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Hardcover. This study looks particularly at Enid Blyton's "Noddy", "The Famous Five" and "Malory Towers". It draws extensively on the view of her readership, past and present, and uses a variety of critical approaches to show how adult criticism has consistently missed the secret of her appeal. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; DSY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 225 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333747186
ISBN
9780333747186
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.53

Paperback. Fiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804768764
ISBN
9780804768764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 25.69

Hardback. Editor(s): Cooney, Helen. Series: Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403968487
ISBN
9781403968487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.14

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ACG; CJB; DSB; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531125275
ISBN
9783531125275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.65

Paperback. aeo This is a very accessible introduction to one of the key figures in contemporary feminist thought. aeo The approach to Simone de Beauvoir is distinctive because it examines her work as a philosopher -- this book is the first full--length assessment of Simone de Beauvoira s philosophy. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 192 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Oxford
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745612034
ISBN
9780745612034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226437361
ISBN
9780226437361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 31.03

Paperback. Editor(s): Ardila, Alfredo; Ostrosky-Solis, Feggy. Series: Critical Issues in Neuropsychology. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; DSB; JMM; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 413.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461280880
ISBN
9781461280880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.12

Hardback. Series: Macmillan Hardy Studies. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
267
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333325438
ISBN
9780333325438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 186.43

Hardcover. Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters. Editor(s): Rider, John Jeffrey; Friedman, Jamie. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 285 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230105140
ISBN
9780230105140
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.55

Paperback. This up-to-date account of the composition, structure, and achievement of Balzac's novel provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing 19th-century expectations of what novels should be like. Series Editor(s): Stern, J. P. Series: Landmarks of World Literature. Num Pages: 116 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 205 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0003900
ISBN
9780521316347
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This new study brings to life the unique contribution of French women during the early nineteenth century, a key period in the history of colonialism and slavery. It offers in-depth readings of works by five antislavery writers - Germaine de Stael, Claire Duras, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Charlotte Dard and Sophie Doin. Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery. Num Pages: 196 pages, 7 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381137
ISBN
9781781381137
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.22

Paperback. This book reads Milton's Paradise Lost as a poem that seeks to educate its readers by narrating the education of its main characters. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349537617
ISBN
9781349537617
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Paperback. Combining analysis with detailed accounts of authors' careers and the global trade in literature, this book, now in paperback and with a new Preface, 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: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230346437
ISBN
9780230346437
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.51

Paperback. Analysing texts by Sterne, Smollett, Brooke, and Mackenzie, this book offers a new perspective on a question that literary criticism has struggled with for years: why are many sentimental novels of the 1700s so pervasively and playfully self-conscious, and why is this self-consciousness so often directed toward the materiality of the printed word? Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSBD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349466887
ISBN
9781349466887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.08

Hardback. This timely volume represents one of the first comprehensive, student--oriented guides to the under--published field of early modern womena s writing. Editor(s): Pacheco, Anita. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 416 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 188 x 27. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631217022
ISBN
9780631217022
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 222.37

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137546272
ISBN
9781137546272
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
333
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231149792
ISBN
9780231149792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.68

Hardcover. Editor(s): Matthews, David. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
ND Studies in Age of Chaucer
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780933784383
ISBN
9780933784383
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.06

Paperback. In such selections as The Search for Redemption, The Novelist as Prophet, An American Girl, and Flannery O'Connor's Clarity of Vision, ten critics examine the fiction of the modern American writer. Editor(s): Friedman, Melvin J.; Lawson, Lewis A. Num Pages: 263 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823207114
ISBN
9780823207114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 40.79

Hardcover. Known for their intimate, sensual encounters that examine the relationship between identity and power, playwright Naomi Wallace's works are critically examined for the first time. Editor(s): Stevens Abbitt, Erica. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137017918
ISBN
9781137017918
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.34

Paperback. Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and i ek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform." Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 282 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349371648
ISBN
9781349371648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.46

Paperback. Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the reading of literature. Num Pages: 201 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349469284
ISBN
9781349469284
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.03

Paperback. Argues that it is only at the turn of the 21st century that the powerful lessons of the avant-garde - an avant-garde cruelly disrupted by the Great War and subsequent political upheavals - were learned. This book offers readings of T S Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Velimir Khlebnikov. It examines various related poetic concerns. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631219705
ISBN
9780631219705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.98

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

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