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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Paperback. This reading sees "The Waste Land" as resolutely open-ended, supporting this view with recent developments in reader-response criticism and reception theory. The study focuses on the way poetry sounds and concentrates on syntax, lineation and intonation. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780745007380
ISBN
9780745007380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.72

Paperback. Editor(s): Brooker, Jewel Spears. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349649747
ISBN
9781349649747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 122.90

Paperback. Represents T.S. Eliot as the complex figure, an artist attentive not only to literature but also to detective fiction, Vaudeville Theater, jazz, and the songs of Tin Pan Alley. The author discusses Eliot's persistent interest in popular culture, and traces his long, quixotic struggle to close the widening gap between high art and popular culture. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 180 x 16. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
n Second printing
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226104188
ISBN
9780226104188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 30.81

Hardcover. Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century's most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and inter-textual, this book is a bold analysis of satire of modern forms of misunderstanding. Num Pages: 86 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137375742
ISBN
9781137375742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.11

Hardback. Applying new readings of Four Quartets, this book completes a trilogy on the Christian character of Eliot's writing. Num Pages: 114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
114
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137470836
ISBN
9781137470836
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.40

Hardcover. By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing, literature and commentary. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 163 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137301314
ISBN
9781137301314
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.06

Hardback. This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation. Num Pages: 101 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
101
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137485700
ISBN
9781137485700
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.23

Hardcover. With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G. Douglas Atkins offers an exciting new analysis of T.S. Eliot's debt to the seventeenth-century churchman Lancelot Andrewes and his theories of reading and writing texts. Num Pages: 100 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137389657
ISBN
9781137389657
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.23

Hardcover. By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian. This book is the second in a trilogy which includes T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word. Num Pages: 118 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Pivot
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137446886
ISBN
9781137446886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.36

Paperback. Part of a series which offers accounts of the literary careers of the most widely read British and Irish authors. This volume looks at T.S.Eliot and traces the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped his writing. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 198 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 12. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333452783
ISBN
9780333452783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.81

Hardcover. Ezra Pound belatedly conceded that T.S.Eliot "was the true Dantescan voice" of the modern world. With this assertion in mind, this study examines the relationship between the two poets. It attempts to show how Dante's total vision impinges on Eliot's craft and thought. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333325865
ISBN
9780333325865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.49

Hardback. In "T.S. Eliot and Our Turning World", 15 scholars from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan examine Eliot's work in the context of his personal history and that of his century. Editor(s): Brooker, Jewel Spears. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333715673
ISBN
9780333715673
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
72
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555974022
ISBN
9781555974022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.72

Hardcover. Investigating the way one breaks through taboos and becomes a self-realized adult, this memoir traces the author's childhood in rural Arizona, his relationship with a physically shrinking father, his eccentric teenage friendships, and his growing awareness of his sexuality among young gays. Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; BGA; DSBH; DSC; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780299162603
ISBN
9780299162603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.30

paperback. Num Pages: 84 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Shoestring Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904886174
ISBN
9781904886174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.22

Hardback. Takhyil is a term from Arabic poetics denoting the evocation of images. It has a broad spectrum of connotations throughout classical philosophical poetics and rhetoric, and it is closely linked to the Greek concept of phantasia. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 249 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 942.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Gibb Memorial Trust United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780906094693
ISBN
9780906094693
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.24
€ 106.08

Hardback. Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887484001
ISBN
9780887484001
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.54

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

€ 14.99
€ 10.64

Paperback. Num Pages: 203 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781557289810
ISBN
9781557289810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.51

Paperback. Engaging essays, interviews and poetry on solitude, politics, and the role of gender consciousness in the creative process Series: Poetry on Poetry S. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Edition
F First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472157600
ISBN
9780472157600
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.37

Paperback. This collection makes the case for literary criticism as an informed, aggressive, personal, and often humorous response to writers and writing. These eloquent commentaries on English and American writers are arranged chronologically, beginning with Shakespeare, and proceed through the 19th and 20th centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558497870
ISBN
9781558497870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780864862464
ISBN
9780864862464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.30

Hardcover. This study sheds light on a major and until now little studied Liverpool writer, Edward Rushton (1782-1814), whose politics and poetics were imbued in the most pressing events and debates shaking the world during the Age of Revolution. Series: Eighteenth Century Worlds. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 243 x 18. Weight in Grams: 536.
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781381441
ISBN
9781781381441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.85

Paperback. This book argues that we should regard walking and talking in a single rhythmic vision. In doing so, it contributes to the theory of prosody, our understanding of respiration and looking, and, in sum, to the particular links, across the board, between the human characteristics of bipedal walking and meaningful talk. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 224 pages, 11 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. .
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823256839
ISBN
9780823256839
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.25

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