Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2002
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349665259
- ISBN
- 9781349665259
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. In itsanalysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, byshowing how thesewriters complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence." Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HBWQ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349300655
- ISBN
- 9781349300655
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€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Paperback. This book is a broad and original reading of the poetry of John Clare (1793-1864), focusing on his literary borrowings, his cultural commentary and his obsession with posterity. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349355273
- ISBN
- 9781349355273
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€ 65.96
€ 65.96
paperback. In "The Metamorphoses", Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. This is Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the verses. Editor(s): Forey, Madeleine. Translator(s): Golding, Arthur. Num Pages: 576 pages, chronology, bibliog , notes. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 43. Weight in Grams: 424.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140422306
- ISBN
- 9780140422306
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.94
€ 18.99
€ 15.94
A translation of Ovid's "Metamorphoses". Translator(s): Lombardo, Stanley. Num Pages: 538 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DB; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 33. Weight in Grams: 752.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 538
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603843089
- ISBN
- 9781603843089
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€ 53.99€ 39.00
€ 53.99
€ 39.00
Paperback. Focuses on Greek mythology, Latin folklore and legend from ever further afield to create a series of narrative poems, ingeniously linked by the common theme of transformation. Translator(s): Innes, Mary M. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1955
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140440584
- ISBN
- 9780140440584
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
mass_market. Tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. This book takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 162 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
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- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141398679
- ISBN
- 9780141398679
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€ 5.54
€ 5.54
Hardcover. A selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature that manages to relate many of the episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus and accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603846257
- ISBN
- 9781603846257
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€ 38.99€ 28.55
€ 38.99
€ 28.55
Paperback. A selection of myths at the heart of Roman mythology and literature that manages to relate many of the episodes in that world-historical march toward the Age of Augustus and accompanied by an Introduction that deftly sets them in their cosmological, theological, and Augustan contexts. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603846240
- ISBN
- 9781603846240
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.79
€ 14.99
€ 12.79
Paperback. The modern, unacademic idiom of A.D. Melville's translation opens the way to a fresh understanding of Ovid's unique and elusive vision of reality. Editor(s): Kenney, E. J. Translator(s): Melville, A. D. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press New York
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537372
- ISBN
- 9780199537372
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.87
€ 11.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 538
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603843072
- ISBN
- 9781603843072
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.14
€ 20.99
€ 17.14
Paperback. This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's design was to study the calendar in the light of old annals, and to show what events are commemorated on each day and the origins of the various events. Editor(s): Woodard, Roger D. Translator(s): Boyle, Anthony J.; Woodard, Roger D. Num Pages: 432 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140446906
- ISBN
- 9780140446906
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€ 17.99€ 14.33
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€ 14.33
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521556200
- ISBN
- 9780521556200
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Condition: New
€ 41.29
€ 41.29
Paperback. Editor(s): Godwin, John. Series: Latin Texts. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472508508
- ISBN
- 9781472508508
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 22.82
€ 25.99
€ 22.82
hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 465.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1982nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780333276013
- ISBN
- 9780333276013
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Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84
Paperback. First published as a World's classics paperback in 1997. Editor(s): Murray, Isobel. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780199554706
- ISBN
- 9780199554706
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Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.43
€ 9.99
€ 8.43
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155073
- ISBN
- 9781903155073
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.37
€ 21.99
€ 19.37
Paperback. Offers a fresh way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. The author argues that the most important conflict is not between styles or aesthetic politics, but between poets who seek to preserve or produce the incommensurable particularity of experience by making powerful objects. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 248 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 158 x 32. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148663
- ISBN
- 9780691148663
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Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. Poetry's relevancy as a tool for social and political change continues to be overlooked in a global context. Looking to writers as diverse as Derek Walcott, Paul Muldoon, and Daljit Nagra, Hena shows that poets throughout the world have reinvigorated older poetic traditions to address political realities and the sweeping pressures of modernity. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137502872
- ISBN
- 9781137502872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Paperback. Olga M. Davidson's major reassessment of the classical Persian epic the Shahnama argues that its poet is actually a character in the work who coexists with the heroes and kings celebrated in the poem. Documenting the text's oral performance tradition, Davidson shows that the heroic style of the Shahnama stems from ancient Indo-European traditions. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 165 x 11. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073210
- ISBN
- 9780674073210
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.85
€ 27.99
€ 24.85
Paperback. Olga M. Davidson applies comparative literary approaches to classical Persian traditions of composing and performing poetry and song. She focuses on the eleventh-century ce epic Shahnama and its relationship to other genres embedded in it, including forms of verbal art originally composed without the aid of writing, such as women's laments. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 238.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674073203
- ISBN
- 9780674073203
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.71
€ 21.99
€ 20.71
Paperback. Glorifies the spectacular achievements of Iranian civilization from its mythologized beginnings to the time of the Arab Conquest. This book takes a fresh look at the reception of Ferdowsi's poetry, especially in the twelfth through fifteenth centuries. Series: Ilex Series. Num Pages: 120 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 157 x 8. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674726802
- ISBN
- 9780674726802
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.64
€ 19.99
€ 18.64
Paperback. A study of Homeric myth-making in the first and longest dialogue of Penelope and Odysseus ("Odyssey 19"). It makes a case for seeing virtuoso myth-making as an essential part of this conversation, a register of communication important for the interaction between the two speakers. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674053359
- ISBN
- 9780674053359
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.71
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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
€ 10.35
€ 10.35