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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. This title brings together texts by and about Thomas More - poet, scholar, statesman, educational reformer, philospher, historian and saint. The writings focus upon More's views of education, political theory, church-state relations, love and friendship, practical politics and conscience. Editor(s): Wegemer, Gerard B.; Smith, Stephen W. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD; DSK; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813213767
ISBN
9780813213767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 39.92

Paperback. Letters written between 1950 and 1975 by Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen discussing their reading of "Finnegan's Wake". Num Pages: 710 pages, 8 plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1174.
Publisher
University College Dublin Press Dublin
Number of pages
710
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
illustrated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900621557
ISBN
9781900621557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 38.37

Paperback. With detailed analysis of the text, discussions on themes, historical backgrounds and author biographies, York Notes offers students the best insight into the world of English Literature. Series: York Notes Advanced. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 4KLR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UA) A / AS level; (XR) Revision / study guides. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Pearson Education Canada
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405861793
ISBN
9781405861793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.94

Hardback. This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual. Series Editor(s): Lea, Daniel. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719066528
ISBN
9780719066528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.50
€ 91.03

Paperback. Why have theorists approached narrative primarily as a form of retrospect? Mark Currie argues that anticipation and other forms of projection into the future are vital for an understanding of narrative and its effects in the world. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 10. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748642465
ISBN
9780748642465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.08

Hardcover. Num Pages: 234 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 585. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Ohio University Press ohio
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821412398
ISBN
9780821412398
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.60

Hardback. College-mystery novels, a subgenre known for settings within universities and college towns, draw a reading audience comprised of both academics and the general mystery fan. Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction promises to be an invaluable resource suited for scholarly inquiry and the lay mystery reader. Num Pages: 448 pages, index, references. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; DSR; FF; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810838413
ISBN
9780810838413
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.69

Hardback. Underwriting the Accident shows how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novels taught Americans to classify a wide range of modern injuries as blameless accidents, which in turn became a powerful rationale for new and more interdependent modes of social organization. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 519.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804775359
ISBN
9780804775359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.35

Hardcover. Presents a new perspective on the series of novels that created the stereotype of The Old West, published 1912-39, by looking at the romantic and erotic elements in Grey's portrayal of the landscape, the Code of the West, good guys and bad guys, and women. An appendix lists all 56 novels with short Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875651217
ISBN
9780875651217
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 28.20

Paperback. Traces Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' within an experimental continuum across the arts. This book asserts that Jack Kerouac's 'wild form' - self-organizing narratives free of literary, grammatical, and syntactical conventions - moves within an experimental continuum across the arts to generate a Dionysian sense of writing as raw process. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780809328673
ISBN
9780809328673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.69

Paperback. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
159
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780231063579
ISBN
9780231063579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.48

Paperback. In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized.

Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810133976
ISBN
9780810133976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.63

Hardcover. This study explores the relationships of black and white women in the context of contemporary southern fiction. It provides an overview of literary incarnations of friendship and examines how prevalent specific relationships have become in certain writer's work. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820322490
ISBN
9780820322490
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.36

Paperback. "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". Editor(s): Fischer, Victor; Salamo, Lin; Smith, Harriet E.; Blair, Walter. Series: Mark Twain Library. Num Pages: 616 pages, 30 b/w photographs, 192 line illustrations, 5 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 140 x 39. Weight in Grams: 698.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
616
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
125th Anniversary Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520266100
ISBN
9780520266100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.54

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 498 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 857.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691647418
ISBN
9780691647418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 255.08

Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810127814
ISBN
9780810127814
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.94

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803230026
ISBN
9780803230026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.44

Paperback. Explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226304755
ISBN
9780226304755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.93

Paperback. Series: Writing Wales in English. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS
Edition
New Updated Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780708326640
ISBN
9780708326640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.36

Hardcover. Asserts literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. This book examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Of Iowa Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781587298158
ISBN
9781587298158
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.29

Paperback. By developing the concept of critical space, this title presents a fresh genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. It argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst re-imagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220768
ISBN
9780803220768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.49

hardcover. Num Pages: 337 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1002.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Sheridan House United States
Edition
Limited signed ed
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955024382
ISBN
9780955024382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.15

Paperback. Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom. Num Pages: 216 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 306. Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. 216 pages, 1 illustration. Shows how literary representations of transgressive sexuality expressed the longings of African Americans for individual and collective freedom. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Dimension: 234 x 148 x 13. Weight: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822352419
ISBN
9780822352419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.89

Paperback. When Agatha Christie, the so-called 'Queen of Crime', disappeared from her home in Sunningdale in Berkshire for eleven days on 3 December 1927, the whole nation held its breath. This work explains, in the light of scientific knowledge, her behaviour during that troubled time. Num Pages: 192 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752442884
ISBN
9780752442884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.63

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