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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardback. This study provides annotations for 300 translated works of fiction by 97 Japanese women writers from the 1890s through the 1990s. It also includes over 600 annotations of articles, books and reviews that cover biographical and critical materials. Num Pages: 670 pages, bibliography, index, chronology, glossary. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 41. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 670
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810840867
- ISBN
- 9780810840867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 292.04
€ 292.04
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.45
€ 32.99
€ 31.45
Paperback. The Austen heroine must suppress her wit to become the one and not the other, to become, that is, a person fit to be tied in a conjugal knot. But for herself, Austen refuses personhood, with all its constraints and needs, and disappears into the sourceless anonymity of her style. Num Pages: 128 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123875
- ISBN
- 9780691123875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.68
€ 33.99
€ 24.68
Paperback. Very cood clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0225981
- ISBN
- 9780826453198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
This work includes insightful interviews with eigth masters of contemporary fiction and poetry featuring previously uncollected interviews with William Goyen, Philip Larkin, Joyce Carol Oates, Karl Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, William Styron, and Marya Zaturenska. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815607830
- ISBN
- 9780815607830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.89
€ 30.99
€ 27.89
Hardback. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838633205
- ISBN
- 9780838633205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.05
€ 102.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816647859
- ISBN
- 9780816647859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.34
€ 70.34
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801488887
- ISBN
- 9780801488887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.01
€ 41.99
€ 41.01
Hardcover. A pioneering, interdisciplinary study of how transnational novelists and critics use music as a critical device to structure narrative and to model ethical relations. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: AV; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781781380307
- ISBN
- 9781781380307
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 6.23
€ 17.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Challenging the notion that Africa s first women novelists were uninterested in postcolonial politics, Susan Z. Andrade shows that in their allegorical fiction, the family stood for the nation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 photograph. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 233 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349211
- ISBN
- 9780822349211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.20
€ 29.99
€ 27.20
New Alliances In Joyce Studies: When Its Aped to Foul a Dephian
Scott, Bonnie K.. Ed(S): Scott, Bonnie K.
hardcover. "Essays .. initially presented in less formal versions as independent papers .. at the James Joyce Conference, held in Philadelphia in June 1985"--Introd. Editor(s): Scott, Bonnie K. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133288
- ISBN
- 9780874133288
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.51
€ 124.51
Hardback. The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing things with words in James's fiction. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 32. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823225378
- ISBN
- 9780823225378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.91
€ 108.91
Hardback. This study argues that, due to the 1842 Parliamentary bluebook on mines with its images of women at work, the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or male radical, because she exposed contradictions in the class and gender ideologies of the period. Num Pages: 233 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 585. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821413883
- ISBN
- 9780821413883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.25
€ 92.25
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747571124
- ISBN
- 9780747571124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.80
€ 19.99
€ 15.80
Hardcover. This volume reveals how Apuleius' Metamorphoses - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text. Num Pages: 204 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198706830
- ISBN
- 9780198706830
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.65
€ 148.65
Widely recognized as one of the greatest short story writers of the last half century, Alice Munro's works have been collected in such volumes as Dance of the Happy Shades, The Beggar Maid, Open Secrets, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You, and The View from Castle Rock. Editor(s): Moulder, Cathy. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 263 x 188 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1189.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810859241
- ISBN
- 9780810859241
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.90
€ 183.90
Paperback. Offers a vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can be read as rich with homo-erotic suggestiveness. Drawing from work in queer and feminist theory, this book argues that the most fruitful approach to James is one that ignores the elitist portrait of the formalist master. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFFK; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822321477
- ISBN
- 9780822321477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.24
€ 27.99
€ 26.24
Hardback. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; APF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480047
- ISBN
- 9781611480047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.12
€ 137.12
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691609836
- ISBN
- 9780691609836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.05
€ 46.99
€ 33.05
Hardcover. This comprehensive Companion to William Faulkner reflects the current dynamic state of Faulkner studies. Explores the contexts, criticism, genres and interpretations of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner, arguably the greatest American novelist. Comprises original essays written by leading scholars. Editor(s): Moreland, Richard C. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 552 pages, 4. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 180 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1104.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405122245
- ISBN
- 9781405122245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 216.77
€ 216.77
Hardback. This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions. Editor(s): Smith, Prof Andrew; Wallace, Diana. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222717
- ISBN
- 9780230222717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.35€ 127.24
€ 129.35
€ 127.24
Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- International Scholars Publications,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781573093927
- ISBN
- 9781573093927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.52
€ 72.52
hardcover. The thesis of this book is that repetition is central to Tolstoy's art. The author argues that Tolstoy uses this device--or rather, complex of devices--to represent and examine the processes by which people structure and give meaning to their experience. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 25. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732154
- ISBN
- 9780804732154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.71
€ 97.71
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- boye6
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571134189
- ISBN
- 9781571134189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.00
€ 96.00