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Hardcover. Samuel Beckett's work is deeply concerned with physical contact - remembered, half-remembered, or imagined. Applying the philosophical writings of Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Merleau-Ponty that feature sensation, this study examines how Beckett's later work dramatizes moments of contact between self and self, self and world, and self and other. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137276988
- ISBN
- 9781137276988
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. This study will significantly further our interpretations of the unique autobiography of Margery Kempe, lay woman turned mystic and visionary. Following the manuscript from a Carthusian monastery through history, Chappell bridges the gaps in our understanding of the transmission of texts from the medieval past to the present. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137277671
- ISBN
- 9781137277671
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.44
€ 66.44
Hardcover. Focusing on British novels about the Muslim immigrant experience published after 9/11; this book examines the promise as well as the limits of 'British Muslim' identity as a viable form of self-representation, and the challenges - particularly for women - of reconciling non-Western religious identity with the secular policies of Western states. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137281715
- ISBN
- 9781137281715
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Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Hardcover. This study concerns itself with a now-forgotten religious group, Spiritualists, and how their ensuing discussions of Shakespeare's meaning, his writing practices, his possible collaborations, and the supposed purity and/or corruption of his texts anticipated, accompanied, or silhouetted similar debates in Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG; HRQX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137282200
- ISBN
- 9781137282200
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Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. This book considers the sequential deployment of the receiver's response to the caller's request in telephone service encounters between native speakers in the U.K, Germany and Italy analysing the different response formats and their grammatical configuration. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ACG; 2ADT; CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137286178
- ISBN
- 9781137286178
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Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. Women are at the center of American theatre and have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds. Sarah Ruhl, one of the twenty-first century's most honored playwrights, is read in concert with her contemporaries whose writing also wrestles with the vexing issues facing Americans in the new century. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137287106
- ISBN
- 9781137287106
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Condition: New
€ 53.37€ 46.71
€ 53.37
€ 46.71
Hardcover. Beckett and Levinas are of central importance to critical debates about literary ethics. Rather than suggest the preservation of literary and ethical value in the wake of the WWII, this book argues that both launched a sustained attack on the principles of literature, weaving narrative, and descriptive doubt through phenomenology, prose, and drama. Series: New Interpretations of Beckett in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294074
- ISBN
- 9781137294074
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Writing Early Modern London explores how urban community in London was experienced, imagined and translated into textual form. Ranging from previously unstudied manuscripts to major works by Middleton, Stow and Whitney, it examines how memory became a key cultural battleground as rites of community were appropriated in creative ways. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137294913
- ISBN
- 9781137294913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Paperback. By exploring of the construct of male sexuality in nineteenth-century American literature, Greven discovers that far from desiring heterosexual sex and wishing to bond with other men through fraternity, the male protagonists of classic American literature mainly want to be left alone, striving to remain emotionally and sexually inviolate. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298089
- ISBN
- 9781137298089
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage re-appraises Stoker's key fictions in relation to his working life. It takes Stoker's work from the margins to centre stage, exploring how Victorian theatre's melodramatic and Gothic productions influenced his writing and thinking. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298980
- ISBN
- 9781137298980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Paperback. In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299956
- ISBN
- 9781137299956
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Condition: New
€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Hardcover. Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137300492
- ISBN
- 9781137300492
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302670
- ISBN
- 9781137302670
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardcover. In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBX; CFB; CFF; HBG; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 405.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303059
- ISBN
- 9781137303059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Paperback. In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBX; CFB; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303066
- ISBN
- 9781137303066
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Condition: New
€ 126.56
€ 126.56
Hardcover. Examining popular contexts of Greek revivalism associated with women, Comet challenges the masculine narrative of English Classicism by demonstrating that it thrived in non-male spaces, as an ephemeral ideal that betrayed a distrust of democratic rhetoric that ignored the social inequities of the classical world. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137304971
- ISBN
- 9781137304971
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting literature. This study applies recent breakthroughs from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology in order to deepen our understanding of John Donne's Songs and Sonnets. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 495.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308337
- ISBN
- 9781137308337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. What is dramatic romance? Scholars have long turned to Shakespeare's biography to answer this question, marking his 'late plays' as the beginning and end of the dramatic romance. This book identifies an earlier history for this genre, revealing how stage romances imaginatively expanded audience interest in England's emerging global economy. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 220 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137322708
- ISBN
- 9781137322708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.11
€ 67.11
Hardcover. By 1840, the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction, however, were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they threatened the definition and development of the Victorian literary professional. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 220 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137323798
- ISBN
- 9781137323798
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This study examines the vital centrality of 'readings' of nature in a variety of literary forms in the period 1830-1914. It is exploratory and original in approach, stressing the philosophical and cultural implications in a range of texts from Tennyson, Hardy, Jefferies and Thomas. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJC; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137330437
- ISBN
- 9781137330437
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.80
€ 66.80