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Literary studies: general

Hardcover. In an age of sound bite, what sort of author could be relevant than a master of epigram? Martial, the influential epigrammatist of classical antiquity, was just such a virtuoso of form, but despite his pertinence to culture, his work has been neglected. This book provides an insightful tour of his works, shedding light on Roman poet's world. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226252537
ISBN
9780226252537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.72

Hardcover. The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called in the century of the encyclopedias. In this study, the author examines writings in Latin, Catalan, and French that are connected to the encyclopedic movement. Num Pages: 424 pages, 5 colour plates, 21 halftones, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 2ADC; 2ADF; 2ADL; 3H; DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 808. Encyclopedic Writing in the Scholastic Age. 424 pages, 5 colour plates, 21 halftones, 3 tables. The thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called in the century of the encyclopedias. In this study, the author examines writings in Latin, Catalan, and French that are connected to the encyclopedic movement. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2ADC; 2ADF; 2ADL; 3H; DSBB; HBLC1. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 36. Weight: 798.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226260686
ISBN
9780226260686
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Hardcover. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book assembles scholars to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern conceptions of political theology. Editor(s): Hammill, Graham L.; Lupton, Julia Reinhard. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HPS; HRAM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226314976
ISBN
9780226314976
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.80

Hardcover. It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. The author challenges this notion, arguing that Moses' constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central to early modern writings about government and state. Num Pages: 336 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HRAM2; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226315423
ISBN
9780226315423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.67

Hardcover. Our thoughts are shaped as much by what things make of us as by what we make of them. This title explores the world of objects and phenomena in nature as expressed in romantic poetry alongside the theme of sentience and sensory deprivation in literature and art. It opens our eyes to what has been previously overlooked in lyric and romantic poetry. Num Pages: 240 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226390666
ISBN
9780226390666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.17

Hardcover. Jane Austen's lasting appeal to both popular and elite audiences has lifted her to legendary status. This title begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, considering how these artifacts point to an author who is invisible and yet whose image is inseparable from the characters and fictional worlds she created. Num Pages: 224 pages, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462. 224 pages, 35 halftones. Jane Austen's lasting appeal to both popular and elite audiences has lifted her to legendary status. This title begins by exploring the most important monuments and portraits of Austen, considering how these artifacts point to an author who is invisible and yet whose image is inseparable from the characters and fictional worlds she created. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 20. Weight: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st ed
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226402031
ISBN
9780226402031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.17

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 halftoens, 14 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226477572
ISBN
9780226477572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.98

Hardcover. An essay that focuses on reading in an e-reader world. Contending that our experience of reading belies naive generalizations about the future of books, it offers an elegantly argued and up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our ever-evolving digital world. Num Pages: 200 pages, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; JFD; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226669786
ISBN
9780226669786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.65

Hardcover. Investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint's biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler's report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226761879
ISBN
9780226761879
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.78

Hardcover. Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? This title counters the prevalent view of the period as dominated by the regulation of bodies and passions, intending to reclaim the Renaissance as an era happily churning with energies. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226777511
ISBN
9780226777511
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.85

Hardcover. For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Exploring the boundaries that Renaissance English poets drew between earthly and heavenly existence, this book seeks to understand this shift and its consequences for English poetry. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226789590
ISBN
9780226789590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.69

Paperback. Linking literature, art, psychology and cultural studies, this work investigates Westerners' attraction to "primitive" cultures. Torgovnick explores the stories of Jung, Dinesen, O'Keefe and Lawrence and the ways they use the primitive as a medium for soul searching and personal fulfilment. Num Pages: 280 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC; JHM; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226808376
ISBN
9780226808376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.45

Hardcover. More than any other art form, literature defined Eastern Europe as a cultural and political entity in the second half of the twentieth century. Although often persecuted by the state, East European writers' voices were heard and revered inside and outside their countries. This study considers the effects of the end of communism on such writers. Num Pages: 224 pages, 10 tables, 8halftones. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 180 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226867663
ISBN
9780226867663
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.34

Paperback. Arguing against Andy Warhol's apparently superficial "pop" image, this study seeks to show that Warhol was deeply engaged with the people around him, and that this was reflected in his art. It looks at the underground culture of poets, artists and film-makers who regularly interacted with Warhol. Num Pages: 220 pages, 4 colour plates, 80 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; AGB; BG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226904931
ISBN
9780226904931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.03

Hardcover. In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger - the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor - carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are different has become strong. This title reveals the history of encounters with alien figures and our struggles with romantic concerns about the unknown. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226922355
ISBN
9780226922355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.78

Hardcover. The central argument of Edward Said's Orientalism is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. This book reveals that romanticism provided a way to resist imperial logic about improvement and moral virtue. Num Pages: 304 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226923130
ISBN
9780226923130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.69

Hardcover. Experiencing the Afterlife provides an analysis of depictions of the afterlife written in Italy before the Divine Comedy by authors such as Uguccione da Lodi, Glacomino da Verona, and Bonvesin da la Riva. Manuele Gragnolati uses his readings of these poets to provide an interpretation of Dante's work. Series: William & Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268029647
ISBN
9780268029647
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.21

Paperback. Titus Lucretius Carus (ca 99-55 BC) is known primarily as the Roman author of the long didactic poem "De Rerum Natura" ("On the Nature of Things"). In it, he set out to explicate the universe, embracing and refuting ideas of the Greek philosophers. This Latin text features an introduction to Lucretius' life and work. Editor(s): Leonard, William Ellery; Smith, Stanley Barney. Num Pages: 896 pages, 8 plates. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299003647
ISBN
9780299003647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.83

Paperback. This collection of essays focuses on the contribution of American women to the writing of autiobiography. The authors trace editions of women's life-writing through three and a half centuries, from the narratives of Puritan women to contemporary multicultural literature. Editor(s): Culley, Margo. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3J; BGA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299132941
ISBN
9780299132941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.89

Paperback. Using the methods of Frankfurt School theorists, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, Suchoff offers new readings of Dickens, Melville and Kafka that underscore the political and social critiques inherent in their novels. He also studies the historical origins of literary theory. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299140847
ISBN
9780299140847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.44

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press Wisconsin
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299147846
ISBN
9780299147846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.48

Paperback. Dictated in an idiomatic, associative style, this book exposes the doubleness of Carson McCullers's life. A mine of information for anyone interested in McCullers and American literary life in the 1950s, these memoirs are also a testament to the courage and love of life of their author. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 256 pages, 21 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 223 x 14. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299164447
ISBN
9780299164447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.72

Hardcover. Examines the perspectives of artists, writers, native peoples and ecologists who recognized the beauty of the prairie. The text considers the connections between aesthetics and economics, landscape and culture, politics and ethics, as illustrated by the prairie in American civilization. Editor(s): Sayre, Robert F. Num Pages: 224 pages, 23 colour & 61 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; DSB; RGBC; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 21. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299164607
ISBN
9780299164607
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.69

Paperback. An assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States, this text challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate concerns. It also addresses the question of objectivity in humanistic study. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 8. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299166540
ISBN
9780299166540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.14

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