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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. 'York Notes for GCSE' offer an approach to English Literature that aims to help readers achieve a better grade. This series has been completely updated to reflect the needs of today's students. The new editions have detailed summaries, commentaries on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 120 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 162.
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Pearson York Notes
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582784345
ISBN
9780582784345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.41

Paperback. Robert Brasillach was executed in 1945 for what he wrote during the Nazi occupation of France. The author raises the question of whether he was condemned for his writing, or singled out as a homosexual; and why he was shot, when those responsible for the murder of thousands were set free. Num Pages: 318 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226424156
ISBN
9780226424156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.08

Hardback. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
158
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838633205
ISBN
9780838633205
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.00

Hardcover. Focusing on Faulkner, Morrison and Coetzee as authors, critics and Nobel Prize-winning intellectuals, this book explores shifting representations of disability in 20th and 21st century literature and proposes new ways of reading their works in relation to one another, whilst highlighting the ethical, aesthetic and imaginative challenges they pose. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230292093
ISBN
9780230292093
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.72

Hardcover. Literature and Film, Dispositioned looks to twentieth-century literature's encounter with film as a means to thinking about the locations of thought in literature and literature's location in the world. It includes readings of works by James Joyce, Henry James, and Samuel Beckett, whose Film (1965) forms a concluding focus. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137295446
ISBN
9781137295446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Hardcover. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403945501
ISBN
9781403945501
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.48

Hardcover. This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137270108
ISBN
9781137270108
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.55

Hardcover. Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230364240
ISBN
9780230364240
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.36

Hardcover. This is a translation by Alfred Smyth of the medieval "Life" of King Alfred. He argues that the "Life" is a forgery which has profound implications not only for our understanding of the early English and medieval past but also for the nature of biography and history. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3F; DNF; DSBB; DSK; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 697.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
AIAA
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333699171
ISBN
9780333699171
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.94

Hardcover. A Companion to the American Short Story traces the development of this versatile literary genre over the past two centuries. Written by leading critics in the field, it explores a wide range of writers, from Edgar Allen Poe and Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Charles Chesnutt at the end of the nineteenth century. Editor(s): Bendixen, Alfred; Nagel, James. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 181 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1098.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
536
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405115438
ISBN
9781405115438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 49.91

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Revised & expanded ed
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691631578
ISBN
9780691631578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.04

Hardback. As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors. Editor(s): Dunst, Alexander; Schlensag, Stefan. Num Pages: 246 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137414588
ISBN
9781137414588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.60

Hardback. This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. Series Editor(s): Lea, Daniel. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719066528
ISBN
9780719066528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.19
€ 89.86

Paperback. A critical book on Virgina Woolf that places her world of class, politics, feminism, pacifism, and the family into firm historical perspective. It is a penetrating, learned, wide-ranging appreciation of Virginia Woolf in her social and political context, documenting what muscle and thought there was in her allegedly gossamer work. Num Pages: 375 pages, 2Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
375
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520061842
ISBN
9780520061842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 28.20

Hardcover. Num Pages: 378 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
378
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674282483
ISBN
9780674282483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.79
€ 50.93

Hardcover. Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word? Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137346339
ISBN
9781137346339
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Paperback. Part of the "Routledge Guides to Literature" series, this guide to Roy's novel offers an introduction to the text and contexts of "The God of Small Things". It also presents a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text. It is aimed at those beginning detailed study of "The God of Small Things". Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415358439
ISBN
9780415358439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.55

Paperback. Editor(s): Vernon, Alex. Series: Teaching Hemmingway. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Kent State University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606352571
ISBN
9781606352571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.38

Hardback. Editor(s): Tickell, Alex. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
293
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137403537
ISBN
9781137403537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.91

Paperback. Translator(s): Nabokov, Vladimir. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 1056 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DCF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1026.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
1056
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691019048
ISBN
9780691019048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.18
€ 50.66

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