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Paperback. Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century often cross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of structure in postmodern art form demands a different way of thinking and represents a commentary on the material and social conditions of the late twentieth century and beyond. Num Pages: 248 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AF; DSBH; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349456567
ISBN
9781349456567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
KKD0013021
ISBN
9781784741396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Paperback. Although these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women. Num Pages: 326 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801894015
ISBN
9780801894015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.74

Paperback. Explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. This book explores the panic over the 'death of privacy' aroused by changes in postwar culture: the growth of suburbia, the advent of television, and the popularity of psychoanalysis. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231111218
ISBN
9780231111218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 27.34

Paperback. This important book, now in paperback, explores epistolary forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Familiar ideas about epistolary fiction and personal correspondence, and public and private, are re-examined in the light of alternative paradigms, showing how the letter is at the centre of Eighteenth-century life. Num Pages: 441 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552. 448 pages. This important book, now in paperback, explores epistolary forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Familiar ideas about epistolary fiction and personal correspondence, and public and private, are re-examined in the light of alternative paradigms, showing how the letter is at the centre of Eighteenth-century life. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 26. Weight: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
441
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230249080
ISBN
9780230249080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 101.47
€ 101.05

Paperback. Editor(s): Freedman, Diana P.; Frey, Olivia; Zauhar, Frances Murphy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822312925
ISBN
9780822312925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349318919
ISBN
9781349318919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardback. Clean copy.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0216199
ISBN
9780747564164
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss' collaborator on such operas as "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Die Frau ohne Schatten" has obscured his other remarkable writings. This title is an introduction to the enormous range of this artist. It is a collection of his writings in English. Editor(s): McClatchy, J. D. Num Pages: 520 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DD; DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 858.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691129099
ISBN
9780691129099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.12
€ 43.08

Paperback. Explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. This title discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; H; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 257.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691115719
ISBN
9780691115719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 32.25

Paperback. "Lose yourself: Swoon has wicked fun answering that age-old query: What do women want?"-Chicago Tribune Num Pages: 352 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: VFVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393348484
ISBN
9780393348484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. "Conversion and Reform" analyzes the works of a wide range of British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of contemporary fiction to position the novel as a progressive political tool. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349377091
ISBN
9781349377091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardcover. This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more accurate understanding of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230277724
ISBN
9780230277724
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.31

Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 233 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 20 colour illustrations, 16 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JM; DSBH; HBJK; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319409634
ISBN
9783319409634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.94

Paperback. In 1970s Ireland the British establishment conducted its struggle with the IRA in the "dirty war". This novel, set around the real-life figure of Captain Nairac, recreates the intrigue, loyalism and violence of a time when friend could turn foe overnight and nothing was ever quite as it seemed. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 195. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0017360
ISBN
9780571221752
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Examining three works of vernacular fiction dating from 1750 to 1828, this book studies the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804731317
ISBN
9780804731317
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349225088
ISBN
9781349225088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

Paperback. Features poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic', which were all written between the publication in 1960 of Sylvia Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 130 x 197 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1968
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571086269
ISBN
9780571086269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.44

Hardcover. This volume contains original essays on every comedy from "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" to "Twelfth Night" as well as 12 additional articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeare's comedies on film, and Shakespeare's relation to other comic writers of his time. Editor(s): Dutton, Richard; Howard, Jean E. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 480 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 257 x 187 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1016.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Volume III
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226345
ISBN
9780631226345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 216.61

paperback. This study interprets Flannery O'Connor's fiction on its own terms. By stepping back from prevailing controversies, the author turns to the short stories and novels themselves and forms an impression of them while seeking the answers to such questions as they necessarily suggest themselves. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Edition
2nd Edition
SKU
V9780823219117
ISBN
9780823219117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 40.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AGV; DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628971101
ISBN
9781628971101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99

Hardback. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned, text clear and crisp and remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
3rd impression
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0027448
ISBN
9780747583615
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 18.00

Paperback. Examining the formal characteristics of both physical manuscripts and literary works, this book argues that manuscript compilations from fourteenth-century London reward interpretation as both assemblages and fragments: as meaningfully constructed objects whose forms and textual contents shed light on the city's literary, social, and more. Num Pages: 296 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3H; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780226269405
ISBN
9780226269405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.92

Hardcover. Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137021878
ISBN
9781137021878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.86

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