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Hardback. This book takes four stories by Vladimir Odoevsky, the Russian-Romantic author, to illustrate 'pathways' in modern fiction, developed further by subsequent writers. Featured here are: the artistic story, the rise of science fiction, aspects of the detective story, and of confession in the novel. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 138 x 207 x 20. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719082092
- ISBN
- 9780719082092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.61
€ 149.61
paperback. A beautifully written memoir of nature, community, and poetry Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781584657040
- ISBN
- 9781584657040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.71
€ 20.99
€ 17.71
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JMQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691625058
- ISBN
- 9780691625058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.95
€ 64.95
hardcover. An approachable and engaging guide to Shakespeare's poetry, this volume provides students with ways to understand and appreciate the poems. Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 11. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521879415
- ISBN
- 9780521879415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.49
€ 74.49
Hardback. Cover slightly stained. Keywords: "20th Century, Folklore, History & Criticism, Classic, The Classics, Scottish, Criticism, English" This study examines how various conventions from Irish folklore have been subsumed in 12 Irish novels published between 1912 and 1948, including works by James Joyce, Flann O'Brien, Mervyn Wall, Darrell Figgis, Eimar O'Duffy and James Stephens. black & white illustrations. Series: Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KHS0069877
- ISBN
- 9780313304903
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 30.99€ 4.99
€ 30.99
€ 4.99
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€ 26.35
€ 29.99
€ 26.35
Paperback. Gathers almost twenty years of New York City's smartest and most explosive-as well as hard to find- writing, providing an indispensable archive of one of the most exciting artistic scenes in U.S. History. Editor(s): Stosuy, Brandon; Cooper, Dennis; Myles, Eileen. Num Pages: 500 pages, 180 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 278 x 217 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 500
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814740118
- ISBN
- 9780814740118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.78
€ 38.99
€ 34.78
The Voice of a Giant. Essays on Seven Russian Prose Classics.
. Ed(S): Cockrell, Roger; Richards, David
Paperback. The Voice of a Giant looks at seven masterpieces of Russian nineteenth-century prose fiction. Each chapter concentrates primarily on a detailed analysis of one of these works but reference is also made to historical background, the seven author's general attitudes and the distinguishing characteristics of Russian literature. Editor(s): Cockrell, Roger; Richards, David. Num Pages: 104 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 147. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859892414
- ISBN
- 9780859892414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.57
€ 34.57
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 127 x 289 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691623665
- ISBN
- 9780691623665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.12
€ 38.99
€ 28.12
Hardback. Flint on a Bright Stone closes a significant gap in the history of Modernist poetry by identifying the existence of "Tempered Modernism," an international phenomenon exemplified by Akhmatova, Rilke, H.D., and Williams, and characterized by small poems written with precision, restraint, simplicity, equilibrium, and hardness. Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACG; 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804750752
- ISBN
- 9780804750752
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.98
€ 106.98
Paperback. Investigating the omnipresent religious theme that runs throughout Russian culture, even in the antireligious Chekhov, the author argues that no other major European literature was as much preoccupied as the Russian with the tensions between religion and rationality. He highlights this unique quality of Russian literature and culture. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691145662
- ISBN
- 9780691145662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.36
€ 45.99
€ 32.36
Hardback. Covering a diverse range of figures and issues from Jonathan Swift's pornographic poetry to Oscar Wilde's famous cello-shaped coat this book collapses Irish studies into the critical perspective of disability studies: linking 'Irishness' and 'disability' together allows the emergence of a new critical perspective, an Irish disability studies. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy in illustrated covers with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0004414
- ISBN
- 9780230574656
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691631615
- ISBN
- 9780691631615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.66
€ 109.66
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571135315
- ISBN
- 9781571135315
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.62
€ 99.62
Hardcover. Editor(s): Wolfreys, Dr Julian (Loughborough University University of Portsmouth Loughborough University University of Portsmouth University of Portsmouth Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University Loughborough University). BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748699667
- ISBN
- 9780748699667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.92
€ 126.92
hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 159. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Libris Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870352758
- ISBN
- 9781870352758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 42.32
€ 51.99
€ 42.32
Hardback. This collection of previously published essays acts as a companion to Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 1375 --1575. It pays particular attention to those critics who have had the most powerful recent impact on our reading of the texts of the period. Editor(s): Pearsall, Derek. Series: Blackwell Critical Readers. Num Pages: 720 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; 3JB; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 720
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631199366
- ISBN
- 9780631199366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.65
€ 133.65
Hardback. Series: Columbia Guides to Literature Since 1945. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 186 x 20. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126861
- ISBN
- 9780231126861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.94€ 76.28
€ 100.94
€ 76.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 211 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856685637
- ISBN
- 9780856685637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.90
€ 33.99
€ 29.90
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691639468
- ISBN
- 9780691639468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.87€ 79.73
€ 105.87
€ 79.73
This book completes the author's study of the sociology of the literary process in Soviet Russia, begun in "The Making of the State Reader: Social and Aesthetic Contexts of the Reception of Soviet Literature" (Stanford, 1997). Translator(s): Savage, Jesse M. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804733649
- ISBN
- 9780804733649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.44
€ 141.44
Hardcover. Historically and contemporarily, politically and literarily, Haiti has long been relegated to the margins of the so-called 'New World.' This book looks at the works of three such writers: the Haitian Spiralists Franketienne, Jean-Claude Fignole, and Rene Philoctete. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 286 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KJH; 2ADF; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846314995
- ISBN
- 9781846314995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 45.32
€ 45.99
€ 45.32
Paperback. Students and academics in Victorian literature and in English poetry. Editor(s): Maxwell, Catherine; Evangelista, Stefano. Num Pages: 252 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719099960
- ISBN
- 9780719099960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.31
€ 35.31
hardcover. The first fully comprehensive scholarly edition of Thomas Love Peacock's sixth novel, Crotchet Castle (1831). Editor(s): Johnston, Freya; Bevis, Matthew. Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107030725
- ISBN
- 9781107030725
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.28
€ 121.28