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paperback. Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre. In each of the four very different poets she considers here, the author reveals a style of thinking in operation. She traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 203 x 12. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021105
ISBN
9780674021105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.97

paperback. In this exploration of three kinds of break in poetic style, the author examines the connection between style and substance. Analyzing the work of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Seamus Heaney and Jorie Graham, the book discusses the interplay of moral, emotional and intellectual forces in a poet's work. Series: The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 144 x 7. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674081215
ISBN
9780674081215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 32.01

Paperback. What impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy? This book argues that such poets must invent the language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691134741
ISBN
9780691134741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674630765
ISBN
9780674630765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 37.10

Paperback. This text aims to provide a guide to the sonnets of Shakespeare. Commentaries, presented alongside the original text and a modernized version, offer perspectives on individual poems, stylistic features and ironic capacity. Num Pages: 696 pages, 154 facsimiles, 35 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 167 x 35. Weight in Grams: 994.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
696
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674637122
ISBN
9780674637122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 35.39

Hardback. Examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. This title focuses on the books: "The Rock", "Ariel", "Day by Day", "Geography III" and "A Scattering of Salts". Series: The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
168
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691145341
ISBN
9780691145341
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.82

Paperback. Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised the author as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. In this title, she turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. She serves as a guide, considering the stylistic and imaginative features of the poems. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Gld
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674066380
ISBN
9780674066380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 27.45

Hardback. The first study to treat feminine compliance as something other than a passive, politically neutral exercise, Ingenuous SubjectionHelen Thompson recovers in this practice the domestic novel's critical engagement with the limits of Enlightenment modernity. Num Pages: 288 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812238914
ISBN
9780812238914
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; DSA; HRQM2; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press New York
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801487750
ISBN
9780801487750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardback. In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical arguments in defence of the Humanities. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HP; JNAM; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199683864
ISBN
9780199683864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardback. Hillis Miller, University of California at Irvine; Lucy Newlyn, Oxford University; Patricia Parker, Stanford University. Editor(s): Elam, Helen Rugueiro; Ferguson, Frances. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1, 1 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 166 x 237 x 30. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801881879
ISBN
9780801881879
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 68.78

Hardback. A study of the nurse in Greek literature from Homer to Euripides. Depicted as a central figure of authority, the author focuses on the verbal manifestations of the nurse's authority - advice, approval, diasapproval, directions and orders. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822630661
ISBN
9780822630661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.72

Hardcover. Editor(s): Ostovich, Dr. Helen; Silcox, Mary V.; Roebuck, Graham. Num Pages: 324 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3H; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 171. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874136807
ISBN
9780874136807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 140.04

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955507953
ISBN
9780955507953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.70

Paperback. This edition makes available an important poem in the history of the epic and of European colonialism and provides a wealth of contextual material [] for readers, students, and instructors of British Romanticism. Daniel Robinson, Professor of English at Widener University Editor(s): Feldman, Paula R. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Critical ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811281
ISBN
9781554811281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 23.85

Hardback. Reception studies have transformed the classics. Editor(s): Lovatt, Helen; Hodkinson, Owen. Series: Library of Classical Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSY; HBLA1; HRKP3; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781788310208
ISBN
9781788310208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.72
€ 46.48

Paperback. Editor(s): Lojek, Helen. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carysfort Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004376
ISBN
9781904505013
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Lojek, Helen. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AS; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carysfort Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0004145
ISBN
9781904505013
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature. Num Pages: 356 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 898.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844365
ISBN
9781843844365
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.86

paperback. Drawing on postcolonial, feminist, poststructuralist, and First Nations theory, Hoy raises and addresses questions around 'difference' in relation to texts by contemporary Native women prose writers in Canada. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
First Soft Cover Edition
SKU
V9780802084019
ISBN
9780802084019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 39.84

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