Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's experience wa reconstructed, as well as what the experience was. Editor(s): Goldy, Charlotte Newman; Livingstone, Amy. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 309 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114555
- ISBN
- 9780230114555
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Condition: New
€ 119.54
€ 119.54
Hardcover. Explores existential and political themes in Orhan Pamuk's work and investigates the apparent contradictions in an arena where Islam and democracy are often seen as opposing and irreconcilable terms. Existential themes delve into literary nuances in Pamuk that discuss love, happiness, suffering, memory and death. Editor(s): Afridi, Mehnaz M.; Buyze, David M. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2FMC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114111
- ISBN
- 9780230114111
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€ 62.28
€ 62.28
Hardcover. In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory. Editor(s): Sanborn, Geoffrey; Otter, Samuel. Num Pages: 271 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113794
- ISBN
- 9780230113794
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Hardcover. Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies. This book seeks to broaden the conversation through a range of critical perspectives and with attention to underrepresented aspects of Mairs's oeuvre, demonstrating her provocative combination of bold ethics and subtle aesthetics. Editor(s): Johnson, Merri Lisa; Mintz, Susannah B. Series: Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113701
- ISBN
- 9780230113701
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.34
€ 62.34
Hardcover. Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity instead. Editor(s): Kordela, A. Kiarina; Vardoulakis, Dimitris. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113428
- ISBN
- 9780230113428
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Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. The most influential East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was the reading and writing of haiku. Here, contributors investigate the impact of Eastern philosophy/religion on African American writers such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison and offer a new field of literary inquiry. Editor(s): Hakutani, Dr Yoshinobu. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113411
- ISBN
- 9780230113411
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Condition: New
€ 62.43
€ 62.43
Paperback. 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: 232 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110687
- ISBN
- 9780230110687
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Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives. Editor(s): Hayden, Prof. Judy A. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110298
- ISBN
- 9780230110298
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Condition: New
€ 63.15
€ 63.15
Hardcover. Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today. Editor(s): Segol, Marla; Brown, Jennifer. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109803
- ISBN
- 9780230109803
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Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. Romanticism and the City explores how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature conceptualized urban space. Fresh readings of key texts show how Romantic concerns with urban life shaped both individual works and broad theoretical issues in European Romanticism at large. Editor(s): Peer, Larry H. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108837
- ISBN
- 9780230108837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.84
€ 62.84
Hardcover. Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. Editor(s): Bowers, Toni; Chico, Tita. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108677
- ISBN
- 9780230108677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardcover. This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these essays bring together a diverse set of approaches to reading Duncan's writing. Editor(s): Maynard, James. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 263 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108103
- ISBN
- 9780230108103
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Hardcover. Mario Vargas Llosa is a heterogeneous writer whose positions have often not been consistent from novel to novel, between his fictional and nonfictional work, between his literary and political commentary, and as his political commentary has proceeded over the decades. This analysis of his work reveals his insights into socio-political matters. Editor(s): De Castro, Juan E.; Birns, Nicholas. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLSR; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105294
- ISBN
- 9780230105294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.62
€ 62.62
Hardcover. Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters. Editor(s): Rider, John Jeffrey; Friedman, Jamie. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 285 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105140
- ISBN
- 9780230105140
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.76
€ 62.76
Hardcover. These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengthening the interdisciplinary of both. The book focuses not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating our assumptions and categories of analysis. Editor(s): Spurlin, William J.; Hayes, Jarrod; Higonnet, Professor Margaret R. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 211 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384. Interrogating Identities Across Time and Cultures. 244 pages. Editor(s): Hayes, Jarrod; Higonnet, Margaret R.; Spurlin, William J. These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengthening the interdisciplinary of both. The book focuses not only on comparative praxis, but also on interrogating our assumptions and categories of analysis. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: DSA; JFSK. Dimension: 211 x 146 x 18. Weight: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104365
- ISBN
- 9780230104365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. Coinciding with the increasing intersections between visual and literary studies, this timely reappraisal of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men sheds light on the book's unclassifiable status as part imaginative fiction, documentary effort, ethnographic study, and modernist prose. Editor(s): Blinder, Caroline. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102927
- ISBN
- 9780230102927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Paperback. This interdisciplinary collection examines the unacknowledged affinities (and crucial differences) between avant-garde and diasporic formal strategies and social formations. The essays foreground the creation of experimental forms and investigate the specific contexts of cultural displacement and language use that inform their poetics. Editor(s): Noland, Carrie; Watten, Barrett. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102729
- ISBN
- 9780230102729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.51
€ 62.51
Paperback. The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? Scholars address these and other questions in this collection. Editor(s): Eaglestone, Robert; Langford, Barry. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 158 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019379
- ISBN
- 9780230019379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.44
€ 61.44
Hardcover. The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? Scholars address these and other questions in this collection. Editor(s): Eaglestone, Robert; Langford, Barry. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSBH; HBJD; HBTZ1; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230019362
- ISBN
- 9780230019362
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. This book addresses works of the European Renaissance as they relate both to the world of their origins and to a modern culture that turns to the early moderns for methodological provocation and renewal. It charts the most important developments in the field since the turn towards cultural and ideological features of the Renaissance imagination. Editor(s): Barkan, Leonard; Cormack, Bradin; Keilen, Sean (Assistant Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania). Num Pages: 295 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008984
- ISBN
- 9780230008984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.98
€ 62.98