Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Hardback. The detective figure in contemporary American crime fiction increasingly relies on revenge to bring about justice in a society where there has been a sharp decline in moral values. This study demonstrates how the notion of the detective as a moral exemplar or heroic ideal breaks down in the works of writers such as James Ellroy and Sara Paretsky. Num Pages: 139 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 322.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 139
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137469656
- ISBN
- 9781137469656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.46
€ 63.46
Hardcover. This book acknowledges that the reader of a novel looks at and sees the page before they begin to read any text placed upon it. Thus, any disruptions to how a traditional page 'should look' can have a large impact on the reading process. The book critically engages with the visual appearance of graphically innovative contemporary prose fiction. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137467355
- ISBN
- 9781137467355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 464.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457714
- ISBN
- 9781137457714
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.19
€ 112.19
Hardcover. An innovative reading of a wide range of contemporary Scottish novels in relation to literary tradition and modern philosophy, Contemporary Scottish Gothic provides a new approach to Scottish fiction and Gothic literature, and offers a fuller picture of contemporary Scottish Gothic than any previous text. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137457196
- ISBN
- 9781137457196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456779
- ISBN
- 9781137456779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.39
€ 122.39
Hardcover. Rose Elizabeth Cleveland was the First Lady of the United States when she assisted her brother, Grover Cleveland. She was also a literary scholar, novelist, and a poet who published work that empowered women. This book positions Cleveland in the historical context of the early twentieth century, when she helped shape female subjectivity and agency. Num Pages: 106 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSK; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456526
- ISBN
- 9781137456526
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.26
€ 63.26
Hardcover. An homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of essays sheds new light on canonical authors such as Ibsen, Beckett, and Strindberg. Using style and structure as the connective thread, Mark Axelrod joins a wide and deep conversation on writers on writing. Num Pages: 105 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456090
- ISBN
- 9781137456090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.36
€ 100.36
Paperback. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455246
- ISBN
- 9781137455246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69
The Keys of Middle-Earth. Discovering Medieval Literature Through the ...
Lee, Stuart; Solopova, Elizabeth
Hardback. A comprehensive introduction to the medieval languages and texts that inspired Tolkien's Middle-earth. Using key episodes in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, medieval texts are presented in their original language with translations. Essential for those who wish to delve deeper into the background to Tolkien's mythology. Num Pages: 395 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 757.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 395
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454683
- ISBN
- 9781137454683
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.17
€ 156.17
Hardcover. This book focuses on Baldwin's experiences as a gifted black writer who fought valiantly against racism and wrote openly about homosexual relationships. Baldwin's God is a 'mysteriously impersonal' force he calls love- 'something .. like a fire, like the wind, something which can change you.' Series: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137454331
- ISBN
- 9781137454331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.98
€ 153.98
Hardcover. Established accounts of the child in nineteenth century literature tend to focus on those who occupy a central position within narratives. This book is concerned with children who are not so easily recognized or remembered, the peripheral or overlooked children to be read in works by Dickens, Bronte, Austen and Rossetti. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137452443
- ISBN
- 9781137452443
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardcover. Newly revised and enlarged, the second edition of A Conrad Chronology draws upon a rich range of published and unpublished materials. It offers a detailed factual record of Joseph Conrad's unfolding life as seaman and writer as well as tracing the compositional and publication history of his major works. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Second Edition,New edition,2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137452382
- ISBN
- 9781137452382
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Paperback. Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the densely layered stories. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 201
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137451224
- ISBN
- 9781137451224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.14
€ 63.14
Hardcover. This exciting new study looks at degeneration and deviance in nineteenth-century science and late-Victorian Gothic fiction. The questions it raises are as relevant today as they were at the nineteenth century's fin de siecle: What constitutes the norm from which a deviation has occurred? What exactly does it mean to be 'normal' or 'abnormal'? Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137450326
- ISBN
- 9781137450326
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.91
€ 122.91
Hardback. The legacy of antifascist partisan, Auschwitz survivor, and author Primo Levi continues to drive exciting interdisciplinary scholarship. The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied as ethics, memory, and media studies. Editor(s): Vuohelainen, Minna; Chapman, Arthur. Series: Italian & Italian American Studies. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH; DSK; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137442338
- ISBN
- 9781137442338
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55
Hardcover. A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137441645
- ISBN
- 9781137441645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Paperback. This original and incisive study of the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison uses cutting edge cultural and literary theory to examine the 'knotted' mother-daughter relations that form the thematic basis of the texts examined. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137440853
- ISBN
- 9781137440853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Hardcover. Tracing the changing conceptions of nationality in the work of traveling writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and Claude McKay, Modernism and Mobility argues that the passport system is an indispensable segue into discussions of literary modernism. Num Pages: 251 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439826
- ISBN
- 9781137439826
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.03
€ 64.03
Hardback. This revised and expanded handbook concisely introduces narrative form to advanced students of fiction and creative writing, with refreshed references and new discussions of cognitive approaches to narrative, nonfiction, and narrative emotions. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised and Expanded ed
- Number of pages
- 229
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137439574
- ISBN
- 9781137439574
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.73
€ 64.73
Katherine Mansfield and Continental Europe: Connections and Influences
Kimber, Gerri, Kascakova, Janka
Hardcover. This volume offers new interpretations of Katherine Mansfield's work by bringing together recent biographical and critical-theoretical approaches to her life and art in the context of Continental Europe. It features chapters on Mansfield's reception in several European countries together with her own translations of other European writers. Num Pages: 281 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429964
- ISBN
- 9781137429964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.58
€ 64.58
Hardcover. Literature after Postmodernism explores the use of literary fantastic storylines in contemporary novels which begin to think beyond postmodernism. They develop an aesthetic perspective that aims at creation and communication instead of subversion and can thus be considered no longer deconstructive but reconstructive. Num Pages: 301 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429902
- ISBN
- 9781137429902
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.21
€ 133.21
Hardcover. Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines contemporary British literature and its depiction of the city after the time of Thatcher and mass privatization. This lively study is an important and engaging work for students and scholars alike. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429346
- ISBN
- 9781137429346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.89
€ 63.89
Hardback. Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies. Num Pages: 155 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 155
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137429285
- ISBN
- 9781137429285
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Hardcover. This interdisciplinary project draws on a wealth of sources (visual, material, literary and theatrical) to examine Austen's depiction of female performance, display and desire through her deployment of a culturally and symbolically charged accessory: the muff. Num Pages: 94 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSG; DSK; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 13. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137427922
- ISBN
- 9781137427922
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.16
€ 63.16