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paperback. Late in 1976 a record called "Anarchy in the UK" was issued in London, and this event launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. The song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of modern society once set out by a small group of Paris intellectuals. This title unravels the secret history of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 496 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 221 x 38. Weight in Grams: 786.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571277100
ISBN
9780571277100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.36

Paperback. Why would a country strongly influenced by Buddhism's reverence for life allow legalized, widely used abortion? This title examines abortion as a window on the culture and ethics of Japan. Num Pages: 275 pages, 12 b&w photos 3 graphs. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HRE; JFC; JFMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691029658
ISBN
9780691029658
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.20

Paperback. aeo A major new book by one of the most original thinkers today. aeo Develops a distinctive argument about the a liquida nature of modernity. aeo Re--examines key concepts which look at the heart of orthodox accounts of the human condition, including the concepts of emancipation, individuality, work and community. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745624105
ISBN
9780745624105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.72

Paperback. Editor(s): Bell, Diane. Num Pages: 146 pages, colour photos & illus. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 248 x 176 x 10. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
SKU
V9781876756697
ISBN
9781876756697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.05

paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APW; JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816644230
ISBN
9780816644230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.13

Paperback. Using classical, popular, and avant-garde music as texts, this title addresses such questions as: why do bodies develop goose bumps when listening to music and why does music sound so good when heard 'all around'. It shows how the historical conditions under which music is created affect the listening experience. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 b&w photograph, 65 musical examples. BIC Classification: AVA; JFC; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822319221
ISBN
9780822319221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 26.63

Paperback. Bringing together the most recent research on the Cultural Revolution in China, musicologists, historians, literary scholars, and others discuss the music and its political implications. Combined, these chapters, paint a vibrant picture of the long-lasting impact that the musical revolution had on ordinary citizens, as well as political leaders. Editor(s): Pang, Laikwan; Clark, Paul; Tsai, Tsan-Huang. Series: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; HBJF; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349565085
ISBN
9781349565085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 116.10

Paperback. Reveals the pivotal role of music - musical works and musical culture - in debates about society, self, and culture that forged European modernity through the 'long nineteenth century'. This book argues that from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, music not only reflected but also embodied modern subjectivity. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JH; AVA; AVGC4; AVGC5; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126166
ISBN
9780691126166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardcover. Over decades the concept of literacy has been an important field of discussion in Medieval and Early Modern studies. This volume introduces Scandinavian literacy to the international field of research. It provides a basis that can contribute to a general understanding of literacy. Num Pages: 355 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DN; HBJD; HBLC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
Number of pages
355
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9788776740405
ISBN
9788776740405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.86

Paperback. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349478965
ISBN
9781349478965
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.12

paperback. Editor(s): Tally, Robert T, Jr., Jr.; Tally Jr, Robert T (Texas State University, USA). Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2014
SKU
V9781349687527
ISBN
9781349687527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.81

hardcover. Literary Celebrity in Canada explores that space, drawing on current theories of celebrity and questioning their tendency to view fame as an empty phenomenon. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSK; JFCA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802092823
ISBN
9780802092823
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.18

Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature, this book examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. It creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421413327
ISBN
9781421413327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.42

paperback. Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geograp hie s examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spi n . Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2014
SKU
V9781349489817
ISBN
9781349489817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture." Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349320370
ISBN
9781349320370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.96

Hardcover. This work examines the lives and fiction of five modernist women writers whose lovers were also literary figures. Focusing on Anais Nin, Rebecca West, Zelda Fitzgerald, Radclyffe Hall, and HD, it investigates the ways these female authors made use of their relationships in their fiction. Num Pages: 225 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780875803012
ISBN
9780875803012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.76

Paperback. Literary Materialisms addresses what has become a fundamental concern in the last decade: how do we today define literary studies as an academic discipline and literature as a relevant object of study? Avoiding unproductive proclamations, this volume unites new materialist critical thinking with a commitment to fundamental principles. Editor(s): Nilges, Mathias; Sauri, Emilio. Num Pages: 283 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 419.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349464609
ISBN
9781349464609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.48

Paperback. This book examines the relationship between the literary and bioscientific cultures of the period as a means of exploring the ways in which the comprehension and representation of the human body fundamentally shapes a variety of the period's communal and national visions. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537594
ISBN
9781349537594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.08

Hardcover. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403977540
ISBN
9781403977540
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.86

Paperback. This brilliant guide provides an introductory overview of the history of 'literature' as a cultural concept, reflecting on its contemporary nature, place and function, and what the literary might mean for us today. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 132 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KOG0008010
ISBN
9780415169141
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

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