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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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
Condition: New

€ 59.49

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
Condition: New

€ 59.77

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
Condition: New

€ 59.06

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

€ 70.95

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

€ 115.77

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

€ 29.14

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

€ 31.99
€ 29.10

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

€ 94.93
€ 72.84

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

€ 52.12

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
€ 14.84

Hardback. Possible Worlds of Fiction and History is the crowning work of one of literary theory's most engaged thinkers. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894633
ISBN
9780801894633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 74.24

Paperback. Groundbreaking collection of specially commissioned essays in which the ethnic literatures of North America are added to the developing postcolonial canon. Editor(s): Madsen, Deborah L. Series: Post-colonial Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780745315102
ISBN
9780745315102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.46

Hardback. Investigates the shifts in ideas of homeness in post-war diasporic Anglophone Lebanese novels. This title deals with the brutal civil strife in Lebanon (1975-1990) and beyond to the war's crucial and long-standing by-product: expatriation. Series Editor(s): El-Enany, Rasheed. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBL; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 558.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748643424
ISBN
9780748643424
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.80
€ 102.99

Hardcover. In this study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterized by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 487.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333740354
ISBN
9780333740354
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.52
€ 81.13

Hardcover. Reconstructs through testimonial literature the repression of women during the Franco years and recovers the writings of some of the forgotten post-war women novelists. Series: Coleccion Tamesis: Serie A, Monografias. Num Pages: 235 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662742
ISBN
9781855662742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555973049
ISBN
9781555973049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.80

Hardback. Postcolonial Borges is the first systematic account of geo-political and postcolonial themes in the writings of Borges, from the poetry and essays of the 1920s to his later works and collections. This book shows how Borges's political and artistic temperament mark him out as a postcolonial intellectual and creative writer who is sui generis. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSK. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198794714
ISBN
9780198794714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.79

Hardback. Postcolonial Environments examines the relationship between contemporary environmental crises and culture by offering a series of provocative readings of key Indian novels in English, making an original and important contribution to the emerging theories of 'green postcolonialism'. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219373
ISBN
9780230219373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.30

Paperback. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 285 x 17. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931722
ISBN
9780813931722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.59

Hardback. This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian, Caribbean, African American, South African, Maltese, Algerian, Indian, Australian and British writers, directors and artists. Editor(s): Ward, Abigail. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137526427
ISBN
9781137526427
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.45

Hardcover. Editor(s): Iqbal Viswamohan, Aysha. Series: Anthem South Asian Studies. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Publisher
Anthem Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857285645
ISBN
9780857285645
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.69

Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319410050
ISBN
9783319410050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.31

Paperback. This is the first book to collect the most important contributions to the theory of the postmodern novel over the last forty years and to guide readers through the complex questions and wide-ranging debates. The selections in this book will enable readers to place the theory of postmodern fiction in a broader intellectual and cultural context. Editor(s): Nicol, Bran. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 176 x 246 x 30. Weight in Grams: 846.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748614790
ISBN
9780748614790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415045131
ISBN
9780415045131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.03

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