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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Presenting an abridgement of the author's 2004 translation of "The Mangy Parrot", this title aims to captures the narrative drive, literary innovations, and biting social commentary. Translator(s): Frye, David. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Edition
Abridged ed
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872206700
ISBN
9780872206700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.83

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691607863
ISBN
9780691607863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.68

Hardback. A facing-page edition of a seventeenth-century mother's advice book, giving insights both into female Protestant religious devotion, authorship and spirituality, and into how women's words were altered in the transmission by male editors. Editor(s): Metcalfe, Jean LeDrew. Num Pages: 152 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DN; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802046949
ISBN
9780802046949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.36

Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; APF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480047
ISBN
9781611480047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.12

Paperback. Jorge Olivares connects the personal, political, and artistic trajectories of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990) to Arenas's insights into the Cuban Revolution, the struggles of exiles, and the politics of sexuality. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822353966
ISBN
9780822353966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.15

Hardback. An examination of the relationship between a text, its "other" forms and what can be gleaned from this textual interplay. Series: Stages. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803234307
ISBN
9780803234307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.28

Hardback. Although Irene Nemirovsky was Jewish, she frequented authors and politicians on the extreme right. This biography analyzes the discrepancy between Nemirovsky's real and imagined identities, and explores a literary work that revisits in a different way Jewish identity, exile, betrayal, and the solidarity of persecuted people. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804754811
ISBN
9780804754811
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.42

Hardback. Studies the role of mourning in Fitzgerald's work Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910468
ISBN
9781575910468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.80

Paperback. Chronicles the making of an iconic American writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his long life in fiction, film, television, radio, and theatre. Num Pages: 360 pages, 24 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 610.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252079054
ISBN
9780252079054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.09

Paperback. This volume presents a dozen original essays by leading scholars in the fields of the ancient novel, Julio-Claudian culture, and early Roman imperial history, focused on Petronius' fragmentary work The Satyricon. The essays move from literary studies to cultural studies to historical studies. Editor(s): Repath, Ian D. Num Pages: 256 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118451373
ISBN
9781118451373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.29

Paperback. A guide to the works of Louis de Bernieres. It deals with de Bernieres' themes, genre and narrative technique, and includes a close reading of the texts that are accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons. Series: Vintage Living Texts. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliog , glossary. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XX) Exams / tests / exercises. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099437574
ISBN
9780099437574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.55

Hardcover. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557530561
ISBN
9781557530561
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 48.99

Hardcover. The author reconstructs the relation of the novel to 19th-century law courts. He argues that the courts, newly fashioned as a site in which to orchestrate voices and reconstruct stories, arose as a cultural presence influencing the shape of the English novel. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801867552
ISBN
9780801867552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.54

paperback. With a focus on Willa Cather's artistic principle of "the thing not named," this book illuminates the contradictions and complexities inherent in notions of identity and shows how her fiction transforms the very categories-regarding gender, sexuality, race, and class-around which most recent Cather scholarship has focused. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3810 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822326724
ISBN
9780822326724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.09

Hardback. Klezmer is a musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. This title offers an understanding of racial, ethnic, and sexual categories in America. Num Pages: 408 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGH; DSBH; DSK; JFSR1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 681.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231142786
ISBN
9780231142786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.49
€ 78.05

Paperback. A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007234257
ISBN
9780007234257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.54

Paperback. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474426107
ISBN
9781474426107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 34.86

Paperback. The critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his fierce commitment to truth and honesty, and his passionate belief in the avant-garde. Num Pages: 654 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 153 x 33. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
654
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main Market
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330350495
ISBN
9780330350495
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. Records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives - that is, politics. This book focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, and addresses a range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231799
ISBN
9780823231799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.75

Hardcover. Though "Moby-Dick" is one of the most-discussed and most-read works of American literature, the influence of the Bible has been overlooked in many contemporary studies of the novel. This book illuminates Melville's abiding preoccupation with the problem of evil and the pervasive role of the Bible in shaping his iconic work. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875804644
ISBN
9780875804644
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.57

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