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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardback. Written in a lively and accessible style, the book explores a wide range of themes offered in the wealth of contemporary American fiction, including identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements, styles, and narrative strategies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 232 x 167 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405167574
- ISBN
- 9781405167574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.32
€ 103.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 122 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1957
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 122
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811200684
- ISBN
- 9780811200684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.65
€ 11.65
Paperback. Num Pages: 215 pages, notes, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 249 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The Merlin Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780850365535
- ISBN
- 9780850365535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.27
€ 21.99
€ 20.27
Paperback. Philip K Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining American authors of the last half of the twentieth century. This book examines the first eight cinematic adaptations of Dick's fiction in light of their literary sources. Num Pages: 5 images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803218604
- ISBN
- 9780803218604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.61
€ 20.99
€ 20.61
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135780
- ISBN
- 9781571135780
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.00
€ 96.00
Paperback. Dubey argues that for African American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226167275
- ISBN
- 9780226167275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 29.15
€ 36.99
€ 29.15
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 180 x 14. Weight in Grams: 99.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Old Castle United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904048404
- ISBN
- 9781904048404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.25
€ 6.25
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€ 41.01
€ 41.99
€ 41.01
Hardcover. This work investigates whether Camus' idea of living without conceptual absolutes is an attainable goal. Num Pages: 183 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Number of pages
- 183
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902210988
- ISBN
- 9781902210988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.91
€ 71.91
Hardback. Michel de Montaigne's (1533-1592) Essais, was a profound study of human subjectivity. More than three hundred years before the advent of psychoanalysis, Montaigne embarked on a remarkable quest to see and imagine the self from a variety of vantage points. This title traces Montaigne's development of the Western concept of the self. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231119924
- ISBN
- 9780231119924
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 103.49€ 78.05
€ 103.49
€ 78.05
Paperback. Masterly biography of Leigh Hunt - publisher, poet, critic and Republican, and the mentor of Keats and Shelley Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 34. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349117706
- ISBN
- 9780349117706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.31
€ 17.99
€ 13.31
paperback. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 992 pages, frontispiece, original illustrations by 'Phiz', 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 672. Clean copy showing light shelf wear. Small section of pages at a slight angle where they have been misbound. Remains a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KMK0021693
- ISBN
- 9780199536313
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Num Pages: 148 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 148
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813119229
- ISBN
- 9780813119229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.12
€ 40.12
Hardback. This study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France. Num Pages: 422 pages, 18 illustration. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBJD; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 817.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 422
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231072069
- ISBN
- 9780231072069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.61€ 88.16
€ 117.61
€ 88.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231157575
- ISBN
- 9780231157575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.99
€ 36.99
€ 26.99
Hardcover. Combines Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic approach to genre with methodological tools from periodicals studies, literary criticism, and the history of the book to offer the study of the relationship between mid-Victorian journalistic genres and contemporary poetry, the novel, and serious expository prose. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; KNTJ. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927831
- ISBN
- 9780813927831
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 58.76
€ 58.76
By asking questions about authenticity, cultural appropriation, and commodification, Thrill of the Chaste considers Amish fiction's effects on Amish and non-Amish audiences alike. Series: Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Num Pages: 344 pages, 18, 17 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; HBTB; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421408903
- ISBN
- 9781421408903
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.63
€ 63.63
Hardback. Explores the literary expression of crises of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. This book shows how, lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture and manage inequalities of wealth and power. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113890
- ISBN
- 9780691113890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.20€ 81.84
€ 108.20
€ 81.84
Paperback. Hannah Webster Foster's two major Early American works with a wealth of primary materials are now available in a Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Harris, Jennifer; Waterman, Bryan. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 435
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393931679
- ISBN
- 9780393931679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.24
€ 19.99
€ 18.24
Paperback. Republication of the pioneering classic study of modern Chinese fiction. Num Pages: 776 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 43. Weight in Grams: 832.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 776
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253213112
- ISBN
- 9780253213112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 33.76
€ 36.99
€ 33.76
Paperback. Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their readers with verbal maps that in their depictions of boundary spaces construct indirect images of national territory and geography. This book analyzes fictional texts as a discursive territoriality that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging. Editor(s): Beebee, Thomas O. Series: Comparative Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557534989
- ISBN
- 9781557534989
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.06
€ 45.06
Paperback. Treating China's Cultural Revolution as much more than a political event, this volume explores its ideological dimensions. It focuses on the CR's discourse of heroism and messianism and its demonization of the enemy as reflected in political practice, official literature and propaganda art. Editor(s): Chong, Woei Lien. Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives. Num Pages: 432 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; GTB; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742518742
- ISBN
- 9780742518742
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.05
€ 84.05
Paperback. Editor(s): Miller, Robin Feuer; Orwin, Donna Tussing. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 5. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801474477
- ISBN
- 9780801474477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.01
€ 41.99
€ 41.01
Paperback. In the light of poststructuralist theory, and with reference to the work of Lacan and Derrida in particular, Catherine Belsey argues that fiction -- including poetry, drama and film -- is paradoxically the most serious location of writing about desire in Western cultura. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631168140
- ISBN
- 9780631168140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.37
€ 51.37