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Hardback. This book explores the history of prose fiction in Iran in the context of contemporary legal reforms and examines marriage as a metaphor that unites them. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 383.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804775892
- ISBN
- 9780804775892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.51
€ 71.51
Hardback. A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804776349
- ISBN
- 9780804776349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
Paperback. A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War. Series: Post - 45. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804776356
- ISBN
- 9780804776356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804776868
- ISBN
- 9780804776868
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.92
€ 81.92
Hardback. The Full Severity of Compassion is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessmentby attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetryof major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion, and from metaphor to translation. " Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DS; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804782951
- ISBN
- 9780804782951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.91
€ 81.91
Paperback. Our Conrad is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad as a "master" literary figure as well as a call to transnationalize the field of American literary and cultural studies. Num Pages: 488 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804783132
- ISBN
- 9780804783132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.72
€ 42.99
€ 38.72
Paperback. This book examines the contributions of queer writers and artists of color to contemporary social theory. Series: Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804783408
- ISBN
- 9780804783408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.43
€ 27.99
€ 26.43
Paperback. Taking advantage of the partial opening of secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Police Aesthetics explores the intersections between culture and policing in Soviet times. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DV; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804786928
- ISBN
- 9780804786928
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.51
€ 30.99
€ 27.51
Hardback. Cavarero refutes a long-standing set of assumptions in moral philosophy by contesting the classical figure of the homo erectus or 'upright man, ' and by proposing a feminist, altruistic, open model of the subject-one inclined toward others. Translator(s): Sitze, Adam; Minervini, Amanda. Series: Square One. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804792189
- ISBN
- 9780804792189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.50
€ 103.50
Hardback. The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804794459
- ISBN
- 9780804794459
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.33
€ 140.33
Hardback. Series: Post*45. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 4217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804795128
- ISBN
- 9780804795128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Paperback. The book offers the first systematic analysis of Kafka's only work of nonfiction, the so-called Zurau fragments, and develops his proposals there for a controversial solution to human suffering and the drive toward moral betterment. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804796590
- ISBN
- 9780804796590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; DSK; HBTG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804798693
- ISBN
- 9780804798693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.47
€ 128.47
paperback. This book offers new and provocative readings of Milan Kundera's "Book of Laughter and Forgetting," J.M. Coetzee's "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Life and Times of Michael K," selected short fiction of Nadine Gordimer and Grace Paley, Ibuse Masuji's "Black Rain," John Hawkes's "Travesty," and others. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812213218
- ISBN
- 9780812213218
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Paperback. The novels of Paul Auster have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In Beyond the Red Notebook, the first book devoted to the works of Auster, an international group of scholars provide a rich and insightful examination of Auster's writings. Editor(s): Barone, Dennis. Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction. Num Pages: 224 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812215564
- ISBN
- 9780812215564
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.58
€ 32.99
€ 29.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Edition
- Expanded
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216097
- ISBN
- 9780812216097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 illus. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216196
- ISBN
- 9780812216196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.01
€ 37.99
€ 34.01
paperback. "It's later than you think! Literary critics, practicing and prospective, had better take a close look at Mark Bauerlein's mordant and humorous 'autopsy.'"--Frederick Crews, editor, Series: Critical Authors and Issues. Num Pages: 176 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216257
- ISBN
- 9780812216257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. A study of William Bartram's "Travels", Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia", and J Hector St John de Crevecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer" that situates them within two important intellectual traditions: the literature of travel and the science of natural history. Num Pages: 200 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; HBJK; WN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 305.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812216868
- ISBN
- 9780812216868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.60
€ 32.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. "Paul Giles .. describes episodes of literary exchange between Britain and America not as case studies in reproduction or disavowal but as moments of 'transnational convergence.'.. A rich and reasoned understanding of what these influences may be and of the often inspired anxiety the produce." -Modern Language Quarterly Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812217674
- ISBN
- 9780812217674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.25
€ 37.99
€ 34.25
Paperback. "Green's work is of the greatest importance for the understanding of a crucial period in the history of English writing and institutions, and a crucial shift in patterns of cognition."-Derek Pearsall, Harvard University Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; CF; DS; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 751.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812218091
- ISBN
- 9780812218091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.49
€ 41.99
€ 37.49
Paperback. The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, this book presents the arguments and struggles that produced an American "culture of reprinting" and held it in place for two crucial decades. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 376 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780812219951
- ISBN
- 9780812219951
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.15
€ 37.99
€ 34.15
Paperback. Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself. Num Pages: 448 pages, 51 illus. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812220223
- ISBN
- 9780812220223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.49
€ 41.99
€ 37.49
paperback. Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during the expansion of female readership in the early modern period. Editor(s): Brayman Hackel, Heidi; Kelly, Catherine E. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 280 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812220803
- ISBN
- 9780812220803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73