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Hardback. A study of visuality in early modern and modern China. It identifies three distinct constellations of visual concerns corresponding to the late imperial, mid-twentieth century, and contemporary periods, respectively. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, 19 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031746
- ISBN
- 9780674031746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.98
€ 49.99
€ 41.98
Paperback. Presents the story of the year - 1875 to 1876 - when the young novelist Henry James moved to Paris, drawn by his literary idols living at the center of the early modern movement in art. This narrative combines biography and criticism and uses James' writings to tell the story from his point of view. Num Pages: 272 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691138428
- ISBN
- 9780691138428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.27
€ 36.99
€ 27.27
Hardback. Since the war Graham Greene has travelled habitually to the world's trouble-spots and has provided leading newspapers and journals with articles about what he saw. This book is about his political reportage and how the observations that formed it were transformed into literature. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333458983
- ISBN
- 9780333458983
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.72
€ 128.72
Hardcover. Exploring great drama of the last 1980s and 1990s through the eyes of those who write it, and those who direct it, this is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and an insight into the ways in which dramatists have reacted to a rapidly-changing world. Editor(s): Wu, Duncan. Num Pages: 272 pages, photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333740019
- ISBN
- 9780333740019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.08
€ 128.08
Paperback. This book traces the musical and cultural achievements of this contemporary musical phenomenon to its origin in the Romantic revolution of the 1790's in England when traditional concepts of literature, politics, education and social relationships were challenged as they were in the 1960's. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349540181
- ISBN
- 9781349540181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorations, philosophical convictions, theological beliefs, and states of health exerted upon his perceptions of human Body/Soul relations, both in life and after death. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 314 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230545229
- ISBN
- 9780230545229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469627168
- ISBN
- 9781469627168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.78
€ 82.78
Paperback. This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age. Editor(s): Partington, Gillian; Smyth, A. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349474554
- ISBN
- 9781349474554
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Cautions that medieval selfhood should not be understood merely in terms of confessional practice. The author points to the controversy over confession and, more generally, lay instruction that was generated in late medieval England around the heresy known as Wycliffism (or Lollardy). Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268033767
- ISBN
- 9780268033767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.24
€ 29.99
€ 27.24
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226241180
- ISBN
- 9780226241180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.71
€ 34.99
€ 27.71
Paperback. In An Introduction to the Gawain Poet , John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer's anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet's lesser known but no less brilliant works. Series: New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813049588
- ISBN
- 9780813049588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.47
€ 29.47
Paperback. This detailed study of Williams unlocks his late sociology of culture. It covers previously overlooked aspects, such as his critique of Birmingham cultural studies, his use of an Adorno-like approach to 'cultural production', his 'social formalist' alternative to structuralism and post-structuralism and his approach to 'the media'. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230006706
- ISBN
- 9780230006706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 253 x 10. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585101061
- ISBN
- 9781585101061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 25.53
€ 34.99
€ 25.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 329.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2009
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349379033
- ISBN
- 9781349379033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Num Pages: 242 pages, fig. and tables. BIC Classification: CB; CFF; CFM; DSBH; EB; GTB; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 210 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Peter Lang AG
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9783631502112
- ISBN
- 9783631502112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.49
€ 6.49
Hardback. Through close readings of Tanizaki's and Freud's major writings from the 1930s, the book proposes new answers to classic feminist questions about perversion. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804762335
- ISBN
- 9780804762335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.13
€ 71.13
This book examines exaggerated masculinities in select novels by James Baldwin, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. Through this analysis Josef Benson connects the masculinities of frontier figures with black male protagonists in postwar American novels, and how these novels present alternative ideal masculinities. Series: Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442237605
- ISBN
- 9781442237605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.25
€ 120.25
Paperback. Editor(s): Perry, D.; Sederholm, Carl H. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; DSA; DSB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349298983
- ISBN
- 9781349298983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
The Heart Has its Reasons. Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Que...
Cart, Michael; Jenkins, Christine A.
Hardback. Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality. It makes it even more difficult for young homosexuals. This book examines these issues and evaluates the body of literature, published for young adults that offer homosexual themes and characters. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 5S; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810850712
- ISBN
- 9780810850712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.42
€ 106.42
Paperback. An exploration of modern assumptions about God, social, economic, and political structures, through the analysis of contemporary cultural expression. This is combined with a study of the locations that successively became the frontiers of modernity, such as Vienna, Moscow, Paris and Berlin, as well as America. Num Pages: 752 pages, 166 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AB; ACX; AV; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 167 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1190. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0006766
- ISBN
- 9780500281512
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. A collection of insightful articles that represent an interdisciplinary study of identity. Editor(s): Selim, Yasser Fouad; Mohamed, Eid. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 211 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781443859684
- ISBN
- 9781443859684
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 31.40
€ 51.99
€ 31.40
Paperback. Editor(s): Mambrey, Peter; Pipek, Volkmar; Rohde, Markus. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Physica-Verlag HD
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783790800180
- ISBN
- 9783790800180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.10
€ 78.10
Hardback. This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421414355
- ISBN
- 9781421414355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.47€ 51.49
€ 55.47
€ 51.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; DSB; HBG; HBTB; HBW; HBWQ; JFSK2; JFSL9; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816690602
- ISBN
- 9780816690602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.67
€ 29.99
€ 27.67