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(Paperback)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9781780263946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: New Internationalist Publications Ltd
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An unsettling novel in which a starving African is brought to London to perform for the cameras for charity.


(Paperback)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9780719055942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2000
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories have stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban population. This book seeks to redress the balance by exploring work by a range of poets who reflect the contemporary urban scene.


(Paperback)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9780719064555
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, and it seeks out - in a series of contextualising experiments - contexts which are text-specific, or author-specific, or literary rather than historical, putting forward a distinction between 'deep' and 'broad' contexts. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9780719088513
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry at work in poems|This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry at work in poems


(Hardback)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9780719088506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is about reading and studying poetry. Using fully-worked examples and complete poems wherever possible, it shows all the key elements of poetry 'at work' in poems -- .


(Paperback)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9781526148131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Takes ecocriticism into new areas that include collaboration across the environmental humanities and into the cultural studies of the human response to the environment. -- .


(Paperback, 4th edition)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9781526121790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9781784994396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Takes ecocriticism into new areas that include collaboration across the environmental humanities and into the cultural studies of the human response to the environment. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9780980846201
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing
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It is 1995. Milan Zorec, an aspiring yet rejected novelist, travels from England to Bosnia to join the Serbian forces as a sniper in Sarajevo, in the final months of the longest siege in history.


(Hardback)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9780719064548
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book seeks to problematise the very notion of context, which has remained for the most part stubbornly un-theorised and un-examined. The book aims to set a distinction between 'deep' and 'broad' contexts, arguing that we need to counter the prevalence of the latter if literary studies is to avoid becoming a minor branch of history. -- .


(Paperback)

By: Peter Barry

ISBN: 9781921924187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Transit Lounge Publishing
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