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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Paperback. Ranging from the realists to the abstract expressionists, from the famous to the obscure, Schultz reveals how various artists have tried to capture the essence of the meaning of "Moby-Dick" and to use it as a springboard for their own imaginations. Num Pages: 440 pages, 61 colour plates, 232 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; ACX; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 270 x 216 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1619.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780700607426
- ISBN
- 9780700607426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.67
€ 61.67
Hardcover. Examines the whole of Flora Thompson's oeuvre including the poetry, short fiction, and essays that she published in women's periodicals before World War II, her book of poetry, "Bog Myrtle and Peat" (1921), and two posthumously published works, "Still Glides the Stream" (1947) and "Heatherley" (1979). Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838642061
- ISBN
- 9780838642061
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.88
€ 119.88
Paperback. Explores the evolution of the socialist realist novel as a myth-like genre. Combining intellectual and literary history, this work traces the development of the novel's master plot from its origins in the mid-19th century to its end at the close of the 20th. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- 3 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253213679
- ISBN
- 9780253213679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 25.86
€ 25.99
€ 25.86
Paperback. Susan Srigley argues that Flannery O'Connor's ethics are inextricably linked to her role as a storyteller, and that her moral vision is expressed through the dramatic narrative of her fiction. Srigley elucidates O'Connor's sacramental vision by showing that it is embodied morally within her fiction as an ethic of responsibility. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268017804
- ISBN
- 9780268017804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.29
€ 32.99
€ 31.29
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816634187
- ISBN
- 9780816634187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.03
€ 28.03
Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935508
- ISBN
- 9780813935508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.02
€ 38.02
hardcover. This is an authoritative and timely guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last quarter century. Meticulously researched and lucidly written, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of the country s most critically celebrated and successful writers. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781444336191
- ISBN
- 9781444336191
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.69
€ 95.69
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 326 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 181 x 15. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691615721
- ISBN
- 9780691615721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.92€ 41.40
€ 52.92
€ 41.40
Paperback. Discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, this title examines the participation of cultural forms in these phenomena. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Num Pages: 257 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520059825
- ISBN
- 9780520059825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 26.13
€ 35.99
€ 26.13
Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801440441
- ISBN
- 9780801440441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.57
€ 70.57
Contemporary Francophone African Writers and the Burden of Commitment
Cazenave, Odile; Celerier, Patricia
Hardback. Series: Modern Language Initiative. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813930954
- ISBN
- 9780813930954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.95
€ 77.95
Hardback. No descriptive material is available for this title. Num Pages: 137 pages, Plans transparencies :Includes index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 137
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810819634
- ISBN
- 9780810819634
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.52
€ 106.52
Paperback. Contains the author's essays that are personal on the surface, and stresses upon what impresses her in really good literature. Num Pages: 149 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 149
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780803263314
- ISBN
- 9780803263314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.57
€ 19.57
Hardcover. This text offers students and teachers a close analysis of nineteenth-century novels by ten major authors: Austen, Eliot, Scott, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, Trollope, Braddon, and the Bronte sisters. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631231493
- ISBN
- 9780631231493
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.57
€ 101.57
Hardcover. One of a complete set of Jane Austen's novels collating the editions published during the author's lifetime and previously unpublished manuscripts. The books are illustrated with 19th-century plates and incorporate revisions by experts in the light of subsequent research. Series: Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen. Num Pages: 446 pages, plates. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 125 x 27. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1963
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 446
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192547019
- ISBN
- 9780192547019
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.51
€ 49.51
paperback. Editor(s): Swanson, Philip. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSBH; DSK; JFSL4. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Routledge United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138804180
- ISBN
- 9781138804180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.81
€ 61.81
Hardback. A study that integrates the biography, creative writing, and criticism of one of the important figures in young adult literature. This work is aimed at teachers, librarians, and scholars of young adult literatures, as well as devoted fans and students doing research on Chambers or the subjects of his novels. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 184 x 15. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810850873
- ISBN
- 9780810850873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.54
€ 90.54
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.35
€ 32.99
€ 29.35
Hardback. Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables" is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. This work helps us to appreciate the incredible ambition, power, and beauty of Hugo's masterpiece and, in the process, presents a humane vision of fiction as an alternative reality that can help us imagine a different and better world. Translator(s): King, John. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 152 x 220 x 27. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691131115
- ISBN
- 9780691131115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.16
€ 26.99
€ 20.16
Paperback. Valeria Woodville investigates the murder of her husband's first wife in the attempt to prove him guiltless. This book exposes the repression of Victorian domestic life and marriage. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 294. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005186
- ISBN
- 9780140436075
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Like many of their characters, Joyce and Beckett were superb musicians, creators of performance, and they sought both to evoke and exhaust the resources and rhythms of language and performance. This work explores the rich historical and literary backgrounds of this distinctly Irish phenomenon. It discusses the major works of both authors. Series: Irish Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 illustrations, notes, bibiography, index. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631484
- ISBN
- 9780815631484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.37
€ 33.37
Hardback. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838639009
- ISBN
- 9780838639009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.69
€ 128.69
Paperback. "Our Lady of Victorian Feminism" is about three 19th-century women, Protestants by background and feminists by conviction, who are curiously and crucially linked by their extensive use of the Madonna in arguments designed to empower women. Num Pages: 315 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 513.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 315
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780821413623
- ISBN
- 9780821413623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.99
€ 38.99
€ 37.99
Hardback. Offering innovative readings of these canonical works, this study sheds new light on Faulkner's uniquely American modernism. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 236 x 21. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801879296
- ISBN
- 9780801879296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.57€ 46.41
€ 50.57
€ 46.41