Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Includes essays that focus on the tenth book of the Iliad, which has been doubted, ignored, and even scorned. This title uses approaches based on oral traditional poetics to illuminate many of the interpretive questions that literary approaches find unsolvable. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 350 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 184 x 28. Weight in Grams: 614.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674035591
- ISBN
- 9780674035591
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674036055
- ISBN
- 9780674036055
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Paperback. Argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment and laughter. This study of Pindar's language applies performance as a method for the ethnographic description and interpretation of entextualized records of verbal art. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674036277
- ISBN
- 9780674036277
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Paperback. Reveals a productive aspect of Walter Benjamin's thought by focusing on a little-discussed stylistic trait in his formulation of concepts. This book explains that nouns formed with this suffix refer to a possibility or potentiality, to a capacity rather than an existing reality. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HPC; HPN; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 498.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674046061
- ISBN
- 9780674046061
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Hardback. "The Law Code of Visnu" ("Vaisnava-dharmasastra") is one of the of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century ce in Kashmir. This title contains a critical edition of the Sanskrit text based on fifteen manuscripts, an annotated English translation, and an introduction evaluating its textual history. Editor(s): Olivelle, Patrick. Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 560 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2B; 2BM; CJB; DSBB; HBJF; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 216. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 560
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674051393
- ISBN
- 9780674051393
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Hardback. For centuries, readers of Tao Qian have felt directly addressed by his poetic voice. This book revisits Tao's approach to his readers by attempting to situate it within the particular poetics of address that characterized the Six Dynasties classicist tradition. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053212
- ISBN
- 9780674053212
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Hardback. A study that investigates the poetics and thematics of the Silla sequence, uncovering what is known about the actual historical event and the assumptions and concerns that guided its re-creation as a literary artifact and then helped shape its reception among contemporary readers. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 550 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2GJ; CJB; DCF; DSB; HRAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1043.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 550
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053304
- ISBN
- 9780674053304
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Paperback. Offers a comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric, English drama, and French philosophy, this title reads Baroque hyperbole as a sophisticated, often sublime, frequently satiric means of making sense of worlds and selves in crisis and transformation. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 695 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 980.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Department of Comparative Literature United States
- Number of pages
- 695
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053335
- ISBN
- 9780674053335
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Paperback. A study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue of Penelope and Odysseus ("Odyssey 19"). It makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication important for the interaction between the two speakers. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053359
- ISBN
- 9780674053359
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Hardback. Explores interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C P Cavafy (Konstantinos Kavafis), one of the most important twentieth-century European poets. Editor(s): Roilos, Panagiotis. Series: Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DCF; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard Department of the Classics United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053397
- ISBN
- 9780674053397
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Paperback. Presents several articles and other writings of Sorour S Soroudi (1938-2002), who taught in the Department of Iranian Studies at the Hebrew University for three decades. Editor(s): Chehabi, H. E. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 275 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053427
- ISBN
- 9780674053427
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Hardback.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056039
- ISBN
- 9780674056039
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Hardback. Emperor Taizong (r 626-49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This title focuses on Taizong's literary writings that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic identity through literary stylistics. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 468 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 39. Weight in Grams: 780.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056084
- ISBN
- 9780674056084
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Paperback. Within a growing scholarly literature devoted to the topics of biography and autobiography, especially in the Arabic literary tradition, the essays in this volume explore the forms and meanings of these genres with particular reference to Persian writings, as well as to writings in Arabic and Turkish that were also composed in Persianate societies. Editor(s): Marlow, L. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 296.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060661
- ISBN
- 9780674060661
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Paperback. Murakami Haruki is perhaps the best-known and most widely translated Japanese author of his generation. This title scrutinizes Murakami's fictional worlds and their extraliterary contexts through a range of discursive lenses: modernity and postmodernity, universalism and particularism, imperialism and nationalism, Orientalism and globalization. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674060760
- ISBN
- 9780674060760
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Hardback. Satoru Saito examines the similarities between detective fiction and the novel in prewar Japan. Arguing that interactions between the genres were critical moments of literary engagement, Saito demonstrates how detective fiction provided a framework through which to examine and critique Japan's literary formations and its modernizing society. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674065864
- ISBN
- 9780674065864
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Hardback. Novels by Proust, Woolf, and Nabokov have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time. Hagglund gives them another reading entirely: fear of time and death is generated by investment in temporal life. Engaging with Freud and Lacan, he opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HPCF7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 245 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Sew
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066328
- ISBN
- 9780674066328
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Paperback. Doak explores how the giants of the Hebrew Bible--which represent a connection to primeval chaos--offer insight into central aspects of Israel's symbolic universe. By placing biblical traditions within a broader Mediterranean context regarding giants and the end of the heroic age, Doak sheds new light on monotheism and monarchy in ancient Israel. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 175 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066731
- ISBN
- 9780674066731
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Hardback. With more people living alone today than at any time in U.S. history, Ferguson investigates loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a trumpeted American individualism. Ferguson shows that we can learn, from our literature, how to live alone. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066762
- ISBN
- 9780674066762
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Hardback. In Four Cries of a Gibbon by the late-Ming dynasty playwright Xu Wei, characters move between life and death, and male and female, as they seek to articulate who they truly are. In this first critical study and annotated translation, Kwa considers how Wei's exploration of identity paved the way for further reflection in later fiction and drama. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066854
- ISBN
- 9780674066854
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Paperback. In this new interpretation of the Education of Cyrus, in which Xenophon theorized about leadership, Sandridge considers Xenophon's portrait of Cyrus as sincerely laudatory though not idealized. He explores the wider context in which Xenophon's Theory of Leadership was conceived, as well as the problems of leadership he sought to address. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674067028
- ISBN
- 9780674067028
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Hardback. Two-Timing Modernity integrates queer, feminist, and narratological approaches to show how key works by Japanese male authors in the early twentieth century encompassed both a straight future and a queer past by staging tensions between Japan's newly heteronormative culture and the recent memory of a male homosocial past now read as perverse. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674067127
- ISBN
- 9780674067127
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Hardback. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 106 includes "A Picnic, a Tomb, and a Crow: Hesiod's Cult in the Works and Days"; "Sapphica"; "A New Manuscript of Classical Authors in Spain"; "The Dates of the Dramatists of the Fabula Togata"; "The Coroebus Episode in Virgil's Aeneid"; "Herod's Last Days"; and other essays. Editor(s): Coleman, Kathleen M. Series: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 374 pages, 8 halftones, 2 line illustrations, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 151 x 32. Weight in Grams: 528.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Harvard Department of the Classics
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674072015
- ISBN
- 9780674072015
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Hardback. Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America's court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; HBJK; JPA; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073081
- ISBN
- 9780674073081
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