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Paperback. Decadent Poetics explores the complex and vexed topic of decadent literature's formal characteristics and interrogates previously held assumptions around the nature of decadent form. Writers studied include Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and Algernon Charles Swinburne, as well as A.E. Housman, Arthur Machen and Hubert Crackanthorpe. Editor(s): Hall, Jason David; Murray, Alex. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349467624
ISBN
9781349467624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Paperback. This volume collects twelve new essays and aims to represent more comprehensively the abundance and variety of both Heaney's writing and scholarship on Heaney's writing. Editor(s): Hall, J; Crowder, A. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349281114
ISBN
9781349281114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.89

Hardback. Topics in this collection include discussions of acting the 'Big Four,' as well as studies on politics, language, and history. Contributors include Bernice Kliman, Gnter Walch, Lois Potter, and Dunbar Ogden.Shakespearean Illuminations Editor(s): Halio, Jay L.; Richmond, Hugh M. Num Pages: 371 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
371
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611491807
ISBN
9781611491807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.03

Paperback. The primary aim of this book is to focus on contemporary issues and to promote interdisciplinary approaches within the subject. Written by international scholars and practitioners in fields such as folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, religious studies, tourism and education, the book brings together in one volume a wide range of perspectives. Editor(s): Hale, Amy; Payton, Philip. Num Pages: 245 pages. BIC Classification: 2AF; DSB; HBTB; HRKP2; JFHF; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895873
ISBN
9780859895873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.44

Hardback. The city has been the main setting for modern African-American literature, and the fifteen essays in this collection show that this body of writing has been remarkable for the variety of ways in which it has made significant affirmations about urban society in America. Editor(s): Hakutani, Dr Yoshinobu; Butler, Robert. Num Pages: 265 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611471151
ISBN
9781611471151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.86

Paperback. Editor(s): Haight, Gordon S.; VanArsdel, T. Num Pages: 174 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 247.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349059713
ISBN
9781349059713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.56

Paperback. Famously, Blake believed that 'without contraries' there could be no 'progression'.Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts." Editor(s): Haggarty, Sarah; Mee, John. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349364879
ISBN
9781349364879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary market-place, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture. Editor(s): Hadjiafxendi, K; MacKay, P. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349525362
ISBN
9781349525362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.04

Hardback. Though the efficacy of literary biography has been widely contested by academic theorists, attention to the lives of authors remains an enduring fact of our literary history. The essays in this collection address the relationships among American literary biography, documentation, and interpretation from a practitionerOs perspective. Editor(s): Habich, Robert D.; Hudspeth, Robert N. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611472691
ISBN
9781611472691
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.93

Hardback. Editor(s): Habermann, Ina; Witen, Michelle. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 519.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137518347
ISBN
9781137518347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.07

Paperback. An examination of the intriguing question: what happens when the ideas of a thinker such as William James, who, despite his originality, was deeply rooted in American traditions, are refracted through a culture that draws on a heritage profoundly different from his own? Editor(s): Grossman, Joan Delaney; Rischin, Ruth. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HPCD; HPCF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780739105276
ISBN
9780739105276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.66

Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture. Editor(s): Groden, Michael; Kreiswirth, Martin; Szeman, Imre. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 885.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421406381
ISBN
9781421406381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 118.85

Paperback. This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of literary utopian projects between 1885 and 1945, and reconstructs their cultural work by locating them in the material 'spaces' in which they originated. The book brings together work by leading academics and younger scholars. Editor(s): Gregory, R.; Kohlmann, Benjamin. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338337
ISBN
9781349338337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

Paperback. Editor(s): Greenall, Annjo K.; Mitchell, Domhnall. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DN; 2ADF; DSB; HBTR; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 172 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fagbokforlaget Norway
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9788245017212
ISBN
9788245017212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 38.16

Hardback. Editor(s): Green, Michael A.; Shvabrin, Stanislav A. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 18. Weight in Grams: 553.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611482201
ISBN
9781611482201
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 131.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Green, Mary Jean; etc.; Gould, Karen (Associate Dean, Graduate College and Professor of French, Bowling Green State University, USA); et al. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSA; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816626298
ISBN
9780816626298
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardback. Nabokov's complex multi-lingual, multi-cultural writings offer ever-new delights and present new challenges to their readers. This volume and its companion have been compiled to reflect something of the richness of this artistic world and the variety of responses it evokes. Editor(s): Grayson, Jane; McMillin, Arnold; Meyer, Priscilla. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333964156
ISBN
9780333964156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Hardback. Explores the diverse theories and assessments of the dialectic between reason and imagination in a collection of essays by philosophers and literary and cultural critics Editor(s): Gray, Richard T.; Halmi, Nicholas; Handwerk, Gary J.; Rosenthal, Michael A.; Vieweg, Klaus. Series: Robert B Heilman Books. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295990989
ISBN
9780295990989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.17

paperback. This collection combines previously unpublished letters between African-American poet Langston Hughes and South-African writers of the 1950s and 1960s with scholarly commentary and criticism. The letters tell a fascinating story of the civil rights movement and apartheid and the struggle to overthrow it. Editor(s): Graham, Shane; Walters, J. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2H; DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2010
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349287499
ISBN
9781349287499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent. Editor(s): Grace, Nancy M.; Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 575.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230108400
ISBN
9780230108400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.75

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