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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
€ 127.05
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
Paperback. Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautreamont (1846-1870). It analyses closely the texts, pretexts and intertexts of this innovative poet, bringing Les Chants de Maldoror and Poesies to the foreground of contemporary critical debates around poetics, genre, intertextuality and influence. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780859894982
- ISBN
- 9780859894982
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 84.47
€ 84.47
Hardback. Benjamin and Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. With material dating from 1918 to 1923, this text aims to make their more obscure work accessible to a wider audience. The topics discussed include messianism, language and divine justice. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJG; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126564
- ISBN
- 9780231126564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.81€ 88.23
€ 115.81
€ 88.23
Paperback. In good condition. A well read copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Headline
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRS0011083
- ISBN
- 9780755307562
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Seren Wales
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854115454
- ISBN
- 9781854115454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.48
€ 15.99
€ 14.48
Hardback. In this book, the author interrogates how narcissistic disturbances lead to the fragmentation and duplication that occur in the minds of mythic heroes and the fictional protagonists of modern drama, literature, and film. This examination focuses mostly on modern drama and exploring how Greek myths inform the literature. Series: What is Theatre?. Num Pages: 182 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 182
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137566065
- ISBN
- 9781137566065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.86
€ 63.86
Hardback. What did it mean to be a woman in sixteenth-century Venice? This volume explores the role of Venetian women in sixteenth-century culture as well as the contribution of the writer Moderata Fonte to the centuries-old Owar of the sexes.O Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Italian Studies. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; 3JB; DSB; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 175
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611472646
- ISBN
- 9781611472646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.86
€ 111.86
Paperback. The lives of the saints take place all around us, under us, so much of the earth they seethe in it. This book brings the author's voice to the meditative tradition. It presents poems that trace the spiritual inquiries of a series of linked personae adrift in bodies and a world made toxic by the residues of scientific experimentation. Series: The Pacific Northwest Poetry Series. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 6. Weight in Grams: 137.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295982731
- ISBN
- 9780295982731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.49
€ 20.99
€ 20.49
Hardcover. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; JHMC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403979827
- ISBN
- 9781403979827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.11
€ 64.11
Hardcover. Examining Malory's political language, this study offers a revisionary view of Arthur's kingship in the Morte Darthur and the role of the Round Table fellowship. Considering a range of historical and political sources, Lexton suggests that Malory used a specific lexicon to engage with contemporary problems of kingship and rule. Series: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364821
- ISBN
- 9781137364821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.09
€ 64.09
Paperback. Delivered while Heaney was Professor of Poetry at Oxford, these lectures cover subjects as diverse as Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Gaol" and Marlowe's "Hero and Leander", as well as work by Yeats, Larkin and Dylan Thomas. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571175376
- ISBN
- 9780571175376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 13.02
€ 20.99
€ 13.02
Hardback. With a firm grasp on the latest developments in adaptation theory, Della Coletta invites scholars of media studies, cultural history, comparative literature, and adaptation studies to deepen their understanding of this critical encounter between texts, writers, readers, and cultural movements. Num Pages: 288 pages, 29, 29 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421403656
- ISBN
- 9781421403656
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.17€ 61.47
€ 67.17
€ 61.47
Hardcover. This text seeks to reassess the reputation of Joseph Johnson, who was unfairly condemned in the late 18th century as a dangerously "radical" publisher. It also looks at how far the works he published tended to promote the case for religious and political reform. Num Pages: 258 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; KNTP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333983942
- ISBN
- 9780333983942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.79
€ 122.79
Paperback. "Book Of Stones" is very much made out of the things around the author - living in the new South Africa, being part of a continent and its life and history and processes. Num Pages: 59 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 5. Weight in Grams: 91.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 59
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857546408
- ISBN
- 9781857546408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.94
€ 20.99
€ 17.94
Paperback. Madeleine de l'Aubespine penned beautiful love poems to the famous women of her day. This book features sonnets as well as reproductions of l'Aubespine's poetic translations of "Ovid and Ariosto", useful for students and scholars in literature, history, and women's studies. Editor(s): Klosowska, Anna. Translator(s): Klosowska, Anna. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 130 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 130
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226141947
- ISBN
- 9780226141947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.19
€ 34.99
€ 27.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823273737
- ISBN
- 9780823273737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.80
€ 29.99
€ 26.80
Paperback. Editor(s): Worthen, W. B.; Holland, Peter. Series: Redefining British Theatre History. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSB; DSG; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781403907943
- ISBN
- 9781403907943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57
paperback. Num Pages: 56 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 212 x 5. Weight in Grams: 86.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Currency Press Pty.Ltd (AUS) Australia
- Number of pages
- 56
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925005653
- ISBN
- 9781925005653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.76
€ 19.99
€ 14.76
Paperback. Used Copy. Good Clean Copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KDK0015360
- ISBN
- 9780146002014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Translator(s): Sinha, Arunava. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423894
- ISBN
- 9780857423894
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.90
€ 20.99
€ 17.90
Paperback. A concise study of the life and poetry of the Victorian priest-poet. The book gives a chronological description and analysis of Hopkins's career and writing, and pays due attention to his Victorian and Jesuit background - a man divided between the religious and the aesthetic life. Series: Literary Lives. Num Pages: 162 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UA) A / AS level; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333568217
- ISBN
- 9780333568217
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.82
€ 62.82
Paperback. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0003231
- ISBN
- 9781905494934
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.13
€ 7.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSBH5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 267
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349453696
- ISBN
- 9781349453696
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.59
€ 63.59