Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. Now available in paperback, Maurizio Ascari's study of crime fiction takes a new look at its evolution, drawing on material from the Middle Ages onwards. He explores the connections between revenge tragedies, the gothic, urban mysteries and anarchist fiction, and examines the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 237
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230594623
- ISBN
- 9780230594623
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 126.82
€ 126.82
Hardcover. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600089
- ISBN
- 9780230600089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. This book explores the significant relationship between western classical mythology and African American women's literature. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBH; DSK; JFHF; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600225
- ISBN
- 9780230600225
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.54
€ 138.54
Hardback. This book documents how Oscar Wilde was appropriated as a fictional character by no less than thirty-two of his contemporaries, including such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw and Bram Stoker. Num Pages: 318 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; DSBF; DSG; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600232
- ISBN
- 9780230600232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.64
€ 67.64
Hardback. This book looks at representations of the male body, sexuality and power in the arts in Mexico. It analyses literature, visual art and cinema produced from the 1870s to the present, focusing on the Porfirian regime, the Post-revolutionary era, the decadence of the revolutionary state and the emergence of the neo-liberal order in the 1980s. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 189 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 189
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230600447
- ISBN
- 9780230600447
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
hardcover. This book offers the first sustained examination of fatness in the early modern period. Using readings of such major figures as Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Skelton, this book considers alternative ways that fat was constructed before the introduction of the modern pathologized category of 'obesity'. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230601239
- ISBN
- 9780230601239
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardback. Ledbetter explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era using taste, style and the significance of poetry to advance our understanding of women's lives in the nineteenth century. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 249
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230601260
- ISBN
- 9780230601260
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Paperback. Reframing Emily Dickinson's work, this book argues that the experience/faith paradox of her Late-Romantic imagination forms the mind and soul, as well as the heart, of her legacy. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602373
- ISBN
- 9780230602373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH5; HBJD; HBJD1; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 271.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602403
- ISBN
- 9780230602403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602434
- ISBN
- 9780230602434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.52
€ 65.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 225 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602496
- ISBN
- 9780230602496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. This book argues that the outskirts of cities have become spaces for a new literature beyond boundaries of traditional notions of nation, class, and gender. Includes discussions of Booker Prize winners Roddy Doyle and James Kelman. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DBR; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602854
- ISBN
- 9780230602854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
hardcover. Contributors demonstrate how the tools of various intellectual disciplines can be used to examine what we now know about the story of Saint Francis in his own era and how that story has been appropriated in our period. Editor(s): Downey, John K. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2009th Edition
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602861
- ISBN
- 9780230602861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Addressed to all readers of Dostoevsky, as well as to teachers, students, and specialists, this lucidly-written study approaches the underground manm Raskolnikov, and Ivan and Alyosha Karamazov as lucidly imagined beings whose feelings, behaviours, and ideas are expressions of their personalities and experience. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602939
- ISBN
- 9780230602939
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardback. This volume insists on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales to the understanding of the literary cultures of Medieval Britain. Editor(s): Kennedy, Ruth; Meecham-Jones, Simon. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 290 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKW; 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602953
- ISBN
- 9780230602953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardback. In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602977
- ISBN
- 9780230602977
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
hardcover. Bringing together memory theory, medieval cognition of images, and the English Corpus Christ drama in an innovative way, this study argues that the relationship of frames or backgrounds to the image has been misunderstood in the study of drama. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603219
- ISBN
- 9780230603219
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardback. A remarkably engaging work of literary analysis, this book employs biography and cultural history to explore the scene of the abandoned house in the lives and work of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603226
- ISBN
- 9780230603226
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardback. The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603233
- ISBN
- 9780230603233
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardback. This collection contributes to scholarly discussions about the African American novel as a literary form. Essays respond to the general question, what has been the impact of the African American vernacular tradition from the spirituals, blues, gospel and jazz to hip hop on the structure and style of the modern African American novel? Editor(s): King, Lovalerie; Selzer, Linda F. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230603271
- ISBN
- 9780230603271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40