Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 88
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137375742
- ISBN
- 9781137375742
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.11
€ 63.11
Hardcover. Ezra Pound was an influential propagandist for British, Italian and ultimately German fascist movements. Using long-neglected manuscripts and cutting-edge approaches to fascism as a 'political religion', Feldman argues that Pound's case offers a revealing case study of a modernist author turned propagator of the 'fascist faith'. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; DSC; HBLW; HBTB; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137345509
- ISBN
- 9781137345509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.94
€ 63.94
Hardcover. This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early career, draws on archives, privately held unpublished Bukowski work, and interviews to shed new light on the ways in which Bukowski became an icon in the alternative literary scene in the 1960s. Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343543
- ISBN
- 9781137343543
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.66
€ 123.66
Hardcover. The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of twentieth-century American literature. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340221
- ISBN
- 9781137340221
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.18
€ 64.18
Hardcover. With Thomas Chatterton as its case study, this book offers new insights into the formation and development of literary scholarship in the long eighteenth century. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137332486
- ISBN
- 9781137332486
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardcover. Investigations into how the brain actually works have led to remarkable discoveries and these findings carry profound implications for interpreting literature. This study applies recent breakthroughs from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology in order to deepen our understanding of John Donne's Songs and Sonnets. Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 495.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 292
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308337
- ISBN
- 9781137308337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.87
€ 64.87
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.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301314
- ISBN
- 9781137301314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.06
€ 63.06
Hardcover. Through an examination of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of England and the English - in their changing nineteenth-century context, this book demonstrates that many of his representations were 'fabrications', more idealized than real, which played a vital part in the country's developing identity and sense of its place in the world. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137288899
- ISBN
- 9781137288899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Sapphire's Literary Breakthrough: Erotic Literacies, Feminist Pedagogi...
Lester, Neal A., Myles, Lynette D.
Hardcover. The first collection focused on the writing of provocative author and performance artist Sapphire, including her groundbreaking novel PUSH that has since become the Academy-award-winning film Precious. Editor(s): Fulton, Doveanna S. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137282217
- ISBN
- 9781137282217
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Hardcover. The proper organisation of rural communities was central to political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth century, and featured strongly in the 1790s political polemic that influenced so many Romantic poets and novelists. This book investigates the representation of the rural village and country town in a range of Romantic texts. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137281784
- ISBN
- 9781137281784
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardcover. Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137271716
- ISBN
- 9781137271716
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Hardcover. By identifying a pervasive cultivation of attention as a perceptual and cognitive state in eighteenth-century poetry, this book explores overt themes of attention and demonstrate techniques of readerly attention. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137031129
- ISBN
- 9781137031129
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.46
€ 64.46
Paperback. At the end of the eighteenth century English writers probed the riddle of human consciousness and how it differed from "Being" in a divine or universal sense. In the first of two studies, now with a new Preface, Beer traces this question in work by Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth and its impact on successors such as Keats, Byron and the Shelleys. Num Pages: 226 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137018113
- ISBN
- 9781137018113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.31
€ 63.31
Hardcover. This book is a fresh contextual reading of Paradise Lost that reveals new and unexpected aspects of Milton's chaos, cosmos, and epic characters. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137006998
- ISBN
- 9781137006998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Tradition and originality, the interplay of present and past, are a concern of poets in any age. Peter Bing's seminal monograph chases this idea through the thickets of Hellenistic poetry and particularly among the lines of Callimachus' Hymn to Delos. Series: Cultural Legacies. Num Pages: 163 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Michigan Classical Press United States
- Number of pages
- 163
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979971303
- ISBN
- 9780979971303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.60
€ 29.60
Hardcover. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Wings Press
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916727987
- ISBN
- 9780916727987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.82
€ 21.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Manic D Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916397791
- ISBN
- 9780916397791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.22
€ 17.99
€ 16.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Wilfrid Laurier University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780889204300
- ISBN
- 9780889204300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.81
€ 61.81
Hardcover. This is the first edition of Skelton's elaborate dream-allegory to be based on a thorough examination of extant texts. It represents a major revision of our knowledge of Skelton's career and of the form and meaning of the poem. Extensive introduction, notes, and glossary. Editor(s): Brownlow, F.W. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations plans transparencies :Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256) and. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 20 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874133721
- ISBN
- 9780874133721
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.55
€ 128.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 455 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1MBN; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 41. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Victoria University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780864734631
- ISBN
- 9780864734631
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.67
€ 37.67
Paperback. Quintessentially English, Betjeman was an 'outsider' in England - and doubly so in Cornwall where he was a 'foreigner'. And yet, as this book describes, Betjeman also strove to acquire a veneer of 'Cornishness', cultivating an alternative Celtic identity, and finding inspiration in Cornwall's Anglo-Catholic tradition. Num Pages: 278 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEWC; BGL; DSC; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859898485
- ISBN
- 9780859898485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.33
€ 41.33
Paperback. Theatres of War is the first full-length study to be devoted to the 'Committed' theatre that flourished in modern France from 1944 to the mid-1950s. During this crucial decade, authors responded to the issues of their time by contributing a number of tense controversial plays to a distinctive genre of realist theatre. Editor(s): Freeman, E. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCQ; DSBB; DSBH; DSC; DSG. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press England
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895590
- ISBN
- 9780859895590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.82
€ 49.82
Paperback. influential treatise, Apologie for Poetrie (c. 1582), Michael Mack also Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813221168
- ISBN
- 9780813221168
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.78
€ 32.78
Paperback. Nobel Prize winning Irish writer Seamus Heaney has been an ambitious critic as well as poet, publishing five books of literary criticism in the four decades of his career. This book surveys his critical essays, setting forth Heaneys poeticshis concept of what poetry should be and what its uses areand relating them to his practice as a poet. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813218564
- ISBN
- 9780813218564
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.01
€ 33.01