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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Paperback. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564781307
ISBN
9781564781307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 632 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Checkmark Books
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816078608
ISBN
9780816078608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.44

Hardback. Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and built commercial and fantasmatic global networks for its continuation and survival. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 249 pages, 39 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230003439
ISBN
9780230003439
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.38

Hardback. This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and sexuality, and authorship. The essays refine, develop or contest previous readings, and blur the distinction between liberal humanist and theoretical positions, suggesting negotiations between them. Editor(s): Rowe, Anne. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230003446
ISBN
9780230003446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.59

Hardback. In Narrative Strategies Roston focuses upon the Greene's texts themselves and their manipulation of reader response, highlighting the innovative strategies that Greene developed to cope with the mid-century invalidation of the traditional hero. The result is a stimulating new reading of the major novels. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230003453
ISBN
9780230003453
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.89

Hardcover. This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, the essays assembled here offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230005044
ISBN
9780230005044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.15

Hardback. This book shows how the fantasy tradition culminating in Pullman's His Dark Materials inherits the Romantic quest to transpose spiritual and moral values, once the prerogrative of organized religion, into new myths. Wary both of escapist fantasy and 'grand narratives', it explores how stories can generate a new vision. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230005051
ISBN
9780230005051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.70

Hardback. This is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England's most controversial and critically acclaimed authors. It assembles the ideas of twelve scholars from different countries to clarify the major trends and transitions in Amis's work. The essays will become an authoritative resource for scholars and students alike. Editor(s): Keulks, Gavin. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008304
ISBN
9780230008304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.35

Hardback. This book focuses on representative novels by eleven key English novelists who have broken from the realist novel of the post Second World War period. They have reacted to the Thatcherite revolution that thrust Britain into the modern world of multi-national capitalism by giving unusual fictional shape to the impact of global events and culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230008557
ISBN
9780230008557
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.41

Hardback. This study explores Henry James' work by considering his theme in the context of nineteenth-century thought on consciousness, perception, and cognition. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102620
ISBN
9780230102620
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.09

Hardback. This book applies theoretical models that reflect the mediated, hybrid, and nomadic global scenes within which GenX artists and writers live, think, and work. Henseler touches upon critical insights in comparative media studies, cultural studies, and social theory, and uses sidebars to travel along multiple voices, facts, figures, and faces. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230102910
ISBN
9780230102910
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.63

Hardback. This book argues that representations of popular culture in the eighteenth-century novel served as repositories of traditional social values and played a role in Britain's transition to an imperial state. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103542
ISBN
9780230103542
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

hardcover. This book presents a baker's dozen of interpretative keys to Levi's output and thought. It deepens our understanding of common themes in Levi studies (memory and witness) while exploring unusual and revealing byways (Levi and Calvino, or Levi and theater, for example). Editor(s): Sodi, Risa; Marcus, Millicent. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2011th Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230103856
ISBN
9780230103856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.06

Hardback. This book offers readings of discourses about food in a wide range of sources, from Victorian novels by authors such as Dickens, Gaskell, and Hardy to parliamentary speeches and royal proclamations. It considers the cultural politics and poetics of food in relation to issues of race, class, gender, colonialism, and imperialism. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 233 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230104334
ISBN
9780230104334
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.15

Hardback. Pasco analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French works to suggest a definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulties: a relatively long, artistically designed, prose fiction. He permits literary aficionados to reevaluate novels through comparisons with other genres and both recent and former traditions. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 147 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230106987
ISBN
9780230106987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.03

Hardback. Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader, the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work. Num Pages: 268 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJH; DSBH; DSK; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108073
ISBN
9780230108073
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.13

Hardback. This book examines the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popular prose fictions have severely constrained the development of Asian American literary aesthetics. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108318
ISBN
9780230108318
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.83

Hardback. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108684
ISBN
9780230108684
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Hardback. The essays in this collection use the interpretative lens to interrogate the meanings of Meyer's books, making a compelling case for the cultural relevance of Twilight and providing insights on how we can "read" popular culture to our best advantage. Editor(s): Anatol, Giselle Liza. Num Pages: 255 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK; DSY; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 551.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230110670
ISBN
9780230110670
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.93

Hardback. This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and spatial dimensions; the transnational and political Wright; Wright and masculinity, Wright and the American 1950s and 1960s; and some of the first analyses of Wright's recently published A Father's Law (2008). Editor(s): Craven, Professor Alice Mikal; Dow, William. Series: Signs of Race. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 515.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230112810
ISBN
9780230112810
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.73

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