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Paperback. Offering analysis of the fiction of 15 authors, this book focuses on the many ways that setting and place figure in modern crime and mystery novels. It also explores topics such as: the afro-centric urban Los Angeles environment in Walter Mosley's "Devil in a Blue Dress", and the gritty South African setting of James McClure's "The Steam Pig". Num Pages: 217 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9780786432981
ISBN
9780786432981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.44

Paperback. This collection of Donald Barthelme's literary output during the 1960s and 1970s covers the period when the writer came to prominence, producing the stories, satires, parodies, and other formal experiments that altered fiction as we know it. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141180939
ISBN
9780141180939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.07

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781870612333
ISBN
9781870612333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.35

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
450
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900564014
ISBN
9781900564014
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.92

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907587375
ISBN
9781907587375
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.60

Hardcover. In this volume, David Gardiner investigates the national contexts in which Edmund Spenser's poetic project has been interpreted and represented by modern Irish poets. There is also an analysis of Spenser's influence on Northern Irish poets. Num Pages: 233 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Creighton University,U.S.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781881871385
ISBN
9781881871385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.00

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179683
ISBN
9780231179683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.32
€ 64.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 217 x 2. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231179690
ISBN
9780231179690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.64

Hardback. Jose Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1998, the first writer in Portuguese to receive the world's most prized literary award. This book covers both his acclaimed historically-based fictions and his, allegorical works, demonstrating the continuity of thought and image between these two phases of the writer's career. Series: Iberian and Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 23. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780708320150
ISBN
9780708320150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.52

Hardback. "Proceedings of the twelfth Symposium Aristotelicum." Editor(s): Furley, David; Nehamas, Alexander. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 340 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 657.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691632971
ISBN
9780691632971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 180.94

paperback. Combines the author's essays with work published in the UK. This title collects fifteen essays. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141046754
ISBN
9780141046754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seren
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781722671
ISBN
9781781722671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.74

Hardcover. As new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KRF0028056
ISBN
9780863223112
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. What is the source of a book's perceived greatness and why do certain books become part of the accepted canon? This book presents a fresh perspective on these questions: against prevalent approaches, it explains a work's reputation in terms of its aesthetic qualities or as the result of dictates by social hegemonies (the power view). Num Pages: 219 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845193683
ISBN
9781845193683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.82

Hardback. The early part of the period covered by this volume marked the centrality of the book as a vehicle of communication. The later part of the period witnesses the book's decline as a mass medium, although it retains a high cultural value in contemporary society. Editor(s): Bell, Bill; Finkelstein, David; McCleery, Alistair. Series: The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Num Pages: 544 pages, 49 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFF; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 184 x 252 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1270.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748618293
ISBN
9780748618293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 217.57
€ 209.81

Paperback. In this literary history of Los Angeles, critic David Fine traces the history and mood of the place through the work of writers as diverse as Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Austin, Norman Mailer, Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Carolyn See, and many others. Series: Western Literature Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874176032
ISBN
9780874176032
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.27

Paperback. A collection of poems that focus on feelings of intimacy and familiarity. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 6. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244709
ISBN
9780226244709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.40

Paperback. The author has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against - and with - his genius for metrical variation, thus becoming an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry and which gives him access to an immense variety of feeling. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226244884
ISBN
9780226244884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.31

Hardcover. Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fifth century BCE, drawing on case studies to open up analysis of the genre to the wider theme of aesthetic experience in early classical Greece. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 3D; ACG; DSBB; DSC. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198746379
ISBN
9780198746379
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 176.89

Paperback. This book investigates how, as postcolonial studies revises its agenda to incorporate twenty-first century concerns, asylum has emerged as a key field of enquiry. Series: Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318726
ISBN
9781846318726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.52

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