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Literary theory

Paperback. This book argues that many of the mid-twentieth century's significant novelists were united by a desire to return the increasingly interior novel to ethical engagement. They did not seek morality in society, politics or the individual will, but sought to unveil a transcendent Good by using techniques drawn from the canon of mystical literature Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349338214
ISBN
9781349338214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.84

Hardback. BIC Classification: DSA. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312212865
ISBN
9780312212865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.95

paperback. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2005
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349525010
ISBN
9781349525010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Paperback. "Citizen Shakespeare" combines recent historiography with the close analysis of language to show how the subjectivities of the London citizen and the immigrant city-dweller unexpectedly pervade the full range of Shakespeare's drama despite the overt aristocratic settings and concerns many of his plays share. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349529704
ISBN
9781349529704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.41

Hardback. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403974426
ISBN
9781403974426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

Paperback. This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artefact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work. Editor(s): Spiers, J. Num Pages: 270 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349329205
ISBN
9781349329205
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Revises the semiotic paradigm of the early modern 'literary system' dominant since 1983 by adapting methodsentailed in theidea 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." Editor(s): Davis, J. Num Pages: 271 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349294473
ISBN
9781349294473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. This book stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreducible to stable identities, concluding with an extended reading of The Waste Land . Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349284399
ISBN
9781349284399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349340453
ISBN
9781349340453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 151.11

Hardback. The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favoured imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to follow an eclectic array of literary models. This work talks about this Ciceronian controversy. Editor(s): DellaNeva, JoAnn. Translator(s): Duvick, Brian. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025202
ISBN
9780674025202
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.80

Paperback. Here, Bjorklund shows that Swedish literary discourses on lesbianism provocatively contrast with a widely accepted view that attitudes toward homosexuality have gradually become more tolerant. The lasting power of negative discourses upends the assumption that Sweden's progressive laws reflect progressive attitudes toward homosexuality." Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349473625
ISBN
9781349473625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.69

Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781588140166
ISBN
9781588140166
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.97
€ 89.24

paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 256 x 179 x 17. Weight in Grams: 600.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816627950
ISBN
9780816627950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.74

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 335.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349064069
ISBN
9781349064069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.72

Paperback. Charts new directions in the study of African-language literatures generally, and isiZulu fiction in particular. Mhlambi proposes that African popular arts and culture models be considered as a logical solution to the debates and challenges informing discourses about expressive forms in African languages. Num Pages: 220 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 2H; CJB; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Wits University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781868145652
ISBN
9781868145652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.83

Paperback. "Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience"-- Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBD; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349319497
ISBN
9781349319497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.17

Paperback. Editor(s): Grewal, Inderpal; Kaplan, Caren. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816621385
ISBN
9780816621385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.17

Hardback. Time is a key aspect of narrative. It can advance a story, illuminate its role in our daily lives, and help us understand how events unfold. This work uses developments in linguistics and computer science to analyze the use of time in narrative form. It develops a computer representation for timelines and applies it to a variety of literary works. Series: Frontiers of Narrative. Num Pages: 264 pages, 34 illustrations, 4 tables, 1 glossary. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 151 x 221 x 23. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803229778
ISBN
9780803229778
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.72

Hardcover. This study explores Englishness as a 'symbolic form' from the 1920s to the 1940s. Two case studies, focused on J.B. Priestley and Daphne du Maurier, explore crucial ways in which popular 'middlebrow' authors imagine and shape the nation, providing an innovative approach to literary negotiations of cultural identity. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241367
ISBN
9780230241367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.92

Hardback. This book traces the ways in which problems of imaginative authority and authorship structure the fiction and non-fiction of V.S. Naipaul and resonate in postcolonial literature. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 148 x 10. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230615359
ISBN
9780230615359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.53

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