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Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages

Paperback. Offers a comprehensive introduction to the poetry and novels of Jacques Roubaud, a prominent member of the French experimental group. This study focuses on the specific sites of interest in some of Roubaud's favorite source texts, including troubadour poetry, the tradition of the sonnet and the Canzoniere, Japanese short forms (waka), and others. Series: North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 535.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807892893
ISBN
9780807892893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.18

Paperback. Presents an exploration of medieval modes of subject constitution and their transformation in fifteenth-century Spanish sentimental romance, with a focus on Diego de San Pedro's "Carcel de amor". Series: North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature. Num Pages: 188 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 3H; DSBB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
1st New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807892961
ISBN
9780807892961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.15

Paperback. Mapping the Social Body: Urbanisation, the Gaze, and the Novels of Galdos" Series: North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature. Num Pages: 191 pages, 1 illustration, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AD; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807892985
ISBN
9780807892985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.33

Paperback. Leopold Sedar Senghor was President of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, but he is also considered one of Africa's foremost poets. This bilingual volume collects his complete poetic works. Translator(s): Dixon, Melvin. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 639 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 40. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918327
ISBN
9780813918327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.96

Hardcover. This work traces the moral meaning of pleasure in libertine works of 18th-century France. The author contends that libertine works are linked by an "ethics of pleasure" that teaches readers that vanity and sensual enjoyment are part of their moral being. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813918600
ISBN
9780813918600
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.71

Paperback. These essays address the multitude of issues arising from the affective, personal, political and sexual dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir's work. Contributors include Serge Julienne-Caffie, Asa Momberg, Barbara Klaw, Richard J. Golsan and Liz Constable. Editor(s): Hawthorne, Melanie. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University Press of Virginia
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813919744
ISBN
9780813919744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.66

Paperback. Francophone writing is often concerned with questions of subjectivity and narrative agency, and this is the focus this volume takes as its point of departure. What emerges is the subject understood not as a single entity but as a plural celebration of singular francophone African subjectivites. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921457
ISBN
9780813921457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.81

Paperback. Arguing that the aesthetic practices of 20th-century French Caribbean writers reconstruct an historical awareness once lost amid colonial exploitation, Nesbitt shows how these writers use the critical force of the aesthetic imagination to transform the parameters of the Antillean experience. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921518
ISBN
9780813921518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.28

Paperback. Examines the post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, this book reveals the ways in which these artists restage the confrontations between modernity and tradition. It shows how their accomplishments were silenced in official Cuban history and culture. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; AB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925264
ISBN
9780813925264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.90

Hardcover. The Afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity through poetry. This book treats the poetry of this movement, and questions the assumption that the poetry did manage to symbolize racial reconciliation and unification. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925417
ISBN
9780813925417
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.41

Paperback. The Afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity through poetry. This book treats the poetry of this movement, and questions the assumption that the poetry did manage to symbolize racial reconciliation and unification. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813925424
ISBN
9780813925424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.04

Paperback. Examines the ways in which Caribbean postmodern historical novels about slavery written in Spanish, English, and French function as virtual museums, simultaneously showcasing and curating a collection of 'primary documents' within their pages. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; 2ADS; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928661
ISBN
9780813928661
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.63

Paperback. Shows how the modern Caribbean authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and re-evaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity like the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2AB; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813929804
ISBN
9780813929804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813932927
ISBN
9780813932927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.42

Paperback. Samuel Beckett specialised in short enigmatic texts, implying vast visionary works of which the stories are broken pieces. Kenner's guide is designed to help readers see beyond the story in Beckett to the text as a whole and to appreciate the uniqueness of each of his works. Num Pages: 220 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815603863
ISBN
9780815603863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.55

Hardcover. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815621973
ISBN
9780815621973
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.08

Hardback. This study of the social content of the only surviving Spanish epic provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Purdue University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557530394
ISBN
9781557530394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Purdue University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557532183
ISBN
9781557532183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.65

Paperback. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 115 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Purdue University Press United States
Number of pages
115
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557537485
ISBN
9781557537485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.59

Paperback. This latest edition of a best-selling handbook is the first to include paediatric workups. Designed for use by health-care personnel. Also so useful for travellers in Spanish-speaking countries. Text in English and Spanish. Num Pages: 77 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CJB; MJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 130.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Edition
4th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780826307255
ISBN
9780826307255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.25

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