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Literary studies: general
Hardcover. In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel, transforming literary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230107168
- ISBN
- 9780230107168
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical and ethical efforts. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108097
- ISBN
- 9780230108097
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€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376. The Chaotic Imagination. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. 248 pages. Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSBH5. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 18. Weight: 376.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108127
- ISBN
- 9780230108127
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. An examination of how the space of the downtown served dual purposes as both a symbol of colonial influence and capital in Egypt, as well as a staging ground for the demonstrations of the Egyptian nationalist movement. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2CXG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108653
- ISBN
- 9780230108653
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Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in 21st C. 238 pages, 0. This book places sex and sexuality firmly at the heart of Beckett. From the earliest prose to the late plays, Paul Stewart uncovers a profound mistrust of procreation which nevertheless allows for a surprising variety of non-reproductive forms of sex which challenge established notions of sexual propriety and identity politics. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSG. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 20. Weight: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108813
- ISBN
- 9780230108813
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. For nearly a decade, writers' collectives such as Kwani Trust in Kenya and Femrite, the Ugandan women writers' association, have dramatically reshaped the East African literary scene. This text extends the purview of postcolonial literary studies by providing the long overdue critical inquiry that these writers so urgently deserve. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 1HFGU; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108875
- ISBN
- 9780230108875
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108998
- ISBN
- 9780230108998
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Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. The Riddles of Harry Potter draws readers into the deeper meanings of these phenomenally successful books, arguing that they launch and pursue interpretive quests in an ongoing effort to understand patterns and their attendant meanings, implications, and consequences. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109292
- ISBN
- 9780230109292
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSC; HRAX; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109407
- ISBN
- 9780230109407
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Condition: New
€ 139.97
€ 139.97
Hardcover. Explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions. Demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109841
- ISBN
- 9780230109841
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. A reassessment of the historic relation between money and the state through the lens of early modern English literature, Coinage and State Formation examines the political implications of the monetary form in light of material and visual properties of coins as well as the persistence of both intrinsic and extrinsic theories of value. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110236
- ISBN
- 9780230110236
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. The human body, traded, fragmented and ingested is at the centre of Medicinal Cannibalism in Early Modern English Literature and Culture, which explores the connections between early modern literary representations of the eaten body and the medical consumption of corpses. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFCX; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110274
- ISBN
- 9780230110274
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.83
€ 149.83
Hardcover. Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110458
- ISBN
- 9780230110458
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This comprehensive study ranges from Irving's Knickerbockers, Emerson's Transcendentalists, and Garrison's abolitionists to the popular serial fiction writers for Robert Bonner's New York Ledger to unearth surprising convergences between such seemingly disparate circles. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110465
- ISBN
- 9780230110465
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. British Literary Salons of the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries is a comprehensive study of the British salon between the 1780s and the 1840s. Using a number of sources - diaries, letters, silver-fork novels, satires, travel writing, Keepsakes, and imaginary conversations - this study establishes sociable networks of days gone by. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110656
- ISBN
- 9780230110656
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110878
- ISBN
- 9780230110878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book explores three crucial stages in Dickens' on-going voyage of discovery into what has been called the 'hidden springs' of his fiction; arguing that in three of Dickens best known novels, we witness Dickens responding to some identifiable force represented as coming from underneath the ground plan of the book in question. Num Pages: 236 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110885
- ISBN
- 9780230110885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Graham-Bertolini provides the first analysis of vigilante women in contemporary American fiction. She develops a dynamic model of vigilante heroines using literary and feminist theory and applies it to important texts to broaden our understanding of how law and culture infringe upon women's rights. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110908
- ISBN
- 9780230110908
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This book examines fictional representations of India in novels, plays and poetry produced between the years 1772 to 1823 as historical source material. It uses literary texts as case studies to investigate how Britons residing both in the metropole and in India justified, confronted and imagined the colonial encounter during this period. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111264
- ISBN
- 9780230111264
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Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardcover. This book traces the influence of Hegel's theory of recognition on different literary representations of Chicano/a subjectivity, with the aim of demonstrating how the identity thinking characteristic of Hegel's theory is unwillingly reinforced even in subjects that are represented as rebelling against liberal-humanist ideologies. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111356
- ISBN
- 9780230111356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in imagery and language. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111660
- ISBN
- 9780230111660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the citizen-subject tends to become representable only as an individual representative of a social identity group. It uses historicist and formalist methodologies within Marxist, psychoanalytic, and critical race frameworks. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112476
- ISBN
- 9780230112476
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methods entailed in the idea that literary works emerge through a series of semiotic events. Davis analyzes Philip Sidney's Arcadia and Astrophil and Stella to demonstrate how design elements stage the scene of reading these works. Num Pages: 271 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112520
- ISBN
- 9780230112520
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. This volume explores African American historical fiction written by women in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Nunes' approach to the texts aims at emphasizing the narrative and thematic achievements of individual novels set in the context of the main trends and developments of the contemporary African American historical novel. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112537
- ISBN
- 9780230112537
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95