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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent. Editor(s): Grace, Nancy M.; Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108400
- ISBN
- 9780230108400
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€ 67.75
€ 67.75
Langston Hughes and the South African Drum Generation: The Corresponde...
. Ed(S): Graham, Shane; Walters, J.
paperback. This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it. Editor(s): Graham, Shane; Walters, J. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2010
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349287499
- ISBN
- 9781349287499
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. Explores the diverse theories and assessments of the dialectic between reason and imagination in a collection of essays by philosophers and literary and cultural critics Editor(s): Gray, Richard T.; Halmi, Nicholas; Handwerk, Gary J.; Rosenthal, Michael A.; Vieweg, Klaus. Series: Robert B Heilman Books. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295990989
- ISBN
- 9780295990989
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Condition: New
€ 140.24
€ 140.24
Hardback. Nabokov's complex multi-lingual, multi-cultural writings offer ever-new delights and present new challenges to their readers. This volume and its companion have been compiled to reflect something of the richness of this artistic world and the variety of responses it evokes. Editor(s): Grayson, Jane; McMillin, Arnold; Meyer, Priscilla. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333964156
- ISBN
- 9780333964156
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Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Paperback. Editor(s): Green, Mary Jean; etc.; Gould, Karen (Associate Dean, Graduate College and Professor of French, Bowling Green State University, USA); et al. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816626298
- ISBN
- 9780816626298
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Hardback. Editor(s): Green, Michael A.; Shvabrin, Stanislav A. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 18. Weight in Grams: 553.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611482201
- ISBN
- 9781611482201
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Condition: New
€ 131.81
€ 131.81
Paperback. Editor(s): Greenall, Annjo K.; Mitchell, Domhnall. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DN; 2ADF; DSB; HBTR; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fagbokforlaget Norway
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788245017212
- ISBN
- 9788245017212
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.16
€ 52.99
€ 38.16
Paperback. An exploration of Philip Pullman's bestselling trilogy, "His Dark Materials". It looks at the many issues raised by the Dark Materials world, and by the controversies it has stirred up. Editor(s): Greene, Richard; Robison, Rachel. Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSY; HPX; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 11. Weight in Grams: 280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812696714
- ISBN
- 9780812696714
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.80
€ 21.99
€ 19.80
Paperback. This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars. Editor(s): Gregory, R.; Kohlmann, Benjamin. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349338337
- ISBN
- 9781349338337
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Condition: New
€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture. Editor(s): Groden, Michael; Kreiswirth, Martin; Szeman, Imre. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421406381
- ISBN
- 9781421406381
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Condition: New
€ 118.85
€ 118.85
Paperback. An examination of the intriguing question: what happens when the ideas of a thinker such as William James, who, despite his originality, was deeply rooted in American traditions, are refracted through a culture that draws on a heritage profoundly different from his own? Editor(s): Grossman, Joan Delaney; Rischin, Ruth. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HPCD; HPCF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Lexington Books United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780739105276
- ISBN
- 9780739105276
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Condition: New
€ 65.66
€ 65.66
Hardback. Editor(s): Habermann, Ina; Witen, Michelle. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137518347
- ISBN
- 9781137518347
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Condition: New
€ 150.07
€ 150.07
Hardback. Though the efficacy of literary biography has been widely contested by academic theorists, attention to the lives of authors remains an enduring fact of our literary history. The essays in this collection address the relationships among American literary biography, documentation, and interpretation from a practitionerOs perspective. Editor(s): Habich, Robert D.; Hudspeth, Robert N. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472691
- ISBN
- 9781611472691
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Condition: New
€ 131.93
€ 131.93
Paperback. Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary market-place, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture. Editor(s): Hadjiafxendi, K; MacKay, P. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349525362
- ISBN
- 9781349525362
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Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Paperback. Famously, Blake believed that 'without contraries' there could be no 'progression'.Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts." Editor(s): Haggarty, Sarah; Mee, John. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349364879
- ISBN
- 9781349364879
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Condition: New
€ 66.10
€ 66.10
Paperback. Editor(s): Haight, Gordon S.; VanArsdel, T. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 247.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349059713
- ISBN
- 9781349059713
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Condition: New
€ 65.56
€ 65.56
Hardback. The city has been the main setting for modern African-American literature, and the fifteen essays in this collection show that this body of writing has been remarkable for the variety of ways in which it has made significant affirmations about urban society in America. Editor(s): Hakutani, Dr Yoshinobu; Butler, Robert. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 265
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611471151
- ISBN
- 9781611471151
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€ 131.86
€ 131.86
Paperback. The primary aim of this book is to focus on contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches within the subject. Written by international scholars and practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings together in one volume a wide range of perspectives. Editor(s): Hale, Amy; Payton, Philip. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 2AF; DSB; HBTB; HRKP2; JFHF; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895873
- ISBN
- 9780859895873
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Condition: New
€ 42.44
€ 42.44
Hardback. Topics in this collection include discussions of acting the 'Big Four,' as well as studies on politics, language, and history. Contributors include Bernice Kliman, Gnter Walch, Lois Potter, and Dunbar Ogden.Shakespearean Illuminations Editor(s): Halio, Jay L.; Richmond, Hugh M. Num Pages: 371 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press United States
- Number of pages
- 371
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611491807
- ISBN
- 9781611491807
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Condition: New
€ 149.03
€ 149.03
Paperback. This volume collects twelve new essays and aims to represent more comprehensively the abundance and variety of both Heaney's writing and scholarship on Heaney's writing. Editor(s): Hall, J; Crowder, A. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349281114
- ISBN
- 9781349281114
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Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
Paperback. Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe. Editor(s): Hall, Jason David; Murray, Alex. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349467624
- ISBN
- 9781349467624
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Condition: New
€ 65.89
€ 65.89
The History of Reading. Evidence from the British Isles, c.1750-1950.
. Ed(S): Halsey, K.; Owens, W.
Paperback. 'Reading has a history. But how can we recover it?'This volumebrings together original research essays focusing on the history of reading in the British Isles, using evidence ranging from library records to Mass Observation surveystohighlight the social factors that influence a seemingly private, individual activity." Editor(s): Halsey, K.; Owens, W. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFC. 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
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349320110
- ISBN
- 9781349320110
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Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Paperback. This book explores the publishing and reading practices formed and changed by the First World War. From an exploration of British and Australian trench journals to the impact of war on the literary figures of the home front, the essays provide new information about the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during this time. Editor(s): Hammond, M.; Towheed, Shafquat. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HBJD1; HBTB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349352876
- ISBN
- 9781349352876
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Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardback. Presenting twelve essays that explore in depth the publishing and reading practices which were formed and changed by the First World War. This work provides crucial historical information about the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during a period of international crisis. Editor(s): Hammond, Mary; Towheed, Shafquat. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DSBH; KNTP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500761
- ISBN
- 9780230500761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90