gail ramsay (7 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good+. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, covers a bit shelfworn. Former owner's (or maybe author's?) signature on title page. 264 pages. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may be extra. Hard-to-find title. Book.

Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Dustwrapper top edge w/ 3cm tear to rear corner. Book ow/ clean, bright and tight.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Inscribed by the covers; some wear to covers, otherwise text clean and tight; in English ; Stockholm University Doctoral Dissertaton; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback, 277 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Mild handling wear. Straight uncreased spine. -- This volume commemorates the 400th anniversary of the Professorship of Semitic Languages at Uppsala University. It comprises the proceedings of a jubilee symposium held in 2005, bringing together international scholars to celebrate this long and distinguished history. The collected essays reflect the broad scope of the discipline, covering topics in Hebrew Bible studies, Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, and the history of Semitic philology in Sweden and Europe. The book serves as both a tribute to the institution's legacy and a snapshot of contemporary research across the field of Semitic studies.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Since the emergence of the modern Arab intellectual in the 19th century, Arabic literature has always followed and critically commented socio-political and cultural change, but also contributed to bringing it about. Focusing on crucial moments and factors as well as figures, ideas and organs, the two volumes of From New Values to New Aesthetics edited by Stephan Guth and Gail Ramsay approach the close connection between literature and socio-political and/or cultural history, between 'scribe' and 'writer', from two angles. While volume 1 (From Modernism to the 1980s) revisits the history of post-World War II modernism, trying to identify turning points in modern Arabic literature up to the 1980s, the contributions in volume 2 (Postmodernism and Thereafter) are explorations into what from today's perspective appears as pre-'Arab Spring' literature. Since the emergence of the modern Arab intellectual in the 19th century, Arabic literature has always followed and critically commented socio-political and cultural change, but also contributed to bringing it about. Focusing on crucial moments and factors as well as figures, ideas and organs, the two volumes of From New Values to New Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Since the emergence of the modern Arab intellectual in the 19th century, Arabic literature has always followed and critically commented socio-political and cultural change, but also contributed to bringing it about. Focusing on crucial moments and factors as well as figures, ideas and organs, the two volumes of From New Values to New Aesthetics edited by Stephan Guth and Gail Ramsay approach the close connection between literature and socio-political and/or cultural history, between 'scribe' and 'writer', from two angles. While volume 1 (From Modernism to the 1980s) revisits the history of post-World War II modernism, trying to identify turning points in modern Arabic literature up to the 1980s, the contributions in volume 2 (Postmodernism and Thereafter) are explorations into what from today's perspective appears as pre-'Arab Spring' literature. Since the emergence of the modern Arab intellectual in the 19th century, Arabic literature has always followed and critically commented socio-political and cultural change, but also contributed to bringing it about. Focusing on crucial moments and factors as well as figures, ideas and organs, the two volumes of From New Values to New Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Softcover. Condición: gut. 2011. From New Values to New Aesthetics : Turning Points in Modern Arabic 2. Postmodernism and Thereafter In deutscher Sprache. pages.