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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. The description for this book, Wallace Stevens: The Making of Harmonium, will be forthcoming. Editor(s): Buttel, Robert. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691623399
ISBN
9780691623399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Paperback. Num Pages: Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857546507
ISBN
9781857546507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.17

Paperback. Drawing on extensive scholarship and the author's own letters, this book offers information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary contexts. Editor(s): Noble, Andrew; Hogg, Patrick Scott. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 1120 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 51. Weight in Grams: 744. 1120 pages. Editor(s): Noble, Andrew; Hogg, Patrick Scott. Drawing on extensive scholarship and the author's own letters, this book offers information about his life, early hardships, political beliefs, and literary contexts. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 3JF; BGL; DSBD; DSC. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 51. Weight: 888.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
1120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841953809
ISBN
9781841953809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.17

Hardback. In dialogue with a diverse group of thinkers, from Erich Auerbach and Aby Warburg to Alain Badiou and Jacques Lacan, The Pathos of the Real advances an innovative new framework for rethinking the aesthetics of violence in the twentieth century. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801897566
ISBN
9780801897566
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.95
€ 58.25

Hardback. Volume XI of The Complete Works of Robert Browning contains two strikingly disparate long poems from the 1870s, Fifine at the Fair and Red Cotton Night-Cap Country. As always in this series of critical editions, a complete record of textual variants is provided, as well as extensive explanatory notes. Editor(s): Bright, Michael. Series: Complete Works Robert Browning. Num Pages: 504 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece, figures. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821418390
ISBN
9780821418390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.83

Hardcover. Series: Complete Works Robert Browning. Num Pages: 419 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 160. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
419
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821402207
ISBN
9780821402207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.38

Hardback. Concludes the major phase of a great scholarly project: the accurate preservation and transmission of the poet's works for future generations of readers. This book begins with author's last collection of poems, Asolando: Fancies and Facts, published on the day of the poet's death, 12 December 1889. Editor(s): Dooley, Allan C.; Crowder, Ashby Bland. Series: Complete Works Robert Browning. Num Pages: 520 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 38. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821419816
ISBN
9780821419816
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.83

Hardcover. Hawlin and Burnett present the final volume in this three volume edition of Browning's great murder-story, "The Ring and the Book". Browning concludes his poem with the monologues of Pope Innocent XII and of Guido in his prison-cell prior to execution, and then the witty, ironic envoi of Book XII. Series: Oxford English Texts: Browning. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 27. Weight in Grams: 722. Clean copy with light wear and rubbing to spine and boards. No dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
428
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0003039
ISBN
9780198186717
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 219.53
€ 203.62

Paperback. In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Douglas Dunn surveys Robert Browning. Series: Poet to Poet. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 120 x 12. Weight in Grams: 126. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main - Poet to Poet
SKU
KOC0013802
ISBN
9780571214839
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

A collection of essays, which examine the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such contemporary writers as W G Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginzburg and Pat Barker, J M Coetzee and John Updike, V S Naipaul and Anita Desai. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231136747
ISBN
9780231136747
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.51

Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JM; DSB; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231173803
ISBN
9780231173803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555975043
ISBN
9781555975043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.24

Hardback. Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find meaning in the loss of fortune and reputation, exile, and alienation. Wisdom also emerges as folk remedies, such as charms to treat stabbing pain, cysts, childbirth, and nightmares of witch-riding caused by a dwarf. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSBB; DSC; HBLC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053069
ISBN
9780674053069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.72

Paperback. Robert Bird traces Fyodor Dostoevsky's path from a political revolutionary to one who fought his battles through the printed word. The author describes how Dostoevsky's difficult background contributed to his highly acclaimed novels such as Crime and Punishment (1867) and The Brothers Karamazov. Series: Critical Lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, 32 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BGL; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861899002
ISBN
9781861899002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571133717
ISBN
9781571133717
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.70

Hardback. This book argues that Measure for Measure is not a cynical problem play but a comic romance through which Shakespeare examines Tudor humanism's desire to reform social ills through art. Num Pages: 189 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611491838
ISBN
9781611491838
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.76

Hardcover. Shakespeare's Money explores what archival records can reveal about Shakespeare's economic and social success, shedding light on how he elevated his family from lowly status to minor gentry and how economic concerns were ever present in his daily life. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198759249
ISBN
9780198759249
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.73

Paperback. A Bronte Encyclopedia is an A- Z encyclopedia of the most notable literary family of the 19th century highlighting original literary insights and the significant people and places that influenced the Brontes' lives. Num Pages: 416 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 175 x 22. Weight in Grams: 716.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118492062
ISBN
9781118492062
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.53

Hardback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481006
ISBN
9781611481006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.24

Paperback. In The Extravagant, Robert Baker explores the interplay between poetry and philosophy in the modern period. He aims to illuminate adventures of "extravagant" or "wandering" language that is in the world. Also shaping the book is that a dialectic of instrumental reason and creative negativity has been at work throughout modern culture. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268021825
ISBN
9780268021825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

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