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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Paperback. A book about reading women's poems, rather than forming theories about them. Beginning with Katherine Philips, the first Englishwoman to achieve fame as a poet, it covers three centuries to the work of Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith, but does not include the many living women poets who deserve a volume to themselves. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845193348
ISBN
9781845193348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 29.10

Hardcover. A book about reading women's poems, rather than forming theories about them. Beginning with Katherine Philips, the first Englishwoman to achieve fame as a poet, it covers three centuries to the work of Marianne Moore and Stevie Smith, but does not include the many living women poets who deserve a volume to themselves. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
194
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845193379
ISBN
9781845193379
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.90

Hardcover. In a letter of January 1955, Wallace Stevens referred to Paul Valery as a 'prodigy of poetry'. This book explores the multiple parallels between these two great 20th century poets. It brings Valery's and Stevens' poetics and poetry into conversation, and focuses on the resonance of Valery's musical ideas in Stevens' poetic theory and practice. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 2ADF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845194376
ISBN
9781845194376
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.05

Hardcover. Contributes to the interdisciplinary theory of 'word and image', and the history of the relationships between 'sister arts'. This title offers a fresh perspective of traditional Western art form as reflected in the eyes of a Hebrew survivor of twentieth-century Holocaust atrocities. Num Pages: 197 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; DSBH; DSC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845194505
ISBN
9781845194505
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.90

Hardcover. Offers an instrumental investigation of a theory of rhythmical performance of poetry, originally propounded speculatively in the author's "Perception-Oriented Theory of Metre" (1977). This title assumes that when the versification patterns and linguistic patterns conflict, they can be accommodated in a pattern of Rhythmical Performance. Num Pages: 460 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 872.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195243
ISBN
9781845195243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.90

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195878
ISBN
9781845195878
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.05

Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 2ADS; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845197421
ISBN
9781845197421
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.90

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846317569
ISBN
9781846317569
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.82

Paperback. Cornwall - pseudonym of Bryan Waller Procter (1787-1874) - published his first poems in the Literary Gazette in late 1817. This book explores the central question of how Cornwall's racy and politically subversive poetry managed to establish a broad readership where Keats' publications met with review hostility and readerly indifference. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 frontispiece. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318139
ISBN
9781846318139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.42

Hardcover. Collected critical essays examine contemporary poetry in terms of cultural geography. Key themes are place and identity; literary cartographies; walking as trope and spatial practice; the poetics of edges, margins, and peripheries; landscape, language, and form. Editor(s): Alexander, Neal; Cooper, David. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318641
ISBN
9781846318641
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.66

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846318764
ISBN
9781846318764
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.66

Hardcover. A study of Byron as a poet and thinker. While informed by recent work on Byron's philosophical contexts, it questions attempts to describe Byron as a philosopher of a particular kind. It approaches Byron, rather, as a writer fascinated by the different ways of thinking philosophy and poetry are taken to represent. Series: Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846319716
ISBN
9781846319716
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.98

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847010131
ISBN
9781847010131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.96

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Tamesis Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662605
ISBN
9781855662605
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.88

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855662650
ISBN
9781855662650
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.27

Hardcover. Critical edition of an important Scottish poem, highlighting its striking poetic features. Editor(s): Hanna, Ralph, III. Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series. Num Pages: 226 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Scottish Text Society
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897976395
ISBN
9781897976395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 49.62

Hardcover. New edition of one of the most important collections of sixteenth-century Scots poetry. Editor(s): Martin, Joanna M. Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series. Num Pages: 540 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 46. Weight in Grams: 828.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Scottish Text Society
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897976401
ISBN
9781897976401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 49.63

Hardcover. A study of Wallace Stevens. It queries the dominant interpretations of the poet's career, redirecting the reader's attention to the achievement of Stevens' first book, "Harmonium", and examining the pluralism of these early poems in the context of current critical re-evaluations of modernisms. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902210339
ISBN
9781902210339
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.05

Hardcover. An exploration of Samuel Beckett's drama, using the criteria that ensue from the works themselves, with particular attention given to the relationship between the medium and the message. This fully revised second edition includes chapters on the radioplays and film and television scripts. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902210544
ISBN
9781902210544
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.08

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
York Medieval Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903153390
ISBN
9781903153390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.37

Hardcover. A fresh reading of the Legend shows it to be one of Chaucer's most carefully crafted and significant works. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
York Medieval Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903153499
ISBN
9781903153499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.57

Hardcover. New translation of the thirteenth century account of the life and achievements of the tenth century Castillian leader Fernan Gonzalez and historical study of his life and of the historical background to the poem. Translator(s): Such, Peter; Rabone, Richard. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; 3F; DCF; DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 156 x 218 x 29. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910572009
ISBN
9781910572009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.82

Paperback. Translator(s): Such, Peter; Rabone, Richard. Num Pages: b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; 3F; DCF; DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 212 x 297 x 27. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910572016
ISBN
9781910572016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.63

Paperback. Little attention has been paid to the ties between producing and performing verse and processes of economic, ideological, political, and social change in the Heian. This book addresses such issues by investigating how different members of the court deployed poems in the pursuit of power. Series: Cornell East Asia. Num Pages: 433 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University East Asia Program United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947396
ISBN
9781933947396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.51

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