Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
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
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Condition: New
€ 65.00€ 50.41
€ 65.00
€ 50.41
Hardcover. The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of twentieth-century American literature. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137340221
- ISBN
- 9781137340221
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€ 62.46
€ 62.46
Paperback. The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of twentieth-century American literature. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 237 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 309.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349464784
- ISBN
- 9781349464784
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Condition: New
€ 61.47
€ 61.47
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
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Condition: New
€ 54.31€ 49.38
€ 54.31
€ 49.38
Hardback. In his second critical study of modern Spanish poetry, Mayhew explores the literary self-consciousness of several major poets - Guillen, Salinas, Aleixandre, Valente, Gil de Biedma, and Guillermo Carnero. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611480757
- ISBN
- 9781611480757
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Condition: New
€ 109.48
€ 109.48
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
€ 35.99€ 32.37
€ 35.99
€ 32.37
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
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Condition: New
€ 108.37
€ 108.37
Hardback. Editor(s): Ziolkowski, Theodore. Translator(s): Ziolkowski, Yetta. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691649351
- ISBN
- 9780691649351
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.84
€ 141.84
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
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.08
€ 27.99
€ 26.08
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
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Condition: New
€ 59.06
€ 59.06
Hardback. Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolome de Las Casas' representation of the Americas to the trench poets to voices from the Holocaust. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; HBAH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482631
- ISBN
- 9781137482631
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Condition: New
€ 62.64
€ 62.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH5; HBTQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349503131
- ISBN
- 9781349503131
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Condition: New
€ 61.75
€ 61.75
Hardback. Editor(s): Elsner, Jas; Hernandez Lobato, Jesus. Series: Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. Num Pages: 544 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 162 x 43. Weight in Grams: 864.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199355631
- ISBN
- 9780199355631
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Condition: New
€ 179.13
€ 179.13
The Poetics of Islamic Legitimacy. Myth, Gender and Ceremony in the Cl...
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
paperback. Opens the beauty and power of Arabic poetic masterpieces to Western readers. Num Pages: 408 pages, 42 figures, 1 bibliog., 1 index. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSC; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253215369
- ISBN
- 9780253215369
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.45
€ 33.99
€ 30.45
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
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Condition: New
€ 29.10
€ 29.10
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
€ 99.72
€ 99.72
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
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.04
€ 38.99
€ 35.04
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
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.45
€ 32.99
€ 31.45
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
€ 78.55
€ 78.55
Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935126
- ISBN
- 9780813935126
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.25
€ 84.25