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Struggling Upward: Worldly Success and the Japanese Novel (Harvard Eas...
Timothy J. Van Compernolle
Hardcover. Timothy J. Van Compernolle reconsiders the rise of the modern novel in Japan by connecting the genre to new discourses on ambition and social mobility, arguing that social mobility is the privileged lens through which Meiji novelists explored abstract concepts of national belonging, social hierarchy, and the new space of an industrializing nation. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DS; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674659797
- ISBN
- 9780674659797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07
The Uses of Memory: The Critique of Modernity in the Fiction of Higuch...
Timothy J. Van Compernolle
Hardback. Writer Higuchi Ichiyo has been described as a consummate stylist of classical prose. Drawing critical momentum from the dialogical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores in five of her best-known stories how traditional rhetoric and literary devices are engaged with discourses associated with modernity within the pages of her narratives. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022720
- ISBN
- 9780674022720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07
Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816689439
- ISBN
- 9780816689439
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.09
€ 98.09
Paperback. Series: Electronic Mediations (Paperback). BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFD; JFFE; UDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816696086
- ISBN
- 9780816696086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.48
€ 27.99
€ 26.48
Paperback. Num Pages: 79 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oberlin College Press United States
- Number of pages
- 79
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780932440334
- ISBN
- 9780932440334
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.55
€ 16.99
€ 14.55
paperback. .
- Publisher
- Ronin Publishing
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780914171843
- ISBN
- 9780914171843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.47
€ 13.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. These 11 essays are the writings that galvanized the 60s youth revolution, written when Leary was at the peak of his popularity, influence and visionary intensity. Num Pages: 160 pages, b&w. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 9. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Ronin Publishing United States
- Edition
- 6th ed.
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781579510091
- ISBN
- 9781579510091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
€ 17.99
€ 16.51
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€ 41.92
€ 46.99
€ 41.92
Hardback. This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and gay culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and moral responsibility. Editor(s): Murphy, Timothy F.; Poirier, Suzanne. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231078641
- ISBN
- 9780231078641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.84€ 83.22
€ 108.84
€ 83.22
Paperback. Selected works of three Marrano poets, together with translations into English and explanatory notes, are presented in this volume. In a general introduction the editor explains the historical and literary background of their works and examines the interrelationship between the Jewish and Christian cultural elements. Editor(s): Oelman, Timothy. Translator(s): Oelman, Timothy. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New in paperback
- SKU
- V9781904113690
- ISBN
- 9781904113690
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.56
€ 29.99
€ 27.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 85 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oberlin College Press United States
- Number of pages
- 85
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780932440402
- ISBN
- 9780932440402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.56
€ 16.99
€ 14.56
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674036055
- ISBN
- 9780674036055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.61
€ 23.99
€ 20.61
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442273276
- ISBN
- 9781442273276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.01
€ 60.01
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 9. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781987915082
- ISBN
- 9781987915082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.64
€ 16.99
€ 12.64
Hardback. American Georgics takes as its primary problem the question of the human place in nature. By extending our understanding of what counts as environmental literature back before Thoreau, Sweet shows that early texts, while not necessarily "green" in contemporary terms, can offer important insights into our relationship to the environment. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; DS; GTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812236378
- ISBN
- 9780812236378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.69
€ 86.69
Paperback. The poet, essayist, critic, journalist and lexicographer Samuel Johnson was one of the pre-eminent figures of 18th-century English letters. Johnson was also a legendary wit and conversationalist, whose sharp-tongued pronouncements and many eccentricities are well recorded in Boswell's classic Life. Series: Life & Times. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 201 x 9. Weight in Grams: 258. Some light shelf wear, else as new
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KRA0011120
- ISBN
- 9781904341819
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 35 color + 40 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 223 x 26. Weight in Grams: 682.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300218459
- ISBN
- 9780300218459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.49
€ 26.99
€ 20.49
Hardback. Presents over 200 selected original artworks from the collection Betsy Beinecke Shirley bequeathed to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University. This volume offers to study the reading lives of children throughout American history. It invites reader to recollect images from the treasured books of his or her own childhood. Series: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Num Pages: 196 pages, 250 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGC; AKLB; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 305 x 248 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1647.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300126730
- ISBN
- 9780300126730
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
€ 40.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. A landmark anthology, providing the most ambitious, far-reaching collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry available. Editor(s): Chang, Tina; Handal, Nathalie; Shankar, Ravi. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 254 x 34. Weight in Grams: 978.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393332384
- ISBN
- 9780393332384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.85
€ 30.99
€ 25.85
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781498500326
- ISBN
- 9781498500326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.11€ 17.09
€ 104.11
€ 17.09
Paperback. In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804751865
- ISBN
- 9780804751865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Hardback. In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. Series: Asian America. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804751858
- ISBN
- 9780804751858
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.28
€ 113.28
Hardback. Fiction and drama repeatedly pose questions concerning relations both among people and between people and their possessions: What ties individuals together, whether permanently or temporarily? When can ownership be transferred, and when does an object define its owner? This book traces how these political questions were addressed in fiction. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031562
- ISBN
- 9780674031562
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.07
€ 45.99
€ 38.07
Hardcover. The dictionary makes a contribution to the knowledge of writing in Munster in both Irish and English over the past 200 years. It has entries on 560 writers, including 220 in Irish. Each entry contains a bibliographical note, a list of key references, and a bibliography where applicable. Editor(s): O'Toole, Tina. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Number of pages
- 330
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859183885
- ISBN
- 9781859183885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.00€ 24.15
€ 29.00
€ 24.15