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Paperback. Demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. By speaking about or even as the dead, this work tells what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation. Series: Jewish Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 340 pages, 20 b&w photos, 1 color photos. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3734 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253218872
- ISBN
- 9780253218872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.33
€ 36.99
€ 33.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages, illustrations plans, portraits. BIC Classification: DSB; DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375706394
- ISBN
- 9780375706394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.55
€ 17.99
€ 16.55
Paperback. Thoreau's encounters with nature, the author argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity and political complacency. Bennett pursues this theme by constructing a series of dialogues between Thoureau and modern contemporaries. Series: Modernity and Political Thought. Num Pages: 176 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; HPCD; HPCF; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 146 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742521414
- ISBN
- 9780742521414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555973063
- ISBN
- 9781555973063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.49
€ 17.99
€ 16.49
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312238391
- ISBN
- 9780312238391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. Editor(s): Brokoph-Mauch, Gudrun. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572410435
- ISBN
- 9781572410435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.42
€ 40.99
€ 29.42
Hardcover. Editor(s): Idema, Wilt L.; Li, Wai-yee; Widmer, Ellen. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 525 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 181. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017757
- ISBN
- 9780674017757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.06€ 54.03
€ 59.06
€ 54.03
Hardback. An examination of the depiction and function of memory in a variety of romances, including Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Series: Studies in Medieval Romance. Num Pages: 289 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843844174
- ISBN
- 9781843844174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.32
€ 95.32
Hardback. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; H; TB; UBJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 146 x 217 x 24. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403935045
- ISBN
- 9781403935045
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Hardcover. What did it mean, in the rapidly changing world of Victorian England, to 'be a man'? In essays written specially for this volume, nine distinguished scholars from Britain and the USA show how Victorian novelists from the Brontes to Conrad sought to discover what made men, what broke them, and what restored them. Editor(s): Mallett, Phillip. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230272323
- ISBN
- 9780230272323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Paperback. This book explores a form of literary racial passing that has gone largely unnoticed in fictional characters who present a white face to the world even as they unconsciously perform cultural blackness, such as in the work of William Faulkner among others, revealing that being merely Caucasian was insufficient to claim Southern Whiteness. Num Pages: 213 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340442
- ISBN
- 9780230340442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. This is the first English translation of Sara Pujol Russell's poetry. It has density of presence and lyrical complexity. This is conceptualized, metaphysical poetry that challenges us to unwrap her imagery and thus to enter intimately into her universe. Such poetry relies less on narrative and more on the compulsion of words themselves. Translator(s): Valis, Noel Maureen. Num Pages: 123 pages, port. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 123
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910994
- ISBN
- 9781575910994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.80
€ 95.80
Hardcover. Gives readers a sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life. This book helps readers to appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts. Editor(s): Fredman, Stephen. Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405120029
- ISBN
- 9781405120029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.69
€ 134.69
paperback. Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349436323
- ISBN
- 9781349436323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and cultural geography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction of physical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approaches to Hemingway s literary landscapes and provides insight about his fictional characters and his readers alike." Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 401.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137596741
- ISBN
- 9781137596741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.45
€ 111.45
Hardcover. In essays on topics ranging from Teresa of Avila's mysticism to the politicized spirituality of postmodern women writers, the contributors chronicle the development of women's spiritual writing as a context for defining, challenging, and changing women's experiences in the world. Editor(s): Groover, Kristina K. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268029616
- ISBN
- 9780268029616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.90
€ 140.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349522002
- ISBN
- 9781349522002
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69
Paperback. Offers close readings of Middle English texts placed within the culture with which they interact. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748634606
- ISBN
- 9780748634606
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.97
€ 29.99
€ 26.97
Hardback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493641
- ISBN
- 9781611493641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.81
€ 118.81
Paperback. Presents the psychoanalyst's therapeutic directives against his more visionary impulses in a magisterial comparative study of such writers as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Emerson, and Keats. Cross-fertilizing psychological doctrine with the literary canon, this volume offers an understanding of Freud's writings on the self. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226184616
- ISBN
- 9780226184616
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.35
€ 30.99
€ 24.35
Hardback. Pedrick's fresh perspectives on both texts as well as on their relationship to each other shed new light on two foundational moments in the intellectual development of the West: Greek tragedy and Freudian psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801885945
- ISBN
- 9780801885945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.33€ 58.57
€ 64.33
€ 58.57
Paperback. This unique collection of essays focuses on various aspects of Plato's Philosophy of Art, not only in The Republic, but in the Phaedrus, Symposium, Laws and related dialogues. The range of issues addressed includes the contest between philosophy and poetry, the moral status of music, the love of beauty, censorship, motivated emotions. Series: Philosophers in Depth. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSBB; HPCA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349339655
- ISBN
- 9781349339655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 143.09
€ 143.09
hardcover. Editor(s): Mathuray, Mark. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137337214
- ISBN
- 9781137337214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.05
€ 133.05
Hardback. This study explores women writers and gender portrayals at the Japanese Heian court and Heian memoirists creations of themselves in four texts: "Kagero Nikki", "Makura No Soshi", "Sarashina Nikki, and "Sanuki No Suke Nikki". Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804733786
- ISBN
- 9780804733786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.68
€ 102.68