Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
hardcover. This study sets out to help restore Persiles to pride of place within Cervantes's corpus by reading it as the author's summa, as a boldly new kind of prose epic that casts an original light on the major political, religious, social, and literary debates of its era. Series: University of Toronto Romance Series. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 31. Weight in Grams: 820.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780802090850
- ISBN
- 9780802090850
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.90
€ 82.90
hardcover. Beyond Spectacle will cement Haywood's deservedly prominent place in the canon of eighteenth-century fiction and position her as a writer whose work speaks not only to female agency, but to eighteenth-century writers, gender relations, and power politics as well. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802035400
- ISBN
- 9780802035400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Paperback. Robert Brasillach was executed in 1945 for what he wrote during the Nazi occupation of France. The author raises the question of whether he was condemned for his writing, or singled out as a homosexual; and why he was shot, when those responsible for the murder of thousands were set free. Num Pages: 318 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226424156
- ISBN
- 9780226424156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.02
€ 31.99
€ 25.02
"Features the voices .. of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward .. drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by folklorist William Ferris over the past forty years"--Dust jacket flap. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: AGB; AJ; AVH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1024.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press United States
- Edition
- 1 New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469607542
- ISBN
- 9781469607542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 39.08
€ 42.99
€ 39.08
Paperback. "This volume includes interdisciplinary essays on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on lesser known examples of the genre"--Provided by publisher. Editor(s): Aljoe, Nicole N.; Finseth, Ian Frederick. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936383
- ISBN
- 9780813936383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.47
€ 41.47
Hardcover. "This volume includes interdisciplinary essays on slave narratives from the Atlantic world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on lesser known examples of the genre"--Provided by publisher. Editor(s): Aljoe, Nicole N.; Finseth, Ian Frederick. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936376
- ISBN
- 9780813936376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.96
€ 78.96
Hardcover. Editor(s): Fumagalli, Maria Cristina; Ledent, Benedicte; Del Valle Alcala, Roberto. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSK; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935225
- ISBN
- 9780813935225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.14
€ 91.14
Paperback. Editor(s): Smith, Faith. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 433.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813931135
- ISBN
- 9780813931135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.00
€ 53.00
Hardcover. Editor(s): Smith, Faith. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813931128
- ISBN
- 9780813931128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.42
€ 99.42
hardcover. Editor(s): Miles, Harold. Num Pages: 375 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 733.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Humana United States
- Edition
- 1993rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896032675
- ISBN
- 9780896032675
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.45
€ 50.45
hardcover. Series: Contemporary Literature. Num Pages: 382 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 907.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Humana United States
- Edition
- 1985th Edition
- Number of pages
- 382
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896030657
- ISBN
- 9780896030657
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.52
€ 67.52
Hardcover. When it comes to James Joyce's landmark work, Ulysses, the influence of three literary giants, Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante, cannot be overlooked. Examining Joyce in terms of Homeric narrative, Dantesque structure, and Shakespearean plot, Weir rediscovers Joyce's novel through the lens of his renowned predecessors. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488404
- ISBN
- 9781137488404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 145.95
€ 145.95
Hardcover. This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses-theorized as contamination and containment-explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137288646
- ISBN
- 9781137288646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.15
€ 65.15
Hardcover. This book contributes to the growing literature on the biopic genre by outlining and exploring the conventions of the postfeminist biopic. It does so by analyzing recent films about the lives of famous women including Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APB; APFA; APFN; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273475
- ISBN
- 9781137273475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.71
€ 64.71
Paperback. An account of the writing life of Henry James which aims to provide a critical overview of all his important writings, set in two contexts: that of James's practical career as a novelist in America, England and Europe; and that of the literary and intellectual climate of his time. Series: Macmillan Literary Lives. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333433553
- ISBN
- 9780333433553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.98
€ 62.98
Paperback. Most of the fairy tales that we grew up with we know thanks to the Brothers Grimm. This book guides us through the world of fairy tales and their criticism and looks at the romantic's mythology of the wandering brothers. Num Pages: 351 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSBD; DSK; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293802
- ISBN
- 9780312293802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.49
€ 70.49
hardcover. A study of popular print and visual materials produced between 1865 and 1910 representing homoerotic and homosocial behavior among men of all ethnicities in the American West. Num Pages: 153 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- St Martin's Press United States
- Edition
- 2005th Edition
- Number of pages
- 153
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293406
- ISBN
- 9780312293406
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.97
€ 63.97
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
€ 132.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Checkmark Books
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816078608
- ISBN
- 9780816078608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564781307
- ISBN
- 9781564781307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.98
€ 11.99
€ 11.98