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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Hardcover. This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus, any disruptions to how a traditional page 'should look' can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137467355
ISBN
9781137467355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, this book is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442649224
ISBN
9781442649224
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.69

Hardback. Num Pages: 195 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 248 x 165. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874133363
ISBN
9780874133363
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.35

Hardback. Until the late 19th century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers, their sacred center - Jerusalem, Zion - fatefully out of reach. This book examines the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the realignment of the people with their original center. Series: Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 370 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSB; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520206458
ISBN
9780520206458
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.02
€ 49.59

Hardcover. Gothic Science Fiction explores the fascinating world of gothic influenced science fiction. From Frankenstein to Doctor Who and from H.G Wells to Stephen King, the book charts the rise of a genre and follows the descent into darkness that consumes it. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137389268
ISBN
9781137389268
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.18

Paperback. Editor(s): Sciban, Shu-ning. Series: Cornell East Asia Series. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939161789
ISBN
9781939161789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.94

Hardback. Editor(s): Sciban, Shu-ning; Pidhainy, Ihor. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 525.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939161581
ISBN
9781939161581
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.77

Paperback. * The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man on the legendary island of Capri by the renowned author of THE TRANSIT OF VENUS Num Pages: 160 pages, Section: 8, B&W. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AHA; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860498732
ISBN
9781860498732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. This literary biographical study of mid-Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333695821
ISBN
9780333695821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. This literary biographical study of mid-Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell places her writing in the context of her attitudes towards creative production, her relationship with publishers, and her literary friendships, as well as examining those events of her life which fed into her work. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333695814
ISBN
9780333695814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781580463898
ISBN
9781580463898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.13

Hardback. Jane Austen and the State of the Nation explores Jane Austen's references to politics and to political economics and concludes that Austen was a liberal Tory who remained consistent in her political agenda throughout her career as a novelist. Read with this historical background, Austen's books emerge as state-of-the-nation or political novels. Num Pages: 196 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137544544
ISBN
9781137544544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.22

Paperback. From the author of Winesburg, Ohio, an autobiography of Midwestern life and culture by one of the leading figures of 20th-century American letters. Series: Sweetwater Fiction: Reintroductions S. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472030835
ISBN
9780472030835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816634187
ISBN
9780816634187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Hardback. Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and A iA ek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 282 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFD; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230603301
ISBN
9780230603301
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.15

Paperback. Thanks to the recent discovery of Judith Sargent Murray's papers-including some 2,500 personal letters-Sheila L. Skemp has documented the compelling story of a talented and most unusual eighteenth-century woman. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812222487
ISBN
9780812222487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Hardcover. Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geographies examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin. Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137413123
ISBN
9781137413123
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardback. Scholars have argued for decades over which constitutes the best possible version of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's much-anthologized story "The Yellow Wall-Paper." This book offers both Gilman scholars and scholars of textual studies a means of engaging with a work that exists in multiple forms, and includes fresh readings of this story. Editor(s): St.Jean, Shawn. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821416532
ISBN
9780821416532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.48

Paperback. Richard Moore Rive (1930-1989) was a writer, scholar, literary critic and college teacher in Cape Town, South Africa. He is best known for his short stories written in the late 1950s and for his second novel, 'Buckingham Palace', District Six, in which he depicted the well known cosmopolitan area of District Six, where he grew up. Num Pages: 224 pages, Black and white photographs. BIC Classification: B; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868147434
ISBN
9781868147434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. This book explores how feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial female writers use and revise fairy tales and myths through the lens of Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, and Toni Morrison's work. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230605541
ISBN
9780230605541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

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