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Literary studies: general

Offers a thoughtful examination of the life and work of William Gibson, author of eleven novels and twenty short stories. This study situates Gibson as a major figure in both science fiction history and contemporary American fiction, and it traces how his aesthetic affected both areas of literature. Series: Understanding Contemporary American Literature. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 239 x 24. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611176339
ISBN
9781611176339
Condition: New

€ 34.95

Num Pages: 500 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 953.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
SKU
V9781625340641
ISBN
9781625340641
Condition: New

€ 40.05

Paperback. In thirteen chapters devoted to artists and writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, leading scholars of the period examine the international exchanges that were crucial for the rise of Romanticism in England and the United States. Editor(s): Hemingway, Andrew; Wallach, Alan. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACVC; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 188 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1038.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781625341143
ISBN
9781625341143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.22

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; GTC; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781625341747
ISBN
9781625341747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.68

Paperback. Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, this text highlights their concerns and work in the context of the broader traditions of mulitculturalism, postcolonial writing, and critical theory. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBG; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773516656
ISBN
9780773516656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Paperback. A comparative modernist study of the connections between Irish and Japanese literature, opening up uncharted avenues of cross-cultural exchange. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773546912
ISBN
9780773546912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.18

Paperback. This tender memoir chronicles the early years of Sayyid Qutb, one of Egypt's most influential radical Islamist thinkers and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 2CSR; 3JJ; BM; DSBH; HBTB; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815610755
ISBN
9780815610755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.76

Paperback. This book about an 1880s radical feminist utopia includes a new, extensive introduction that provides critical apparatus to appropriately place "Mizora" and author Mary Bradley Lane in the cultural and historical context of the 19th century. Series: Writing American Women. Num Pages: 146 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2ABM; DSBF; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815628392
ISBN
9780815628392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.67

paperback. This memoir presents a self-portrait of Esrkine Caldwell's first 30 years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the most widely read and controversial writers of his time. Series: Brown Thrasher Books. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; CBW; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780820318493
ISBN
9780820318493
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.64

Paperback. Bringing together short stories, lectures, essays, op-ed pieces, interviews, and excerpts from her longer fiction and non fiction, A Lillian Smith Reader offers the first comprehensive collection of her work and a compelling introduction to one of the South's most important writers. Editor(s): Gladney, Margaret Rose; Hodgens, Lisa. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820349992
ISBN
9780820349992
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.44

paperback. The present work offers an extensive introduction to the text and transmission of the ancient Latin version of the medical works "Therapeutica" and "On Fevers" of the great sixth-century Greek doctor Alexander of Tralles. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 pls. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 265 x 186 x 26. Weight in Grams: 678.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Roman Society Publications United Kingdom
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780907764328
ISBN
9780907764328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 78.73

Paperback. An anthology that collects classic and lesser-known writings on Victorian fiction. This title presents important Victorian statements on the form and the function of fiction. It addresses questions of genre, such as realism and sensationalism; questions of gender and authorship; and, questions about the morality of fiction. Editor(s): Maitzen, Rohan Amanda. Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551117690
ISBN
9781551117690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.59
€ 55.28

Paperback. Extensive historical documents provide a rich framework for this new edition of the first English revenge tragedy.

Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DD; DSBD; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554812059
ISBN
9781554812059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.85

Paperback. Designed as a corrective to colonial literary histories that have excluded Native voices, this anthology brings together a variety of primary texts produced by Algonquian peoples of New England during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and very early nineteenth centuries. It includes letters, signatures, journals, baskets, pictographs, and petitions. Editor(s): Bross, Kristina; Wyss, Hilary E. Series: Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 2JN; DQ; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558496484
ISBN
9781558496484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.92

Hardcover. Katherine Anne Porter revealed only scant facts about her life, and often gave conflicting accounts. Here, the author finds that Porter's deceptions were a screen for deep personal turmoil, fuelled by multiple marriages, and babies lost to miscarriage, abortion, and stillbirth. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 33. Weight in Grams: 871.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578067770
ISBN
9781578067770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.05

Paperback. Highlights the social and textual complexity of the transatlantic world for American women writers Editor(s): Bailey, Brigitte; Damon-Bach, Lucinda L.; Lueck, Beth L. Num Pages: 360 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611682762
ISBN
9781611682762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.41

Paperback. In Volumen 3 of Las literaturas hisp?nicas: Introducci?n a su estudio, Evelyn Picon Garfield and Ivan A. Schulman include selections from more than forty Spanish American authors from the sixteenth century to the present day. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 184 x 661. Weight in Grams: 816.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814318652
ISBN
9780814318652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.94

Paperback. This is a study of Arab writers such as Ghada al-Samman, Hanan al-Shaikh, Emily Nasrallah and Etel Adnan. It presents a constructive literary approach to the ravages of the civil war in the Lebanon. The ways in which women's consciousness is awakened in terms of female liberation is a theme. Num Pages: 228 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1FBL; DSBH; HBJF1; HBW; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815603771
ISBN
9780815603771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.76

Paperback. An assessment of Heaney's poetry and prose, tracing his "contrary progressions" through phases of affirmation and despair. Hart explores Heaney's work from the 1960s to "The Haw Lantern", seeking in the poems those elements and traits that Heaney allusively indicates in his prose. Num Pages: 272 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815626121
ISBN
9780815626121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.76

Paperback. This study of the short stories of Raymond Carver also takes excursions into his poetry and essays. Runyon argues that the stories are intricately linked as part of a cohesive body of work. Num Pages: 246 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815626312
ISBN
9780815626312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.76

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