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Hardback. Unhistorical Shakespeare argues against the ideas of difference that underpin historicist studies of the past and its desires, offering, instead, the idea of homo-history to engage with issues of narcissism, anachronism, and recursiveness in conjunction with sexual desire. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; DSGS; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230606708
ISBN
9780230606708
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.55

Hardback. This book advances the argument that the arts, from film and literature to painting and comics, offer qualitatively different readings of terror and trauma that endeavor to resist the exploitation and perpetuation of violence. Editor(s): Hyvarinen, Matti; Muszynski, Lisa. Num Pages: 265 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230606715
ISBN
9780230606715
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.41

Hardback. This original analysis of correspondence between E.M. Forster and Christopher Isherwood illuminates how these two influential writers grappled with WII, their personal relationships, and their creative works. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: BJ; DSBH; DSK; JFSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230606753
ISBN
9780230606753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.21

Hardback. This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of intensive critical historicism largely indebted to Marxist and materialist theory. Editor(s): Scala, Elizabeth; Federico, Sylvia. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 237 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230607873
ISBN
9780230607873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Paperback. This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion. Series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; GTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608184
ISBN
9780230608184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.41
€ 45.34

Hardback. Migration and Literature offers a thought-provoking analysis of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
235
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608283
ISBN
9780230608283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.23

Hardback. The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England analyzes the long overlooked role of gift exchange in literary texts and cultural documents and provides innovative readings of how gift transactions shaped the institutions and practices that gave this era its distinctive identity. Editor(s): Klekar, Cynthia; Zionkowski, Linda. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 475.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608290
ISBN
9780230608290
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Hardback. Contextualising the emergence of literary and aesthetic modernism and cultural nationalism within the popularity of the Renaissance, this volume offers new insights into high and low culture, as well as historical periodization. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608313
ISBN
9780230608313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardcover. This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230608368
ISBN
9780230608368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

Hardback. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities challenges dominant modes of literary analysis and sketches outlines of a new paradigm, theory, method, and ethos inspired by scientific models. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 1. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230609013
ISBN
9780230609013
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.29

Paperback. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230609037
ISBN
9780230609037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardback. Bridging feminist and cultural studies, the book shows how British and American women poets often operate as cultural insiders. Individual chapters reassess major figures (H.D., Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath), alternative modernist poets (Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith), and contemporary poets (Ai, Carol Ann Duffy). Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 139 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230609419
ISBN
9780230609419
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.70

Hardback. This study explores the rise of periodicals as hugely popular repositories of 'public opinion' in the nineteenth century and the key individuals who shaped their own identities through them. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 548.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230609471
ISBN
9780230609471
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.93

Hardback. Focusing on American fiction from 1850-1940, Narrating Class in American Fiction offers close readings in the context of literary and political history to detail the uneasy attention American authors gave to class in their production of social identities. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230609822
ISBN
9780230609822
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.53

Hardback. Cohen utilizes the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary literary and cultural studies to shed new light on the relationships between technologies and the people who used them during the early modern period. Num Pages: 280 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; TB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230609877
ISBN
9780230609877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.21

Hardback. Engaging Audiences asks what cognitive science can teach scholars of theatre studies about spectator response in the theatre. Bruce McConachie introduces insights from neuroscience and evolutionary theory to examine the dynamics of conscious attention, empathy and memory in theatre goers. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230609884
ISBN
9780230609884
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.41
€ 45.52

Hardback. Malton examines the literary and cultural representation of the financial crime of forgery from the time of massive executions of forgers during the early nineteenth century to the forger's emergence as the ultimate criminal aesthete at the fin-de-siecle. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230612228
ISBN
9780230612228
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.86

Hardback. This book scrutinizes the way modern Irish writers exploited or surrendered to primitivism, and how primitivism functions as an idealized nostalgia for the past as a potential representation of difference and connection. Editor(s): Culleton, Claire A.; McGarrity, Maria. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 455.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230612235
ISBN
9780230612235
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

hardcover. This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2009th Edition
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230612266
ISBN
9780230612266
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.06

Hardback. This study explores the literary representations of Adolf Hitler in American fiction and makes the case that his figure has slowly developed from a means of left-wing critique into a device of right-wing affirmation. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230613416
ISBN
9780230613416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

hardcover. Offering close readings of novels by Sherman Alexie to Leslie Marmon Silko, this book documents the reinvention of Anglo-European nationality in the interests of sustaining the indigenous traditions that long-preceded colonization. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DNF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2009th Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230613423
ISBN
9780230613423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.66

Paperback. A political biography of the man responsible for the creation of the Americanwelfare state--and one of the most influential Americans of the 20th century.288 pp. Series: The World of the Roosevelt's. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 421.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230613652
ISBN
9780230613652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.42

hardcover. Suh makes a strong case that much of the middlebrow British fiction, despite its reputation for nonpolitical content, theorized the rise and fall of fascism from the 1930s to 1960s. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2009th Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230613683
ISBN
9780230613683
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardback. This book presents a comprehensive examination of the history of print culture through the lens of a study of the innovative monthly periodical Belgravia. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230615212
ISBN
9780230615212
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.73

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