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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

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

€ 94.08
€ 77.43

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

€ 94.08
€ 77.43

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

€ 52.99
€ 40.29

Paperback. This study explores the influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods ranging from epic and didactic poetry to the theatrical productions of tragedy and comedy in 5th-century Athens. The workings of gender as a factor in Greek social, religious and cultural practices are explored. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 494 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
494
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226979229
ISBN
9780226979229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 30.97

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

€ 72.92
€ 56.44

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
€ 28.66

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
€ 28.91

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

€ 132.89
€ 99.33

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

€ 142.30
€ 106.13

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

€ 103.49
€ 78.67

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
€ 38.90

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

€ 111.73
€ 84.01

Hardback. A brilliant collection of short essays on literary subjects e.g. Beckett, Balzac, Proust, Thomas Mann, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, the lyric, realism, the essay, and the contemporary novel by the great social theorist (1903-1969), originally published in 1958 as Noten zur literature (Suhrkamp Verlag, F Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholson, S.W. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231063326
ISBN
9780231063326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.20
€ 81.45

Paperback. The author, a noted literary critic, presents a selection of his thought on Balzac, Valery, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, Hoelderlin, lyric poetry, realism, the essay and the contemporary novel. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholson, S.W. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 350 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231063333
ISBN
9780231063333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.94

Hardback. Editor(s): Davis, Lennard J.; Mirabella, M. Bella. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 316 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JPFF; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st Printing
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231065665
ISBN
9780231065665
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.19
€ 95.92

Paperback. Aimed at the general reader, this introduction to Japanese literature assumes no previous knowledge of Japanese culture. The author presents a series of essays which provide an overview of pre-modern Japanese poetry and fiction, as well as theatre and aesthetics. Series: Companions to Asian Studies Series. Num Pages: 133 pages, further reading list, index. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
133
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231067379
ISBN
9780231067379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.61

Hardback. A reflection of the American psyche as revealed in US literature and politics, this study guides the reader through two centuries of American literary history. It examines the emerging American nation and the theme of new beginnings used by American writers in their search for a national identity. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Printing
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231070508
ISBN
9780231070508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.49
€ 78.05

Hardback. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 316 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231070867
ISBN
9780231070867
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.32
€ 62.74

Hardback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
Morningside ed
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231071161
ISBN
9780231071161
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.61
€ 88.27

Hardback. This work explores the best of contemporary Italian theatre, from Luigi Pirandello to Massimo Bontempelli. It covers the period from the end of the 19th century to the aftermath of World War II, and includes a number of translations of plays never before published in English. Editor(s): House, Jane; Attisani, Antonio. Num Pages: 622 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 172 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1135.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
622
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231071185
ISBN
9780231071185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.79
€ 74.53

Hardback. This collection of critical essays attempts to construct a comprehensive portrait of Vidal's writings and to determine why his work has been underestimated. It includes an interview with Vidal in which he discusses his career and his troubled relationship with literary reviewers. Editor(s): Parini, Jay, Ph.D. Num Pages: 321 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
321
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072083
ISBN
9780231072083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.61
€ 88.98

Hardback. More than 450 succinct entries from A to Z help readers make sense of the interdisciplinary knowledge of cultural criticism that includes film, psychoanalytic, deconstructive, poststructuralist, and postmodernist theory as well as philosophy, media studies, linguistics. Editor(s): Childers, Joseph; Hentzi, Gary. Num Pages: 362 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA; GBC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072427
ISBN
9780231072427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.89
€ 99.21

Hardback. -- Robert E. Morrell, Washington University Editor(s): Yampolsky, Philip B. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 508 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSB; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 32. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
508
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231072601
ISBN
9780231072601
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.61
€ 88.13

Hardback. The first history of America's major literary form offers new views of our literary history and a sophisticated examination of areas of fiction that have only recently begun to receive attention. Editor(s): Elliott, Emory; Davidson, Cathy N.; O'Donnell, Patrick; Smith, Valerie; Wilson, Christopher P. Num Pages: 905 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1770.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
905
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231073608
ISBN
9780231073608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.89
€ 99.33

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