Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Hardback. Twelve groundbreaking essays show the varied and complex ways in which ideas about sexuality, gender, and the body have shaped and been influenced by Russian literature, history, art, and philosophy from the medieval period to the present day. Editor(s): Costlow, Jane T.; Sandler, Stephanie; Vowles, Judith. Num Pages: 372 pages, 9 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 605.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721134
- ISBN
- 9780804721134
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Condition: New
€ 192.28
€ 192.28
Hardback. John Kleiner investigates the place of error in the moral and aesthetic system of Dante's Comedy. He argues that Dante's delight in finely wrought patterns does not exclude an interest in patterns of disorder, that his pursuit of harmony intensifies his interest in dissonance. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, 16 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721431
- ISBN
- 9780804721431
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Condition: New
€ 86.73
€ 86.73
Hardback. The first full-length study of the poetry of Wen Tingyun (ca. 812-ca. 866), a major writer of the late Tang, this book contains translations of more than 60 of Wen's poems, most of which appear in English for the first time. It also examines the world of other poets in his milieu. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 23. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721653
- ISBN
- 9780804721653
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Condition: New
€ 104.71
€ 104.71
Hardback. Following the vicissitudes of friendship between the sexes in some of England's key writers, the author traces a history of idioms for today's friendships--their vulnerability, limits, and potential for change. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 513.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721684
- ISBN
- 9780804721684
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Condition: New
€ 168.52
€ 168.52
Hardback. Offering a new approach to narrative theory by arguing that chance is the unrepresentable Other of narrative, this book traces the theme of chance in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Joseph Conrad's Chance, and James Joyce's Ulysses, and relates the novelistic treatment of chance to philosophical and scientific thinking. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721745
- ISBN
- 9780804721745
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Condition: New
€ 86.85
€ 86.85
Hardback. The author shows how a new commercial and learned print culture attempted to write and regulate individual and collective practices in terms of a master idiom of family, sexuality, and gender upon which a post-revolutionary national community would turn. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 611.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722247
- ISBN
- 9780804722247
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Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
Hardback. Providing a theoretical paradigm for understanding the relationship of history and literature in Russia, this book traces how major Russian writers of the past 200 years defined the nation's past through creating fictional and non-fictional works on historical themes. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722469
- ISBN
- 9780804722469
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Condition: New
€ 168.49
€ 168.49
Hardback. Dunn describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by examining the locus where it appears in its most concentrated form--the preface. He shows how the notion of authorship changed in the shifts to the modern public sphere and from religion to science as legitimizing authorship. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: CBW; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722841
- ISBN
- 9780804722841
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Condition: New
€ 86.88
€ 86.88
Hardback. This analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by authors including Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 23. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722995
- ISBN
- 9780804722995
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Condition: New
€ 133.12
€ 133.12
Hardback. This is an attempt to answer Michel Foucault's question, "What is an author?" It examines the relationship between personal identity, and the public's perception of the 'author' via the reception of written texts. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CBW; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 585.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723008
- ISBN
- 9780804723008
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Condition: New
€ 105.34
€ 105.34
Hardback. Drawing on archival materials, biography, war journalism, and theoretical texts, the author argues that the visionary politics of H.D.'s long poems cannot be reconciled with the feminist agendas currently attributed to them. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723701
- ISBN
- 9780804723701
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Condition: New
€ 87.65
€ 87.65
Hardback. The author argues that De Quincey's literary output, which is both a symptom and an effect of his addictions to opium and writing, plays an important role in the development of modern and modernist forms of subjectivity. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 145 x 38. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804723930
- ISBN
- 9780804723930
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Condition: New
€ 122.91
€ 122.91
Hardback. A sociohistory of German bourgeois literature from 1770-1914 based on detailed readings of six cononical literary texts. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 777.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724029
- ISBN
- 9780804724029
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Condition: New
€ 123.66
€ 123.66
Hardback. This is a a collection of essays by Maurice Blanchot, a key figure in the exploration of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Recurring themes in the essays include:the relation of literature and language to death and the historical, personal, and social function of literature. Translator(s): Mandel, Charlotte. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724326
- ISBN
- 9780804724326
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Condition: New
€ 168.93
€ 168.93
Hardback. Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 23. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724630
- ISBN
- 9780804724630
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Condition: New
€ 144.99
€ 144.99
Hardback. This work examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representationamd is an analysis of notions of truth and linguistic skepticism in the French novel. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 457.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724654
- ISBN
- 9780804724654
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Condition: New
€ 87.24
€ 87.24
Hardback. Focusing on the earliest extant version of the Grail legend, the author proposes a social interpretation of Chretien's romance as a story concerned with earthly violence and vendetta. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 679.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724814
- ISBN
- 9780804724814
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Condition: New
€ 105.97
€ 105.97
Hardback. The author analyzes the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth, and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725156
- ISBN
- 9780804725156
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Condition: New
€ 94.01
€ 94.01
Hardback. Arguing that Poe is exemplary in his ambivalent relationship to mass culture, the author offers a new theorization of mass culture and ideology. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725415
- ISBN
- 9780804725415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.72
€ 81.72
Hardback. This book contends that when late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 493.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804725484
- ISBN
- 9780804725484
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.05
€ 145.05