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Literature: history & criticism

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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces the impact haiku has made on modernist poetics. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616554
ISBN
9780230616554
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Veteran scholar Jonathan Hart explores notions of 'text' and 'context' in Shakespeare's work, highlighting the nuanced social and historical commentary that imbue The Bard's work. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230616776
ISBN
9780230616776
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.00

Hardback. Using a variety of approaches from new historicism to performance criticism, Kehler offers a detailed, feminist study of the thirty-one widow characters of Shakespeare's plays. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617032
ISBN
9780230617032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
177
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230617513
ISBN
9780230617513
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Hardback. Miriamne Ara Krummel challenges the accepted history of the English Middle Ages as a monolithic age of Christian faith. By cataloguing and explicating the complex depictions of semitisms to be found in medieval literature and material culture, this volume argues that Jews were always present in medieval England. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 262 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; DSBB; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618701
ISBN
9780230618701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardback. This book examines and critiques the influence of postmodernism on current conceptions of race, within and beyond literary and cultural studies. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618749
ISBN
9780230618749
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. This book places the major novels of Jane Austen within the moral and social contexts of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England in a clear and accessible language. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618770
ISBN
9780230618770
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardback. With an unconventional new perspective, Anderson identifies Edgar Allan Poe's texts as a journey and explores the ways Poe both encounters and transcends the realm of the material. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619432
ISBN
9780230619432
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Hardback. This comprehensive volume develops a lucid yet sophisticated and innovative overview of the interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to cultural taboo that have emerged in recent years. Editor(s): Horlacher, Stefan; Glomb, Stefan; Heiler, Lars. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619906
ISBN
9780230619906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.89

Hardback. Through a series of contextualized close readings, this study traces the cultural work performed by modern deployments of the classical narrative of the 'underworld descent.' Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230620469
ISBN
9780230620469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. The author examines anxieties about crowds, fiction and disguise, women authors, and gender fluidity in works by Scott, Godwin, Lewis, Maturin, and Mary Shelley. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 247 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230621107
ISBN
9780230621107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. The first full-length study of sensationalist and melodramatic elements in Hardy's novels uses six of his texts to demonstrate the ways in which Hardy uses the melodramatic mode to advance his critique of established Victorian cultural beliefs through the employment of non-realistic plot devices and sensational 'excess.' Num Pages: 257 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230621466
ISBN
9780230621466
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. This book traces the rise of cyberfiction in the work of key authors in the field, including J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and William Gibson, among others. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230621510
ISBN
9780230621510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.07

Hardback. Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops - in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined innocent young men. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 241 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230623668
ISBN
9780230623668
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312158422
ISBN
9780312158422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJD; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 495.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312176525
ISBN
9780312176525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.32

Hardback. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312211738
ISBN
9780312211738
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312213053
ISBN
9780312213053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.64

Hardback. BIC Classification: DSBH. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312214838
ISBN
9780312214838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.53

Hardcover. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312214982
ISBN
9780312214982
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

Hardback. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 411.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312221492
ISBN
9780312221492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 37.94

Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; BG; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312225605
ISBN
9780312225605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

hardcover. Editor(s): Robbins, R. Num Pages: 260 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
2000th Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312231699
ISBN
9780312231699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.29

Hardcover. Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved. Num Pages: 200 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312233877
ISBN
9780312233877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

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