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Hardback. Emperor Taizong (r 626-49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This title focuses on Taizong's literary writings that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic identity through literary stylistics. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 468 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 161 x 39. Weight in Grams: 780.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056084
ISBN
9780674056084
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.42
€ 50.42

Hardback. In his second critical study of modern Spanish poetry, Mayhew explores the literary self-consciousness of several major poets - Guillen, Salinas, Aleixandre, Valente, Gil de Biedma, and Guillermo Carnero. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 169 x 14. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611480757
ISBN
9781611480757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.36

Paperback. The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspired voluminous poetic production. By examining Petrarch, Du Bellay, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Hui explains how writers used the ruin to think about their relationship to classical antiquity. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 color, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 231 x 2. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823274314
ISBN
9780823274314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardback. The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspired voluminous poetic production. By examining Petrarch, Du Bellay, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Spenser, and Shakespeare, Hui explains how writers used the ruin to think about their relationship to classical antiquity. Series: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8 color, 14 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823273355
ISBN
9780823273355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 103.15

Hardback. Editor(s): Ziolkowski, Theodore. Translator(s): Ziolkowski, Yetta. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691649351
ISBN
9780691649351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.58

paperback. Editor(s): Pavel, Thomas G. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 275.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816613755
ISBN
9780816613755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Hardcover. Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial rivalry, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how early modern English writers borrowed Spanish literary models, triumphantly reimagining the transnational appropriation as heroic looting. Series: Haney Foundation Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812244755
ISBN
9780812244755
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816694419
ISBN
9780816694419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 21. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816694396
ISBN
9780816694396
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.29

Paperback. Examines T S Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what the author calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. In this title, she shows that Eliot's and Pound's attempts to overcome personality merely reinstated it in a new guise. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748691296
ISBN
9780748691296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.19

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; J. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 332.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Edition
Expanded
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812216097
ISBN
9780812216097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

Hardback. DiMaria delves into how playwrights not only brought inventive new dramaturgical methods to the genre, but also incorporated significant aspects of the morals and aesthetic preferences familiar to contemporary spectators into their works. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442647121
ISBN
9781442647121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.82

Hardcover. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813935126
ISBN
9780813935126
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.41

Paperback. This book tells a remarkable story that begins in classical antiquity with ecphrasis, the art of describing the world so vividly that the audience could become imaginative eyewitnesses, and the events that caused an ideal of immediacy to be transformed into nearly its opposite, a preoccupation with representation of representation. Num Pages: 244 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 319.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349535576
ISBN
9781349535576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.07

Hardback. The Poetics of Consent reveals the ways in which consensus and collective decision making determined the authoritative account of the Trojan War that we know as the Iliad. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421408262
ISBN
9781421408262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.21
€ 54.57

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 218 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 2AHM; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691636399
ISBN
9780691636399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.84

Paperback. .
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253204530
ISBN
9780253204530
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.72

Hardcover. The poets of the Northern Song dynasty were writing after what is thought to be the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. This study examines how these Song poets responded to their uncomfortable proximity to such impressive predecessors and reveals how their response shaped their literary art. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 575.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804721264
ISBN
9780804721264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.06

Hardback. An in-depth study to date of Garcia Lorca's "dark period," this volume moves away from biographical criticism to relate the darkness to the duende's presence. It examines how Lorca meshes biblical apocalyptic discourse with his distinctively pantheistic imagery to represent a battle that is at once social, political, and mythical. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 168 x 22. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611481761
ISBN
9781611481761
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.93

Hardcover. 571pp. xv - xliv, prefaces to the collected edition of ten volumes published in 1841, 1842. Index. Frontis portrait of Thomas Moore aged 40. This edition dedicated to the Marquis of Landsdowne. Decorated boards, with gilt title and decoration on spine and decoration on front cover. All edges gilt. Text clear. Keywords: Poetry - Collections
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Longman Green Longman Roberts and Green
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1863
SKU
KHS1004482
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 75.00

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