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Hardcover. Theory of Mind and Science Fiction shows how theory of mind provides an exciting 'new' way to think about science fiction and, conversely, how science fiction sheds light not only on theory of mind but also empathy, morality, and the nature of our humanity. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399113
- ISBN
- 9781137399113
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€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardcover. Using silent cinema as a critical lens enables us to reassess Katherine Mansfield's entire literary career. Starting from the awareness that innovation in literature is often the outcome of hybridisation, this book discusses not only a single case study, but also the intermedia exchanges in which literary modernism at large is rooted. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; APFA; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 288.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137400352
- ISBN
- 9781137400352
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€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory explores the philosophical and historical underpinnings of the postwar crisis and return of storytelling and shows their relevance for the ongoing debate on the significance of narrative for human existence. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401052
- ISBN
- 9781137401052
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism. The authors enrich and diversify the theoretical discourse on dialogic poetry and connect it to fertile critical fields like ethnic studies, translation studies, and ethics and literature. Editor(s): Scanlon, Mara; Engbers, Chad. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401274
- ISBN
- 9781137401274
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. This is the first scholarly study to explore the ever-expanding world of online Austen fandom and fan fiction writing. Using case studies from the Internet writing community and publisher, Wattpad, as well as dedicated fan websites, it illuminates the literary processes and products that have given Austen multiple afterlives in the digital arena. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401328
- ISBN
- 9781137401328
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Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardcover. Social Invisibility and Diasporas in Anglophone Literature and Culture is a transdisciplinary study of social invisibility and diasporas which theorizes the differential in/visibility of diasporas through the prism of cultural productions (literature and the visual arts, including media studies) by both established artists and emerging ones. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401380
- ISBN
- 9781137401380
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Neo-Victorian Freakery explores the way in which contemporary fiction, film, and television has revisited the lives of nineteenth-century freak show performers. It locates the neo-Victorian freak show as a crucial forum for debating the politics of disability, gender, sexuality and race within the genre more broadly. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402554
- ISBN
- 9781137402554
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Condition: New
€ 116.55
€ 116.55
Hardcover. Cosmopolitanism and Place considers the way contemporary Anglophone fiction connects global identities with the experience in local places. Looking at fiction set in metropolises, regional cities, and rural communities, this book argues that the everyday experience of these places produces forms of wide connections that emphasize social justice. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402660
- ISBN
- 9781137402660
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Respected by his peers and hugely successful internationally in his own time, Andre Maurois is now hardly read. Moderate and conciliatory in everything, including his literary style, he appealed to the educated reader of his time, but did those very qualities prevent him from achieving lasting distinction and impact? Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; DSBH; DSK; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402691
- ISBN
- 9781137402691
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Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90
Hardcover. Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402783
- ISBN
- 9781137402783
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential, commercial, emotional, recreational, earnest and mediated. Case studies include Oprah's Book Club, the Man Booker Prize and the Harry Potter phenomenon. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402912
- ISBN
- 9781137402912
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404077
- ISBN
- 9781137404077
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of the history of the novel in modernity. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404107
- ISBN
- 9781137404107
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Nabokov gained international fame with Lolita, a highly erotic and morally disturbing novel. Through its comprehensive study of the amorous and sexual behaviors of Nabokov's characters this book shows how Eros, both as a clown or a pervert, contributes to the poetic excellence of his novels and accounts for the unfolding of the plots. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137404589
- ISBN
- 9781137404589
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405494
- ISBN
- 9781137405494
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter
Morrison, Susan, Morrison, Susan Signe
Hardcover. Tracing the material and metaphoric waste through the western canon, Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions to understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in waste. A major contribution to the growing field of Waste Studies, this book urges the reader to see disposal as the creation of waste literature itself. Num Pages: 314 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 26. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405661
- ISBN
- 9781137405661
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Condition: New
€ 150.50
€ 150.50
Hardcover. Who owns, who buys, who gives, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing, placing characters socially and characterizing them symbolically. Jane Austen's Possessions and Dispossessions looks at the significance of objects in Austen's major novels, fragments, and juvenilia. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406309
- ISBN
- 9781137406309
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption are represented in poetry, theatre and the novel. The book relates its findings to contemporary concerns about food security. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137406361
- ISBN
- 9781137406361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. TransLatin Joyce explores the circulation of James Joyce's work in the Ibero-American literary system. The essays address Joycean literary engagements in Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Mexico, and Cuba, using concepts from postcolonial translation studies, antimodernism, game theory, sound studies, deconstruction, and post-Euclidean physics. Editor(s): Price, Brian L.; Salgado, Cesar A.; Schwartz, Professor John Pedro. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407450
- ISBN
- 9781137407450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate - time, space, and material things - were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics. Reading Crane alongside contemporary queer theory shows how he creates an alternative form of modernism. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407757
- ISBN
- 9781137407757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 437.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137410238
- ISBN
- 9781137410238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Serial Memoir chronicles the phenomenon of seriality in memoir, a transition in life writing toward repeated acts of self-representation in the later twentieth century. Such a shift demonstrates a new way to understand and represent constantly-shifting subjectivities and their ambivalent relationship to the concept and structure of the archive. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137410320
- ISBN
- 9781137410320
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBD; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137411532
- ISBN
- 9781137411532
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Romantic Englishness investigates how narratives of localised selfhood in English Romantic writing are produced in relation to national and transnational formations. This book focuses on autobiographical texts by authors such as John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Charles Lamb, and William Wordsworth. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137411624
- ISBN
- 9781137411624
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95