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Literary studies: general

Paperback. Provides an annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. Series: Princeton Library of Asian Translations. Num Pages: 720 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1060.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126197
ISBN
9780691126197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.92

hardcover. Addresses the dilemma of the female subject in these three twentieth-century British women novelists. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 165. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910222
ISBN
9781575910222
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.20

Paperback. Series: Modern Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813939230
ISBN
9780813939230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.93

hardcover. Series: Modern Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSA; DSB; HBTQ; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813939223
ISBN
9780813939223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.36

Paperback. Offers a vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can be read as rich with homo-erotic suggestiveness. Drawing from work in queer and feminist theory, this book argues that the most fruitful approach to James is one that ignores the elitist portrait of the formalist master. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321477
ISBN
9780822321477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.60

Paperback. In three ethnographic sections, this book demonstrates how various poetries are structured and composed, how they reflect meaning and worldview, and how they are performed in cultures where all art may be thought of as art-in-motion. Num Pages: 522 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 270 x 36. Weight in Grams: 938.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
522
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520293113
ISBN
9780520293113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.58

hardcover. In a work that is part biography, part intellectual history, and part rhetorical theory, this work analyzes Kenneth Burke's early essays of the 1920s and all eight of his theoretical volumes. It argues that each of these represented a rearticulation and extension of the writer's previous studies. Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 603. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University South Carolina Pr
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033037
ISBN
9781570034046
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

Paperback. Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than novelist Philip Roth? This book examines Roth's 'mature immaturity' in its depth and richness. It lets readers to reconsider the narrow categories into which Roth has often been slotted - laureate of Newark, New Jersey; junior partner in the firm Salinger, Bellow, Mailer, and Malamud. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691138435
ISBN
9780691138435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.65

Hardback. This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus' work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which he developed into a paradigm-shifting application of Stoicism to Christianity. Series: Erasmus Studies. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCA; HPCB; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 161 x 38. Weight in Grams: 796.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487500610
ISBN
9781487500610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.08

Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; HRLK2; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557285812
ISBN
9781557285812
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.20

hardcover. Contending that Plato's "Crito" does not show an allegiance between Socrates and the state that condemned him, Weiss argues that he considers the laws of the state to be more concerned with creating deference than justice - that, by submitting to his judgement, Socrates acts from a personal sense of justice rather than a set of imposed rules. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HPCA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 476. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0033212
ISBN
9780195116847
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.91

Hardback. This book presents a selection of the writings of Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959), one of the leading bibliographers of the 20th century and, along with R. B. McKerrow and A. W. Pollard, the founder of the New Bibliography that dominated 20th-century textual studies. Series: Great Bibliographers S. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810833999
ISBN
9780810833999
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 181.44

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647906
ISBN
9780691647906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 156.43

Paperback. Examines the changing representations of "home" in 20th-century English literature. The text argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of "home". Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520220126
ISBN
9780520220126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.80

Num Pages: 288 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 240 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801440267
ISBN
9780801440267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.15

Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 18. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801442964
ISBN
9780801442964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 51.51

Hardcover. How language and marginalia shape the perception of a landmark legal text Num Pages: 232 pages, 56 color illus., 24 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 3JB; DSBB; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253356413
ISBN
9780253356413
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 38.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801476235
ISBN
9780801476235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.08

Paperback. Series: Reading Women Writing. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801481840
ISBN
9780801481840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.12

Paperback. In Greek thought, "barbaroi" are utterers of unintelligible or inarticulate sounds. What importance does the text of Herodotus's "Histories" attribute to language as a criterion of ethnic identity? The answer to this question illuminates the empirical foundations of Herodotus's pluralistic worldview. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674017900
ISBN
9780674017900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.57

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