Smith D Vance (192 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Corners are slightly bent. Used - Good.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. BCE. DJ: nominal edge wear. Quarter navy/grey boards with teal spine text. Prior owner's Ex-Libros plate obverse upper board. May have other minor incidental cosmetic defects expected with age. Else tight and square. Gutter code reads "L14" on page 752. Contents available upon request. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. SCIFI/FANTASY/SHORTSTORIES. Antler & Baldwin [DJ] (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544. Fine in cloth covers, no dust wrapper as issued. 2010. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condition: Very Good. A collection of theoretical essays arguing that theorists of modernity must reckon with the medieval, which is not, as some have asserted, completely separate or different from the modern. Editor(s): Cole, Andrew; Smith, D. Vance. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544. Fine in cloth covers, no dust wrapper as issued. 2010. hardcover. . . . .…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

paperback. Condition: Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing, fanning, inscriptions, margin notes, yellowing, staining on edge or cover or pages, bumps, scuffs, etc etc (sometimes multiple of these). It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Paperback. Condition: As New. Text clean and tight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages.

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Ex Library, unmarked text, unbroken spine, Ships from Berlin Bookshop bxn30.

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1st edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x, 299 pp., illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. Out of Death, Art of Dying -- 2. The Old English Grammar of the Soul -- 3. The Tremulous Soul : The Worcester Fragments -- 4. Unearthly Earth : Mortuary Lyric -- 5. "Alway deynge and be not ded" : The Book of the Duchess and "The Pardoner's Tale" -- 6. Dying and the Tragedy of Occupation : "The Knight's Tale" -- 7. The "Deth-dyinge" of Will : Piers Plowman -- 8. The Physics of Elegy : Pearl -- 9. Death, Terminable and Interminable : St. Erkenwald -- 10. Lydgate's Exquisite Corpus -- 11. "Dyynge and talking" : Hoccleve's Loquacious Archive -- 12. The Care of the Archive : John Audelay's Three Dead Kings. Subjects; Death in literature. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500, History and criticism. Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval. 1 Kg.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 340 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: New. People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, provocative book, is literature. Covering the emergence of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval periods, Arts of Dying argues that the problem of how to designate death produced a long tradition of literature about dying, which continues in the work of Heidegger, Blanchot, and Gillian Rose. Philosophy's attempt to designate death's impossibility is part of a literature that imagines a relationship with death, a literature that intensively and self-reflexively supposes that its very terms might solve the problem of the termination of life. A lyrical and elegiac exploration that combines medieval work on the philosophy of language with contemporary theorizing on death and dying, Arts of Dying is an important contribution to medieval studies, literary criticism, phenomenology, and continental philosophy.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A major new look at Africa's influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. Virgil. Chaucer. Petrarch. These names resonate with many as cornerstones of European culture. Yet, in Atlas's Bones, D. Vance Smith reveals that much of what is claimed as European culture up to the Middle Agesits great themes in literature, its sources in political thought, its religious beliefsoriginated in the writings of African thinkers like Augustine, Fulgentius, and Martianus Capella, or Europeans who thought extensively about Africa. In fact, a third of Virgil's Aeneid takes place in Africa. Francis Petrarch believed his most important achievement was his epic Africa; while Geoffrey Chaucer wrote repeatedly about the figures of Scipio Africanus, actually two different men who defeated and destroyed Carthage. Smith tells the story of how Europe created a false "medieval" version of Africa to acquire resources and power during the era of imperialism and colonialism. The first half of the book, "Reading Africa," traces Egypt's, Libya's, and Carthage's influence on classical and medieval thinking about Africa, highlighting often ignored literary and legendary traditions, for example, that Alexander the Great named himself the son of an African god. The second part, "Writing Africa," focuses on how the different cultures of the two great African citiesCarthage and Alexandriashaped modern literary criticism and political theology and examines the cross-influences of modern anthropology, medieval studies, and colonial law. Atlas's Bones firmly re-establishes the significance of Africa in European intellectual history. It will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how much of Africa informs our artistic and cultural world. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New. pp. 340.

Condition: New.