Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Few literary genres can expand the boundaries of our imagination as much as science fiction. The Science Fiction Handbook offers a comprehensive historical survey of literary works of science fiction and its most popular sub-genres. Series: Blackwell Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 356
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405162067
- ISBN
- 9781405162067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.50
€ 37.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 299 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 299
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349528561
- ISBN
- 9781349528561
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.12
€ 68.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349410910
- ISBN
- 9781349410910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardback. Featuring sixteen contributions from recognized authorities in their respective fields, this superb new mapping of women's writing ranges from feminine middlebrow novels to Virginia Woolf's modernist aesthetics, from women's literary journalism to crime fiction, and from West End drama to the literature of Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Editor(s): Joannou, Maroula. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 340 pages, 1 figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJG; 3JJH; DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 340
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230282797
- ISBN
- 9780230282797
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.66
€ 161.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349634231
- ISBN
- 9781349634231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333398371
- ISBN
- 9780333398371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.24
€ 194.24
Hardcover. This book represents an explanation of the institution of hisba in medieval Islam, through one of the most used texts in the field. Editor(s): Dien, Mawal Izzi. Num Pages: 256 pages, notes. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Gibb Memorial Trust United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780906094334
- ISBN
- 9780906094334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.88€ 103.50
€ 111.88
€ 103.50
Hardcover. Elizabethan playwrights and players not only routinely handled entrances and exits on the Shakespearean stage, but they also used them to bring about various effects. The author's findings provide means by which to recover effects and meanings that the original audience would have appreciated. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333984062
- ISBN
- 9780333984062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Paperback. Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349292899
- ISBN
- 9781349292899
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Paperback. This book is a study of As You Like It, which shows how the play represents issues of interest to literate playgoers of its time, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371662
- ISBN
- 9781349371662
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349297276
- ISBN
- 9781349297276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
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
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardback. The aim of this book is to reconstruct ancient Greek assumptions about literary unity. It discusses some literary examples, but its main concern is with ancient secondary texts - literary theory and criticism, undertaking a systematic survey from Plato and Aristotle down to the later Neoplatonists. Num Pages: 192 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198140597
- ISBN
- 9780198140597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 199.86
€ 199.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC; MJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 289
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349427826
- ISBN
- 9781349427826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.81
€ 138.81
Paperback. A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion." Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349291908
- ISBN
- 9781349291908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.53
€ 66.53
Paperback. This book explores the ways Arabic, Jewish and Christian intellectuals in medieval Iberia (courtiers and clerics) adapt and transform the Andalusi go-between figure in order to represent their own role as cultural intermediaries. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349538447
- ISBN
- 9781349538447
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early 19th-century writers like Conrad, Faulkner, Gide, Kafka, Mann and Stein actually devised new aesthetic techniques to address ethical problems. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528. Fine in fine dustjacket
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- AIAA
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2001st Edition
- SKU
- KTJ0049487
- ISBN
- 9780333918845
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
Paperback. Drawing upon the philosophical insights of Friedrich Schlegel, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and Blixa Bargeld, this book explores the persistence of a critical-deconstructive approach to musical production, consumption, and reception in the German cultural sphere of the last two centuries. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AV; DSA; HBJD; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2014
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349497638
- ISBN
- 9781349497638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.56
€ 126.56
Paperback. A work which examines the exact historical context of the East European, "Dracula and the Eastern Question" seeks to examine literature in the light of their contemporary politics. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349544417
- ISBN
- 9781349544417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312230227
- ISBN
- 9780312230227
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. This comprehensive guide to the poems, prose, biography, ideas and contexts of Percy Bysshe Shelley features entries on all the major poems and prose works (including inspiration, composition and publication), Shelley's politics, relationships and travels, his representation in novels, drama, film and portraits, and his critical reception. Series: Palgrave Literary Dictionaries. Num Pages: 341 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349318896
- ISBN
- 9781349318896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.24
€ 128.24
Paperback. This lively study provides an account of the 'fall and rise' of the English nation within the British discipline of English Literature between the late eighteenth century and the present day, offering a reconceptualisation of the relationship between English Literature and the formation of English cultural identity. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 217
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340019
- ISBN
- 9781349340019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This book investigates the operations of memory over time through three case studies: the famous anthology by Richard Hakluyt memorializing the feats of Elizabethan voyagers, the eccentric autobiography of Captain John Smith, and the little known history of early modern Newfoundland. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 274
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349371563
- ISBN
- 9781349371563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Paperback. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSC; HRAM; HRCC95. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349498178
- ISBN
- 9781349498178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26