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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
€ 94.76€ 78.29
€ 94.76
€ 78.29
Paperback. Keen observation and astute interviews lead journalist Sam Quinones on the quest to find the authentic modern Mexico--both in Mexico and East L.A., and other parts of the U.S. Num Pages: 336 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; BT; DNJ; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 19. Weight in Grams: 465.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826322968
- ISBN
- 9780826322968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.02
€ 33.02
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
€ 80.79
€ 80.79
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€ 20.76
€ 20.99
€ 20.76
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
€ 12.00
Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 167 x 16. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611482669
- ISBN
- 9781611482669
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.16
€ 117.16
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
€ 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
€ 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€ 25.61
€ 34.99
€ 25.61
Hardback. Takes the reader on an exploration of this genre, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1993. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; GBCR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1035.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Number of pages
- 784
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810832602
- ISBN
- 9780810832602
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 223.44
€ 223.44
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
€ 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
€ 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€ 14.90
€ 19.99
€ 14.90
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€ 20.15
€ 24.99
€ 20.15
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€ 12.54
€ 16.99
€ 12.54
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€ 22.98
€ 27.99
€ 22.98
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
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. Dimension: 178 x 114. Weight in Grams: 60.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811222761
- ISBN
- 9780811222761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.54
€ 13.99
€ 12.54
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
€ 41.99€ 37.13
€ 41.99
€ 37.13
Paperback. Pierre de Lavirey was born in the east of France and died in Troyes. Little is known about him, but he has left behind him adaptations into French of nine Italian plays which make him one of the most prolific writers of comedy in the sixteenth century. Les Tromperies formed part of the second collection of adaptations written by Lavirey. Editor(s): Cameron, Keith; Wright, Paul. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 106 pages, 1 facsim. BIC Classification: 2ADF; 2ADT; DD; DQ; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 147 x 8. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 106
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895392
- ISBN
- 9780859895392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.37
€ 41.37