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Hardcover. This is the first scholarly study to explore the ever-expanding world of online Austen fandom and fan fiction writing. Using case studies from the Internet writing community and publisher, Wattpad, as well as dedicated fan websites, it illuminates the literary processes and products that have given Austen multiple afterlives in the digital arena. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401328
- ISBN
- 9781137401328
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Condition: New
€ 66.14
€ 66.14
Hardback. At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in English, particularly social realism fiction. Num Pages: 139 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 329.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 139
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401557
- ISBN
- 9781137401557
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€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. The middlebrow is a dominant cultural force in the twenty-first century. This book defines the new literary middlebrow through eight key features: middle class, feminized, reverential, commercial, emotional, recreational, earnest and mediated. Case studies include Oprah's Book Club, the Man Booker Prize and the Harry Potter phenomenon. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JM; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402912
- ISBN
- 9781137402912
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 437.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137410238
- ISBN
- 9781137410238
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€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women's Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women within larger contexts of visuality. Num Pages: 209 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413031
- ISBN
- 9781137413031
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geographies examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin. Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413123
- ISBN
- 9781137413123
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardback. A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures. Editor(s): Nischik, Reingard M. Num Pages: 417 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 764.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 417
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137413895
- ISBN
- 9781137413895
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Condition: New
€ 130.64
€ 130.64
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
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
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Pointing the way toward a revitalized future for the study of literature, Reconstruction in Literary Studies draws on philosophical pragmatism to justify the academic study of literature. In turn, Vescio connects the changing field to its social function as an institution. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137428820
- ISBN
- 9781137428820
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies. Num Pages: 155 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 349.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 155
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429285
- ISBN
- 9781137429285
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Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80
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
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised and Expanded ed
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439574
- ISBN
- 9781137439574
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Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. Postmodern Metanarratives investigates the relationship between cinema and literature by analyzing the film Blade Runner as a postmodern work that constitutes a landmark of cyberpunk narrative and establishes a link between tradition and the (post)modern. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439727
- ISBN
- 9781137439727
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Confronted with apartheid, dictatorship or the sheer scale of global economics, realism can no longer function with the certainties of the nineteenth century. Free Realist Style considers how the style of the realist novel changes as its epistemological horizons narrow. Num Pages: 87 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456083
- ISBN
- 9781137456083
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Condition: New
€ 66.22
€ 66.22
Hardcover. Exploring narrative mapping in a wide range of literary works, ranging from medieval romance to postmodern science fiction, this volume argues for the significance of spatiality in comparative literary studies. Contributors demonstrate how a variety of narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world. Editor(s): Tally, Robert T., Jr. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456496
- ISBN
- 9781137456496
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Condition: New
€ 149.71
€ 149.71
Hardback. Moving effortlessly from Greek to Shakespearean tragedies, to nineteenth and twentieth-century British, American and Russian drama, and fiction and contemporary television, this study sheds new light on the art of comedy. Num Pages: 146 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 339.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 146
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470843
- ISBN
- 9781137470843
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Condition: New
€ 66.17
€ 66.17
Hardcover. Literature and Photography in Transition, 1850-1915 examines how British and American writers used early photography and film as illustrations and metaphors. It concentrates on five figures in particular: Henry Mayhew, Robert Louis Stevenson, Amy Levy, William Dean Howells, and Jack London. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137471499
- ISBN
- 9781137471499
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Condition: New
€ 94.61
€ 94.61
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary project is situated at the boundary between literary studies and philosophy. Its chief focus is on American Romanticism and it examines work by a number of prominent writers and philosophers, from Whitman and Thoreau to Barthes and Rorty. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474186
- ISBN
- 9781137474186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardback. Editor(s): Middeke, Prof. Martin; Reinfandt, Christoph. Num Pages: 374 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPN; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 218 x 2. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 374
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474278
- ISBN
- 9781137474278
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.77
€ 139.77