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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Paperback. This volume provides an annotated critical edition of Galdos' Tristana (1892). Set in fin de siecle Madrid, this unique text reflects upon the ruling elites' political appropriation and exploitation of feminism and the human rights movement, and a variety of literary and philosophical issues associated with late-romantic thought. Editor(s): Valdivia, Pablo. Series Editor(s): Davies, Catherine. Series: Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 232 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719099212
- ISBN
- 9780719099212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.34
€ 30.34
Hardback. A new definitive edition of Stevenson's famous exploration of evil and greed. Editor(s): Katz, Wendy Roberta. Series: The Collected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations, notes, chronology. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748608379
- ISBN
- 9780748608379
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.02€ 103.50
€ 107.02
€ 103.50
Paperback. Caustic and compulsively readable, Smollett's Travels is a classic of early travel literature. Editor(s): Felsenstein, Frank. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations map. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554810314
- ISBN
- 9781554810314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.17
€ 41.99
€ 37.17
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691630717
- ISBN
- 9780691630717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.74
€ 145.74
Paperback. In an exposition of writer S.Y. Abramovitsh, this work shows the symbolic importance of his central character, Mendele the Bookseller, and explores the history of Yiddish fiction in Russia during the 19th century. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 373 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2ACY; DSBF; DSK; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 373
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815603306
- ISBN
- 9780815603306
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.76
€ 24.76
Hardcover. From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230251083
- ISBN
- 9780230251083
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
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
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403942869
- ISBN
- 9781403942869
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Paperback. An increasingly popular genre, addressing issues of space, language, colonialism, globalization and politics, travel writing offers the reader a movement between the familiar and the unknown. This book offers a useful introduction for those new to the subject, as well as a crucial overview of the terminology, history and debates within the field. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; WTL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 132 x 195 x 19. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415444651
- ISBN
- 9780415444651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.48
€ 38.99
€ 35.48
Hardback. The literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together for the first time. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 237 x 16. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618576
- ISBN
- 9780748618576
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.75
€ 150.75
hardcover. This book considers the widespread treatment of traumatic memory in Irish fiction of the past thirty-five years. It focuses on both trauma fiction and the historical novel, and the way certain novelists looked to early events in twentieth century Irish history to engage the recent political violence in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 344. From the library of Ivor Browne and June Levine. Inscribed affectionately by author to both. Very good clean copy showing minor age and wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025604
- ISBN
- 9780230250307
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Paperback. Editor(s): Jeppesen, Anne Marie Ejdesgaard. Num Pages: 133 pages, b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 150 x 9. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 133
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763505505
- ISBN
- 9788763505505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.42
€ 30.99
€ 22.42
Hardcover. Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types-horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space-as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as destabilizing as it was progressive. Editor(s): Gavin, Adrienne E.; Humphries, Andrew F. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; WG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137499035
- ISBN
- 9781137499035
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.97
€ 127.97
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441157706
- ISBN
- 9781441157706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.05
€ 37.99
€ 32.05
Hardcover. This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137001009
- ISBN
- 9781137001009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Hardback. This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American Modernism. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Number of pages
- 303
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312295196
- ISBN
- 9780312295196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Hardback. Traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of the authors Ueda Akinari, Natsume S'seki, Mori 'gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, 'oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. Focusing on interconnected themes, this book illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231138925
- ISBN
- 9780231138925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.72€ 57.47
€ 73.72
€ 57.47
Hardcover. TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, deconstruction, and post-Euclidean physics. Editor(s): Price, Brian L.; Salgado, Cesar A.; Schwartz, Professor John Pedro. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407450
- ISBN
- 9781137407450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines. Editor(s): Macdonald, Kate; Singer, Christoph. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486769
- ISBN
- 9781137486769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Often dismissed as sensationalist, transgressive fiction is a sophisticated movement with roots in Menippean satire and the Rabelaisian carnal folk sensibility praised by Bakhtin. This study, the first of its kind, provides a thorough literary background and analysis of key transgressive authors such as Acker, Amis, Carter, Ellis, and Palahniuk. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230294028
- ISBN
- 9780230294028
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55