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Literature: history & criticism

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

€ 121.83

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

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

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

€ 130.13
€ 46.67

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

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
€ 34.15

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

€ 81.63

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
€ 24.86

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

€ 43.99
€ 37.10

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. 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. 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

€ 35.99
€ 30.97

Paperback. By looking at the precedents, circumstances and artistry of the first perfect poems composed by John Milton, John Keats, T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath, this title offers insight into the mysterious process of coming of age as a poet. Num Pages: 192 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 231.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674013834
ISBN
9780674013834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.53

Paperback. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt. Num Pages: 486 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 685.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
486
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674591530
ISBN
9780674591530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 48.43

Paperback. This work comprises essays on American, British and Irish poetry, showing contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form. It explains the power of poetry as the voice of the soul, rather than the socially marked self, speaking directly through the stylization of verse. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674821477
ISBN
9780674821477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.93

Paperback. An iconoclastic re-evaluation of one English Literature's most celebrated novelists. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Icon Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785781889
ISBN
9781785781889
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.37

Hardback. An iconoclastic re-evaluation of one English Literature's most celebrated novelists. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 242 x 31. Weight in Grams: 572.
Publisher
Icon Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785781162
ISBN
9781785781162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.09

Paperback. A major new book by one of the leading feminist writers in France today. Cixous explores the themes of love, memory, language and loss. This is a work of literary fiction and at the same time a philosophical work: like Sartre, Camus and other great writers, Cixous blends together fiction and philosophy. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy; Chevalier, Marion Frances. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
148
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745639895
ISBN
9780745639895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.19

Paperback. For years Helene Cixous has been dreaming about The Book-I-Don t-Write but each time she approaches The Book, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don t Write is always just out of reach. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138. .
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509500550
ISBN
9781509500550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.84

Paperback. Stigmata collects some of Helene Cixous' most intriguing meditations. A unique book, it is a testimony to an extraordinary writer. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415345453
ISBN
9780415345453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.08

Hardback. A selection of important yet previously untranslated and unpublished essays. Editor(s): Prenowitz, Eric. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
312
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748639038
ISBN
9780748639038
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.30
€ 114.08

Hardcover. The first book by Helene Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. These 11 chapters bring together Helene Cixous' writings about specific contemporary artists and artworks. Neither simply 'art criticism' nor critical essays, Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, reading them as if they were poems. Editor(s): Segarra, Marta; Maso, Dr. Joana. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 160 pages, 8 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 390. Writings on Contemporary Arts and Aesthetics. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. 160 pages, 8 colour illustrations. Editor(s): Segarra, Marta; Maso, Dr. Joana. The first book by Helene Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. These 11 chapters bring together Helene Cixous' writings about specific contemporary artists and artworks. Neither simply 'art criticism' nor critical essays, Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, reading them as if they were poems. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSA. Dimension: 238 x 170 x 14. Weight: 386.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748647446
ISBN
9780748647446
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.47
€ 102.83

Hardback. In Insister Helene Cixous brings a unique mixture of theoretical speculation, breath-taking textual explication and scholarly erudition to an extremely close reading of Derrida's work. Editor(s): McQuillan, Martin. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy. Series: The Frontiers of Theory. Num Pages: 200 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
200
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748627929
ISBN
9780748627929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.98
€ 69.71

Paperback. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 10. Weight in Grams: 280.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816619412
ISBN
9780816619412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

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