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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. This volume brings together a team of leading scholars in Spanish studies to interrogate the contemporary significance of the medieval past, offering a counterbalance to intellectual withdrawal from urgent public debates. Editor(s): Doubleday, Simon R.; Coleman, D. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBJF; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539406
ISBN
9781349539406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

paperback. Through an in-depth analysis of the works of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo, this book offers up a new theory of the heroic for the times we live in. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539383
ISBN
9781349539383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.01

Paperback. White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations of African American characters, however, this book makes visible the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black. Num Pages: 213 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539369
ISBN
9781349539369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSBH5. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539345
ISBN
9781349539345
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This study demonstrates how the insights afforded us by chaos theory can be applied to the analysis of narrative structure and meaning. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539321
ISBN
9781349539321
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.70

Paperback. Editor(s): Hoeveler, Diane Long; Schuster, Donna Decker. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349539307
ISBN
9781349539307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. This book reveals women writers' key role in constituting seventeenth-century public culture and, in doing so, offers a new reading of that culture as begun in intimate circles of private dialogue and extended along transnational networks of public debate. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538898
ISBN
9781349538898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. As it traces the textual history of the works of authors like Bobby Sands and Gerry Adams, this book""analyzes Republican resistance to disciplinary structures, demonstrating the ways in which prisoners appropriate space through discursive strategies. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 259 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538874
ISBN
9781349538874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538829
ISBN
9781349538829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Paperback. Editor(s): Perez, R. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538621
ISBN
9781349538621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 250 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD; HBJD1; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538546
ISBN
9781349538546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Paperback. This book reveals a female sexual economy in the marketplace of contemporary short fiction which locates a struggle for sexual power between mothers and daughters within a larger struggle to pursue that object of the American dream: whiteness. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538508
ISBN
9781349538508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book explores the ways Arabic, Jewish and Christian intellectuals in medieval Iberia (courtiers and clerics) adapt and transform the Andalusi go-between figure in order to represent their own role as cultural intermediaries. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538447
ISBN
9781349538447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Paperback. This is a literary and anthropological analysis of historical narratives that illuminate regional notions of cosmological kingship, cosmopolitan notions of Islamic law and mysticism, and global notions of the modern bureaucratic state. These notions have coexisted in Southeast Asia since the Sixteenth century and influence politics to this day. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HRH; PGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538423
ISBN
9781349538423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book offers a case study of four of the most influential contemporary Chinese writers and "cultural bastards"--Duoduo, an underground "misty" poet; Wang Shuo, a "hooligan" writer; Zhang Chengzhi, an old "Red Guard" and new "cultural heretic;" and Wang Xiaobo, a chronicler of Rabelaisian modern history. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538409
ISBN
9781349538409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBAH; HBWQ; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
177
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538386
ISBN
9781349538386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book analyzes the political theater of the 1930s, establishing its aesthetics as an important alternative to the dominant European modernist paradigm of the time. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538065
ISBN
9781349538065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

Paperback. This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennet locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; HBJK; HBL; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538041
ISBN
9781349538041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Paperback. This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage. Editor(s): Avery, E. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; DS; HRCM; HRJ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538027
ISBN
9781349538027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.42

Paperback. This book examines literature by African, Native, and Jewish American novelists at the beginning of the twentieth century, a period of radical dislocation from homelands for these three ethnic groups as well as the period when such voices established themselves as central figures in the American literary canon. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJK; HBL; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349538003
ISBN
9781349538003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. In the first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, "The Latino/a Canon "challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537983
ISBN
9781349537983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.80

Paperback. Drawing on case studies, this collection offers international perspectives on how community media serves their audiences. The contributors present perspectives on the ever-burgeoning area of grassroots. Their research represents participant observation, hands-on community involvement, boards of directors, content analysis, and ethical inquiries. Num Pages: 271 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DS; GTC; JFC; JFD; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537969
ISBN
9781349537969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book traces the process through which authors like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton adapted, rewrote, or resisted romance, mapping a world in which new cross-cultural contacts and religious conflicts demanded a rethinking of some of the most fundamental terms of early modern identity. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; HRH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537945
ISBN
9781349537945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. A fresh exploration of the representation of poverty and class in American literature and film, through the juxtaposition of films, writings and the unusual lives of Zora Neale Hurston, Stephen Crane, Henry Miller and Michel Foucault. The book argues for Hurston's centrality, not merely to the African-American canon, but to the American tradition. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AP; DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537921
ISBN
9781349537921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

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