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Paperback. This book will be of interest to anyone-in any discipline-who takes the past as a serious object of study. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; DSA; HBJD; HP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415604
ISBN
9781421415604
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.30

Paperback. The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars of historiography, the theory of history, and literary studies. Editor(s): Doran, Robert. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 600.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894800
ISBN
9780801894800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 32.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; CFC; CFK; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Baraka Books Canada
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771860383
ISBN
9781771860383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.76

Paperback. A collection of John Heath-Stubbs's major literary essays. The earliest essay was written in 1945, and each piece reveals the insights of a practitioner in the poetic genre. In engaging his chosen writers, Heath-Stubbs employs his understanding of the poetic process. Editor(s): Tolley, A.T. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857543520
ISBN
9781857543520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.16

Paperback. Confronts widespread assumptions about lyric, exploring such topics as its relationship to its audiences, the impact of material conditions of production and other cultural pressures, lyric's negotiations of gender, and the interactions and tensions between lyric and narrative. It is of interest to students across a range of historical fields. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421400426
ISBN
9781421400426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.21

Hardcover. Heekyoung Cho investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their formative period and reconsiders literature as part of a dynamic translational process of negotiating foreign values. Cho's study focuses on literary and cultural relations among Russia, Japan, and colonial Korea. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674660045
ISBN
9780674660045
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.07

paperback. An exploration into the "strange science of writing" in which the author reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for "great" writing: the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration; the importance of depth; and the notion of death. Translator(s): Cornell, Sarah E. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight in Grams: 264. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures S. 162 pages. An exploration into the "strange science of writing", in which the author reflects on the writing process and explores three distinct areas essential for "great" writing: the crucial role dreams play in literary inspiration; the importance of depth; and the notion of death. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 10. Weight: 250. Translator(s): Cornell, Sarah.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
162
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231076593
ISBN
9780231076593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Hardback. In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical arguments in defence of the Humanities. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JNAM; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199683864
ISBN
9780199683864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; HRQM2; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801487750
ISBN
9780801487750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. For years Helene Cixous has been dreaming about The Book-I-Don t-Write but each time she approaches The Book, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don t Write is always just out of reach. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138. .
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509500550
ISBN
9781509500550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.84

Hardback. A selection of important yet previously untranslated and unpublished essays. Editor(s): Prenowitz, Eric. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639038
ISBN
9780748639038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.43
€ 114.08

Hardcover. The first book by Helene Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. These 11 chapters bring together Helene Cixous' writings about specific contemporary artists and artworks. Neither simply 'art criticism' nor critical essays, Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, reading them as if they were poems. Editor(s): Segarra, Marta; Maso, Dr. Joana. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 160 pages, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390. Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. 160 pages, 8 colour illustrations. Editor(s): Segarra, Marta; Maso, Dr. Joana. The first book by Helene Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. These 11 chapters bring together Helene Cixous' writings about specific contemporary artists and artworks. Neither simply 'art criticism' nor critical essays, Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, reading them as if they were poems. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSA. Dimension: 238 x 170 x 14. Weight: 386.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748647446
ISBN
9780748647446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.58
€ 102.03

Hardback. In Insister Helene Cixous brings a unique mixture of theoretical speculation, breath-taking textual explication and scholarly erudition to an extremely close reading of Derrida's work. Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748627929
ISBN
9780748627929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.06
€ 69.71

Hardback. In So Close , the internationally renowned writer Helene Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt at home and, from a young age, knew she must leave. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644356
ISBN
9780745644356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.12

Paperback. In So Close , the internationally renowned writer Helene Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absence. Before she can decide to go, she must sift through large parts of her past in a land where she never felt at home and, from a young age, knew she must leave. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745644363
ISBN
9780745644363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.12

Paperback. Death Shall Be Dethroned is the shadow book of Los, a Chapter, Helene Cixous tells us. It came along after Los, but it was always thereNhidden in her notebooks, in the Beethoven notebook, say, the one Jacques Derrida gave her. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138. .
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781509500659
ISBN
9781509500659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.80

Paperback. This book combines loosely "autobiographical" texts by two of the most influential French intellectuals of our time. "Savoir," by Helene Cixous is an account of her experience of recovered sight after a lifetime of severe myopia; Jacques Derrida's "A Silkworm of One's Own" muses on a host of motifs, including his varied responses to "Savoir." Illustrator(s): Pignon-Ernest, Ernest. Translator(s): Bennington, Geoffrey. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 120 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5741 x 5411 x 9. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804737951
ISBN
9780804737951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Hardback. Death Shall Be Dethroned is the shadow book of Los, a Chapter, Helene Cixous tells us. It came along after Los, but it was always there "hidden" in her notebooks, in the Beethoven notebook, say, the one Jacques Derrida gave her. But when it tapped at the window, she ignored it until the day she had to let it in. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781509500642
ISBN
9781509500642
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.61

Paperback. A collection of six essays, translated from the French, in which Cixous explores how the problematics of the sexes - viewed as a paradigm for all difference, the organizing principle behind identity and meaning - manifest and write themselves in texts. Translator(s): Liddle, Ann; Sellers, Susan; Cornell, Sarah E. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674144378
ISBN
9780674144378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 35.10

hardcover. Helene Cixous has dreamed for years of "The Book-I-Don't-Write," but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781509500543
ISBN
9781509500543
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.61

Paperback. Explores the questions of language and canon-formation in philosophy and 'theory'. Editor(s): Helgeson, Dr. James. Series: Paragraph Special Issues. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 9. Weight in Grams: 288. Series: Paragraph Special Issues. 128 pages. Editor(s): Helgeson, Dr. James. Explores the questions of language and canon-formation in philosophy and 'theory'. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 9. Weight: 288.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748642519
ISBN
9780748642519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardcover. Editor(s): Jones, Peter. Num Pages: 821 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 67. Weight in Grams: 1620.
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
821
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
6th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865974661
ISBN
9780865974661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 32.46

Paperback. Editor(s): Jones, Peter. Num Pages: 821 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 59. Weight in Grams: 1404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Edition
6th Edition
Number of pages
821
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865974692
ISBN
9780865974692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.26

Paperback. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Num Pages: 352 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; JFSL3. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
25 ANV
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195136470
ISBN
9780195136470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.74

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