Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardback. Faulkner's comedy incorporates tragedy and despair; the humour in his novels can intensify or relieve a tragic or horrific effect. This study examines Faulkner's first nine novels, showing how humour is used to express theme: how it appears in the action, characters, and discourse of each novel and how it contributes to the overall effect of each . Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838640142
- ISBN
- 9780838640142
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.57
€ 148.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763531092
- ISBN
- 9788763531092
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 34.68
€ 47.99
€ 34.68
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: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 2AB; 4KHT; DSBH; DSK; YQE; YQZ. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 5. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582023123
- ISBN
- 9780582023123
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Condition: New
€ 9.63
€ 9.63
Hardback. Num Pages: 254 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110663
- ISBN
- 9780230110663
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Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360359
- ISBN
- 9781137360359
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 35.26
€ 36.99
€ 35.26
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761819141
- ISBN
- 9780761819141
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.90
€ 110.90
Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 261 x 186 x 30. Weight in Grams: 944.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810860018
- ISBN
- 9780810860018
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Condition: New
€ 151.75
€ 151.75
Hardback. Presenting a unique three-dimensional approach to American traditional and contemporary sea literature, Yamashiro shows America's craving for the oceanic using science, literature, and history. Num Pages: 125 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137465665
- ISBN
- 9781137465665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardback. By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction's contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. It analyses discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674022676
- ISBN
- 9780674022676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 42.46
€ 49.99
€ 42.46
Hardcover. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; FL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 258 x 183 x 18. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616685959
- ISBN
- 9781616685959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 295.02€ 200.65
€ 295.02
€ 200.65
hardcover. Editor(s): Greene, Sally. Num Pages: 306 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 712. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780821412695
- ISBN
- 9780821412695
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.76
€ 47.76
Paperback. A study of post-Vietnam American literature and culture focusing on narratives of bodily trauma evident in a wide range of texts by and about other white men. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231112932
- ISBN
- 9780231112932
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.76
€ 36.99
€ 27.76
Hardcover. Travel Writing and the Transnational Author explores the travel writing and transnational literature of four authors from the 'postcolonial canon': Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, and Salman Rushdie. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332455
- ISBN
- 9781137332455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. The first book-length treatment of James Joyce's work through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought, Slote argues that the range of styles Joyce deploys has an ethical dimension. This intersection raises questions of epistemology, aesthetics, and the construction of the 'Modern' and will appeal to literary and philosophy scholars. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137366221
- ISBN
- 9781137366221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. Guilty But Insane offers a timely and challenging discussion of the relationship between popular literature, science, and what it means to be human by examining how writers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind in relation to crime. Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 206 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198723325
- ISBN
- 9780198723325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.60
€ 61.60
Hardcover. Offers an exploration of masculinity in the literature of the Arab East (Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Iraq) in the context of a specific set of anxieties about gender roles and sexuality in Arab societies. This work reveals the volatile nature of masculinity and its inextricability from femininity. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 232 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815632375
- ISBN
- 9780815632375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.17
€ 51.17
Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 31. Weight in Grams: 756.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816645244
- ISBN
- 9780816645244
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99
€ 20.99
Paperback. Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marriage are accompanied by unwelcome sexual advances. Editor(s): Ross, Angus. Num Pages: 1536 pages, music. BIC Classification: 2BMH; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 146 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1186.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 1536
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140432152
- ISBN
- 9780140432152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.99
€ 33.99
€ 28.99
Hardcover. A Companion to American Fiction 1780--1865 presents the current state of criticism in the field of American fiction from the earliest declarations of nationhood to secession and civil war. Editor(s): Samuels, Shirley. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 488 pages, 15. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1044.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631234227
- ISBN
- 9780631234227
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 215.88
€ 215.88
paperback. This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings. Num Pages: 344 pages, 30ill. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415913911
- ISBN
- 9780415913911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.04
€ 56.04
Hardcover. Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406309
- ISBN
- 9781137406309
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardback. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403902122
- ISBN
- 9781403902122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Macpherson's original insights will have a broad and lasting impact on the study of the 18th-century novel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801893841
- ISBN
- 9780801893841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 75.37
€ 75.37
Paperback. This text presents a biographical and critical study of C.S. Forester and the "Hornblower" saga. Focusing on the writing, character models, background and nautical veracity of the novels, the book examines the depiction of naval warfare and Forester's research techniques. Num Pages: 128 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815606215
- ISBN
- 9780815606215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.48
€ 21.99
€ 20.48