Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated the reading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349439683
- ISBN
- 9781349439683
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. Editor(s): Enns, Anthony; Trower, Shelley. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AN; DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 369.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349439522
- ISBN
- 9781349439522
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Condition: New
€ 126.97
€ 126.97
Paperback. New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas for research. A re-examination of the nature of prose fiction in English and its study from the Renaissance to the 21st century, it will become required reading for teachers and students of the novel and its history. Editor(s): Parrinder, Patrick; Nash, A.; Wilson, N. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 335.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349439461
- ISBN
- 9781349439461
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€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. This study re-examines Morgan le Fay in early medieval and contemporary Arthurian sources, arguing that she embodies the concerns of each era even as she defies social and gender expectations. Hebert uses leFay as a lens to explore traditional ideas of femininity, monstrousness, resistance, identity, and social expectations for women and men alike. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349437931
- ISBN
- 9781349437931
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€ 148.91
€ 148.91
Paperback. We are so used to images of words that it is easy to ignore the different ways in which they work in films. This book explores both the letters that come in the post and the many other kinds that are offered to us on screen. Series: Palgrave Close Readings in Film and Television. Num Pages: 151 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APFN; DSA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 151
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349437818
- ISBN
- 9781349437818
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Condition: New
€ 65.33
€ 65.33
Paperback. Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPN; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349437733
- ISBN
- 9781349437733
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
paperback. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349437719
- ISBN
- 9781349437719
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Wang, B.; Zhong, X. Series: China in Transformation. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBJF; JFC; JPA; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349437511
- ISBN
- 9781349437511
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Paperback. An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's attempts to create an incommensurable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole." Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DS; HPC. 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
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349436811
- ISBN
- 9781349436811
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Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Paperback. Editor(s): Theile, Verena; Tredennick, Linda. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 379.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349436361
- ISBN
- 9781349436361
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Condition: New
€ 66.24
€ 66.24
paperback. Humor in the Caribbean Literary Canon intimately examines Caribbean writers who engage canonical Western texts and forms, while using humor to challenge Western representations of people of African descent. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349436323
- ISBN
- 9781349436323
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This edited collection brings together a team of internationally prominent academics and delivers cutting-edge discourse on the strongly emerging tradition of experimentation in contemporary British theatre - redefining what the dramatic stands for today. Each chapter of the collection focuses on influential contemporary plays and playwrights. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; AS; D; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349436286
- ISBN
- 9781349436286
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Condition: New
€ 126.52
€ 126.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2G; 2GJ; CBX; CFB; CFGA; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349436163
- ISBN
- 9781349436163
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Condition: New
€ 65.76
€ 65.76
paperback. Cult of Defeat in Mexico's Historical Fiction: Failure, Trauma, and Loss examines recent Mexican historical novels that highlight the mistakes of the nineteenth century for the purpose of responding to present crises. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; HBJK; JFC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349435661
- ISBN
- 9781349435661
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Editor(s): Ferguson, T. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349435425
- ISBN
- 9781349435425
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Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Paperback. This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JF. 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
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349435234
- ISBN
- 9781349435234
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Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349435197
- ISBN
- 9781349435197
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Paperback. Using the idea of 'parability, 'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramon Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Pynchon, Eco, Forche, Merrill, Weiner, Plath, Ashbery, and Eigner." Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349435173
- ISBN
- 9781349435173
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Condition: New
€ 66.12
€ 66.12
Paperback. Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD. 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
- 247
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349433858
- ISBN
- 9781349433858
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Condition: New
€ 126.88
€ 126.88
Paperback. This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British novels, from Jane Austen to E. M. Forster. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JMR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349433773
- ISBN
- 9781349433773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95