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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Lets us come face to face with literary life of high drama and contemplation. This title provides encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans - all of whom lend this life. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 592. Very good copy in very good dustwrappers. DW has light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 352
- SKU
- KCW0015940
- ISBN
- 9780571269433
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.00€ 4.99
€ 20.00
€ 4.99
Hardcover. This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon - the female-authored erotic memoir - and positions the texts under analysis as complex and contradictory expressions of popular feminism. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326539
- ISBN
- 9781137326539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.29
€ 60.29
Hardcover. Many studies of fictions of city life take the flaneur as the characteristic metropolitan type and streets and plazas as definitive urban spaces. Looking at novels and films set in London and Paris from L'Assommoir to Nil By Mouth, this book shows that mass housing is equally central to images of the modern city. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN; DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 164 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230579767
- ISBN
- 9780230579767
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Paperback. Approaches Dostoevsky psychoanalytically, not as a "patient" to be analyzed, but as a fellow psychoanalyst, someone whose life and fiction are intertwined in the process of literary self-exploration. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BG; DSBF; DSK; JMAF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780814711514
- ISBN
- 9780814711514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.13
€ 29.99
€ 27.13
Hardcover. Series: Understanding Contemporary Modern European Writers S. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570030154
- ISBN
- 9781570030154
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 37.65
€ 44.99
€ 37.65
Hardcover. Num Pages: 170 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816523351
- ISBN
- 9780816523351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 57.32€ 52.89
€ 57.32
€ 52.89
Hardcover. Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America considers American minority literatures from the perspective of print culture. Putting in dialogue European and American scholars and spanning the slavery era through the early 21st century, they draw on approaches from library history, literary history and textual studies. Editor(s): Cottenet, Cecile. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390516
- ISBN
- 9781137390516
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804754026
- ISBN
- 9780804754026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.53
€ 29.99
€ 26.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 421.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583226407
- ISBN
- 9781583226407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.74
€ 15.74
Paperback. A follow-up to Margaret Forster's "Hidden Lives" (a family memoir of three generations of women), this account takes up the story of her gritty northern father. She looks back at his life and character, evoking incidents from her Cumbrian childhood, his working life and his stubborn old age. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8pp b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000943
- ISBN
- 9780099275749
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 391.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403903068
- ISBN
- 9781403903068
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Paperback. Editor(s): Heller, Erich; Born, Jurgen. Translator(s): Stern, James. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 2ACG; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 772.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Schocken Books United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Pbk. Ed
- SKU
- V9780805208511
- ISBN
- 9780805208511
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.43
€ 21.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Revised and Updated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403912633
- ISBN
- 9781403912633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Hardback. Series: Literary Companions. Num Pages: 380 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 631.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333124895
- ISBN
- 9780333124895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 187.33
€ 187.33
Paperback. After first appearing around 1590, Jing Ping Mei was circulated among some of China's best known writers of the time and subsequently published in three major recensions. By arguing from the standpoint of feminism, this title can contribute to studies of Chinese literature, Asian studies, feminism, politics of sexuality, and cultural studies. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- SKU
- V9780822329169
- ISBN
- 9780822329169
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.33
€ 34.99
€ 31.33
Paperback. Explores the hermit novelist, Flannery O'Connor's identification with the early Christian monastics and the ways in which she infused her fiction with their teachings. This title shows how her characters are moved toward a radical simplicity of ascetic discipline as a means of confronting internal and worldly evils while being drawn closer to God. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570039102
- ISBN
- 9781570039102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.56
€ 36.99
€ 31.56
Hardcover. Examining the literary career of Nagai Kafu, this text focuses on his fiction in terms of narrative strategy, placing him squarely within some of the most important currents of literary modernism - at the nexus of Naturalism and the largely antiethical development of the modernist reflexive novel. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780824821470
- ISBN
- 9780824821470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.46€ 47.81
€ 51.46
€ 47.81
Hardcover. An homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of essays sheds new light on canonical authors such as Ibsen, Beckett, and Strindberg. Using style and structure as the connective thread, Mark Axelrod joins a wide and deep conversation on writers on writing. Num Pages: 105 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456090
- ISBN
- 9781137456090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.36
€ 100.36
Paperback. * Written in clear, jargon-free prose, this introductory text charts the variety of novel writing in English in the second half of the twentieth century. * An engaging introduction to the English-language novel from 1950-2000 (exclusive of the US). Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405101141
- ISBN
- 9781405101141
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 43.93
€ 43.99
€ 43.93
Paperback. A textbook to help students learn English and learn about major events in early to mid-twentieth-century America Series: Bookmarks: Fluency Through Novels S. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: DSK; EL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 151 x 74. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press ELT
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472087969
- ISBN
- 9780472087969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.45
€ 27.99
€ 24.45
hardcover. The publication of this volume heralds the first scholarly edition of Richardson's complete works, a long-awaited event in eighteenth-century studies. Editor(s): Rivero, Albert J. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson. Num Pages: 664 pages, 15 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1180.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 664
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521848954
- ISBN
- 9780521848954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.56€ 157.06
€ 164.56
€ 157.06
Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403945266
- ISBN
- 9781403945266
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.21
€ 64.21
Hardback. This study of the philosophical aspects of Conrad's novels offers evidence that the works exhibit a powerful existential strain, foreshadowing many central concerns of 20th-century modernism. The author reveals that Conrad's fiction is replete with ideas from Sartre, Camus and Nietzsche. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333436196
- ISBN
- 9780333436196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.76
€ 122.76
Paperback. Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815. A range of major works and authors are discussed along with important developments in the genre, and the impact of novels on society at the time. Series: Reading the Novel. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781118621103
- ISBN
- 9781118621103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.31
€ 35.31