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Paperback. Seven lectures by one of Britain's leading poets tracing the theories, fashions and beliefs of modern poets in American and Britain since the 1930s. Series: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Series. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780373454
ISBN
9781780373454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.40

Paperback. Anne Stevenson is one of Britain's leading poets. Astonishment, published just before her 80th birthday, is her second new collection since her much praised Bloodaxe retrospective Poems 1955-2005. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 134. 64 pages. Anne Stevenson is one of Britain's leading poets. Astonishment, published just before her 80th birthday, is her second new collection since her much praised Bloodaxe retrospective Poems 1955-2005. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 6. Weight: 134.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249472
ISBN
9781852249472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.62

Paperback. Contains poems which address the way the written word preserves yet distorts the lives depending on it for fame or survival. Here, the author rewrites the myth as an 'entertainment' to be set to music - her own original take on how ancient, classical stories are reinterpreted by societies that inherit and retell them. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852247751
ISBN
9781852247751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.78

Paperback. Nearing fifty and married with two children, she and her husband drive from Baltimore to Deer Lick to attend the funeral of a friend one hot summer day. During the course of the journey, Maggie's eternal optimism and her inexhaustible passion for sorting out other people's lives and willing them to fall in love is severely tested.. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099201410
ISBN
9780099201410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. One warm summer's day at the beach, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in a swimsuit and beach robe, walks away from her family and just keeps on going. After hitching a ride with a stranger to a new town where she knows no one, she reinvents herself as a single woman with no ties and begins living a new life altogether. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000624
ISBN
9780099479413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

An insightful history of book reviewing as a genre and a detailed study of its role in Italian literary culture, Reviewing Mario Pratesi opens up a new area for investigation within Italian literary studies. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 2ADT; DSB; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442648715
ISBN
9781442648715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.32

Paperback. Series: City Lights Pocket Poets Series. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 124 x 12. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
City Lights Books United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Exp Sub
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872863163
ISBN
9780872863163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.53

Paperback. Presents a history of the concept of 'memory' and its uses, encompassing both memory as activity and the nature of memory. This book examines debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts; introduces the reader to key thinkers in the field; and traces the links between theorisations and literary representations of memory. Series: The New Critical Idiom. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HPK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415402736
ISBN
9780415402736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 30.50

paperback. In examining the principles governing Gothic literature, this book proposes three new premises: that Gothic is poetic, not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions - Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5 half-tones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226899077
ISBN
9780226899077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.77

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 85.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226902272
ISBN
9780226902272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.30

Hardcover. Explores Chinese artistic and stylistic influences on Modernist practice in early twentieth century Britain. This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism. It offers a coverage of literature, painting and poetry, as well as performance and visual media, and more. Editor(s): Witchard, Dr Anne Veronica. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 b&w illustrations 10 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FPC; 2AB; AB; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748690954
ISBN
9780748690954
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.33
€ 102.83

Paperback. Identifies an ethos of affirmative reticence and recessive action in Mme de Lafayette's "La Princesse de Cleves", Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", and poems by various authors. This book offers a counterpoint to anti-Enlightenment revaluations of passivity that have made non-mastery and non-appropriation the fundamental task of the ethical subject. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 585. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804752893
ISBN
9780804752893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.71

Hardcover. Editor(s): Mai, Anne-Marie; Bredsdorff, Thomas. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 240 x 29. Weight in Grams: 860.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press
Edition
No Additional Printings Listed
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763531283
ISBN
9788763531283
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.07
€ 46.71

Paperback. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Tivoli
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
SKU
KEX0237783
ISBN
9780717136070
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Gill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KLN0016554
ISBN
9780717135998
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Gill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KCG0001317
ISBN
9780717135998
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Publisher
Gill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0012037
ISBN
9780717135998
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Presents contemporary monologues that share the struggles, courage, conflicts and joys of different characters facing difficult decisions in their lives. Developed through consultation with young people, this title includes "First Date"; "Getting It Right"; "Results Day"; "Close To Home"; "Weighed Down"; and "Giggsy's Legs". Editor(s): Robson, Cheryl. Num Pages: 68 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 90. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Aurora Metro Publications
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0004848
ISBN
9780955156656
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Gill Books
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KLN0016555
ISBN
9780717135998
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Annemarie Austin's sixth book of poetry from Bloodaxe. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 7. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852249922
ISBN
9781852249922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.45

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