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Hardback. Editor(s): Habermann, Ina; Witen, Michelle. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 297 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 519.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 297
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137518347
- ISBN
- 9781137518347
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Condition: New
€ 150.07
€ 150.07
Hardcover. Through a discussion of diverse art and media such as apocalyptic thrillers, rap, and television, Swirski debunks the American political system, sieving out fact from a sea of bipartisan untruths. Engaging with close analysis and multiple case studies, this book forges a more accurate picture of contemporary American culture and of America itself. Num Pages: 225 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137518880
- ISBN
- 9781137518880
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Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. The book introduces the reader into the world of mental perception of literary contents. Based on the research in modern semantics, functional stylistics and cognitive phonetics, it explores the way linguistic elements of a literary work cause readers to form a single perception shape identified as a cultural, literary or social stereotype. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 black & white tables, 3 figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFC; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137519474
- ISBN
- 9781137519474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardback. Editor(s): Sheen, Erica; Karremann, Prof. Dr. Isabel. Series: Global Shakespeares. Num Pages: 134 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 2 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 301 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 134
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137519733
- ISBN
- 9781137519733
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Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
The Future of Scholarly Writing. Critical Interventions.
. Ed(S): Bammer, Angelika; Boetcher, Joeres R...
Hardback. This stimulating collection is the first to take on the issue of form and what it means to the future of scholarly writing. A wide range of distinguished scholars from fields including law, literature, and anthropology shed light on the ways scholars can write for different publics and still adhere to the standards of quality scholarship. Editor(s): Bammer, Angelika; Boetcher, Joeres Ruth-Ellen. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 519.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137520463
- ISBN
- 9781137520463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. Building on the emerging field of geocriticism, this book explores Africa's complex, dynamic literary landscapes, proffering new methods for understanding the geographies of African literature. Using both cultural geography and political ecology, Crowley offers fresh insights into key authors' imagined geographies of resistance and alterity. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137522757
- ISBN
- 9781137522757
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Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Shakespeare's Extremes is a controversial intervention in current critical debates on the status of the human in Shakespeare's work. By focusing on three flagrant cases of human exorbitance - Edgar, Caliban and Julius Caesar - this book seeks to limn out the domain of the human proper in Shakespeare. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137523570
- ISBN
- 9781137523570
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; KCZ; KNS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137525505
- ISBN
- 9781137525505
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Hardcover. This title offers a Marxist take on a selection of artistic and cultural achievements from the rap music of Tupac Shakur to the painting of Van Gogh, from HBO's Breaking Bad to Balzac's Cousin Bette, from the magical realm of Harry Potter to the apocalyptic landscape of The Walking Dead, from The Hunger Games to Game of Thrones. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; DSA; JFC; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137526601
- ISBN
- 9781137526601
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Condition: New
€ 66.66
€ 66.66
Hardcover. This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstruction of key American values has the potential to energize American citizenship today. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137528094
- ISBN
- 9781137528094
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.52
€ 66.52
Hardcover. By concentrating on Sam Shepard's visual aesthetics, Emma Creedon argues that a consideration of Shepard's plays in the context of visual and theoretical Surrealism illuminates our understanding of his experimental approach to drama. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; ANB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137530578
- ISBN
- 9781137530578
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 46.79
€ 52.93
€ 46.79
Hardcover. This study provides an alternative to the postmodern tradition of writing about the city by exploring spatialized constructions of gender and spiritual identity through an integrative framework based on insights from Bachelard's topoanalysis, psychogeography, feminist cultural theory and comparative literature and religion. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137530905
- ISBN
- 9781137530905
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardback. This book analyzes the literary representation of Indigenous women in Latin American letters from colonization to the twentieth century, arguing that contemporary theorization of Indigenous feminism deconstructs denigratory imagery and offers a (re)signification, (re)semantization and reinvigoration of what it means to be an Indigenous woman. Num Pages: 125 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADL; DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 125
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137531308
- ISBN
- 9781137531308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.98
€ 65.98
Hardcover. A Modern Coleridge shows the interrelatedness of the discourses of cultivation, addiction and habit in Coleridge's poetry and prose, and argues that these all revolve around the problematic nexus of a post-Kantian idea of free will, essential to Coleridge's eminently modern idea of the 'human'. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137531452
- ISBN
- 9781137531452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.40
€ 66.40
Hardcover. Combining historical poetics and book history, Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries shows Romanticism as characterized by tropes and forms that were jointly produced by literary circles. To show these connections, Fulford pulls from a wealth of print material including political squibs, magazine essays, illustrated tour poems, and journals. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137533968
- ISBN
- 9781137533968
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardback. Adorno and Modern Theatre explores the drama of Edward Bond, David Rudkin, Howard Barker and Sarah Kane in the context of the work of leading philosopher Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969). The book engages with key principles of Adorno's aesthetic theory and cultural critique and examines their influence on a generation of seminal post-war dramatists. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSG; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137534460
- ISBN
- 9781137534460
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Soon instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it. Approaching novels and films such as Beloved and The Exorcist, this study intersects psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and various spatial theories. Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137536815
- ISBN
- 9781137536815
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.63
€ 138.63
Hardcover. Many scholars have treated Spain's philosophical loyalties as being anchored in the Middle Ages. Aiming to debunk this oversimplification, Soufas, Jr. examines Spanish attitudes to modernity through key literary and artistic figures such as Don Quijote, Don Juan, Velazquez, and Goya. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137536822
- ISBN
- 9781137536822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. Faced with the chaos and banality of modern, everyday life, a number of Victorian poets sought innovative ways of writing about the unpoetic present in their verse. Their varied efforts are recognisably akin, not least in their development of mixed verse-forms that fused novel and epic to create something equal to the miscellaneousness of the age. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137537799
- ISBN
- 9781137537799
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. Exploring literary fascination as a key concept of aesthetic attraction, this book illuminates the ways in which literary texts are designed, presented, and received. Detailed case studies include texts by William Shakespeare, S.T. Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Don DeLillo, and Ian McEwan. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137538000
- ISBN
- 9781137538000
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.41
€ 67.41