Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Hardcover. Drawing its impetus from the conviction that death is a central yet curiously understudied preoccupation for Edmund Spenser and John Milton, this is a collection of essays on the topic of death in these two monumental representatives of the early modern canon. Editor(s): Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane; Cheney, Patrick; Schoenfeldt, Michael. Num Pages: 227 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333983980
- ISBN
- 9780333983980
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Condition: New
€ 121.87
€ 121.87
Hardcover. Editor(s): Sheen, Erica; Hutson, Lorna. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 250 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333983997
- ISBN
- 9780333983997
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€ 121.87
€ 121.87
Hardcover. This book examines Blake's work in the context of discourses of nation and empire, of the construction of a public sphere, and restores the longevity to his artistic career by placing emphasis on his work in the 1820s. Relevant contexts include technology, sentimentalism, Ireland and Catholic Emancipation, missionary prospectuses and body politics. Editor(s): Worrall, David; Clark, Steve. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333993149
- ISBN
- 9780333993149
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Bringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory. Editor(s): Theile, Verena; Tredennick, Linda. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137010483
- ISBN
- 9781137010483
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Condition: New
€ 112.17
€ 112.17
Hardcover. This volume explores the impact of sexological and early psychoanalytic conceptions of sexual perversion on the representation of the erotic in the work of a range of major European modernists (including Joyce, Kafka, Lawrence, Mann, Proust and Rilke) as well as in that of some less-well-known figures of the period such as Dujardin and Jahnn. Editor(s): Schaffner, Anna Katharina; Weller, Shane. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBH; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030290
- ISBN
- 9781137030290
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Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardcover. Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets. Editor(s): Blair, Kirstie; Gorji, Mina. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137030320
- ISBN
- 9781137030320
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Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardcover. Despite dying in relative obscurity, Jane Austen has become a global force as different readers across time, space and media have responded to her work. This volume examines the ways in which her novels affect individual psychologies and how Janeites experience her work, from visiting her home to public re-enactments to films based on her writings. Editor(s): Raw, Laurence; Dryden, Robert G. Num Pages: 305 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137034434
- ISBN
- 9781137034434
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Condition: New
€ 64.14
€ 64.14
Hardcover. This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel, and identifications of 21st-century themes, tropes and styles combine to produce a timely critical intervention into genuinely contemporary fiction. Editor(s): Adiseshiah, Sian; Hildyard, Rupert. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137035172
- ISBN
- 9781137035172
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Condition: New
€ 64.71
€ 64.71
Hardcover. Some of the most incisive writers on the subject rethink the relationship between Britain, England and English literary culture. It is premised on the importance of devolution, the uncertainty of the British union, the place of English Literature within the union, and the need for England to become a self-determining literary nation. Editor(s): Gardiner, Michael; Westall, Claire. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137035233
- ISBN
- 9781137035233
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Condition: New
€ 63.28
€ 63.28
Hardcover. Featuring contributions from a wide array of international scholars, the book explores the variety of representational strategies used to depict female traumatic experiences in texts by or about women, and in so doing articulates the complex relation between trauma, gender and signification. Editor(s): Andermahr, Sonya; Pellicer-Ortin, Silvia. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137268341
- ISBN
- 9781137268341
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Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Hardcover. Literary Politics identifies and debates competing definitions of 'English Studies' as an academic subject, celebrates the diversity of contemporary literary studies, and demonstrates the ways in which a range of literary texts can be understood as politically engaged, sometimes in unexpected ways. Editor(s): Philips, Deborah; Shaw, Katy. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; JNF; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270139
- ISBN
- 9781137270139
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Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Paperback. Mario Vargas Llosa is a heterogeneous writer whose positions have often not been consistent from novel to novel, between his fictional and nonfictional work, between his literary and political commentary, and as his political commentary has proceeded over the decades. This analysis of his work reveals his insights into socio-political matters. Editor(s): De Castro, Juan E.; Birns, Nicholas. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSA; DSBH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270924
- ISBN
- 9781137270924
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Condition: New
€ 63.16
€ 63.16
Hardcover. Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that maps the fear of the Other, the ravenous hunger of Empires and the transcultural rifts and intercultural common grounds that make up global society today. Editor(s): Khair, Tabish; Hoglund, Johan. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137272614
- ISBN
- 9781137272614
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Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardcover. This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century. It features contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers including Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. Editor(s): Sturgeon, Sinead. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273376
- ISBN
- 9781137273376
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.97
€ 63.97
Hardcover. East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume presents valuable and original contributions to global conversations. Editor(s): Estok, Simon C.; Kim, Won-Chung. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FP; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274311
- ISBN
- 9781137274311
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Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Hardcover. Drawing from recent research that seeks to expand our understanding of modernism, this volume offers practical pedagogical approaches for teaching modernist literature and culture in the twenty-first century classroom. Editor(s): Hinnov, Emily M.; Rosenblum, Lauren; Harris, Laurel. Num Pages: 216 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 1 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137274908
- ISBN
- 9781137274908
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Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardcover. Showcasing a wide array of recent, innovative and original research into Shakespeare and learning in Australasia and beyond, this volume argues the value of the 'local' and provides transferable and adaptable models of educational theory and practice. Editor(s): Flaherty, Kate; Gay, Penny; Semler, Dr. L. E. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137275066
- ISBN
- 9781137275066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Hardcover. This collection addresses the significant cultural phenomenon of the 'zombie renaissance' - the growing importance of zombie texts and zombie cultural practices in popular culture. The chapters examine zombie culture across a range of media and practices including films games, music, social media, literature and fandom. Editor(s): Hubner, Laura; Leaning, Dr. Marcus; Manning, Paul. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSB; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137276490
- ISBN
- 9781137276490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.69
€ 111.69
Paperback. Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers fresh readings and newly available archival research, challenging established views about Hughes's speaking voice, study at Cambridge and the influence of other poets on Hughes's work. Editor(s): Wormald, Mark; Roberts, Neil; Gifford, Terry. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137276605
- ISBN
- 9781137276605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardcover. Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in the visual interpretation of African American literary texts using film, music, black masculinity, black feminist, and cultural theory. Editor(s): Green, Tara T. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; APFB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137282453
- ISBN
- 9781137282453
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Condition: New
€ 63.35
€ 63.35
Hardcover. A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories. Editor(s): Sandin, Lyn di Iorio; Perez, Richard. Num Pages: 289 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137293299
- ISBN
- 9781137293299
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Condition: New
€ 112.02
€ 112.02
Hardcover. Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection. Editor(s): Martin-Junquera, Imelda. Num Pages: 249 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 2AB; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137293602
- ISBN
- 9781137293602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Hardcover. Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in the Arts and Humanities can offer fresh perspectives on current social and political issues. Editor(s): Goodman, Sam; Matthews, Graham. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137296894
- ISBN
- 9781137296894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Hardcover. This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come. Editor(s): Acquisto, Joseph. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303639
- ISBN
- 9781137303639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57