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Literary studies: general
Hardcover. Ibsen and the Irish Revival examines Henrik Ibsen's influence on the Irish Revival and the reception of his plays in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Dublin. It highlights the international dimension of the Irish Literary Revival and offers new perspectives on W.B. Yeats, J.M. Synge, Lennox Robinson, James Joyce, George Moore and Sean O'Casey. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACSN; 3JH; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231993
- ISBN
- 9780230231993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231955
- ISBN
- 9780230231955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231948
- ISBN
- 9780230231948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Hardcover. Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231665
- ISBN
- 9780230231665
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Paperback. Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge. Series: Modernism and.. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231634
- ISBN
- 9780230231634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. This dictionary, now available in paperback, provides readers with a convenient source of reliable and accessible information on Chaucer's work, life, and times. Topics include Chaucer's works, major characters, social and political contexts, influences on Chaucer and those influenced by him, people and places of significance in Chaucer's life. Series: Palgrave Literary Dictionaries. Num Pages: 329 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; GBCR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231481
- ISBN
- 9780230231481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover. Examining the ways in which hypochondria forms both a malady and a metaphor for a range of British Romantic writers, Grinnell contends that this is not one illness amongst many, but a disorder of the very ability to distinguish between illness and health, a malady of interpretation that mediates a broad spectrum of pressing cultural questions. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231450
- ISBN
- 9780230231450
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230972
- ISBN
- 9780230230972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's texts, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often the objects of loss. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD1; HBLW; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230477
- ISBN
- 9780230230477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. Immigrants, Literature and National Integration explores new means of facilitating integration. Using the United Kingdom and Germany as case studies, and examining the relation between immigrant literature and integration, this book explores integration in an interdisciplinary fashion across both the humanities and social sciences. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230453
- ISBN
- 9780230230453
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Paperback. This fascinating book, now available in paperback, examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings -- including key works such as including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island - in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; HB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2006 ed.
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230323
- ISBN
- 9780230230323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Hardcover. Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230071
- ISBN
- 9780230230071
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. This book examines Field Day's cultural intervention into the Northern Irish 'Troubles' through individual readings of the fourteen plays produced by the enterprise. It argues that at the heart of this project were performances, in a variety of different forms and registers, of an ethics of translation that disrupted notions of Irish identity. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229693
- ISBN
- 9780230229693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.00
€ 67.00
Hardcover. The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSG; HBG; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229365
- ISBN
- 9780230229365
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover. The Radical Spaces of Poetry introduces a diverse range of experimental writing from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines the political, social and cultural implications of some of the most exciting and dynamic work of recent years, and the ways it produces discursive spaces for radical social and political perspectives. Num Pages: 185 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350. 192 pages. The Radical Spaces of Poetry introduces a diverse range of experimental writing from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It examines the political, social and cultural implications of some of the most exciting and dynamic work of recent years, and the ways it produces discursive spaces for radical social and political perspectives. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 16. Weight: 350.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228658
- ISBN
- 9780230228658
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. While artistically ambitious poets of the era are often characterized as preferring a lasting future fame to contemporary popularity, this book reveals that a sophisticated, strategic and fascinated engagement with new modes of fame was central to the experiments with literary form of poets such as Byron, Keats, Shelley and Barrett Browning. Num Pages: 211 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228153
- ISBN
- 9780230228153
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Offering fresh readings of numerous Neo-Latin texts, Medical Analogy in Latin Satire provides an introduction to medical issues in the tradition of Latin satire. The book explores what functions physical diseases and peculiarities had in early modern satires and how satire was considered as a form of healing instruction. Num Pages: 223 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228122
- ISBN
- 9780230228122
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardcover. Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limits of deconstructionist theories, introducing groundbreaking new theoretical concepts of reading and reception. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412. Questioning Modern Theories of Narrative and Readership. 248 pages. Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes new approaches to modern literary criticism and deftly examines the limits of deconstructionist theories, introducing groundbreaking new theoretical concepts of reading and reception. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228115
- ISBN
- 9780230228115
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. Drawing on a broad concept of desire, informed by poststructuralist theorists this book examines the range of Hardy's work. It demonstrates the sustained nature of his thinking about desire, its relationship to the social and symbolic network in which human subjectivity is constituted and art's potential to offer fulfilment to the desiring subject. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224636
- ISBN
- 9780230224636
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. A pioneering study of the development of one of the key critical discourses in contemporary Irish studies, this book covers all the major figures, publications and debates within Irish postcolonial criticism, delivering a commentary on this diverse body of work as well as positioning Irish postcolonial criticism within the wider postcolonial field. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230224063
- ISBN
- 9780230224063
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12