Literary studies: poetry & poets
Results 1761 - 1780 of 2005
Literary studies: poetry & poets
Hardback. Liu Yuan's "Lingyan ge", a woodblock-printed book from 1669, re-creates a portrait gallery that memorialized 24 vassals of the early Tang court. This book presents a study that examines the dialogues created among the texts and images in "Lingyan ge" from multiple perspectives. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 218 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 3JD; AKLB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674032804
- ISBN
- 9780674032804
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Condition: New
€ 60.70€ 55.70
€ 60.70
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Hardback. Tao Yuanming (365-427), although dismissed as a poet following his death, is now considered one of China's greatest writers. This book studies the posthumous reputation of a central figure in Chinese literary history, the mechanisms at work in the reception of his works, and the canonization of Tao himself. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674031845
- ISBN
- 9780674031845
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 46.06
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Paperback. Makes the case that the plot of the "Odyssey" is represented within the narrative as a plan of Zeus, Dios boule, that serves as a guide for the performing poet and as a hermeneutic for the audience. This book proposes a "Zeus-centric" reading that offers perspectives on the tenor of interactions among the "Odyssey's" characters. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 165 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 165
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674028128
- ISBN
- 9780674028128
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.45
€ 19.99
€ 18.45
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674025929
- ISBN
- 9780674025929
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.58
€ 19.99
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Hardback. Talks about the Reizei poets as participants in a collective institution devoted more to the continuity of family poetic practices and ideals than to the concept of individual expression that is central to modern poetic culture. This book features an appendix of 100 poems from over the centuries, by poets who were affiliated with the Reizei house. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 7 charts, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSC; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 236 x 42. Weight in Grams: 916.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Asia Center
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674024533
- ISBN
- 9780674024533
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Condition: New
€ 54.74€ 50.70
€ 54.74
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Hardcover. Examines the influence of court culture on the creation of the anthology and the significance of imitation and convention in its lyrics. The author aims to situate the Huajian ji within larger questions of Chinese literary history, particularly the influence of cultural forces on the emergence of genres and the development of romantic literature. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 181 x 34. Weight in Grams: 716.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021426
- ISBN
- 9780674021426
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 45.74
€ 54.99
€ 45.74
Hardcover. Tells the story of the development of poetic competence to uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources and exemplars of that complexity. This book demonstrates poetic competence through a person's ability to influence the attitudes and behaviour of others with poetic discourse. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Publications. Num Pages: 375 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvard University Asia Center
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674021402
- ISBN
- 9780674021402
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Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 42.43
€ 50.99
€ 42.43
Paperback. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 270 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 179 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674019621
- ISBN
- 9780674019621
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.69
€ 23.99
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Paperback. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 168 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674016644
- ISBN
- 9780674016644
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.85
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Paperback. This study investigates how Pindar's obscurity has been perceived and confronted, extorted and exploited. It addresses issues including the recovery and appropriation of classical texts, problems of translation and representations of lyric authenticity. Series: Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Num Pages: 350 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674012578
- ISBN
- 9780674012578
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 26.51
€ 31.99
€ 26.51
Paperback. The festival of the Panathenaia, held in Athens to celebrate the birthday of the city's goddess, was the setting for the Homeric "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by professional reciters or "rhapsodes". This text examines the testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these performances. Series: Center for Hellenic Studies: Colloquia S. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Number of pages
- 150
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009639
- ISBN
- 9780674009639
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.50
€ 19.99
€ 18.50
Hardcover. This is a collection of poems, from charms recollected out of childhood to nursts of eloquence, wonder and waggish wit along the way to discovering what it is to be a poet. Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization. Num Pages: 144 pages, 19 line illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 183 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674007918
- ISBN
- 9780674007918
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Condition: New
€ 52.36€ 48.60
€ 52.36
€ 48.60
Paperback. "What is the real business of the critic?", Charles Rosen asks of George Bernard Shaw in one of his essays. It is a question he answers throughout this collection as he demonstrates and analyzes various critical approaches. Num Pages: 272 pages, music. BIC Classification: AVGC5; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674002029
- ISBN
- 9780674002029
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 30.65
€ 36.99
€ 30.65
Paperback. Assuming no prior knowledge of Greek, this book supplies all the background information necessary to understand the earliest and greatest works of Greek literature - Homer's great epic poems, "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey". Series: Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Num Pages: 192 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631233862
- ISBN
- 9780631233862
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Condition: New
€ 47.63
€ 47.63
Paperback. Presents a comprehensive selection of the key views of Chaucer in the twentieth century. This volume addresses the growth of Chaucer criticism over the centuries. It reflects the three major divisions of Chaucer's writing: "The Dream Vision" poetry, "Troilus and Criseyde", and "The Canterbury Tales". Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631217121
- ISBN
- 9780631217121
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Condition: New
€ 56.58
€ 56.58
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
€ 70.29€ 53.95
€ 70.29
€ 53.95
Hardback. A biography of the Anglo-American poet and activist Denise Levertov that brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. It chronicles Levertov's role as a passionate social activist in volatile times and her importance as a teacher of writing. Num Pages: 532 pages, 14 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 151 x 36. Weight in Grams: 836.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 532
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520272460
- ISBN
- 9780520272460
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Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 36.40
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€ 36.40
Paperback. For the major poets of Osip Mandelstam's generation, poetry represented a calling in the most tangible sense. This book examines Mandelstam's legacy and lays the groundwork for approaching modernist Russian poetry as a charismatic institution. Num Pages: 450 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520269163
- ISBN
- 9780520269163
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Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.99
€ 41.99
€ 29.99
Paperback. Presents a major study of the Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938). This title combines readings of Vallejo's writings with cultural, historical, and theoretical analysis, connecting Vallejo - and Latin American poetry - to the broader panorama of international modernism and the avant-garde. Series: Flashpoints. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 340
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520262294
- ISBN
- 9780520262294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.80
€ 46.99
€ 33.80
Hardback. A collection of poetry and plays that presents annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from author's middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books, The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, Bending the Bow, and the two volumes of Ground Work. Editor(s): Quartermain, Peter. Series: The Collected Writings of Robert Duncan. Num Pages: 928 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCF; DD; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 238 x 68. Weight in Grams: 1572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- annotated edition
- Number of pages
- 750
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520259294
- ISBN
- 9780520259294
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.57€ 46.84
€ 59.57
€ 46.84