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Indo-European languages
Hardcover. Examining some of the most iconic texts in English theatre history, including Titus Andronicus and The Changeling, this book, now in paperback with a new Preface, reveals the pernicious erasure of rape and violence against women in the early modern era and the politics and ethics of rehearsing these negotiations on the 20th and 21st century stages. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219540
- ISBN
- 9780230219540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. An in depth examination of linguistic variation and change as a reflection of social convergence in the major French-speaking countries of Europe - France, Belgium and Switzerland. Considered in the context of linguistic levelling the book provides a detailed account of recent social and linguistic change in European French. Num Pages: 327 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; CFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219502
- ISBN
- 9780230219502
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.51
€ 128.51
Hardcover. How can the concepts of Deleuze and Guattari be used to unearth the 'metaphysics' of modernist literature? This intersection of philosophy and key literary works uses their radical concepts to draw a dynamic map of modernism that explores the confrontation of each writer with the non-human machine age of the early twentieth-century. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219366
- ISBN
- 9780230219366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
Hardcover. This innovative and ground-breaking study explores the complex relationship between linguistic theory and literature during the Romantic period, focusing particularly on William Hazlitt's writings about linguistic theory and also considering figures such as Leigh Hunt, Percy Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Thomas De Quincey. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 376.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230218338
- ISBN
- 9780230218338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. This book is an assessment of narrative technique in contemporary British fiction, focusing on the experimental use of the demotic voice (regional or national dialects). The book examines the work of James Kelman, Graham Swift, Will Self and Martin Amis, amongst many others, from a practical as well as theoretical perspective. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230217577
- ISBN
- 9780230217577
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.23
€ 67.23
Hardback. Globalization is transforming theatre everywhere. As writers seek to exploit new opportunities to produce their work internationally, audiences are seeing the world -- and the stage -- differently. This groundbreaking study explores these developments, placing them in the context of the transformation of Ireland since the early 1990s. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 461.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230214286
- ISBN
- 9780230214286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. This study expands on Reynolds' 'transversal poetics' - the theory, methodology, and aesthetics developed in response to the need for an approach that fosters agency, creativity and conscientious scholarship and pedagogy. It offers new readings of plays by, amongst others, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, Webster and Greene. Editor(s): Raynolds, Bryan. Num Pages: 282 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230213128
- ISBN
- 9780230213128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. The social novel is the traditional haunt of the liberal conscience. What does the triumph of the New Right mean for this type of fiction in Britain and the US? Should the liberal left seek consensus or assertion? This book examines these issues, and assesses the state of both nations, as well as that of the contemporary novel. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230210455
- ISBN
- 9780230210455
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62
Hardcover. Dealing with the efforts of modernists to effect increasingly fraught identifications with an image of the hard, impersonal 'Arab Other' which they saw in contrast to a decadent Western culture, this book shows how this fantasy became more difficult as its popularity grew but also how it still persists. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230209534
- ISBN
- 9780230209534
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.68
€ 66.68
Hardcover. Addressing issues related to the physical, cultural, ideological and psychological relocation of English, this volume provides a critical examination of current sociolinguistic study of English in the world and suggests a new approach which focuses more on ideological and psychological aspects of the phenomenon. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 170 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFB; CFG; JFFS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230206656
- ISBN
- 9780230206656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography: Writing the Nation into Bein...
Nicole Weickgenannt Thiara
Hardcover. Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, this book examines for the first time the marked parallels between Rushdie's critique of the Nehruvian legacy and the most significant recent trends in Indian historiography, especially the feminist and subalternist movements. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230205482
- ISBN
- 9780230205482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.65
€ 66.65
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
Hardback
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.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120990
- ISBN
- 9780230120990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Addressing the issue of how gendered spatial relations impact the production of literary works, this book discusses gender implications of spatial categories: the notions of home and away, placement and displacement, dwelling and travel, location and dislocation, and the 'quest for place' in women's writing from Argentina from 1920 to the present. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120853
- ISBN
- 9780230120853
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.36€ 47.12
€ 53.36
€ 47.12
A Poetics of Relation fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ADF; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120440
- ISBN
- 9780230120440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.21
€ 53.21
Hardcover. Old Norse texts offer different ideas about what it is to be female, presenting women in diverse social and economic positions. This book analyzes female characters in medieval Icelandic saga literature, and demonstrates how they engaged with some of the most contested values of the period, revealing the anxieties of both the authors and audiences. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 206 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DN; 2ACSX; 3F; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 219 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120426
- ISBN
- 9780230120426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.43
€ 182.43
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
€ 66.29
€ 66.29
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
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.62
€ 66.62