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Hardback. Traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of the authors Ueda Akinari, Natsume S'seki, Mori 'gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, 'oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. Focusing on interconnected themes, this book illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138925
- ISBN
- 9780231138925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.70€ 55.92
€ 72.70
€ 55.92
Hardback. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138789
- ISBN
- 9780231138789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49€ 49.96
€ 64.49
€ 49.96
Hardback. A collection of ninety-one short-shorts, a form of short-storytelling. Presenting diverse voices and perspectives by writers, the stories are culled from newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and personal collections. Editor(s): Mu, Aili; Chiu, Julie; Goldblatt, Howard. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 272 pages, 34 illus. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138482
- ISBN
- 9780231138482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 71.25
€ 93.81
€ 71.25
Hardback. Portrays changes that have transformed Japanese culture since the end of Pacific War. Beginning with the Allied Occupation in 1945 and concluding with early twenty-first century, this title reflects Japan's transition from poverty to prosperity, its struggle with conflicting ideologies and political beliefs, and more. Editor(s): Rimer, J. Thomas; Gessel, Van C. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 864 pages, We are submitting one illustration as a jpeg for the color cover. The illustration is sav. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 57. Weight in Grams: 1362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 864
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138048
- ISBN
- 9780231138048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.08€ 62.66
€ 82.08
€ 62.66
Hardback. During the women's movement of the 1970s and 1980s, feminists in the United States and Britain reinvented the image of the woman letter writer. They wrote letters, exploring questions of sexuality, separatism, and strategy. This book provides a cultural study of these letters. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 b&w figures. BIC Classification: DS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137928
- ISBN
- 9780231137928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.19€ 78.05
€ 103.19
€ 78.05
Hardback. Introduces the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137867
- ISBN
- 9780231137867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.19€ 77.95
€ 103.19
€ 77.95
Paperback. Brings the imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose selections, this anthology features short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. It includes an introduction to each reading; and an index listing historical, social, and literary concepts. Editor(s): Copeland, Rebecca; Ortabasi, Melek. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 424 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated)
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137751
- ISBN
- 9780231137751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.82
€ 40.99
€ 28.82
Hardback. Brings the imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose selections, this anthology features short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. It includes an introduction to each reading; and an index listing historical, social, and literary concepts. Editor(s): Copeland, Rebecca; Ortabasi, Melek. Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 424 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJC; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137744
- ISBN
- 9780231137744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.40€ 84.01
€ 111.40
€ 84.01
Hardback. Focusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137508
- ISBN
- 9780231137508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.19€ 78.05
€ 103.19
€ 78.05
Hardback. For more than a quarter century, William Logan has delivered clear-eyed and razor-sharp assessments of contemporary and classic poetry. Combining the sensibilities of poet and critic, Logan vividly conveys what he finds most memorable and most damning in a poet's work. Poets discussed include Shakespeare, Whitman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, and Czeslaw Milosz. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231136389
- ISBN
- 9780231136389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.19€ 78.05
€ 103.19
€ 78.05
Hardback. Translator(s): Briggs, Kate. Num Pages: 512 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: CBV; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231136143
- ISBN
- 9780231136143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.26€ 88.27
€ 117.26
€ 88.27
Paperback. Traces the emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. This book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, "The Voyage Out", through her last, "Between the Acts". Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134453
- ISBN
- 9780231134453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.96
€ 36.99
€ 26.96
Hardback. Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231134408
- ISBN
- 9780231134408
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.40€ 84.01
€ 111.40
€ 84.01
Hardback. A valuable anthology of eight plays best representing the Armenian American drama of the last thirty years, this original collection, centered thematically on the Armenian genocide and the trials of life after Armenians' expulsion from the homeland, includes an introduction and headnotes for each play. Editor(s): Parlakian, Nishan; Cowe, S. Peter. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133746
- ISBN
- 9780231133746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.70€ 56.36
€ 72.70
€ 56.36
Hardback. Covers the Colonial Wars of the eighteenth-century and the Gulf Wars. This anthology presents four centuries of American men and women-soldiers, nurses, reporters, and embattled civilians-writing about war. It covers the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnamese-American War. Editor(s): Goldensohn, Lorrie. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133104
- ISBN
- 9780231133104
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.70€ 56.52
€ 72.70
€ 56.52
Hardback. Covering a range of countries - Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the Ukraine - this title presents history of Eastern European literature. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133067
- ISBN
- 9780231133067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.50€ 99.33
€ 132.50
€ 99.33
Paperback. Figures such as E M Forster, Roger Fry, Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler and Virginia Woolf attempted to rethink Victorian design and reconstruct the form, function, and meaning of the home to meet the demands of modernity. This study reveals the personal and aesthetic connections among modern British writers, interior designers and architects. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231133050
- ISBN
- 9780231133050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.08
€ 36.99
€ 27.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130592
- ISBN
- 9780231130592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.08
€ 36.99
€ 27.08
Hardback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130585
- ISBN
- 9780231130585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.88€ 82.23
€ 107.88
€ 82.23
Hardback. Series: Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945. Num Pages: 288 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 258 x 182 x 23. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130462
- ISBN
- 9780231130462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.50€ 74.53
€ 98.50
€ 74.53
Paperback. The third book in Kristeva's trilogy on female genius,Colette interlaces commentary on the life and work of this notorious French novelist who made it possible for women to write erotic literature. The result is an elegant and sophisticated critique filled with psychoanalytic insight. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 448 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 348 x 36. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128971
- ISBN
- 9780231128971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.82
€ 40.99
€ 28.82
Paperback. A collection of haiku by Japanese women, this volume includes translations of 400 haiku written by 20 poets from the 17th century (Basho's school) to the second half of the 20th. For each poet there is a brief biographical and critical headnote, followed by 20 haiku. Editor(s): Ueda, Makoto. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128636
- ISBN
- 9780231128636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.66
€ 40.99
€ 28.66
Paperback. The poems of Du Fu (712-77) had a diverse range of subject matter, from personal detail to historical fact, expressed with a richness of language that stretched from the elegant to the colloquial, and from the allusive to the direct. This selection includes both famous and lesser-known works. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128292
- ISBN
- 9780231128292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 22.06
€ 29.99
€ 22.06
Hardback. Follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of Jacques Derrida. This book merges the biography and textual commentary in a portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverly Bie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 color illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128247
- ISBN
- 9780231128247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.81€ 71.81
€ 93.81
€ 71.81