Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Examines how Chicana literature - its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions - interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329749
- ISBN
- 9780822329749
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€ 30.99€ 27.31
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Paperback. Recovers the history of 19th- and early-20th-century African-American reading societies. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 440 pages, 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; JFSL1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329954
- ISBN
- 9780822329954
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€ 33.99€ 30.61
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paperback. An anthology of the personal/autobiographical essays of scholars who have made the life story an important part of their disciplinary research. This book represents various disciplines, including mathematics, sociology, psychology, literature, religion and legal history. It also chronicles the origins of autobiographical criticism. Editor(s): Freedman, Diane P.; Frey, Olivia. Num Pages: 512 pages, 7 b&w photos. BIC Classification: BGA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 708.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332138
- ISBN
- 9780822332138
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€ 36.99€ 33.15
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Paperback. Reveals the connections between gender, nationalism, and cultural representation evident in prevailing interpretations of classic Heian texts (794-1192). This book argues that by foregrounding women's voices in Heian literature, the discipline has repeatedly enacted the modernizing gesture in which the 'feminine' is recognized, and canceled. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822332374
- ISBN
- 9780822332374
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paperback. Presents translations of texts by Latin American women playwrights, and performance artists, together with essays about their work. Editor(s): Taylor, Diana; Constantino, Roselyn. Num Pages: 464 pages, 58 b&w photos, 19 figures. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ABM; DD; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 648.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822332404
- ISBN
- 9780822332404
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€ 34.99€ 32.04
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Paperback. The first translation into English of essays on modern Japanese literature, culture, and urban ethnography written by the late Ai Maeda, arguably the most prominent 20th century Japanese literary and cultural critic Editor(s): Fujii, James A. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 408 pages, 16 illus., 7 maps, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333463
- ISBN
- 9780822333463
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€ 32.99€ 29.51
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Paperback. Rereads the works of Colette, Gide, and Proust to show how central representations of sexuality were to the evolution of literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822338970
- ISBN
- 9780822338970
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€ 31.99€ 28.71
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Paperback. An account of dissidence in Hafiz Asad s Syria, describing how intellectuals tried to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822340355
- ISBN
- 9780822340355
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€ 26.99€ 25.20
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Paperback. The first systematic and detailed overview of modern Tibetan literature. Editor(s): Hartley, Lauran R.; Schiaffini-Vedani, Patricia. Num Pages: 424 pages, 31 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2GDT; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 30. Weight in Grams: 699.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822342779
- ISBN
- 9780822342779
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€ 33.99€ 30.61
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Paperback. A translation of a 1927 short-story collection that was the first work of Hindi fiction to focus on male same-sex relations; its publication sparked India s first public debates about homosexuality. Translator(s): Vanita, Ruth. Num Pages: 152 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2BMH; 5SG; DSBH; DSK; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822343820
- ISBN
- 9780822343820
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€ 26.99€ 25.37
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Paperback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780822346449
- ISBN
- 9780822346449
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€ 30.99€ 27.40
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Hardback. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822346524
- ISBN
- 9780822346524
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€ 110.28
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paperback. An in-depth analysis of the composition of Invisible Man and Ralph Ellison s move away from the radical left during his writing of the novel between 1945 and 1952. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348290
- ISBN
- 9780822348290
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Paperback. Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work of Herman Melville. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 map, 10 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822349549
- ISBN
- 9780822349549
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€ 27.99€ 26.43
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Hardback. A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; C; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349921
- ISBN
- 9780822349921
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Hardback. Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century. Series: Cultures and Practice of Violence. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350224
- ISBN
- 9780822350224
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€ 110.28
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Hardback. Demonstrates the centrality of Gloria Anzaldua s concept of spiritual mestizaje to the queer feminist Chicana theorist s life and thought, and its utility as a framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana narratives. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822350293
- ISBN
- 9780822350293
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€ 110.64
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Hardback. Through close readings of Barthes, Derrida, Sedgwick, and Spivak, Jane Gallop connects the theoretical death of the author to the writer s literal death, as well as other authorial deaths, such as obsolescence. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822350637
- ISBN
- 9780822350637
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€ 107.77
€ 107.77
Hardback. Shows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific Filipina Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 2AB; DSBH; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822353003
- ISBN
- 9780822353003
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€ 115.33
€ 115.33
Hardback. In this volume, medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw offers a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through a revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as the potential queerness of time itself. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5906 x 3971 x 20. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822353539
- ISBN
- 9780822353539
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€ 110.28
€ 110.28