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Hardcover. Gothic Science Fiction explores the fascinating world of gothic influenced science fiction. From Frankenstein to Doctor Who and from H.G Wells to Stephen King, the book charts the rise of a genre and follows the descent into darkness that consumes it. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 183 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389268
- ISBN
- 9781137389268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.18
€ 138.18
Paperback. This book offers itself as a guide both to the wealth of reading texts available for use in counselling, and to ways of reading that extend the reader-listener's engagement with fiction and poetry. Ben Knights argues that reflective reading requires us to work at both analytical and empathic levels. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; JKSN2; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 310 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Jessica Kingsley Pub
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853022661
- ISBN
- 9781853022661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.76
€ 47.76
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Omnidawn Publishing United States
- Edition
- First edition.
- Number of pages
- 54
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890650117
- ISBN
- 9781890650117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.72
€ 13.99
€ 12.72
Paperback. Deals with the development of the concept of American identity. Centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, this title explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC93. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300172416
- ISBN
- 9780300172416
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Hardback. Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse. Editor(s): Frakes, Jerold C. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111431
- ISBN
- 9780230111431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.39
€ 149.39
Paperback. This new study argues that modernist literature is characterised by a 'multilingual turn'. Examining the use of different languages in the fiction of a range of writers, including Lawrence, Richardson, Mansfield, Rhys, Joyce and Beckett, Taylor-Batty demonstrates the centrality of linguistic plurality to modernist forms of defamiliarisation. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; CBX; DSA; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349309573
- ISBN
- 9781349309573
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Condition: New
€ 65.86
€ 65.86
Paperback. Translator(s): Schechter, Daniel C. Num Pages: 120 pages, 1 black & white illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGL; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816680658
- ISBN
- 9780816680658
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.76
€ 18.99
€ 18.76
Hardback. Num Pages: 223 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 521.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874137491
- ISBN
- 9780874137491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.47
€ 123.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 1982
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349168712
- ISBN
- 9781349168712
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.36
€ 47.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSB; G. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Press of America United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780761809647
- ISBN
- 9780761809647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 82.39
€ 82.39
Paperback. Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism offers a concise and multifaceted overview of the origins, development, and application of postcolonial criticism to biblical studies from one of the field's most prominent figures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405158572
- ISBN
- 9781405158572
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.72
€ 42.72
From the pre-Socratics to Ovid and Plotinus, and from Shakespeare to Hegel, Schelling, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida, this title traces the secret tradition of the idea of eternal recurrence and situates it as the grounding thought of Western philosophy and literature. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 192 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: DSB; HPC; HPJ; PGZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822322733
- ISBN
- 9780822322733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.52
€ 26.99
€ 25.52
Hardback. Pedrick's fresh perspectives on both texts as well as on their relationship to each other shed new light on two foundational moments in the intellectual development of the West: Greek tragedy and Freudian psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSG; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801885945
- ISBN
- 9780801885945
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.95€ 60.80
€ 65.95
€ 60.80
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 428 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 428
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643267
- ISBN
- 9780691643267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.17€ 138.94
€ 184.17
€ 138.94
Hardcover. These essays present a wide ranging re-evaluation of Ruskin's place in relation to gender, and offer new perspectives on continuing debates on issues of gender in the Victorian period, and in our own. Num Pages: 225 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333968970
- ISBN
- 9780333968970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
hardcover. An original and challenging work, The Quest for Epic documents the development of Italian narrative from the chivalric romance at the end of the fifteenth century to the genre of epic in the sixteenth century. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 624.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780802090317
- ISBN
- 9780802090317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Hardback. Series: Performance Interventions. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403988294
- ISBN
- 9781403988294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Paperback. World War I brought to women the death of loved ones and the revolutionary knowledge that they could be munitions workers, ambulance drivers, police and spies. During this time they wrote - letters, poetry, novels, short stories and memoirs. This volume looks at women's writing during the period. Editor(s): Goldman, Dorothy. Series: Insights Series. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DSBH; HBG; HBWN; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 293.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 211
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333513101
- ISBN
- 9780333513101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. Editor(s): Brooker, Jewel Spears. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349649747
- ISBN
- 9781349649747
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Paperback. Presents an introduction to Old English literature that is structured around what the author calls 'figures' from Anglo-Saxon culture: the Vow, the Hall, the Miracle, the Pulpit, and the Scholar. Series: Blackwell Introductions to Literature. Num Pages: 160 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631234869
- ISBN
- 9780631234869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.59
€ 42.59
Hardcover. Showcasing a wide array of recent, innovative and original research into Shakespeare and learning in Australasia and beyond, this volume argues the value of the 'local' and provides transferable and adaptable models of educational theory and practice. Editor(s): Flaherty, Kate; Gay, Penny; Semler, Dr. L. E. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137275066
- ISBN
- 9781137275066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253215086
- ISBN
- 9780253215086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.33
€ 25.99
€ 24.33
Paperback. "Our Common Dwelling" explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s, showing that when the Transcendentalists spiritualized the landscape, they were reacting to intense class conflict in the industrializing cities of New England. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230602441
- ISBN
- 9780230602441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.28
€ 66.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 355.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349085439
- ISBN
- 9781349085439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 71.81
€ 71.81