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Hardcover. Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Holderlin, Verlaine, George, Morike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness. This study delves into the irresolvable conflict between a poem's guise as quasi-architectural stasis and quasi-musical kinesis. Num Pages: 212 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381873
- ISBN
- 9781137381873
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. The origins of present-day Ibero-American racialization can be traced to the period when Europe straddled the boundary between the Middle Ages and the era of New World exploration. Focusing on themes of race, caste, and indigeneity in travel narratives, Harney explores this already internationalized world of late-medieval and early-modern Europe. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381378
- ISBN
- 9781137381378
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. British Novelists in Hollywood, 1935-1965 calls attention to the shifting grounds of cultural expression by highlighting Hollywood as a site that unsettled definitions and narratives of colonialism and national identity for prominent British novelists such as Christopher Isherwood, P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, and J.B. Priestley. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 2AB; 3JJH; 3JJPG; DSBH; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380753
- ISBN
- 9781137380753
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. William Cobbett, the Press and Rural England offers a thorough re-appraisal of William Cobbett (1763-1835), situating his journalism and rural radicalism in relation to contemporary political debates. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380074
- ISBN
- 9781137380074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare's current international afterlife. Editor(s): Hansen, Adam. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AP; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137380012
- ISBN
- 9781137380012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and making evident the mostly untold story of horizontal (south-south) contacts across a multilingual, multicultural continent. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLSB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379863
- ISBN
- 9781137379863
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngugiota wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378323
- ISBN
- 9781137378323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. Urban Enlightenment offers the first literary history of the British periodical essay spanning the entire eighteenth century, and the first to study the genre's development and cultural impact in a transatlantic context. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378231
- ISBN
- 9781137378231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often disparaging ways, with Joyce cast as a defiant exception. This book shows how an urban modernist tradition, responsive to the particular political, social, and cultural conditions of Dublin, emerged in Ireland at this time. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378194
- ISBN
- 9781137378194
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378002
- ISBN
- 9781137378002
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. What does it mean to live as a ghost? Exploring spectrality as a metaphor in the contemporary British and American cultural imagination, Peeren proposes that certain subjects - migrants, servants, mediums and missing persons - are perceived as living ghosts and examines how this figuration can signify both dispossession and empowerment or agency. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; APT; DSBH; DSK; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137375841
- ISBN
- 9781137375841
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. From Shakespeare to Obama discusses language, slavery, and place from the Portuguese enslavement of African people, through slavery in Shakespeare's plays, to President Obama's 2012 speech on "modern slavery." Balancing close reading with context, this expansive book offers new insight into questions of otherness, rhetoric, and stereotyping. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137375810
- ISBN
- 9781137375810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This volume addresses the place of the emotions in literary representations of war across six centuries of European history. It challenges modern assumptions about the passions and feelings attending violent conflict in order to reveal the multifarious historical emotions and emotional histories of war. Editor(s): Lynch, Andrew; Downes, Stephanie; O'Loughlin, Katrina. Series: Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 488 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137374066
- ISBN
- 9781137374066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after 1945. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373540
- ISBN
- 9781137373540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.18
€ 138.18
Hardcover. Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality and Children's Literature and Film argues that Western philosophy's objective to establish a notion of an exclusively human subjectivity is continually countered in the very texts that ostensibly work to this end. Series: Critical Approaches to Children's Literature. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373151
- ISBN
- 9781137373151
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137373069
- ISBN
- 9781137373069
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. Rethinking the Romance Genre examines why the romance genre has proven such an irresistible form for contemporary writers and filmmakers as they approach global issues. In contemporary texts ranging from literary works, to films, to social media, romance facilitates a range of intimacies that offer new feminist models in the age of globalization. Num Pages: 246 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; APF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371867
- ISBN
- 9781137371867
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardcover. During the Elizabethan era, writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Daniel, and others frequently expounded on mercy, exploring the sources and outcomes of clemency. This fresh reading of such depictions shows that the concept of mercy was a contested one, directly shaped by tensions over the exercise of judgment by a woman on the throne. Series: Queenship and Power. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137371744
- ISBN
- 9781137371744
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137368560
- ISBN
- 9781137368560
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. How is Hardy's development of thematics and characters matched by that of narrative techniques and his handling of time? This book uses narratological methods to stress the interdependence of content and expression in a key transitional writer between the Victorian and Modernist eras. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137367716
- ISBN
- 9781137367716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78