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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. The Derveni Papyrus, discovered accidentally in 1962, is the oldest known European "book." This book addresses many open questions about the papyrus, including its authorship, the context of the peculiar chthonic ritual described in the text, and the relationship of the author and the ritual to the so-called Orphic texts. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 420 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; HRKP3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 268 x 23. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
420
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674726765
ISBN
9780674726765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.73

Paperback. An in-depth examination of the Mexican ballad tradition of the corrido and its complex relationship with violence Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 272 pages, 26 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 2ADSL; AVGH; DSC; JFFE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252075629
ISBN
9780252075629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Hardcover. Focusses on a major revaluation of experimental poetry's social function in the US. The author explores the direct and practical relationships avant garde poets have had with power politics, social organization and cultural movements. It provides detailed readings of major poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748682850
ISBN
9780748682850
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.98
€ 102.99

Hardback. Alshaer's book offers a subtle and historically grounded reading of modern Arabic poetry, emphasising the aesthetic integration of politics within poetic form. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 2CSR; 3JH; 3JJ; DSC; HBJF1; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849043199
ISBN
9781849043199
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.75

Hardback. Translator(s): Turner, Chris. Series: SB-The French List. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 197 x 140. .
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857424259
ISBN
9780857424259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.43

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641706
ISBN
9780691641706
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.20

Paperback. Based on the authors' extensive teaching experience, this volume provides a lively route map through the main aspects of poetry such as sound effects, rhythm and metre, the typographic display of poems on the page and the language of poetry using practical examples throughout. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 14. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748644018
ISBN
9780748644018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.10

Paperback. Neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern, it continues Hutcheon's previous projects in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both a historical and ideological dimension. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415007061
ISBN
9780415007061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.55

Paperback. Suitable for all students of Greek theatre and literature, this book examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to produce pity and fear in the audience, and asks why we derive pleasure from this apparently painful process. Editor(s): Heath, Malcolm. Translator(s): Heath, Malcolm. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AB; DNF; DSA; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140446364
ISBN
9780140446364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover.
Publisher
Loeb
Number of pages
540
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674995635
ISBN
9780674995635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.15

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DCF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 163 x 7. Weight in Grams: 58.
Edition
New
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486295770
ISBN
9780486295770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.85

Paperback. A founding text of European aestheticism and literary criticism, Poetics underpins our moden understanding of imaginative writing. Anthony Kenny's new translation is accompanied by associated material from Plato, Sir Philip Sidney, P. B. Shelley, and Dorothy L. Sayers and a wide-ranging introduction. Translator(s): Kenny, Sir Anthony. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199608362
ISBN
9780199608362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; JFSR1; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691176093
ISBN
9780691176093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Hardback. This book provides new explications of Loy's most redolent poems from The Lost Lunar Baedeker. It offers a short biography, an explanation of Loy's composition process, and compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired her poetry, including modern artwork, Baedeker travel guides, and long-forgotten cultural venues. Num Pages: 292 pages, 44 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611488128
ISBN
9781611488128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.98
€ 38.61

Hardback. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print will appeal not only to scholars and students of literary modernism, modern periodical studies, book history, print culture, media studies, history, art history, and museum studies but to librarians, archivists, museum curators, and information science professionals. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421346
ISBN
9781421421346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.11
€ 47.17

Paperback. Can you tell an iamb from a trochee? An anapest from a amphibrach? Why do children always take such delight in dactylic tetrameter? Is a ballad the same as a ballade? What is poetic rhythm? Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 125. .
Publisher
Wooden Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904263913
ISBN
9781904263913
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.30

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164306
ISBN
9780231164306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.36
€ 50.63

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748656172
ISBN
9780748656172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.09
€ 91.90

Paperback. Series: Cognition and Poetics. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC; JMR. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190634698
ISBN
9780190634698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 70.61

Paperback. Owing to the rich storehouse of information it contains, the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (c 535-600) has long been mined as a historical source for Merovingian society, a focus that overshadows an appreciation of the poems' literary value. This title offers free-verse translations of Fortunatus' personal poetry. Editor(s): Pucci, Joseph. Translator(s): Pucci, Joseph. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
155
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841863
ISBN
9781603841863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.86

Paperback. Veronica Franco was a 16th-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection presents the eroticism and eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology. Translator(s): Jones, Professor Ann Rosalind; Rosenthal, Margaret F. Series: Other Voice in Early Modern Europe. Num Pages: 318 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADT; BG; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
318
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226259871
ISBN
9780226259871
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.85

Hardcover. Coleridge is the most complex and brilliant, yet the most elusive and intense of the great Romantic writers. This book includes a selection of verse and prose which tells about his work. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 371 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 125 x 0. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
David Campbell Publishers Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150278
ISBN
9781857150278
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice..' Translator(s): Lombardo, Stanley. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 82.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
68
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872205918
ISBN
9780872205918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.46

Hardback. Includes poems that illustrate the mingling of classical and vernacular traditions characteristic of the age of Lorenzo de' Medici. Translator(s): Chatfield, Mary P. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031487
ISBN
9780674031487
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 33.72

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