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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardback. This study examines the ways in which Willa Cather handles landscape and exile in her fiction. Cather's characters are intricately connected to the places they inhibit, and they are often banished from a native or authentic landscape. Num Pages: 127 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 127
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780945636564
- ISBN
- 9780945636564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.40
€ 108.40
Hardback. This book provides a thematic approach to all of Lawrence Durrell's major novels--The Black Book, The Alexandria Quartet, The Revolt of Aphrodite, and The Avignon Quintet--and argues for Durrell as a central voice in twentieth-century British literature. Num Pages: 183 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780945636991
- ISBN
- 9780945636991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.11
€ 117.11
Paperback. Features various entries that illuminate Jane Austen's world. This book offers alphabetically arranged entries providing historical details on the form and function of everyday and obscure objects that are mentioned in her novels. It also includes a selection of illustrations accompanying the entries that help bring her fiction to life. Series: All Things. Num Pages: 400 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (ES) Secondary; (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 31. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO United States
- Edition
- abridged ed
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846450525
- ISBN
- 9781846450525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.05
€ 50.05
Hardback. The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction weaves a fascinating narrative full of colourful characters by examining the prose of today's leading writers. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGU; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643321
- ISBN
- 9781442643321
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.30
€ 50.30
hardcover. Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas's Desenga os with the age in which it was written, contextualizing the book in baroque poetics, the Spanish honour code, and fifteenth-century martyr saints' lives. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, 17. BIC Classification: 2ADS; 3JD; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442643505
- ISBN
- 9781442643505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.04
€ 63.04
paperback. A collection of essays with the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Num Pages: 447 pages, 3 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 141 x 28. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780520217003
- ISBN
- 9780520217003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.80
€ 29.99
€ 26.80
paperback. A fascinating look at the contemporary Amerian crime novel in all its variety and complexity. Editor(s): Messent, Peter B. Num Pages: 264 pages, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780745310169
- ISBN
- 9780745310169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 24.09
€ 29.99
€ 24.09
Hardback. This comprehensive history takes us from the birth of the novel in the 18th century through its growing pains in the 19th century to its angst-ridden maturity in the 20th century. Editor(s): Richetti, John J.; Bender, John; David, Deirdre; Seidel, Michael. Num Pages: 1064 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1679.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1064
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231078580
- ISBN
- 9780231078580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.44€ 125.54
€ 134.44
€ 125.54
Paperback. A fresh, multicultural reading of the work of women writers of the Progressive era that places their fiction in the context of their reform journalism and political activism. Num Pages: 256 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 174 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231118514
- ISBN
- 9780231118514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.19
€ 43.99
€ 31.19
Hardback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988900
- ISBN
- 9780295988900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.27
€ 128.27
Paperback. Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'. Editor(s): Zalloua, Zahi. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988917
- ISBN
- 9780295988917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.25
€ 39.25
Paperback. One of Ralph Waldo Emerson's principle contributions to philosophy is the theory of self-reliance, a view of democratic individuality. George Kateb provides a reading of Emerson that is friendly to the interests of Nietzsche and to later Nietzscheans such as Weber, Heidegger, Arendt and Foucault. Series: Modernity and Political Thought. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; HPCD; HPQ; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742521452
- ISBN
- 9780742521452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.34
€ 69.34
Widely recognized as one of the greatest short story writers of the last half century, Alice Munro's works have been collected in such volumes as Dance of the Happy Shades, The Beggar Maid, Open Secrets, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, and The View from Castle Rock. Editor(s): Moulder, Cathy. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 188 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1189.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810859241
- ISBN
- 9780810859241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 197.35
€ 197.35
Hardcover. Ben-Bassat (English, Tel Aviv U.) discusses crises of ideology and identity in the fiction of contemporary American authors. She contends that the fiction of John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker has absorbed a diversity of prophetic modes from a diversity of Num Pages: 216 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754337
- ISBN
- 9780838754337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.44
€ 117.44
Hardcover. Based on original archival research and dozens of interviews, Kerouac is a fresh, compelling, and substantive critical reassessment of Kerouac's brief and often chaotic life. Num Pages: 484 pages, 24 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 44. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Taylor Trade Publishing United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 484
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780878333059
- ISBN
- 9780878333059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 30.25
€ 30.99
€ 30.25
Hardcover. Presents a study of novelist and critic Robert Cantwell, a Northwest-born writer with a strong sense of social justice who found himself at the center of the radical literary and cultural politics of 1930s New York. Series: A Robert B. Heilman Book. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295993621
- ISBN
- 9780295993621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.98
€ 140.98
Hardback. The first book to survey the broad range of Ms. Sontag's work, including full discussions of her fiction. "One can ask for no better guidebook."-M. Thomas Inge. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566633918
- ISBN
- 9781566633918
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.46
€ 38.46
Hardback. The volume gives an excellent overall view of Rodoreda's poetry in the original and in translation, her short stories and novels. A completely annotated, cross-indexed bibliography of the critical work on Rodoreda, accompanied by an analysis of the current state of criticism on her work is included. Num Pages: 279 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 159. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910185
- ISBN
- 9781575910185
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.59
€ 131.59
hardcover. Addresses the dilemma of the female subject in these three twentieth-century British women novelists. Num Pages: 241 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 165. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910222
- ISBN
- 9781575910222
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.44
€ 137.44
Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 545.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575910406
- ISBN
- 9781575910406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.66
€ 145.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 421.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583226407
- ISBN
- 9781583226407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.37
€ 16.99
€ 16.37
Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; APF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480047
- ISBN
- 9781611480047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.51
€ 145.51
Hardback. Num Pages: 338 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 338
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480467
- ISBN
- 9781611480467
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.06
€ 161.06
Hardback. Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611483741
- ISBN
- 9781611483741
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.40
€ 127.40