Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Paperback. This book, now in paperback with a new preface, explores the false starts of Romantic writing in Britain - misfits and misfittings - as a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits include Shakespeare forger W.H. Ireland, the novel itself and the culture of Dissent. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 212 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018526
- ISBN
- 9781137018526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.84
€ 61.84
Paperback. This study, now in paperback, argues that female networks of conversation, correspondence and patronage formed the foundation for women's work in the realms of Shakespeare criticism and poetry. Eger traces the transition between Enlightenment and Romantic culture, arguing for the relevance of rational argument in the history of women's writing. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018472
- ISBN
- 9781137018472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.62
€ 118.62
Paperback. In this sequel to Romantic Consciousness Beer discusses further questions of human consciousness. Discussions of questions of 'Being' by thinkers such as Heidegger are accompanied by the assertion that writers such as Woolf and Lawrence, followed by Hughes and Plath, owed deeper debt than philosophical contemporaries to their Romantic predecessors. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 215 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018229
- ISBN
- 9781137018229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.59
€ 61.59
Paperback. At the end of the eighteenth century English writers probed the riddle of human consciousness and how it differed from "Being" in a divine or universal sense. In the first of two studies, now with a new Preface, Beer traces this question in work by Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth and its impact on successors such as Keats, Byron and the Shelleys. Num Pages: 226 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018113
- ISBN
- 9781137018113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.56
€ 61.56
Hardcover. Urdu Literary Culture examines the impact of political circumstances on vernacular (Urdu) literary culture through an in-depth study of the writings of Muhammad Hasan Askari, who lived during the Partition of India. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 303 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2BMU; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137009029
- ISBN
- 9781137009029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.87
€ 62.87
Hardcover. The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008176
- ISBN
- 9781137008176
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.20
€ 62.20
Paperback. Explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the US beginning with Jose Marti and concluding with Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot Diaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations. Editor(s): Perez Rosario, Vanessa. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 254 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KJ; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137008077
- ISBN
- 9781137008077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.77
€ 61.77
Hardcover. This book investigates the ambivalent responses to the opposing compulsions of memory and forgetting in cultural production in South Asia. Mallot reveals how writers such as Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, and Amitav Ghosh indict nationalism's sins by accessing and encoding the past. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137007056
- ISBN
- 9781137007056
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. This book is a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that reveals new and unexpected aspects of Milton's chaos, cosmos, and epic characters. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137006998
- ISBN
- 9781137006998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Hardcover. Using the idea of 'parability,'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramon Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Pynchon, Eco, Forche, Merrill, Weiner, Plath, Ashbery, and Eigner. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137006967
- ISBN
- 9781137006967
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Hardcover. How has the media since the First Gulf War altered political analysis and how has this alteration has in turn affected socially-critical art? Colleran examines more than forty plays, many written in direct response to the 1991 war in Iraq as well as to the 9/11 attacks and the retaliatory actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPR; 3JM; AN; DSBH; DSG; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137006295
- ISBN
- 9781137006295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 44.06
€ 54.99
€ 44.06
Hardcover. Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; AMN; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002594
- ISBN
- 9781137002594
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.45
€ 129.45
Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (Cogn...
Carroll, Joseph, Gottschall, Jonathan, Johnso...
Hardcover. This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British novels, from Jane Austen to E. M. Forster. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137002402
- ISBN
- 9781137002402
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.07
€ 63.07
Hardcover. This book addresses central concepts to debates over Palestinian identity such as nostalgia and trauma, notions of home and forced travel, identity as representationally performative, and post-memory and geopolitical continuity of loss of place in the everyday. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137001375
- ISBN
- 9781137001375
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.71
€ 62.71
Hardcover. Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire looks at the relationship between epidemics and famines in south Asia and Victorian literature and culture. It suggests that much of how we think today about disasters, state and society can be traced back to the 19th-century British imperial experience. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137001122
- ISBN
- 9781137001122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Hardcover. The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both country's origins as colonies. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 1MBF; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137000781
- ISBN
- 9781137000781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Paperback. This cutting-edge Companion is a comprehensive resource for the study of the modern American novel. Published at a time when literary modernism is being thoroughly reassessed, it reflects current investigations into the origins and character of the movement as a whole. Editor(s): Matthews, John T. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 926.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 616
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118492086
- ISBN
- 9781118492086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Editor(s): Van Zyl Smit, Betine. Series: HCRZ - Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118347751
- ISBN
- 9781118347751
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 208.72
€ 208.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 66 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780970610645
- ISBN
- 9780970610645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.10
€ 25.10
Paperback. Editor(s): Berg, Stephen. Num Pages: 294 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780966491395
- ISBN
- 9780966491395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 25.06
€ 37.99
€ 25.06