Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Paperback. Editor(s): Dooley, Ann; Roe, Harry. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 2AFR; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199549856
- ISBN
- 9780199549856
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.52
€ 13.99
€ 11.52
Paperback. Before Recollection. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 90 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 90
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691014371
- ISBN
- 9780691014371
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.44
€ 27.99
€ 21.44
Hardcover. In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230105836
- ISBN
- 9780230105836
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Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Paperback. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2011
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349290086
- ISBN
- 9781349290086
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Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 599.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801432699
- ISBN
- 9780801432699
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Condition: New
€ 96.06
€ 96.06
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099507895
- ISBN
- 9780099507895
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.02
€ 21.99
€ 17.02
Paperback. Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748641345
- ISBN
- 9780748641345
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Condition: New
€ 28.30
€ 28.30
Hardback. Introduces Tennyson's famous elegy to first-time readers, students and teachers of the poem. Series: Reading Guides to Long Poems. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9780748641352
- ISBN
- 9780748641352
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Condition: New
€ 75.31
€ 75.31
Hardback. Offers an account of the life of the great English poet and pamphleteer John Milton in his quarter centenary year. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 242 x 44. Weight in Grams: 774. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapperFirst edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KEX0303332
- ISBN
- 9780747584254
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 25.00
€ 25.00
hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691636658
- ISBN
- 9780691636658
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Condition: New
€ 81.18€ 62.88
€ 81.18
€ 62.88
Paperback. An investigation of the many ways that Shakespeare uses the defiant voice of the shrew. Kamaralli explores how modern performance practice negotiates the possibilities for staging these characters who refuse to conform to standards of acceptable behaviour for women, but are among Shakespeare's bravest, wisest and most vivid creations. Series: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 215 x 18. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349345274
- ISBN
- 9781349345274
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Condition: New
€ 71.83
€ 71.83
Hardcover. Examines the influence of court culture on the creation of the anthology and the significance of imitation and convention in its lyrics. The author aims to situate the Huajian ji within larger questions of Chinese literary history, particularly the influence of cultural forces on the emergence of genres and the development of romantic literature. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 181 x 34. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021426
- ISBN
- 9780674021426
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Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.37
€ 52.99
€ 44.37
Paperback. In this collection, Anne Carson contemplates 'decreation', an activity described by Simone Weil as 'undoing the creature in us', an undoing of self. But how can we undo self without moving through self, to the very inside of its definitions? Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224079266
- ISBN
- 9780224079266
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.03
€ 21.99
€ 16.03
Paperback. * The definitive and ONLY complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world's greatest living poets Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844080816
- ISBN
- 9781844080816
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.99
€ 21.99
€ 15.99
Paperback. Offers a reading of certain of Simonides' texts and aligns these with writings of the modern Romanian poet Paul Celan. Asking such questions as, What is lost when words are wasted? and Who profits when words are saved? This work reveals the two poets' striking commonalities. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 160 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691091754
- ISBN
- 9780691091754
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 28.18
€ 37.99
€ 28.18
Paperback. This anthology of primary materials-the words of American women writers on the act of authorship and their participation in the literary cultures of the nineteenth century- offers revealing insight into Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women." Editor(s): Boyd, Anne E. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801892752
- ISBN
- 9780801892752
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Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 36.55
€ 43.99
€ 36.55
Hardback. A theoretical, historical, and critical inquiry, this book looks at the assumptions anthologies are predicated on, how they are put together, the treatment of the poems in them, and the effects their presentations have on their readers. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 528. Good clean copy in fine dustwrapper with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000594
- ISBN
- 9780804742351
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. The title of a poem is often seen as no more than a convenient means of reference. But in shorter lyric poems the title can often be as long as a line of verse, and as allusive. This is a theoretical, critical, and historical exploration of the traditions for titling shorter English poems. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804735179
- ISBN
- 9780804735179
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.99
€ 37.99
€ 34.99
hardcover. A careful re-evaluation of pastoral poetics in the early modern Hispanic literature of Spain and Latin America. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855663138
- ISBN
- 9781855663138
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.45
€ 88.45
Hardback. Poetics en Passant presents a 'cross-channel' poetics that redefines the relationship between 'Victorian' and 'modern' poetry by understanding Christina Rossetti's poetics of 'stealth' as an important counterpart to Baudelairean 'shock.' Series: Institute of Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230618992
- ISBN
- 9780230618992
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Condition: New
€ 50.84€ 15.46
€ 50.84
€ 15.46
Paperback. By considering women's voices in performance, this book provides a fresh perspective on women's 'writing'. It shows that our understanding of femininity in ancient Greece can be expanded by going beyond poetry composed by women poets like Sappho to explore girls' and women's choral songs from the archaic period. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen´s University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780773534490
- ISBN
- 9780773534490
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 32.72
€ 33.99
€ 32.72
Hardcover. Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230337381
- ISBN
- 9780230337381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.91
€ 68.91
Paperback. Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349340910
- ISBN
- 9781349340910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.84
€ 50.84
hardcover. Offers a fresh interpretation of Virgil's Aeneid via a detailed study of its child hero, Ascanius, young son of Aeneas. Series: Cambridge Classical Studies. Num Pages: 242 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107115392
- ISBN
- 9781107115392
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.24
€ 107.24