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Paperback. Stories pervade our daily lives, from human interest news items, to a business strategy, to daydreams between chores. Stories are what we use to make sense of the world. But how does this work? This text examines this pervasive human habit and suggests ways to think about how we use stories. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: CJ; DSB; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674010994
- ISBN
- 9780674010994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.88
€ 32.99
€ 27.88
Paperback. A passionate and deeply researched reassessment of Emily Dickinson's life and singular legacy in American arts and letters Num Pages: 256 pages, B&W photos. BIC Classification: BGL; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 297.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bellevue Literary Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781934137987
- ISBN
- 9781934137987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.65
€ 19.99
€ 18.65
Paperback. The historical novel is not only an immensely popular genre, but also one that raises fascinating questions about the nature of key foundational concepts such as fact and fiction, history, reading and writing. This guide offers an introduction to both the genre and the critical debates around it. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415426626
- ISBN
- 9780415426626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.08
€ 27.08
Paperback. For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In this collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports. Num Pages: 240 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 181 x 19. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226500850
- ISBN
- 9780226500850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.90
€ 36.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226558509
- ISBN
- 9780226558509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.80
€ 40.99
€ 31.80
Paperback. Includes essays that extend the author's investigations of the instability of the physical text. This title shows how various texts enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Series: Princeton Studies in Culture, Power, History. Num Pages: 226 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691015187
- ISBN
- 9780691015187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.67€ 42.52
€ 52.67
€ 42.52
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Josef Weinberger Plays
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- illustrated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822205708
- ISBN
- 9780822205708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.47
€ 14.99
€ 14.47
Hardback. Theodore Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time because of his literary efforts, and of his personal life, which featured numerous sexual liaisons, included membership in the communist party, merited a 180-page FBI file, and ended in Hollywood. This biography weaves Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Num Pages: 528 pages, 47 b/w photographs. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 158 x 44. Weight in Grams: 896.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234819
- ISBN
- 9780520234819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.65
€ 47.99
€ 34.65
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 174 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691642475
- ISBN
- 9780691642475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.34
€ 110.34
Hardcover. Jerome McGann takes his readers on a spirited tour through a wide range of Poe's verse as well as the critical and theoretical writings in which he laid out his arresting ideas about poetry and poetics. In a bold reassessment, McGann argues that Poe belongs alongside Whitman and Dickinson as a foundational American poet and cultural presence. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 212 x 23. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674416666
- ISBN
- 9780674416666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.36
€ 47.99
€ 40.36
Hardback. Num Pages: 226 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; CFP; DSB; HP; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Publisher
- Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674728691
- ISBN
- 9780674728691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.62€ 48.79
€ 52.62
€ 48.79
Paperback. Adapting the discontinuous and multitonal critical procedures of works like Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" and Laura Riding's "Anarchism Is Not Enough", this book subjects literary studies to a patacritical investigation. It argues that aesthetics is a science of exceptions, and that any given critical practice is also an exception from itself. Num Pages: 113 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 178 x 114 x 10. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
- Number of pages
- 113
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979405761
- ISBN
- 9780979405761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.60
€ 13.99
€ 13.60
Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813116228
- ISBN
- 9780813116228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.35
€ 56.35
The author argues that in "Great Expectations", Charles Dickens updated "David Copperfield" and rewrote novels by various contemporaries. He parodically revised his competitor's themes, characters, and incidents to discredit their novels as unrealistic and imbued with Cinderella motifs. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kent State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813122281
- ISBN
- 9780813122281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.58
€ 49.58
Paperback. Editor(s): Clinton, Jerome W. (Former Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University). Translator(s): Clinton, Jerome W. (Former Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University). Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Mage Publishers United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780934211567
- ISBN
- 9780934211567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.65
€ 16.99
€ 13.65
Paperback. This work begins with a boy named Geraldo growing up Sicilian in Rochester, New York, and ends with the author breakfasting with Eleanor Roosevelt in the White House. It is a portrait of what it was like to come of age in the 1930s and 1940s. Num Pages: 388 pages, 41 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGHA; DNF; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 388
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607168
- ISBN
- 9780815607168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.03
€ 14.03
Hardcover. Tobias Smollett believed that what was externally visible signified and defined what could be known about the interior life. His fiction is therefore distinguished by its intensely visual qualities. This book reads these qualities in Smollett's novels as exercises of a visual imagination. Num Pages: 288 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 617.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820319711
- ISBN
- 9780820319711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardcover. When an enraged reader gunned him down in Waco, April Fool's Day 1898, William Cowper Brann had published "The Iconoclast", the nation's most controversial magazine, for some forty months. This title synthesizes some of the most memorable Brannisms, from America to Texas Politics to the Universe. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; DNJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896724051
- ISBN
- 9780896724051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.31
€ 29.99
€ 27.31
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bella Books United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602825864
- ISBN
- 9781602825864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.11
€ 17.99
€ 17.11
paperback. Examines the debate about popular fiction in the last two decades and its position within popular culture, with reference to crime fiction, soap opera, romance and TV sitcoms. Series: Communication and Society. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; GTC; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294. Good clean copy. Covers showing light shelf wear. Ownership details in pencil on ffep. Text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0032005
- ISBN
- 9780415009782
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 6.23
€ 6.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Process United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780976082200
- ISBN
- 9780976082200
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.60
€ 18.60
Paperback. Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry (Paperback). BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887483899
- ISBN
- 9780887483899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.47
€ 19.99
€ 17.47
paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780887485220
- ISBN
- 9780887485220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.47
€ 19.99
€ 17.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- Translated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810115194
- ISBN
- 9780810115194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.13
€ 26.13