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Literary studies: general
Hardcover. This book focuses on rape narratives as grounding for western thinking about community - from the polis to nation-states - specifically in cultures of thinking, reading, and writing. The author rethinks rape, or sexual violence, through a close examination of how rape is a pedagogy that has become canonized in the form of rape stories. Num Pages: 298 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112834
- ISBN
- 9780230112834
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€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. This book discusses literature, theory and history in close relation. Its main focus is on comparative literature and history, culture, poetics, rhetoric, theatricality, genre and gender, and balances close reading with theory and historical context. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113398
- ISBN
- 9780230113398
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€ 67.13
€ 67.13
Hardcover. This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the Shahnameh. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113459
- ISBN
- 9780230113459
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€ 67.11
€ 67.11
The Artistic Links Between William Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More: Ra...
Hallett, Charles A., Hallett, Elaine S.
Hardcover. The Halletts' investigation differs from anything that has been written about the relationship between Thomas More and William Shakespeare in that it approaches the subject from a dramaturgical point of view. This book defines, in specific terms, what Shakespeare learned from his study of More's History and how he learned it. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113671
- ISBN
- 9780230113671
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€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114074
- ISBN
- 9780230114074
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.72
€ 53.37
€ 47.72
Hardcover. From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian literature in British Romanticism. Editor(s): Burwick, Frederick; Douglass, Paul. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 267 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114487
- ISBN
- 9780230114487
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€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. Discusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in England during its imperial venture. Num Pages: 231 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114494
- ISBN
- 9780230114494
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€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women and property, combining literature, history, and economics. By looking at women's marriage narratives over a long period of time, the book reveals the deep discontent with the institution of property ownership as a unifying thread from the Middle Ages up through the twentieth-century. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115064
- ISBN
- 9780230115064
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€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. In Robert Southey, Andrews argues that Robert Southey's denunciation of global Catholicism is essential to understanding his life, works, and times. On this issue, Southey was absolutely consistent in all his work and the Poet Laureate's partisan rhetoric reveals much about the religious culture of this stormy period in England. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 270 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115132
- ISBN
- 9780230115132
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115231
- ISBN
- 9780230115231
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.61
€ 53.37
€ 46.61
Hardcover. This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115279
- ISBN
- 9780230115279
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Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115774
- ISBN
- 9780230115774
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€ 67.04
€ 67.04
Hardcover. Translator(s): Gil-Montero, Michelle. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 199 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115798
- ISBN
- 9780230115798
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115866
- ISBN
- 9780230115866
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental Num Pages: 196 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115958
- ISBN
- 9780230115958
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.64
€ 53.37
€ 46.64
Hardcover. Considers the Indian periodical press as a key forum for the production of nationalist rhetoric. It argues that between the 1870s and 1910, the press was the place in which the notion of 'the public' circulated and where an expansive middle class, and even larger reading audience, was persuaded into believing it had force. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; DSA; DSBF; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116597
- ISBN
- 9780230116597
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Condition: New
€ 66.89
€ 66.89
Hardcover. This book explores the resistance of three English poets to Francis Bacon's project to restore humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, moving beyond a discussion of the tension between Bacon and these poetic voices to suggest theywere also debating the narrative of humanity's intellectual path. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116849
- ISBN
- 9780230116849
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Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the United States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116979
- ISBN
- 9780230116979
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117891
- ISBN
- 9780230117891
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Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an argument about the centrality of time travel in the Latin American and Caribbean imagination. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117983
- ISBN
- 9780230117983
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 47.12
€ 53.37
€ 47.12
Hardcover. This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity,' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120310
- ISBN
- 9780230120310
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Employing the methods of Poe's own detective, Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries offers new and surprising discoveries about Poe's stories. This book is an insightful and useful guide for students and experts alike. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120389
- ISBN
- 9780230120389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 271 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 212 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120419
- ISBN
- 9780230120419
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Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 2ACSX; 3F; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120426
- ISBN
- 9780230120426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.43
€ 182.43