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Language of the Field
ISBN: PB: 9781857541663, Carcanet, November 1997
220 pp., 21.5x13.5 cm
"The Language of the Field" is an extensive, witty and authoritative dictionary. It provides etymology, definition and examples of words associated with the fauna (chased and chasers), the country lore and the implements of Field Sports – words which...
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£12,95
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Giving Offense Essays on Censorship
ISBN: PB: 9780226111766, ISBN: HB: 9780226111742, University of Chicago Press, November 1997
297 pp., 21.7x13.8 cm
J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and cen...
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£19,50
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£26,50
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Poets on Poets
ISBN: PB: 9781857543391, Carcanet, October 1997
420 pp., 25x18 cm
To mark National Poetry Day 1997, Nick Rennison, who compiled the "Waterstone's Guide to Poetry", and Michael Schmidt, editorial director of Carcanet, invited a number of contemporary poets to select work by poets of the past, beginning in the late f...
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£9,95
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One of Us The Mastery of Joseph Conrad
ISBN: PB: 9780226316963, University of Chicago Press, February 1997
226 pp., 21.5x14 cm
The concept of mastery straddles a largely unexamined seam in contemporary thought dividing admirable self-control from a reprehensible will to power. Although Joseph Conrad has traditionally been viewed as an admirable master – master mariner, story...
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£27,00
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Raucle Tongue, Volume 1 Selected Essays, Journalism and Interviews
ISBN: HB: 9781857542349, Carcanet, January 1997
320 pp., 20.4x14.3 cm
These volumes contain the previously uncollected essays, journalism and interviews of Hugh MacDiarmid, as part of Carcanet's "MacDiarmid 2000" programme. Other titles in the series include "Complete Poems", "Lucky Poet", "Contemporary Scottish Studie...
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£30,00
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Albyn Shorter Books and Monographs
ISBN: HB: 9781857542332, Carcanet, January 1997
320 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm
Substantial pieces on Scottish themes are assembled in this volume, from "Albyn" (1927) to "A Political Speech" delivered at Glasgow University in 1972. The editor has focused on MacDiarmid's view of powerful figures in Scottish culture, notably Davi...
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£25,00
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