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Hardback. The essays here speak from a conviction that torture does not work to elicit truth, secure justice, or maintain security Editor(s): Carlson, Julie A. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSC; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 641.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823242245
ISBN
9780823242245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.45

Hardback. Discusses embarrassment not merely as a condition but as a weapon and as the wound the weapon inflicts Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823241941
ISBN
9780823241941
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.58

Hardback. The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction examines the uncanny properties of the maternal function in psychoanalysis, technology, and literature in order to show that the event of birth is radically unthinkable and often becomes expressed through uncontrollable repetitions that exceed the bounds of any subject. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823240555
ISBN
9780823240555
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.72

Hardback. Num Pages: 406 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 670.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823234349
ISBN
9780823234349
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.58

Hardback. Examines the unstable dialectic of reality and imagination, as well as of history and literature Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 655.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823234288
ISBN
9780823234288
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.21

Hardback. Editor(s): Pugliese, Stanislao G. Num Pages: 332 pages, 9 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 28. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823233588
ISBN
9780823233588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.72

Hardback. Investigates Shakespeare's King Lear and its originative power in modern literature with specific attention to the early work of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and to the American writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans' 1941 collaboration. Num Pages: 176 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 395.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232802
ISBN
9780823232802
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.97

Hardback. Presents a truly international selection of works by more than seventy Italian-language poets who are writing in countries from Australia to Venezuela Editor(s): Bonaffini, Luigi. Num Pages: 1115 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 4531 x 6466 x 61. Weight in Grams: 2473.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
1115
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232536
ISBN
9780823232536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.05

Hardback. Intervenes in transatlantic and hemispheric studies by positing that America's not a particular country or continent but a foundational narrative, in which conquerors arrive at a shore intent on overwriting local versions of humanity, culture, and landscape with inscriptions of their own design. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 423.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823232383
ISBN
9780823232383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.49

Hardback. Records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives - that is, politics. This book focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, and addresses a range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231782
ISBN
9780823231782
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.00

Hardback. The work of Mehmedalija 'Mak' Dizdar (1917-1971) is the cornerstone of modern Bosnian literature. His work blends influences from Bosnian Christian culture, Islamic mysticism, and the cultural remains of medieval Bosnia. This book focuses on Dizdar's collection "Stone Sleeper". It discusses Dizdar's mystically influenced poem "Blue River". Translator(s): Risaluddin, Saba. Series: Abrahamic Dialogues. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 221 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231683
ISBN
9780823231683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardback. Argues that reading, beyond its apparent linearity, is essentially prophetic, not only because Moby-Dick, for example, may appear to be full of unexpected prophecies but also, and more deeply, because reading itself is a prophetic experience that Melville captured in a different way. Translator(s): Anidjar, Gil. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231539
ISBN
9780823231539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.77

Hardback. Traces the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within 20th-century American poetry and poetics. Formulating interpretive frames as hybrid as the texts being read, this book unveils one of important yet largely unknown stories of American poetry and poetics. Series: American Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231447
ISBN
9780823231447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.51

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

€ 93.61

Hardback. Tracks the crises of sovereign power as it migrates out of the state to become a constitutive feature of the public sphere. Bringing together literature and political theory, this title argues that the antebellum public sphere emerges as a spectacle with investments in both punishment and entertainment. Series: American Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 519.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230990
ISBN
9780823230990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.99

Hardback. A collection of interviews and occasional papers given by Castoriadis between 1974 and 1997. It provides a resume of his political ideas. It includes a chapter that presents the concept, central to his thinking, of 'imaginary significations' as what make a society 'cohere'. Editor(s): Escobar, Enrique. Translator(s): Arnold, Helen. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; DSK; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230938
ISBN
9780823230938
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.40

Paperback. Analyzes the ways in which literature and philosophy draw boundaries around identity. This book features the works of Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, and Ana Castillo that enable us to examine how identities shift and intersect with others through processes of 'incarnation'. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB; JFFG; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230853
ISBN
9780823230853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.84

Paperback. Drawing on the work of Levinas and Derrida, this title investigates the themes and tropes of betrayal and treason in Asian American and Chicano/Latino literary and cultural narratives. This title engages the challenges of conducting ethnic and critical race studies based on the unromantic ideas of justice, reciprocity, and ethical society. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230433
ISBN
9780823230433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.79

Hardback. Harry Berger, Jr, has long been one of our most revered and respected literary and cultural critics. Since the late nineties, a stream of remarkable and innovative publications have shown how very broad his interests are, moving from Shakespeare to baroque painting, to Plato, to theories of early culture. Editor(s): Levine, Nina. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 655.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230303
ISBN
9780823230303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.73

Paperback. Explores the intersections between language, nature, science, and consciousness. This title takes its name from the multiverse, a science fiction concept that has become an accepted theory in physics. It suggests that reality comprises multiple dimensions in space and time. Series: Poets Out Loud. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC; PHQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 201 x 7. Weight in Grams: 193.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230075
ISBN
9780823230075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.74

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