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Romance, Italic & Rhaeto-Romanic languages

Hardcover. This in-depth study of the use of pragmatic markers by Spanish and English teenagers offers insight into the currently under-investigated area of teenage talk through the analysis of the Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente de Madrid and The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Talk. Num Pages: 149 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2ADS; CFB; CFFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137430373
ISBN
9781137430373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.20

Hardcover. Offering a one-of-a-kind approach to music and literature of the Americas, this book examines the relationships between musical protagonists from Colombia, Cuba, and the United States in novels by writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, and John Okada. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; 2AB; 2ADS; AV; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137433329
ISBN
9781137433329
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.80

Hardcover. Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and Don Juan figure. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137442031
ISBN
9781137442031
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.36

Hardback. The legacy of antifascist partisan, Auschwitz survivor, and author Primo Levi continues to drive exciting interdisciplinary scholarship. The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied as ethics, memory, and media studies. Editor(s): Vuohelainen, Minna; Chapman, Arthur. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
281
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137442338
ISBN
9781137442338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardcover. Examining a rich new generation of Latin American writers, this collection offers new perspectives on the current status of Latin American literature in the age of globalization. Authors explored are from the Boom and Postboom periods, including those who combine social preoccupations, like drug trafficking, with aesthetic ones. Editor(s): Robbins, Timothy R.; Gonzalez, Jose Eduardo. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137444707
ISBN
9781137444707
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.65

Hardcover. Filling a critical void, this book examines French women dramatists of the nineteenth-century who staged works prior to the lifting of censorship laws in 1864. Though none staged overtly feminist drama, Sophie de Bawr, Sophie Gay, Virginie Ancelot, and Delphine Girardin questioned patriarchal dominance and reconstructed ideals of womanhood. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137456717
ISBN
9781137456717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.44

Hardback. Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 179 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
179
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137488398
ISBN
9781137488398
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.19

Hardback. Italian scholar, novelist, journalist, and philosopher Claudio Magris is among the most prominent of living European intellectuals. This study is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Magris's corpus for an English-speaking audience and addresses the crucial question of the return to humanism that is moving literature and theory forward. Series: Italian and Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 148 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137492623
ISBN
9781137492623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.46
€ 46.40

Hardback. Num Pages: 295 pages, 1 colour illustrations, 45 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 2ADF; CFB; CFDM; CFGR; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137530004
ISBN
9781137530004
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

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

€ 66.00

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

€ 66.50

Hardcover. Based on sources in Genesis and Plato's Symposium, the androygyne during Early Modern France was a means of expressing the full potential of humans made in the image of God. This book documents and comments on the range of references to the androgyne in the writings of poets, philosophers, courtiers, and women in positions of political power. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137541369
ISBN
9781137541369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Num Pages: 131 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 14 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DDF; 2AB; 2ADF; CFB; CFGR; JFSJ1; KNSX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 303.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
131
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137557971
ISBN
9781137557971
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.87

Hardback. John Benet's Latin chronicle covers the troubled years from 1399 to 1462 ('The Wars of the Roses' period), and is here presented in an English translation to enable non-Latinists to become acquainted with this lively and unique work of medieval history. Num Pages: 80 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2ADL; 3H; DSBB; HBJD1; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137589194
ISBN
9781137589194
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.22

Hardback. Num Pages: 136 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137597083
ISBN
9781137597083
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.61

Hardback. Includes essays that explore the interdependence of natural philosophy and rational religion in the 'long seventeenth century' that begins with the burning of Bruno in 1600 and ends with the Enlightenment in the early Eighteenth century. Editor(s): Crocker, Robert (University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia). Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; 3JD; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1210.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402000478
ISBN
9781402000478
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.77

Hardback. Presenting studies on the acquisition of Spanish morphosyntax, thjis volume aims to contribute to the characterization of the L1 / L2 connection in acquisition. Using L1 and L2 Spanish data from children and adults, it seeks to address the central questions that have occupied developmental psycholinguists. Editor(s): Perez-Leroux, Ana Teresa; Liceras, Juana Munoz. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADS; CFDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1260.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402009747
ISBN
9781402009747
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.10

Hardcover. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403963420
ISBN
9781403963420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.44

Hardcover. This volume considers the spread of Spanish today and particularly its role in the processes of globalization. Spanish is frequently dominant in contact with other languages. But how contested is its hegemony and how far does it threaten other languages? How are these other minoritized languages faring in a world of few strong, global languages? Editor(s): Mar-Molinero, Clare; Stewart, Miranda. Series: Language and Globalization. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 1KL; 2ADS; CFB; JFFS; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230000186
ISBN
9780230000186
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.00

Hardcover. Mario Vargas Llosa is a heterogeneous writer whose positions have often not been consistent from novel to novel, between his fictional and nonfictional work, between his literary and political commentary, and as his political commentary has proceeded over the decades. This analysis of his work reveals his insights into socio-political matters. Editor(s): De Castro, Juan E.; Birns, Nicholas. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KL; 1KLSR; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230105294
ISBN
9780230105294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

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