Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Paperback. This study of modernism as a cultural and literary phenomenon looks at some of the key figures behind Eliot's modernism - Mallarme, Frazer, F.H. Bradley and T.E. Hulme - to provide insight on his major poems. It presents background for connecting high modernism to 19th-century philosophy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 468.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558490406
- ISBN
- 9781558490406
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.78
€ 31.99
€ 31.78
Paperback. Timothy Steele's excellent book is not a formalist manifesto but an even-handed scholarly account of the whole background of 'free verse' poetics. -- Richard Wilbur Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Arkansas Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557281265
- ISBN
- 9781557281265
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.78
€ 31.99
€ 31.78
Hardcover. Texas Poet Laureate Walt McDonald has published more than eighteen volumes of award-winning poetry. This title includes essays that analyze McDonalds writings about war and the veterans return to civilian life, the regional grounding of his far-reaching verities, and the writer himself. Editor(s): Whittington, Janice. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Texas Tech University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896724877
- ISBN
- 9780896724877
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.11
€ 37.99
€ 34.11
Hardback. Editor(s): Madsen, Deborah L. Num Pages: 253 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780826352491
- ISBN
- 9780826352491
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Condition: New
€ 55.48
€ 55.48
Paperback. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 525.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817358433
- ISBN
- 9780817358433
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Condition: New
€ 39.62
€ 39.62
Paperback. George Oppen, a crucial figure in the founding of the Objectivist movement, is considered by many critics and poets to be one of the foremost innovators of 20th-century American poetry. This title offers a testament to Oppen's place in 20th and 21st - century poetic culture. It is suitable for those interested in Oppen's life or poetry. Editor(s): Shoemaker, Steve. Num Pages: 320 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Alabama Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817355463
- ISBN
- 9780817355463
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Condition: New
€ 39.62
€ 39.62
Hardback. This study of the social content of the only surviving Spanish epic provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters. Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Purdue University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781557530394
- ISBN
- 9781557530394
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Condition: New
€ 46.42
€ 46.42
Hardcover. "A reflection on family and poetry"--Jacket. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BM; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 237 x 26. Weight in Grams: 536.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813937458
- ISBN
- 9780813937458
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 33.41
€ 37.99
€ 33.41
Hardcover. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 476.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813936123
- ISBN
- 9780813936123
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Condition: New
€ 57.01
€ 57.01
Hardcover. Editor(s): Cleghorn, Dr. Angus J.; Hicok, Bethany; Travisano, Thomas J. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 900.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813932613
- ISBN
- 9780813932613
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Condition: New
€ 111.59
€ 111.59
Hardcover. Tracks an uncanny interrelationship between ocean imagery and culturalist rhetoric of culture forward from the late Augustans to the mid-Victorians. This book analyzes William Wordsworth's pronounced ambivalence toward the sea, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's sojourn as an imperial functionary in Malta, and Lord Byron's cosmopolitan seafaring tales. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813927954
- ISBN
- 9780813927954
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Condition: New
€ 79.12
€ 79.12
Hardcover. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, this work reveals that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. It shows how through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926100
- ISBN
- 9780813926100
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Condition: New
€ 62.80
€ 62.80
Hardcover. Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style analyses the strengths and failures of her poetry, its attention to rhythm and the shifts of diction, its momentum and reserve, and the rationale for its revision. It also explores Rossetti's poetry for children, her reconfiguration of religion and poetry and the influences of female precursors she admired. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 238 x 28. Weight in Grams: 608.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923390
- ISBN
- 9780813923390
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Condition: New
€ 50.50
€ 50.50
Hardcover. Christina Rossetti has come to be considered one of the major poets. "The Letters of Christina Rossetti" makes available all of her extant letters, almost two-thirds of which have never before been published. These letters come from over 100 private and institutional collections. The fourth and final volume covers the last eight years of her life. Editor(s): Harrison, Antony H. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 464 pages, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 975.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922959
- ISBN
- 9780813922959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.77
€ 113.77
Paperback. Pollard looks to recent Caribbean poetry as a means of reassessing modernism's cosmopolitanism; in particular, his book redefines the cosmopolitan influence of T. S. Eliot's modernism by examining how his ideas have been transformed by the two leading Anglophone Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 194 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813922782
- ISBN
- 9780813922782
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Condition: New
€ 35.88
€ 35.88
Paperback. Aiming to help readers overcome the difficulties of approaching poetry, this study provides a historical overview of theories of interpretation as they apply to symbol and allegory. Beginning with the Greeks, Brittan moves from classical theory through to Romantics and Modern ideas. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 367.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813921570
- ISBN
- 9780813921570
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Condition: New
€ 34.48
€ 34.48
Hardcover. The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was a practitioner of strict asceticism, and his commentators have often approved or disapproved of his rigorous self-discipline. This study uses Lacanian theories of sublimation and courtly love to reconfigure this rift in the field of Hopkins criticism. Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919409
- ISBN
- 9780813919409
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.34
€ 71.34
Paperback. Herman Melville's oeuvre sustains a fundamental tension among self, society, and others. Sacred Uncertainty explores religious difference that arises from these many voices, both within American culture and around the world. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DSBF; DSC; DSK; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810131798
- ISBN
- 9780810131798
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Condition: New
€ 51.47
€ 51.47
paperback. Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 648 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 2ADS; DSBD; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 880.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- UNC Department of Romance Studies United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 648
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781469630731
- ISBN
- 9781469630731
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Condition: New
€ 108.57
€ 108.57
Hardcover. A collection of essays which celebrate the liberatory and utopian possibilities that poetry's autonomy offers. Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 345.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472099986
- ISBN
- 9780472099986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.66
€ 90.66
Paperback. A celebrated study of Elizabeth Bishop's genius, as revealed through her literary friendships Editor(s): Hemenway, R. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472087204
- ISBN
- 9780472087204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.22
€ 31.99
€ 28.22
Paperback. Transcends the limitations of current books, combining the best of three types of poetry-writing guides: textbooks for academic use, general guides to writing poetry, and guides to writing in form. It goes further than any form guide now available to give readers a thorough, eclectic, and exciting introduction to poetic form. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: CBV; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 43. Weight in Grams: 968.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780472033645
- ISBN
- 9780472033645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.01
€ 58.01
Hardcover. Experiencing the Afterlife provides an analysis of depictions of the afterlife written in Italy before the Divine Comedy by authors such as Uguccione da Lodi, Glacomino da Verona, and Bonvesin da la Riva. Manuele Gragnolati uses his readings of these poets to provide an interpretation of Dante's work. Series: William & Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 640.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268029647
- ISBN
- 9780268029647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.49
€ 108.49
Hardcover. Chinese-Western comparative literature has been recognized as a formal academic discipline, but little has been done to develop a viable, common basis for comparison between these disparate literatures. This book establishes repetition as the ideal perspective from which to compare the poetry and poetics from these two traditions. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 halftones, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GDC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226780207
- ISBN
- 9780226780207
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.23€ 50.39
€ 59.23
€ 50.39