Search Results: Authors starting with K from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Europaische Hochschulschriften: Reihe 1, Deutsche Sprache und Literatur; Bd. 1416. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.5", is new 191 pages.
"Die verkehrte Welt als ein zentraler Topos der frĂĽhen Neuzeit in Europa beinhaltet eine Vielzahl von Bildern und Diskursen, denen in der vorliegenden Untersuchung anhand des Grimmelshausenschen Romans vom Simplicissimus nachgegangen wird. Die textimmanente Analyse stellt den Roman in den Zusammenhang des Simplicianischen Zyklus. Gleichzeitig wird den traditionellen HintergrĂĽnden von Verkehrte-Welt-Motiven und Romanformen nachgegangen. Dabei erweist es sich, daĂź der Begriff 'verkehrte Welt' sowohl inhaltliche als auch formale Grundaussagen des Romans umfaĂźt. Als Beitrag zu Satiretheorie und Begriffsgeschichte ist die Arbeit nicht nur fĂĽr die Grimmelshausen-Forschung von Interesse."

Germanistische Abhandlungen 32. Volume is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and publisher's emblem stamped in gold on front cover. Book and dust jacket are in fine condition. 210 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Ink notations appear at top of half title page. Pages are clean and without markings. Bilingual in German and English. 127 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 8.75", displays very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xiv/426 pages."Professor Kahler focuses on organizations below the state, investigating party competition and sensitivity to political change produced by the characteristics of commercial firms. In addition, he explores transmission of external shocks to the domestic polity by the state itself and the domestic politics of settler societies under external threat. Originally published in 1984."

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. 182 pages."Volker Kaiser analysiert die rethorische Figuration lyrischer Subjektivität und Selbstreferenz. In dem Moment, in dem die Reflexionsmetaphorik der analysierten Gedichte sich einen konstitutiven, einen metapoetischen Status zuschreibt, suspensiert sich allegorisch die semantische Funktion der sprachlichen Zeichen. Das durch diese Suspension artikulierte Dilemma der poetologischen Konstitutionsproblematik stellt die Prämissen ihrer traditionellen Interpretation in Frage. Die Marionette in Rilkes "Marionetten-Theater" wird als fragile Metapher einer undifferenzierten Einheit gelesen, in der sich die aufeinander angewiesenen, doch inkompatiblen Sprachfunktionen der Figuration spiegeln. In der Interpretation von Benns "Abschied" steht die defigurierende und transzendierende Funktion der Metapher in ihrer Allegorisierung und Temporalisierung im Brennpunkt. Aus der mit der… Read More

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 293 pages."Hanif Kureishi is a proper Englishman. Almost." So observes biographer Kenneth Kaleta. Well known for his films "My Beautiful Laundrette" and "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid," the Anglo-Asian screenwriter, essayist, and novelist has become one of the leading portrayers of Britain's multicultural society. His work raises important questions of personal and national identity as it probes the experience of growing up in one culture with roots in another, very different one.This book is the first critical biography of Hanif Kureishi. Kenneth Kaleta interviewed Kureishi over several years and enjoyed unlimited access to all of his working papers, journals, and personal files. From this rich cache of material, he opens a fascinating window onto Kureishi's creative process, tracing such works as "My Beautiful Laundrette," "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid," "The Buddha of Suburbia,"… Read More

Author-signed first edition. Volume is bound in quarter maroon cloth and maroon paper-covered boards, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book is in excellent condition. Pages are clean and bright. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear. Author has signed "Ithaca / Michael Kammen" on the front flyleaf. 864 pages.

Volume is bound in red cloth, with bright stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket exhibit light shelfwear. 336 pages.

Meridian Crossing Aesthetics. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new. xii/365 pages.
"This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other signatory of a meaningful act) but also of its reception at another's address. The book's main concern is therefore with a theory of meaning and of action that is not centered on the intentional, self-conscious subject. The fifteen chapters explore this problematic within three broad areas: love, jealousy, and sexual difference; fiction or literature; and political or public discourse. The book engages principally with contemporary French thought and includes important new readings of work by Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous, Maurice Blanchot, and Jean-Luc Nancy."

First printing. Translation from the Japanese by Jeffrey S. Irish. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in black paper spine and covers, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. xiii/176 pages."Naoto Kan, who was prime minister of Japan when the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster began, has become a ubiquitous and compelling voice for the global antinuclear movement. Kan compared the potential worst-case devastation that could be caused by a nuclear power plant meltdown as tantamount only to 'a great world war. Nothing else has the same impact.' Japan escaped such a dire fate during the Fukushima disaster, said Kan, only 'due to luck.' Even so, Kan had to make some steely-nerved decisions that necessitated putting all emotion aside. In a now famous phone call from Tepco, when the company asked to pull all their personnel from the out-of-control Fukushima site for their own safety, Kan told them no. The workforce must stay. The few would need to make… Read More

Second printing (Updated paperback edition). Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.25", exhibits light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xv/352 pages.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. Numerous graphs and tables. xv/212 pages."East Asia is richer, more integrated and more stable than ever before, whilst East Asian defense spending is now roughly half of what it was in 1990 and shows no sign of increasing. There is no evidence of any Asian arms race. All countries in the region are seeking diplomatic, not military solutions with each other. Yet this East Asia reality still runs counter to a largely Western narrative that views China's rise as a threat and the region as increasingly unstable. In this important book, David C. Kang argues that American grand strategy should emphasize diplomatic and economic relations with the region, rather than military-first policies. Using longitudinal and comparative data, statistical analysis, and intensive research in selected East Asian countries, he suggests that East Asia is in sync with the American desire to share burdens and that the region may in fact be more stable than… Read More

First printing. Translation by Dalya Bilu of "Aravi Tov" (1985). Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in maroon cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays light shelfwear, with small tear at top edge of rear panel."This book considers the tragedy of belonging to both sides of a conflict; a conflict involving the national homelands of two peoples, their aspirations and their sufferings. This is Yosef Rosenzweig /Sherara's dilemma. Son of a dispossessed Arab aristocrat and a refugee of Nazi Germany, he is an exile in his own homeland. His attempts at integration with either side are met with suspicion and rejection. His inability to form a lasting relationship with Dina, the Jewish woman he loves, symbolizes the irreconcilable conflict that tears both Israel and Palestine apart."

Zhizn' zamechatel'nikh lyudei, 399. Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is bound in gray cloth spine and illustrated paper-covered boards, with stamped black and white lettering to spine. Book displays moderate wear, with minor smudging at top of rear cover. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. This work is illustrated with vignettes and b&w photographic plates. 204 pages.Work devoted to the life of Ustym Yakymovych Karmaliuk (1787-1835), a Ukrainian outlaw who fought against the Russian administration and became a folk hero to the commoners of Ukraine. He is often referred to as the "Ukrainian Robin Hood" and "the last haydamak".

Foreword and edition by A. Saradzhev. Volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.25", is bound in black cloth, with blind stamped lettering to spine. Ink spots appear on front cover. Binding is sound. Pages show occasional pencil underling and marginalia. Lengthy notation in pencil appears on colophon page. 377 pages.An early Soviet evaluation of Kant is presented in Saradzhev's 101-page introductory text. This translation has an extensive subject index (pages 311-377). Text is in Russian.

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book displays very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Small Cornell University price sticker is affixed to upper outside corner of front flyleaf. Interior is otherwise clean and bright. Illustrated with tables. Dust jacket has small closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xvii/584 pages."Case studies document an analysis of the modes and impact of America's use of military force short of warfare in determining foreign policy and easing international conflicts."

Large-format softcover volume, measuring approximately 8.75" x 11.25", is new, still in shrinkwrap. xxi/775 pages."The first book to deal in an integrated manner the full range of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems that occur in Costa Rica, Costa Rican Ecosystems provides an overview of Costa Rica's main ecosystems by compiling information about their physical settings, biogeography, species diversity, and much more. Rather than follow a technical or clinical approach with a hierarchical categorization of ecosystems, Costa Rica's dense ecology is explored in a "journey-wise" sequence that provides familiarity and understanding of the country's full, varied range of intergrading seascapes and landscapes. The book begins with three introductory chapters focusing on Costa Rica's climate, geology, and soils to provide an understanding of the medium in which its ecology has developed, and then proceeds with a presentation of each of the country's ecosystems. These chapters review the research… Read More

Zweite Reihe: Studien und Untersuchungen, 2. Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.5", is bound in light brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Greek-language title page appears opposite German title page. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages.Dust jacket, now preserved in mylar cover, exhibits light shelfwear, with sunning to spine and edges of front/rear panels. Card with printed Greek text is laid in. xii/122 pages.On Sophocles' tragedy "Women of Trachis" and its models inthe works of Euripides and Aeschylus.

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is like new, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. vi/261 pages."Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay "Literary History and Literary Modernity" and newly commissioned essays on everything from the human genome to grammatical tenses argue, however that the literary constantly reconstructs our understanding of time. From eleventh-century France or a science-fiction future, "Time and the Literary" shows how these two concepts have been and will continue to influence each other."

MĂĽnchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, Band 47. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays sunning to spine panel. xxviii/363 pages.