Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. James Ellroy: Demon Dog of Crime Fiction is a study of all of Ellroy's key works, from his debut novel Brown's Requiem to the epic Underworld USA trilogy. This book traces the development of Ellroy's writing style and the importance of his Demon Dog persona to carving out his unique place in American crime fiction. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137490827
- ISBN
- 9781137490827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. Through what he terms "bibliographical sociology", Suman Gupta explores the presence of English-language publications in the contemporary Indian context - their productions, circulations and readerships - to understand current social trends. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSB; JFC; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137489289
- ISBN
- 9781137489289
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Oscar Wilde's wit is foundational to his works, from his plays and novels to his self-defense at his trials. This book is a comprehensive account of Oscar Wilde's wit that focuses on discovering reasons for his critical success and ongoing legacy. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488480
- ISBN
- 9781137488480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. When it comes to James Joyce's landmark work, Ulysses, the influence of three literary giants, Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante, cannot be overlooked. Examining Joyce in terms of Homeric narrative, Dantesque structure, and Shakespearean plot, Weir rediscovers Joyce's novel through the lens of his renowned predecessors. Num Pages: 266 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488404
- ISBN
- 9781137488404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
Hardback. Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 179 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 179
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488398
- ISBN
- 9781137488398
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Condition: New
€ 116.19
€ 116.19
Hardcover. A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land, Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and students, chapters are free-standing and can be read in any order. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 502.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137488381
- ISBN
- 9781137488381
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Condition: New
€ 150.11
€ 150.11
Hardcover. This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. This book takes the first in-depth look at how people thought about, diagnosed and treated cancer in the early modern period, examining imaginative literature, medical texts and personal accounts. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137487520
- ISBN
- 9781137487520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.16
€ 40.16
Hardcover. From letters to visual poems to even tree carvings, this book examines Australian literature by close reading poetry from the 18th century and on. Michael Farrell's vast collage of material and analysis presents a unique and vivid perspective of colonial life, offering an unsettled space in which to rethink Australian writing. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485717
- ISBN
- 9781137485717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.48
€ 116.48
Hardback. This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation. Num Pages: 101 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 281.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 101
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485700
- ISBN
- 9781137485700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Hardcover. Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as seen by African American authors placed alongside certain white writers. Author analyzes texts by Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Frederick Douglass, and James Baldwin. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485601
- ISBN
- 9781137485601
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Through well-documented case studies this volume showcases the multifaceted relationship between memory and narrative from an interdisciplinary and international perspective in Eastern Europe. Editor(s): Mitroiu, Simona. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DV; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485519
- ISBN
- 9781137485519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. This volume offers an introductory overview to the short stories of Katherine Mansfield, discussing a wide range of her most famous stories from different viewpoints. The book elaborates on Mansfield's themes and techniques, thereby guiding the reader - via close textual analysis - to an understanding of the author's modernist techniques. Num Pages: 114 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 12. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137483874
- ISBN
- 9781137483874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.50
€ 82.50
Hardcover. Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex, multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss. Num Pages: 173 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482914
- ISBN
- 9781137482914
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardback. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 133 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 133
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482624
- ISBN
- 9781137482624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.28
€ 116.28
Hardcover. Famed and outspoken Russian poet, Maximilian Voloshin's notoriety has grown steadily since his slow release from Soviet censorship. For the first time, Landa showcases his vast poetic contributions, proving his words to be an overlooked solution both to the political and cultural turmoil engulfing the Soviet Union in the early twentieth century. Num Pages: 300 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482617
- ISBN
- 9781137482617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.95
€ 138.95
Hardcover. Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic tradition, Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley, arguing that they, as Hegel, are engaged in a struggle towards philosophical recognition. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482174
- ISBN
- 9781137482174
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Appearing in English for the first time, Geocriticism provides a theoretical foundation and critical exploration of geocriticism. Westphal draws on diverse theorists to argue that a geocritical approach enables fresh ways of seeing literary texts and of conducting literary studies. Translator(s): Tally, Robert T., Jr. Num Pages: 208 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 139 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479945
- ISBN
- 9781137479945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 138.77
€ 138.77
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479686
- ISBN
- 9781137479686
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Hardcover. Using place studies within a postcolonial context, this study explores the sense-aesthetic dimensions in literature such as smell, sound, etc. that often challenge the rationalizing logic of modernity. Through close readings of writers such as Conrad and Coetzee, Moslund invites scholars to shift focus from discourse analysis to aesthetic analysis. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479679
- ISBN
- 9781137479679
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Shaped by the experiences of the Iranian Revolution, Iranian-American autobiographers use this chaotic past to tell their current stories in the United States. Wagenknecht analyzes a wide range of such writing and draws new conclusions about migration, exile, and life between different and often clashing cultures. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137479617
- ISBN
- 9781137479617
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70