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Hardback. Investigates Shakespeare's King Lear and its originative power in modern literature with specific attention to the early work of English Romantic poet William Wordsworth and to the American writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans' 1941 collaboration. Num Pages: 176 pages, 7 b&w illus. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823232802
- ISBN
- 9780823232802
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.97
€ 80.97
Paperback. Translator(s): Zylinska, Joanna. Series: Electronic Mediations. Num Pages: 440 pages, 1 black & white illustration. BIC Classification: DSA; JFD; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816675777
- ISBN
- 9780816675777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.38
€ 26.99
€ 25.38
Paperback. Editor(s): Rudrum, David; Stavris, Nicholas. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 237 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781501306860
- ISBN
- 9781501306860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.91
€ 50.91
Hardback. This text claims that John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333625156
- ISBN
- 9780333625156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.69
€ 195.69
Paperback. This text claims that John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is a poem about how its readers came to be the way they are and therefore the fact of their divided responses makes perfect sense. Num Pages: 434 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 434
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333625163
- ISBN
- 9780333625163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 194.70
€ 194.70
Paperback. Providing a comprehensive study of tragedy, this book deals with both theory and practice. It explores the idea of the tragic in the novel, examining such writers as Melville, Hawthorne, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Manzoni, Goethe and Mann, as well as English novelists. Num Pages: 352 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSA; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631233602
- ISBN
- 9780631233602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 38.66
€ 38.99
€ 38.66
Paperback. It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349344734
- ISBN
- 9781349344734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Hardcover. In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings. Num Pages: 79 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399816
- ISBN
- 9781137399816
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.62
€ 65.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801493713
- ISBN
- 9780801493713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
paperback. Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-256) index. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- SKU
- V9781349339044
- ISBN
- 9781349339044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.01
€ 39.01
Paperback. This edition of Friedman's popular work contains the full text of the original volume along with 2 related articles by the author and a comprehensive introduction. This work is suitable for advanced students and academics in anthropology. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 356 pages, figs.tabs.M. BIC Classification: 1F; DSA; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 22. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761989349
- ISBN
- 9780761989349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.13
€ 75.13
Paperback / so. Series: WV-Studium. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: DSA; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783531221571
- ISBN
- 9783531221571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.97
€ 54.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 148 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 181 x 119 x 8. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 148
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 2 Sub
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570271519
- ISBN
- 9781570271519
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.87
€ 11.99
€ 10.87
Taboo and Transgression in British Literature from the Renaissance to ...
. Ed(S): Horlacher, Stefan; Glomb, Stefan; He...
Hardback. This comprehensive volume develops a lucid yet sophisticated and innovative overview of the interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to cultural taboo that have emerged in recent years. Editor(s): Horlacher, Stefan; Glomb, Stefan; Heiler, Lars. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3J; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 269
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230619906
- ISBN
- 9780230619906
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.89
€ 127.89
Hardcover. Explores the relationship between touching and writing in contemporary literature. This title provides a timely intervention in the field, investigating the different ways that literary texts make contact with or 'touch' their readers. It explores literary touch in the work of often neglected contemporary thinkers and writers. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 243 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748685318
- ISBN
- 9780748685318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.81€ 103.24
€ 106.81
€ 103.24
Hardcover. This book marks the growing exhaustion with a politicized approach to literature, and celebrate the return of beauty as a subject in its own right to literary studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230601246
- ISBN
- 9780230601246
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardback. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 228 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403944948
- ISBN
- 9781403944948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Paperback. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 228 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403944955
- ISBN
- 9781403944955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.92
€ 65.92
Hardcover. Teaching Creative Writing includes lively contributions from two dozen leading practitioners in the field. Topics addressed include history of Creative Writing, workshops, undergraduate, postgraduate, reflective activities, assessment, critical theory, and information technology. Editor(s): Beck, Heather. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBV; DSA; JNM; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230240070
- ISBN
- 9780230240070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. Teaching Creative Writing includes lively contributions from two dozen leading practitioners in the field. Topics addressed include history of Creative Writing, workshops, undergraduate, postgraduate, reflective activities, assessment, critical theory, and information technology. Editor(s): Beck, Heather. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSA; JNM; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 214 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230240087
- ISBN
- 9780230240087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Paperback. Ecocriticism is one of the most vibrant fields of cultural study today, and environmental issues are controversial and topical. This volume captures the excitement of green reading, reflects on its relationship to the modern academy, and provides practical guidance for dealing with global scale, interdisciplinarity, apathy and scepticism. Editor(s): Garrard, Greg. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349313709
- ISBN
- 9781349313709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.57
€ 94.57
Hardcover. Ecocriticism is one of the most vibrant fields of cultural study today, and environmental issues are controversial and topical. This volume captures the excitement of green reading, reflects on its relationship to the modern academy, and provides practical guidance for dealing with global scale, interdisciplinarity, apathy and scepticism. Editor(s): Garrard, Greg. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JNU; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230235038
- ISBN
- 9780230235038
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardcover. Understanding language and its capacity to create literary effects is vital for any student of English. Stylistics, the linguistic study of literary texts, has a key role to play in literary criticism. This book covers the theory and practice of teaching stylistics, focusing on the value of objectivity, rigour and replicability in text analysis. Editor(s): Jeffries, Lesley; McIntyre, Dan. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; GTE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230235878
- ISBN
- 9780230235878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.69
€ 67.69
Hardback. Editor(s): Powell, Anna; Smith, Prof Andrew. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Edition
- annotated ed
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403949295
- ISBN
- 9781403949295
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95