Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardcover. This collection of essays examines, from a wide range of critical and philosophical perspectives, the cultural manifestations of "Robinson Crusoe" in different centuries, in different media and in different genres. It provides different theoretical and critical approaches to the subject. Editor(s): Spaas, Lieve; Stimpson, Brian. Num Pages: 346 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 34. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1996th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333631737
- ISBN
- 9780333631737
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.39
€ 145.39
Hardback. How and why do readers attribute an ethos (of, for example, sincerity, reliability, authority, or irony) to literary characters, narrators, and even to authors? Are there particular conditions under which it is more appropriate for interpreters to attribute an ethos to authors, rather than to narrators? This book proposes to such questions. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 664.
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- y First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803248366
- ISBN
- 9780803248366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Paperback. A collection of commissioned essays on the contemporary Anglophone novel. It examines what the novel does and what kinds of truth the novel can tell. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571230860
- ISBN
- 9780571230860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.99
€ 17.99
€ 12.99
Paperback. This is an authoritative and timely guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last quarter century. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of the country's most critically celebrated and successful writers. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444336207
- ISBN
- 9781444336207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.74
€ 35.74
hardcover. This is an authoritative and timely guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last quarter century. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of the country s most critically celebrated and successful writers. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781444336191
- ISBN
- 9781444336191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.47
€ 96.47
Paperback. Series: Comparative Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557537133
- ISBN
- 9781557537133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 60.79
€ 60.79
hardcover. Editor(s): Dabney, Lewis M. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 308
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691636931
- ISBN
- 9780691636931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.20
€ 149.20
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554812417
- ISBN
- 9781554812417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.51
€ 26.99
€ 20.51
Paperback. Bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll, this work looks at Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and focuses on topics ranging from Alice's influence on the Beat poet, Jack Kerouac to how mercury in hat linings turned hatters mad. Illustrator(s): Tenniel, Sir John. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations, references. BIC Classification: 2BMH; DSBF; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140289299
- ISBN
- 9780140289299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DSK; HRCG; VXWM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Red Wheel/Weiser United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780877289401
- ISBN
- 9780877289401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.96
€ 23.99
€ 20.96
Paperback. Includes essays that approach Peter Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 125 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813544373
- ISBN
- 9780813544373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.44
€ 43.99
€ 38.44
paperback. The first fully detailed, complete account in English of the fiction and films of France's best-known and most controversial woman writer. Leslie Hill throws new light on Duras' relation with feminism, sexuality and psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 212 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415050487
- ISBN
- 9780415050487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.02
€ 57.02
Hardcover. Leslie Garis' grandparents, Howard and Lillian Garis, were, from the turn of the century to the 1950s, authors of books for children. This book tells how in a large romantic house in Amherst, Massachusetts, she and her two brothers, her parents and grandparents aimed to live a life that mirrored the idyllic world the elder Garises created. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 143 x 33. Weight in Grams: 488. 352 pages, Illustrations. Leslie Garis' grandparents, Howard and Lillian Garis, were, from the turn of the century to the 1950s, authors of books for children. This book tells how in a large romantic house in Amherst, Massachusetts, she and her two brothers, her parents and grandparents aimed to live a life that mirrored the idyllic world the elder Garises created. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 33. Weight: 488.
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224082402
- ISBN
- 9780224082402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 6.15
€ 25.99
€ 6.15
Hardcover. The vision of the South American rainforest in the Spanish American novela de la selva has often been interpreted as a belated imitation of European travel literature. This book explores how writers throughout post-independence Latin America turned to the jungle as a locus for the contestation of both national and literary identity. Series: Liverpool Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781846311956
- ISBN
- 9781846311956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.17
€ 141.17
Paperback. Written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, this novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka) includes a biographical afterword by Sir Christopher Ondaatje, author of "Woolf in Ceylon", and a short story, "Pearls before Swine", which vividly draws on Woolf's experience as a young District Commissioner. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272. 216 pages. Written by a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, this novel of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka) includes a biographical afterword by Sir Christopher Ondaatje, author of "Woolf in Ceylon", and a short story, "Pearls before Swine", which vividly draws on Woolf's experience as a young District Commissioner. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FKS; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight: 278.
- Publisher
- Eland Books
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780907871293
- ISBN
- 9780907871293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.19
€ 17.99
€ 13.19
Hardcover. On the surface, James Joyce's work is largely a political. Through most of the twentieth century he was the proud embodiment of the rootless intellectual. This title includes essays that bring Joyce within the ambit of postcolonial studies. Editor(s): Orr, Leonard. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages, 4 black-&-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631880
- ISBN
- 9780815631880
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.61
€ 34.61
Hardback. Num Pages: 145 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 145
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739139912
- ISBN
- 9780739139912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.94
€ 129.94
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253215086
- ISBN
- 9780253215086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.26
€ 25.99
€ 24.26
Hardcover. In this comparative study of Honore d'Urfe's "L'Astree" and Charles Sorel's "Le Berger extravagant", the author examines the historical transition from the idealist, pastoral romance to the more realist anti-romance. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations24 cm. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557532350
- ISBN
- 9781557532350
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.88
€ 73.88
Paperback. Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colourful figures in American literature. This re-assessment of his work aims to bring to the reader a new sense of London's richness and variety, especially his treatment of diverse cultures. Editor(s): Cassuto, Leonard; Reesman, Jeanne Campbell. Num Pages: 308 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735162
- ISBN
- 9780804735162
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.17
€ 37.99
€ 34.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 327
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126915
- ISBN
- 9780231126915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Paperback. This "Critical Edition" is based on the Maude translation. The text includes three maps of Napoleon's campaigns and battles in Russia, the publication history of "War and Peace", selections from Tolstoy's letters and diaries, three drafts of his introduction to the novel, and 20 critical essays. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 1200 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1058.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 1196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393966473
- ISBN
- 9780393966473
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.52
€ 19.52
Paperback. The text of this revised edition of Tolstoy's novel is based upon the 1939 translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude. The editor has made several textual changes and has revised and added to the footnotes. New critical material has been added to this edition, reflecting current ideas. Translator(s): Maude, Louise; Maude, Aylmer. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 616.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393966428
- ISBN
- 9780393966428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.45
€ 19.99
€ 18.45
Paperback. "Nowadays, most readers take the intersection between fiction and fact for granted. We've developed a faculty for pretending that even the most bizarre literary inventions are, for the nonce, real. . . . The value of Davis's book is that it explores the h Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812216103
- ISBN
- 9780812216103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.91
€ 37.99
€ 33.91