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Hardcover. Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity. Editor(s): Sell, Jonathan P. A. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230314221
- ISBN
- 9780230314221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Hardcover. The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium. This book offers perspectives on the ways in which practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address contemporary concerns and reach new audiences. It provides a resource for those interested in the creative reception of Renaissance drama. Editor(s): Brown, Sarah; Lublin, Robert I.; McCulloch, Lynsey. Num Pages: 337 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 29. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230313859
- ISBN
- 9780230313859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.79
€ 67.79
Hardcover. Focusing on the sexualized violence of Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy - including the novels, Swedish film adaptations, and Hollywood blockbusters - this collection of essays puts Larsson's work into dialogue with Scandinavian and Anglophone crime novels by writers including Jo Nesbo, Hakan Nesser, Mo Hayder and Val McDermid. Editor(s): Astrom, Berit; Gregersdotter, Katarina; Horeck, Tanya. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230308404
- ISBN
- 9780230308404
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood's wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies, including celebrity, British versus Scottish nationalism, and the rise of terror and detective fiction. Editor(s): Morrison, Robert; Roberts, Daniel S. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 307 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230304413
- ISBN
- 9780230304413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. 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, Rosalyn; Kohlmann, Benjamin. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230303720
- ISBN
- 9780230303720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.29
€ 67.29
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230302785
- ISBN
- 9780230302785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. Early modern drama is steeped in biblical language, imagery and stories. This collection examines the pervasive presence of scripture on the early modern stage. Exploring plays by writers such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Webster, the contributors show how theatre offers a site of public and communal engagement with the Bible. Editor(s): Streete, Adrian. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230301092
- ISBN
- 9780230301092
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.60
€ 67.60
Hardcover. Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity. Editor(s): Vanacker, Sabine; Wynne, Catherine. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300507
- ISBN
- 9780230300507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between these crossings and specific psychological, social, historical and political contexts. Editor(s): Kim, Rina; Westall, Claire. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230299870
- ISBN
- 9780230299870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Hardcover. The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters. These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational. Editor(s): Brown, Erica; Grover, Mary. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298361
- ISBN
- 9780230298361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. This collection analyzes philosophical, psycho-analytic and aesthetic contexts of the discourse of melancholia in British and postcolonial literature and culture and seeks to trace the multi-faceted phenomenon of melancholia from the early modern period to the present. Texts discussed range from Shakespeare and Milton to Coetzee and Barker. Editor(s): Middeke, Prof. Martin; Wald, Christina. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230293724
- ISBN
- 9780230293724
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Who was the early twentieth-century masculine middlebrow reader? How did his reading choices respond to his environment? This book looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s and examines the masculine reader and author, and how they challenged feminine middlebrow and literary modernism. Editor(s): Macdonald, Kate. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230290792
- ISBN
- 9780230290792
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.21
€ 67.21
Paperback. This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches to teaching the period and aims to revitalize the connection between teaching and research. Editor(s): Conroy, Derval; Clarke, Danielle. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBG; JNM; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284517
- ISBN
- 9780230284517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover. This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches to teaching the period and aims to revitalize the connection between teaching and research. Editor(s): Conroy, Derval; Clarke, Danielle. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; JNMN; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284500
- ISBN
- 9780230284500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work. Editor(s): Spiers, John. Num Pages: 270 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230284029
- ISBN
- 9780230284029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Hardcover. Blake said of his works, 'Tho' I call them Mine I know they are not Mine'. So who owns Blake? Blake has always been more than words on a page. This volume takes Blake 2.0 as an interactive concept, examining digital dissemination of his works and reinvention by artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers across a variety of twentieth-century media. Editor(s): Clark, Steve; Connolly, Tristanne; Whittaker, Jason. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230280335
- ISBN
- 9780230280335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.81
€ 128.81
Hardcover. Providing an extensive reassessment of dominant and recurring themes in Ballard's writing, including historical violence, pornography, post 9/11 politics, and urban space, this book also engages with Ballard's 'late' modernism; his experimentation with style and form; and his sustained interests in psychology and psychopathology. Editor(s): Baxter, Jeannette; Wymer, Rowland. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278127
- ISBN
- 9780230278127
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.48
€ 67.48
Hardcover. Locating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment and the poetics and ethics of doubt. Editor(s): Batsaki, Yota; Mukherji, Subha; Schramm, Jan-Melissa. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277885
- ISBN
- 9780230277885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. A revisionist study of Mansfield as a profoundly colonial yet daringly experimental writer, at the forefront of modernism. The essays in this volume draw on the complete journals, letters and stories, to reveal Mansfield as a modernist who transcended her artistic influences through a supreme understanding of voice, being and subjectivity. Editor(s): Kimber, Gerri; Wilson, Janet. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277731
- ISBN
- 9780230277731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses. Editor(s): Gallagher, Lowell; Raman, Shankar. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230275614
- ISBN
- 9780230275614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15