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The Creation and Re-Creation of Cardenio. Performing Shakespeare, Tran...
. Ed(S): Taylor, Gary; Bourus, Terri
Hardback. Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? With an emphasis on the importance of theatrical experiment, a script and photos from Gary Taylor's recent production, and essays by respected early modern scholars, this book will make a definitive statement about the collaborative nature of Cardenio. Editor(s): Taylor, Gary; Bourus, Terri. Num Pages: 347 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 655.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 347
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344212
- ISBN
- 9781137344212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.11
€ 129.11
Hardcover. This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344717
- ISBN
- 9781137344717
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.84
€ 116.84
Hardcover. Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word? Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346339
- ISBN
- 9781137346339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; DSK; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349224
- ISBN
- 9781137349224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book offers new perspectives on the concept of habit in the nineteenth-century novel, delineating the complex, changing significance of the term and exploring the ways in which its meanings play out in a range of narratives, from Dickens to James. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349392
- ISBN
- 9781137349392
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Schanke's examination of his life and legacy allows a rare exploration into this pivotal moment of gay American history between the Stonewall riots and the AIDS epidemic. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; DSG; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349422
- ISBN
- 9781137349422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 46.40
€ 52.93
€ 46.40
Hardcover. A collection of essays on the 1960s experimental writer B.S. Johnson, this book draws together new research on all aspects of his work, and, in tracing his connections to a wider circle of continental, British and American avant-garde writers, offers exciting new approaches to reading 1960s experimental fiction. Editor(s): Ryle, Sir Martin; Jordan, Julia. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349545
- ISBN
- 9781137349545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349910
- ISBN
- 9781137349910
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardcover. This book offers a significant statement about the contemporary British novel in relation to three authors: Graham Swift, Ian McEwan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. All writing at the forefront of a generation, these authors sought to resuscitate the novel's ethico-political credentials, at a time which did not seem conducive to such a project. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137350190
- ISBN
- 9781137350190
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities. Topics studied include posthumanism, ecological studies, and historical phenomenology. Editor(s): Reynolds, Bryan; Cefalu, Paul; Kuchar, Gary. Num Pages: 321 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137351043
- ISBN
- 9781137351043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.67
€ 67.67
hardcover. This annotated edition of the unpublished letters that Iris Murdoch wrote to Jeffrey Meyers includes her discussion of writers from Conrad to Updike; her quarrel with Rebecca West; and her difficulty with Alzheimer's. With both scholarly insight and personal reflection, this volume will deepen our understanding of Murdoch's complex life and work. Editor(s): Meyers, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 130 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; DN; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352415
- ISBN
- 9781137352415
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Hardcover. Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352538
- ISBN
- 9781137352538
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.23
€ 116.23
Hardcover. Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the reading of literature. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352545
- ISBN
- 9781137352545
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. Despite the ubiquity of light literature, very little has been written about it. In this original and engaging study, Scott explores the aesthetic quality of lightness as demonstrated by a diverse range of narratives, from Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, to Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis' Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas, to Voltaire's Candide. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352552
- ISBN
- 9781137352552
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.18
€ 66.18
Hardback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1KBB; 2ADS; 3JH; DSB; HBJD; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137352798
- ISBN
- 9781137352798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.81
€ 67.81
Hardcover. The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture argues that complex and often negative initial responses of early European settlers continue to influence American horror and gothic narratives to this day. The book undertakes a detailed analysis of key literary and filmic texts situated within consideration of specific contexts. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSA; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2013th Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353719
- ISBN
- 9781137353719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.04
€ 161.04
Hardcover. Drawing from a variety of historical sources, theory, and fictional and non-fictional production, this book addresses the cultural imaginary of domestic servants in modern Brazil and demonstrates maids' symbolic centrality to shifting notions of servitude, subordination, femininity, and domesticity. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; DSB; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353795
- ISBN
- 9781137353795
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; DSK; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137354969
- ISBN
- 9781137354969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137355997
- ISBN
- 9781137355997
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27
Paperback. This book examines the non-fiction work of literary artist Alice Walker in order to glean values and ethical imperatives for womanist theological and ethical reflection. Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; HRA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 212 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137356024
- ISBN
- 9781137356024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16