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Paperback. Application is the process in which readers of literature focus on elements in a text and compare them with the outside world as they know it an operation with cognitive and emotional consequences. This book demonstrates how and why this simple yet neglected mechanism is of profound importance for the understanding of literary art and experience." Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPK; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349442256
- ISBN
- 9781349442256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardback. An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable behaviour for women, but are among Shakespeare's bravest, wisest and most vivid creations. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230348097
- ISBN
- 9780230348097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.56
€ 67.56
Hardcover. This book argues that Gothic writing of the Romantic period is queer. Using a variety of texts, it argues that contemporary queer theory can help us to read the obliqueness and invisibility of same-sex desire in a culture of vigilance. Fincher shows how the Gothic's ambivalent gender politics destabilize heteronormative narratives. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 5S; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 148 x 225 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230003477
- ISBN
- 9780230003477
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.33
€ 67.33
Hardback. Kathryn Sutherland presents an edition of the fiction manuscripts of Jane Austen: the first substantial collection of autograph writings to survive for a British novelist. Volume II contains the facsimile and facing-page transcription of Volume the Second. Editor(s): Sutherland, Kathryn. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrated with facsimile pages of Austen's manuscript throughout. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 608
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199680931
- ISBN
- 9780199680931
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 296.14
€ 296.14
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- D.S.Brewer
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859915632
- ISBN
- 9780859915632
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.41
€ 135.41
Paperback. A study of the twelve small gold lamellae from Crete that were tokens for entrance into a golden afterlife: the deceased who were buried or cremated with them believed that they had 'earned Paradise.' It adduces parallels to the texts on the lamellae from the Byzantine period and modern Greece to illuminate the human quest for 'earning Paradise.' Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 65 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 2AHA; DSBB; HDDK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674023796
- ISBN
- 9780674023796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.69
€ 19.99
€ 18.69
Paperback. This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student-oriented guides to the under-published field of early modern women's writing. Editor(s): Pacheco, Anita. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 171 x 30. Weight in Grams: 728.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405176118
- ISBN
- 9781405176118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.94
€ 56.94
Paperback. Series: Florida James Joyce. Num Pages: 202 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813042268
- ISBN
- 9780813042268
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.30
€ 24.30
Paperback. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSJ; JHM; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Number of pages
- 190
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349343126
- ISBN
- 9781349343126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardback. Focuses on the mutilated and fragmented body that appears in United States literature in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Num Pages: 244 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781575911199
- ISBN
- 9781575911199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.54
€ 137.54
Hardcover. Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity. Editor(s): Vanacker, Sabine; Wynne, Catherine. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230300507
- ISBN
- 9780230300507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Paperback. Editor(s): Lamont, Claire; Batchelor, John; Cain, Tom. Num Pages: 398 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 627.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349260058
- ISBN
- 9781349260058
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 129.90
€ 129.90
Hardback. The author challenges the view that literary texts cannot be examined by words alone, arguing that images also play a role in the interpretation process. Num Pages: 300 pages, 16 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 625.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804728072
- ISBN
- 9780804728072
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 170.78
€ 170.78
Paperback. Editor(s): Walker, University Nancy A (late of Vanderbilt University). Num Pages: 364 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Bedford United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312195755
- ISBN
- 9780312195755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.58
€ 29.58
paperback. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 29. Weight in Grams: 699.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822315476
- ISBN
- 9780822315476
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.13
€ 41.99
€ 37.13
Hardback. Explores the construction and emergence of 'Bohemia' in American literature and culture. This title presents a study that follows la vie boheme from its earliest expressions in the US until its explosion in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804760836
- ISBN
- 9780804760836
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.24
€ 86.24
Hardcover. Drawing its impetus from the conviction that death is a central yet curiously understudied preoccupation for Edmund Spenser and John Milton, this is a collection of essays on the topic of death in these two monumental representatives of the early modern canon. Editor(s): Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane; Cheney, Patrick; Schoenfeldt, Michael. Num Pages: 227 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333983980
- ISBN
- 9780333983980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.69
€ 127.69
Hardback. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838633205
- ISBN
- 9780838633205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.00
€ 109.00
Hardback. Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801456954
- ISBN
- 9780801456954
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.38
€ 138.38
Hardback. Num Pages: 229 pages, 4 black & white illustrations, 12 colour illustrations, 12 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137597700
- ISBN
- 9781137597700
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.88
€ 95.88
Hardcover. Eighteenth-Century Brechtians is a collection of essays by a well-known author on comic and radical political theatre. It looks at stage satires by John Gay, Henry Fielding, George Farquhar, Charlotte Charke, David Garrick and their contemporaries through the lens of Brecht's theory and practice. Series: Exeter Performance Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; AN; DSBD; DSG; HBJD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859899970
- ISBN
- 9780859899970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 144.23
€ 144.23
Paperback. "..beautiful, unusual pieces. Romtvedt strips his voice to only that which he can say with certainty."--Sharon Doubiago Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 1. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- White Pine Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781877727597
- ISBN
- 9781877727597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.62
€ 15.99
€ 14.62
Hardcover. An innovative study examining the work of memory in Kazuo Ishiguro's novels. Drawing from Paul Ricoeur's writing on memory, and a number of theorists on mourning, trauma and collective memory, this study introduces a unique conceptual framework that investigates the distinctive and cathartic work of memory that is inherent in Ishiguro's novels. Num Pages: 187 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137337184
- ISBN
- 9781137337184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.20
€ 117.20
Hardback. Sir Walter Ralegh created a public identity by means of the prose texts he wrote from prison. This study not only offers an analysis of these political writings, but also demonstrates the ways in which his readers modified Ralegh's public identity in a series of posthumous reinterpretations. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 218
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333660768
- ISBN
- 9780333660768
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.04
€ 128.04