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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

€ 195.73

Hardback. An exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities. It investigates the underworld of literary production and from it finds a new set of co-ordinates for questions regarding such areas as publishing and reading practices in America and Britain and ideas of genre. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSK; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333623015
ISBN
9780333623015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.05

Hardcover. Examines Pound's literary criticism as a whole, his critical tenets and concepts, and his evaluations of various writers. Singh analyzes Pound's critical credo, his poetics of imagism, his letters in criticism, his theory and craft of poetic translation and his views on modern French writers. Num Pages: 188 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333598498
ISBN
9780333598498
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.27

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333593073
ISBN
9780333593073
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.30

Paperback. A book about some of the postcultural theories such as poststructuralism, deconstruction, political critique and materialist historicism and about the ways in which they challenge current thinking and open other, positive and constructive, possibilities for thought and research in the Nineties. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st US Edition
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333584569
ISBN
9780333584569
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.48

Paperback. The introduction to a series of interdisciplinary titles, both monographs and essays, concerned with matters of literature, art and textuality within religious traditions founded upon texts and textual study. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 177 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HRAB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 237.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
177
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333570791
ISBN
9780333570791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.52

Hardback. Theologians, philosophers, literary critics and historians of ideas, approach the question of how the Judaeo-Christian tradition of theological reflection has suffered from, and will negotiate, the emergence of postmodern theory and practice in literature and criticism. Editor(s): Jasper, David. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HRAB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333570623
ISBN
9780333570623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.48

Hardback. Drawing on aspects of Foucauldian feminist theory, the author offers a critical reading of Desperate Remedies, A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Hand of Ethelberta, A Laodicean, Two on a Tower and The Well Beloved, demonstrating Hardy's modern appreciation of how individuals negotiate the forces which shape their sense of self. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
183
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333567012
ISBN
9780333567012
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.40

Hardcover. With the canon debate, prominent in literary criticism since the early 1970s, as the sounding board, this study aims at investigating and discussing in critical perspective, the function of considerations to do with canon for literary criticism at the formation stage. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333564745
ISBN
9780333564745
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.72

Hardback. This book offers a selection of papers on Russian literature of the Soviet period. The papers range from studies of the experimental prose and drama of the 1920s and 1930s to examinations of some young writers of the Gorbachev era, and of the way that Stalin and Stalinism are now being represented. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 2AGR; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
203
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333557327
ISBN
9780333557327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.45

Hardback. This volume relates to the study of spirit and spirituality, mind and intelligence, consciousness and epistemology, literature and theatre. It develops a model of the mind and extended states of consciousness, and uses this to explore the rhythmical structures fundamental to literature and theatre. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333539606
ISBN
9780333539606
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.48

hardcover. These essays deal with philosophical accounts of interpretation, the interpretation of scripture (with particular reference to the work of the Oxford theologian and philosopher Austin Farrer), and provide some examples of interpretative practice relating to Genesis and the book of Psalms. Editor(s): Loades, Ann; McLain, Michael. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HRAB; HRLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
Edition
1992nd Edition
SKU
V9780333539590
ISBN
9780333539590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.87

Hardback. An examination of the art of writing fiction. By the same author as "Hamlet, Prufrock and Language", "The Fiction of Reality", "Hulme's Investigations into the Bogart Script", "The Loss of India", and "Confessions of a Native Alien". Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
159
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333536780
ISBN
9780333536780
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.57

Hardback. Adopts a varied approach to the study of the "material world" in the French literature, thought and visual arts of the 19th century. The book moves from purely philosphical definitions to a more general treatment of materialism, examining the repercussions of the emergence of a consumer society. Editor(s): Rigby, Brian. Series: Warwick Studies in the European Humanities. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JH; DSA; DSB; HBTB; HPN; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333532669
ISBN
9780333532669
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.93

Hardcover. This volume suggests that reading and writing about literature are ways to gain an ethical understanding of how we live in the world. It sets out to show through a reading of stories from the Bible, that violence imposed on gender, race and the body-politic are not new to the postmodern world. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBB; DSBH; HPQ; HRCG; HRJ; HRLC1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 351.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333532638
ISBN
9780333532638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.24

Hardback. Explores the relationship between contemporary literary theory and analytic philosophy. Central topics in the volume include self, ethics, interpretation, language and characterizations of "analytic" and "continental" philosophy. Editor(s): Freadman, Richard; Reinhardt, Lloyd. Num Pages: 292 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333521298
ISBN
9780333521298
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.24

Hardback. This study of 10 novels by Dickens brings their specifically Victorian assumptions into direct confrontation with the insights of modern critical theory. The author offers an insight into an original and mythical idea of language. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333521267
ISBN
9780333521267
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Paperback. This book explores some of the ways in which contemporary literary theory can be used to read fiction. In particular, it focuses on Thomas Pynchon's three novels to date and his collection of early stories. The theories exploited are concentrated in the work of Jacques Derrida. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 325.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333515099
ISBN
9780333515099
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.48

Hardback. A study of contemporary post-structuralist and socio-semiotic theories of narrative, this book looks at a model for literary interpretation and pedagogy. Focusing on readings of Henry James, it examines the process, critical self-awareness and the strategies of re-reading and re-writing. Num Pages: 365 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333514740
ISBN
9780333514740
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.83

Hardcover. The author sets out to show how image and story in poetry and novels can actually help the theologian to make doctrinal statements, while at the same time insights gained from theology can assist the critical reading of literature. Series: Studies in Literature and Religion. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 225 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333491423
ISBN
9780333491423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.04

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