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Paperback. This volume explores issues of black female identitythrough the various "imaginings" of the black female body in print and visual culture. Contributions emphasize the ways in which the black female body is framed and how black women (and their allies) have sought to write themselves back into social discourses on their terms." Editor(s): Henderson, C. Num Pages: 231 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290536
- ISBN
- 9781349290536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
hardcover. A critical examination of the Roman reaction to Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Series Editor(s): Feeney, Denis; Hinds, Stephen. Series: Roman Literature and Its Contexts. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298. Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome. Series: Roman Literature and Its Contexts. 174 pages. A critical examination of the Roman reaction to Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 199 x 135 x 16. Weight: 298. Series Editor(s) :Feeney, Denis; Hinds, Stephen.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521871181
- ISBN
- 9780521871181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.87
€ 97.87
Paperback. In his own reading of Rainer Maria Rilke, Martin Heidegger reclaims the open as the proper domain of human existence, but suggests that human life remains haunted by vestiges of an animal-like relation to its surroundings. Walter Benjamin, in turn, was to show that such vestiges have a biopolitical aspect. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 214 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226735030
- ISBN
- 9780226735030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.22
€ 35.99
€ 28.22
Paperback. This collection of writings looks at how the Nobel Laureate has navigated the tricky waters of being a public intellectual in the contentious world he inhabits, which touches on racism, sexism, animal rights, ecofeminism, and contemporary literature. Editor(s): Poyner, Jane. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821416877
- ISBN
- 9780821416877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.33
€ 36.99
€ 33.33
Hardcover. The "Psammead Trilogy" written by Edith Nesbit includes "Five Children and It", "The Phoenix and the Carpet", and "The Story of the Amulet". The essays collected in this volume celebrate the completion of the "Psammead Trilogy". These essays employ differing strategies and place Edith Nesbit in various contexts to assess her achievement. Editor(s): Jones, Raymond E. Series: Children's Literature Association Centennial Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; DSY. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 27. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810854017
- ISBN
- 9780810854017
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.87
€ 116.87
Hardcover. Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 357 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277848
- ISBN
- 9781137277848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801444807
- ISBN
- 9780801444807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.44
€ 82.44
Paperback. This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its multifaceted relations to politics, history, sociology and literary criticism. Editor(s): Murray, David. Num Pages: 304 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859894043
- ISBN
- 9780859894043
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.57
€ 43.57
Hardcover. This work defends feeling against customary distrust or condescension by showing that the affective turn of the 18th-century cult of sentiment, despite its sometimes surreal manifestations, has led to a positive culture of feeling. Num Pages: 240 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333721100
- ISBN
- 9780333721100
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.64
€ 122.64
Hardback. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403966254
- ISBN
- 9781403966254
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Paperback. Includes stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In "Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary", the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love, while Maria tells of a desperate young woman who seeks consolation in the arms of another man after the loss of her child. Editor(s): Todd, Janet. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; FC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005140
- ISBN
- 9780140433715
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Raffee, Hans. Series: Schriftenreihe Markt Und Marketing. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Gabler Verlag United Kingdom
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783409352222
- ISBN
- 9783409352222
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.84
€ 69.84
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; PBUD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691155760
- ISBN
- 9780691155760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.11€ 41.48
€ 52.11
€ 41.48
Paperback. 'The Fugitive's Properties' uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key 19th century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrel performance and early race films. Num Pages: 376 pages, illustrations, bibliog references, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226044347
- ISBN
- 9780226044347
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.90
€ 42.99
€ 32.90
Paperback / so. Num Pages: 381 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CB; DSB; HB; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Deutscher Universitatsverlag United States
- Number of pages
- 381
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783824441402
- ISBN
- 9783824441402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.75
€ 46.75
Hardcover. John Vincent uses formal concerns, difficulty and closure, to discuss innovations specific to queer American poets. He draws on a genealogy based on these queer techniques from Whitman, through Crane and Moore, to Ashbery and Spicer. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 5S; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 387.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312294977
- ISBN
- 9780312294977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
paperback. This volume is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and sexuality, and authorship. Editor(s): Rowe, A. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HPCF; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2007
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349281152
- ISBN
- 9781349281152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.43
€ 122.43
Hardcover. Follows the evolution of the Orient as a positive literary device in German literature and demonstrates how it was used to explore subjectivity and the possibility of wholeness. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 338 pages, 2, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 black and white. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 700.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135940
- ISBN
- 9781571135940
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.11
€ 125.11
Paperback. This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new ways the familiar literature of the Ricardian period. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 227 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349535026
- ISBN
- 9781349535026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. Offers new insights into the continuing influence of postmodernism on a wide range of international picture books for children published between 1963 and 2008. Its chapters include metafiction; disruption to narrative conventions; interrogation of 'truths'; historiographic metafiction; difference and ex-centricity; globalisation and media. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230319493
- ISBN
- 9780230319493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Paperback. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349461745
- ISBN
- 9781349461745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. aeo Provides a vital introduction to one of the centurya s major thinkers. aeo Reveals Jamesona s systematic vision of the contemporary world. aeo Represents the broad spectrum of Jamesona s work, including major seminal texts to lesser--known works. Editor(s): Hardt, Michael; Weeks, Kathi. Series: Blackwell Readers. Num Pages: 424 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631202707
- ISBN
- 9780631202707
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.25
€ 61.25
Hardback. Editor(s): Sheen, Erica; Karremann, Prof. Dr. Isabel. Series: Global Shakespeares. Num Pages: 134 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 301 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137519733
- ISBN
- 9781137519733
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.26
€ 63.26
Hardback. Focusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137508
- ISBN
- 9780231137508
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.91€ 78.02
€ 101.91
€ 78.02