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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardcover. Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets. Editor(s): Blair, Kirstie; Gorji, Mina. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137030320
ISBN
9781137030320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

Hardcover. This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century. It features contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers including Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson. Editor(s): Sturgeon, Sinead. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137273376
ISBN
9781137273376
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers fresh readings and newly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: 272 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 138 x 215 x 15. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137276605
ISBN
9781137276605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School poets, painters, musicians, and film-makers. Editor(s): Silverberg, Mark. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137280565
ISBN
9781137280565
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardcover. This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come. Editor(s): Acquisto, Joseph. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
234
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137303639
ISBN
9781137303639
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.49

Hardcover. This book lays bare numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as well as desire and redemption, and also journeying in the realms of conceptual sex and conceptual art. Fierce tussles over the body in, and the body of, the poet-artist's work celebrate Blakean attractions and repulsions. Editor(s): Bruder, Helen P.; Connolly, Tristanne. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 145 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137332837
ISBN
9781137332837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Paperback. This era witnessed the first full flowering of British women's writing. Drawing on the last 30 years of scholarship and textual recovery which have overturned the theory that women wrote only unambitious, domestic texts, this new paperback highlights that an English literary history that ignores women writers is not only incomplete, but inadequate. Editor(s): Labbe, Jacqueline M. Series: History of British Women's Writing. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSC; DSK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137350398
ISBN
9781137350398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.48

Hardcover. By bringing together Milton specialists with other innovative early modern scholars, the collection aims to embrace and encourage a methodologically adventurous study of Milton's works, analyzing them both in relation to their own moment and their many ensuing contexts. Editor(s): Gray, Catharine; Murphy, Erin. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137383099
ISBN
9781137383099
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.82

Hardcover. Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance. Essays present different practices that emerge around "reading" Wroth, including editing, curating, and digital reproduction. Editor(s): Larson, Katherine R.; Miller, Naomi J. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137479624
ISBN
9781137479624
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.49

Hardcover. This collection of essays reassesses the importance of verse as a medium in the long eighteenth century, and as an invitation for readers to explore many of the less familiar figures dealt with, alongside the received names of the standard criticism of the period. Editor(s): Fowler, Joanna; Ingram, Allan. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 24. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137487629
ISBN
9781137487629
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.29

Hardcover. The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years. Contributors discuss a wide range of poets including Caroline Bergvall and Barry MacSweeney, showing these poets' connections with their Modernist predecessors. Editor(s): Lang, Abigail; Smith, David Nowell. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 276 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137512239
ISBN
9781137512239
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.03

Paperback. Lucretius's shadow is long and extends across the Humanities. Bringing together essays by scholars at the top of their field, this book examines the relationship between Lucretius and modernity. Nuanced and passionate, these essays offer an account of what is at stake when we claim Lucretius for modernity.

Editor(s): Lezra, Jacques; Blake, Liza. Series: New Antiquity. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137591890
ISBN
9781137591890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 29.97

Hardcover. Editor(s): Gould, Warwick. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 411 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 686.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403945686
ISBN
9781403945686
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.25

Hardcover. Editor(s): Cooper, Lisa H.; Denny-Brown, Andrea. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403976741
ISBN
9781403976741
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Hardcover. Editor(s): Ashton, Gail; Sylvester, Louise. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; JNT; JNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403988263
ISBN
9781403988263
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.46

Paperback. Editor(s): Ashton, Gail; Sylvester, Louise. Series: Teaching the New English. Num Pages: 178 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC; JNT; JNU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403988270
ISBN
9781403988270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.50

Hardback. In Reading as the Angels Read, Ardizzone reconstructs the cultural and socio-political background that provided the motivation for the Banquet and offers a bold new reading of this ambitious work. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442637061
ISBN
9781442637061
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.20

Paperback. Includes Virgil's text and Conington's commentary on Books X-XII, along with Conington's index to Books VII-XII. Editor(s): Conington, John. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Editions. Num Pages: 356 pages, 2-colour covers. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904675266
ISBN
9781904675266
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.90

Paperback. The author is a figure of immense importance. He unlocked the gates of commercial theatre to its performance - and its performance in verse - on both sides of the Atlantic, bringing to the project his enormous personal prestige. This title tells the story of the reception of Greek tragedy throughout the English-speaking world. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Classic Translations. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 26. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904675358
ISBN
9781904675358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.67

Hardback. Understanding Verbal Art Series: The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Num Pages: 140 pages, 39 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FMS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642550188
ISBN
9783642550188
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.52

Hardback. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DSB; DSC; HPN; HRKN5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
SKU
V9783662479582
ISBN
9783662479582
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.03

Hardcover. Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century Editor(s): Banerji, Debashish. Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures. Num Pages: 298 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HPD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 244 x 17. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer, India, Private Ltd India
Edition
2015th Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9788132220374
ISBN
9788132220374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.87

Hardback. Quitslund argues that Spenser sought authority for his poem by grounding its narrative in a divinely ordained natural order, intelligible in terms derived from the ancient sources of poetry and philosophy. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 695.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802035059
ISBN
9780802035059
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.20

hardcover. Offering a revisionist account of the genre of the epyllion, Ellis transforms theories of sexuality, literature, and politics of the Elizabethan age, making an erudite and intriguing contribution to the field. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780802087355
ISBN
9780802087355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.61

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