Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary,' and whether it should rank with the great novels by such journalist-literary figures as Twain, Cather, and Hemingway, who believed that fiction was the better place for a realistic writer to express the important truths of life. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353474
- ISBN
- 9781137353474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Paperback. This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346759
- ISBN
- 9781137346759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.36
€ 61.36
Hardcover. Olympe de Gouges has been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned solely for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and [the female] Citizen. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of increasing female agency and decreasing the entitlements of aristocratic males. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346452
- ISBN
- 9781137346452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.64
€ 61.64
Hardcover. Ezra Pound was an influential propagandist for British, Italian and ultimately German fascist movements. Using long-neglected manuscripts and cutting-edge approaches to fascism as a 'political religion', Feldman argues that Pound's case offers a revealing case study of a modernist author turned propagator of the 'fascist faith'. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; DSC; HBLW; HBTB; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345509
- ISBN
- 9781137345509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.18
€ 62.18
Hardcover. Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies of his plays. Num Pages: 111 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345349
- ISBN
- 9781137345349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.56
€ 61.56
Hardcover. A fresh look at the greatest poet of early eighteenth-century England, this highly readable book focuses on Pope's religious thinking and major poems. G. Douglas Atkins extends the argument that the Roman Catholic poet was no Deist, 'closet' or otherwise. Num Pages: 79 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSK; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344779
- ISBN
- 9781137344779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.31
€ 61.31
Hardcover. Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Perez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 2AB; 2ADS; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343574
- ISBN
- 9781137343574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.31
€ 62.31
Hardcover. This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343543
- ISBN
- 9781137343543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.13
€ 120.13
Hardcover. Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, through the frame of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the claim that lived experience is capable of being refined according to the paradoxically rich parameters of a minimalist aesthetic. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXJ4; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343369
- ISBN
- 9781137343369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of twentieth-century American literature. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340221
- ISBN
- 9781137340221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why does it? As a means to answering these questions, Wandering Women in French Film and Literature examines the phenomenon of 'narrative drift' through in-depth analysis of twentieth-century novels and films. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339980
- ISBN
- 9781137339980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. Moving away from territorially-bound narratives toward a more kinetic conceptualization of identity, this book represents the first analysis of the politics of American identity within the fiction and memoirs of Isabel Allende. Craig offers a radical transformation of societal frameworks through revised notions of place, temporality, and space. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSH; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339973
- ISBN
- 9781137339973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.85
€ 118.85
Hardcover. Writing Indians and Jews examines discursive practices surrounding the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Indian literature in English. These investigations make an important contribution to the study of contemporary South Asian and diasporic literature, and understandings of anti-Semitism, religious fundamentalism, and globalization. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339676
- ISBN
- 9781137339676
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.98
€ 61.98
Hardcover. This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major 'world authors' at the two ends of the twentieth century who write, systematically, about the colonial and postcolonial cities they were born in: James Joyce and Dublin, and Salman Rushdie and Bombay. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137336248
- ISBN
- 9781137336248
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This book offers a close philosophical reading of King Lear and Timon of Athens which provides insights into the groundbreaking ontological discourse on poverty and money. Analysis of the discourse of poverty and the critique of money helps to read Shakespeare philosophically and opens new reflections on central questions of our own time. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137335357
- ISBN
- 9781137335357
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Hardcover. Proposing the novel concept of the "literary NGO," this study combines interviews with contemporary East African writers with an analysis of their professional activities and the cultural funding sector to make an original contribution to African literary criticism and cultural studies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; DSB; JFC; JPWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137334046
- ISBN
- 9781137334046
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.26
€ 62.26
Hardcover. Anglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many texts. This study synthesizes the sacred language used in these texts with critical theory in order to create a holistic frame for interpretive analysis. Num Pages: 128 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 126
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332967
- ISBN
- 9781137332967
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.41
€ 61.41
Hardcover. With Thomas Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the long eighteenth century. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332486
- ISBN
- 9781137332486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.95
€ 62.95
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
€ 62.92
Hardcover. The Landscapes of the Sublime examines the place of the 'natural sublime' in the cultural history of the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Drawing on a range of scholarship and historical sources, it offers a fresh perspective on the different species of the 'natural sublime' encountered by British and European travellers and explorers. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332172
- ISBN
- 9781137332172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54