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Manifold Greatness The Making of the King James Bible
ISBN: PB: 9781851243495, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2011
176 pp., 25x18.4 cm, 65 colour illus.
This new book from Bodleian Library Publishing tells the story of this remarkable achievement with outstanding images from the collections of The Bodleian and Folger Shakespeare Libraries. The book discusses the obstacles and achievements faced by...
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£19,99
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Marriage of Heaven and Hell
ISBN: HB: 9781851243419, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2011
184 pp., 23.5x15 cm, 52 colour illus.
No work has challenged its readers like Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". His "Proverbs of Hell" have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of thes...
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£50,00
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Marriage of Heaven and Hell
ISBN: PB: 9781851243662, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2011
184 pp., 23.5x15 cm, 52 colour illus.
No work has challenged its readers like Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". His "Proverbs of Hell" have been culled for the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Iconoclastic, bizarre, unprecedented, it is all of thes...
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£14,99
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Humanities and the Dream of America
ISBN: PB: 9780226316994, ISBN: HB: 9780226316970, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
256 pp., 21.1x14 cm
In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today's humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years following World War II, when they were first conceived as an expression of American culture and an instrumen...
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£24,00
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£58,00
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Selected Philosophical Poems of Tommaso Campanella A Bilingual Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780226092058, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
264 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm
A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) was a controversial philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet who was persecuted during the Inquisition and spent much of his adult life imprisoned because of his hetero...
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£43,50
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Radical Coherency Selected Essays on Art and Literature, 1966 to 2005
ISBN: PB: 9780226020976, ISBN: HB: 9780226020969, University of Chicago Press, March 2011
384 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm
"We got to talking" – so David Antin begins the introduction to "Radical Coherency", embarking on the pursuit that has marked much of his breathless, brilliantly conversational work. For the past forty years, whether spoken under the guise of perform...
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£27,00
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£70,50
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Love and the Law in Cervantes
ISBN: PB: 9780300177848, Yale University Press, February 2011
320 pp., 25x15 cm
The consolidation of law and the development of legal writing during Spain's Golden Age not only helped that country become a modern state but also affected its great literature. In this fascinating book, Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria explores the work...
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£18,99
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Conversations with John L'Heureux
ISBN: PB: 9781575866000, ISBN: HB: 9781575866017, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2011
200 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
This book presents a sequence of interviews between Dikran Karagueuzian and prolific fiction writer John L'Heureux that investigate the nature of writing fiction and the writer's need to write. This conversation includes a discussion of contemporary...
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£13,00
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£22,00
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In the Demon's Bedroom Yiddish Literature and the Early Modern
ISBN: HB: 9780300141757, Yale University Press, January 2011
384 pp., 23.6x16.3 cm
A study that looks at a variety of early modern Yiddish masterworks – and their writers and readers – focusing on their treatment of supernatural themes and beings.
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£66,00
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Noeuds De Memoire: Multidirectional Memory in Postwar French and Francophone Culture Yale French Studies, Number 118/119
ISBN: PB: 9780300118858, Yale University Press, January 2011
224 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm
Focuses on postwar approaches to the past, the nature of collective memory, and issues of cultural memory in a transnational age. This title includes essays that probe points of contact between memories and legacies of genocide, colonialism, and slav...
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