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Hardcover. By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian. This book is the second in a trilogy which includes T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word. Num Pages: 118 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137446886
ISBN
9781137446886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.96

Hardcover. This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's The Help. Editor(s): Garcia, Claire Oberon; Young, Vershawn Ashanti; Pimentel, Charise. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 538.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137446251
ISBN
9781137446251
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.36

Hardcover. Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones. Editor(s): Robbins, Timothy R.; Gonzalez, Jose Eduardo. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137444707
ISBN
9781137444707
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardback. The legacy of antifascist partisan, Auschwitz survivor, and author Primo Levi continues to drive exciting interdisciplinary scholarship. The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied as ethics, memory, and media studies. Editor(s): Vuohelainen, Minna; Chapman, Arthur. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137442338
ISBN
9781137442338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

hardcover. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBJD1; JFSJ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137442321
ISBN
9781137442321
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.78

Hardcover. Providing imaginatively contextualized close readings, this study focuses on three key eighteenth-century writers - Haywood, Hill and Fowke. Wilputte traces the development of the passionate language of these writers whose lives, writing careers, and interests intersected from 1720 to 1724 in the "Hillarian" coterie. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137442048
ISBN
9781137442048
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and Don Juan figure. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137442031
ISBN
9781137442031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

Hardcover. A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137441645
ISBN
9781137441645
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.80

Hardcover. Telling West Indian Lives: Life Narrative and the Reform of Plantation Slavery Cultures 1804-1834 draws historical and literary attention to life story and narration in the late plantation slavery period. Drawing on new archival research, it highlights the ways written narrative shaped evangelical, philanthropic, and antislavery reform projects. Series: New Caribbean Studies. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJW; DS; HBTV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137441027
ISBN
9781137441027
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.80

Paperback. This original and incisive study of the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison uses cutting edge cultural and literary theory to examine the 'knotted' mother-daughter relations that form the thematic basis of the texts examined. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137440853
ISBN
9781137440853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.90

Hardcover. Tracing the changing conceptions of nationality in the work of traveling writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and Claude McKay, Modernism and Mobility argues that the passport system is an indispensable segue into discussions of literary modernism. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137439826
ISBN
9781137439826
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137439727
ISBN
9781137439727
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 502.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Revised and Expanded ed
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137439574
ISBN
9781137439574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.37

Hardcover. Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137438942
ISBN
9781137438942
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137438348
ISBN
9781137438348
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137437051
ISBN
9781137437051
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.30

Hardback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 279 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137436368
ISBN
9781137436368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Hardback. Series: Literary Disability Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; F. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137435101
ISBN
9781137435101
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.25

Hardcover. This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics. Georges Sorel's theory of social myth is used as a starting point for exploring the ways in which the experience of art can be seen as a form of religious experience. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; HPN; HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137434760
ISBN
9781137434760
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.68

Hardcover. Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 2AB; 2ADS; AV; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137433329
ISBN
9781137433329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.80

Hardcover. Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media. Editor(s): Hernandez, Ellie D.; Gibson, Eliza Rodriguez Y. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137431073
ISBN
9781137431073
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardcover. Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945. Editor(s): Landgraf, Diemo. Num Pages: 245 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137431011
ISBN
9781137431011
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

Hardcover. The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AN; DSG; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137430663
ISBN
9781137430663
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. This volume offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art in the context of Continental Europe. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in several European countries together with her own translations of other European writers. Num Pages: 281 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137429964
ISBN
9781137429964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.23

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