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Hardback. Li Mengyang (1473 1530) was a scholar-official who initiated the literary archaist movement that sought to restore ancient styles of prose and poetry in sixteenth-century China. Chang Woei Ong situates Li's quest to redefine literati learning as a way to build a perfect social order in the context of intellectual transitions since the Song dynasty. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 350 pages, 1 line illustration, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JB; BGH; DSBD; HBJF; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 29. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674970595
ISBN
9780674970595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.30

Paperback. A modern poetry anthology that includes the work of a second generation of Asian American poets. The poems lay a groundwork for readers while at the same time expanding the scope of American literature. Editor(s): Chang, Victoria. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 407. Weight in Grams: 327.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252071744
ISBN
9780252071744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.07

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

Hardcover. From its humble "straw mat" origins to its paradoxical status as a national treasure, "p'ansori" has survived centuries of change and remains the primary source of Korean narrative and poetic consciousness. Chan Park celebrates "p'ansori" as a living tradition, adapting to an ever-shifting context. Series: Hawaii Studies on Korea. Num Pages: 392 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 2GK; AVGE; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824825119
ISBN
9780824825119
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.66

Paperback. Editor(s): Champagne, Lenora. Num Pages: 185 pages. BIC Classification: AFKP; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
185
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781559360098
ISBN
9781559360098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 17.02

Paperback. Explores a range of cultural representations of incest, from the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley to mother-daughter incest in contemporary true crime novels, to Oprah Winfrey's television special Scared Silent, in order to examine expressions of survivorship. Editor(s): Champagne, Rosaria. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814715437
ISBN
9780814715437
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Paperback. Asher Lev is the artist who painted the sensational 'Brooklyn Crucifixion'. Into it, he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140036428
ISBN
9780140036428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Hardback. This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya. Its contributors investigate how medieval poetic language reflects and shapes social, political, and religious worlds. In addition to new readings of canonical poetic texts, it includes readings of texts that have previously not held a central place in critical attention. Editor(s): Chaganti, Seeta. Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780823243242
ISBN
9780823243242
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.52

Paperback. Presents an English translation of selected poems by one of the most important and unusual modern poets of South Korea. Pak Chaesam's work is characterized by portraits of place, nature, childhood, and human relationships, and by indirection, nostalgia, and reflectiveness. He writes with a spareness of presentation, but a cornucopia of imagery. Translator(s): McCann, David R.; Shin, Jiwon. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691124469
ISBN
9780691124469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.50

Paperback. Series: Indigenous Americas. Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816678198
ISBN
9780816678198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.55

Paperback. Explores the embodied aspects of ownership and private property as these emerge in a range of American literary texts across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 b/w Illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823267460
ISBN
9780823267460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. A Level English Text Guide - The Great Gatsby Editor(s): CGP Books. Num Pages: 75 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 296 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Coordination Group Publications Ltd (CGP)
Number of pages
75
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847626684
ISBN
9781847626684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.68

Paperback. A Level English Text Guide - Hamlet Editor(s): CGP Books. Num Pages: 83 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSGS. Category: (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 296 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 234. 80 pages. Editor(s): Parsons, Richard. A Level English Text Guide - Hamlet. Cateogry: (XR) Revision / study guides. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSGS. Dimension: 296 x 210 x 5. Weight: 232.
Publisher
Coordination Group Publications Ltd (CGP)
Number of pages
83
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847626691
ISBN
9781847626691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.57

Paperback. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Arc Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910345672
ISBN
9781910345672
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

Paperback. Series: Theory out of bounds. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 263 x 18. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
First edition
SKU
V9780816639274
ISBN
9780816639274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Paperback. Includes the collections "The Black Heralds" (1918), "Trilce" (1922), "Human Poems" (1939), and "Spain, Take This Cup from Me" (1939). This edition includes a translation memoir that traces Eshleman's long relationship with Peruvian Cesar Vallejo's poetry. Editor(s): Eshleman, Clayton. Num Pages: 736 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1004.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
736
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520261730
ISBN
9780520261730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.97

Paperback. A recognition of Clayton Eshleman's seventeen-year apprenticeship to perhaps the most difficult poetry in the Spanish language. Translator(s): Eshleman, Clayton; Barcia, Jose Rubia. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 463.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520040991
ISBN
9780520040991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, this book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
With a New foreword by Stephen Greenblatt
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691149523
ISBN
9780691149523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.27

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415702683
ISBN
9780415702683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.51

paperback. Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant have found its way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature. Translator(s): Motteaux, P. A. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 516. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0022068
ISBN
9781853260360
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Used Copy. Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KDK0014759
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Used Copy.Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KDK0014226
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Used Copy.Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KDK0014225
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Used Copy.Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
MENTOR BOOK
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KDK0014222
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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