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Hardcover. The idea of abolishing death was one of the most influential myth-making concepts expressed in Russian literature from 1900 to 1930, especially in the works of writers who attributed a "life-modeling" function to art. The author finds the seeds of this extraordinary concept in the erosion of traditional religion in late-nineteenth-century Russia. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 701.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804719353
- ISBN
- 9780804719353
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.75
€ 91.75
Hardback. From Symbolism to Socialist Realism offers a broad variety of materials contextualizing the literary texts most frequently read in Russian literature courses at the undergraduate and beginning graduate level. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 470 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 31. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235421
- ISBN
- 9781936235421
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.34€ 127.45
€ 131.34
€ 127.45
Paperback. A collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dos-toevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor'kii, Pasternak and Nabokov. It offers novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolito and "The Idiot" to "Doctor Zhivago". Series: Cultural Revolutions: Russia in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934843406
- ISBN
- 9781934843406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 137.75
€ 137.75
Paperback. Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestselling Suite Francaise, this title tells the story of Silvio, his cousin's wife Helene, her second husband Francoise, and of the truths, deaths, marriages, children, houses and mills that bind them with love and hatred, deception and betrayal. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007486
- ISBN
- 9780099516095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. With a depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion, this book tells about the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099488781
- ISBN
- 9780099488781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Set in the rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to the bestselling Suite Francaise, this title tells the story of Silvio, his cousin's wife Helene, her second husband Francoise, and of the truths, deaths, marriages, children, houses and mills that bind them with love and hatred, deception and betrayal. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132. Good, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KSG0005347
- ISBN
- 9780099516095
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. This work builds an argument about liberalism and the realist movement by shifting the focus from the rise of both in the 18th century, to their breakdown at the end of the 19th century. The decline of realism and the eroding logic of liberalism is related to the question of Jewish characters. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1; JPFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226815350
- ISBN
- 9780226815350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.74
€ 37.99
€ 29.74
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801453342
- ISBN
- 9780801453342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.61
€ 47.61
Hardback. This text studies the work and methods of 18th-century Russian poet Vasilii Trediakovsky. This material is used to detect mythological patterns in accounts of the past - in this case 18th-century Russian literature - and to investigate the role of mythmaking in modern cultural consciousness. Num Pages: 332 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JF; DSBD; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718240
- ISBN
- 9780804718240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.93
€ 105.93
Hardcover. A collection of essays that ranges from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It examines how obligatory state service and the Table of Ranks shaped Russian writers' view of themselves as professionals, raising questions about whether the existence of the rank system prompted the development of specifically Russian types of literary discourse. Series: Ars Rossika. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 168 x 23. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936235513
- ISBN
- 9781936235513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.44
€ 148.44
Hardback. By examining the psychiatric engagement with the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and the decadents and revolutionaries, Sirotkina provides a rich account of Russia's medical and literary history during this turbulent revolutionary period. Series: Medicine and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; MBX; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801867828
- ISBN
- 9780801867828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.33
€ 64.33
Hardcover. 340pp. Book club edition. Slight tear to corner of DJ. o/w very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- The Book Club
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1976
- SKU
- KNW0013217
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 28.00
€ 28.00
Hardcover. Clean copy. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has minor wear to edges but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Viking
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOG0001302
- ISBN
- 9780670819126
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Presents a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099433576
- ISBN
- 9780099433576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.71
€ 13.99
€ 11.71
Paperback. Vintage paperback. Good clean condition with some minor reader wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- SKU
- KTM0008504
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Vintage paperback. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- A Penguin Book
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KTM0008331
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag Germany
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837626001
- ISBN
- 9783837626001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 36.94
€ 51.99
€ 36.94
Hardcover. Very good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KRF0027561
- ISBN
- 9780957078413
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishosetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cu...
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Hardback. This work is an English translation of the author's own work on the shishosetsu, a genre in Japanese literature. It provides a means of researching and interpreting the tradition of the genre, linking it to forms of autobiographical fiction as well as to classical cultural assumptions. Translator(s): Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela (Professor of Japanese Literature, Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany). Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674773196
- ISBN
- 9780674773196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 43.22
€ 51.99
€ 43.22
Paperback. 109pp. Indiana University Publications Humanities Series, No. 36
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Indiana University press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1956
- SKU
- KHS1004135
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. Suitable for persons of strong constitution, this title contains: Drug use; Perversion; Murder; Corruption; Sexism; Racism; Law; Enforcement; and a tapeworm. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Film Tie-In
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099583837
- ISBN
- 9780099583837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam. There are irritating flies in the ointment, though, including a missing wife, a nagging cocaine habit, and a dramatic deterioration in his genital health. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- SKU
- KRA0012712
- ISBN
- 9780099591115
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Troubled Environmental Health Officer Danny Skinner is engaged on a quest to uncover what he refers to as 'the bedroom secrets of the master chefs'. He regards the unravelling of this classified information as the key to learning genetic facts about himself and the crippling compulsions that threaten to wreck his young life. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099483588
- ISBN
- 9780099483588
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
paperback. A story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099285922
- ISBN
- 9780099285922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
€ 13.99
€ 11.14