Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
paperback. Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties and their reason for being. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 11. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780674299665
- ISBN
- 9780674299665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.22
€ 50.22
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781138827141
- ISBN
- 9781138827141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 17.74
€ 47.99
€ 17.74
Paperback. Suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. This work analyzes constructions of characters' minds in the fictional texts of a wide range of authors, from Aphra Behn and Henry Fielding to Evelyn Waugh and Thomas Pynchon. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803218352
- ISBN
- 9780803218352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.14
€ 25.99
€ 25.14
Hardcover. These new essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding; self-identity and self-understanding; literature's role in moral growth and change; and the historical background of the ethical dimension of literature. Editor(s): Hagberg, Garry L. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198715719
- ISBN
- 9780198715719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 152.82
€ 152.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252062803
- ISBN
- 9780252062803
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.51
€ 30.51
Hardback. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611493528
- ISBN
- 9781611493528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.11
€ 143.11
paperback. In this study of British realism, the author explains how fiction entered into a relationship with the new popular art of Victorian photography that transformed the world into a picture. She contends that literary critism assumes a text is gesturing toward the real whenever it invokes a photograph. Num Pages: 352 pages, 52 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; AJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780674008014
- ISBN
- 9780674008014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 36.82
€ 42.99
€ 36.82
Paperback. This volume brings together writers from a variety of disciplines to explore and illustrate the possibilities of new narrative forms in social research. The book is arranged into four areas of concern: representation, subjectivity, critique, and postmodern discourse. Editor(s): Banks, Stephen P.; Banks, Anna. Series: Ethnographic Alternatives. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761990352
- ISBN
- 9780761990352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.94
€ 61.94
Paperback. Translator(s): Laatsch, David (Louisiana State University, USA). Num Pages: 259 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816637256
- ISBN
- 9780816637256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.07
€ 35.07
Paperback. Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801480867
- ISBN
- 9780801480867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.95
€ 36.99
€ 33.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Sukla, Ananta Chavana. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; DSK; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 202 x 26. Weight in Grams: 842.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472575036
- ISBN
- 9781472575036
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.26
€ 45.99
€ 38.26
Paperback. Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768764
- ISBN
- 9780804768764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.49
€ 27.99
€ 25.49
Hardback. Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768757
- ISBN
- 9780804768757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.11
€ 111.11
Hardback. Num Pages: 332 pages, 1 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149785
- ISBN
- 9780231149785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.14
€ 148.14
Paperback. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802130303
- ISBN
- 9780802130303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.17
€ 17.99
€ 17.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 36. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- BenBella Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939529190
- ISBN
- 9781939529190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.17
€ 19.99
€ 19.17
Paperback. Series: Scholarly Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564784575
- ISBN
- 9781564784575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 6.23
€ 24.99
€ 6.23
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662568
- ISBN
- 9781855662568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Hardback. This impressive book, which assembles contributions by some of the world's most eminent historians, art historians and other scholars of the Iranian world, explores the history of the country through the prism of Persian literature, art and culture. Editor(s): Hillenbrand, Robert; Peacock, A. C. S.; Abdullaeva, Firuza. Num Pages: 416 pages, 24pp colour plates, 48 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; AC; DSB; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 196 x 244 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1110.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780760155
- ISBN
- 9781780760155
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.17€ 133.60
€ 149.17
€ 133.60
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643540
- ISBN
- 9780691643540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.75
€ 145.75