Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardcover. Conrad's relationship to Poland - the evolution of his attitude toward his homeland, the influence of Polish literature on his work, his reception by Polish audiences - and to Russian literature, particularly Dostoevsky and Turgenev, is discussed in fourteen papers written by scholars from the United States, Europe and beyond. Editor(s): Krajka, Wieslaw. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- East European Monographs United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780880335577
- ISBN
- 9780880335577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.04
€ 23.99
€ 18.04
Paperback. Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colourful figures in American literature. This re-assessment of his work aims to bring to the reader a new sense of London's richness and variety, especially his treatment of diverse cultures. Editor(s): Cassuto, Leonard; Reesman, Jeanne Campbell. Num Pages: 308 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735162
- ISBN
- 9780804735162
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.45
€ 37.99
€ 34.45
Hardback. These essays offer not only "representations of Swift" but also a representation of Swift scholarship at the close of the 20th century and a return to fundamental questions about the life, writing, and views of Swift. Num Pages: 310 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 627.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874137972
- ISBN
- 9780874137972
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.87
€ 142.87
Hardcover.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135353
- ISBN
- 9781571135353
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Condition: New
€ 98.73
€ 98.73
hardcover. Treating poverty not simply as a theme in literature but as a force that in fact shapes the texts themselves, Rimstead adopts the notion of a common culture to include ordinary voices in national culture, in this case the national culture of Canada. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSK; JFFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802044945
- ISBN
- 9780802044945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
Paperback. This book examines how one aspect of the social and technological situation of literature--namely, the postal system as a mode of transmission--determined how literature was produced and what was produced within literature. Translator(s): Repp, Kevin. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 340 pages, 13 half-tones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732383
- ISBN
- 9780804732383
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduces students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 209 x 146 x 10. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408217252
- ISBN
- 9781408217252
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Condition: New
€ 11.41
€ 11.41
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
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.19
€ 43.99
€ 31.19
Hardback. By including novels written from a range of political perspectives, Vanden Bossche discovers patterns in Victorian thinking that are easily recognized in today's assumptions about social hierarchy. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 232 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421412085
- ISBN
- 9781421412085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.13€ 50.42
€ 54.13
€ 50.42
Num Pages: 148 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813119229
- ISBN
- 9780813119229
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.43
€ 42.43
paperback. Overpopulation, overexploitation of natural resources, overconsumerism, the predictions of environmental experts do not bode well for us. Num Pages: 162 pages, index, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HPQ; JFC; RNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Austin & Winfield Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781880921852
- ISBN
- 9781880921852
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Condition: New
€ 80.92
€ 80.92
Paperback. Studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. This title shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more enabling knowledge of American Indian lives and possibilities. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSBH; DSK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822342410
- ISBN
- 9780822342410
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.79
€ 31.99
€ 28.79
Hardback. offering the first systematic examination of five modern Japanese fictional narratives, all of them available in English translations, Atsuko Sakaki explores Natsume Soseki's "Kokoro" and "The Three-Cornered World"; Ibuse Masuji's "Black Rain"; Mori Ogai's "Wild Geese"; and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's "Quicksand." Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674750944
- ISBN
- 9780674750944
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 39.34
€ 46.99
€ 39.34
Paperback. From Michel Houellebecq to Zadie Smith, from Javier Marias to Arnon Grunberg: this timely study takes its reader on a tour of European literature and the critical discussion around it. Despite recent declarations of postmodernism's demise, contemporary literature turns out to be entangled in a discussion with postmodernism. It is time to critically Editor(s): Vaessens, Thomas; Dijk, Yra van. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- V9789089643698
- ISBN
- 9789089643698
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Condition: New
€ 53.48€ 35.38
€ 53.48
€ 35.38
Paperback. Num Pages: 247 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Duke University Press U.S.A.
- Number of pages
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822312246
- ISBN
- 9780822312246
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.45
€ 27.99
€ 26.45
Paperback. A survey of the critical reception of George Eliot's fiction in Victorian periodicals. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781580463775
- ISBN
- 9781580463775
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 32.13
€ 37.99
€ 32.13
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781350028418
- ISBN
- 9781350028418
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 29.60
€ 49.99
€ 29.60
Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816619412
- ISBN
- 9780816619412
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. In this work, Sharon L. Jansen explores a recurring theme in writing by women: the dream of finding or creating a private and secluded retreat from the world of men. Insightful and accessible, this book places six centuries of texts in conversation with one another, pairing them in ways that reveal the realities of women's choice and agency. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 220 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386229
- ISBN
- 9781137386229
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Condition: New
€ 53.53€ 53.32
€ 53.53
€ 53.32
Paperback. Translator(s): Conley, Verena Andermatt. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADP; DSBF; DSK; HPCF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 227 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First edition
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816618293
- ISBN
- 9780816618293
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Condition: New
€ 30.62
€ 30.62
Paperback. Editor(s): Sciban, Shu-ning. Series: Cornell East Asia Series. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939161789
- ISBN
- 9781939161789
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.94
€ 33.99
€ 30.94
Hardback. Editor(s): Sciban, Shu-ning; Pidhainy, Ihor. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939161581
- ISBN
- 9781939161581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.77
€ 140.77
Hardback. Editor(s): Harper, Thomas L.; Shirane, Haruo. Num Pages: 632 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBD; DSK; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 632
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231166584
- ISBN
- 9780231166584
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.77€ 57.47
€ 73.77
€ 57.47
Paperback. A collection which makes available to specialists and nonspecialists important work on the Odyssey. The ten essays in this work address five major concerns: the poem's programmatic representation of social and religious institutions and values; its transformation of folktales and traditional stories into epic adventures; and others. Editor(s): Schein, Seth L. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691044392
- ISBN
- 9780691044392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.44€ 51.21
€ 65.44
€ 51.21