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Hardcover. Concentrating on the sacrament of the altar, poverty and conflicting versions of sanctity, this critical study of Christian literature, theology and culture in late medieval England considers the diverse ways in which certain Christians and their Church engaged the immense resources of the Christian tradition in their own historical moment. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020217
ISBN
9780268020217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.21

Paperback. Offers the analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 color and 65 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 154 x 330. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292706705
ISBN
9780292706705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardcover. Volumes V and VI concern Dryden's most involved labor: the complete translation of Virgil into English. Volume V contains The Pastorals and The Georgics in their entirety; the first six books of The Aeneid is contained as well. Editor(s): Frost, William; Dearing, Vinton A.; Roper, Alan. Series: Works of John Dryden. Num Pages: 584 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 162 x 44. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520021211
ISBN
9780520021211
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.85
€ 72.77

Paperback. Includes essays by Julius Baum, C G Jung, C Kerenyi, Hans Leisegang, Paul Masson-Oursel, Fritz Meier, Jean de Menasce, Georges Nagel, Walter F Otto, Max Pulver, Hugo Rahner, Paul Schmitt, and Walter Wili. Editor(s): Campbell, Joseph. Series: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691018232
ISBN
9780691018232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.28
€ 46.67

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691609836
ISBN
9780691609836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. Editor(s): Preminger, Alex; Hardison, O. B.; Warnke, Frank J. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691610146
ISBN
9780691610146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.36
€ 42.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12, 6 black & white halftones, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFFS; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801477812
ISBN
9780801477812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Paperback. Reveals how both immigrant European and modern Native communities and individuals use oral and written narratives to define and centre themselves in time and space. This work provides a fresh understanding of Western literature and culture, and encourages a reconsideration of the formation and modern character of the American West. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803218338
ISBN
9780803218338
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.09

Hardback. Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story, illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how events unfold. This work uses developments in linguistics and computer science to analyze the use of time in narrative form. It develops a computer representation for timelines and applies it to a variety of literary works. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 264 pages, 34 illustrations, 4 tables, 1 glossary. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803229778
ISBN
9780803229778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.56

Hardback. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 344 pages, 11 photographs, 1 appendix. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803248373
ISBN
9780803248373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.16

Hardback. Brings together all of the approximately 3,070 published and unpublished poems composed by Larry Eigner (1927-1996), a prominent American poet of the postwar era and one of the principal figures of the influential Black Mountain school. Editor(s): Grenier, Robert; Faville, Curtis. Num Pages: 1868 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 157. Weight in Grams: 6328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
1868
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804750905
ISBN
9780804750905
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 199.26

Paperback. The essays in this volume demonstrate how the performance of sincerity is culturally specific and is enacted in different ways in different media and disciplines, including law and the arts. Editor(s): Alphen, Ernst van; Bal, Mieke; Smith, Carel. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804763028
ISBN
9780804763028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Paperback. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804799676
ISBN
9780804799676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Hardcover. Presents the first English translation of two important texts, with a new critical edition based on several original manuscripts Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814729144
ISBN
9780814729144
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.70

Paperback. Theorizes the cultural reactions - within the realms of visual arts, literature, and the social sciences - to the oppression of the Chilean dictatorship. This title considers the importance of Walter Benjamin for the theoretical self-understanding of the Latin American intellectual left. Translator(s): Richard, Nelly; Tandeciarz, Silvia R. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; DS; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3556 x 6. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822333395
ISBN
9780822333395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.32

Hardback. Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution. Editor(s): Forsdick, Charles; Hogsbjerg, Christian. Series: The C. L. R. James Archives. Num Pages: 464 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KJH; 3JF; 3JH; DSR; HBJK; HBTQ; HBTV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 772.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361848
ISBN
9780822361848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.57

Hardback. Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary texts, this title analyzes the role of gesture in medical and religious ritual, in the gladiatorial arena, in mourning practice, in aristocratic competition of the late Republic, and in the court of the emperor Tiberius. Num Pages: 224 pages, 19 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; AFC; AFK; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; JHMC; JMAL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691074948
ISBN
9780691074948
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.93
€ 68.28

Hardback. Drawing upon Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault, and Althusser, this challenging and lucid work offers a theory of subject formation that illuminates as ambivalent the psychic effects of social power. Num Pages: 228 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728119
ISBN
9780804728119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.89

Hardback. This is a broad-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink aesthetic and literary studies in terms of an "anthropology" of symbolic media generally. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734639
ISBN
9780804734639
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.65

Hardback. This work is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. The sustained effort of 30 years of labour is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and its history. Editor(s): Hodge, David. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804745420
ISBN
9780804745420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.47

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