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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Num Pages: 102 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 362 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555976446
ISBN
9781555976446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555975210
ISBN
9781555975210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.26

Paperback. This book, winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks award, examines all of Jarrell's work, incorporating new research such as previously undiscovered essays and poems. Burt situates the poet- critic among his peers, including Bishop and Arendt, in literature and cultural criticism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125956
ISBN
9780231125956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.34

Hardback. Demonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and at times the formal principles, on which many twentieth-century poets founded their works. This book recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231141420
ISBN
9780231141420
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.42
€ 57.11

Hardback. Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was an influential poetry critic. This book examines his work, situating him among peers. It examines the social context of his aesthetic choices, examining events ranging from teen culture to the Cuban missile crisis. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231125949
ISBN
9780231125949
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.95
€ 83.22

Hardback. The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, he presents 60 poems, each with an original essay explaining how the poem works, why it matters, and how it speaks to other parts of art and culture. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 390 x 37. Weight in Grams: 754.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674737877
ISBN
9780674737877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.07

Hardcover. Examines the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s, redressing a tendency of literary scholarship to focus on the literature of the later GDR. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 380 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 241 x 34. Weight in Grams: 736.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
380
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139535
ISBN
9781571139535
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551117676
ISBN
9781551117676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.14

Hardcover. Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's career, from Lanark to Mavis Belfrage. Num Pages: 187 pages, bibliography, notes, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 0. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754146
ISBN
9780838754146
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.02

Paperback. Editor(s): Berg, Stephen. Num Pages: 294 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 2AB; DC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 238 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Paul Dry Books, Inc United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
294
Condition
New
SKU
V9780966491395
ISBN
9780966491395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.20

Hardback. These 11 essays focus on the relationship between literature and field recording (i.e., any recording made outside the studio) and examine the point at which the textual field and soundscape meet. With contributions from composers, writers, critics and sound artists the book combines essays with writing that spans the creative/ critical divide. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474406697
ISBN
9781474406697
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.58
€ 102.41

Paperback. A guide to the creative possibilities of critical writing. It offers an introduction to the theory and practice of creative-critical writing. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: CBW; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748674336
ISBN
9780748674336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 33.00

Paperback. This is the first new biography in English for nearly eighty years of Italy's foremost writer and thinker, and weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. The aim is to make an account of Dante's life accessible to students and to the curious and intelligent but non-specialist reader. All quotations are fully translated. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898454
ISBN
9780859898454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501707445
ISBN
9781501707445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Hardcover. The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century is inaugurated with the publication of the first two of its five projected volumes. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 241 x 26. Weight in Grams: 684.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812239218
ISBN
9780812239218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.10

A two-volume critical edition of a previously unpublished sermon series, which was popular among preachers in the late Middle Ages in England. A detailed introduction, explanatory notes, and glossary are provided. Editor(s): Morrison, Stephen. Series: Early English Text Society Original Series. Num Pages: 650 pages, Four black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLC1; HRCP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 69. Weight in Grams: 1248.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
650
Condition
New
SKU
V9780197265116
ISBN
9780197265116
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.81

Hardback. "Raymond Stephanson configures masculinity and its expressions in male creativity historically, biographically, and in sufficient deep-layer detail to persuade the most rigorous of scholars that this work will be a reliable source of enduring worth."-George Rousseau, De Montfort University Num Pages: 312 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; HBTB; JFSJ2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812237580
ISBN
9780812237580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.87

Paperback. Series: Medieval Cultures S. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 425.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780816638239
ISBN
9780816638239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. 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: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349444632
ISBN
9781349444632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.98

Hardback. Commemorating Pushkin is a study of the fascination with Pushkin that has helped Russian culture define itself, as seen in poems, stories, essays, memoirs, films, museums, and commemorative celebrations. Num Pages: 432 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 29. Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804734486
ISBN
9780804734486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 96.43

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