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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252062537
ISBN
9780252062537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.82

Paperback. Adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
2nd ed.
SKU
V9780252064630
ISBN
9780252064630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.96

paperback. Understanding migration through the lives and fiction of migrant workers in New England Series: Studies of World Migrations. Num Pages: 232 pages, 5 photographs; 3 line drawings; 3 maps; 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; 1KBBER; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252076138
ISBN
9780252076138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.91

Hardback. Makes the case that diversity, innovation, and canon expansion are essential to maintaining the vitality of African American literary studies Editor(s): King, Lovalerie; Moody-Turner, Shirley. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 392 pages, 3 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253006257
ISBN
9780253006257
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.05

Paperback. Gene Stratton-Porter's tale of a plucky, orphaned newspaper boy is now back in print! Series: The Library of Indiana Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages, 32 figures. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 29. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253210456
ISBN
9780253210456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Explores the evolution of the socialist realist novel as a myth-like genre. Combining intellectual and literary history, this work traces the development of the novel's master plot from its origins in the mid-19th century to its end at the close of the 20th. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253213679
ISBN
9780253213679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.09

Paperback. Blackness in a white genre Num Pages: 286 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222596
ISBN
9780253222596
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

paperback. Organized into chapters devoted to robotics, bionics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other significant scientific advancements, this book summarizes the state of each technology, while presenting corresponding reactions in science fiction. Num Pages: 341 pages, 49 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
341
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292709867
ISBN
9780292709867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.81

paperback. Bringing cognitive methodologies to the analysis of Chicano/a fiction for the first time, this book maps ethics of "persistence" and "transformation" in the fiction of Rudolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, Denise Chavez, Rolando Hinojosa, Arturo Islas, John Rechy, Alfredo Vea, and Helena Maria Viramontes Series: Cognitive Approaches to Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292743977
ISBN
9780292743977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. For ten winter days in 1977, the orator Paul John - widely respected as a dean of Yupik elders - held an audience of Yupik students rapt at Nelson Island High School in southwest Alaska. This book records one elder's attempt to create a moral universe for future generations through stories about the special knowledge of the Yupik people. Editor(s): Fienup-Riordan, Ann. Translator(s): Shield, Sophie. Num Pages: 856 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 2JN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 953.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
856
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780295983509
ISBN
9780295983509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.60

Paperback. Contains nine short stories painting an array of locals caught up in failed dreams of financial success and romantic fulfilment. Series: The Scott & Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 14. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295985275
ISBN
9780295985275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.84

Hardcover. A literary testament showing how Mary Lee Settle's great novels followed the map of her remarkable life. Editor(s): Freeman, Anne. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780393057324
ISBN
9780393057324
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.54

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
€ 16.45

Hardcover. Includes illustrations, of places, creatures, objects or tools, and processes connected with nineteenth-century whaling, that are original boxwood engravings by Massachusetts artist Barry Moser. Num Pages: 600 pages, 100 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 183 x 263 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1224.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780520043541
ISBN
9780520043541
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 50.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 206 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 45.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of California Press Berkeley
Edition
Reprinted edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520067462
ISBN
9780520067462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.60

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

€ 62.89
€ 49.08

Paperback. A manifesto against systematic thinking, this text on literary theory, first published 70 years ago in 1928, is a difficult book by a famously difficult writer. Editor(s): Samuels, Lisa. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520213944
ISBN
9780520213944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. For over two millennia, the "Cyropaedia", an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work. This study examines the work, demonstrating its overall coherence and unity and focusing, in particular, on the notoriously difficult ending. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 2AHA; DSBB; DSK; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224049
ISBN
9780520224049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.15
€ 45.62

Hardcover. In this study of desire in late Imperial China, the author argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fundamental nature of desire. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSA; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 660.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674005136
ISBN
9780674005136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 36.90

Paperback. Walden s Shore explores Thoreau s understanding of the living rock on which life s complexity depends not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson s subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist, whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press." Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780674088184
ISBN
9780674088184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 31.78

Hardback. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2GJ; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674796744
ISBN
9780674796744
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 31. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1972
Publisher
Princeton University Press Princeton
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691013053
ISBN
9780691013053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.27
€ 50.77

Paperback. Offers an account of the nineteenth-century British novel and its role in the historical process that gave rise to modern anthropology's concept of culture. This book shows how English Victorian novels appropriated an autoethnographic mode of fiction developed in the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691095554
ISBN
9780691095554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.44

Hardback. Explores the literary expression of crises of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. This book shows how, lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture and manage inequalities of wealth and power. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691113890
ISBN
9780691113890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.17
€ 82.87

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