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Hardcover. Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals, this book explores how Shakespeare's 'cultural capital' has been evoked in the reinvention of a post-communist nation against a backdrop of political tensions surrounding the ascendance of Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386. Political Appropriations in the Post-communist Czech Republic. Series: Performance Interventions. 224 pages, 9 black & white halftones. Using themed performance reviews and extensive interviews with theatre professionals, this book explores how Shakespeare's 'cultural capital' has been evoked in the reinvention of a post-communist nation against a backdrop of political tensions surrounding the ascendance of Central and Eastern Europe to the European Union. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 18. Weight: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230203242
- ISBN
- 9780230203242
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Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. This book argues that Romantic-era writers used the figure of the minstrel to imagine authorship as a social, responsive enterprise unlike the solitary process portrayed by Romantic myths of the lone genius. Simpson highlights the centrality of the minstrel to many important literary developments from the Romantic era through to the 1840s. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230200517
- ISBN
- 9780230200517
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Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Paperback. Explores Hollywood's invention of Britain through the adaptation of its literature. Utilizing Jacque Derrida's Margins of Philosophy and texts by Gilles Deleuze, this text identifies the phenomena portending the future of British and Anglophone literary and cultural studies as a group of citations appropriated for American ends. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120990
- ISBN
- 9780230120990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Paperback. Employing the methods of Poe's own detective, Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries offers new and surprising discoveries about Poe's stories. This book is an insightful and useful guide for students and experts alike. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120389
- ISBN
- 9780230120389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Hardcover. This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity,' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 395.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120310
- ISBN
- 9780230120310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Hardcover. Salamensky investigates Oscar Wilde, his contemporaries, and the public frenzy over his work and life as illustrating the crucial importance of performance in the construction of the 'modern' and our own, postmodern, lives. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230117891
- ISBN
- 9780230117891
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Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Hardcover. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116986
- ISBN
- 9780230116986
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. Banta draws upon essays in Vanity Fair by noted journalists, literary figures, and cultural critics in order to examine the manner by which major cultural and historical events in the United States and Britain led to the invention of previously non-existent words to express the rampant changes within society. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116979
- ISBN
- 9780230116979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
Hardcover. This collection of new essays is the first to explore the rich afterlife of one of Shakespeare's most recognizable characters. With contributions from an international group of established and emerging scholars, The Afterlife of Ophelia moves beyond the confines of existing scholarship and forges new lines of inquiry beyond Shakespeare studies. Editor(s): Peterson, Dr. Kaara L. Series: Reproducing Shakespeare. Num Pages: 271 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116900
- ISBN
- 9780230116900
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.83
€ 116.83
Hardcover. This book explores the resistance of three English poets to Francis Bacon's project to restore humanity to Adamic mastery over nature, moving beyond a discussion of the tension between Bacon and these poetic voices to suggest theywere also debating the narrative of humanity's intellectual path. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSA; DSBD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116849
- ISBN
- 9780230116849
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.37
€ 66.37
Hardcover. Thomas Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in the theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theatre history and literary studies, despite offering a hybrid theatre that integrates popular with formal, and mainstream with experimental Num Pages: 196 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115958
- ISBN
- 9780230115958
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Condition: New
€ 52.70€ 46.64
€ 52.70
€ 46.64
Hardcover. Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115866
- ISBN
- 9780230115866
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the works of Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Michelle Cliff, Bharati Mukherjee, and Julie Otsuka. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 266
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115774
- ISBN
- 9780230115774
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSC; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115279
- ISBN
- 9780230115279
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. Lojek provides extensive analysis of space in plays by living Irish playwrights, applying practical understandings of staging and the insights of geographers and spatial theorists to drama in an era increasingly aware of space. Num Pages: 191 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115231
- ISBN
- 9780230115231
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.70€ 46.61
€ 52.70
€ 46.61
Hardcover. In Robert Southey, Andrews argues that Robert Southey's denunciation of global Catholicism is essential to understanding his life, works, and times. On this issue, Southey was absolutely consistent in all his work and the Poet Laureate's partisan rhetoric reveals much about the religious culture of this stormy period in England. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 270 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230115132
- ISBN
- 9780230115132
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Discusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in England during its imperial venture. Num Pages: 231 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114494
- ISBN
- 9780230114494
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. From the artistic practice of improvisation to the politics of nationalism, the essays in this volume break new ground and significantly extend our understanding of the relations between British and Italian culture in its analysis of the reception of Dante and Italian literature in British Romanticism. Editor(s): Burwick, Frederick; Douglass, Paul. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 267 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114487
- ISBN
- 9780230114487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.07
€ 67.07
Hardcover. No play in the history of the American stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin. This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduces the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history. Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Num Pages: 325 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; AN; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 222 x 23. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114074
- ISBN
- 9780230114074
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.70€ 47.72
€ 52.70
€ 47.72
The Artistic Links Between William Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More: Ra...
Hallett, Charles A., Hallett, Elaine S.
Hardcover. The Halletts' investigation differs from anything that has been written about the relationship between Thomas More and William Shakespeare in that it approaches the subject from a dramaturgical point of view. This book defines, in specific terms, what Shakespeare learned from his study of More's History and how he learned it. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113671
- ISBN
- 9780230113671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.29
€ 67.29