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Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Hardcover. This book covers the life and work of a wide range of writers from Coleridge to Wollstonecraft, Hemans, Beckford and their contemporaries. Also encompassing a wealth of material on contexts from the treason trials of 1794 to the coming of gas-light to the London stage in 1817, it provides a panorama of one of the richest periods in British culture. Series: Author Chronologies Series. Num Pages: 345 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; 3JH; DSB; DSC; DSK; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137273260
- ISBN
- 9781137273260
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Condition: New
€ 67.57
€ 67.57
Hardback. Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers fresh readings and newly available archival research, challenging established views about Hughes's speaking voice, study at Cambridge and the influence of other poets on Hughes's work. Editor(s): Wormald, Mark; Roberts, Neil; Gifford, Terry. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137276575
- ISBN
- 9781137276575
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€ 67.55
€ 67.55
Hardcover. This fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction. Series: Palgrave Gothic. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASZG; DSA; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137298911
- ISBN
- 9781137298911
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€ 149.99
€ 149.99
Hardcover. The book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and examines its rise by placing it in its sociopolitical context. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137301536
- ISBN
- 9781137301536
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€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Reading and the First World War: Readers, Texts, Archives (New Directi...
Towheed, Shafquat, King, Edmund
Hardcover. Ranging from soldiers reading newspapers at the front to authors' responses to the war, this book sheds new light on the reading habits and preferences of men and women, combatants and civilians, during the First World War. This is the first study of the conflict from the perspective of readers. Series: New Directions in Book History. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJF; DSBH; DSC; DSK; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137302700
- ISBN
- 9781137302700
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Condition: New
€ 127.85
€ 127.85
Hardcover. What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself. Series: Language, Discourse, Society. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 388.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137308221
- ISBN
- 9781137308221
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€ 66.54
€ 66.54
Hardcover. Northern Irish Poetry and Theology argues that theology shapes subjectivity, language and poetic form, and provides original studies of three internationally acclaimed poets: Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137343833
- ISBN
- 9781137343833
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Condition: New
€ 67.36
€ 67.36
Hardcover. Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137349910
- ISBN
- 9781137349910
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€ 127.73
€ 127.73
Hardcover. This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137361998
- ISBN
- 9781137361998
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€ 127.58
€ 127.58
Hardcover. Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362612
- ISBN
- 9781137362612
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Condition: New
€ 67.24
€ 67.24
Hardcover. This book takes the work of three contemporary poets-John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald-to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world. Num Pages: 149 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137364746
- ISBN
- 9781137364746
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Condition: New
€ 93.82
€ 93.82
Hardcover. Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378002
- ISBN
- 9781137378002
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€ 67.39
€ 67.39
Hardcover. Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Holderlin, Verlaine, George, Morike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness. This study delves into the irresolvable conflict between a poem's guise as quasi-architectural stasis and quasi-musical kinesis. Num Pages: 212 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381873
- ISBN
- 9781137381873
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€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach, McNee puts Brazilian culture, through the work of contemporary poets and visual artists, into a broader, transnational dialogue. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 202 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADPB; AFC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386144
- ISBN
- 9781137386144
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Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G. Douglas Atkins offers an exciting new analysis of T.S. Eliot's debt to the seventeenth-century churchman Lancelot Andrewes and his theories of reading and writing texts. Num Pages: 100 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3J; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137389657
- ISBN
- 9781137389657
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Condition: New
€ 65.80
€ 65.80
Hardback. Num Pages: 343 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 591.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 343
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137390349
- ISBN
- 9781137390349
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€ 128.69
€ 128.69
Hardcover. Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic,' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer. Runchman reads Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and international perspectives. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394378
- ISBN
- 9781137394378
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Condition: New
€ 66.49
€ 66.49
Hardcover. This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; ACND; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137397799
- ISBN
- 9781137397799
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€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings. Num Pages: 79 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137399816
- ISBN
- 9781137399816
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€ 65.62
€ 65.62
Hardcover. These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism. The authors enrich and diversify the theoretical discourse on dialogic poetry and connect it to fertile critical fields like ethnic studies, translation studies, and ethics and literature. Editor(s): Scanlon, Mara; Engbers, Chad. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401274
- ISBN
- 9781137401274
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402783
- ISBN
- 9781137402783
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate - time, space, and material things - were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics. Reading Crane alongside contemporary queer theory shows how he creates an alternative form of modernism. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407757
- ISBN
- 9781137407757
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Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era science. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426130
- ISBN
- 9781137426130
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style studies. It reads the work of Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and Hans-Georg Gadamer as groundbreaking and 'eventful' interventions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426918
- ISBN
- 9781137426918
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Condition: New
€ 67.27
€ 67.27