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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. Returning ethics to its root sense, this work proposes that the ethical critic will be interested in any effect on the ethos, the total character or quality of tellers and listeners. Num Pages: 580 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 40. Weight in Grams: 862.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520062108
ISBN
9780520062108
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.31

Hardback. Editor(s): Walker, Pierre A.; Zacharias, Greg W. Series: The Complete Letters of Henry James. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; BJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4039 x 28. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803269859
ISBN
9780803269859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; DSRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231146746
ISBN
9780231146746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.44
€ 80.25

Hardcover. Horace Walpole was letter writer so energetic and fertile that his collected correspondence occupies forty volumes. His letters provide one of the most vivid pictures we have of the late eighteenth-century Britain. This collection contains 434 letters, arranged under sixteen headings for ease of reference. Num Pages: 478 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 28. Weight in Grams: 574.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152326
ISBN
9781857152326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Translator(s): Garnett, C. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSK; FC; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332. 302 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSK; FC; FYB. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 16. Weight: 322. Translator(s): Garnett, C.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226300689
ISBN
9780226300689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.23

Hardcover. Drawing on Kepler's correspondence and manuscripts, this book reveals that the style of Kepler's magnum opus, "Astronomia nova" (1609), has been traditionally misinterpreted. Kepler laid forth the first two of his three laws of planetary motion in this work. Num Pages: 328 pages, 1 halftone, 15 line illus. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK; PGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 648.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691007380
ISBN
9780691007380
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.61
€ 95.13

Paperback. Challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. This title considers how novels about the Holocaust relate to fictions written before and after it. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226527222
ISBN
9780226527222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.78

Paperback. Fourteen conjure tales by one of America's most influential African American fiction writers. Editor(s): Greeson, Jennifer Rae; Stepto, Robert Burns. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393927801
ISBN
9780393927801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.68

Paperback. Editor(s): Connell, Jolyon. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 110 x 177 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Connell Guides
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907776175
ISBN
9781907776175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. .
Publisher
Connell Guides
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907776571
ISBN
9781907776571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KL; DSK. Category: (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Publisher
Connell Guides United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907776922
ISBN
9781907776922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 50 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KHT; 4KL; DSK; YQE. Category: (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 175 x 110. .
Publisher
Connell Guides
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911187066
ISBN
9781911187066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.30

Paperback. Translator(s): Becker, S. Num Pages: 212 pages, xiv, 198 p. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Chicago University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226502908
ISBN
9780226502908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.96

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691622804
ISBN
9780691622804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691649535
ISBN
9780691649535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.54

Paperback. Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. This work is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between him and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Translator(s): Watts, Victor. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, glossary. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSK; HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447804
ISBN
9780140447804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Hardcover. This text examines the concept of the "mental landscape" in American romantic literature. It contends that this landscape creates a space in the imagination that helps to form a writer's perspective. The book also explores the function of literary allusion in 19th-century American romance. Num Pages: 236 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804717939
ISBN
9780804717939
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

Paperback. Argues that contemporary copyright law, rooted as it is in a nineteenth-century Romantic understanding of the author as a solitary creative genius, may be inapposite to the realities of cultural production. This volume explores the social and cultural construction of authorship as a step toward redefining notions of authorship and copyright. Editor(s): Woodmansee, Martha; Jaszi, Peter. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 240 x 32. Weight in Grams: 818.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822314127
ISBN
9780822314127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.22

Paperback. Written by some of the world's finest contemporary literature specialists, the newly commissioned essays in this volume examine the work of more than twenty major British novelists. Editor(s): Acheson, James; Ross, Sarah C. E. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748618958
ISBN
9780748618958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.28

Hardback. Based on papers presented at the joint meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies and the Canadian Association for Irish Studies held in the summer of 2014 at University College Dublin. Editor(s): Mannion, Elizabeth. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 179 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 219 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137539397
ISBN
9781137539397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.18

Paperback. This study offers critical readings of key contemporary Irish novels, employing a range of historical, psychoanalytic and theoretical approaches. Linden Peach examines texts by established writers such as William Trevor and John Banville alongside works by younger writers, including Roddy Doyle. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
356
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333948934
ISBN
9780333948934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 17.89

Hardcover. This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major 'world authors' at the two ends of the twentieth century who write, systematically, about the colonial and postcolonial cities they were born in: James Joyce and Dublin, and Salman Rushdie and Bombay. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137336248
ISBN
9781137336248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. In this new edition, what was already an expansive work has been updated and further enlarged to include information not only on American and British novelists but also on writers in English from around the world. Num Pages: 696 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 288 x 216 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2147.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
696
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810831032
ISBN
9780810831032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 331.15

Paperback. Hannah Webster Foster's two major Early American works with a wealth of primary materials are now available in a Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Harris, Jennifer; Waterman, Bryan. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
435
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393931679
ISBN
9780393931679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.68

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