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Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 25. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226306476
ISBN
9780226306476
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.20

Hardcover. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. Greenblatt shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226306667
ISBN
9780226306667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.10

Paperback. From Ulysses' Argo to Freud's Lun, these stories explore the mysterious and often intense relationship between human beings and dogs. Illustrating a broad knowledge of literary dog lovers, and elaborating on their insights, Grenier's volume abounds with humour and history. Translator(s): Kaplan, Alice. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; WNGD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226308289
ISBN
9780226308289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. A collection of Fulke Greville's short poems that includes the whole of his lyric sequence, "Caelica", along with choruses from some of his verse dramas. Editor(s): Gunn, Thom. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226308463
ISBN
9780226308463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.96

Hardcover. Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Editor(s): Griffith, Mark; Most, Glenn W. Series Editor(s): Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond. Series: Complete Greek Tragedies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Third Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226308777
ISBN
9780226308777
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.58

Hardcover. Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Editor(s): Griffith, Mark; Most, Glenn W. Series Editor(s): Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond. Series: Complete Greek Tragedies. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 226 x 26. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Third Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226308951
ISBN
9780226308951
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.58

Hardcover. Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Editor(s): Griffith, Mark; Most, Glenn W. Series Editor(s): Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond. Series: Complete Greek Tragedies. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Third Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226308975
ISBN
9780226308975
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.58

Hardcover. In the spirit of Blake's vow of 'mental fight,' this work contends with challenges to the validity of the poetic imagination, from Adorno's maxim 'No poetry after Auschwitz,' to the claims of religious authority upon truth, and the ultimate challenge posed by the fact of death itself. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226309736
ISBN
9780226309736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.74
€ 79.10

Paperback. Contends with challenges to the validity of the poetic imagination, from Adorno's maxim 'No poetry after Auschwitz,' to the claims of religious authority upon truth, and the ultimate challenge posed by the fact of death itself. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226309743
ISBN
9780226309743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Paperback. This work explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking - especially rumour, slander, insult, vituperation and curse - and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226309897
ISBN
9780226309897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. During the second half of the 18th century, the social role of educated women and the nature of domesticity were the focus of widespread debate in Britain. This work explores how small changes in the meaning of patriotism permitted educated women to imagine themselves as political subjects. Num Pages: 354 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; HBJD; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226310527
ISBN
9780226310527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. This English translation of the "Discourse" is the first version published in any form since 1586. It displays an incredibly far-sighted view of women's education, with advice on spirituality, morality, health and beauty required by a well-bred lady-in-waiting. Series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226310558
ISBN
9780226310558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.64

Hardcover. Combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic. This title offers a mode of historical and textual analysis that displays the wide range of resources imaginative language. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226311296
ISBN
9780226311296
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.21
€ 50.62

Paperback. Human, hunger, happiness, hope, heart, and Halliday all start with h, as does ham. Accident? Maybe! But seldom have the flour of the humanistic and the egg yolk of honesty mixed more swellingly with the yeast of desire and the salt of self-doubt - not to mention the olive paste of ambition. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226313863
ISBN
9780226313863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.20

Paperback. Paul Hamilton here redefines romanticism in terms of its philosophical habits of self-consciousness. Through analysis of the aesthetics of Schiller, Rousseau and works by Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and others, Hamilton adds greater clarity to our understanding of romanticism. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 151 x 29. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226314808
ISBN
9780226314808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.53

Paperback. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book assembles scholars to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern conceptions of political theology. Editor(s): Hammill, Graham L.; Lupton, Julia Reinhard. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HPS; HRAM2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226314983
ISBN
9780226314983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.58

Paperback. American historical writing has traditionally been a form of moral reflection. However this study argues that, in the disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its redemptive potential, and adopted the methodology of the social sciences. It describes the reasons for this change. Num Pages: 318 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; HBA; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Paperback Printing
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226316178
ISBN
9780226316178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.74

Paperback. A completely revised and updated edition of this standard anthology of medieval Latin, this work has been provided with 14 new selections, doubling the coverage of women writers, expanding a quarter of the original selections, and including a substantive grammatical introduction. Editor(s): Harrington, K.P. Num Pages: 698 pages, 32pp plates, notes, bibliography, glossary. BIC Classification: 2ADL; CF; DNF; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 37. Weight in Grams: 972.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd Revised
Number of pages
698
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226317137
ISBN
9780226317137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 38.29

Paperback. A profound reconsideration of how Blanchot work figures theologically in some of the major currents of twentieth-century thought. Hart reveals Blanchot to be a thinker devoted to the possibilities of a spiritual life with the possibilities of leading an ethical life in the absence of God. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226318110
ISBN
9780226318110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.50

Paperback. Editor(s): Harvey, Elizabeth D.; Maus, Katharine Eisaman. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226318769
ISBN
9780226318769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 33.56

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