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Paperback. These essays-which consider a wide variety of cultures from ancient Egypt to contemporary Japan- describe the conditions under which cultures that do not dominate each other may yet achieve a limited translatability of cultures. Editor(s): Budick, Sanford; Iser, Wolfgang. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 364 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 493.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725613
ISBN
9780804725613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Paperback. This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Editor(s): Denton, Kirk A. Num Pages: 572 pages, reference material. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
564
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725590
ISBN
9780804725590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.81
€ 53.33

Paperback. This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problem of mimesis, of presentation and re-presentation. Four "scenes" compose this book, all four of them responses to Wagner: two by French poets (Baudelaire and Mallarme), two by German philosophers (Heidegger and Adorno). Translator(s): McCarren, Felicia. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AVA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804723855
ISBN
9780804723855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.91

Paperback. One of the more important and original collections of theoretical essays in the field. . . . The issues it addresses are no less pertinent now than they were in 1987; they seem, indeed, to be of perennial importance. -- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley Editor(s): Krieger, Murray. Series: Irvine Studies in the Humanities. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720984
ISBN
9780804720984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804718684
ISBN
9780804718684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.62

Hardcover. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804718516
ISBN
9780804718516
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.97

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
373
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804715997
ISBN
9780804715997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.45

Hardcover. "The Frame translation of the complete essays was initially published in 1957 in The complete works of Montaigne."--T.p. verso. Editor(s): Frame, Donald M. Translator(s): Frame, Donald M. Num Pages: 908 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 100 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1375.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1958
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804704854
ISBN
9780804704854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.59

Paperback. After a wandering, precarious life during which he produced poems, essays, stories, and novels, Robert Walser (1878-1956) entered an insane asylum, saying, 'I am not here to write, but to be mad'. This work features a collection of fifty translations of short prose pieces that cover the middle to later years of the writer's oeuvre. Num Pages: 211 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DNF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803298330
ISBN
9780803298330
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, this book examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Num Pages: 370 pages, 14 photographs, table. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 114 x 232 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803289499
ISBN
9780803289499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Bridges mainstream literary history and Gerard Genette's expertise in critical method by undertaking an intensive study of the most vexed of literary problems: language as a representation of reality. Deeply learned, the book draws upon the traditions - both sane and eccentric - of philosophy, linguistics, poetics, and comparative literature. Translator(s): Morgan, Thais E. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 446 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 753.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press Lincoln
Number of pages
514
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803270442
ISBN
9780803270442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.94

Paperback. Brings a much-needed perspective to Deadwood's representation of the frontier West Editor(s): Graulich, Melody; Witschi, Nicolas S. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803264748
ISBN
9780803264748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages, 33 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803259775
ISBN
9780803259775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

Paperback. A complete translation of the cycle of ten novellas that Lou Andreas-Salome wrote between 1895 and 1898. This collection contributes to the rediscovery of Andreas-Salome's significance as a thinker and writer, above all with regard to her literary contribution to modern feminism and the principles of women's emancipation. Translator(s): Whitinger, Raleigh. Series: European Women Writers. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803259522
ISBN
9780803259522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. Proposing that its roots can be found in Great Plains nonfiction writing, this book explores the many facets of this vital form of critique, exploration, and celebration that weaves together such elements of narrative as natural history, cultural history, geography, memoir, and intertextuality. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803245020
ISBN
9780803245020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.76

Paperback. "Doing things by the book" acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand's memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The "works cited" are those books that serve as Schrand's signposts as he goes from life as a hormone-crazed, heavy-metal wannabe in the remotest parts of working-class Idaho to a reasonable facsimile of manhood. Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
0th edition
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803243378
ISBN
9780803243378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.63

Hardback. Explores the intriguing life of the real d'Estoc, explaining why others came to doubt the "experts" and following the threads of evidence that the latter overlooked Num Pages: 216 pages, 9 photographs, 4 illustrations, 1 genealogy, 1 chronology. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BGH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803240346
ISBN
9780803240346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 38.82

Paperback. Investigates ways in which the textual and the visual combine in certain French works to reconfigure ideas and images of self-representation Editor(s): Edwards, Natalie; Hubbell, Amy L.; Miller, Ann. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AJ; AKLC; APF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803236318
ISBN
9780803236318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. Let's Be Reasonable collects Sartore's pieces - some aired on Sunday Morning, some never before published - pairing each story with the award-winning photography for which he is known. Num Pages: 152 pages, 67 color photographs. BIC Classification: AJC; DNJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3556 x 5182 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803235069
ISBN
9780803235069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.81

Paperback. An elegant, poetic, and experimental memoir by one of the foremost voices in Native American literature today. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DQ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803234819
ISBN
9780803234819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Paperback. Concerns about power, its use and abuse, have been at the centre of Margaret Randall's work for more than fifty years. And over time Randall has acquired a power all her own, as her unique ability to observe, consider, and distil experience has drawn read Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803234772
ISBN
9780803234772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.69

Paperback. Looks at the spiritual significance of circumstances and places and those who inhabit them, from the Jewish dead in a long-neglected cemetery in Poland to a dog slaughtered on a highway fronting the Black Sea to gunshots ringing out in rural Michigan. This title probes what such phenomena suggest about the times we live in. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803234314
ISBN
9780803234314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.87

Hardback. In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. This book examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America. Editor(s): Cohen, Matt; Glover, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 464 pages, 27 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBJK; HBLH; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803232396
ISBN
9780803232396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

Paperback. Volume of essays, selected from the 2007 International Cather Seminar, exploring the geographic locations and cultures that informed Cather's writing Editor(s): Palleau-Papin, Francoise; Murphy, John J.; Palleau, Francoise; Thacker, Robert. Series: Cather Studies. Num Pages: 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
492
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803230255
ISBN
9780803230255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.84

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