Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Hardcover. Tells the story of the development of poetic competence to uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources and exemplars of that complexity. This book demonstrates poetic competence through a person's ability to influence the attitudes and behaviour of others with poetic discourse. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Publications. Num Pages: 375 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021402
- ISBN
- 9780674021402
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€ 49.99€ 41.33
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Hardcover. Examines the influence of court culture on the creation of the anthology and the significance of imitation and convention in its lyrics. The author aims to situate the Huajian ji within larger questions of Chinese literary history, particularly the influence of cultural forces on the emergence of genres and the development of romantic literature. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 181 x 34. Weight in Grams: 716.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021426
- ISBN
- 9780674021426
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€ 54.99€ 45.74
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Hardback. Talks about the Reizei poets as participants in a collective institution devoted more to the continuity of family poetic practices and ideals than to the concept of individual expression that is central to modern poetic culture. This book features an appendix of 100 poems from over the centuries, by poets who were affiliated with the Reizei house. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 7 charts, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSC; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 236 x 42. Weight in Grams: 916.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674024533
- ISBN
- 9780674024533
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Condition: New
€ 54.04€ 49.38
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025929
- ISBN
- 9780674025929
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€ 19.99€ 18.20
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Paperback. Focusing on the ancient modalities and conceptual filters through which the figure and the songs of Sappho were perceived, this book offers the anthropological and systematic investigation of the pluralities of what ancient discourses defined as the songs of Sappho. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674026865
- ISBN
- 9780674026865
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€ 21.99€ 20.21
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Paperback. Makes the case that the plot of the "Odyssey" is represented within the narrative as a plan of Zeus, Dios boule, that serves as a guide for the performing poet and as a hermeneutic for the audience. This book proposes a "Zeus-centric" reading that offers perspectives on the tenor of interactions among the "Odyssey's" characters. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 165 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 165
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674028128
- ISBN
- 9780674028128
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Hardback. Tao Yuanming (365-427), although dismissed as a poet following his death, is now considered one of China's greatest writers. This book studies the posthumous reputation of a central figure in Chinese literary history, the mechanisms at work in the reception of his works, and the canonization of Tao himself. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031845
- ISBN
- 9780674031845
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€ 54.99€ 45.36
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Hardback. Examines the revolution in Sanskrit poetics initiated by the ninth-century Kashmiri Anandavardhana who replaced the formalist aesthetic of earlier poeticians with one stressing the unifunctionality of literary texts, arguing that all components of a work should subserve a single purpose - the communication of a single emotional mood (rasa). Series: Harvard Oriental Series. Num Pages: 470 pages. BIC Classification: 2BBA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1020.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032736
- ISBN
- 9780674032736
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€ 59.92€ 54.40
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Hardback. Liu Yuan's "Lingyan ge", a woodblock-printed book from 1669, re-creates a portrait gallery that memorialized 24 vassals of the early Tang court. This book presents a study that examines the dialogues created among the texts and images in "Lingyan ge" from multiple perspectives. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 218 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3JD; AKLB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032804
- ISBN
- 9780674032804
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€ 59.92€ 54.59
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Paperback. The world has long wished for more of Sappho's poetry, which exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in 2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, has generated excitement and discussion among scholarly audiences. This book contains essays that discuss about the recovered Sappho poem. Editor(s): Greene, Ellen. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 250 pages, 5 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032958
- ISBN
- 9780674032958
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Paperback. The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes and traces of the past had a singular aura. This book presents the literary history of the Tang. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 596 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 846.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 596
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674033283
- ISBN
- 9780674033283
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€ 27.99€ 24.31
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Paperback.
- Format
- 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. 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.
- Format
- 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.
- Format
- 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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€ 54.04€ 49.38
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Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674056039
- ISBN
- 9780674056039
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€ 49.99€ 41.86
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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. 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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Paperback. Olga M. Davidson applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. She focuses on the eleventh-century ce epic Shahnama and its relationship to other genres embedded in it, including forms of verbal art originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women's laments. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 238.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073203
- ISBN
- 9780674073203
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€ 21.99€ 20.29
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Paperback. Olga M. Davidson's major reassessment of the classical Persian epic the Shahnama argues that its poet is actually a character in the work who coexists with the heroes and kings celebrated in the poem. Documenting the text's oral performance tradition, Davidson shows that the heroic style of the Shahnama stems from ancient Indo-European traditions. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073210
- ISBN
- 9780674073210
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€ 27.99€ 24.51
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Hardback. Offering a comprehensive history of the work's reception, the author reveals the ideological and aesthetic issues shaping criticism over the centuries as the audience for classical Japanese literature expanded beyond the aristocracy. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, 21 halftones, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073357
- ISBN
- 9780674073357
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Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.77
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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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674185005
- ISBN
- 9780674185005
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€ 49.99€ 41.33
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674462762
- ISBN
- 9780674462762
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€ 64.62€ 58.35
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Paperback. The first English translation of the national folk epic of Finland which relates Icelandic family sagas and reflects an ancient Finnish peasant life. Translator(s): Magoun, Francis Peabody, Jr. Num Pages: 440 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674500105
- ISBN
- 9780674500105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.48
€ 40.99
€ 33.48