Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Hardcover. From letters to visual poems to even tree carvings, this book examines Australian literature by close reading poetry from the 18th century and on. Michael Farrell's vast collage of material and analysis presents a unique and vivid perspective of colonial life, offering an unsettled space in which to rethink Australian writing. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485717
- ISBN
- 9781137485717
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Condition: New
€ 116.48
€ 116.48
Hardback. This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation. Num Pages: 101 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 281.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 101
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137485700
- ISBN
- 9781137485700
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€ 65.81
€ 65.81
Hardcover. Famed and outspoken Russian poet, Maximilian Voloshin's notoriety has grown steadily since his slow release from Soviet censorship. For the first time, Landa showcases his vast poetic contributions, proving his words to be an overlooked solution both to the political and cultural turmoil engulfing the Soviet Union in the early twentieth century. Num Pages: 300 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482617
- ISBN
- 9781137482617
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Condition: New
€ 138.95
€ 138.95
Hardcover. Re-examining English Romanticism through Hegel's philosophy, this book outlines and expands upon Hegel's theory of recognition. Deakin critiques four canonical writers of the English Romantic tradition, Coleridge, Wordsworth, P.B. Shelley and Mary Shelley, arguing that they, as Hegel, are engaged in a struggle towards philosophical recognition. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137482174
- ISBN
- 9781137482174
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Condition: New
€ 66.56
€ 66.56
Hardcover. Phillis Wheatley, the African-born slave poet, is considered by many to be a pioneer of Anglo-American poetics. This study argues how in her 1773 POEMS, Wheatley uses John Milton's poetry to develop an idealistic vision of an emerging Anglo-American republic comprised of Britons, Africans, Native Americans, and women. Num Pages: 154 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 220 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137474773
- ISBN
- 9781137474773
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Condition: New
€ 66.38
€ 66.38
Hardcover. Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed the role of public intellectual through their poetic rhetoric. Gwiazda's argument aims to revitalize the role of poetry and its social value within an era of global politics. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 203 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 370.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470850
- ISBN
- 9781137470850
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardback. Applying new readings of Four Quartets, this book completes a trilogy on the Christian character of Eliot's writing. Num Pages: 114 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 312.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137470836
- ISBN
- 9781137470836
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€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Hardcover. Drawing from classical myth, the history of philosophy, literature, film, music, and painting, Workman connects the artistic claims of Chaucer and tests them against similar gestures in the history of philosophy and literature. What results is a radical retake on Chaucer as a philosopher and poet, upending any preconceived views. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137456519
- ISBN
- 9781137456519
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Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism - the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime - this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous thinking, Blake held sympathies with certain aspects of Methodism. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; HRCC95. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137455499
- ISBN
- 9781137455499
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardback. These essays from a distinguished, international group of scholars trace the process of thinking and creation in one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century. Archival and newly available materials reveal this canonical author's composition process and artistic virtuosity. Editor(s): Costello, Bonnie; Galvin, Rachel Judith. Num Pages: 304 pages, 17 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 23. Weight in Grams: 524.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137452924
- ISBN
- 9781137452924
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Condition: New
€ 128.29
€ 128.29
Hardcover. The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 125 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 296.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137451293
- ISBN
- 9781137451293
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Condition: New
€ 66.00
€ 66.00
Hardcover. By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian. This book is the second in a trilogy which includes T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word. Num Pages: 118 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 222 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137446886
- ISBN
- 9781137446886
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Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardback. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 279 pages, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 217 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2017
- Number of pages
- 279
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137436368
- ISBN
- 9781137436368
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.93
€ 127.93
Hardcover. The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style studies. It reads the work of Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, and Hans-Georg Gadamer as groundbreaking and 'eventful' interventions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137426918
- ISBN
- 9781137426918
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate - time, space, and material things - were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics. Reading Crane alongside contemporary queer theory shows how he creates an alternative form of modernism. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137407757
- ISBN
- 9781137407757
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Condition: New
€ 66.70
€ 66.70
Hardcover. Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ACXJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 221 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137402783
- ISBN
- 9781137402783
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism. The authors enrich and diversify the theoretical discourse on dialogic poetry and connect it to fertile critical fields like ethnic studies, translation studies, and ethics and literature. Editor(s): Scanlon, Mara; Engbers, Chad. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137401274
- ISBN
- 9781137401274
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Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JD; ACND; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137397799
- ISBN
- 9781137397799
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Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic,' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer. Runchman reads Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and international perspectives. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137394378
- ISBN
- 9781137394378
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach, McNee puts Brazilian culture, through the work of contemporary poets and visual artists, into a broader, transnational dialogue. Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment. Num Pages: 202 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADPB; AFC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137386144
- ISBN
- 9781137386144
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Condition: New
€ 66.50
€ 66.50
Hardcover. Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Holderlin, Verlaine, George, Morike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness. This study delves into the irresolvable conflict between a poem's guise as quasi-architectural stasis and quasi-musical kinesis. Num Pages: 212 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137381873
- ISBN
- 9781137381873
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Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Hardcover. Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137378002
- ISBN
- 9781137378002
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Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Hardcover. Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137362612
- ISBN
- 9781137362612
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Condition: New
€ 67.25
€ 67.25
Hardcover. This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 222 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137361998
- ISBN
- 9781137361998
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.60
€ 127.60