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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in the principal texts of English Romanticism, this text argues that this figuring is an ideological activity that reveals a deep social and political investment. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 14. Weight in Grams: 281.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728621
- ISBN
- 9780804728621
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
€ 32.99
€ 29.86
Hardback. What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjects. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 28. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730013
- ISBN
- 9780804730013
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Condition: New
€ 105.66
€ 105.66
Hardback. Revealing the series of closet dramas written by Byron and Shelley to be deeply embedded in contemporary radical culture, the author explains why the dramas were written and why they invoke and apparently oppose textual and theatrical versions of themselves. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 880.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730952
- ISBN
- 9780804730952
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Condition: New
€ 104.00
€ 104.00
Hardback. Examining three works of vernacular fiction dating from 1750 to 1828, this book studies the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731317
- ISBN
- 9780804731317
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Condition: New
€ 87.20
€ 87.20
Paperback. The texts and visual arts of ancient Egypt reveal a persistent and sophisticated engagement with problems of language, the body, and multiplicity. This innovative book shows how these issues were represented and how Egyptian approaches to them continue to influence the way we think about them today. Num Pages: 344 pages, 78 line diagrams 12 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; DSBB; HRKP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804731799
- ISBN
- 9780804731799
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 38.78
€ 42.99
€ 38.78
Hardback. This is a materialist-feminist, psychoanalytic analysis of a modern Japanese literary trope--the dangerous woman, linked to archaisms and magical realms and found throughout the Japanese canon--in the works of three 20th-century writers: Izumi Kyoka (1873--1939), Enchi Fumiko (1905--86), and Nakagami Kenji (1946--92). Num Pages: 316 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 615.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804732123
- ISBN
- 9780804732123
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Condition: New
€ 87.14
€ 87.14
Paperback. A pioneering interdisciplinary scholar examines the roles of images in the construction of stereotypes of the Jew's body in 20th-century art and literature. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 315.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press California
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732628
- ISBN
- 9780804732628
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.27
€ 36.99
€ 34.27
Hardback. Examines the way divisions between Chinese rural workers and the state were recast in the 20th century as divisions between intellectuals and peasants. The author argues that this division was a central concern of the literature, resulting in a picture of a repressed peasantry, allowing them to become a focus of political and revolutionary protest. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804733199
- ISBN
- 9780804733199
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Condition: New
€ 92.22
€ 92.22
Hardback. A meditation on the human relationships to language and the exigencies of its figuration. Num Pages: 220 pages, 10 half-tones 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804734073
- ISBN
- 9780804734073
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Condition: New
€ 151.24
€ 151.24
Hardback. This is the story of Lady Sarah Cowper, based on a diary that she kept from 1700 to 1716. She reveals not only her personal life, but also her thoughts about religion, politics, and society, weaving her own words with unattributed quotations from conduct manuals, sermons, periodicals, and other sources. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; 3JF; BGH; DSB; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734189
- ISBN
- 9780804734189
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Condition: New
€ 87.13
€ 87.13
Hardback. Commemorating Pushkin is a study of the fascination with Pushkin that has helped Russian culture define itself, as seen in poems, stories, essays, memoirs, films, museums, and commemorative celebrations. Num Pages: 432 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 29. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734486
- ISBN
- 9780804734486
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Condition: New
€ 97.31
€ 97.31
Hardback. This text examines the Socratic position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. It takes the reemergence of poetry in the politicized culture of France as a signal that poetry's sentence of exile from the public arena is unresolved. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804734905
- ISBN
- 9780804734905
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Condition: New
€ 140.38
€ 140.38
Hardback. Examines representations of modernity in Yiddish literature between the Russian revolution of 1905 and the beginning of World War I. Within Jewish society, and particularly Eastern European Jewish society, modernity was often experienced as a series of threats to traditional Jewish life. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACY; 3JJC; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780804735469
- ISBN
- 9780804735469
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Condition: New
€ 81.93
€ 81.93
Hardback. This work chronicles the narrative transformation of accident from a philosophical dead end to an astonishing occasion for revelation and wonder in early modern religious life, dramatic practice, and experimental philosophy. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735568
- ISBN
- 9780804735568
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Condition: New
€ 92.23
€ 92.23
Paperback. This book explores how representations of intimacy between women included both a sexualized model of the "lesbian" tribade and an "idealized" model that portrayed female friendship as devoid of sexual expression. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736503
- ISBN
- 9780804736503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 34.41
€ 36.99
€ 34.41
Paperback. One of the major cultural philosophers of our time addresses, in his powerful and allusive critical voice, Malraux's reflections on art and literature. The result tells us as much about Lyotard as it does about Malraux. Translator(s): Harvey, Robert. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 9. Weight in Grams: 176.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737500
- ISBN
- 9780804737500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.41
€ 26.99
€ 25.41
Hardback. This book develops a new context and methodology for reading Romantic literature by exploring philosophies of language from the period 1785-1835. It explores the moral, political, and legal philosophy of Reid, Bentham, Kant and the German Idealists, Humboldt, and Coleridge, and literary texts by Coleridge, Godwin, Holderlin, and Kleist. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739146
- ISBN
- 9780804739146
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.38
€ 97.38
Hardback. The precipitous cliffs, rolling headlands and rocky inlets of the Big Sur coast of California were alive for Robinson Jeffers, and throughout his long career as a poet, he extolled their wild beauty. This text is a collection of Morley Baer's photographs with Jeffers' poetry. Editor(s): Karman, James. Num Pages: 176 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 7112 x 6300 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739429
- ISBN
- 9780804739429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.84€ 69.59
€ 71.84
€ 69.59
Hardback. This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa. Num Pages: 344 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804740456
- ISBN
- 9780804740456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 171.23
€ 171.23
Paperback. Between Nations argues for a cross-cultural, cross-national approach to the history of the British Isles, making its case by tracing the heterogeneous influences on texts of three early modern English authors - Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marvell. Num Pages: 232 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804741842
- ISBN
- 9780804741842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.86
€ 32.99
€ 29.86