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Hardcover. Charting surrealism in Latin American literature from its initial appearance in Argentina in 1928 to the surrealist-inspired work of several writers in the 1970s, Melanie Nicholson argues that surrealism has exercised a significant and positive influence over twentieth-century Latin American literature, particularly poetry. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137287793
- ISBN
- 9781137287793
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.93
€ 138.93
Hardcover. Through an examination of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of England and the English - in their changing nineteenth-century context, this book demonstrates that many of his representations were 'fabrications', more idealized than real, which played a vital part in the country's developing identity and sense of its place in the world. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137288899
- ISBN
- 9781137288899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. Recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japan's national identity, imperial ideology, and empire. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289759
- ISBN
- 9781137289759
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. This book explores how feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial female writers use and revise fairy tales and myths through the lens of Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, and Toni Morrison's work. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137289865
- ISBN
- 9781137289865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Hardcover. This is a revisionist study of the literary and visual representation of the nation in the century following the formation of the British state. It argues that the most engaging accounts of Great Britain subject their imagery to sustained artistic pressure, threatening to dismantle the national vision at the moment of its construction. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137290106
- ISBN
- 9781137290106
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Hardcover. As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; AN; DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137291400
- ISBN
- 9781137291400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.90€ 46.73
€ 52.90
€ 46.73
Hardcover. Addressing cultural representations of women's participation in the political violence and terrorism of the Italian anni di piombo ('years of lead', c. 1969-83), this book conceptualizes Italy's experience of political violence during those years as a form of cultural and collective trauma. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADT; APFA; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294067
- ISBN
- 9781137294067
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294074
- ISBN
- 9781137294074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294913
- ISBN
- 9781137294913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Paperback. By exploring of the construct of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature, Greven discovers that far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone, striving to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298089
- ISBN
- 9781137298089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Paperback. This series of close readings relates architecture, politics, and literary form to shed new light on the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey, offering new insights. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298126
- ISBN
- 9781137298126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.94
€ 65.94
Hardcover. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298980
- ISBN
- 9781137298980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. A book about the role America plays in the French imagination, as it translates to the French stage. Informed by a rich variety of Western cultural scholarship, Essif examines two dozen post-1960 works representing some of the most innovative dramaturgy of the last half century, including works by Gatti, Obaldia, Cixous, Koltes, and Vinaver. Num Pages: 367 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299024
- ISBN
- 9781137299024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.13
€ 68.13
Hardcover. This book is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an unusual angle. Focusing on reading specific examples of literature from Romanticism to Modernism, the study brings together the phenomenon of horror with the topical concepts of experience and intermediality and highlights the complex relations they present. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299086
- ISBN
- 9781137299086
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Paperback. In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299956
- ISBN
- 9781137299956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Hardcover. Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300492
- ISBN
- 9781137300492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. The first of its kind, this collection will explore the ways that literature and journalism have intersected in the work of American writers. Covering the impact of the newspaper on Whitman's poetry, nineteenth-century reporters' fabrications, and Stephen Colbert's alternative journalism, this book will illuminate and inform. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300621
- ISBN
- 9781137300621
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing, literature and commentary. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301314
- ISBN
- 9781137301314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.65
€ 65.65
Hardcover. Textual Imitation offers a new critique of the space between fiction and truth, poetry and philosophy. In a nimble, yet startlingly wide-ranging argument, esteemed scholar Jonathan Hart argues that recognition and misrecognition are the keys to understanding texts and contexts from the Old World to the New World. Num Pages: 172 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301345
- ISBN
- 9781137301345
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.03
€ 83.03
Hardcover. Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302670
- ISBN
- 9781137302670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97