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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Hardback. An examination of the changing relationship between the writer and his protagonists, exploring how Isherwood's fiction achieves artistic integration and literary significance only when it reflects his personal concerns through theme and technique as he experiments with new narrative strategies. Series: Studies in 20th Century Literature. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333452882
ISBN
9780333452882
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.36

Hardback. An attempt to illuminate Virginia Woolf's aesthetic by providing an original thoery regarding her use of the random frames provided by life. Her novels are shown to use windows, thresholds, mirrors and, less directly, rooms to frame scenes which chart the border between life and art. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 339.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
135
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333448809
ISBN
9780333448809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 121.40

Paperback. The book includes general and theoretical chapters and also case-studies of particular texts, as well as a whole chapter devoted to Dickens. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333408728
ISBN
9780333408728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.72

Hardback. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333373392
ISBN
9780333373392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.07

Hardback. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333354742
ISBN
9780333354742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.74

Hardback. This study examines the practice and functions of literary translation in Anglo-American Modernism. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312295196
ISBN
9780312295196
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.58

Hardback. This work considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. It looks to the tough guy in the works of hardboiled novelists Raymond Chandler ("The Big Sleep") and James M. Cain ("Double Indemnity") and their popular film noir adaptations. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; APF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312294816
ISBN
9780312294816
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.18

Hardback. This is an analytical study of "The Phantom of the Opera" in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the 21st century. It reveals the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each major adaptation. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; AN; APF; DSBF; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293468
ISBN
9780312293468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.86

Hardback. This work argues that adaptation (hon'an) was a valid form of contemporary Japanese translation that fostered creative appropriation across many genres and among a diverse group of writers and artists. In addition, it invites readers to reconsider adaptation in the context of translation theory. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; CFP; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239954
ISBN
9780312239954
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.61

Hardback. In this study of solitude in high modernist writing, Edward Engelberg explores the ways in which solitude functions thematically to shape meaning in literary works, as well as what solitude as a condition has contributed to the making of a trope. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239473
ISBN
9780312239473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

Hardback. This text charts the changes in Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking at a range of fictions by women from various ethnocultural backgrounds, it examines the complexities embedded within Canadian identity. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239008
ISBN
9780312239008
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.10

Hardback. Biographies quote Toni Morrison's birth name as Chloe Anthony Wofford. The author uses the theme of names and naming in her fiction to explore Morrison's own struggle to construct a useable identity as an African American woman novelist. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312234027
ISBN
9780312234027
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Hardback. This edition offers original material with scholarly annotation, joining Swift's most important writings on Ireland in both prose and poetry with the full context and significance of each work. Editor(s): Fabricant, Carole; Mahony, Robert. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312228880
ISBN
9780312228880
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.78

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312172770
ISBN
9780312172770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.03

Paperback. A collection of sixteen retrospectives which include interviews with some of America's greatest writers as well short literary works and an assortment of their personal photographs spanning several decades of their lives. Editor(s): McElroy, Colleen J. Num Pages: 448 pages, 64 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295985183
ISBN
9780295985183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.03

Paperback. Offering an account of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Robert Browning, and Joseph Conrad, this title explains why many Victorians nursed a hostile vision of man and society and how misanthropy - once a means of conveying integrity and justified disdain of society's excesses - turned immoral and quasi-criminal. Num Pages: 224 pages, 23 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231130653
ISBN
9780231130653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.38

Paperback. This book, winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks award, examines all of Jarrell's work, incorporating new research such as previously undiscovered essays and poems. Burt situates the poet- critic among his peers, including Bishop and Arendt, in literature and cultural criticism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125956
ISBN
9780231125956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.34

Paperback. This book explores Kerouac's fiction, poetry, religious writing, journals, and correspondence to reveal an aesthetic vision for American belle-lettres. Features chapters on Some of the Dharma, On the Road, Desolation Angels, and Mexico City Blues with a discussion of his influence on later writers, including Hunter Thompson and Bob Dylan. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230623620
ISBN
9780230623620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.51

Hardcover. Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230338746
ISBN
9780230338746
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.09

Paperback. Examines the representation and staging of chance in literature through the work of the French writer Georges Perec. This book explores the ways in which Perec's texts exploit the possibilities of chance, by both tapping into its creative potential and controlling its operation. Series Editor(s): Perloff, Marjorie; Rumold, Rainer. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810125315
ISBN
9780810125315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.88

hardcover. The classical prose essay (ku-wen) of the Tang and Sung dynasties is one of the major Chinese literary genres. This study of Ku-wen in English focuses on writers Han Y and Liu Tsung-yan of the Tang, and Ouyang Hsiu and Su Shih of the Sung. Num Pages: 252 pages, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 451.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804714099
ISBN
9780804714099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 pages black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254. 333pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
New
SKU
9780712697552
ISBN
9780712697552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.82

Hardback. This volume brings together some of the influential work to be published on the Epistles of Pliny the Younger. Covering historical, (auto)biographical, and literary aspects of the Epistles and their reception, the articles offer a wide and representative range of approaches to Pliny. Editor(s): Gibson, Roy; Whitton, Christopher. Series: Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199545940
ISBN
9780199545940
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.41

paperback. This study interprets Flannery O'Connor's fiction on its own terms. By stepping back from prevailing controversies, the author turns to the short stories and novels themselves and forms an impression of them while seeking the answers to such questions as they necessarily suggest themselves. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823219117
ISBN
9780823219117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

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