Literary studies: poetry & poets
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Literary studies: poetry & poets
Hardback. The Libro de Alexandre is an epic poem about the life of Alexander the Great, written by an anonymous Spanish cleric in the thirteenth century. It is the most substantial poem (and almost certainly the first) composed in the learned cuaderna via verse form and provides a unique insight into the intellectual world from which it sprang. Editor(s): Such, Peter. Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics. Num Pages: 718 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DCF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 149 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1089.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 718
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856688645
- ISBN
- 9780856688645
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.99
€ 184.99
Hardback. The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is a landmark of European literature. This book supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition and offers both a rapid survey of trends in the study of Beowulf and a more sustained exploration of selected problems. Editor(s): Bjork, Robert E.; Niles, John D. Series: Exeter Mediaeval Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 478 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2ABA; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 153. Weight in Grams: 900.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 478
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859895439
- ISBN
- 9780859895439
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Condition: New
€ 178.11
€ 178.11
Hardback. Introduces the reader, as well as the student of Classics, to one of the masterpieces of European literature, the Iliad of Homer, in the English translation of Richmond Lattimore. This book provides a step-by-step guide to the story's unravelling and to the literary features which have ensured its popularity since its composition in 750 BC. Num Pages: 336 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSC; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 500.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859896832
- ISBN
- 9780859896832
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 181.29
€ 181.29
The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript. Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gaw...
. Ed(S): Andrew, Malcolm; Waldron, Ronald
Hardback. Includes an introduction providing historical, literary and cultural contexts for the poems. This book incorporates a revised and updated bibliography, minor changes to the text and glossary, and significant revision and updating of the explanatory notes. Editor(s): Andrew, Malcolm; Waldron, Ronald. Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies. Num Pages: 383 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABC; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 794.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 5 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 383
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859897907
- ISBN
- 9780859897907
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.17
€ 183.17
hardcover. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 158
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780875800110
- ISBN
- 9780875800110
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 24.98
€ 29.99
€ 24.98
Hardback. Num Pages: 350 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 147 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Northern Illinois University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875800530
- ISBN
- 9780875800530
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 56.42
€ 56.42
hardcover. Emily Dickinson, one of the American poets of the 19th century, is known for her preferred seclusion from the outside world. Many of her poems were published posthumously, as she kept her writing private. This guide offers perceptive interpretations of Dickinson and her creative output. It helps students explore the poet and her much-debated work. Editor(s): Bloom, Prof. Harold. Series: Modern Critical Views S. Num Pages: 231 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Chelsea House Publications United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 231
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780791096130
- ISBN
- 9780791096130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.76
€ 59.76
hardcover. This book explores the ways in which Blake reacted to the subcultures of his day, as well as how he has inspired popular, modernist and postmodernist figures until the present day. Blake's influence on later generations of writers and artists is more important than ever, extending into film, psychology, children's literature and graphic novels. Editor(s): Clark, Steve; Whittaker, Jason. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 145 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2007th Edition
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230008441
- ISBN
- 9780230008441
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.31
€ 64.31
Hardback. This study analyzes Sir Philip Sidney's reputation from his own day to the present by discussing his reception in the work of authors as diverse in time and type as Sir Fulke Greville, Christopher Hill, Charles Lamb, Edmund Waller, and Thomas Warton the elder. Num Pages: 243 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230102385
- ISBN
- 9780230102385
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.26
€ 64.26
Hardback. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSB; DSC; JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230104099
- ISBN
- 9780230104099
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.23
€ 64.23
Hardback. This collection maps the Beat Generation movement, exploring American Beat writers alongside parallel movements in other countries that shared a critique of global capitalism. Ranging from the immediate post-World War II period and continuing into the 1990s, the essays illustrate Beat participation in the global circulation of a poetics of dissent. Editor(s): Grace, Nancy M.; Skerl, Jennie. Num Pages: 294 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 575.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108400
- ISBN
- 9780230108400
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.10
€ 65.10
Hardback. A critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the 'New American' collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, the book assesses Johnson's work in relation to wider questions concerning literary chronologies. Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Num Pages: 270 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 149 x 18. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108691
- ISBN
- 9780230108691
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.43
€ 64.43
Hardcover. This is the first book to construct a theoretical framework that not only introduces a new way of reading romance writing at large, but more specifically that generates useful critical readings of the specific functions of fairies in individual romance texts. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 225 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110205
- ISBN
- 9780230110205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.95
€ 132.95
Hardback. This study maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Sean Heuston combines interdisciplinary analysis, specifically ethnography, with close reading, and in so doing argues provocatively for the intersection of modern poetry studies and contemporary ethnographic theory. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230111677
- ISBN
- 9780230111677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.91
€ 63.91
Hardback. This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 194
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230112483
- ISBN
- 9780230112483
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.83
€ 63.83
Paperback. Looks at the complex grammatical, phonological and morphological systems of sign language linguistic structure and their role in sign language poetry and performance. This book has chapters dealing with repetition and rhyme, symmetry and balance, neologisms, ambiguity, themes, metaphor and allusion, and blending English and sign language poetry. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFZ; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 213 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 281
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230217096
- ISBN
- 9780230217096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.74
€ 63.74
Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
Ingram, Allan; Sim, Professor Stuart; Lawlor,...
Hardback. Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of attempts to describe and live with suffering. It also asks what present-day society can learn about depression from the eighteenth-century experience. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 255
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230246317
- ISBN
- 9780230246317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.75
€ 64.75
Hardback. This book traces the creative process in Yeats's writing, in his making and remaking of verse, and in the development of a body of work over the last forty years of his life. Lyrical and philosophical poetry, verse-drama, and the shifting contexts of personal and political events are all dealt with here. Num Pages: 378 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 378
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230271913
- ISBN
- 9780230271913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.05
€ 66.05
Hardback. Num Pages: 215 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DS; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230277878
- ISBN
- 9780230277878
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.81
€ 122.81
Hardback. The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her life and after her death, through her own writing as well as through contemporary and later writers. The contributors are codicologists, historians and literary critics, offering a varied reading of the Queen and of her cultural inheritance. Editor(s): Petrina, Alessandra; Tosi, Laura. Num Pages: 296 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; DSBD; DSC; DSG; DSK; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 23. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230278172
- ISBN
- 9780230278172
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.94
€ 122.94