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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book illuminates the poetic imperatives of pragmatism by tracing the ways in which Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Wallace Stevens capture the moment of transition. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822322962
ISBN
9780822322962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231149303
ISBN
9780231149303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.07
€ 50.82

Hardback. Emperor Taizong (r 626-49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This title focuses on Taizong's literary writings that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic identity through literary stylistics. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 468 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 39. Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056084
ISBN
9780674056084
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.36
€ 50.42

Paperback. The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspired voluminous poetic production. By examining Petrarch, Du Bellay, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Hui explains how writers used the ruin to think about their relationship to classical antiquity. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 color, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 231 x 2. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823274314
ISBN
9780823274314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardback. The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspired voluminous poetic production. By examining Petrarch, Du Bellay, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Hui explains how writers used the ruin to think about their relationship to classical antiquity. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 color, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823273355
ISBN
9780823273355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.15

paperback. Editor(s): Pavel, Thomas G. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816613755
ISBN
9780816613755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Hardcover. Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial rivalry, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how early modern English writers borrowed Spanish literary models, triumphantly reimagining the transnational appropriation as heroic looting. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244755
ISBN
9780812244755
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816694419
ISBN
9780816694419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816694396
ISBN
9780816694396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.29

Paperback. Examines T S Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what the author calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. In this title, she shows that Eliot's and Pound's attempts to overcome personality merely reinstated it in a new guise. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748691296
ISBN
9780748691296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
Expanded
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216097
ISBN
9780812216097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Hardback. DiMaria delves into how playwrights not only brought inventive new dramaturgical methods to the genre, but also incorporated significant aspects of the morals and aesthetic preferences familiar to contemporary spectators into their works. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647121
ISBN
9781442647121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.82

Hardback. The Poetics of Consent reveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the Iliad. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408262
ISBN
9781421408262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 54.57

Paperback. .
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253204530
ISBN
9780253204530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.72

Hardcover. The poets of the Northern Song dynasty were writing after what is thought to be the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. This study examines how these Song poets responded to their uncomfortable proximity to such impressive predecessors and reveals how their response shaped their literary art. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 575.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804721264
ISBN
9780804721264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.06

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. Emily Bront is known as a novelist, but she was first and equally a poet. Before during and after writing Wuthering Heights, she wrote poetry. Indeed, she wrote virtually nothing else for us to read no other work of fiction or correspondence. Her poems, however, fill this void. They are varied, lyrical, intriguing, and innovative, yet they .. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 144 x 13. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845196455
ISBN
9781845196455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.63

Hardback. An examination of Gower's skilful deployment of personae in his works, showing the parallels between the way he treats love, and the way he treats politics. Series: Publications of the John Gower Society. Num Pages: 330 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 670.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843399
ISBN
9781843843399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.37

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white halftones, colour illust. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 594.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781624663574
ISBN
9781624663574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 46.81

Hardcover. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 2ADS; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845197421
ISBN
9781845197421
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.15

Paperback. Including inventive essays, the author conveys her post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in this chaotic world. Num Pages: 291 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520218413
ISBN
9780520218413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.35

Paperback. Editor(s): Gibbons, Reginald. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 209 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprinted edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226290546
ISBN
9780226290546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 365 color illus. BIC Classification: AGC; AKH; DSB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 178. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300219128
ISBN
9780300219128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.61

Paperback. Studies in Rhetorical Epic. Series: Bristol Classical Paperbacks. 104 pages. This work considers the rules of ancient rhetoric as learned by Lucan and applied in his epic. Four themes common to poetry and to the declamatory schools (tyranny, storms, the occult and dreams) are closely analyzed in relation to the poem, and the poem is set in the context of the Neronian age. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 8. Weight: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duckworth Publishing
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853994883
ISBN
9781853994883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.79

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