Maria; Mitchell, Rebecca N. Series: Series in Victorian Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JM; ACV; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821422472
ISBN
9780821422472
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.54

paperback. Considers how we remember historical instances of suffering and atrocity, framing its central questions to show larger cultural shifts in how we position ourselves in relation to history, performance, and memory. Series: Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: AN; APFA; DSG; HBJD; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 12. Weight in Grams: 1062.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253212924
ISBN
9780253212924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.45

paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252064593
ISBN
9780252064593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.91

Paperback. Challenges the familiar way of reading a major strain of 19th century American literature. Rather than seeing this strain as preoccupied with a subject's inner mental life, it shows that subjects can only be understood, and understand themselves, through the production of public effects. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335498
ISBN
9780822335498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.21

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