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Paperback. This book re-evaluates the perception of "courtly love" in Old French verse. Adams traces how these verses explore the emotional trials of amour and propose coping methods for the lovelorn. Editor(s): Wheeler, Bonnie. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 335 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2005
Number of pages
335
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349527199
ISBN
9781349527199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanism appeared. Here, original essays analyze a wide-range of violent acts in literature and culture, from civic violence to chivalric combat to brawls and battles. Editor(s): Feather, Jennifer; Thomas, Catherine E. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137344748
ISBN
9781137344748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

Paperback. During the early modern period in England, social expectations for men came under extreme pressure - the armed knight went into decline and humanism appeared. Here, original essays analyze a wide-range of violent acts in literature and culture, from civic violence to chivalric combat to brawls and battles. Editor(s): Feather, Jennifer; Thomas, Catherine E. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349466177
ISBN
9781349466177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.16

Paperback. What is the relationship between the British colonial project and English literature in India? In this historical study, Prem Poddar shows how colonisers and the nationalists who suceeded them tended to inhabit the same discursive space. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBF; GTB; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772887678
ISBN
9788772887678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.11

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9781592137442
ISBN
9781592137442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349468188
ISBN
9781349468188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.65

Hardcover. Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137349910
ISBN
9781137349910
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Hardcover. Editor(s): Ward, Joseph Patrick. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230609808
ISBN
9780230609808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.90

paperback. Editor(s): Ward, J (University College, Galway Rothamsted Research, UK University College, Galway Rothamsted Research, UK Rothamsted Research, UK University College, Galway University College, Galway University College, Galway University College, Galway). Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB; DSBB; HBJD; HBL; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Edition
1st ed. 2008
SKU
V9781349376230
ISBN
9781349376230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.73

Hardcover. Using the work of Rene Girard and Jacques Lacan, Mahon develops a new theoretical framework for reading the dynamic interplay of textuality, sexuality, violence, politics, reciprocity and the body in key literary and cinematic texts that engage with the period of political and social unrest in Northern Ireland known as the 'Troubles' (1968-1998). Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; 3JJP; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230576438
ISBN
9780230576438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.03

Hardcover. How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230290952
ISBN
9780230290952
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

paperback. How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349331758
ISBN
9781349331758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.13

Hardcover. This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608177
ISBN
9780230608177
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 47.72

Paperback. This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; GTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608184
ISBN
9780230608184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.90
€ 47.15

Hardback. From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination," humankind has struggled to make sense of human--upon--human violence. Editor(s): Scheper-Hughes, Nancy; Bourgois, Philippe I. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 512 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 175 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1012.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631223481
ISBN
9780631223481
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 158.54

Paperback. From Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' to Joseph Conrad's 'fascination of the abomination', humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. This book explores the social, literary, and philosophical theories of violence. Editor(s): Scheper-Hughes, Nancy; Bourgois, Philippe I. Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology. Num Pages: 512 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 27. Weight in Grams: 772.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631223498
ISBN
9780631223498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 48.47

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843375
ISBN
9781843843375
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

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

€ 66.66

Paperback. Weber contributes to the ongoing scholarly discussion about Islam in the West, demonstrating how current thinking about gender violence prohibits the intellectual inquiry necessary to act against such violence, and analyzes ways in which Muslim women participate in the public sphere by thematizing violence in literature, art, and media. Series: Studies in European Culture and History. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBG; HBJD; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2013
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349435258
ISBN
9781349435258
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252062025
ISBN
9780252062025
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.27

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