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Reading Myth: Classical Mythology and Its Interpretations in Medieval ...
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Hardback. This work explores the appropriation and transformation of classical mythology by French culture from the mid-12th century to about 1430. Each of the five chapters focuses on a specific moment in this process and asks questions including what were the purposes of transforming classical myth? Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3H; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728102
- ISBN
- 9780804728102
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€ 97.23
€ 97.23
Paperback. This book traces several of the most recent trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions intersect or for specific reasons fail to intersect. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADT; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 11. Weight in Grams: 249.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- No Earlier Edition Stated
- SKU
- V9780804728300
- ISBN
- 9780804728300
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€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. This collection of 15 essays deals with the representations, theories, and problematics of homosexuality in French writing of the 19th and 20th centuries Editor(s): Fisher, Dominique D.; Schehr, Lawrence R. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729758
- ISBN
- 9780804729758
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.59
€ 36.99
€ 35.59
Paperback. This is an extraordinarily imaginative analysis of the relations between literature and technique in Brazil from the 1880's to the 1920's. Translator(s): Britto, Paulo. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 148 pages, Illustrations, facsims.,port. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADP; 2ADS; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 245.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730631
- ISBN
- 9780804730631
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.35
€ 32.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. This book is about four writers-Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine-whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804731850
- ISBN
- 9780804731850
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Paperback. The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe has been an important element in the development of a specifically Mexican tradition of religion and nationality over the centuries. This volume presents an English translation of the original Nahuatl on which the legend is based. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, tables. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; HBJK; HBLH; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 230.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804734837
- ISBN
- 9780804734837
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.96
€ 27.99
€ 26.96
Hardback. This text examines the Socratic position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. It takes the reemergence of poetry in the politicized culture of France as a signal that poetry's sentence of exile from the public arena is unresolved. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 553.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804734905
- ISBN
- 9780804734905
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€ 137.98
€ 137.98
Paperback. One of the major cultural philosophers of our time addresses, in his powerful and allusive critical voice, Malraux's reflections on art and literature. The result tells us as much about Lyotard as it does about Malraux. Translator(s): Harvey, Robert. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 9. Weight in Grams: 176.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737500
- ISBN
- 9780804737500
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€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Paperback. In order to grasp what it means to call Rousseau an author of the Revolution, it is necessary to take full measure of the difficulties of literary interpretation to which Rousseau's work gives rise. This is a deconstructive analysis of Rousseau as an "author" of the French Revolution. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804738644
- ISBN
- 9780804738644
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.59
€ 36.99
€ 35.59
Paperback. This text examines the Socratic position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. It takes the reemergence of poetry in the politicized culture of France as a signal that poetry's sentence of exile from the public arena is unresolved. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 415.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804738736
- ISBN
- 9780804738736
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€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. The Ends of Literature analyzes the part played by literature within contemporary Latin American thought and politics, above all the politics of neoliberalism. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADSL; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 299.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743464
- ISBN
- 9780804743464
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€ 32.99€ 31.30
€ 32.99
€ 31.30
Paperback. This work presents a thorough historicist account of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747448
- ISBN
- 9780804747448
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Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 41.64
€ 42.99
€ 41.64
Hardback. Offers a study of autobiographies by French and Francophone African writers and filmmakers, all of whom reject simple first-person narration and experiment with narrative voice and form to represent fragmented subjectivity. This work investigates autobiography across media, from print to photography and film, and across the colonial encounter. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804753562
- ISBN
- 9780804753562
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Condition: New
€ 85.97
€ 85.97
Hardback. Although Irene Nemirovsky was Jewish, she frequented authors and politicians on the extreme right. This biography analyzes the discrepancy between Nemirovsky's real and imagined identities, and explores a literary work that revisits in a different way Jewish identity, exile, betrayal, and the solidarity of persecuted people. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804754811
- ISBN
- 9780804754811
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€ 32.99€ 28.42
€ 32.99
€ 28.42
Hardback. In the most comprehensive and nuanced account of the subject currently available, Hayes examines the relationship of translation theory to its intellectual and social context and the role of translators in creating a new understanding of cultural otherness. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 175 x 23. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759441
- ISBN
- 9780804759441
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€ 97.71
€ 97.71
Hardback. E. Jane Burns argues that literary portraits of medieval heroines who produce and decorate silk cloth or otherwise manipulate items of silk outline a metaphorical geography that includes northern France as an important cultural player within the silk economics of the Mediterranean. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 25 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812241549
- ISBN
- 9780812241549
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€ 81.53
€ 81.53
Paperback. Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez argues that the writing of the Peurto Rican diaspora should be considered an integral field of study. The story of an American community of colour, "Boricua Literature" is also about contemporary critical race and gender studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780814731475
- ISBN
- 9780814731475
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. Translator(s): MacGillivray, Catherine A.F. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC; DSK; FA; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 260.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780816621170
- ISBN
- 9780816621170
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Condition: New
€ 23.50
€ 23.50
Paperback. Series: Mediaeval Cultures S. Num Pages: 296 pages, with 17 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816622474
- ISBN
- 9780816622474
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 36.90
€ 36.99
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Paperback. Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816631070
- ISBN
- 9780816631070
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 27.09
€ 27.99
€ 27.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816631131
- ISBN
- 9780816631131
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.63
€ 33.99
€ 33.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816665266
- ISBN
- 9780816665266
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.00
€ 29.99
€ 29.00
Paperback. Regarded by many as one of the best critical books on Borges. Translator(s): Montero, Oscar. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822314202
- ISBN
- 9780822314202
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.95
€ 26.99
€ 26.95
paperback. The relationship between fiction and historiography in Francoist Spain (1939-1975) is a contentious one. Making a decisive intervention in the debate about the ways in which narration determines both the meaning and truth of history and fiction, this title is of interest to students of politics, history, and literature of twentieth-century Spain. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3734 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822315971
- ISBN
- 9780822315971
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Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05