Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages
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Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages
Paperback. The volume includes Trojan Women, Thyestes, Phaedra, Medea, and Agamemnon, plus a preface. Translator(s): Slavitt, David. Series: Complete Roman Drama in Translation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801843099
- ISBN
- 9780801843099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.93
€ 36.93
Hardback. It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies. Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801884764
- ISBN
- 9780801884764
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.16
€ 70.16
hardcover. Num Pages: 764 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 2AB; 2ADS; 2JNN; CBDX; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 160 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1234.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 764
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804711838
- ISBN
- 9780804711838
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.60
€ 170.60
Hardback. This is a study of the main literary theories of the late Italian Renaissance that seek to define a poetics of dialogue. Important because it subverts the conventional understanding of what is literary or not, dialogue has ties to Platonism, the dialectic and imaginative fiction. Num Pages: 316 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804714594
- ISBN
- 9780804714594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.42
€ 98.42
Hardback. This text, examines the work of Italo Calvino concentrating mainly on his first novel. Situating his early work in its historical and cultural context, the author reassesses Italian neorealism in terms of the theories and critical debates about realism of critics such as Lukics, Sartre and Brecht. Num Pages: 432 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 665.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804716505
- ISBN
- 9780804716505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.20
€ 99.20
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 497.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719469
- ISBN
- 9780804719469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.76
€ 92.76
Hardback. Challenges several traditional assumptions about the development of the French novel, notably that the novel is a bourgeois art form that rose and flourished along with the rise of the bourgeoisie. This book offers an account of the rise of the French novel. Num Pages: 412 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DD; 2ADF; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 30. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804719995
- ISBN
- 9780804719995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.55
€ 104.55
Hardback. John Kleiner investigates the place of error in the moral and aesthetic system of Dante's Comedy. He argues that Dante's delight in finely wrought patterns does not exclude an interest in patterns of disorder, that his pursuit of harmony intensifies his interest in dissonance. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 200 pages, 16 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804721431
- ISBN
- 9780804721431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.27
€ 81.27
Hardback. The author shows how a new commercial and learned print culture attempted to write and regulate individual and collective practices in terms of a master idiom of family, sexuality, and gender upon which a post-revolutionary national community would turn. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 28. Weight in Grams: 611.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722247
- ISBN
- 9780804722247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.89
€ 98.89
Hardback. This is a a collection of essays by Maurice Blanchot, a key figure in the exploration of the relationship between literature and philosophy. Recurring themes in the essays include:the relation of literature and language to death and the historical, personal, and social function of literature. Translator(s): Mandel, Charlotte. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724326
- ISBN
- 9780804724326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.11
€ 158.11
Hardback. This work examines three first-person novels that narrate spectacular failures of self-representationamd is an analysis of notions of truth and linguistic skepticism in the French novel. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 457.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724654
- ISBN
- 9780804724654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.75
€ 81.75
Hardback. Focusing on the earliest extant version of the Grail legend, the author proposes a social interpretation of Chretien's romance as a story concerned with earthly violence and vendetta. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 679.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724814
- ISBN
- 9780804724814
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.26
€ 99.26
Hardback. The author challenges the view that literary texts cannot be examined by words alone, arguing that images also play a role in the interpretation process. Num Pages: 300 pages, 16 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728072
- ISBN
- 9780804728072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.39
€ 158.39
Hardback. The author argues against much recent work on Baudelaire that assumes his modernism by emphasizing his relationship to current critical preoccupations such as issues of race and gender or by "correcting" his politics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC; HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728096
- ISBN
- 9780804728096
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.39
€ 81.39
Hardback. 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 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728294
- ISBN
- 9780804728294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.39
€ 135.39
Hardback. The churches and manuscripts of medieval Europe incessantly juxtapose imagery depicting sacred themes with likenesses of the crudest and basest nature. Drawing on the contrast between Bakhtin's concepts of the carnivalesque and the domain of the law, this book examines such opposites in six major works of pre-1350 Spanish literature. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 665.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729369
- ISBN
- 9780804729369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.38
€ 104.38
Hardback. 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 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729741
- ISBN
- 9780804729741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.34
€ 158.34
Hardback. This book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"--Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)--that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804730884
- ISBN
- 9780804730884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.96
€ 113.96
hardcover. This volume uses a reading of the French Romantic poet Gerard de Nerval to elucidate and critique a death-based ideology of subjectivity that has remained in force from Kant to Lacan. Num Pages: 392 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804731225
- ISBN
- 9780804731225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.18
€ 110.18
The Story of Guadalupe. Luis Laso de la Vega's "Huei Tlamahuicoltica" ...
Sousa, Lisa; Poole, Stafford; Lockhart, James...
Hardback. 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 15. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734820
- ISBN
- 9780804734820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.26
€ 119.26