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Paperback. aeo A timely and highly accessible study of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century. aeo The author sheds new light on Benjamina s lifelong fascination with the city by examining a number of key texts, including those of Naples, Marseilles, Moscow, Paris and Berlin. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745620107
ISBN
9780745620107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.45

Hardback. Offers an analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern Libya. This book examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed. Translator(s): Berman, Daniel W. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691114583
ISBN
9780691114583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 83.89
€ 64.49

Paperback. Illustrates the relation between myth, culture and literature with discussions of poetry, fiction, film and popular song; explores uses made of the term 'myth' within the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, cultural studies, feminism, Marxism and psychoanalysis. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFHF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415442848
ISBN
9780415442848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.65

Paperback. This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement. They did not seek morality in society, politics or the individual will, but sought to unveil a transcendent Good by using techniques drawn from the canon of mystical literature Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338214
ISBN
9781349338214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.39

Hardback. This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement. They did not seek morality in society, politics or the individual will, but sought to unveil a transcendent Good by using techniques drawn from the canon of mystical literature Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2012th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230303546
ISBN
9780230303546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.41

Paperback. Offers a postmodern interpretation of the great mystics and their writing. This title argues that extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested on a mistake - the belief that their can be meaningful experience prior to language. Series: Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA; HRLK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631207641
ISBN
9780631207641
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.31

Hardback. Offers a postmodern interpretation of the great mystics and their writing. This title argues that extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested on a mistake - the belief that their can be meaningful experience prior to language. Series: Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World. Num Pages: 176 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; HRA; HRLK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631207634
ISBN
9780631207634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.64

Paperback. Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), legendary Persian Muslim poet, theologian, and mystic, wrote poems acclaimed through the centuries for their spiritual images and provocative content, which often described Rumi's love for God in romantic or even erotic terms. This volume includes four hundred poems which provides English translations of this genius. Editor(s): Yarshater, Ehsan. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226731629
ISBN
9780226731629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.82

paperback. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 381 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HPJ; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Number of pages
381
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401037693
ISBN
9789401037693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 123.27

Hardback. Through mystery, literature reveals to us the Great Unknown. This collection covers the subject that prying into the unknown which provokes the human being as he or she attempts to conquer, step by step, a space of existence, finds its culmination in the phenomenon of mystery. Editor(s): Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 381 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
381
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402017056
ISBN
9781402017056
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349423743
ISBN
9781349423743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.03

Hardcover. A critical assessement of mystery in children's literature, this collection charts a development from religious mystery through rationally solved detective fictions to insoluble supernatural and horror mysteries. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSY; YFCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2001st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333918814
ISBN
9780333918814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.64

Paperback. Includes three essays on regional writing, including "The Fiction Writer and His Country" and "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction"; two pieces on teaching literature, including "Total Effect and the 8th Grade"; and four articles concerning the writer and religion, including "The Catholic Novel in the Protestant South." Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571309597
ISBN
9780571309597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.81

Hardback. Editor(s): Ostovich, Dr. Helen; Silcox, Mary V.; Roebuck, Graham. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
318
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611493009
ISBN
9781611493009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 148.41

Hardback. Following on his enormously successful The Mysteries: Creation, Bernard Sahlins has adapted the stories of The Passion to make an engaging drama for modern audiences. Plays for Performance Series. Series: Plays for Performance. Num Pages: 57 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
57
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566630238
ISBN
9781566630238
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 22.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSK; HRCG; VXWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Red Wheel/Weiser United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780877289401
ISBN
9780877289401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 94 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 7. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Dedalus Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906614706
ISBN
9781906614706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.23

Hardcover. * A pathbreaking new book by one of the world s leading sociologists * The book is a study of the rise of detective novels and spy novels in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Boltanski shows that these genres tell us something important about the nature of modern societies and the modern state. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745664040
ISBN
9780745664040
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.07

Paperback. * A pathbreaking new book by one of the world s leading sociologists * The book is a study of the rise of detective novels and spy novels in the 19th and 20th centuries, and Boltanski shows that these genres tell us something important about the nature of modern societies and the modern state. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745664057
ISBN
9780745664057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.85

Paperback. Series: Contemporary interpretations of Shakespeare. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349198160
ISBN
9781349198160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.68

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