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paperback. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, this title examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China. Num Pages: 392 pages, 6 drawings. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822315667
ISBN
9780822315667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.78

Hardback. John Kleiner investigates the place of error in the moral and aesthetic system of Dante's Comedy. He argues that Dante's delight in finely wrought patterns does not exclude an interest in patterns of disorder, that his pursuit of harmony intensifies his interest in dissonance. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, 16 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721431
ISBN
9780804721431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.16

Offering a previously unexplored view of derogatory representations of women, this text demonstrates the ways in which a range of authors used misogyny to promote, resist and critique new capitalist forms. The book also reveals how feminist critics could have misunderstood misogyny's function. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 549.
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813121161
ISBN
9780813121161
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.16

Hardback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804724630
ISBN
9780804724630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.02

Paperback. Offers the reader countries and languages perceived through the eyes of youth and loss. In this collection, the author plays with ideas of tradition, lightly conjuring heavy themes, and makes a bow to pulp culture. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 134 x 6. Weight in Grams: 100. 72 pages. Offers the reader countries and languages perceived through the eyes of youth and loss. In this collection, the author plays with ideas of tradition, lightly conjuring heavy themes, and makes a bow to pulp culture. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 134 x 6. Weight: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847771384
ISBN
9781847771384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.43

Paperback. The Li sisters don't have much education, but one thing has been drummed into them: their mother is a failure because she hasn't managed to produce a son, and they themselves only merit a number as a name. Yet when circumstances lead the sisters to seek work in distant Nanjing, the shocking new urban environment opens their eyes. Translator(s): Tyldesley, Esther. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099501534
ISBN
9780099501534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393354386
ISBN
9780393354386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.75

Paperback. Translator(s): McLeish, Kenneth. Series: Drama Classics S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 107 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854592057
ISBN
9781854592057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.45

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 133 x 4. Weight in Grams: 58.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486272818
ISBN
9780486272818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.37

Paperback. Presents the conflict between sexual and social position. This work belongs to the series of plays, notably "The Father and Creditors", in which sex and marriage are treated with frank realism. Editor(s): Taylor, Jo; Thomas, David. Translator(s): Meyer, Michael. Series: Student Editions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413775825
ISBN
9780413775825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.45

Paperback. Editor(s): Robinson, Michael. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538041
ISBN
9780199538041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.86

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Edition
Original
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811218221
ISBN
9780811218221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.90

Paperback. Series: Current Theatre. Num Pages: 58 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 136 x 6. Weight in Grams: 108.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9780868196398
ISBN
9780868196398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

Hardcover. In 1961, Beat writer Seymour Krim set Greenwich Village on its ear with a slim volume of essays that featured an unleashed voice, a brash title, and a foreword by Norman Mailer. This title reintroduces this influential writer to a generation of readers. Editor(s): Cohen, Mark R. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 black-&-white illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815609483
ISBN
9780815609483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.89

Paperback. Timothy Steele's excellent book is not a formalist manifesto but an even-handed scholarly account of the whole background of 'free verse' poetics. -- Richard Wilbur Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557281265
ISBN
9781557281265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.09

Hardback. Using the tools of medicine, literary theory, psychology, psychoanalysis, and etymology, this book probes the breast-related fantasies underlying German culture and literature in the second half of the eighteenth century. It is intended for those interested in German textual studies, the history of sexuality, and theories of psychoanalysis. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295986111
ISBN
9780295986111
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 177.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632430007
ISBN
9781632430007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.53

Paperback. Missing is the story of Robert Khalipa , an ANC Cadre living in exile, who is very senior in the Organisation but is left out of the negotiations and almost forgotten in Sweden. Robert has a wealthy Swedish wife, Anna, and they have a daughter who is a practising doctor in a hospital in Stockholm. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90000.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868148899
ISBN
9781868148899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.92

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Mercier Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KNW0008271
ISBN
9781856355278
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. .
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Mercier Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KEX0200001
ISBN
9781856355278
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback.
Publisher
Mercier Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
9781856355278
ISBN
9781856355278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Mercier Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KTJ0008633
ISBN
9781856355278
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Mercier Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KLN0018776
ISBN
9781856355278
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Translator(s): Montgomery, James. Series: Library of Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1FB; 3F; DQ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5334 x 3556. .
Publisher
NYU Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781479899890
ISBN
9781479899890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.63

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