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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Presents an accessible introduction to Marjorie Perloff's critical thought. In this book, fourteen interviews cover a broad spectrum of topics in the study of poetry: its nature as a literary genre, its current state, and its relationship to art, politics, language, theory, and technology. Editor(s): Bayot, David Jonathan Y. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226199412
ISBN
9780226199412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.32

Hardcover. This work deals with the fundamentals of novel writing and the execution of such. Though it engages specific notions of literary and cultural theory, it privileges the architectonics of the texts themselves as it crosses boundaries of both time and culture. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333716861
ISBN
9780333716861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.90

Paperback. Neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues Hutcheon's previous projects in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415007061
ISBN
9780415007061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.49

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349504404
ISBN
9781349504404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English Editor(s): Wing, Betsy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472066292
ISBN
9780472066292
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.43

A Poetics of Relation fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 2ADF; 2ADS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120440
ISBN
9780230120440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.21

Hardback. This study examines the way that scientists in the 16th and 17th centuries, who had not studied 'science' formally, used the tools of their literary education to formulate ideas about science and, at the same time, how the remarkableseventeenth-century scientific developments inspired non-scientific writers to make new fictions of discovery. Num Pages: 320 pages, 25 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBD; HBLH; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198704805
ISBN
9780198704805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 188.99

Hardcover. This study examines representations of the body in the work of four important twentieth-century poets. Num Pages: 179 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230620889
ISBN
9780230620889
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, Poetics of the Creative Process examines and analyzes the creative process of playwriting. It attempts to concretize the playwright's creative experience from the gestation of a dramatic idea to its expression as a theatrical performance. Num Pages: 172 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBV; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 175 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761830047
ISBN
9780761830047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.80

Paperback. Poetics of the Pretext is an original study of the French poet Lautreamont (1846-1870). It analyses closely the texts, pretexts and intertexts of this innovative poet, bringing Les Chants de Maldoror and Poesies to the foreground of contemporary critical debates around poetics, genre, intertextuality and influence. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780859894982
ISBN
9780859894982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 87.81

Paperback. Based on the authors' extensive teaching experience, this volume provides a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748644018
ISBN
9780748644018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.33

Hardcover. This book considers the kinds of responsibility which modern lyric poetry takes on, or to which it makes itself subject - social, cultural, political, aesthetic and personal. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781380352
ISBN
9781781380352
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 142.68

Paperback. Demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. By speaking about or even as the dead, this work tells what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation. Series: Jewish Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 340 pages, 20 b&w photos, 1 color photos. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3734 x 23. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253218872
ISBN
9780253218872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 31.02

Paperback. Translator(s): Gil-Montero, Michelle. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 199 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2011
Number of pages
199
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349296842
ISBN
9781349296842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardcover. Translator(s): Gil-Montero, Michelle. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 199 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115798
ISBN
9780230115798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.50

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641706
ISBN
9780691641706
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.26

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252076084
ISBN
9780252076084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.72

Paperback. The Middle Kingdom (c 1940-1640 BC) was a golden age of Ancient Egyptian writing. This book studies this literary legacy. It reassesses the Middle Kingdom poems' cultural role, drawing on studies of the individual texts. It explores literature's status as a differentiated form of discourse, suggesting what social practices made its role possible. Series: Studies in Egyptology & the Ancient Near East. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 2CXG; 3D; DSBB; DSC; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845537708
ISBN
9781845537708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.96

Paperback. Editor(s): Scanlon, M.; Engbers, Chad. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CBX; CFA; CFG; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486342
ISBN
9781349486342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.81

Hardcover. These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism. The authors enrich and diversify the theoretical discourse on dialogic poetry and connect it to fertile critical fields like ethnic studies, translation studies, and ethics and literature. Editor(s): Scanlon, Mara; Engbers, Chad. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137401274
ISBN
9781137401274
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.58

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