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Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardback. Records a major critic's three decades of thinking about the connection between literature and the conditions of people's lives - that is, politics. This book focuses on the nineteenth-century novel, and addresses a range of writers as well, in a textured, contoured, discontinuous history. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823231782
ISBN
9780823231782
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.14

Hardcover. This text aims to redefine the place of the Wordsworthian imagination in a cultural moment often classified as the transition from "Romantic" to "Victorian". Num Pages: 252 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 555.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804729710
ISBN
9780804729710
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.79

Hardback. This book uses the writings of T. S. Eliot and Walter Benjamin to examine the fraught relationship between literary and historical form during the modernist period. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804799041
ISBN
9780804799041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.67

Hardback. More radically than had any contemporary English author's work, Thomas Gray's two Pindaric odes of 1757, effectively challenged readers' powers of comprehension, posing problems of reference as well as distinctly Pindaric problems of coherence. Solving those problems calls for knowledge not widely had then, now, or in between. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611494143
ISBN
9781611494143
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.63

Hardback. Why do we hate Milton's God? The author reengages with a perennial problem in Milton studies, one whose genealogy dates back at least to the Romantics, but which finds its most cogent modern expression in William Empson's revulsion at Milton's God and Stanley Fish's defense. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691044873
ISBN
9780691044873
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 144.79
€ 110.03

Paperback. Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847688210
ISBN
9780847688210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 67.00

Hardcover. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403970589
ISBN
9781403970589
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.03

Paperback. Series: New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 343.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349532216
ISBN
9781349532216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Imagining Harmony explores the diverse roles that poetry played for eighteenth-century Japanese intellectuals as an embodiment of human emotion, a form of linguistic and philological training, and a means for accessing the ancient cultures that they turned to as the source of their political ideals. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 151 x 22. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804761574
ISBN
9780804761574
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.95

Hardcover. Drawing its impetus from the conviction that death is a central yet curiously understudied preoccupation for Edmund Spenser and John Milton, this is a collection of essays on the topic of death in these two monumental representatives of the early modern canon. Editor(s): Bellamy, Elizabeth Jane; Cheney, Patrick; Schoenfeldt, Michael. Num Pages: 227 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333983980
ISBN
9780333983980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.66

Hardback. Examines the political significance of the concept of the imagination in key authors of British Romanticism, specifically Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Shelley, and argues that their work presents an alternative understanding of the secularization of the political and of the development of modern political sovereignty. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823257676
ISBN
9780823257676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.66

Hardback. Explores interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C P Cavafy (Konstantinos Kavafis), one of the most important twentieth-century European poets. Editor(s): Roilos, Panagiotis. Series: Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DCF; DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard Department of the Classics United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053397
ISBN
9780674053397
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.53
€ 50.74

Paperback. Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical and ethical efforts. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349290970
ISBN
9781349290970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.34

Hardback. Described as Tasso's most ambitious project, this epic poem, part history, part fiction, is based on the events of the First Crusade, and was composed upon his release from a seven year confinement in Ferrara. This translation into English also contains the original Italian text. Translator(s): Passaro, Maria Pastore. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 24. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823216338
ISBN
9780823216338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 111.37

Paperback. * The definitive and ONLY complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world's greatest living poets Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844080816
ISBN
9781844080816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.82

Paperback. Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSB; DSC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349387151
ISBN
9781349387151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Idleness, Indolence and Leisure in English Literature is the first study to provide transhistorical perspectives and cutting-edge critical analyses of debates concerning idleness in English literature. The topicality of the subject is emphasized by two pieces of sociological analysis. Editor(s): Fludernik, Monika; Nandi, M. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC; HBTB; JFC; JFSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349487141
ISBN
9781349487141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.66

Hardback. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
207
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403997715
ISBN
9781403997715
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.73

Hardcover. Translator(s): Wawn, Andrew. Series: Islandica. Num Pages: 570 pages, 14, 14 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DN; AGR; DSC; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Publisher
Cornell University Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780935995169
ISBN
9780935995169
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.44

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 207.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349052998
ISBN
9781349052998
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.32

Paperback. Contains all of the poetry that the author chose to publish, together with a small number of uncollected and unpublished poems. This book also supplies an illuminating introduction, and succinctly helpful apparatus. It tact are themselves a moving tribute, restoring to view one of the distinctive bodies of work in twentieth-century English poetry. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571295340
ISBN
9780571295340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Chris Wallace-Crabbe's second book of poems to be published internationally. Series: Oxford Poets S. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 190 x 130 x 6. Weight in Grams: 106. 8vo.First edition .Good copy. Poetry.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
OxfordPoets
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
1st
SKU
KEX0279095
ISBN
9780192821317
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

Hardback. Explores the work of N M Rashed, Urdu's renowned modernist poet, whose career spans the last years of British India and the early decades of postcolonial South Asia. Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2BMU; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520283107
ISBN
9780520283107
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.02
€ 54.84

Paperback. Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title features stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Series: Little Black Classics. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 54.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141398594
ISBN
9780141398594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.74

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