Literary Terms
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The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (Oxford Paperback Reference) £3.94 The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear, concise, and witty definitions of even the most complex literary terms from abjection to zeugma. An essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. New recommended entry-level web links updated via the Dictionary of Literary Terms companion website…. |
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Death of a Naturalist £3.79 First published in 1966, this debut collection by Seamus Heaney signals the talent that was to win him the Nobel Prize in 1995. Largely addressing his rural childhood in County Derry, the volume begins with “Digging”, a poem which encapsulates Heaney’s early concerns about roots, belonging and the supple joy of language. As he watches his father digging the flowerbed, he recalls him working th… |
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Practical Criticism (Palgrave Study Guides:Literature) £9.69 A step-by-step guide which shows the student how to gain a sense of what a poem or passage of prose or drama is about, how to analyze it and build a successful essay…. |
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A Contemporary Guide to Literary Terms (Paperback) $42.51 The identification of elements and approaches in drama, fiction, and poetry can enhance readers` enjoyment, but without a guide to these literary conventions, many readers miss out. This brief, affordable, and accessible handbook of literary terms comp… |
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Poetics of Emptiness (Paperback) $17.82 The Poetics of Emptiness uncovers an important untold history by tracing the historically specific, intertextual pathways of a single, if polyvalent, philosophical term, emptiness, as it is transformed within twentieth-century American poetry and poeti… |
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Understanding the Poetry of William Blake Through a Dialectic of Contraries (Hardcover) $126.65 This book deals with Blake`s complex poetry from the point of view of the way he used the term `contraries`. Blake argues that only with contrary forces can there be progression. Without contraries is no progression reads most of Blake`s poetry, making… |
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Leslie Marmon Silko (Paperback) $38.04 “This comprehensive, encyclopedic text offers an overview of the life, career, and works of Leslie Marmon Silko, an accomplished poet, novelist and memoirist. Topics include genres, characters, themes, issues, and glossary of Pueblo terms. This will ai… |
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Myth of Paganism $31.68 Traditional and still prevalent accounts of late antique literature draw a clear distinction between `pagan` and `Christian` forms of poetry: whereas `Christian` poetry is taken seriously in terms its contribution to culture and society at large, `paga… |
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Aristotle`s Poetics $7.46 A complete translation of Aristotle`s classic work, supplemented with well-chosen notes and glossary of important terms. |
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In the Name of Salome (Paperback) $10.77 In a novel that spans more than one hundred years in Caribbean history, Camila Henrfquez Urea struggles to come to terms with the legacy of her renowned mother, SalomT Urea, the revered poet laureate of the Dominican Republic, who died when Camila wa… |
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Why Lyrics Last (Hardcover) $23.16 In Why Lyrics Last, the internationally acclaimed critic Brian Boyd turns an evolutionary lens on the subject of lyric verse. He finds that lyric making, though it presents no advantages for the species in terms of survival and reproduction, … |
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The Continual Condition (Paperback) $13.23 This twelfth posthumous release of poetry from Charles Bukowski is filled with more bitter lyrics and scatological rants, the literary ingredients which made him the world`s favorite misanthrope. In his typical style, Bukowski merges snippets of extern… |
