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Hardcover. While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook, she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transformations, Rubenstein offers compelling insights into the ethical implications of disguised autobiography and roman a clef. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413659
- ISBN
- 9781137413659
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns-both practical and theoretical-related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history. Editor(s): Patten, Eve. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF; KNTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137415318
- ISBN
- 9781137415318
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Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
Paperback. Crossroads: Performance Studies and Irish Culture, now available in paperback, is a seminal collection of essays, written by an international cohort of scholars, that addresses the complex and exciting intersections of Irish and performance studies. Num Pages: 269 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137425713
- ISBN
- 9781137425713
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Condition: New
€ 66.26
€ 66.26
Hardcover. An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSB; HPN; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426734
- ISBN
- 9781137426734
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Condition: New
€ 128.12
€ 128.12
Hardcover. The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style studies. It reads the work of Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and Hans-Georg Gadamer as groundbreaking and 'eventful' interventions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426918
- ISBN
- 9781137426918
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary project draws on a wealth of sources (visual, material, literary and theatrical) to examine Austen's depiction of female performance, display and desire through her deployment of a culturally and symbolically charged accessory: the muff. Num Pages: 94 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSG; DSK; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137427922
- ISBN
- 9781137427922
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Condition: New
€ 65.76
€ 65.76
Hardcover. Examining a wide range of works, from Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, Representing the Modern Animal in Culture employs key theoretical apparatuses of Animal Studies to literary texts. Contributors address the multifarious modes of animal representation and the range of human-animal interactions that have emerged in the past 300 years. Editor(s): Dubino, Jeanne; Smyth, Andrew. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428646
- ISBN
- 9781137428646
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana critically examines selected works of writers, from the sixth century to the twenty-first century, who were imprisoned for their beliefs. Chapters explore figures' lives, provide close analyses of their works, and offer contextualization of their prison writings. Editor(s): Phillips, Philip Edward. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 455.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428677
- ISBN
- 9781137428677
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Condition: New
€ 66.20
€ 66.20
Hardcover. This volume explores the ways in which the complicated revolution in British newspapers, the New Journalism, influenced Irish politics, culture, and newspaper practices. The essays here further illuminate the central role of the press in the evolution of Irish nationalism and modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Steele, Karen; De Nie, Michael. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428707
- ISBN
- 9781137428707
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Presenting different ways to imagine criticism without critique, this collection provides a survey of both the difficult times facing ideological critique and the ways in which literary criticism and aesthetics have been affected by changing attitudes toward critique. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428769
- ISBN
- 9781137428769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American black women since 1980, including Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, and Janet Jackson. As Curtis argues, these women used embodiment as a strategy of drawing the audience into visceral identification with them and thus forestalling stereotypes. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428851
- ISBN
- 9781137428851
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Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization. This lively study is an important and engaging work for students and scholars alike. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429346
- ISBN
- 9781137429346
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945. Editor(s): Landgraf, Diemo. Num Pages: 245 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431011
- ISBN
- 9781137431011
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Examining a wide range of source material including popular culture, literature, photography, television, and visual art, this collection of essays sheds light on the misrepresentations of Latina/os in the mass media. Editor(s): Hernandez, Ellie D.; Gibson, Eliza Rodriguez Y. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137431073
- ISBN
- 9781137431073
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 2AB; 2ADS; AV; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137433329
- ISBN
- 9781137433329
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
Hardcover. This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics. Georges Sorel's theory of social myth is used as a starting point for exploring the ways in which the experience of art can be seen as a form of religious experience. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; HPN; HRA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 172 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137434760
- ISBN
- 9781137434760
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Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardback. Series: Literary Disability Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; F. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137435101
- ISBN
- 9781137435101
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Condition: New
€ 94.25
€ 94.25
Hardback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 279 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436368
- ISBN
- 9781137436368
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Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Hardcover. Twenty years after Tony Kushner's influential Angels in America seemed to declare a revitalized potency for the popular political play, there is a "No Politics" prejudice undermining US production and writing. This book explores the largely unrecognized cultural patterns that discourage political playwriting on the contemporary American stage. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137437051
- ISBN
- 9781137437051
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book. Series: History of Text Technologies. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 224 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438348
- ISBN
- 9781137438348
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137438942
- ISBN
- 9781137438942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardback. This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised and Expanded ed
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439574
- ISBN
- 9781137439574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. Tracing the changing conceptions of nationality in the work of traveling writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and Claude McKay, Modernism and Mobility argues that the passport system is an indispensable segue into discussions of literary modernism. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439826
- ISBN
- 9781137439826
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Paperback. This original and incisive study of the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison uses cutting edge cultural and literary theory to examine the 'knotted' mother-daughter relations that form the thematic basis of the texts examined. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440853
- ISBN
- 9781137440853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.90
€ 65.90