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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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
90
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691014371
ISBN
9780691014371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801432699
ISBN
9780801432699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.06

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099507895
ISBN
9780099507895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 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

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636658
ISBN
9780691636658
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804735179
ISBN
9780804735179
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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.
Format
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

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 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

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

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

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