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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardback. What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjects. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730013
- ISBN
- 9780804730013
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Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
Hardback. Examining three works of vernacular fiction dating from 1750 to 1828, this book studies the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731317
- ISBN
- 9780804731317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.25
€ 87.25
paperback. Contemporary literary critics have praised novel theory for abandoning its formalist roots and defining the novel as a vehicle of social discourse. This text argues that it was the compatibility of Bakhtin with James that prompted Anglo-American theorists to embrace Bakhtin with such enthusiasm. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804733564
- ISBN
- 9780804733564
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. This book analyzes the complex relationship between the fantasmal experience and the material text, reading a wide range of works that treat explicitly what is implicit in reading. Also, drawing on artists' books, drawings by authors, and films such as Prospero's Books , the author illuminates the process of textual visualization. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 12. Weight in Grams: 270.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734721
- ISBN
- 9780804734721
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
paperback. Toward the end of James's career, Charles Scribner's Sons offered to publish his collected work under the overall title The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James. This book is the first comprehensive effort to apprehend the full complexity of James's self-performance there. Editor(s): McWhirter, David. Num Pages: 352 pages, 29 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 555.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804735186
- ISBN
- 9780804735186
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.84
€ 43.99
€ 38.84
Hardback. Examines representations of modernity in Yiddish literature between the Russian revolution of 1905 and the beginning of World War I. Within Jewish society, and particularly Eastern European Jewish society, modernity was often experienced as a series of threats to traditional Jewish life. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACY; 3JJC; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780804735469
- ISBN
- 9780804735469
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Paperback. One of the major cultural philosophers of our time addresses, in his powerful and allusive critical voice, Malraux's reflections on art and literature. The result tells us as much about Lyotard as it does about Malraux. Translator(s): Harvey, Robert. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 9. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737500
- ISBN
- 9780804737500
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. A biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): Beecher-descendent, zealous reformer, exhilarating lecturer, prolific writer, scandalous divorcee, "unnatural mother," international celebrity, and life-long controversialist. Num Pages: 568 pages, 25 illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804738897
- ISBN
- 9780804738897
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. This book analyzes three works by sexually marginal women sometimes grouped as the "Sapphic Modernists"--Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938)--that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Num Pages: 232 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741675
- ISBN
- 9780804741675
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.44
€ 26.99
€ 25.44
Paperback. By revealing the investment of eighteenth-century British prose fiction in contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the family were estranged, reconstituted as novel concepts, and then finally presented as national social norms. Num Pages: 408 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Anniversary ed.
- SKU
- V9780804741880
- ISBN
- 9780804741880
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Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 46.53
€ 51.99
€ 46.53
Paperback. The author reads four 18th-century satiric novels-Joseph Andrews, A Sentimental Journey, Humphrey Clinker, and Cecilia -"from below," exploring how the gentle authors' experiences of the poor shape the novels both thematically and formally. Num Pages: 248 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- [ ed.
- SKU
- V9780804741897
- ISBN
- 9780804741897
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. Before Gertrude Stein became the 20th century's preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research in a psychological laboratory and medical school in the US. This book unearths the turn-of-the-century scientific and philosophical worlds in which the young Stein was immersed. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 480 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804749305
- ISBN
- 9780804749305
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.84
€ 43.99
€ 38.84
Hardback. The Marriage of Minds examines the implications of the common Victorian claim that novel reading can achieve the psychic, ethical, and affective benefits also commonly associated with sympathy in married life. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 992. Weight in Grams: 467.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804754668
- ISBN
- 9780804754668
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Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Hardback. Although Irene Nemirovsky was Jewish, she frequented authors and politicians on the extreme right. This biography analyzes the discrepancy between Nemirovsky's real and imagined identities, and explores a literary work that revisits in a different way Jewish identity, exile, betrayal, and the solidarity of persecuted people. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804754811
- ISBN
- 9780804754811
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Condition: New
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Hardback. Consequences of Consciousness shows how great Russian authors conversed with each other through their fictions as they explored both the limits and the autonomy of subjective consciousness. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804757034
- ISBN
- 9780804757034
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.97
€ 71.97
Hardback. This book examines how, at the turn of the 19th century, Japanese fiction used melodrama's binary morality-the battle between good and evil-to generate alternative models of family to answer the needs of a modernizing society. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 figures, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757775
- ISBN
- 9780804757775
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Paperback. In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere-from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism-and places representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere and the politics of liberalism. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBD; DSK; JHBK5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758475
- ISBN
- 9780804758475
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.90
€ 32.99
€ 29.90
Paperback. This study offers fresh readings of milestones in twentieth-century Chinese fiction, film, and drama and argues that they have questioned the faith in historical progress and in the viability of a sphere of free debate. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; AN; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758499
- ISBN
- 9780804758499
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 31.02
€ 33.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Walker reads conjugality as the compulsory ground of modern identity, an Enlightenment legacy we still grapple with today, and offers new perspectives on Austen, Wordsworth and other Romantics of the Regency period through theories of marriage in Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and, in our time, Adam Phillips and Stanley Cavell. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804773652
- ISBN
- 9780804773652
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Our Conrad is a literary and cultural history, political in emphasis, of the modern American invention of Joseph Conrad as a "master" literary figure as well as a call to transnationalize the field of American literary and cultural studies. Num Pages: 488 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804783132
- ISBN
- 9780804783132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 38.84
€ 43.99
€ 38.84