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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Hardcover. This book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137549570
ISBN
9781137549570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.28

Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164405
ISBN
9780231164405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.39
€ 83.75

Paperback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 384.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164412
ISBN
9780231164412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.68

Hardcover. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557530561
ISBN
9781557530561
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.88

Hardcover. The central concern of the book is the impact of global terror networks and state counterterrorism on twentieth-century fiction. A unique contribution of this book is the comparative approach, as opposed to the single author focus of most of the edited collections on terrorism in literature. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137478900
ISBN
9781137478900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Paperback. Lippit offers the first book-length study in English of Japanese modernist fiction from the 1920s to the 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement-Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi-Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125314
ISBN
9780231125314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardcover. A collection of original documentary photographs of the landscape that was integral to Tony Hillerman's writing. It also contains brief synopses of Hillerman's novels, descriptive passages from each work, the author's own comments about the sites, and narrative information on the locations pictured. Num Pages: 192 pages, 153 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AJC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 187 x 18. Weight in Grams: 725.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harper
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061374296
ISBN
9780061374296
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 28.43

Paperback. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0236896
ISBN
9780826453198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0236319
ISBN
9780826453198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Very cood clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0225981
ISBN
9780826453198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Very cood clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
96
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0225907
ISBN
9780826453198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KST0019959
ISBN
9780826453198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Very cood clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
KEX0225906
ISBN
9780826453198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The topics of the individual essays vary, but read together, they offer valuable insights into why Morrison has become a much celebrated, widely taught author."-from the Introduction Editor(s): Peterson, Nancy J. Series: A Modern Fiction Studies Book. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
Fifth or Later Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801857027
ISBN
9780801857027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.56

Hardback. In this critical work, the author spotlights some of the autobiographical kernels in Morrison's novels and a study of the novels, demonstrating that each is a thematic and structural offshoot of the preceding one, evidencing a pattern of growth in Morrison's consciousness of the exploitation and oppression of people of African descent. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575910680
ISBN
9781575910680
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.55

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Shearer, Dirk. Series: For Beginners. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 262 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
For Beginners
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939994547
ISBN
9781939994547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.38

Paperback. Provides an overview of criticism about the work of Toni Morrison, the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. The book also offers an introduction to the key works and issues in African-American literary scholarship. Editor(s): Peach, Linden. Series: New Casebooks. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 4KL; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
Edition
1998th Edition
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333659151
ISBN
9780333659151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.46

Paperback. The Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition of Fielding's great novel reprints the definitive fourth edition text (1749, dated 1750), "Carefully revis'd and corrected/By Henry Fielding, Esq;", the last in his lifetime. Editor(s): Baker, Sheridan. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 816 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 231 x 27. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
810
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393965940
ISBN
9780393965940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, viii, 256 p. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226873985
ISBN
9780226873985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 30.01

Paperback. Editor(s): McPeak, Rick; Orwin, Donna Tussing. Num Pages: 256 pages, 17, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801478178
ISBN
9780801478178
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.22

Hardcover. In 1889, having fathered at least 15 children by various women, Tolstoy suggested in "The Kreutzer Sonata", that people should stop having children. Through psychoanalysis, this text shows that his position was grounded in a sadistic attitude towards women and a punishing one towards himself. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333730416
ISBN
9780333730416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.07

Paperback. This collection examines how J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to fashion a critique of the modern world that is postmodern in implication, subversive in nature, and oddly still traditionalist in motivation, in a way that is relevant to current debate over forging workable cross-cultural coalitions on pressing global problems. Editor(s): Chance, Jane; Siewers, Alfred K. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616790
ISBN
9780230616790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 93.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Revised and Updated
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403912633
ISBN
9781403912633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Hardcover. Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of Tolkien's imaginative vision and contextualises his fiction. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219519
ISBN
9780230219519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.52

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