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Hardcover. The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 320 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541345
- ISBN
- 9781137541345
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Condition: New
€ 154.56
€ 154.56
Hardcover. Based on sources in Genesis and Plato's Symposium, the androygyne during Early Modern France was a means of expressing the full potential of humans made in the image of God. This book documents and comments on the range of references to the androgyne in the writings of poets, philosophers, courtiers, and women in positions of political power. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541369
- ISBN
- 9781137541369
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Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Lycanthropy in German Literature argues that as a symbol of both power and parasitism, the human wolf of the Germanic Middle Ages is iconic to the representation of the persecution of undesirables in the German cultural imagination from the early modern age to the post-war literary scene. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137541628
- ISBN
- 9781137541628
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Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. This book brings a thoughtful, creative perspective to African literature instead of a theoretically-framed analysis. It contextualizes the production of African literature in culture, place, and history, framed in the context of globalization and environmental consciousness. Series: African Histories and Modernities. Num Pages: 285 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1H; DSBH; HBJH; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137542205
- ISBN
- 9781137542205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.58
€ 64.58
Hardcover. Although Chaucer is typically labeled as the "Father of English Literature," evidence shows that his work appealed to Europe and specifically European women. Rereading the Canterbury Tales, Thomas argues that Chaucer imagined Anne of Bohemia, wife of famed Richard II, as an ideal reader, an aspect that came to greatly affect his writing. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; 3H; DSBB; DSC; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137544193
- ISBN
- 9781137544193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.38
€ 64.38
Hardcover. This book is grounded in a theorization of the author's personal story including growing up as a female adoptee of a single parent in a patriarchal context, and current material context as an immigrant in New Zealand. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBTQ; HRCG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137544308
- ISBN
- 9781137544308
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.41
€ 64.41
Hardcover. Mobility in the Victorian Novel explores mobility in Victorian novels by authors including Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and Mary Elizabeth Braddon. With focus on representations of bodies on the move, it reveals how journeys create the place of the nation within a changing global landscape. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 226 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545466
- ISBN
- 9781137545466
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Condition: New
€ 154.13
€ 154.13
Hardback. Editor(s): Srivastava, Neelam. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545497
- ISBN
- 9781137545497
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Condition: New
€ 122.94
€ 122.94
Hardback. Editor(s): Bowers, William; Crumme, Hannah Leah. Num Pages: 241 pages, 5 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 467.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545527
- ISBN
- 9781137545527
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.82
€ 143.82
Hardcover. A disturbing but ultimately discredited strain in American thought, eugenics was a crucial ideological force in the early twentieth century. Luczak investigates the work of writers like Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, to consider the impact of eugenic racial discourse on American literary production from 1900-1940. Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137545787
- ISBN
- 9781137545787
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature. Num Pages: 266 pages, 17 black & white halftones, 3 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1H; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH5; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546180
- ISBN
- 9781137546180
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.43
€ 63.43
Hardcover. The National Body in Mexican Literature presents a revisionist reading of the Mexican canon that challenges assumptions of State hegemony and national identity. It analyzes the representation of sick, disabled, and miraculously healed bodies in Mexican literature from 1940 to 1980 in narrative fiction by Vicente Lenero, Juan Rulfo, among others. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADS; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546272
- ISBN
- 9781137546272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardback. Recently discovered ancient silk and bamboo manuscripts have reformulated our understanding of ancient Chinese thought. They show that ancient Chinese philosophy was and is much richer and more complex than we ever imagined, and they chart the path from belief in powerful spirits and gods to the discovery of universal laws and order. Translator(s): Tadd, Misha. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBD; HPDF; HRKN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 241
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137546968
- ISBN
- 9781137546968
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.90
€ 111.90
Hardcover. This book offers a detailed exploration of the plot genotype, the functional structure behind the plots of classical fairy tales. By understanding how plot genotypes are used, the reader or creative writer will obtain a much better understanding of many other types of fiction, including short stories, dramatic texts and Hollywood screenplays. Num Pages: 224 pages, 64 black & white tables. BIC Classification: DSK; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137547071
- ISBN
- 9781137547071
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.13
€ 154.13
Hardback. Series: Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific. Num Pages: 250 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB; JFFN; KCF; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137548580
- ISBN
- 9781137548580
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.16
€ 133.16
Hardback. Writing in response to war and national crisis, al-Samman, Khalifeh, Barakat, and others introduced into the Arabic literary canon aesthetic forms capable of carrying Levantine women's experiences. By assessing their feminism in such a way, this book aims to revive a critical emphasis on aesthetics in Arab women's writing. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 198
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137548702
- ISBN
- 9781137548702
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.98
€ 63.98
Hardback. Series: Literatures of the Americas. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 411.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137548719
- ISBN
- 9781137548719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.65
€ 111.65
Hardback. Editor(s): Tambling, Professor Jeremy. Num Pages: 863 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSB; HBT; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 1484.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 863
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137549105
- ISBN
- 9781137549105
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 330.01
€ 330.01
Hardback. One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged, historically informed book brings new materialist insights to novels by Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, and Butts. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 22. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137549358
- ISBN
- 9781137549358
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.90
€ 90.90
Hardcover. This book develops a poetics of literary biography based on the triangular relationships of lives, works and times and how narrative operates in holding them together. Num Pages: 165 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137549570
- ISBN
- 9781137549570
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.69
€ 63.69
Hardcover. Through original interviews and research, Llewellyn uses spirituality to uncover new commonalities between the second and third feminist waves, and sacred and secular experiences. Her lively approach highlights the importance of reading cultures in feminist studies, connecting women's voices across generations, literary practices, and religions. Series: Breaking Feminist Waves. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HRLK; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137549952
- ISBN
- 9781137549952
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.69
€ 122.69
Hardcover. This book reads Oscar Wilde as a queer theorist and Wilfred Owen as his symbolic son. It centers on the concept of 'male procreation', or the generation of new ideas through an erotic but non-physical connection between two men, and it sees Owen as both a product and a continuation of this Wildean tradition. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137550637
- ISBN
- 9781137550637
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.38
€ 64.38
Hardcover. Liminal Fictions in Postmodern Culture examines distinctive literary, musical, and cinematic narratives that seek to inspire critical thought and conduct through provocation. From Gogol's Dead Souls to Salinger's Franny and Zooey, Phillips argues liminal narratives offer an antidote to the modern commodification of the self. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137550811
- ISBN
- 9781137550811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardback. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC; HBJF; HRA; HRJ; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137551368
- ISBN
- 9781137551368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.01
€ 64.01