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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardback. This book offers a discussion of Elizabeth Bishop's translations through close-readings of a selection of poems, with particular attention to the features that relate them to translation, and suggests that translation can be seen as a poetic principle that can be related to the poet's original works. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781498520638
ISBN
9781498520638
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.92

Paperback. Includes Edward Gallagher's prose translations of "The Lays of Marie de France"; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lays; two anonymous Breton lays - The Lay of Melion and The Lay of Tyolet; a glossary of proper names; a glossary of specialised terms; and an appendix of selected texts in the Old French. Translator(s): Gallagher, Edward J. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
193
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841887
ISBN
9781603841887
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.98

Paperback. Marie de France's beautiful poems of courtly love, enchantment and mystery are now available in a Norton Critical Edition. Editor(s): Gilbert, Dorothy. Translator(s): Gilbert, Dorothy. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 400.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Critical
SKU
V9780393932683
ISBN
9780393932683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.37

Hardback. Includes prose translations of "The Lays of Marie de France"; a general introduction; a map; commentaries on the lays; two anonymous Breton lays - "The Lay of Melion" and "The Lay of Tyolet"; a glossary of proper names; a glossary of specialised terms; and an appendix of selected texts in the Old French, including Marie's Prologue, and Yonec. Translator(s): Gallagher, Edward J. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
225
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603841894
ISBN
9781603841894
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 37.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Mueller, Lisel. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 126 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 7. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691615745
ISBN
9780691615745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.68

Hardback. Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain's greatest documentary film-makers. A member of the GPO Film Unit and director of canonical films such as Listen to Britain, he was also an acclaimed painter, photographer, poet and writer. This seminal collection of critical essays and archival material explores the life of Jennings and his many artistic works. Series: BFI Silver. Num Pages: 136 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AJB; APFB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844578023
ISBN
9781844578023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.08
€ 84.41

Paperback. Humphrey Jennings was one of Britain's greatest documentary film-makers. A member of the GPO Film Unit and director of canonical films such as Listen to Britain, he was also an acclaimed painter, photographer, poet and writer. This seminal collection of critical essays and archival material explores the life of Jennings and his many artistic works. Series: BFI Silver. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; AJB; APFB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 189 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
2nd ed. 2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844578016
ISBN
9781844578016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.55

hardcover. The Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Prologue" and "Tale." Editor(s): Sutton, Marilyn. Series: Chaucer Bibliographies. Num Pages: 517 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCF; DSBD; DSC; GBCR; GBCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 41. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
517
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802047441
ISBN
9780802047441
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.85

Hardback. These essays on Pulitzer Prize winner, Elizabeth Bishop, argue that her "sense of difference" as an orphan, a woman artist and a lesbian, play a significant role in the questioning of aesthetic, ethical and sexual boundaries that is so much part of her poetic practice. Editor(s): Lombardi, Marilyn May. Series: Feminist Issues: Practice, Politics, Theory S. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813914442
ISBN
9780813914442
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.01

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852248642
ISBN
9781852248642
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.68

Paperback. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 11. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585100439
ISBN
9781585100439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.09

hardcover. Paying special attention to the Romantic poets from Wordsworth and Coleridge down to Pound and Eliot, Marion Montgomgery explores the disorientation of image and methaphor for reality. Two species of "romanticism" emerge: that of the poet and that of the scientist. Num Pages: 288 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 555.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847683932
ISBN
9780847683932
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 187.07

hardcover. This text is an exploration of Romantic poetry, including that of Eliot, Pound, Keats, Donne, Wordsworth, and Williams, from a Thomistic perspective. The author is particularly interested in the intellect and its relation to reality, intuition and rational thought. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Edition
KDenn
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847692002
ISBN
9780847692002
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.59

Paperback. Shows what poetry was before the emergence of the modern category "poetry": that is, how vernacular songbooks of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries shaped our modern understanding of poetry by establishing expectations of what is a poem, what is a poet, and what is lyric poetry itself. Num Pages: 293 pages, 7 colour plates, 33 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 179 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226270050
ISBN
9780226270050
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.39

Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780691624013
ISBN
9780691624013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.02

Paperback. Editor(s): Valente, Joseph; Howes, Marjorie. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268011208
ISBN
9780268011208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 34.67

Paperback. Explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. This book concludes with a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith's conceptualist book "Traffic". Num Pages: 232 pages, 2 colour plates, 40 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 418. Poetry by Other Means in the New Century. 232 pages, 2 colour plates, 40 halftones. Explores a new development in contemporary poetry: the repurposing of other people's words in order to make new works, by framing, citing, and recycling already existing phrases, sentences, and even full texts. This book concludes with a discussion of Kenneth Goldsmith's conceptualist book "Traffic". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Dimension: 228 x 157 x 14. Weight: 478.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226660622
ISBN
9780226660622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.78

Paperback. Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, this book explores such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme, and the role of sound repetition in novelistic prose. Editor(s): Perloff, Marjorie; Dworkin, Craig. Num Pages: 368 pages, 30 halftones, 5 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226657431
ISBN
9780226657431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.46

Paperback. This text considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the Modernist poets comes up against the "natural speech" of the "Donahue" talk show, or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes. Num Pages: 264 pages, 63 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226657349
ISBN
9780226657349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. Previously known as an art-world figure, but now regarded as an important poet, Frank O'Hara is examined in this study. It traces the poet's "French connection" and the influence of the visual arts on his work. This edition includes a new introduction with a reconsideration of O'Hara's lyric. Num Pages: 268 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
268
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226660592
ISBN
9780226660592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.19

Paperback. Presents an accessible introduction to Marjorie Perloff's critical thought. In this book, fourteen interviews cover a broad spectrum of topics in the study of poetry: its nature as a literary genre, its current state, and its relationship to art, politics, language, theory, and technology. Editor(s): Bayot, David Jonathan Y. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 230 x 13. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226199412
ISBN
9780226199412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.87

Paperback. Argues that it is only at the turn of the 21st century that the powerful lessons of the avant-garde - an avant-garde cruelly disrupted by the Great War and subsequent political upheavals - were learned. This book offers readings of T S Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, and Velimir Khlebnikov. It examines various related poetic concerns. Series: Blackwell Manifestos. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631219705
ISBN
9780631219705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.90

Hardcover. What is the place of individual genius in a global world of hyper-information - a world in which, as Walter Benjamin predicted more than seventy years ago, everyone is potentially an author? This title explores this intriguing development in contemporary poetry: the embrace of 'unoriginal' writing. Num Pages: 244 pages, 2 colour plates, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226660615
ISBN
9780226660615
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.08
€ 77.34

Paperback. "Concise, learned, revisionary.. should enrich the passionate conversation about poetic forms for years to come."- Edward Hirsch, author of How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry Editor(s): Boland, Eavan; Strand, Mark. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DC; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
9780393321784
ISBN
9780393321784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.38

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