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Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300195439
ISBN
9780300195439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.25

Paperback. Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics and anyone interested in mythology. Editor(s): Garber, Marjorie; Vickers, Nancy J. Num Pages: 346 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415900997
ISBN
9780415900997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.46

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 628.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691649245
ISBN
9780691649245
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.04
€ 86.87

Paperback. Considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the 17th century that caused the shift in the portrayals and perceptions of mountains in prose and poetry, from ugly protuberances to glorious heights. Examines various writers from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traces both the causes Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 672.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780295975771
ISBN
9780295975771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.82

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691624013
ISBN
9780691624013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 28.10

Paperback. Editor(s): Valente, Joseph; Howes, Marjorie. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268011208
ISBN
9780268011208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. Explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. This book concludes with a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith's conceptualist book "Traffic". Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 colour plates, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 418. Poetry by Other Means in the New Century. 232 pages, 2 colour plates, 40 halftones. Explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. This book concludes with a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith's conceptualist book "Traffic". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 14. Weight: 478.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226660622
ISBN
9780226660622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.16

Paperback. Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, this book explores such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme, and the role of sound repetition in novelistic prose. Editor(s): Perloff, Marjorie; Dworkin, Craig. Num Pages: 368 pages, 30 halftones, 5 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226657431
ISBN
9780226657431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.55

Paperback. This text considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the Modernist poets comes up against the "natural speech" of the "Donahue" talk show, or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes. Num Pages: 264 pages, 63 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226657349
ISBN
9780226657349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.92

Paperback. Previously known as an art-world figure, but now regarded as an important poet, Frank O'Hara is examined in this study. It traces the poet's "French connection" and the influence of the visual arts on his work. This edition includes a new introduction with a reconsideration of O'Hara's lyric. Num Pages: 268 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
268
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226660592
ISBN
9780226660592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 27.72

Paperback. Consisting of studies in the poetry of the Pound tradition, this book is a classic study of poetic form by an expert in contemporary criticism. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810113800
ISBN
9780810113800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.23

Paperback. Presents an accessible introduction to Marjorie Perloff's critical thought. In this book, fourteen interviews cover a broad spectrum of topics in the study of poetry: its nature as a literary genre, its current state, and its relationship to art, politics, language, theory, and technology. Editor(s): Bayot, David Jonathan Y. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226199412
ISBN
9780226199412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.39

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

€ 42.99
€ 41.92

Hardcover. What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information - a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? This title explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of 'unoriginal' writing. Num Pages: 244 pages, 2 colour plates, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226660615
ISBN
9780226660615
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.20
€ 75.95

Paperback. Editor(s): Rawlinson, Mark. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSG; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472529893
ISBN
9781472529893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 35.59

Paperback. "Concise, learned, revisionary.. should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come."- Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry Editor(s): Boland, Eavan; Strand, Mark. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393321784
ISBN
9780393321784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.93

Paperback. Undergraduates frequently find the fine Old English poem Judith the stimulating of the surviving texts from the Anglo-Saxon period. Over the years it has attracted a range of literary criticism both in the UK and the US. This book includes an introduction and a commentary by the editor, as well as a glossary, bibliography and appendices. Editor(s): Griffith, Mark. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSBB; DSC; HRCG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895682
ISBN
9780859895682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.69

Paperback. Series: Crime Files. Num Pages: 377 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JJ; APFA; APFN; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349676958
ISBN
9781349676958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 26.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 264 x 28. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816676156
ISBN
9780816676156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 21.09

Paperback. For decades, hobbits and the other fantastical creatures of Middle-earth have captured the imaginations of a fiercely loyal tribe of J R R Tolkien readers, all enhanced by the immense success of Peter Jackson's films: first 'The Lord of the Rings', and now his new 'The Hobbit'. This book explores the chief influences on J R R Tolkien's work. Num Pages: 320 pages, 46 integrated bw. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 137 x 218 x 21. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780769271
ISBN
9781780769271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.78

Hardback.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780762463
ISBN
9781780762463
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 48.84

hardcover. Mark B. Sandberg analyses reception materials to explore the architectural metaphors that Ibsen's plays introduced into mainstream Western thought. Num Pages: 236 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
Edition
Illustrated
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107033924
ISBN
9781107033924
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 75.67

paperback. "It's later than you think! Literary critics, practicing and prospective, had better take a close look at Mark Bauerlein's mordant and humorous 'autopsy.'"--Frederick Crews, editor, Series: Critical Authors and Issues. Num Pages: 176 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216257
ISBN
9780812216257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.65

Paperback. A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides a concise introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118492154
ISBN
9781118492154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.34

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