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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardback. In a series of original essays from leading literary scholars, this Companion offers a chronological sweep of medieval poetry from Old English to the great genres of romance, narrative, and alliterative poetry of the 15 th century. Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 704 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 181 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1358.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
704
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405159630
ISBN
9781405159630
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.78

Paperback. Presents a comprehensive selection of the key views of Chaucer in the twentieth century. This volume addresses the growth of Chaucer criticism over the centuries. It reflects the three major divisions of Chaucer's writing: "The Dream Vision" poetry, "Troilus and Criseyde", and "The Canterbury Tales". Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631217121
ISBN
9780631217121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.60

Hardback. An investigation of the non-human world in the Exeter Book riddles, drawing on the exciting new approaches of eco-criticism and eco-theology. Series: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843844648
ISBN
9781843844648
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Lutterworth Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718893606
ISBN
9780718893606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.90

Hardback. Series: Writers on Writers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 124 x 192 x 23. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780691154114
ISBN
9780691154114
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.52

Hardcover. From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Jacques Reda and Yves Bonnefoy, French Poetry offers English-speaking, this is an introduction varied tradition. Editor(s): McGuinness, Patrick. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 3H; 3J; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841598055
ISBN
9781841598055
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.48

paperback. Includes tightly argued lyrics, erotic and libertine considerations of love, divine poems and elegies of lament by such great figures as John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, alongside pieces from many other less well known but equally poets of the age, such as Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Thomas Traherne. Editor(s): Burrow, Colin. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3JB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140424447
ISBN
9780140424447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry. Editor(s): Nicholson, Colin; McGuire, Matt. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748636266
ISBN
9780748636266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

Hardcover. Analyzes the political, theological and social dimensions of speech as depicted in late medieval English lyric poetry. Series: Syracuse Uni: Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815632733
ISBN
9780815632733
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.95

Hardback. Editor(s): Rooke, Barbara E. Series: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Num Pages: 694 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1142.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
694
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648699
ISBN
9780691648699
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 377.50

Paperback. Editor(s): Goodson, A. Series: Coleridge's Writings. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 1998
Number of pages
217
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349269020
ISBN
9781349269020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 126.62

Paperback. "Coleridge's Writings" is a series addressed to those who wish to have a guide to his important statements on particular subjects. The General Editor is John Beer, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge, who has published various studies of Coleridge's thought and poetry. Editor(s): Beer, J. Series: Coleridge's Writings. Num Pages: 287 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; HRCG; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
287
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349408146
ISBN
9781349408146
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.25

Paperback. Considered one of the greatest works of Persian literature, this title is written by a medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be the most popular poet in America. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 35. Weight in Grams: 586.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061905834
ISBN
9780061905834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.44

Hardback. This book investigates the form of spirituality given shape in the intersection of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection, concerned especially with matters of representation and failure. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC; HPCF3; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3887 x 5817 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823272839
ISBN
9780823272839
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.45

Paperback. This book investigates the form of spirituality given shape in the intersection of poetics and theological-philosophical reflection, concerned especially with matters of representation and failure. Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSC; HPCF3; HRLK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823272846
ISBN
9780823272846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Paperback. aeo Only book published in the last 50 years that treats chronologically and at length the whole Browning corpus. aeo Questions the idea that Browning was an objective, dramatic poet, whose works are distinct and separate from himself. aeo Relates Browning the poet to Browning the man. . Series: Blackwell Critical Biographies. Num Pages: 292 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631200932
ISBN
9780631200932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 60.44

Hardback. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333349052
ISBN
9780333349052
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.83

Paperback. Besides providing a new appraisal of Guillaume Apollinaire, the foremost French poet of early Modernism and WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project. Num Pages: 304 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898959
ISBN
9780859898959
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.93

Hardcover. Besides providing a new appraisal of Guillaume Apollinaire, the foremost French poet of early Modernism and WWI, Translating Apollinaire aims to put the ordinary reader at the centre of the translational project. Num Pages: 304 pages, 28 halftones. BIC Classification: CFP; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 163 x 239 x 24. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859898942
ISBN
9780859898942
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.47

Hardcover. Translating Rimbaud's Illuminations is a critique of the assumptions which currently underlie our thinking on literary translation. It offers an alternative vision; extending the parameters of literary translation by showing that such translation is itself a form of experimental creative writing. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; CFP; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 170 x 25. Weight in Grams: 692.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859897709
ISBN
9780859897709
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.47

Hardcover. Tackling topics such as globalization and political activism, this book traces engaged poetics in 20th century American poetry. Spahr provides a comprehensive view of activist poetry, starting with the Great Depression and the Harlem Renaissance and moving to the Beats and contemporary writers such as Amiri Baraka and Mark Nowak. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 255 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137568304
ISBN
9781137568304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.00

Paperback. This work argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, the author reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs. Translator(s): Collins, Derek; Orion, Janice. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 17. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Edition
New and Revised
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742515253
ISBN
9780742515253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 75.24

Hardback. This work argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, the author reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs. Translator(s): Collins, Derek; Orion, Janice. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 304 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Edition
New and Revised Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742515246
ISBN
9780742515246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 167.38

Hardback. Offers an analysis of various accounts of the foundation of that most "mythical" of the Greek colonies - Cyrene, in eastern Libya. This book examines the Greeks' symbolic discourse to show that these modern concepts arose much later than commonly believed. Translator(s): Berman, Daniel W. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691114583
ISBN
9780691114583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.18
€ 68.86

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