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Paperback. Shows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific Filipina Num Pages: 320 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 2AB; DSBH; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460. The Making of the Modern Filipina. 320 pages, 14 photographs. Shows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific Filipina. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 2AB; DSBH; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822353164
- ISBN
- 9780822353164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
hardcover. In this study, Marian Demos seeks to demonstrate the significance of three famous lyric quotations within their respective contexts in the dialogues of Plato. These passages include the Simonides poem in the "Protagoras" and the misquotation of Pindar in the "Gorgias". Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 325.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847689088
- ISBN
- 9780847689088
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.72
€ 137.72
Paperback. Translator(s): Ladinsky, Daniel. Num Pages: 67 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 213 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 67
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140196238
- ISBN
- 9780140196238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.80
€ 19.99
€ 17.80
Hardback. The elegy flared into existence, commanded the cultural stage for several decades, then went extinct. This book accounts for the swift rise and sudden decline of a genre whose life span was incredibly brief relative to its impact. It presents the history of Latin erotic elegy since Georg Luck's. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 175 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691096742
- ISBN
- 9780691096742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.82
€ 112.82
Hardback. Editor(s): Hayot, Eric; Walkowitz, Rebecca L. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 320 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780231165204
- ISBN
- 9780231165204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.22€ 79.41
€ 104.22
€ 79.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 139 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 205 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 139
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772896595
- ISBN
- 9788772896595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.61
€ 26.99
€ 20.61
Hardback. This study of the effect of literature on readers, both as individuals and as members of social groups, focuses on Russia's national poet, Alexander Pushkin, as a model for investigating the aesthetic and social functions of literature. Num Pages: 300 pages, 9 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726627
- ISBN
- 9780804726627
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.87
€ 100.87
Paperback. Offers an insight into the modes and devices employed in the creation of women's fiction since the eighteenth century. This book argues that traditional theorizations of the sublime depend upon unexamined assumptions about femininity and sexual difference, and that the sublime could not exist without misogynistic constructions of 'the feminine.' Num Pages: 205 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 59.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520208889
- ISBN
- 9780520208889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.86
€ 33.99
€ 24.86
Paperback. A large and important collection by one of Eastern Europe's major contemporary poets. Translator(s): Biggins, Michael. Series: Terra Incognita. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGV; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- White Pine Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877727573
- ISBN
- 9781877727573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.55
€ 18.99
€ 17.55
Paperback. In Columbarium, Susan Stewart gives us a series of splendid, numinous poems about truths learned with the mind but set free through the senses. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 167 x 10. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226774442
- ISBN
- 9780226774442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.39
€ 19.99
€ 17.39
Hardback. Revised or expanded lectures given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H. Buckley. The poems are placed in the context of their intellectual background and related to the writing of other poets. Editor(s): Collins, Philip. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333457900
- ISBN
- 9780333457900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 185.14
€ 185.14
Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; HBTB; JFSG; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Transaction Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560009832
- ISBN
- 9781560009832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.78
€ 49.78
hardcover. Here, the author aims to show how the poet Su Shi's complex personality was embodied in his work and traces the evolution of his poems from juvenilia to the poems written in exile in Huangzhou, where Su settled on a farm at East Slope. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 30. Weight in Grams: 629.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804715874
- ISBN
- 9780804715874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.90
€ 96.90
Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HPCA; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 238 x 22. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159232
- ISBN
- 9780691159232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.29€ 42.23
€ 53.29
€ 42.23
Hardcover. Follows the evolution of the Orient as a positive literary device in German literature and demonstrates how it was used to explore subjectivity and the possibility of wholeness. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 338 pages, 2, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135940
- ISBN
- 9781571135940
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.28
€ 116.28
Paperback. "Here is comfort for the faithful and rewarding reading for almost anyone, religiously inclined or not, interested in the examined life."-The Washington Times Series: Studies in Religion & Literature. Num Pages: 353 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3233 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 353
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823217335
- ISBN
- 9780823217335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.03
€ 37.99
€ 34.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; BM; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875654355
- ISBN
- 9780875654355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.89
€ 23.99
€ 20.89
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691635590
- ISBN
- 9780691635590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.58
€ 144.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804717199
- ISBN
- 9780804717199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.12
€ 37.99
€ 34.12
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856688874
- ISBN
- 9780856688874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.76
€ 141.76
Paperback. Editor(s): Sacks, Sheldon. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 283.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1979
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press Journals
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226733340
- ISBN
- 9780226733340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.51
€ 17.99
€ 15.51
Hardback. This volume provides new insights into some of the best examples of this form of writing in the twentieth century and also includes a chapter which explores ways in which the genre is evolving as the century draws to a close. Editor(s): Flower, John; Flower, J.E. Num Pages: 184 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895699
- ISBN
- 9780859895699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 136.80
€ 136.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 126 x 31. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903517666
- ISBN
- 9781903517666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.47
€ 13.99
€ 13.47
Hardback. Charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U S Civil War, this title identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691136134
- ISBN
- 9780691136134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.14€ 50.82
€ 65.14
€ 50.82