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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
hardcover. The thesis of this book is that repetition is central to Tolstoy's art. The author argues that Tolstoy uses this device--or rather, complex of devices--to represent and examine the processes by which people structure and give meaning to their experience. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732154
- ISBN
- 9780804732154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 169 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 684.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763540612
- ISBN
- 9788763540612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.12€ 40.81
€ 51.12
€ 40.81
Paperback. Since the mid-19th century crime fiction has been one of the most popular sub-genres of the novel. In this Very Short Introduction, Richard Bradford explores its origins and the features that define its varied style. He considers its role in popular culture around the world and considers why its classification as 'literature' is still ambiguous. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 152 pages, 4 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199658787
- ISBN
- 9780199658787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Hardback. Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BTC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 501.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333745472
- ISBN
- 9780333745472
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.77
€ 149.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816641352
- ISBN
- 9780816641352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. What kinds of stories win cases, and why? Drawing on trial transcripts and appellate court opinions in civil adultery cases, and on literary examples from Mark Twain, E.D.E.N Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others, Laura Korobkin sheds new light on the intersections of gender, genre, law and story. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Casebook ed
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231105095
- ISBN
- 9780231105095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.11
€ 47.11
Hardcover. This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femmes fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356468
- ISBN
- 9781137356468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.88
€ 66.88
paperback. A fascinating look at the contemporary Amerian crime novel in all its variety and complexity. Editor(s): Messent, Peter B. Num Pages: 264 pages, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFC; JH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780745310169
- ISBN
- 9780745310169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 24.09
€ 29.99
€ 24.09
Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 458. The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels. 232 pages, ill. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 1ST
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157827
- ISBN
- 9780231157827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.64€ 80.25
€ 104.64
€ 80.25
Hardback. These essays on J.M. Coetzee adopt a variety of approaches to his work, taking care to place that work within its wider cultural context. Contributions include essays of more general import, ranging across Coetzee's "oeuvre", as well as essays that analyze in more detail individual novels. Editor(s): Huggan, Graham; Watson, Stephen. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333569122
- ISBN
- 9780333569122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.95
€ 127.95
Hardback. Featuring the interplay of fictions and "the real world," these 12 essays explore and expand ideas of what fictions and reality might be. They for the most part concern themselves with aspects, examples, and problems of the novel as the principal form of fiction. Editor(s): Polhemus, Robert M.; Henkle, Roger B. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations, maps,facsims. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804722438
- ISBN
- 9780804722438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.46
€ 105.46
Paperback. Features a satire on the moral failure of the "Jazz Age". This book explores the intricate patterns of the novel, its chronology, locations, imagery and use of colour, and how these contribute to a seamless interplay of social comedy and symbolic landscape. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- Stg
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140771978
- ISBN
- 9780140771978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Hardcover. A collection of ten original essays forging new interdisciplinary connections between crime fiction and film, encompassing British, Swedish, American and Canadian contexts. The authors explore representations of race, gender, sexuality and memory, and challenge traditional categorisations of academic and professional crime writing. Editor(s): Miller, Vivien; Oakley, Helen. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230353985
- ISBN
- 9780230353985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Hardback. An exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities. It investigates the underworld of literary production and from it finds a new set of co-ordinates for questions regarding such areas as publishing and reading practices in America and Britain and ideas of genre. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSK; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333623015
- ISBN
- 9780333623015
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.03
€ 128.03
Hardcover. Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008473
- ISBN
- 9781137008473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.46
€ 66.46
Paperback. Focuses on the status of novels as commodities, their mediation of national cultures, and their role in transnational exchange. This book examines the forms and histories of the novel in England, Nigeria, Japan, France, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. Editor(s): Lynch, Deidre; Warner, William Beatty. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318439
- ISBN
- 9780822318439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; APF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480047
- ISBN
- 9781611480047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.51
€ 145.51
Hardback. This book traces the rise of cyberfiction in the work of key authors in the field, including J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and William Gibson, among others. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621510
- ISBN
- 9780230621510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Cyborgs in Latin America explores the ways cultural expression in Latin America has grappled with the changing relationships between technology and human identity. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSK; JFC; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103900
- ISBN
- 9780230103900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.00
€ 33.99
€ 29.00
Paperback. Precociously brilliant in his youth, Cyril Connolly was haunted for the rest of his life by a sense of failure and a romatic yearning to recover a lost Eden. His two great books, "The Unquiet Grave" and "Enemies of Promise", are classics of English prose, combining wit, romanticism and merciless self-knowledge. Num Pages: 672 pages, 16pp b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 36. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712666350
- ISBN
- 9780712666350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.64
€ 24.99
€ 18.64
Paperback. In these impressions of the Italian countryside: "Twilight in Italy", "Sea and Sardina", and "Etruscan Places", the author transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty. Editor(s): Squires, Michael. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441559
- ISBN
- 9780141441559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Hardcover. A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441645
- ISBN
- 9781137441645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardback. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403968456
- ISBN
- 9781403968456
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 146 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403900692
- ISBN
- 9781403900692
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66