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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. This book examines how twentieth-century Spanish American literature has registered photography s powers and limitations and the creative ways in which writers of this region of the Americas have elaborated the conventions and assumptions of this medium in fictional form." Num Pages: 240 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; AJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Calgary Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552387832
ISBN
9781552387832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.56

Hardback. Selected by a poll of more than 180 Gothic specialists, the fifty-three original works discussed in 21st-Century Gothic represent the most impressive Gothic novels written around the world between 2000-2010. Editor(s): Olson, Danel. Num Pages: 710 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JMC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 161 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1168.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
710
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810877283
ISBN
9780810877283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.75

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843842033
ISBN
9781843842033
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.03

Hardback. Num Pages: 229 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; RNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137513076
ISBN
9781137513076
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.53

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140431490
ISBN
9780140431490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.93

Paperback. Moll Flanders is one of the best-selling novels of all time. Editor(s): Rivero, Albert J. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 544 pages, chronology, bibliog. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 518.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
2nd edition
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393978629
ISBN
9780393978629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.12

paperback. Organized into chapters devoted to robotics, bionics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and other significant scientific advancements, this book summarizes the state of each technology, while presenting corresponding reactions in science fiction. Num Pages: 341 pages, 49 b&w photos. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
341
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292709867
ISBN
9780292709867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.33

Paperback. Num Pages: 434 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Black Rose Books Canada
Number of pages
434
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551641782
ISBN
9781551641782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.08

Hardcover. Tells a life of Scott. This title increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, and enabling us to read James Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context. It provides a hitherto unknown contemporary perspective on Sir Walter Scott's life and work. Editor(s): Grader, Daniel. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 240 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408. 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. Editor(s): Grader, Daniel. Tells a life of Scott. This title increases our knowledge of Scott's life and work as perceived by his contemporaries, and enabling us to read James Hogg's Anecdotes in their original context. It provides a hitherto unknown contemporary perspective on Sir Walter Scott's life and work. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSK. Dimension: 167 x 240 x 15. Weight: 408.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748669912
ISBN
9780748669912
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.25
€ 99.72

Hardcover. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931616
ISBN
9780813931616
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.12

paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813931623
ISBN
9780813931623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.65

Hardcover. Taking as his point of departure the competing uses of the critical term, the materiality of writing, the author turns to the past in this provocative book to recover the ways in which the multiple aspects of writing now conjured by that term were represented and related to one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813923451
ISBN
9780813923451
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.19

Paperback. In this work, first published in 1961, Hoffman combines the disciplines of folklore and literary criticism in his readings of works by Irving, Hawthorne, Melville and Twain. In a new preface, he describes the evolution of his critical method and suggests the book's value for contemporary readers. Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFHF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
University of Virginia Press Virginia
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813915258
ISBN
9780813915258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.86

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
SKU
V9780700604524
ISBN
9780700604524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.28

Paperback. This biography of William Faulkner asserts that we can learn much about Faulkner's art by relating it to the cultural and intellectual discourse of his era, and much about that era by coming to terms with his art. The book includes detailed analyses of individual texts and poetry. Num Pages: 376 pages, 8 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Edition
1 New ed
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807848319
ISBN
9780807848319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.98

Hardback. This book attempts to address the paradoxes inherent in international modernism (a literary movement which at once strove to cross borders of nation, language, and tradition yet which at the same time often endorsed nationalist and 'racial' models of identity. Editor(s): Manning, Susan; Taylor, Andrew. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748625260
ISBN
9780748625260
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.83
€ 111.13

Hardback. Provides a collection of in-depth readings of British writers that have come to prominence in the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 240 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719081491
ISBN
9780719081491
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 153.46

Paperback. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Booker Prize-winning novelist Graham Swift. Detailed analysis of his work provides an informative, lucid and accessible insight into the writing of one of Britain's most significant contemporary authors. Series Editor(s): Lea, Daniel. Series: Contemporary British Novelists. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719068379
ISBN
9780719068379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.31

Paperback. Corporate Romanticism offers an alternative history of the connections between modernity, individualism, and the novel. Early-nineteenth-century England saw two developmentsGCothe rise of corporate persons and the expanded scale of industrial actionGCoboth of Series: Lit Z. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823272242
ISBN
9780823272242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.36

Hardcover. This book argues that there are a number of contemporary novels that challenge the reductive 'us and them' binaries that have been prevalent not only in politics and the global media since 9/11, but also in many works within the emerging genre of '9/11 fiction' itself. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137506177
ISBN
9781137506177
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.03

Hardcover. Deals with the Lucian's "Philopseudes or Lover of Lies". This book comprises a discussion, with translation, on this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is the famous story of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and this conveys the flavour of the rest. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 676.
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905125166
ISBN
9781905125166
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.87

Paperback. Presents an insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. This book sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. It features close readings of Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", Conrad's "Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim", and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" and "The Rainbow". Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 312 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454. Series: Reading the Novel. 312 pages, 0. Presents an insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. This book sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts. It features close readings of Hardy's "Jude the Obscure", Conrad's "Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim", and Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" and "The Rainbow". Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight: 454.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226222
ISBN
9780631226222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.87

Hardcover. Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels of the first half of the twentieth century. * An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226215
ISBN
9780631226215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.66

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239480
ISBN
9780312239480
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.24

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