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Literary studies: poetry & poets

Hardcover. The first history of Indian literature in English to cover the 200 years from Raja Rammohan Ray to Arundhati Roy, including in its scope canonical poets and novelists, social reformers (Behramji Malabari), anthropologists (Verrier Elwin), nature writers (Salim Ali), and writers of the Indian disapora (Seepersad Naipaul, Shiva Naipaul, Ved Mehta). Editor(s): Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna. Num Pages: 468 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; DSC; DSG; DSK; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 34. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230228528
ISBN
9780230228528
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.49

Hardcover. What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis. Editor(s): Karhio, Anne; Crosson, Sean; Armstrong, Charles I. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444. 272 pages. Editor(s): Karhio, Anne; Crosson, Sean; Armstrong, Charles I. What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 21. Weight: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230247246
ISBN
9780230247246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

Hardcover. Today Blake scholarship is experiencing a period of unprecedented variety and mutuality. These essays reflect the methodological cross-fertilisations now taking place in Blake scholarship and explore the range of debates and contentions generated by these encounters, embracing figurative, structural, and material readings of Blake's life and works. Editor(s): Crosby, Mark; Patenaude, Troy; Whitehead, Angus. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230275515
ISBN
9780230275515
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Hardcover. Blake said of his works, 'Tho' I call them Mine I know they are not Mine'. So who owns Blake? Blake has always been more than words on a page. This volume takes Blake 2.0 as an interactive concept, examining digital dissemination of his works and reinvention by artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers across a variety of twentieth-century media. Editor(s): Clark, Steve; Connolly, Tristanne; Whittaker, Jason. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 25. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230280335
ISBN
9780230280335
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.81

Hardcover. Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of humanity, not as interesting in their own right. The contributors combine close reading of Chaucer's texts with insights drawn from cultural or critical animal studies. Editor(s): Van Dyke, Carolynn. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 299 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230338586
ISBN
9780230338586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.09

Hardcover. Editor(s): Yuejun, Zhang; Christie, Stuart. Num Pages: 206 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230391710
ISBN
9780230391710
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.54

Hardcover. In a unique collection of essays devoted to one of America's most significant twentieth-century poets, a group of international contributors considers the Transatlantic nature of Stevens' poetry, providing original accounts of how a poet wary of 'influence' created a poetics which continues to haunt contermporary verse. Editor(s): Eeckhout, Bart; Ragg, Edward. Num Pages: 263 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230535848
ISBN
9780230535848
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.19

Hardcover. The latest in a renowned research-level series, focusing on Yeats' multifarious reading and his iconography. Examining the making of his work - a new unfinished play for dancers is presented - here his influence in Japan via Yone Noguchi and in England and Dorothy Wellesley are explored, together with his legacy via W.H. Auden and Seamus Heaney. Editor(s): Gould, Warwick. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 521 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 817.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230546899
ISBN
9780230546899
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.14

Hardcover. Famously, Blake believed that 'without contraries' there could be no 'progression'. Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts. Editor(s): Haggarty, Sarah; Mee, Jon. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230573871
ISBN
9780230573871
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.88

Hardcover. This exciting collection represents a range of scholarly approaches and include close textual study, comparative readings, and broad cultural analysis. Contributors to this collection include Bernard Beatty, Peter Cochran, Marilyn Gaull, Charles E. Robinson, Andrew Stauffer, and Timothy Webb. Editor(s): Wilson, Cheryl A. Series: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230600294
ISBN
9780230600294
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.15

Paperback. This volume is a selection of recollections on Thomas Hardy by his friends and fellow writers including Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon. It should be of interest to anyone wishing to know more about Hardy's life, thoughts and writings. Editor(s): Gibson, James. Series: Interviews & Recollections. Num Pages: 252 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; BG; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
First edition. Paperback
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333247884
ISBN
9780333247884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.74

Hardback. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 364 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DCQ; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333324578
ISBN
9780333324578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.06

Hardback. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 376 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 32. Weight in Grams: 687.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333353325
ISBN
9780333353325
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.18

Hardback. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 34. Weight in Grams: 631.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333353332
ISBN
9780333353332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.30

Hardcover. This research-level publication for current thought and documentation upon the life and work of Yeats, focuses on Yeats at work on various manuscripts and on his tours of America. Two of his poems are published from manuscript for the first time. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 318 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 601.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333390726
ISBN
9780333390726
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.01

Hardback. This work finds new thresholds and margins in Yeats' thought and work and concentrates upon his plays, his occult concerns with spiritualism and the Irish belief in an other world. It closely examines certain aspects of his textual state and the borders of his canon. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 328 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 611.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333536360
ISBN
9780333536360
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.09

Hardback. This annual has four broad themes: W.B. Yeats's written and oral poetic technique; his philosophical interests in Eastern thought and "A Vision"; his manuscripts; and Jack B. Yeats's work, including his illustrations for his brother's writing. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333536377
ISBN
9780333536377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.73

Hardback. This issue is devoted to one of the realities of Yeats's writing, the Irish audience that he loved enough to scorn. This audience managed to wound him both by its attention and its indifference. As these eight essays by Irish critics show, it matters even more in the changing Ireland of today. Series: Yeats Annual. Num Pages: 379 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; GBCY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 661.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
379
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333633151
ISBN
9780333633151
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.42

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

Hardcover. This book examines Blake's work in the context of discourses of nation and empire, of the construction of a public sphere, and restores the longevity to his artistic career by placing emphasis on his work in the 1820s. Relevant contexts include technology, sentimentalism, Ireland and Catholic Emancipation, missionary prospectuses and body politics. Editor(s): Worrall, David; Clark, Steve. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 134 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333993149
ISBN
9780333993149
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.09

paperback. This book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. More than a hundred poets are treated in this volume, and many more are noticed in passing. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 140 x 42. Weight in Grams: 717.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674399457
ISBN
9780674399457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.16
€ 48.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 712 pages, index. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 144 x 201 x 41. Weight in Grams: 956.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
712
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674399471
ISBN
9780674399471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 43.38

Paperback. This work comprises essays on American, British and Irish poetry, showing contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form. It explains the power of poetry as the voice of the soul, rather than the socially marked self, speaking directly through the stylization of verse. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674821477
ISBN
9780674821477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 31.06

Hardcover. Examining how labouring-class poets constructed themselves and were constructed by critics as part of a canon, and how they situated their work in relation to contemporaries and poets from earlier periods, this book highlights the complexities of labouring-class poetic identities in the period from Burns to mid-late century Victorian dialect poets. Editor(s): Blair, Kirstie; Gorji, Mina. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137030320
ISBN
9781137030320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.78

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