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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 202 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC; DSR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633459
ISBN
9780691633459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 259 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSC; HP; JF; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
259
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349379118
ISBN
9781349379118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.78

Hardback. Traces the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within 20th-century American poetry and poetics. Formulating interpretive frames as hybrid as the texts being read, this book unveils one of important yet largely unknown stories of American poetry and poetics. Series: American Literature Initiative. Num Pages: 292 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231447
ISBN
9780823231447
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.57

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
€ 21.05

Hardback. Poetics en Passant presents a 'cross-channel' poetics that redefines the relationship between 'Victorian' and 'modern' poetry by understanding Christina Rossetti's poetics of 'stealth' as an important counterpart to Baudelairean 'shock.' Series: Institute of Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230618992
ISBN
9780230618992
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.34

Hardcover. This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the Shahnameh. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230113459
ISBN
9780230113459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.14

Paperback. This book considers some of the Western interpretations of The Shahnameh - Iran's national epic, and argues that these interpretations are not only methodologically flawed, but are also more revealing of Western concerns and anxieties about Iran than they are about the Shahnameh." Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSBH5; DSC; HBJF; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
271
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349295289
ISBN
9781349295289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.01

Paperback. This Norton Critical Edition of the world's first major work of literary criticism is based on James Hutton's acclaimed translation. The text and explanatory and glossarial notes represent the work of the accomplished Hellenists James Hutton and Michelle Editor(s): Gorman, David; Zerba, Michelle. Translator(s): Hutton, James. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Critical
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393938869
ISBN
9780393938869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.43

Paperback. A founding text of European aestheticism and literary criticism, Poetics underpins our moden understanding of imaginative writing. Anthony Kenny's new translation is accompanied by associated material from Plato, Sir Philip Sidney, P. B. Shelley, and Dorothy L. Sayers and a wide-ranging introduction. Translator(s): Kenny, Sir Anthony. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199608362
ISBN
9780199608362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.46

Hardback. This book provides new explications of Loy's most redolent poems from The Lost Lunar Baedeker. It offers a short biography, an explanation of Loy's composition process, and compelling close readings that uncover the source materials that inspired her poetry, including modern artwork, Baedeker travel guides, and long-forgotten cultural venues. Num Pages: 292 pages, 44 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611488128
ISBN
9781611488128
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.67
€ 38.61

Hardcover. Offers an instrumental investigation of a theory of rhythmical performance of poetry, originally propounded speculatively in the author's "Perception-Oriented Theory of Metre" (1977). This title assumes that when the versification patterns and linguistic patterns conflict, they can be accommodated in a pattern of Rhythmical Performance. Num Pages: 460 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 872.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
460
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845195243
ISBN
9781845195243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.56

Hardback. This work examines the evolution of the modern English lyric, emphasizing the way in which poets, reacting to post-Reformation readers' dislike for invented poetic narratives, competed for the right to commemorate important public occasions and expanded the range of acceptable occasions. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 226 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333733585
ISBN
9780333733585
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.45

Hardback. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print will appeal not only to scholars and students of literary modernism, modern periodical studies, book history, print culture, media studies, history, art history, and museum studies but to librarians, archivists, museum curators, and information science professionals. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 524.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421421346
ISBN
9781421421346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.97
€ 47.37

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

€ 9.30

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611470369
ISBN
9781611470369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.90

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231164306
ISBN
9780231164306
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.19
€ 50.63

Hardback. A study of Catullus's influence on Horace, this work shows that the earlier poet was probably the important source of inspiration for Horace's "Odes", the later author's magnum opus. By illustrating how Horace often found his own voice even as he acknowledged Catullus's genius, it guides us to an appreciation of the earlier poet as well. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691125374
ISBN
9780691125374
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.04
€ 59.26

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691644240
ISBN
9780691644240
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.86

Paperback. This study asks why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination". It explores concerns fundamental to the understanding and appreciation of poetry, including the nature of metaphor, the difference between verse and prose, and the essence of meaning. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 131 x 205 x 11. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
238
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819560261
ISBN
9780819560261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.93

Paperback. Series: Cognition and Poetics. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: CF; DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC; JMR. Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190634698
ISBN
9780190634698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.61

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