Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Paperback. This work comprises interviews with the writer Louis Calaferte. In it, he reveals the creative process and philosophies of a celebrated writer, one whose work often challenged others because of his brutal honesty and his claim that only experience can be the basis of creativity. Translator(s): Wood, Willard. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 154.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Marlboro Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810160675
- ISBN
- 9780810160675
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.46
€ 25.99
€ 22.46
Hardcover. The defining quality of Russian literature, for most critics, is its ethical seriousness expressed through formal originality. This title addresses this characteristic through the thought of the Lithuanianborn Franco-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSK; HPQ; JFSR1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810152083
- ISBN
- 9780810152083
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Condition: New
€ 82.87
€ 82.87
Paperback. Most discussions of sexuality in the work of Dostoevsky have been framed in Freudian terms. But Dostoevsky himself wrote from a decidedly pre-Freudian perspective. This book looks at the views of human sexual development that were available in Dostoevsky's time. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810151901
- ISBN
- 9780810151901
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Condition: New
€ 33.63
€ 33.63
Paperback. "This edited collection saw its beginnings in an international conference titled "The Second World War: Popular Culture and Cultural Memory," organized in 2011 by Lucy Noakes, Juliette Pattinson, and myself at the University of Brighton"--Acknowledgements. Editor(s): Rau, Petra. Series Editor(s): Lassner, Phyllis. Series: Cultural Expressions of World War II. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810133280
- ISBN
- 9780810133280
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Condition: New
€ 44.17
€ 44.17
Paperback. Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2011. Editor(s): Morson, Gary Saul. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AB; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 239 x 2. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810133143
- ISBN
- 9780810133143
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Condition: New
€ 49.34
€ 49.34
Paperback. Kafka's Bluesproves the startling thesis that many of Kafka's major works engage in a coherent, sustained meditation on racial transformation from white European into what Kafka refers to as the "Negro" (a term he used in English)." Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810132856
- ISBN
- 9780810132856
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Condition: New
€ 47.63
€ 47.63
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 825.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810132283
- ISBN
- 9780810132283
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Condition: New
€ 115.72
€ 115.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 525.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810132276
- ISBN
- 9780810132276
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Condition: New
€ 43.27
€ 43.27
Paperback. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSK; JFMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810131866
- ISBN
- 9780810131866
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Condition: New
€ 53.99
€ 53.99
Paperback. Herman Melville's oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores religious difference that arises from these many voices, both within American culture and around the world. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; DSK; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810131798
- ISBN
- 9780810131798
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Condition: New
€ 43.75
€ 43.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGP; DSBH; DSC; DSK; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 739.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810131774
- ISBN
- 9780810131774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99
€ 43.99
Paperback. While Dostoevsky s relation to religion is well-trod ground, there exists no comprehensive study of Dostoevsky and Catholicism. Elizabeth Blake s ambitious and learned "Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground "fills this glaring omission in the scholarship." Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSK; HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810129573
- ISBN
- 9780810129573
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Condition: New
€ 115.65
€ 115.65
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- 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
€ 82.94
Paperback. Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction - J M Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W G Sebald - have acknowledged their debt to the work of Kafka. This work shows that the use of Kafka by Coetzee, Roth, and Sebald is similarly self-reflexive and autobiographical. Series Editor(s): Perloff, Marjorie; Rumold, Rainer. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810125681
- ISBN
- 9780810125681
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Condition: New
€ 41.27
€ 41.27
Paperback. Considers the interactions of post-Revolutionary Russian and emigre culture with the genre of biography. This title argues that in the years after the Revolution, Russian writers looked to the great literary figures of the past to help them construct a post-Revolutionary present. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810125230
- ISBN
- 9780810125230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.82
€ 37.82
Hardcover. This text examines Tolstoy's techniques and analyzes the structure of "War and Peace". Beginning with Tolstoy's strategies, devices and structural elements, it reveals the novel's larger thematic concerns, showing how the pieces fit into an overall pattern which the author calls the phoenix design. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810116214
- ISBN
- 9780810116214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.70
€ 90.70
Hardcover. A poet, critic and theoretician at the turn of the 20th century, Viacheslav Ivanov was dubbed "Viacheslav the Magnificent" by his contemporaries. This volume of essays covers a broad range of Ivanov's interests including the aesthetics of Symbolism, theatre and culturological concerns. Translator(s): Bird, Robert. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 464 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DNF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810115224
- ISBN
- 9780810115224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.12
€ 117.12
Paperback. Series: NWP/AATSEEL Critical Companions to Russian Literature. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 245.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810113114
- ISBN
- 9780810113114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.80
€ 27.80
Hardcover. Num Pages: 311 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810111752
- ISBN
- 9780810111752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.59
€ 77.59
Paperback. "Naked Lunch" was banned, ridiculed, and castigated on publication in 1959. Tracing its origins from Texas to Tangier, from Mexico City to New York and Paris, crossing time zones and cultures, this book helps understands this most influential but elusive of texts. Editor(s): Harris, Oliver; MacFadyen, Ian. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809329168
- ISBN
- 9780809329168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.31
€ 28.31
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
€ 54.69
Paperback. Through careful analysis of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road", Omar Swartz argues that Kerouac's influence on American society is largely rhetorical. Kerouac's significance as a cultural icon can best be understood, Swartz asserts, in terms of traditional rhetorical practices and principles. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; CFG; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 245.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809323845
- ISBN
- 9780809323845
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.30
€ 44.30
Hardcover. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; HR; JH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809317226
- ISBN
- 9780809317226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.09
€ 52.09
Paperback. Explores the act of creation - in literature, film, art, and dance - to arrive at a new synthesis for the young artist struggling against the sterility, formlessness, and spiritual bankruptcy afflicting much of modern fiction. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Swallow Press
- Edition
- New Updated Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804011501
- ISBN
- 9780804011501
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.79
€ 17.99
€ 16.79