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Paperback. Often overshadowed by the magnificence of his achievements as a visual artist is Michelangelo's devotion to poetry. Here is a collection of his poetic works translated to capture all the pathos, complexity, and ardor of both his language and his poetic temperament. Translator(s): Nims, John Frederick. Num Pages: 198 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 226 x 11. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226080307
ISBN
9780226080307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.21

Paperback. For centuries, people have been thinking and writing - and fiercely debating - about the meaning of marriage. This book offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the start of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJC; DSBH; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226085838
ISBN
9780226085838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.71

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 80 pages, viii, 70 p. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 7. Weight in Grams: 141.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226096155
ISBN
9780226096155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.98

Paperback. The evening beyond each chain-lit match seemed to crouch in the shapes of houses, then rose to play havoc in a veil of dogwoods. Based on a logic that considers the atomic symbol an improvised phoneme, this book is keenly attuned to the qualities of voice and concerned with how these improvisations fall on the listening ear. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 60 x 90 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226096193
ISBN
9780226096193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.07

Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: CFP; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226098739
ISBN
9780226098739
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. The year 1819 in England was notable for the quality, value and topicality of its literature, while parliamentary and political reforms were widely demanded, especially by "Romantic" writers. This book argues that the writing demonstrates an awareness of its place both in history, and as history. Num Pages: 606 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBJD1; HBLL; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 32. Weight in Grams: 810.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
606
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226101095
ISBN
9780226101095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Both intensely personal and deeply rooted in recognizable events of a personal, familial, or national significance, "The Afterlife of Objects" is a kind of dreamed autobiography. Dan Chiasson divulges the enigmas of the mind through a beautifully constructed poetic voice. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103785
ISBN
9780226103785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.88

Paperback. Whether speaking in the voice of a weaver trying to quell a violent crowd or in his own voice as a mill employee, Michael Chitwood seeks to bring together many social and historical threads to show the pattern of a people and a place that has received little treatment in American poetry. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 153 x 9. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226103983
ISBN
9780226103983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.81

Hardcover. Anthropology has long had a vexed relationship with literature, and nowhere has this been more acutely felt than in France, where most ethnographers, upon returning from the field, write not one book, but two: a scientific monograph and a literary account. The author puzzles out this phenomenon. Translator(s): Izzo, Justin. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; DSB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 60 x 90 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226106908
ISBN
9780226106908
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.43
€ 103.64

Paperback. Features poems which suggest that we discover what we love by fighting, by bringing our angry, hungry, imperfect selves into the battle. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226109282
ISBN
9780226109282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.65

Hardcover. This text demonstrates that the theatrum repudiated by medieval clerics was not "theatre" as we understand the term today. The author contends that critics have misrepresented Western stage history because they have assumed that theatrum designates a place where drama is performed. Num Pages: 356 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSA; DSBB; DSG; JHBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226110301
ISBN
9780226110301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.26
€ 61.69

Paperback. Where are we going? What are we doing here? you don't ask, you don't notice the blur of stations we're racing past, the others out there watching in the dim light, baffled, who for a moment thought the train was theirs. This book offers a collection of poetry. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226110639
ISBN
9780226110639
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.07

Paperback. This work brings together 14 short erotic stories by contemporary Italian women writers. Contributors include Angela Carter, Jean Baudrillard, and Georges Bataille in her introductory essay on the theoretical issues of desire and seduction. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226132242
ISBN
9780226132242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.98

Hardcover. Presents an interdisciplinary look at the story of a generation of philosophers, poets, and intellectuals who turned away from theology, reason, common sense, and empirical observation to provide a purely metaphysical justification of marriage. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JF; DSBD; HPCD; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226136936
ISBN
9780226136936
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 40.92

Paperback. Elsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, eminent anthropologist and ardent social critic who challenged Americans to develop flexible and dynamic gender, family and social arrangements. This biography examines the connections linking Parsons' intellectual commitments to her life experience. Series: Women in Culture and Society Series. Num Pages: 538 pages, 52 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 34. Weight in Grams: 706.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
538
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226139081
ISBN
9780226139081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.48

Paperback. Late-20th-century critical work on the late-Victorian period has furnished a vocabulary for discussing gender and sexuality. Terms include homo/hetero and patriarchal/feminist. This text exploits that framework to show how Victorians imagined difference in ways that continue to challenge. Num Pages: 328 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; JFSJ; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226142272
ISBN
9780226142272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.14

Paperback. Dealing with the forgotten comic literature of eighteenth-century Britain, this book uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility that forces us to recognize just how slowly ordinary human sufferings became worthy of sympathy. Num Pages: 382 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226142548
ISBN
9780226142548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 36.20

Paperback. "The Story of Sapho" makes available for the first time in modern English a self contained section from Scudery's novel "Artamene ou le Grand Cyrus". This edition also includes a translation of an oration in which Sapho extols the talents of women to persuade them to write. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226143996
ISBN
9780226143996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.81

Hardcover. Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental - the product of an emerging middle class. This title uncovers a strain of cruelty coursing through the period that reminds us just how slowly ordinary sufferings became worthy of sympathy. It expands our understanding of many of the century's major authors. Num Pages: 360 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 235 x 27. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226146188
ISBN
9780226146188
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.53
€ 78.69

Hardcover. One of the most memorable Shakespearean characters is Edgar in King Lear. The author asks us to rethink all those received ideas - and thus to experience King Lear as never before. He argues that Edgar is Shakespeare's most radical experiment in characterization - and also his most exhaustive model of both human and theatrical possibility. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226150642
ISBN
9780226150642
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.42

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