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Literary theory
Hardcover. Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century explores connections between utopian politics and modernism across a wide-ranging selection of twentieth-century literature. Editor(s): Reeve-Tucker, Ms. Alice; Waddell, Dr. Nathan. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230358935
- ISBN
- 9780230358935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. Teaching Theory offers a selection of essays on the pragmatics, benefits and shortcomings of Theory as a key aspect of literature teaching in universities. They range from reflective discussions of Theory as an intellectual challenge for undergraduates to accounts of the day-to-day problems of planning and teaching courses and implementing Theory. Editor(s): Bradford, Richard. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JNMN; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230520745
- ISBN
- 9780230520745
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Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter's Betty, 1988). Editor(s): Regier, Alexander; De Bolla, Peter; Uhlig, Stefan H. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; HPN; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230549197
- ISBN
- 9780230549197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This innovative book draws together literature, law and economic and social history to investigate the meanings and uses of legitimacy in nineteenth-century Britain. This broad range of essays highlights the ways in which contested narratives and interested performances shaped the idea of legitimate authority during this period. Editor(s): Finn, Margot; Lobban, Michael; Taylor, Jenny Bourne. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576520
- ISBN
- 9780230576520
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Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. In these essays, a range of leading scholars seek both to investigate the historical, institutional and philosophical origins of deconstruction and to think through the problem of the idea of origin itself. Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin; Wills, Ika. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF7; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460. 296 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin; Wills, Ika. In these essays, a range of leading scholars seek both to investigate the historical, institutional and philosophical origins of deconstruction and to think through the problem of the idea of origin itself. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF7; JFCX. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 20. Weight: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230581906
- ISBN
- 9780230581906
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Condition: New
€ 67.31
€ 67.31
Hardcover. The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust advances the idea that the Holocaust undermined confidence in basic beliefs about human rights and shows steps of salvage and retrieval that need to be taken if ethics is to be a significant presence in a world still besieged by genocide and atrocity. Editor(s): Geddes, Jennifer L.; Roth, John K.; Simon, Jules. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230614925
- ISBN
- 9780230614925
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Condition: New
€ 66.48
€ 66.48
Hardcover. Editor(s): Perez Rosario, Vanessa. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 254 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230620650
- ISBN
- 9780230620650
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Condition: New
€ 66.92
€ 66.92
Hardcover. What might a self-conscious turn to formal analysis look like in Renaissance literary studies today? The essays collected here address this question from a variety of critical perspectives, as part of a renewed willingness within literary and cultural studies to engage questions of form. Editor(s): Rasmussen, Mark David. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312293598
- ISBN
- 9780312293598
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Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardcover. Poets, novelists and academics join together in this collection of essays to say what serious reading means to them as individuals. Included are George Steiner and George Craig on the act of reading, and Joseph Brodsky, Les Murray, Douglas Oliver and Hester Jones on reading, poetry and vision. Editor(s): Davis, Philip. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333670026
- ISBN
- 9780333670026
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Condition: New
€ 127.96
€ 127.96
Hardcover. A study of the dialogue that takes place between biographers and the writers who are their subjects. The text features 22 essays by scholars and biographers including Hermione Lee and Lawrence Lipking, tackling the lives of writers such as Virginia Woolf and Chaucer. Editor(s): Gould, Warwick; Staley, Thomas F. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 560.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333684610
- ISBN
- 9780333684610
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Condition: New
€ 128.65
€ 128.65
Hardcover. Bringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory. Editor(s): Theile, Verena; Tredennick, Linda. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137010483
- ISBN
- 9781137010483
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Condition: New
€ 117.44
€ 117.44
Hardcover. Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that show how vibrations provide a means of bridging science and art - two fields that became increasingly separate in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Enns, Anthony; Trower, Shelley. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; DSA; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 165 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137027245
- ISBN
- 9781137027245
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Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Paperback. Mario Vargas Llosa is a heterogeneous writer whose positions have often not been consistent from novel to novel, between his fictional and nonfictional work, between his literary and political commentary, and as his political commentary has proceeded over the decades. This analysis of his work reveals his insights into socio-political matters. Editor(s): De Castro, Juan E.; Birns, Nicholas. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSA; DSBH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 314.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137270924
- ISBN
- 9781137270924
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Condition: New
€ 66.08
€ 66.08
Hardcover. Current scholarship on Latin American historical fiction has failed to take feminism and postcolonialism into account. This study uses these important contemporary discourses as a starting point for a new definition of the Latin American historical novel that includes national identity, magical realism, historical intertextuality, and symbolism. Editor(s): Weldt-Basson, Helene Carol. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277565
- ISBN
- 9781137277565
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Condition: New
€ 67.20
€ 67.20
Hardcover. Literary Translation: Redrawing the Boundaries is a collection of articles that gathers together current work in literary translation to show how research in the field can speak to other disciplines such as cultural studies, history, linguistics, literary studies and philosophy, whilst simultaneously learning from them. Editor(s): Boase-Beier, Jean; Fawcett, Antoinette; Wilson, Philip. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFP; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137310040
- ISBN
- 9781137310040
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new-the distinctly modern. Editor(s): Clewell, Tammy. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137326591
- ISBN
- 9781137326591
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Condition: New
€ 67.73
€ 67.73
Hardcover. This book lays bare numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as well as desire and redemption, and also journeying in the realms of conceptual sex and conceptual art. Fierce tussles over the body in, and the body of, the poet-artist's work celebrate Blakean attractions and repulsions. Editor(s): Bruder, Helen P.; Connolly, Tristanne. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332837
- ISBN
- 9781137332837
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Literary Materialisms addresses what has become a fundamental concern in the last decade: how do we today define literary studies as an academic discipline and literature as a relevant object of study? Avoiding unproductive proclamations, this volume unites new materialist critical thinking with a commitment to fundamental principles. Editor(s): Nilges, Mathias; Sauri, Emilio. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339942
- ISBN
- 9781137339942
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Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars - with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history - discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction. Editor(s): Allan, Kathryn. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343420
- ISBN
- 9781137343420
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Condition: New
€ 149.71
€ 149.71
Hardcover. This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism. Editor(s): Shaw, Jan; Kelly, Philippa; Semler, Dr. L. E. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349941
- ISBN
- 9781137349941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.71
€ 67.71