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Hardback. Editor(s): Abdel-Malek, Kamal. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JJ; DSB; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312229634
ISBN
9780312229634
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.36
€ 47.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780801488528
ISBN
9780801488528
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.73

Hardback. Offers an English translation of the complete, uncensored text, which has long been celebrated as one of the most convincing and sensually rich portraits of the geisha profession. This book tells a sweeping story in which sexual politics compete with sisterly affection in a world ruled by material transaction. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Series: Japanese Studies Series. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231141185
ISBN
9780231141185
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.28
€ 64.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 146 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Poland
Condition
New
Number of pages
146
SKU
V9788323336976
ISBN
9788323336976
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. Sharon Draper published her first novel in 1994, and since then she has published over 15 books for middle and high school readers. Draper has made a lasting contribution to the field of young adult literature; this book, which shares her life and work, will be beneficial to the field of young adult literature. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 148 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810859852
ISBN
9780810859852
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.25

Hardback. Angela Johnson is a three-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Author award, the Prinz prize, a MacArthur Foundation genius award, and numerous other book awards. This book introduces Johnson's work, illuminating its nuances through research and interviews and correspondence with her. Series: Studies in Young Adult Literature. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 267.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810850927
ISBN
9780810850927
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFSJ; JMAF; MMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349507375
ISBN
9781349507375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
302
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2005th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403964441
ISBN
9781403964441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.89

paperback. Shakespeare's 'Whores' studies each use of the word 'whore' in Shakespeare's canon, focusing especially on the positive personal and social effects of female sexuality, as represented in several major female characters, from the goddess Venus, to the queen Cleopatra, to the cross-dressing Rosalind, and many others. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; 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
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349439126
ISBN
9781349439126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 137.39

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137026323
ISBN
9781137026323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.35

Paperback. This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culturethrough a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance inher modernist aesthetics." Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349546015
ISBN
9781349546015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.78

Paperback. Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in the representation of African American identities. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349341801
ISBN
9781349341801
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.93

Paperback. This book, now available in paperback, reappraises the place of children's literature, showing it to be a creative space where writers and illustrators try out new ideas about books, society, and narratives in an age of instant communication and multi-media. Num Pages: 232 pages, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
2007th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230239371
ISBN
9780230239371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.70

Paperback. Thisbook contextualizes21st century representations of disappearance, torture, and detention within a historical framework of inter-American narratives. Examining a range of sources, Pitt finds a persistent focus on the body that links contemporary practices of political terror to concerns about corporality and sovereignty." Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349290635
ISBN
9781349290635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Num Pages: 222 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9788024614946
ISBN
9788024614946
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.32

Hardback. This book explores modern literature's responses to the tragic. It examines writers from the latter half of the nineteenth century through to the later twentieth century who respond to ideas about tragedy. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748636730
ISBN
9780748636730
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.01
€ 108.80

Hardback. This is a broad-ranging and ambitious attempt to rethink aesthetic and literary studies in terms of an "anthropology" of symbolic media generally. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 717.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804734639
ISBN
9780804734639
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 30. Weight in Grams: 370. 174p. dw. First Edition. Keywords: "Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - General,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - History & Criticism - Literary Studies - General,Education Resources - Books - English Liter"
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1980
Edition
1980th Edition
SKU
KON0730544
ISBN
9780333288450
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. In16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women." Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 345.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349334841
ISBN
9781349334841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance. Essays present different practices that emerge around "reading" Wroth, including editing, curating, and digital reproduction. Editor(s): Larson, K.; Miller, N.; Kahn, Peggy. Num Pages: 311 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 483.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
311
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349502479
ISBN
9781349502479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 105.58

Hardback. In 16th and 17th century England conversation was an embodied act that held the capacity to negotiate, manipulate and transform social relationships. Early Modern Women in Conversation illuminates the extent to which gender shaped conversational interaction and demonstrates the significance of conversation as a rhetorical practice for women. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2011 ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230298620
ISBN
9780230298620
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.74

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137005366
ISBN
9781137005366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.34

Hardback. Provides a panoramic historical outlook of the European literary, cultural and political scene between 1789 and 1817, that is the Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the Restoration. Translator(s): Cemper, Kathleen Jameson-. Num Pages: 414 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2AH; BG; CJ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 785.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792360414
ISBN
9780792360414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.87

Paperback. How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the interdependence of content and expression in a key transitional writer between the Victorian and Modernist eras. Num Pages: 291 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349474592
ISBN
9781349474592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.53

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