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Literary studies: general

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Literary studies: general

Paperback. This title is an analysis of Chinese prescriptions of gender as represented in Cao Xueqin's famous 18th-century Chinese novel of manners, "The Red Chamber Dream", or "The Story of the Stone". Drawing on feminist literary critical methods, it examines Qing notions of masculinity and femininity. Num Pages: 181 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824824686
ISBN
9780824824686
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.43

Hardback. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333383537
ISBN
9780333383537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.83

Paperback. Come and meet some wild men and tame beasts. Explore the fleeting moment and capture the passing of time in these portrait studies which document a year's journey. Num Pages: 141 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; AJC; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st
Number of pages
141
Condition
New
SKU
V9780946487929
ISBN
9780946487929
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.84

Paperback. This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature-the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers-at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804770507
ISBN
9780804770507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.67

Hardback. This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature-the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers-at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804770491
ISBN
9780804770491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.83

Paperback. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, this book revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226781709
ISBN
9780226781709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 31.03

Paperback. The first book to trace Brazil s reckoning with dictatorship through the collision of politics and cultural production." Series: Critical Human Rights. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADS; 3JJP; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW3; JPVR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299297244
ISBN
9780299297244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.54

Hardcover. This book surveys the genesis of the modern conception of memory where gender becomes crucial to the processes of memorialization and suggests ways in which technology opens a new chapter in the history of memory. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 577.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230607910
ISBN
9780230607910
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.10

Paperback. This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349435234
ISBN
9781349435234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.66

Hardcover. This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137007056
ISBN
9781137007056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.26

hardcover. Bringing together memory theory, medieval cognition of images, and the English Corpus Christ drama in an innovative way, this study argues that the relationship of frames or backgrounds to the image has been misunderstood in the study of drama. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2008th Edition
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603219
ISBN
9780230603219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Publisher
LIT Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9783825872557
ISBN
9783825872557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 195 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403966872
ISBN
9781403966872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.24

Hardback. Editor(s): Johnson, Erica L.; Brezault, Eloise. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBAH; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319505763
ISBN
9783319505763
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.95

Paperback. Presenting an account of how the weave of life-writing has altered over time to arrive at its present form, this text tells the story of an evolving literary form. The writings of St. Augustine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and the work of sculptor, Albert Giacometti. Num Pages: 446 pages, 2 halftones, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: BG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 592.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
446
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1 edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226628172
ISBN
9780226628172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.01

Paperback. The second book of a major two-volume biographical study of the author William Makepeace Thackeray and his family, including new research that sheds light on the lives of his daughters Minny and Annie. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, geneal. table. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 234 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718892258
ISBN
9780718892258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.66

Hardback. BIC Classification: DSBF. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312228347
ISBN
9780312228347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.64

Hardcover. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 262 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137588494
ISBN
9781137588494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBJH; HBL; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349439942
ISBN
9781349439942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.34

Hardback. Translator(s): Balcom, John. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231169967
ISBN
9780231169967
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.25
€ 41.49

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