Literature

Left Politics and the Literary Profession

Lennard Davis (Ed.)

Hardback. Editor(s): Davis, Lennard J.; Mirabella, M. Bella. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 316 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; JPFF; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 726.

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Publication date: 1990
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Edition: 1st Printing
Number of pages: 316
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SKU: V9780231065665
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Notes to Literature

Theodor W. Adorno

Paperback. The author, a noted literary critic, presents a selection of his thought on Balzac, Valery, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, Hoelderlin, lyric poetry, realism, the essay and the contemporary novel. Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholson, S.W. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 350 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.

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Publication date: 1993
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Edition: 0th Edition
Number of pages: 284
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SKU: V9780231063333
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Notes to Literature

Theodor W. Adorno

Hardback. A brilliant collection of short essays on literary subjects e.g. Beckett, Balzac, Proust, Thomas Mann, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, the lyric, realism, the essay, and the contemporary novel by the great social theorist (1903-1969), originally published in 1958 as Noten zur literature (Suhrkamp Verlag, F Editor(s): Tiedemann, Rolf. Translator(s): Nicholson, S.W. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 350 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.

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Publication date: 1991
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages: 350
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SKU: V9780231063326
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At Emerson´s Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature

John Carlos Rowe

Hardback. Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve. Num Pages: 318 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 544.

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Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages: 318
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SKU: V9780231058940
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Theater of Memory: The Plays of Kalidasa

Barbara Stoler Miller

Paperback. This volume offers comprehensive analyses and new translations of Kalidasa's three extant plays: "Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection," "Urvasi Won by Valor," and "Malavika and Agnimitra." Num Pages: 387 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.

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Publication date: 1984
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Edition: 1st
Number of pages: 387
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SKU: V9780231058391
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The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteent...

Burton Watson

Paperback. Editor(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 385 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.

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Publication date: 1986
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: Reprint
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An Extraordinary Woman: Selected Writings of Germaine de Staël

Madame de Stael

Hardback. Collects letters, novellas, essays, criticism, and a play by a leading intellectual of the Romantic period. Translator(s): Folkenflik, Vivian. Num Pages: 411 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 681.

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Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Edition: 1St Edition
Number of pages: 411
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The Logic of Fantasy: H. G. Wells and Science Fiction

John Huntington

Hardback. Num Pages: 191 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 494.

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Publication date: 1982
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages: 191
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SKU: V9780231053785
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Dictionary of Russian Literature Since 1917

Wolfgang Kasack

Hardback. Translator(s): Carlson, Mona; Hedges, Jane T. Num Pages: 524 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 862.

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Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Edition: First Edition
Number of pages: 524
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SKU: V9780231052429
ISBN: 9780231052429

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The Classical Papers of Gilbert Highet

Gilbert Highet

Hardback. Num Pages: 381 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.

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Publication date: 1983
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Edition: First Edition
Number of pages: 381
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SKU: V9780231051040
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Martha Washington´s Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats

Martha Washington

Paperback. A family cookbook with over five hundred recipes dating largely from Elizabethan and Jacobean times, the golden age of English cookery. Num Pages: 518 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DNF; DSBD; WBA; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 230 x 28. Weight in Grams: 738.

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Publication date: 1996
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: 0th Edition
Number of pages: 518
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Ivy Compton-Burnett

Blake Nevius

Paperback. Num Pages: 48 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 140 x 3. Weight in Grams: 90.

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Publication date: 1970
Publisher: Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages: 48
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Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsun Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu

Etc. Mo-Tzu

Hardback. Compiling in one volume the basic writings of these three seminal thinkers of ancient China, each from a different philosophical school, this book reveals the richness and diversity of the ancient Chinese intellectual world. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Num Pages: 480 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; HPDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 38. Weight in Grams: 630.

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Publication date: 1967
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition: n
Number of pages: 480
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SKU: V9780231025157
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Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature

Froma I. Zeitlin

Paperback. This study explores the influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods ranging from epic and didactic poetry to the theatrical productions of tragedy and comedy in 5th-century Athens. The workings of gender as a factor in Greek social, religious and cultural practices are explored. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 494 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.

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Publication date: 1996
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Edition: 1st Edition
Number of pages: 494
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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto

Andrea Zanzotto

Paperback. Andrea Zanzotto is widely considered Italy's most influential living poet. This book includes the very best poems from fourteen of his major books of verse and a selection of thirteen essays that helps illuminate themes in his poetry as well as elucidate key theoretical underpinnings of his thought. Editor(s): Barron, Patrick. Translator(s): Feldman, Ruth; Harrison, Thomas J.; Swann, Brian; Welle, John P.; Wilkins, Elizabeth A. Num Pages: 482 pages, 12 halftones, 41 line drawings. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.

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Publication date: 2009
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Edition: Bilingual
Number of pages: 482
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The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto

Andrea Zanzotto

Hardback. Andrea Zanzotto is widely considered Italy's most influential living poet. This book includes the very best poems from fourteen of his major books of verse and a selection of thirteen essays that helps illuminate themes in his poetry as well as elucidate key theoretical underpinnings of his thought. Editor(s): Barron, Patrick. Translator(s): Barron, Patrick; Feldman, Ruth; Harrison, Thomas J.; Swann, Brian; Welle, John P.; Wilkins, Elizabeth A. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 halftines, 41 line drawings. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 37. Weight in Grams: 834.

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Publication date: 2007
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Edition: Bilingual
Number of pages: 336
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Shakespeare and the Law

Bradin Cormack

Hardback. Demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts points to a deep engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. This book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othella. Editor(s): Cormack, Bradin; Nussbaum, Martha C.; Strier, Richard. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 183 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.

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Publication date: 2013
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages: 352
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Fragments and Assemblages

Arthur Bahr

Hardback. Expands the ways in which we interpret medieval manuscripts, examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works. In this book, the author argues that manuscript compilations from fourteenth-century London reward interpretation as both assemblages and fragments. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3H; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.

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Publication date: 2013
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages: 296
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SKU: V9780226924915
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Disposable Camera

Janet Foxman

Paperback. The notion of the disposable camera permeates the entire book, where the author considers the instabilities in even our deepest attachments. Here gulfs expand, for instance, between twins, between the musician and his instrument, between the recluse and his inconsolable solitude. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.

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Publication date: 2012
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages: 88
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SKU: V9780226924113
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The Key to the City

Anne Winters

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 85.

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Publication date: 1986
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages: 64
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SKU: V9780226902272
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