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Paperback. Contends with challenges to the validity of the poetic imagination, from Adorno's maxim 'No poetry after Auschwitz,' to the claims of religious authority upon truth, and the ultimate challenge posed by the fact of death itself. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226309743
ISBN
9780226309743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.74

Hardcover. In the spirit of Blake's vow of 'mental fight,' this work contends with challenges to the validity of the poetic imagination, from Adorno's maxim 'No poetry after Auschwitz,' to the claims of religious authority upon truth, and the ultimate challenge posed by the fact of death itself. Num Pages: 208 pages, 11 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226309736
ISBN
9780226309736
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.52
€ 79.10

Hardcover. Examining seventeenth-century crises of evidence and genres of evidence on which both literary critics and historians now depend, True Relations explores the notion that we apprehend truth through other people's relations of it and that those relations, and our own relation to them, are a function of social relationships in conflict. Num Pages: 344 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; DSBD; HBJD1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244854
ISBN
9780812244854
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.63

Paperback. This collection of poems explores wayfaring, both in a spiritual sense and in the sense of knowledge navigation in an information age. It explores American history, encompassing writing and identity in the figures of Emily Dickinson and Willard Gibbs, the country's first mathematical physicist. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 9. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Univ of Notre Dame Pr
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268018993
ISBN
9780268018993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.92

Paperback. Series: Salmon poetry. Num Pages: 85 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136. 8vo.Good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
Edition
First Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0298174
ISBN
9781897648803
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.00

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Faber and Faber London
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New edition
SKU
KEX0302816
ISBN
9780571209873
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf and reading wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber and Faber London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New edition
SKU
KTG0011442
ISBN
9780571209873
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century - Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell - through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. Series: The Anthony Hecht Lectures in Humanities Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300171464
ISBN
9780300171464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.80

Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 4. Weight in Grams: 62.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472594815
ISBN
9781472594815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.50

hardcover. First edition. Clean copy in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Some nicks to page edges, but text unaffected. Remains a good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Sinclair-Stevenson London
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0023401
ISBN
9781856190749
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 20.00

hardcover. Signed. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Lightly toned, text is crisp and remains a fine copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Sinclair-Stevenson London
Edition
First edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0027244
ISBN
9781856190749
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 32.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 210 x 8. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9781925005189
ISBN
9781925005189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

Paperback. A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in "Troy", this title offers a retelling of Chaucer's tragedy "Troilus and Criseyde". Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 88 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226001203
ISBN
9780226001203
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.25

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Meriwether Publishing,U.S. United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
135
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566080019
ISBN
9781566080019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.64

Paperback. This text juxtaposes cases from law and literature to view the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them and regard them with suspicion. By questioning the truths of confession, Brooks challenges us to reconsider how we demand confessions and what we do with them. Num Pages: 212 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 152 x 230 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226075860
ISBN
9780226075860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.10

paperback. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0021937
ISBN
9780856404108
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Aims to reconstruct the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, the author makes a case for the agency - or the capacity to resist domination - of those oppressed. He reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 440 pages, 28 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSA; DSBD; DSBF; HBTQ; HBTR; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 735.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822323150
ISBN
9780822323150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Hardcover. "Good Copy in dust wrapper, owner's signature on front fly leaf". Keywords: "Literature, Irish playwright, Classic, German"
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Diogenes Verlag
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1961
SKU
KHS0081880
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 35.00

paperback. Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that intrigues her most. She looks at the nature of his love for his wife, Rose and at his love for Kate Field. Num Pages: 576 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 46. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712697903
ISBN
9780712697903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.46

Paperback. Translator(s): Ahl, Frederick. Series: Masters of Latin Literature. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 8. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801494314
ISBN
9780801494314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.27

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