Literature: history & criticism
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Literature: history & criticism
Paperback. Asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. This book illustrates the author's points with examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0021016
- ISBN
- 9780140285376
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. As the author of "Evelina" and "Cecilia", both of which created new dimensions for the novel, Fanny Burney is as well remembered for her memoirs of Johnson, her mastectomy and her account of the Battle of Waterloo. This portrait of Burney paints a picture of this forward-looking woman. Num Pages: 112 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 125 x 0. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Short Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0020983
- ISBN
- 9781904095187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Analysing Hazlitt's radicalism and its foundations in Unitarian culture, Paulin argues that he was in effect a republican epic poet in prose - as distinct from prose poet - and a crucially important critic who has been given nothing like his due. He offers a fully rounded literary portrait with great depth and detail. Num Pages: 400 pages, 8pp b&w illustrations, facsimiles,. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 136 x 31. Weight in Grams: 440. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002424
- ISBN
- 9780571174225
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Helps teachers and students find the essential information on the works of Margaret Atwood. This guide deals with her themes, genre and narrative technique. It includes likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as a source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Series: Vintage Living Texts. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 130. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001575
- ISBN
- 9780099437048
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Ian McEwan: The Essential Guide: "Child in Time", "Enduring Love", "At...
Noakes, Jonathan, Reynolds, Margaret
Paperback. A guide to the works of Ian McEwan. It offers an in-depth interview with Ian McEwan, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. It deals with McEwan's themes, genre and narrative technique, and provides a source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Series: Vintage Living Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 207 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001574
- ISBN
- 9780099437550
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Series: Shakespeare and Theory. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSS0001157
- ISBN
- 9781472590459
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 76. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSS0001137
- ISBN
- 9781350036574
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Coinciding with the major new TV series, this is the definitive companion to the MISS MARPLE novels, films and TV appearances. Num Pages: 176 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 113 x 10. Weight in Grams: 98. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSS0000945
- ISBN
- 9780006499565
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Editor(s): Garratt, Delia; Hamling, Tara. Num Pages: 136 pages, 50 colour illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 280 x 11. Weight in Grams: 376. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002957
- ISBN
- 9781474222266
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A biography of Bruce Chatwin, based on private notebooks, diaries, letters and hundreds of interviews. It illuminates the many sides of Chatwin, from Sotheby's director, archaeologist, "Sunday Times" journalist and traveller to devoted husband and active gay, socialite and loner. Num Pages: 656 pages, illustrations facsimiles, geneal. table, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 480. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002223
- ISBN
- 9780099289975
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians with his decision to abolish the church's traditional 'string choir' and replace it with a modern mechanical organ, the new schoolteacher, Fancy Day, causes an upheaval of a more romantic nature, winning the hearts of 3 men - a local farmer, a church musician and Maybold. Editor(s): Dolin, Tim. Num Pages: 288 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ACG; DSBF; DSK; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 218. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- KKD0002193
- ISBN
- 9780140435535
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The memoirs of Ireland's acclaimed author and playwright, Hugh Leonard. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 202. Good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Methuen
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- KKD0002182
- ISBN
- 9780413771681
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The third volume in Soyinka's series of memoirs, the sequel to "Ake and Isara". In a mixture of fact and fiction - to protect the innocent and nail the guilty and shape an often intolerable reality - it tells of the coming of age of a writer and political activist; and of a nation's betrayal. Num Pages: 397 pages, 1 b&w line. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DNF; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0002011
- ISBN
- 9780413744203
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Thimble Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001865
- ISBN
- 9780903355476
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. This book illustrates the author's points with examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001792
- ISBN
- 9780140285376
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486794822
- ISBN
- 9780486794822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.86
€ 17.99
€ 17.86
Paperback. This sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as 'the greatest living Irishwoman' -- Augusta Gregory. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; BGH; DSBH; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Picador London
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main Market
- SKU
- 9780330419932
- ISBN
- 9780330419932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.74
€ 12.99
€ 9.74
Paperback. 'Synaesthesia and the Ancient Senses' presents a radical reappraisal of antiquity's textures, flavours, and aromas, sounds and sights. The introduction sets the ancient senses within the history of aesthetics and the subsequent essays explore the senses throughout the classical period and on to the modern reception of classical literature. Series: The Senses in Antiquity. Num Pages: 240 pages, 9. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA; HPN. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844655625
- ISBN
- 9781844655625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.59
€ 48.59
Paperback. Series: Public Worlds Series. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First edition
- SKU
- V9780816638406
- ISBN
- 9780816638406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.93
€ 27.99
€ 26.93
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781441157706
- ISBN
- 9781441157706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 31.58
€ 36.99
€ 31.58
Paperback. In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja shows how twentieth-century U.S. imperial expansion was dependent on controlling the spread of disease through the transformation of humans, animals, bacteria, and viruses into living theaters of warfare and securitization. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; HBTB; JFSL4; PDR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822360636
- ISBN
- 9780822360636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.10
€ 29.99
€ 29.10
Paperback. This analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Translator(s): Tarnowski, Andrea. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 177.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734271
- ISBN
- 9780804734271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.95
€ 26.99
€ 26.95
Hardcover. Num Pages: 306 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838639184
- ISBN
- 9780838639184
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.63
€ 115.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 60 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 202 x 4. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811200455
- ISBN
- 9780811200455
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.18
€ 11.18