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Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Joseph Conrad and the Reader Questioning Modern Theories of Narrative and Readership Amar Acheraiou Palgrave Macmillan Joseph Conrad and the Reader is the first book fully devoted to Conrad's relation to the reader, visual theory and authorship. This challenging study proposes...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization Amar Acheraiou Palgrave Macmillan Acheraiou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on métissage and the "Third Space," arguing for the decolonization...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Literature, Ethics, and Aesthetics Applied Deleuze and Guattari Sabrina Achilles Palgrave Macmillan This book is a conceptualization of the literary aesthetic in relation to ethics, in particular, an ethics for a concern for the Self. Bringing Gilles Deleuze...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Against Theatre Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage Performance Interventions Edited by Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner Palgrave Macmillan Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers,...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature Troping the Traumatic Real Jenni Adams Palgrave Macmillan A major contribution to Holocaust studies, the book examines the capacity of supernatural elements to dramatize the ethical and representational difficulties...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Max Reinhardt A Life in Publishing Judith Adamson Palgrave Macmillan Reinhardt owned The Bodley Head from 1957 to 1987, and smaller publishers like The Nonesuch Press and Reinhardt Books. This account of his life contains...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Poetry After the Invention of América Don't Light the Flower Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Andrés Ajens and Translated By Michelle Gil-Montero Palgrave Macmillan These essays trace the Western poem as it confronts indigenous alterity in Latin America. Andrés Ajens approaches literature as a Western invention and seeks...

Hardcover : $122.00 Buy	Textual Metonymy A Semiotic Approach Abdul Gabbar Mohammed Al-Sharafi Palgrave Macmillan Textual Metonymy employs a theoretical framework combining rhetoric, figurative theory and textlinguistics. In the process, a very full historical account of...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Telling Our Stories Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies Adetayo Alabi Palgrave Macmillan This book investigates the continuities and divergences in selected Black autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Trade Paperback : $31.00 Buy	A History of English Literature, Second Edition Palgrave Foundations Series Michael Alexander Palgrave Macmillan The second edition of this best-selling book has been completely updated and revised throughout to take into account new authors and new scholarly developments...

Hardcover : $90.00 Buy	A.S. Byatt Critical Storytelling Contemporary British Novelists Alexa Alfer and Amy J. Edwards de Campos Manchester University Press This comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt’s work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt’s works of fiction up to and...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	Wordsworth and the Passions of Critical Poetics Stuart Allen Palgrave Macmillan This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in "autonomous" poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology,...

Hardcover : $130.00 Buy	The Practice of Reading Interpreting the Novel Derek Alsop; Chris Walsh Palgrave Macmillan Derek Alsop and Chris Walsh provide a lucid, thoughtful and lively commentary upon the art of interpreting the novel in the context of recent developments in...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Citizen Shakespeare Freemen and Aliens in the Language of the Plays Early Modern Cultural Studies Series John Michael Archer Palgrave Macmillan Citizen Shakespeare combines recent historiography with the close analysis of language to show how the subjectivities of the London citizen and the immigrant...

Trade Paperback : $37.00 Buy	A Counter-History of Crime Fiction Supernatural, Gothic, Sensational Crime Files Maurizio Ascari Palgrave Macmillan Nominated for the Mystery Writers of America ‘Edgar Awards’! A Counter-History of Crime Fiction takes a new look at the evolution of crime fiction,...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Persian Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500 A History of Persian Literature, Vol II History of Persian Literature Edited By Ehsan Yarshater, Mohsen Ashtiany and General Editor Ehsan Yarshater I.B. Tauris Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Defining Literary Criticism Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002 Carol Atherton Palgrave Macmillan Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century,...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	On the Familiar Essay Challenging Academic Orthodoxies G. Douglas Atkins Palgrave Macmillan Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Reading T.S. Eliot Four Quartets and the Journey toward Understanding G. Douglas Atkins Palgrave Macmillan This book offers an exciting new approach to T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets through both a close reading and a comparison to Eliot's other works, notably the...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	E. B. White The Essayist as First-Class Writer G. Douglas Atkins Palgrave Macmillan This is the first book-length critical study of E. B. White, the American essayist and author of the beloved Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of...

Trade Paperback : $24.95 Buy	These Englands A Conversation on National Identity Edited By Arthur Aughey and Christine Berberich Manchester University Press The term "conversation" is one of today's jargon terms. This book explores in depth what conversation means in national terms. Its premise is that to be...

Trade Paperback : $25.00 Buy	Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge / Jude the Obscure Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism Simon Avery Palgrave Macmillan This Reader's Guide analyses the critical history of two major nineteenth-century novels by the popular Victorian author Thomas Hardy, from the time of their...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	The Poetics of Novels Fiction and its Execution Mark Axelrod Palgrave Macmillan The Poetics of Novels deals with the fundamentals of novel-writing and the execution of such, and though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural...

Hardcover : $89.00 Buy	Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing New Concepts in Latino American Cultures Damián Baca Palgrave Macmillan Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing...

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