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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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 63.86