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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Editor(s): Merla-Watson, Cathryn Josefina; Olguin, B. V. Num Pages: 380 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADSL; DSBH; DSK; JFD; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780895511638
ISBN
9780895511638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.45

Hardcover. Focusing on its adaptation in the Chinese context, Catherine Vance Yeh traces the rise of the political novel to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s. Yeh explores in detail the tensions characteristic of transcultural processes, among them the dynamics through which a particular, and seemingly local, literary genre goes global. Num Pages: 441 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 36. Weight in Grams: 746.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674504356
ISBN
9780674504356
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.36
€ 54.57

Paperback. Presents a study of detective fiction written by American women between the Civil War and World War II. This book shows how women writers blended Gothic elements into domestic fiction. It focuses on the narrative qualities of the domestic novel tradition and the ways in which it reflected ideologies of domesticity and gender. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322719
ISBN
9780822322719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Hardback. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 figure. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803269637
ISBN
9780803269637
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.06

Paperback. Fascination with little girls pervaded Victorian culture. For many, girls represented the true essence of childhood or bygone times of innocence; but for middle-class men, especially writers, the interest ran much deeper. This title explores the ways in which various nineteenth-century British male authors constructed girlhood. Num Pages: 264 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780691115269
ISBN
9780691115269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. This sourcebook combines extracts from contemporary documents and critical reviews, providing an introduction, a publishing and critical history, a chronology of key events, a guide to further reading and original pictures. Editor(s): Golden, Catherine J. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415263580
ISBN
9780415263580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.88

Paperback. Revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; KCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 100.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136301
ISBN
9780691136301
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.03

Paperback. An autobiography which presents a story that revolves around the author's mother. It offers an account of living with hardship and poverty as seen through the eyes of a sensitive child and woman. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 109 x 25. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Corgi
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552140935
ISBN
9780552140935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801435348
ISBN
9780801435348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.35

Hardcover. Study of literary critic George Steiner and the focus of the Holocaust on his career Series: Religion, Theology and the Holocaust. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815609605
ISBN
9780815609605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.50

Paperback. In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631168140
ISBN
9780631168140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.06

Paperback. Volume of essays, selected from the 2007 International Cather Seminar, exploring the geographic locations and cultures that informed Cather's writing Editor(s): Palleau-Papin, Francoise; Murphy, John J.; Palleau, Francoise; Thacker, Robert. Series: Cather Studies. Num Pages: 27 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
492
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803230255
ISBN
9780803230255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.32

Hardback. A collection of interviews and occasional papers given by Castoriadis between 1974 and 1997. It provides a resume of his political ideas. It includes a chapter that presents the concept, central to his thinking, of 'imaginary significations' as what make a society 'cohere'. Editor(s): Escobar, Enrique. Translator(s): Arnold, Helen. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJP; DSK; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823230938
ISBN
9780823230938
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.37

paperback. A collection of Carson McCullers' work, including stories, essays, articles, poems, and her writing on writing. These pieces, written mostly before McCullers was nineteen, provide insight into her life and her gifts and growth as a writer. It contains the working outline of "The Mute," which became her novel "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter". Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 195 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140081954
ISBN
9780140081954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. The aged Judge Clane dreams of resurrecting the confederacy, while his grandson, Jester, is involuntarily drawn to Sherman, a volatile black orphan who feels the sharp sting of racial injustice. Through the eyes of these individuals, the author explores the roots of racial prejudice, and the dual moralities of the town's leading whites. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140083583
ISBN
9780140083583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardcover. "Tidwell and Williams analyze the causal relationships in her interactions with Langston and other family members through the use of psychiatrist Murray Bowen's Family Systems Theory (FST). . . . The editors have grouped the 250 letters chronologically into four sections, each preceded by a brief contextual introduction" -- Editor(s): Tidwell, John Edgar; Williams, Carmaletta M. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820345659
ISBN
9780820345659
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.57

Hardcover. This study examines the novels of Patrick White, the great Australian writer and Nobel Prize-winner. It begins from the observation that major characters in his novels undergo a failure. This failure paradoxically enables their success within the context of what White has called the 'overreaching grandeur' which circumscribes human existence. Series: Studies in 20th Century Literature. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 450. Good clean copy in dustwrapper with minor shelf wear and some edgewear to DW
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001347
ISBN
9780333388693
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813930619
ISBN
9780813930619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.37

Paperback. Explodes the myth that Lewis was a misogynist and shows how his approach to women is pertinent to contemporary culture. Editor(s): Curtis, Carolyn; Key, Mary Pomroy. Num Pages: 288 pages, Black and white pics of contributors in text. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Lion Hudson
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745956947
ISBN
9780745956947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

Paperback. 'York Notes for GCSE' offers a useful approach to English Literature and aims to help readers achieve a better grade. Updated to reflect the needs of today's students, the new editions are filled with detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more. Series: York Notes. Num Pages: 80 pages, glossary, further reading. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KHT; DSBH; DSK; YQE. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 5. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582313811
ISBN
9780582313811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.30

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