Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. This book examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America. Editor(s): Cohen, Matt; Glover, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 464 pages, 27 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBJK; HBLH; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803232396
- ISBN
- 9780803232396
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Condition: New
€ 75.98
€ 75.98
Paperback. Concerns about power, its use and abuse, have been at the centre of Margaret Randall's work for more than fifty years. And over time Randall has acquired a power all her own, as her unique ability to observe, consider, and distil experience has drawn read Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803234772
- ISBN
- 9780803234772
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€ 17.99€ 17.55
€ 17.99
€ 17.55
Paperback. Investigates ways in which the textual and the visual combine in certain French works to reconfigure ideas and images of self-representation Editor(s): Edwards, Natalie; Hubbell, Amy L.; Miller, Ann. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AJ; AKLC; APF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803236318
- ISBN
- 9780803236318
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€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Hardback. Explores the intriguing life of the real d'Estoc, explaining why others came to doubt the "experts" and following the threads of evidence that the latter overlooked Num Pages: 216 pages, 9 photographs, 4 illustrations, 1 genealogy, 1 chronology. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BGH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803240346
- ISBN
- 9780803240346
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Condition: New
€ 38.70
€ 38.70
Hardback. Proposing that its roots can be found in Great Plains nonfiction writing, this book explores the many facets of this vital form of critique, exploration, and celebration that weaves together such elements of narrative as natural history, cultural history, geography, memoir, and intertextuality. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803245020
- ISBN
- 9780803245020
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Condition: New
€ 47.11
€ 47.11
Paperback. A complete translation of the cycle of ten novellas that Lou Andreas-Salome wrote between 1895 and 1898. This collection contributes to the rediscovery of Andreas-Salome's significance as a thinker and writer, above all with regard to her literary contribution to modern feminism and the principles of women's emancipation. Translator(s): Whitinger, Raleigh. Series: European Women Writers. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 414
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803259522
- ISBN
- 9780803259522
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.12
€ 26.99
€ 25.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages, 33 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 418
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803259775
- ISBN
- 9780803259775
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.99
€ 23.99
€ 21.99
Paperback. Brings a much-needed perspective to Deadwood's representation of the frontier West Editor(s): Graulich, Melody; Witschi, Nicolas S. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803264748
- ISBN
- 9780803264748
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.72
€ 42.99
€ 38.72
Paperback. Bridges mainstream literary history and Gerard Genette's expertise in critical method by undertaking an intensive study of the most vexed of literary problems: language as a representation of reality. Deeply learned, the book draws upon the traditions - both sane and eccentric - of philosophy, linguistics, poetics, and comparative literature. Translator(s): Morgan, Thais E. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 446 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 753.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
- Number of pages
- 514
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803270442
- ISBN
- 9780803270442
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.44
€ 42.99
€ 38.44
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804715997
- ISBN
- 9780804715997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.07
€ 96.07
Hardcover. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718516
- ISBN
- 9780804718516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.95
€ 70.95
Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718684
- ISBN
- 9780804718684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.06
€ 92.06
Paperback. One of the more important and original collections of theoretical essays in the field. . . . The issues it addresses are no less pertinent now than they were in 1987; they seem, indeed, to be of perennial importance. -- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley Editor(s): Krieger, Murray. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804720984
- ISBN
- 9780804720984
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. 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: 5499 x 3564 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723855
- ISBN
- 9780804723855
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 564
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725590
- ISBN
- 9780804725590
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Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 53.17
€ 53.29
€ 53.17
Paperback. 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: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 493.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725613
- ISBN
- 9780804725613
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91
Paperback. Using structuralist and post-structuralist methods, this book analyzes a selection of influential Russian texts--classical, modernist, and contemporary--as dialogues with earlier works, in the light of new cultural contexts. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 386
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727037
- ISBN
- 9780804727037
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.32
€ 42.99
€ 38.32
Paperback. A study of images of writing in scientific study, such as descriptions of nature as a book written in the language of mathematics, and the characterisation of DNA sequences as a code for the book of life. The authors argue that these images enable us to come close to realising the nature of scientific processes. In the WRITING SCIENCE series. Editor(s): Lenoir, Timothy. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 476 pages, map. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727778
- ISBN
- 9780804727778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.60
€ 46.99
€ 41.60
Hardback. Challenging the reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature, this book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth. Num Pages: 444 pages, 6 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5893 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press California
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728454
- ISBN
- 9780804728454
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.07
€ 96.07
Paperback. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense. Translator(s): Pickford, Henry. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729529
- ISBN
- 9780804729529
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.51
€ 32.99
€ 29.51