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Literary studies: general
Hardcover. Translator(s): Gil-Montero, Michelle. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 199 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115798
- ISBN
- 9780230115798
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€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115866
- ISBN
- 9780230115866
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€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental Num Pages: 196 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115958
- ISBN
- 9780230115958
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€ 53.37€ 46.64
€ 53.37
€ 46.64
Hardcover. Considers the Indian periodical press as a key forum for the production of nationalist rhetoric. It argues that between the 1870s and 1910, the press was the place in which the notion of 'the public' circulated and where an expansive middle class, and even larger reading audience, was persuaded into believing it had force. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSA; DSBF; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116597
- ISBN
- 9780230116597
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book explores the resistance of three English poets to Francis Bacon's project to restore humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, moving beyond a discussion of the tension between Bacon and these poetic voices to suggest theywere also debating the narrative of humanity's intellectual path. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116849
- ISBN
- 9780230116849
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€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the United States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116979
- ISBN
- 9780230116979
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€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117891
- ISBN
- 9780230117891
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€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117983
- ISBN
- 9780230117983
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.12
€ 53.37
€ 47.12
Hardcover. This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity,' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120310
- ISBN
- 9780230120310
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Employing the methods of Poe's own detective, Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries offers new and surprising discoveries about Poe's stories. This book is an insightful and useful guide for students and experts alike. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120389
- ISBN
- 9780230120389
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Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 271 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 212 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120419
- ISBN
- 9780230120419
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€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 2ACSX; 3F; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120426
- ISBN
- 9780230120426
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Condition: New
€ 182.43
€ 182.43
A Poetics of Relation fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ADF; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120440
- ISBN
- 9780230120440
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Condition: New
€ 53.21
€ 53.21
Hardcover. Addressing the issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works, this book discusses gender implications of spatial categories: the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and the 'quest for place' in women's writing from Argentina from 1920 to the present. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120853
- ISBN
- 9780230120853
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.12
€ 53.37
€ 47.12
Hardcover. This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120877
- ISBN
- 9780230120877
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Delves into the cultural history of the freak show and offers nuanced context within the larger social changes in the United States. Reveals disturbing truths about early twentieth-century prejudices and opens a space for exploring the profound social impact of contemporary events. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 282.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120983
- ISBN
- 9780230120983
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Condition: New
€ 65.69
€ 65.69
Hardcover. Using a wide range of unexplored archival material, this book examines the 'spectral' influence of Victorian spiritualism and Psychical Research on women's writing, analyzing the ways in which modern writers have both subverted and mimicked nineteenth century sources in their evocation of the seance. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBF; DSK; HRQM2; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200050
- ISBN
- 9780230200050
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Condition: New
€ 116.67
€ 116.67
Hardcover. This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200517
- ISBN
- 9780230200517
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Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Examining identity in relation to globalization and migration, this book uses narratives and memoirs from contemporary authors who have lived 'in-between' two or more languages. It explores the human desire to find one's 'own place' in new cultural contexts, and looks at the role of language in shaping a sense of belonging in society. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; CFB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202634
- ISBN
- 9780230202634
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Condition: New
€ 67.01
€ 67.01
Hardcover. The first sustained study of the relationship between Anglo-American postmodernist fictionand the Second World War, Crosthwaite demonstrates that postmodernism has not abandoned history but has rather reformulated it in terms of trauma that is traceable, time and again, to the catastrophes of the 1940s." Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBJD1; HBWQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202955
- ISBN
- 9780230202955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74