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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Suitable for all students of Greek theatre and literature, this book examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Editor(s): Heath, Malcolm. Translator(s): Heath, Malcolm. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446364
- ISBN
- 9780140446364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 163 x 7. Weight in Grams: 58.
- Edition
- New
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486295770
- ISBN
- 9780486295770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.88
€ 5.88
Paperback. A founding text of European aestheticism and literary criticism, Poetics underpins our moden understanding of imaginative writing. Anthony Kenny's new translation is accompanied by associated material from Plato, Sir Philip Sidney, P. B. Shelley, and Dorothy L. Sayers and a wide-ranging introduction. Translator(s): Kenny, Sir Anthony. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199608362
- ISBN
- 9780199608362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; 2CSJ; 2CSR; DSBH; JFSR1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691162485
- ISBN
- 9780691162485
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.17€ 42.32
€ 53.17
€ 42.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; JFSR1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691176093
- ISBN
- 9780691176093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.92
€ 33.99
€ 24.92
Hardback. This book provides new explications of Loy's most redolent poems from The Lost Lunar Baedeker. It offers a short biography, an explanation of Loy's composition process, and compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired her poetry, including modern artwork, Baedeker travel guides, and long-forgotten cultural venues. Num Pages: 292 pages, 44 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611488128
- ISBN
- 9781611488128
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.33€ 38.76
€ 106.33
€ 38.76
Hardcover. Offers an instrumental investigation of a theory of rhythmical performance of poetry, originally propounded speculatively in the author's "Perception-Oriented Theory of Metre" (1977). This title assumes that when the versification patterns and linguistic patterns conflict, they can be accommodated in a pattern of Rhythmical Performance. Num Pages: 460 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 872.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 460
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845195243
- ISBN
- 9781845195243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.15
€ 129.15
Hardback. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print will appeal not only to scholars and students of literary modernism, modern periodical studies, book history, print culture, media studies, history, art history, and museum studies but to librarians, archivists, museum curators, and information science professionals. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421346
- ISBN
- 9781421421346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.80€ 47.17
€ 50.80
€ 47.17
Paperback. Can you tell an iamb from a trochee? An anapest from a amphibrach? Why do children always take such delight in dactylic tetrameter? Is a ballad the same as a ballade? What is poetic rhythm? Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 125. .
- Publisher
- Wooden Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904263913
- ISBN
- 9781904263913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.30
€ 10.30
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231164306
- ISBN
- 9780231164306
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.98€ 51.02
€ 64.98
€ 51.02
Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748656172
- ISBN
- 9780748656172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 94.52€ 91.90
€ 94.52
€ 91.90
Hardback. A study of Catullus's influence on Horace, this work shows that the earlier poet was probably the important source of inspiration for Horace's "Odes", the later author's magnum opus. By illustrating how Horace often found his own voice even as he acknowledged Catullus's genius, it guides us to an appreciation of the earlier poet as well. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691125374
- ISBN
- 9780691125374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.80€ 59.72
€ 76.80
€ 59.72
Paperback. Explores the question: How do poems end? This work examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and integrity of a poem. Num Pages: 306 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 311.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226763439
- ISBN
- 9780226763439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.64
€ 40.99
€ 31.64
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 127 x 289 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691623665
- ISBN
- 9780691623665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.23
€ 40.99
€ 29.23
Hardback. Presents the interface between literature and life through the prism of the lives and works of three poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920-1970); the Leningrad native, US poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996); and, Germany's premier contemporary poet, Durs Grunbein (born 1962). Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804758314
- ISBN
- 9780804758314
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 86.69
€ 86.69
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571134622
- ISBN
- 9781571134622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.69
€ 133.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 170 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Michigan Press United States
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472050666
- ISBN
- 9780472050666
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.59
€ 43.59
Hardcover. La Fontaine was a great French lyric poet of the 17th century. This study is almost as much about Louis XIV as about La Fontaine. It provides analysis of the absolutist politics and attempts by the King to enforce an official cultural style, and the plight of the artist under such a ruler. Translator(s): Todd, Jean Marie. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 3JD; BGH; BGR; DSBD; DSC; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 167 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1025.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268038779
- ISBN
- 9780268038779
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.52
€ 52.52
Paperback. This volume contains shorter prose works from throughout Patrick Kavanagh's career: the autobiographical pieces and rural reminiscences and a selection of Kavanagh's penetrating, sometimes scabrous, literary and cultural criticism. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DNF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 146 x 220 x 31. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843510109
- ISBN
- 9781843510109
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00€ 13.70
€ 15.00
€ 13.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: CBW; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Sentient Publications United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591810025
- ISBN
- 9781591810025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.93
€ 26.99
€ 18.93
hardcover. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrated. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JH; 3JJ; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 159. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Libris Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870352758
- ISBN
- 9781870352758
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 44.10
€ 52.99
€ 44.10
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 79
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714525433
- ISBN
- 9780714525433
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.30
€ 10.30
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc United States
- Edition
- Rev Exp Bl
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780374533762
- ISBN
- 9780374533762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.68
€ 21.99
€ 19.68
Paperback. Olga M. Davidson's major reassessment of the classical Persian epic the Shahnama argues that its poet is actually a character in the work who coexists with the heroes and kings celebrated in the poem. Documenting the text's oral performance tradition, Davidson shows that the heroic style of the Shahnama stems from ancient Indo-European traditions. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073210
- ISBN
- 9780674073210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.61
€ 27.99
€ 24.61