Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. This book examines periodical production in the context of post-revolutionary Ireland, employing the unique lens of genre theory in detailed comparisons between Irish, English, Welsh, and Scottish magazines. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DSBH; GBCS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230605510
- ISBN
- 9780230605510
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.79
€ 62.79
Hardcover. Guerrero focuses on a selection of Mexican historical novels that are particularly revealing of literary trends during the last three decades. The study addresses the balancing act of Mexican writers as they trace a national identity in the face of globalization and respond to modernization on their own terms. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606371
- ISBN
- 9780230606371
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Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Cuban Women Writers: Imagining a Matria (New Concepts in Latino Americ...
Madeline Cámara Betancourt
Hardcover. Betancourt examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the creation of alternative matria frameworks that enunciate a feminist/feminine perspective of the nationalist discourse. Translator(s): Frye, David. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606586
- ISBN
- 9780230606586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.12
€ 62.12
Hardcover. By considering the disruptive potential of age disparate marriages in nineteenth-century British literature, Godfrey offers provocative new readings of canonical texts including Don Juan, Jane Eyre, and Bleak House. Num Pages: 268 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606739
- ISBN
- 9780230606739
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. Taking up such issues as mainstreaming, the male gaze, and female masculinity, this book puts forward provocative readings of little explored texts and offers new insights into the contemporary representation of lesbians. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; JFSK1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606746
- ISBN
- 9780230606746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.62
€ 62.62
Hardcover. This study traces the steady decline of classical authority in English literature from the mid-seventeenth century and the role of translation in shifting the emphasis away the classical learning. The author focuses on Virgil, once the most revered of poets but also explores the fate of some of his fellow Ancients. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230606760
- ISBN
- 9780230606760
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. This book surveys the genesis of the modern conception of memory where gender becomes crucial to the processes of memorialization and suggests ways in which technology opens a new chapter in the history of memory. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 577.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230607910
- ISBN
- 9780230607910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardcover. Reed explores the impact of early American theatre's portrayals of outlaw characters and the troubling force of the low in theatrical imagination. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 249 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 529.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230607927
- ISBN
- 9780230607927
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.63
€ 54.99
€ 44.63
Paperback. This new edition offers fascinating insights into one of the most celebrated love affairs of the Middle Ages. A new chapter charts the debate about the letters and offers fresh evidence to attribute them to Abelard and Heloise. The complete Latin text is reproduced with an annotated translation by Chiavaroli and Mews. Translator(s): Mews, Dr Constant J. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 442 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3H; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608139
- ISBN
- 9780230608139
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 109.51
€ 109.51
Hardcover. This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608177
- ISBN
- 9780230608177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.63
€ 54.99
€ 44.63
Hardcover. The book reveals how the fantastic is used in modern theatre as a manipulative device to encode the unspeakable and control audience response, challenging conventional readings of all authors who use the fantastic. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608214
- ISBN
- 9780230608214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.15
€ 62.15
Hardcover. The Culture of Soft Work examines American writers' responses to human resource management and motivational techniques in the workplace through readings of postmodern novels and a diverse range of other canonical and popular texts. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230608238
- ISBN
- 9780230608238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.70
€ 62.70
Hardcover. This book offers a post-structuralist inspired explication of Conrad's literary vision and its defining feature, the aesthetic principle. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609860
- ISBN
- 9780230609860
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.23
€ 62.23
Hardcover. Romantic Diasporas examines exile in the Romantic period from the different perspectives of French emigres in England, British convicts transported to Australia, and Jews in their perennial diaspora. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 162 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230610651
- ISBN
- 9780230610651
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. Many writers work in a language other than their mother tongue. In this collection, writers explore the role that bilingualism has played in their creative lives and their sense of self. Contributors include Anita Desai, Ariel Dorfman, Eva Hoffman, Nuala Ni Dhomnail, Ilan Stavans, Assia Djebar and Yoko Tawanda. Editor(s): Courtivron, Isabelle De. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2004th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230610705
- ISBN
- 9780230610705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.57
€ 71.57
Hardcover. From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, this cultural study reveals the role of 'Southern Mountain Whites' in American racial history and poetics. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230610934
- ISBN
- 9780230610934
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.87
€ 62.87
Hardcover. Utilizing cross-cultural strands, this comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities reworking the notion of the city as both instituted social space and imaginary community. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612181
- ISBN
- 9780230612181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Hardcover. This book reveals how poets within the U.S. multi-ethnic avant-garde give up the goal of narrating one comprehensive, rooted view of cultural reality in favour of constructing coherent accounts of relational, local selves and worlds. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612204
- ISBN
- 9780230612204
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. Philip Goldstein explains the socio-historical context of the diverse interpretive practices which make up the humanities in the USA in the 21st century. He considers the rise of college-educated women, minority readers, the increased influence of the Universities, the media and the dominance of the Universities by the sciences. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612259
- ISBN
- 9780230612259
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.03
€ 62.03
Hardcover. Conversion and Reform analyzes the work of those British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of fiction to reposition the novel as a progressive political tool. Includes new readings of key figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Holcroft. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JF; DSBD; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230612297
- ISBN
- 9780230612297
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.84
€ 62.84