Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Hardcover. This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230390539
- ISBN
- 9780230390539
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardback. Why is "Shrek" one of the greatest selling DVDs of all time? Why do shampoo advertisements base themselves on "Sleeping Beauty"? Why is it that the same simple stories keep being told? This study attempts to explain why fairy tales keep popping up in the most unexpected places and why best storytellers begin their tales with 'once upon a time'. Num Pages: 204 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500488
- ISBN
- 9780230500488
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Hardback. Explores the theoretical concerns of literary and cultural studies through a reappraisal of three innovative women writers of the modernist period: Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. In its provocative combination of cultural methodologies, this work significantly expands on existing aesthetic cartographies of modernism. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500495
- ISBN
- 9780230500495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
hardcover. This book offers an in-depth treatment of Woolf's representations of space and place. Eleven essays contribute not only to Woolf studies but also to emergent debates concerning modernism's relations to empire and geography. They offer innovative and interdisciplinary readings on topics such as London's imperial spaces and the gendering of space. Editor(s): Snaith, Anna; Whitworth, Michael. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 225
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500730
- ISBN
- 9780230500730
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardback. Presenting twelve essays that explore in depth the publishing and reading practices which were formed and changed by the First World War. This work provides crucial historical information about the production, circulation and reception of reading matter during a period of international crisis. Editor(s): Hammond, Mary; Towheed, Shafquat. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJF; DSBH; KNTP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230500761
- ISBN
- 9780230500761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.29
€ 64.29
Hardback. Why do the dead return? Do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and the works of Jacques Derrida, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. The book suggests it may be as difficult for the living to get rid of the dead as it is to live without them. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPC; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 187
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507821
- ISBN
- 9780230507821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.07
€ 122.07
Hardcover. Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book assesses how postcolonial writers respond to their own reception and niche positioning, parading their exotic otherness to metropolitan audiences, within a global marketplace. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507845
- ISBN
- 9780230507845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. Deleuze's writing is permeated with references to literature. Despite asserting that he was not a literary critic, Deleuze provides exhilarating and original interactions with texts. This study offers in-depth encounters between Deleuze's thought and the writers who fascinated him, demonstrating the productivity of a Deleuzian frame of reference. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517530
- ISBN
- 9780230517530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.83
€ 63.83
Hardback. This volume features new essays by eminent and emerging Woolf scholars, focusing on the aesthetics and influences of Virginia Woolf's work. Themes include eco-criticism, conceptions of intellectual women, spaces and places, and Woolf beyond Bloomsbury. The volume opens with a personal reflection by Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Editor(s): Potts, Gina; Shahriari, Lisa. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517660
- ISBN
- 9780230517660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Hardback. This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny. Editor(s): Jervis, John. Num Pages: 242 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; DSB; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517714
- ISBN
- 9780230517714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.35
€ 64.35
Hardback. This book takes performance studies in exciting new directions, exploring the ways in which ethics can be used to understand the complex questions facing contemporary spectators. Engaging with five key performances, the book reflects on the emotional and intellectual impacts of politically inflected performance on spectators, critics and theorists. Series: Studies in International Performance. Num Pages: 219 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; HPQ; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 219
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230518018
- ISBN
- 9780230518018
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.61
€ 122.61
Hardback. This book sets out the political and cultural conditions regulating dramatic writing during an era of censorship and monopolistic royal theatres. Using a range of plays and manuscripts, it argues for the centrality of burletta, the theatrical locus of the attacks on the Cockney school of poetry and the vitality of the metropolitan dramatic scene. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSG. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230518025
- ISBN
- 9780230518025
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Hardback. 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: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 213
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230520738
- ISBN
- 9780230520738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.98
€ 63.98
Hardback. Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; DSK; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230524781
- ISBN
- 9780230524781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardback. This book brings together theatre historians to identify and exemplify a variety of productive new approaches to the investigation of plays, players, playwrights, playhouses and other aspects of theatre in the long eighteenth century. Their inquiries range from stage censorship and anti-theatricalism to the political resonances of adultery comedy. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 313 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 603.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 313
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525245
- ISBN
- 9780230525245
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.28
€ 65.28
Hardback. Together, Wordsworth's verse and his compelling criticism have done much to shape our understanding of poetic art since the Romantic period. This volume is the first in many years to reexamine Wordsworth's complex theory of poetry in depth across the full range of the poet's work, presenting new scholarship by influential commentators in the field. Editor(s): Regier, Alexander; Uhlig, Stefan H. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230525443
- ISBN
- 9780230525443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
hardcover. This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535633
- ISBN
- 9780230535633
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.15
€ 64.15
Hardback. This study argues that the private homes in transnational women's fiction reflect public legacies of colonialism. Published in Australia, Canada, India, Nigeria, Puerto Rico and the United States between 1995 and 2005, the novels use fictional houses to criticize and unsettle home and homeland, depicting their linked oppressions and exclusions. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230536876
- ISBN
- 9780230536876
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Hardback. This book analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher of history and key theorist of modernity. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230537583
- ISBN
- 9780230537583
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. Dickens's London often acts as a complex symbol, composed of numerous sub-symbols, such as crowd, river, railway networks and police systems. This book is particularly interested in how Dickens's treatment of the city allows him to re-examine traditional Christian discourses on the issues of revelation, renunciation and regeneration. Num Pages: 253 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 455.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 253
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230545236
- ISBN
- 9780230545236
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49