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Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology: Dispatches from Home and the Field During the Covid-19 Pandemic (Hardcover)

This volume written in a readable and enticing style is based on a simple premise which was to have several exceptional ethnographers write about their experiences in an evocative way in real time during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rather than an edited... more

Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology: The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty (Hardcover)

The Ethnography of Reading at Thirty more

Palgrave Studies in Literature Culture and Economics: Literary Representations of Precarious Work 1840 to the Present (Paperback)

Literary Representations of Precarious Work 1840 to the Present more

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation 1832-1867 (Paperback)

Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion generating distinctively socialized modes of participation in cultural and political activity. Their writing offers an important... more

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism: Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature: South Africa s Wounded Feelings (Hardcover)

This book examines South Africa s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the new South Africa best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings was... more

Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture: Adaptation Before Cinema: Literary and Visual Convergence from Antiquity Through the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)

Adaptation Before Cinema highlights a range of pre-cinematic media forms including theater novelization painting and illustration transmedia art children s media and other literary and visual culture. The book expands the primary scholarly audience of... more

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism: Gender Affect and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature: Afterlives of the Nightingale s Song (Hardcover)

Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory this book explores the intersection of social constructions of sex and gender with the development of norms for emotive speech in literary texts from the classical to... more

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism: Reading Affect in Post-Apartheid Literature: South Africa s Wounded Feelings (Paperback)

This book examines South Africa s post-apartheid culture through the lens of affect theory in order to argue that the socio-political project of the new South Africa best exemplified in their Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings was... more

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: Adolescent Girlhood and Literary Culture at the Fin de Siècle: Daughters of Today (Paperback)

This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that there was a preoccupation with defining characterising and naming adolescent girlhood at the fin de... more

Pre-Owned Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies After the World Wide Web (Paperback) 140396436X 9781403964366

9781403964366. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 2001 ed. Language: English. Pages: 272. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 272 p. This book describes and explains the fundamental changes that are now taking place in the most traditional... more

Pre-Owned Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web Paperback

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Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment Romanticism and Cultu: The Female Philosopher and Her Afterlives (Hardcover)

This book argues that the female philosopher a literary figure brought into existence by Mary Wollstonecraft s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman embodied the transformations of feminist thought during the transition from the Enlightenment to the... more

Palgrave Studies in Life Writing: Autofiction in English (Hardcover)

- Applies a concept that has previously only had significant currency in French literary theory to literature in English- Explores characteristic features and definitions of autofiction from a theoretical and conceptual standpoint in the English... more

Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature: Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions Space and Empathy in Late Modernity (Paperback)

Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions Space and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and... more

Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature: Writing Postcommunism: Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins (Hardcover)

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight. more

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment Romanticism and Cultu: Romantic Misfits (Paperback)

This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - misfits and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits... more

Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature: Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary: Reading Conrad Weiss Sebald (Paperback)

This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European émigré writers of... more

Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature: Writing Postcommunism: Towards a Literature of the East European Ruins (Paperback)

Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight. more

Palgrave Shakespeare Studies: Shakespeare Tragedy and Menopause: The Anxious Womb (Hardcover)

Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman s body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and... more

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment Romanticism and Cultu: Romantic Misfits (Paperback)

This book explores the false starts and disturbances of Romantic writing in Britain - misfits and misfittings - as both a constitutive challenge to canonical romanticism and a distinctive literary field worth examining on its own account. Misfits... more

Palgrave Studies in Life Writing: The Autofictional (Paperback)

This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective and from a broad... more

Palgrave Shakespeare Studies Shakespeare and the Truth of Love: The Mystery of the Phoenix and Turtle (Hardcover)

A comprehensive study of Shakespeare s forgotten masterpiece The Phoenix and Turtle . Bednarz confronts the question of why one of the greatest poems in the English language is customarily ignored or misconstrued by Shakespeare biographers literary... more

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment R Romanticism and Blackwood s Magazine: An Unprecedented Phenomenon (Hardcover)

This collection of essays throws vast new light on the most significant literary-political journal of the Romantic age. Its chapters analyze Blackwood s wide-ranging contributions on some of the most topical issues in Romantic studies including... more

Palgrave Studies in (Re)Presenting Gender: The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature (Paperback)

This book draws on literary cultural and critical examples forming a menstrual imaginary--a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women s creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses key... more

Palgrave Studies in Literature Science and Medicine: Medical Paratexts from Medieval to Modern: Dissecting the Page (Hardcover)

This collection establishes the term medical paratexts as a useful addition to medical humanities book history and literary studies research. As a relatively new field of study little critical attention has been paid to medical paratexts. We understand... more

Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women s Writing: Displacement and (Post)Memory in Post-Soviet Women s Writing (Paperback)

The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein Interpreter by Ludmilla Ulitskaya The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova Secondhand Time:... more

Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture: Postal Plots in British Fiction 1840-1898: Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture (Hardcover)

By 1840 the epistolary novel was dead. Letters in Victorian fiction however were unmistakably alive. Postal Plots explores how Victorian postal reforms unleashed a new and sometimes unruly population into the Victorian literary marketplace where they... more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Eugenic Fantasies: Racial Ideology in the Literature and Popular Culture of the 1920 s (Hardcover)

Eugenic Fantasies is an innovative work that combines interpretive strategies from the fields of psychoanalysis anthropology and literary studies to create a new model for theorizing race. more

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Eugenic Fantasies: Racial Ideology in the Literature and Popular Culture of the 1920 s (Paperback)

Eugenic Fantasies is an innovative work that combines interpretive strategies from the fields of psychoanalysis anthropology and literary studies to create a new model for theorizing race. more

Pre-Owned The Future of Literary Theory (Paperback 9780415900782) by Professor Ralph Cohen

9780415900782. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 600. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 600 p. This book should be of interest to students of classical studies anc ient history women s studies social anthropology. more

Keywords for American Cultural Studies 9780814799482 Used / Pre-owned

Essays by scholars working in literary studies and political economy cultural anthropology and ethnic studies African American history and performance studies gender studies and political theory CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better... more

Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic Islam Migrancy and Hospitality in Europe (Hardcover)

This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies literary criticism politics sociology and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration from Jacques Lacan s psychoanalytic... more

Pre-Owned Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World (Paperback 9780415011808) by Michael Holquist

9780415011808. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 224. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 224 p. New Accents. Mikhail Bakhtin s ideas have influenced thinking in literary studies anthropology linguistics psychology... more