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Paperback. A skilled study in which each chapter brings a fresh perspective to a crucial aspect of poetry, showing that the power of language depends less on meaning than on the way in which it means. The author argues that poetry is its own best enemy. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 181 x 11. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- n Later printing
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226492506
- ISBN
- 9780226492506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.01
€ 30.99
€ 24.01
Hardback. Translator(s): Mandarini, Matteo. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2021
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423429
- ISBN
- 9780857423429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 27.64
€ 35.99
€ 27.64
Paperback. Booker-shortlisted for "Time's Arrow" and known for his novels, short stories, essays, reviews, and autobiographical works, Martin Amis is one of the influential of contemporary British writers. This guide to Amis' diverse and often controversial work offers an introduction to the contexts and various interpretations of his texts. Series: Routledge Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415402927
- ISBN
- 9780415402927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 54.17
€ 54.17
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691643540
- ISBN
- 9780691643540
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.40
€ 140.40
Hardcover. Following on from his first two books, Rhodes completes his edition of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War, providing an Introduction Thucydides' history and on the Peloponnesian War, Greek text with selective critical apparatus and facing translation, and a commentary which should be useful both to specialists and to readers with little .. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 365 pages, maps,1 geneal table. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 365
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First published in the United Kingdom in 1999. Rep
- SKU
- V9780856687013
- ISBN
- 9780856687013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.71
€ 135.71
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 278 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DS; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 371.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691601601
- ISBN
- 9780691601601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.32
€ 56.32
Paperback. Serves as a reference work dealing with all of Auden's writings. For every poem, play or libretto, this work encapsulates the publishing history, paraphrases difficult passages, explains allusions, points out interesting variants, identifies sources and influences, looks at the verse form and offers critical interpretation. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; GBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 48. Weight in Grams: 848.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571192724
- ISBN
- 9780571192724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 18.01
€ 33.99
€ 18.01
Paperback. This work presents a thorough historicist account of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747448
- ISBN
- 9780804747448
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.29
€ 46.99
€ 41.29
Paperback. Editor(s): Mathews, Marthiel; Mathews, Jackson. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DC; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 133 x 34. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811211178
- ISBN
- 9780811211178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.87
€ 21.99
€ 19.87
Hardback. This book argues that political democracy has not fulfilled its promise and that we should therefore re-examine literature's long conservative hostility to it. It offers new accounts of the ethos of refusing political democracy, as well as innovative readings of writers including Tocqueville, Disraeli, George Eliot, E.M. Forster and Saul Bellow. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823242542
- ISBN
- 9780823242542
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.06
€ 89.06
Paperback. Through an examination of the expressive arts of needlework, painting, and writing, Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and, in its final chapters, into literary texts such as Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 344 pages, 21 color, 31 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; ACN; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 255 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 746.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222524
- ISBN
- 9780812222524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.78€ 50.61
€ 51.78
€ 50.61
Hardback. Explores the literary expression of crises of social classification that occupied U.S. public discourse in the wake of the European revolutions of 1848. This book shows how, lacking a native language for expressing class differences, American writers struggled to find social taxonomies able to capture and manage inequalities of wealth and power. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691113890
- ISBN
- 9780691113890
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.94€ 76.07
€ 100.94
€ 76.07
Hardback. Critical studies of Turgenev have tended to focus on his realistic portrayals of nineteenth-century Russian life and have therefore closely allied Turgenev with the dominant literary movement of that time, Realism. This book reveals the non-Realist literary patterns that distinguish Turgenev's fiction. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804718738
- ISBN
- 9780804718738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.19
€ 95.19
Paperback. Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky. Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Num Pages: 88 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: 217 x 144 x 7. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Reissue
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691013220
- ISBN
- 9780691013220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.93
€ 24.99
€ 18.93
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Tamesis Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855662605
- ISBN
- 9781855662605
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.84
€ 99.84
Paperback. Editor(s): Lipovetsky, Mark; Wakamiya, Lisa Ryoko. Series: Cultural Syllabus. Num Pages: 602 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 36. Weight in Grams: 886.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Academic Studies Press United States
- Number of pages
- 602
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781618114341
- ISBN
- 9781618114341
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.95
€ 42.95
Paperback. Series: Blackwell Anthologies. Num Pages: 1544 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 179 x 81. Weight in Grams: 2652.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470674864
- ISBN
- 9780470674864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.76
€ 83.76
Hardback. Scholars of Victorian literature and culture, as well as readers interested in children's literature, childhood studies, and gender studies, will welcome this excellent work from a major figure in the field. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421405346
- ISBN
- 9781421405346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.36€ 47.85
€ 52.36
€ 47.85
Hardcover. Madison Jones is a central figure in American literature. He writes about conflicts between the native and the alien, tradition and progress, and innocence and experience. Including interviews and a Madison Jones bibliography, this collection of essays shows that Jones has a dark view of human experience, but also self-knowledge and compassion. Editor(s): Gretlund, Jan Nordby. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Press of Southern Denmark Denmark
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788776740016
- ISBN
- 9788776740016
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.42
€ 30.99
€ 22.42
In the half-century between 1890 and 1950, a variety of fields and disciplines, from musicology and literary studies to biology, psychology, genetics, and eugenics, expressed a profound interest in the subject of rhythm. This book examines psychological and physiological experiments that proved that races responded differently to rhythmic stimuli. Num Pages: 296 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231142762
- ISBN
- 9780231142762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.29
€ 94.29
Hardcover. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 180 x 220 x 24. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714510125
- ISBN
- 9780714510125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.14
€ 19.99
€ 18.14
Hardback. Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question, 'What is Enlightenment'? This book offers a paradigm-shifting answer to that query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of mediation. It establishes mediation as the condition of possibility for enlightenment. Editor(s): Siskin, Clifford; Warner, William. Num Pages: 568 pages, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 568
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226761473
- ISBN
- 9780226761473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.91€ 77.63
€ 92.91
€ 77.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; CFG; DSB; JFC; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- First edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816627875
- ISBN
- 9780816627875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.56
€ 31.99
€ 28.56
Paperback. Series: Gender and Culture Series. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 b&w figures. BIC Classification: DSB; JFFK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231137935
- ISBN
- 9780231137935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.76
€ 36.99
€ 26.76