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Hardcover. Moving away from territorially-bound narratives toward a more kinetic conceptualization of identity, this book represents the first analysis of the politics of American identity within the fiction and memoirs of Isabel Allende. Craig offers a radical transformation of societal frameworks through revised notions of place, temporality, and space. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLSH; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339973
- ISBN
- 9781137339973
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.32
€ 122.32
Hardcover. How and when can a narrative agent or voice be considered unreliable? What happens when narrative authority fails and, just as importantly, why does it? As a means to answering these questions, Wandering Women in French Film and Literature examines the phenomenon of 'narrative drift' through in-depth analysis of twentieth-century novels and films. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APF; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137339980
- ISBN
- 9781137339980
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardcover. The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of twentieth-century American literature. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340221
- ISBN
- 9781137340221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered, enacted, and embodied, through the frame of minimalist aesthetics. Provocatively, he makes the claim that lived experience is capable of being refined according to the paradoxically rich parameters of a minimalist aesthetic. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXJ4; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343369
- ISBN
- 9781137343369
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Hardcover. This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343543
- ISBN
- 9781137343543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.66
€ 123.66
Hardcover. Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Perez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 2AB; 2ADS; DSBH; JFSJ1; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343574
- ISBN
- 9781137343574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Hardcover. A fresh look at the greatest poet of early eighteenth-century England, this highly readable book focuses on Pope's religious thinking and major poems. G. Douglas Atkins extends the argument that the Roman Catholic poet was no Deist, 'closet' or otherwise. Num Pages: 79 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSK; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137344779
- ISBN
- 9781137344779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.06
€ 63.06
Hardcover. Using Martin Esslin's "invention" - the Theatre of the Absurd - to examine Pinter's works, Wong brings the complexities and intricacies of the plays to the forefront, provoking readers and audiences to reconsider and problematize more conventional studies of his plays. Num Pages: 111 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345349
- ISBN
- 9781137345349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Hardcover. Ezra Pound was an influential propagandist for British, Italian and ultimately German fascist movements. Using long-neglected manuscripts and cutting-edge approaches to fascism as a 'political religion', Feldman argues that Pound's case offers a revealing case study of a modernist author turned propagator of the 'fascist faith'. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; DSC; HBLW; HBTB; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345509
- ISBN
- 9781137345509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. Olympe de Gouges has been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being mentioned solely for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and [the female] Citizen. This book uncovers her radical views of the self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of increasing female agency and decreasing the entitlements of aristocratic males. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346452
- ISBN
- 9781137346452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.40
€ 63.40
Paperback. This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 197
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137346759
- ISBN
- 9781137346759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.11
€ 63.11
Hardcover. In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary,' and whether it should rank with the great novels by such journalist-literary figures as Twain, Cather, and Hemingway, who believed that fiction was the better place for a realistic writer to express the important truths of life. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137353474
- ISBN
- 9781137353474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137354198
- ISBN
- 9781137354198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.61
€ 64.61
Paperback. Clarkson pays sustained attention to the dynamic interaction between Coetzee's fiction and critical writing, exploring the Nobel prize-winner's participation in, and contribution to, contemporary literary-philosophical debates. The book, now with a new preface, engages with recent literary and philosophical responses to Coetzee's work. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137357335
- ISBN
- 9781137357335
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Paperback. Masculine Style presents a groundbreaking account of masculine self-fashioning in American literature. Forging new connections between Modernism and the American West, Worden argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity,' from the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Nat Love, Theodore Roosevelt, and John Steinbeck. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137360694
- ISBN
- 9781137360694
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.19
€ 63.19
Hardcover. This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood and practices of scientific inquiry shaped his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362490
- ISBN
- 9781137362490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. Wide-ranging and skillful, Darwin and Faulkner's Novels reexamines the fiction of the great twentieth-century author from the interdisciplinary perspective of sociobiology. Challenging the assumption that Faulkner's South was nothing other than a reactionary wilderness, this ambitious book unsettles staid interpretations of the Faulknerian canon. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362889
- ISBN
- 9781137362889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.54
€ 63.54
Paperback. Analyzing the trends and developments of African American historical fiction written by women in the twentieth century, Nunes' approach addresses the relationship between history and literature, reworking the historical record from the point of view of the silenced female and giving origin to an unprecedented narrative of the American experience. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137363718
- ISBN
- 9781137363718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57
Hardcover. Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and inter-textual, this book is a bold analysis of satire of modern forms of misunderstanding. Num Pages: 86 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137375742
- ISBN
- 9781137375742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.11
€ 63.11
Hardcover. Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century. Num Pages: 172 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137379870
- ISBN
- 9781137379870
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.81
€ 63.81
Hardcover. A host of newly-discovered documents enable us to re-examine one of the most intriguing events in British intellectual history, the Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles in 1830-1. Num Pages: 448 pages, 3 maps, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DSE; 2AB; 3JH; DSB; DSBF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 796.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137384461
- ISBN
- 9781137384461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. Overviewing the legal thriller, where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and judges, this book takes a gender focused approach to analyzing recent titles and argues for the genre both in the way its narrative pattern parallels that of an actual court trial, and how it reflects the concerns of contemporary society. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 199 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 219 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407290
- ISBN
- 9781137407290
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardcover. This book engages with deictics ('pointing' words like here/there, this/that) of space. It focuses on texts by Donne, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Wroth in particular, relating their forms of deixis to cultural and generic developments; but it also suggests parallels with both iconic and neglected texts from a range of later historical periods. Num Pages: 135 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 337.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137411303
- ISBN
- 9781137411303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.83
€ 76.83
Hardcover. Editor(s): Pepper, Andrew; Schmid, David. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 284 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137425720
- ISBN
- 9781137425720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.10
€ 133.10