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Hardcover. Understanding language and its capacity to create literary effects is vital for any student of English. Stylistics, the linguistic study of literary texts, has a key role to play in literary criticism. This book covers the theory and practice of teaching stylistics, focusing on the value of objectivity, rigour and replicability in text analysis. Editor(s): Jeffries, Lesley; McIntyre, Dan. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; GTE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 167 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230235878
- ISBN
- 9780230235878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Paperback. Presents personal essays and memoir by a diverse group of authors united by their poor or working-class origins. Editor(s): Lopez, Lorraine M. Series: Class: Culture. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSC; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472050789
- ISBN
- 9780472050789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.41
€ 30.99
€ 26.41
Hardcover. This collection uses the concept of 'story' to connect literary materials and methods of analysis to wider issues of social and political importance. Drawing on a range of texts, themes include post-colonial literatures, history in literature, old stories in contemporary contexts, and the relationship between creativity and criticism. Editor(s): Shaw, Jan; Kelly, Philippa; Semler, Dr. L. E. Num Pages: 361 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 224 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349941
- ISBN
- 9781137349941
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Hardcover. The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters. These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational. Editor(s): Brown, Erica; Grover, Mary. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230298361
- ISBN
- 9780230298361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardcover. This book examines the connections evident between the simultaneous emergence of British modernism and middlebrow literary culture from 1880 to the 1930s. The essays illustrate the mutual influences of modernist and middlebrow authors, critics, publishers and magazines. Editor(s): Macdonald, Kate; Singer, Christoph. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137486769
- ISBN
- 9781137486769
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Paperback. Teaching Theory offers a selection of essays on the pragmatics, benefits and shortcomings of Theory as a key aspect of literature teaching in universities. They range from reflective discussions of Theory as an intellectual challenge for undergraduates to accounts of the day-to-day problems of planning and teaching courses and implementing Theory. Editor(s): Bradford, Richard. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; JNMN; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230520745
- ISBN
- 9780230520745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01
Hardcover. Famously, Blake believed that 'without contraries' there could be no 'progression'. Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts. Editor(s): Haggarty, Sarah; Mee, Jon. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573871
- ISBN
- 9780230573871
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Hardcover. This volume focuses on the publisher's series as a cultural formation - a material artifact and component of cultural hierarchies. Contributors engage with archival research, cultural theory, literary and bibliometric analysis (amongst a range of other approaches) to contextualize the publisher's series in terms of its cultural and economic work. Editor(s): Fraser, Robert; Hammond, Mary. Num Pages: 218 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230210332
- ISBN
- 9780230210332
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. A collection of essays and some related poems by almost 30 contemporary poets who have worked for years outside the "mainstream" of British publishing. Many are or have been small-press publishers and editors too. Editor(s): Riley, Denise. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DCQ; DSBH; DSC; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333471302
- ISBN
- 9780333471302
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.24
€ 69.24
Hardcover. This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come. Editor(s): Acquisto, Joseph. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137303639
- ISBN
- 9781137303639
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Paperback. Now available in paperback for the first time, this book brings together leading scholars in the field to analyze Shakespeare's plays, showing how their dramatic content shapes issues debated in conflicts arising from the creation and application of law. Individual essays focus on such topics such as slander, revenge and royal prerogative. Editor(s): Jordan, Constance; Cunningham, Karen. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230247727
- ISBN
- 9780230247727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Hardcover. Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis. Editor(s): Fludernik, Monika; Nandi, Miriam. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137403995
- ISBN
- 9781137403995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardcover. Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with insights drawn from cultural or critical animal studies. Editor(s): Van Dyke, Carolynn. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230338586
- ISBN
- 9780230338586
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.96
€ 122.96
Paperback. Editor(s): Rabate, Jean-Michel. Series: Palgrave Advances. Num Pages: 311 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403912114
- ISBN
- 9781403912114
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.27
€ 122.27
Hardcover. This revised new edition of The Handbook of the Gothic contains over one hundred entries on Gothic writers, themes, terms, concepts, contexts and locations, featuring new entries on writers including Stephen King and Wilkie Collins, new genres and a new Preface which situates the handbook within current studies of the Gothic. Editor(s): Mulvey-Roberts, Marie. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition,Revised Edition,2nd edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008533
- ISBN
- 9780230008533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.95
€ 134.95
Hardcover. Looking at literary discourse, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, diaries, and drama, this collection offers remarkable and fascinating examples of women writers who integrated scientific material in their literary narratives. Editor(s): Hayden, Prof. Judy A. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110298
- ISBN
- 9780230110298
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.95
€ 64.95
Hardcover. The Double Binds of Ethics after the Holocaust advances the idea that the Holocaust undermined confidence in basic beliefs about human rights and shows steps of salvage and retrieval that need to be taken if ethics is to be a significant presence in a world still besieged by genocide and atrocity. Editor(s): Geddes, Jennifer L.; Roth, John K.; Simon, Jules. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230614925
- ISBN
- 9780230614925
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardcover. This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel, and identifications of 21st-century themes, tropes and styles combine to produce a timely critical intervention into genuinely contemporary fiction. Editor(s): Adiseshiah, Sian; Hildyard, Rupert. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137035172
- ISBN
- 9781137035172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.03
€ 65.03
Hardcover. The first history of Indian literature in English to cover the 200 years from Raja Rammohan Ray to Arundhati Roy, including in its scope canonical poets and novelists, social reformers (Behramji Malabari), anthropologists (Verrier Elwin), nature writers (Salim Ali), and writers of the Indian disapora (Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Ved Mehta). Editor(s): Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. Num Pages: 468 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; DSC; DSG; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 34. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228528
- ISBN
- 9780230228528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 124.31
€ 124.31
Hardcover. Offering original insights into Nabokov and his interaction with other writers and art forms, this, the second volume of a two-part study, includes the work of fifteen eminent Nabokov specialists and scholars. Here, the focus is on intertextuality, literary reception and suggestions for new ways of reading. Editor(s): Grayson, Jane; McMillin, Arnold; Meyer, Priscilla. Series: Studies in Russia and East Europe. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AGR; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333964170
- ISBN
- 9780333964170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.79
€ 122.79
Hardcover. In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars - with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history - discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical "cures," technology, and the body in science fiction. Editor(s): Allan, Kathryn. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343420
- ISBN
- 9781137343420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.67
€ 143.67
Hardcover. Blake said of his works, 'Tho' I call them Mine I know they are not Mine'. So who owns Blake? Blake has always been more than words on a page. This volume takes Blake 2.0 as an interactive concept, examining digital dissemination of his works and reinvention by artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers across a variety of twentieth-century media. Editor(s): Clark, Steve; Connolly, Tristanne; Whittaker, Jason. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230280335
- ISBN
- 9780230280335
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.66
€ 123.66
Hardcover. An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The contributors to this volume seek to trace, in the face of current challenges, historical and contemporary debates surrounding English Studies. Editor(s): Gildea, Niall; Goodwyn, Helena; Kitching, Megan; Tyson, Helen; Brunetti, Aymo. Num Pages: 140 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 218 x 12. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137478047
- ISBN
- 9781137478047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Hardcover. This book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Bronte, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques. Editor(s): Boehm, Katharina. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 265 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; HBTB; JFCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230369382
- ISBN
- 9780230369382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.90
€ 143.90