Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardback. This collection presents a retrospective and comprehensive guide to the work of Ireland's greatest living writer, John Banville. Selections are drawn from all of his novels, up to and including 2012's 'Ancient Light'. There are radio plays, as well as a selection of his essays and reviews. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 242 x 46. Weight in Grams: 812.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447214724
- ISBN
- 9781447214724
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.98
€ 19.99
€ 14.98
Hardback. Explores the conjunction of, and the frictions between, the studies of twentieth-century United States postcolonial studies, race studies, urban studies, and eco-criticism, and works to refigure this portrayal of urban spaces. Series: Postwestern Horizons. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803230460
- ISBN
- 9780803230460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.85
€ 52.85
Hardback. Follows the intertwined threads of Jewishness and non-Jewishness that play through the life and works of Jacques Derrida. This book merges the biography and textual commentary in a portrait of the man, his works, and being (or not being) Jewish. Translator(s): Brahic, Beverly Bie. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 168 pages, 9 color illus. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231128247
- ISBN
- 9780231128247
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.03€ 73.45
€ 94.03
€ 73.45
Hardcover. A revelatory biography of the American master as told through the lens of his greatest novel. Num Pages: 416 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 385
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871404084
- ISBN
- 9780871404084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.93
€ 32.99
€ 27.93
Num Pages: 79 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 79
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813116556
- ISBN
- 9780813116556
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.29
€ 30.29
Electronic book text. This book examines the multifarious ways in which the emergence of a modern culture of portability prompts a radical, if often problematic, departure from Victorian architectural conceptions of fiction towards more movable understandings of form and character. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474419598
- ISBN
- 9781474419598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.54€ 108.85
€ 117.54
€ 108.85
Hardback. The author examines anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and gender fluidity in works by Scott, Godwin, Lewis, Maturin, and Mary Shelley. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 247 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621107
- ISBN
- 9780230621107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The German Gothic and Its International Reception, 1800-2000. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. 318 pages. Editor(s): Cusack, Andrew; Murnane, Barry. The first book in English on the German Gothic in over thirty years, consisting of new essays investigating the internationality of the Gothic mode. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; DSK. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 30. Weight: 698.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135193
- ISBN
- 9781571135193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Hardback. Editor(s): Fletcher, Lisa. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 239 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH5; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137571410
- ISBN
- 9781137571410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.51
€ 138.51
Hardback. This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progress after the 1960s. It explores the intersection of two key features of late twentieth-century American culture. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605428
- ISBN
- 9780230605428
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardback. Examines British fictions of exploration and colonialism from 1650 to 1750, arguing that narratives of intercultural contact work to reimagine political categories such as sovereignty and popular power. This book includes fictions that refigure the commoner as a superstitious savage encountering Britons as civilizing sovereigns. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 235 x 30. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823256914
- ISBN
- 9780823256914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Editor(s): Lawlor, Peter Augustine; Smith, Brian A. Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813141886
- ISBN
- 9780813141886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Editor(s): Zirakzadeh, Cyrus Ernesto; Stow, Simon. Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors. Num Pages: 392 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 721.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813142029
- ISBN
- 9780813142029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.26
€ 63.26
The writings of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) have captivated scholars, activists, and ecologists for more than a century. This book offers a fresh understanding of Thoreau's political life and writings, and includes discussions of subjects ranging from his democratic individualism to the political relevance of his intellectual eccentricity. Editor(s): Turner, Jack. Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors. Num Pages: 460 pages, 1 chart. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 41. Weight in Grams: 816.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813124780
- ISBN
- 9780813124780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardcover. Elizabeth Maslen reassesses fiction written by women between the granting of universal franchise and the advent of new wave feminism. She analyzes how writers chose to represent a range of issues, exploring in the process how the their priorities affect their decisions on how to write. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333729533
- ISBN
- 9780333729533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. Popular notion has it that Polish Jewish writers, unlike their counterparts in Western, Northern and Central Europe, wrote solely in Yiddish or Hebrew. Yet between the two wars, Poland produces an elite group of assimilated Jews writing exclusively in Polish. This text explores their emergence. Translator(s): Shenitzer, Abe. Series: Space, Place, and Society. Num Pages: 320 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AGP; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815629849
- ISBN
- 9780815629849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.96
€ 35.96
Paperback. Translator(s): Summerfield, Giovanna. Num Pages: 36 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 4. Weight in Grams: 68.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 36
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761822639
- ISBN
- 9780761822639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This work deals with the fundamentals of novel writing and the execution of such. Though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333716861
- ISBN
- 9780333716861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Hardcover. Matthew Fraleigh examines the life and works of Narushima Ryuhoku (1837-1884): Confucian scholar, world traveler, pioneering journalist, and irrepressible satirist. This is the first book-length study of Ryuhoku in a Western language and one of the first Western-language monographs to examine Sinitic poetry and prose composition in modern Japan. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 190 x 263 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1070.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674425224
- ISBN
- 9780674425224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.59€ 60.05
€ 64.59
€ 60.05
hardcover. This book explores the emergence of the English novel during the early 1700s as a preeminent form of popular education at a time when educators were defining a new kind of "modern" English citizenship for both men and women. Num Pages: 424 pages, 24 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 29. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804729789
- ISBN
- 9780804729789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.08
€ 117.08
Hardback. Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2AGR; DSB; DSGS; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231177825
- ISBN
- 9780231177825
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.68
€ 36.99
€ 27.68
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691648217
- ISBN
- 9780691648217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.43
€ 170.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 3 diagrams. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSK; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271020440
- ISBN
- 9780271020440
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 34.56
€ 43.99
€ 34.56
Paperback. This work is designed for students who are undertaking the serious study of Plato for the first time. It aims to provide a method for engaging with the dialogues as actively as the actual participants are engaged, and discusses the significance of the dramatic and literary form of the dialogues. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSK; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268038762
- ISBN
- 9780268038762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90