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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Hardback. The study of Arabic literary texts is blossoming and this book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to help research this highly prolific and diverse production of contemporary literary texts. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; DSK; DSY; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474420518
ISBN
9781474420518
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.61
€ 120.22

Paperback. Interpretations. Series: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture. 440 pages, black & white illustrations. Editor(s): Nischik, Reingard M. The first anthology of critical interpretations of major Canadian short stories. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSK. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 25. Weight: 632.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Camden House
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571134790
ISBN
9781571134790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 50.94

Hardback. Translator(s): Frisch, Shelley. Num Pages: 584 pages, 64 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 255 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1022.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691151984
ISBN
9780691151984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. Translator(s): Frisch, Shelley Laura. Num Pages: 552 pages, 37 halftones. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 898.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147413
ISBN
9780691147413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.50

Hardcover. Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma is aesthetically expressed. Modernism's emphasis on impersonality and narrative abstraction has been replaced by the contemporary trauma memoir and an ethical imperative to bear witness. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137311009
ISBN
9781137311009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

paperback. Anonymously published in 1554, Lazarillo de Tormes remains a centrepiece of Renaissance literature and is arguably the most popular example of the picaresque novel. Editor(s): Stavans, Ilan. Translator(s): Stavans, Ilan. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DS; 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780393938050
ISBN
9780393938050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.61

Paperback. Building on the formula of "York Notes", this Advanced series introduces students to more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. The notes enable students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 175.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582414716
ISBN
9780582414716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.44

Hardback. Focusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 25. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231137508
ISBN
9780231137508
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.44
€ 80.25

Paperback. Focusing on modernist narrative, this book suggests that style conceived expansively as attitude, stance, posture, and consciousness helps to explain many other, nonliterary formations of cosmopolitanism in history, anthropology, sociology, transcultural studies, and media studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231137515
ISBN
9780231137515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231165945
ISBN
9780231165945
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBB; DSBD; DSK; HBT; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801441431
ISBN
9780801441431
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.49

Hardcover. Eighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and mutable identity of the romance reader haunt eighteenth-century definitions of the self, and the seductions of fiction insist on making an appearance in philosophy. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230369375
ISBN
9780230369375
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.52

Hardback. This work examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominant fictional type in late nineteenth-century British culture, in the light of biological determinism, imperialism, race, theories about female sexuality, degeneration and evolutionary theory. Series: Women's Studies at York/Macmillan S. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333556122
ISBN
9780333556122
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.41

Paperback. Decadent daughters and monstrous mothers interrogates Angela Carter's feminist politics through the lens of European Gothic. It illuminates her ambivalent relation to her European literary forebears, reveals her rich knowledge of French literature and offers fresh insights into her literary practices afforded by newly available archival material. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 266 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784991036
ISBN
9781784991036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.69

Hardcover. The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative fiction by Vicente Lenero, Juan Rulfo, among others. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137546272
ISBN
9781137546272
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardback. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 423.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754443
ISBN
9780838754443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.92

hardcover. Editor(s): Munford, Rebecca. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
Edition
2006th Edition
SKU
V9781403997050
ISBN
9781403997050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.38

Paperback.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662520
ISBN
9781855662520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.04

Paperback. Offers the analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10 color and 65 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 154 x 330. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292706705
ISBN
9780292706705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. A selection of letters, articles, and notes also includes the short story "A Couple of Writers" and the first chapters of Raymond Chandler's last Philip Marlowe novel, "The Poodle Springs Story", left unfinished at his death. Num Pages: 275 pages, 5. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
275
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520208353
ISBN
9780520208353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. This study of the short stories of Raymond Carver also takes excursions into his poetry and essays. Runyon argues that the stories are intricately linked as part of a cohesive body of work. Num Pages: 246 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815626312
ISBN
9780815626312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.76

Paperback. Explores the way Virginia Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. This book includes revisionary accounts of A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938), and new readings of Woolf's major and less well-known novels, including The Pargiters, her failed 'essay-novel'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748694105
ISBN
9780748694105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.90

Hardback. Larson's work provides the first in-depth coverage of an often forgotten sub-genre of art-the movie novelization. This book includes many author interviews and discussion on what this genre is and how it came to be. Num Pages: 623 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 147 x 40. Weight in Grams: 839.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
623
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810829282
ISBN
9780810829282
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 206.78

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691640617
ISBN
9780691640617
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.65

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