Literary studies: general
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Literary studies: general
Hardcover. With new perspectives on postcolonial studies, this volume traces the development and forms of a fascination with Eastern European cultures in South African literature during and after the Cold War. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 2AB; DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617391
- ISBN
- 9780230617391
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.59
€ 67.59
Hardcover. This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230617643
- ISBN
- 9780230617643
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. This book brings together Virginia Woolf's essays and book reviews on Russian literature; her unpublished reading notes on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Turgenev; and new and insightful scholarly commentary concerning her response to each of the major Russian writers. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618732
- ISBN
- 9780230618732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.07
€ 150.07
Hardcover. Despite attempts to suppress early women's speech, this study demonstrates that women were still actively engaged in cultural practices and speech strategies that were both complicit with the patriarchal ideology whilst also undermining it. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618763
- ISBN
- 9780230618763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. In the first in-depth study of the emotional dimensions of Du Bois's and Emerson's writings on public intellectualism, reform, and race, Schneider offers a valuable and eloquent contribution to the critical tradition. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618848
- ISBN
- 9780230618848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Paperback. The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a South Asian and transnational focus; the study of 'alternative' and 'indigenous' modernities. Editor(s): Mohanty, Satya P. Series: Future of Minority Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2BM; DSBH5; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619081
- ISBN
- 9780230619081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Renaissance Earwitnesses examines how maintaining masculinity on the early modern stage is intimately tied to 'earwitnessing,' or a sense of 'judicious listening' in his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 215 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619418
- ISBN
- 9780230619418
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Drawing on the work of diverse poets and thinkers, Bettridge argues that the disruptive techniques of recent innovative poetry are in fact a form of literary faith. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619425
- ISBN
- 9780230619425
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Exploring concepts such as the Southern Gothic novel, the Southwest border, faith and suicide, and father-son relationships, respected scholar Kenneth Lincoln shows how McCarthy's canticles of praise, grief, and warning mix classic, biblical, and ballad genres and cross the lyrical with the narrative. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 217 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 193
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619678
- ISBN
- 9780230619678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.76
€ 65.76
Paperback. The Spiritual History of Ice explores the ecology of ice in fascinating detail, revealing not only a neglected context of the Romantic age but also the esoteric history and psychology of frozen phenomena. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619715
- ISBN
- 9780230619715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 78.01
€ 78.01
Hardcover. This book explores how Japanese writers in Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan used narratives of romantic and familial love in order to traverse the dangerous currents of empire. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619890
- ISBN
- 9780230619890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.70
€ 116.70
Hardcover. This book is an analysis of twentieth-century historical fiction from Central America, tracing the active interplay between language, space, and memory. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620360
- ISBN
- 9780230620360
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.35
€ 67.35
Hardcover. This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 221 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364. Series: New Middle Ages. 240 pages. This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; DSBB. Dimension: 221 x 151 x 18. Weight: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620438
- ISBN
- 9780230620438
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. This book argues that the sixteenth-century preoccupation with rehabilitating English tells the larger story of an anxious nation redirecting attention away from its own marginal, minority status by racially scapegoating the 'barbarous' African. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620452
- ISBN
- 9780230620452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. This study examines representations of the body in the work of four important twentieth-century poets. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620889
- ISBN
- 9780230620889
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. From this study of Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ana Castillo arises a new model for analyzing American literature that highlights commonalities - one in which colloquial and lyrical style and content speak out against oppression. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620933
- ISBN
- 9780230620933
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621473
- ISBN
- 9780230621473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of 'free labour' in mid-nineteenth-century America. Num Pages: 158 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621480
- ISBN
- 9780230621480
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Hardcover. The study follows the early evolution of the American frontier hero, from its roots in Mary Rowlandson's narration of her experiences as a prisoner during King Phillip's war through works by Unca Eliza Winkfield, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, the film-maker John Ford, and actor John Wayne. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621503
- ISBN
- 9780230621503
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This innovative study examines the work of exiles from the Soviet Union who returned to a reformed post-Soviet Russia to initiate narrative processes of self-definition oriented toward a readership and nation seeking self-identity, all at a time of social, political and cultural transition within Russia itself. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621855
- ISBN
- 9780230621855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62