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Paperback. By uncovering residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English, Mareike Neuhaus shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as" literatures" in their own right. Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
University of Regina Press Canada
Number of pages
295
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889773905
ISBN
9780889773905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.37

Hardcover. Combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. The author shows that this tension informs our efforts to coexist ethically and politically, an experience of sharing and separation that informs any decision. Num Pages: 264 pages, 6 colour plates, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSB; HPN; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226717777
ISBN
9780226717777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.01

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10. BIC Classification: ABK; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801444609
ISBN
9780801444609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.14

Paperback. "If you want the true, mixed, fourteenth-century book that Boccaccio wrote, choose Rebhorn."-Joan Acocella, The New Yorker Editor(s): Rebhorn, Wayne A. Translator(s): Rebhorn, Wayne A. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393935622
ISBN
9780393935622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.65

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. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350637
ISBN
9780822350637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.76

Paperback. 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. Dimension: 223 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 244. Reading and Writing in Time. 192 pages. Considers not only the abstract theoretical death of the author but also the writer's literal death, as well as other authorial "deaths," such as obsolescence. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Dimension: 223 x 136 x 26. Weight: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822350811
ISBN
9780822350811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.81

Paperback. An examination of the ways major modernist novels use the physical book to track the passing of time in which reading necessarily unfolds, this study explores the sense of finitude and transience that the works of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf share with and transmit to their readers. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 10. Weight in Grams: 295.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270989
ISBN
9780823270989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.60

Hardback. An examination of the ways major modernist novels use the physical book to track the passing of time in which reading necessarily unfolds, this study explores the sense of finitude and transience that the works of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf share with and transmit to their readers. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823270972
ISBN
9780823270972
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.00

Hardback. With his keen, original analysis of hitherto untapped literary, iconographical, and archaeological sources, Burgess adds greatly to our understanding of this archetypal mythic hero. Num Pages: 208 pages, 26, 23 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBH; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801890291
ISBN
9780801890291
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 16. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226278452
ISBN
9780226278452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.89

Hardback. A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, this book offers the reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBH; DSC; DSK; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231129800
ISBN
9780231129800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.63

Hardcover. Timothy Walsh argues here that the use of absence in works of art - of silence, shadow, blankness and void - is a principal means by which the inherent biological limitations of human consciousness and of human language are encoded in aesthetic constructions. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809321728
ISBN
9780809321728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.72

Paperback. Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Translator(s): Meyer, Andrew Seth. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248. Liu An's Art of War. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. 176 pages. Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; JWL. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 12. Weight: 248. Translator(s): Meyer, Andrew Seth.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153331
ISBN
9780231153331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.44

Hardback. This book identifies and interprets the longstanding, transatlantic dialogue between the literary imaginations of Anglo-Ireland and the Anglo-American South. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBBS; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625482
ISBN
9780748625482
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.61
€ 114.87

Paperback. Consisting of studies in the poetry of the Pound tradition, this book is a classic study of poetic form by an expert in contemporary criticism. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810113800
ISBN
9780810113800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.55

paperback. A glimpse into the mind and life of one of the most creative and enigmatic visionaries of our time, filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky Num Pages: 424 pages, Includes 8-page color insert and 29 b&w plates. BIC Classification: ANF; BGA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
Publisher
Park Street Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781620552810
ISBN
9781620552810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.04

Paperback. A reprint of the authoritative second edition published by G.K. Hall in 1981. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Editor(s): Motherwell, Robert. Series: Paperbacks in art history. Num Pages: 464 pages, 117 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD7; AFC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 261 x 195 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1086.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674185005
ISBN
9780674185005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 42.34

Hardback. "This interesting comparative study of the relationship between blood and gender in medieval literature considers how blood is associated with cultural values and how those values might be understood in light of blood's ubiquity as a metaphor and literal agent.. Recommended."-Choice Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliographical references, index. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
SKU
V9780812237139
ISBN
9780812237139
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.69

Paperback. Probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of "passion" and "beauty", the author shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western society. In doing so, he also explores the problematic place of passion and beauty in Romantic radicalism. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299129644
ISBN
9780299129644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.02

Hardcover. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Num Pages: 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 478. 112 pages, 95 colour illustrations. This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; HBTB. Dimension: 195 x 197 x 15. Weight: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851243846
ISBN
9781851243846
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226437361
ISBN
9780226437361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.44

Hardback. The Cup of Song explores the symbiotic relationship of the symposion and poetry across Greek literary history. Each chapter discusses one aspect of sympotic engagement by key authors across the major genres of Greek poetry, leading to a characterization of the full spectrum of sympotic poetry from its beginnings through to the Hellenistic age. Editor(s): Cazzato, Vanessa; Obbink, Dirk; Prodi, Enrico Emanuele. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSC; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 692.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199687688
ISBN
9780199687688
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 209.16

Paperback. This book defines diagrams as tools manipulated by users to produce new kinds of understanding and demonstrates that a modern diagrammatic knowledge emerged in eighteenth-century visual culture to become the foundation of later nineteenth-century science. Num Pages: 296 pages, 48 illustrations (8 colour). BIC Classification: AB; DSB; GT; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 928.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804745055
ISBN
9780804745055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.81

Hardcover. Editor(s): Arseneau, Mary; Harrison, Antony H.; Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen. Num Pages: 373 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 722.
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
373
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821412435
ISBN
9780821412435
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.14

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