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Hardback. Explores the strange, enduring power of sentimental language in the face of a rapidly changing culture Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823245529
ISBN
9780823245529
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.52

Hardback. Examines the emergence of a new genre during the eighteenth century: the nostalgia poem. This genre is best understood by reconceiving the premises of nostalgia itself, examining it as first and foremost a mode of idealization rather than a longing for the past. This book traces the history of the nostalgia poem. Num Pages: 221 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874139457
ISBN
9780874139457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.47

Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231180245
ISBN
9780231180245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.15
€ 49.51

Paperback / so. Editor(s): Petersen, David. BIC Classification: BJ; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Milkweed Editions United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571312853
ISBN
9781571312853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.55

Paperback. How does the body's sense of its own movement shift when confronted with modernist film? How might travel by motorcar disorientate one sufficiently to bring about an existential crisis? This book offers a coherent history of ideas of the haptic, tracing their impact on literary innovation. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474401425
ISBN
9781474401425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 27.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Skoob Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871438772
ISBN
9781871438772
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 143 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811215268
ISBN
9780811215268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.72

Hardback. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East. Num Pages: 442 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HB; 2AB; DNF; HBJH; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 799.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
442
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691635859
ISBN
9780691635859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 210.32

Paperback. .
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784100520
ISBN
9781784100520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.33

Paperback. Poems with great lyric power treat the heritage, history, and aspirations of Morocco and the Arab world. Translator(s): Reinking, Victor W.; George, Anne. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872864139
ISBN
9780872864139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.03

Paperback. Captures their white refractions in vignettes that teach us the truth of the coincidence of contraries, of how the impure lodges in the pure. This book offers a series of prose poems that draw their inspiration from the great Sufi poet of mediaeval Andalusia, Ibn Arabi, whose fervent love poetry both scandalized and transformed Islamic culture. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 116 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBT; BGA; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231157
ISBN
9780823231157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.64

Hardback. Presents a series of prose poems that draw their inspiration from the great Sufi poet of mediaeval Andalusia, Ibn Arabi, whose fervent love poetry both scandalized and transformed Islamic culture, and from Dante, who learned from Ibn Arabi a poetry of sensual love as initiation into spiritual experience. Translator(s): Mandell, Charlotte. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBT; BGA; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 3233 x 5193 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231140
ISBN
9780823231140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.95

Hardback. Offers a collection of poetry, which takes you to unexpected spaces-in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is "sucked up by the eye of the sun-black often, pink from time to time." These poems strongly condemn the civil wars that have plagued East Africa and advocate tolerance and peace. Translator(s): Carlson, Nancy Naomi. Series: The Africa List. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422385
ISBN
9780857422385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DNS; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 240 x 8. Weight in Grams: 166.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Light Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781597843157
ISBN
9781597843157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.54

Paperback. With poems in both English and Arabic, this remarkable anthology presents rarely seen poems by over fifty Arab women spanning 7,000 years from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods. Illustrator(s): Maggi, Laura. Num Pages: 241 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; DB; DCQ; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 375.
Publisher
Saqi Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780863560477
ISBN
9780863560477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.96

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9789927118715
ISBN
9789927118715
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.18

Hardback. Explores the influences that triggered the Arabic awakening, the nahdah, from the 1800s onwards. This title enhances our understanding of the nahdah and its intellectuals, taking into account important internal factors alongside external forces. It also explores the key factors that contributed to the rise and development of the nahdah. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; DSB; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748640690
ISBN
9780748640690
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.12

Paperback. .
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
356
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872208759
ISBN
9780872208759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.30

Hardback. Editor(s): Gelles, Edith B. (Senior Scholar, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University). Num Pages: 1000 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBES; 3JF; BJ; DN; HBTV; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 124. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
The Library of America
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781598534658
ISBN
9781598534658
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 35.16

Paperback. Discover the beauty of haiku and be inspired to start your own haiku group! Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 B&W photographs and illustrations. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stone Bridge Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933330044
ISBN
9781933330044
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.32

Paperback. Series: Refiguring Modernism. Num Pages: 216 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 186 x 17. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780271034096
ISBN
9780271034096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.24
€ 53.96

Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611483406
ISBN
9781611483406
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.58

Paperback. Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Now, Abigail Santamaria brings Joy Davidman Gresham Lewis to the page in the fullness and depth she deserves. Num Pages: 413 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780281074297
ISBN
9780281074297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.08

Hardcover. The first full biography of Joy Davidman brings her out from C. S. Lewis's shadow to reveal a powerful writer and thinker. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 170 x 42. Weight in Grams: 814.
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780281074273
ISBN
9780281074273
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.11

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