Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardback. This new edition of Anthony Roche's pioneering survey of twentieth-century Irish drama brings the story up-to-date with new material on the contemporary Irish theatre scene. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219786
- ISBN
- 9780230219786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.09
€ 128.09
Hardback. A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 239
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221277
- ISBN
- 9780230221277
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardback. This ground-breaking collection of essays presents a new 'bookish' literary history, which situates questions about books at the intersection of a range of debates about the role of authors and readers, the organization of knowledge, the vogue for collecting, and the impact of overlapping technologies of writing and shifting generic boundaries. Editor(s): Ferris, Ina; Keen, Paul. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 293
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222311
- ISBN
- 9780230222311
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardback. This book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research. Indispensable for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, it provides fascinating insights into the reception of, amongst others, Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron and Wordsworth. Editor(s): Watson, Nicola J. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; KNSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222816
- ISBN
- 9780230222816
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Hardback. After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first time combines detailed study of the theory and practice of screenwriting with new approaches to criticism and original studies of individual texts. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223615
- ISBN
- 9780230223615
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardback. This exploration of the wide variety of censorship that has shaped theatrical performance in twentieth and twenty-first century Britain examines the unpredictable outcomes of censorship, deep-seated anxieties about the performative influence of the stage, and the complex questions raised by acts of theatrical censorship. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; JFCA; JFMD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223783
- ISBN
- 9780230223783
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. This collection of essays by an international group of prominent scholars explores, for the first time, the implications of presentism for issues of sexual orientation and gender in Shakespeare's texts. It offers crucial insights into our present professional, theoretical, political, and social moment, as well as readings of particular texts. Editor(s): Gajowski, Evelyn. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 307
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230223837
- ISBN
- 9780230223837
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.08
€ 68.08
The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558-1680
. Ed(S): Harris, Johanna; Scott-Baumann, Eliz...
Hardback. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing. Editor(s): Harris, Johanna; Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228641
- ISBN
- 9780230228641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardback. An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st century globalized world of 'postmodernism.' Its concept of modernism encompasses not just the aesthetic avant-garde but a wide spectrum of social, political and cultural phenomena. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 342 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; DSBH; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBLX; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 342
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229570
- ISBN
- 9780230229570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.63
€ 67.63
Paperback. In this innovative book, now available in paperback for the first time, Frank investigates an intertextual exchange between nineteenth-century historical disciplines (philology, cosmology, geology archaeology and Darwin's theories of evolutionary biology) and the detective fictions of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 261
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230309
- ISBN
- 9780230230309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.16
€ 66.16
Hardcover. Modernism is fundamentally determined by its relationship to its own notions of style: oscillating between the poles of 'pure' style and 'purely' style, this traces the stylistic self-conceptualization of modernism from Schopenhauer and Flaubert in the 1850s, through Nietzsche and the symbolists in the 1880s, to the high modernists of the 1920s. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB; HPS; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230965
- ISBN
- 9780230230965
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. Studying exile and utopia as correlated cultural phenomena, and offering a wealth of historical examples with emphasis on the modern period, Spariosu argues that modernism itself can be seen as a product of an acute exilic consciousness that often seeks to generate utopian social schemes to compensate for its exacerbated sense of existential loss. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231412
- ISBN
- 9780230231412
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardback. Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230232211
- ISBN
- 9780230232211
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardback. A lucid intervention in current debates about identity and difference, this book uses the concept of Otherness to look again at both Gothic fiction and Postcolonialism. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230234062
- ISBN
- 9780230234062
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardback. London has become the focus of a ferocious imaginative energy since the rise of Thatcher. The Making of London analyses the body of work by writers who have committed their writing to the many lives of a city undergoing complex transformations, tracing a major shift in the representation of the capital city. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230234789
- ISBN
- 9780230234789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.11
€ 68.11
Hardback. In recent years controversy has surrounded the narrative turn in history and the historical turn in fiction. This book clarifies what is at stake, tracing connections between historiography and life-writing, arguing that the challenges posed in representing the past illuminate issues which are central to all literary narrative. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230235939
- ISBN
- 9780230235939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237483
- ISBN
- 9780230237483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.82
€ 105.82
Hardback. Reading a wide range of well known postcolonial writers along with more recent authors, Spaces of Fiction / Fictions of Space implements a new theory of literary spatial marking derived from the linguistic theory of deixis, and made accessible via an analysis of Beckett's 'semi-colonial' play Waiting for Godot. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230237766
- ISBN
- 9780230237766
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41
Paperback. This reference work provides the first comprehensive guide to the wide range of historical writing with which women have been involved, particularly since the Renaissance. It covers biographical writing, travelogue and historical fictions, broadening the concept of history to include forms of writing with which women have historically engaged Num Pages: 712 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 42. Weight in Grams: 968.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 712
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230239999
- ISBN
- 9780230239999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 279.02
€ 279.02
Hardcover. By theorising the idea of 'formative tensions' between cultural Modernism and Christianity, and by in-depth case studies of James Joyce, David Jones, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, the book argues that no coherent account of Modernism can ignore the continuing impact of Christianity. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 167 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241763
- ISBN
- 9780230241763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.04
€ 66.04
Paperback. By theorising the idea of 'formative tensions' between cultural Modernism and Christianity, and by in-depth case studies of James Joyce, David Jones, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, the book argues that no coherent account of Modernism can ignore the continuing impact of Christianity. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 172 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241770
- ISBN
- 9780230241770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.46
€ 78.46
paperback. Globalization is transforming theatre everywhere. As writers seek new opportunities to produce their work internationally, audiences are seeing the world -- and the stage -- differently. This groundbreaking study, now available in paperback, explores these developments in the context of the transformation of Ireland since the early 1990s. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241916
- ISBN
- 9780230241916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
Ingram, Allan; Sim, Professor Stuart; Lawlor,...
Hardback. Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230246317
- ISBN
- 9780230246317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardback. This book traces the creative process in Yeats's writing, in his making and remaking of verse, and in the development of a body of work over the last forty years of his life. Lyrical and philosophical poetry, verse-drama, and the shifting contexts of personal and political events are all dealt with here. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230271913
- ISBN
- 9780230271913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.74
€ 68.74