×


 x 

Shopping cart

Literary studies: poetry & poets

Results 1393 - 1416 of 2316

Literary studies: poetry & poets

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

€ 35.58

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

€ 46.38

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

€ 39.65

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

€ 44.83

Paperback. This work argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early-20th century. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810117648
ISBN
9780810117648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.34

Paperback. Consisting of studies in the poetry of the Pound tradition, this book is a classic study of poetic form by an expert in contemporary criticism. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810113800
ISBN
9780810113800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.20

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

€ 32.05

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

€ 54.03

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

€ 124.79

Paperback. Marjorie Perloff explores and defends her belief in the power of close reading, a strategy often maligned as reactionary in today's critical climate but which, when construed "differentially," is vital, she believes, to any true understanding of a literary or poetic work. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780817351281
ISBN
9780817351281
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.74

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: 510.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393321784
ISBN
9780393321784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.12

Paperback. Undergraduates frequently find the fine Old English poem Judith the stimulating of the surviving texts from the Anglo-Saxon period. Over the years it has attracted a range of literary criticism both in the UK and the US. This book includes an introduction and a commentary by the editor, as well as a glossary, bibliography and appendices. Editor(s): Griffith, Mark. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSBB; DSC; HRCG. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895682
ISBN
9780859895682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.15

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 264 x 28. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816676156
ISBN
9780816676156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.67

Paperback. Focuses on the influence of the oral tradition on written vernacular verse in England from the 5th to the 15th century. The book explores how a living tradition articulated through the public, performance voices of pre-literate singers found expression through the pens of private, literate authors. Series: Poetics of Orality & Literacy S. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268020248
ISBN
9780268020248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.06

Paperback. The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook presents an accessible introduction to the surviving works of prose and poetry produced in Anglo-Saxon England, from AD 410-1066. Series: Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631226987
ISBN
9780631226987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.00

paperback. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Graywolf Press,U.S.
Number of pages
140
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555975630
ISBN
9781555975630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.99

Paperback. Studies in Rhetorical Epic. Series: Bristol Classical Paperbacks. 104 pages. This work considers the rules of ancient rhetoric as learned by Lucan and applied in his epic. Four themes common to poetry and to the declamatory schools (tyranny, storms, the occult and dreams) are closely analyzed in relation to the poem, and the poem is set in the context of the Neronian age. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 8. Weight: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duckworth Publishing
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853994883
ISBN
9781853994883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.80

Hardcover. Ranging from ancient Greek poets to modernists like Ezra Pound, this title considers how writers have used verse to communicate the experience of animal suffering, created analogies between human and animal societies, and imagined the kind of knowledge that would be possible if human beings could see themselves as animals see them. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226650845
ISBN
9780226650845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.37

paperback. How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? This book seeks to answer this question by exploring the relationship between humans and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Num Pages: 174 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226272320
ISBN
9780226272320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.21

Hardback. To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847661336
ISBN
9780847661336
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.59

Paperback. Concerns the way we read - or rather, imagine we are listening to - ancient Greek and Latin poetry. This book shows how an understanding of the effects of word order and meter is vital for appreciating the meaning of classical poetry, composed for listening audiences. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliographical references , index. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691117843
ISBN
9780691117843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 72.46

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
SKU
V9781871551884
ISBN
9781871551884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.11

Paperback. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822321170
ISBN
9780822321170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.40

Paperback. This companion to America?s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies. Editor(s): Smith, Martha Nell; Loeffelholz, Mary. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 175 x 25. Weight in Grams: 836.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118492161
ISBN
9781118492161
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.75

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!