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Literary theory

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230581906
ISBN
9780230581906
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.29

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230614925
ISBN
9780230614925
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.90

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312293598
ISBN
9780312293598
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333670026
ISBN
9780333670026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.00

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333684610
ISBN
9780333684610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.63

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137010483
ISBN
9781137010483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.43

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.97

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137270924
ISBN
9781137270924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.06

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.43

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.53

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.68

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

€ 67.69

Hardcover. This edited collection argues that trauma in literature must be read through a theoretical pluralism that allows for an understanding of trauma's variable representations that include yet move beyond the concept of trauma as pathological and unspeakable. Editor(s): Balaev, Michelle. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137365934
ISBN
9781137365934
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.16

Hardcover. As Food Studies has grown into a well-established field, literary scholars have not fully addressed the prevalent themes of food, eating, and consumption in Chicana/o literature. Here, contributors propose food consciousness as a paradigm to examine the literary discourses of Chicana/o authors as they shift from the nation to the postnation. Editor(s): Pascual Soler, Nieves; Abarca, Meredith E. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JFCV; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137378590
ISBN
9781137378590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.64

Hardcover. Affective Disorder and the Writing Life interrogates the mythos of the 'mad writer' through lived experience, literary analysis, writerly reflection and contemporary neuroscience. It explores how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind - and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination. Editor(s): Stone Horton, Stephanie. Num Pages: 159 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137381651
ISBN
9781137381651
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.28

Hardcover. This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building. Editor(s): Leerssen, Joep; Rigney, Ann. Num Pages: 316 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 22. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137412133
ISBN
9781137412133
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.48

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