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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. This collection of new essays is the first to explore the rich afterlife of one of Shakespeare's most recognizable characters. With contributions from an international group of established and emerging scholars, The Afterlife of Ophelia moves beyond the confines of existing scholarship and forges new lines of inquiry beyond Shakespeare studies. Editor(s): Peterson, Dr. Kaara L. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 271 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230116900
ISBN
9780230116900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.97

Hardback. Written in an accessible narrative style, The Afterlife of Little Women speaks to scholars, librarians, and devoted Alcott fans. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12, 2 black & white halftones, 10 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421415581
ISBN
9781421415581
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 42.52

Hardcover. This bold intervention into the debate over the memory and 'post-memory' of the Holocaust both scrutinizes recent academic theories of post-Holocaust trauma and provides a new reading of literary and architectural memory texts related to the Holocaust. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMGD; DSBH; HBTZ1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230581876
ISBN
9780230581876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.95

Hardcover. Through an analysis of the posthumous in her work, the construction of "Christina Rossetti" by her brothers, and the history of reception, this study asks how "speaking with the dead" can avoid critical ventriloquy. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333721834
ISBN
9780333721834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 301.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349405060
ISBN
9781349405060
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.59

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

€ 61.59

Hardcover. 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: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230338739
ISBN
9780230338739
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.12

Hardback. Series: Afro-Latin@ Diasporas. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; DSBH; JFSL3; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 259 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783319319209
ISBN
9783319319209
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.81

Hardback. Through readings of literary works, legal opinions, and treatises, The Affective Life of Law demonstrates that both law and literature are necessary complements in the efforts to take responsibility for the loss and damage inflicted by the first and second World Wars. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761666
ISBN
9780804761666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.85

Hardcover. Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind - and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination. Editor(s): Stone Horton, Stephanie. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137381651
ISBN
9781137381651
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 61.92

Paperback. The once influential theory Neoanalysis held that motifs and episodes in the "Iliad" derive from the "Aethiopis. "Given its vast potential implications for the "Iliad" s origins, the recent revival of Neoanalysis in subtler form inspires this critical reappraisal by Malcolm Davies of that theory s more sophisticated reincarnation." Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674088313
ISBN
9780674088313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. A full-length study of the visual poetry of the early twentieth century. Bohn illuminates the works of Apollinaire, Josep-Maria Junow, Guillermo de Torre, and others. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11ill.48figs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226063256
ISBN
9780226063256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.39

Hardback. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 166 x 17. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611490848
ISBN
9781611490848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.54

Hardcover. Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative in their use of spectacle. Its most striking feature is the use of the one-to-one analogies between Greene's drama and modern cinema, in order to explore the plays' stage effects. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137332394
ISBN
9781137332394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.92

Paperback. Examining the work of the Elizabethan playwright, Robert Greene, this book argues that Greene's plays are innovative in their use of spectacle. Its most striking feature is the use of the one-to-one analogies between Greene's drama and modern cinema, in order to explore the plays' stage effects. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349461707
ISBN
9781349461707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.53

Paperback. Regarded by many as one of the leading works of this century, this novel documents the resistance to fascism in Europe (and within Germany) during WWII. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Series: Aesthetics of Resistance S. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1572.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822335467
ISBN
9780822335467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.18

Paperback. Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period. Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781487521530
ISBN
9781487521530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 37.94

Paperback. Features chapters that focus on the following questions: In which literary projects can we discover a new quality of literariness? What are the terminological and methodological means to examine these literatures? How can we productively link the logics of the play of literary texts and their reception in the reading process? Editor(s): Gendolla, Peter; Schafer, Jorgen. Num Pages: 394 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Condition
New
SKU
V9783899424935
ISBN
9783899424935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 35.60

Hardcover. During the Cold War, many popular American novels were labelled "middlebrow," leading to a general belief that these texts held less intellectual merit. Perrin debunks these unfair assumptions through works by James Michener, Harper Lee, and Leon Uris, arguing that such writers made a major contribution to the tradition of American literature. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137541307
ISBN
9781137541307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.45

Hardback. Offers a study of Japanese cultural expression. This title reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility - present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings - helped create an 'aesthetic of fascism' in the years leading up to World War II. Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; DSBH; HBJF; JPFQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520245051
ISBN
9780520245051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.06
€ 64.18

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