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Literature: history & criticism

Hardback. Applying new readings of Four Quartets, this book completes a trilogy on the Christian character of Eliot's writing. Num Pages: 114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
114
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137470836
ISBN
9781137470836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.00

Hardback. The detective figure in contemporary American crime fiction increasingly relies on revenge to bring about justice in a society where there has been a sharp decline in moral values. This study demonstrates how the notion of the detective as a moral exemplar or heroic ideal breaks down in the works of writers such as James Ellroy and Sara Paretsky. Num Pages: 139 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
139
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137469656
ISBN
9781137469656
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.05

Hardcover. American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision as derivative, Malburne-Wade uses Victor Turner's concept of the social drama and the concept of the liminal to argue for a more complicated view of revision. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137469229
ISBN
9781137469229
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus, any disruptions to how a traditional page 'should look' can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137467355
ISBN
9781137467355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.56

Hardcover. Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137465986
ISBN
9781137465986
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. The different versions of Hamlet constitute one of the most vexing puzzles in Shakespeare studies. In this groundbreaking work, Shakespeare scholar Terri Bourus argues that this puzzle can only be solved by drawing on multiple kinds of evidence and analysis, including book and theatre history, biography, performance studies, and close readings. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 305 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137465610
ISBN
9781137465610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.37
€ 47.16

Hardcover. This is the first comprehensive study of the English crime play, presenting a survey of 250 plays performed in the London West End between 1900 and 2000. The first part is historically orientated while the second one establishes a tentative poetics of the genre. The third part presents an analysis of some 20 plays adapted from detective fiction. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 222 x 21. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137463036
ISBN
9781137463036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardcover. An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottish Gothic provides a new approach to Scottish fiction and Gothic literature, and offers a fuller picture of contemporary Scottish Gothic than any previous text. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137457196
ISBN
9781137457196
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. Filling a critical void, this book examines French women dramatists of the nineteenth-century who staged works prior to the lifting of censorship laws in 1864. Though none staged overtly feminist drama, Sophie de Bawr, Sophie Gay, Virginie Ancelot, and Delphine Girardin questioned patriarchal dominance and reconstructed ideals of womanhood. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137456717
ISBN
9781137456717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Hardcover. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was the First Lady of the United States when she assisted her brother, Grover Cleveland. She was also a literary scholar, novelist, and a poet who published work that empowered women. This book positions Cleveland in the historical context of the early twentieth century, when she helped shape female subjectivity and agency. Num Pages: 106 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137456526
ISBN
9781137456526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.84

Hardcover. Drawing from classical myth, the history of philosophy, literature, film, music, and painting, Workman connects the artistic claims of Chaucer and tests them against similar gestures in the history of philosophy and literature. What results is a radical retake on Chaucer as a philosopher and poet, upending any preconceived views. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137456519
ISBN
9781137456519
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardcover. Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world. Editor(s): Tally, Robert T., Jr. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137456496
ISBN
9781137456496
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.71

Hardcover. An homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of essays sheds new light on canonical authors such as Ibsen, Beckett, and Strindberg. Using style and structure as the connective thread, Mark Axelrod joins a wide and deep conversation on writers on writing. Num Pages: 105 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137456090
ISBN
9781137456090
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.54

Hardcover. Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism - the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime - this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous thinking, Blake held sympathies with certain aspects of Methodism. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HRCC95. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137455499
ISBN
9781137455499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

Paperback. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137455246
ISBN
9781137455246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.29

Hardback. A comprehensive introduction to the medieval languages and texts that inspired Tolkien's Middle-earth. Using key episodes in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, medieval texts are presented in their original language with translations. Essential for those who wish to delve deeper into the background to Tolkien's mythology. Num Pages: 395 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 757.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137454683
ISBN
9781137454683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 162.75

Hardcover. This book focuses on Baldwin's experiences as a gifted black writer who fought valiantly against racism and wrote openly about homosexual relationships. Baldwin's God is a 'mysteriously impersonal' force he calls love- 'something .. like a fire, like the wind, something which can change you.' Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137454331
ISBN
9781137454331
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.46

Hardcover. Exploring the relationship between space, place, and gendered violence as depicted in a range of South African writing, Gunne examines the social and political conditions of exceptionality during and after apartheid. Writers covered include: Hilda Bernstein, J.M. Coetzee, Achmat Dangor, Ruth First, Nadine Gordimer, and Antjie Krog. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137453426
ISBN
9781137453426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardback. These essays from a distinguished, international group of scholars trace the process of thinking and creation in one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century. Archival and newly available materials reveal this canonical author's composition process and artistic virtuosity. Editor(s): Costello, Bonnie; Galvin, Rachel Judith. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137452924
ISBN
9781137452924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.29

Hardcover. Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Bronte, Austen and Rossetti. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137452443
ISBN
9781137452443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. Newly revised and enlarged, the second edition of A Conrad Chronology draws upon a rich range of published and unpublished materials. It offers a detailed factual record of Joseph Conrad's unfolding life as seaman and writer as well as tracing the compositional and publication history of his major works. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Second Edition,New edition,2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137452382
ISBN
9781137452382
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 125 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137451293
ISBN
9781137451293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.00

Paperback. Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the densely layered stories. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137451224
ISBN
9781137451224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.72

Hardcover. This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'? Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137450326
ISBN
9781137450326
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.05

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