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University of Notre Dame Press Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton
Book SynopsisThe first full account of North America's largest collection of traditional Irish-language manuscripts.Harvard University has the largest collection of Irish-language codices in North America, held in Houghton Library, its rare book repository. The manuscripts are a part of the age-old heritage of Irish book production, dating to the early Middle Ages. Handwritten works in Houghton contain versions of medieval poetry and sagas, recopied in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to which period most of the library's documents belong. Contemporary writings from that time, as well as ones by the post-Famine Irish immigrant community in the United States, are included. This catalogue describes the collection in full for the first time and will be an invaluable aid to research on Irish and Irish American cultural and literary output. The author's introduction examines how the collection was formed. This untold story is an important chapter in America's intellectual historTrade Review"The catalogue is thoroughly researched, well indexed, and beautifully produced. It should unquestionably lead many more Irish scholars to the door of Houghton Library." —Cambrian Medieval Celtic StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Accentual verse 2. Ogham; accentual verse 3. Ossianic verse; tale 4. Manuscript and book catalogues 5. Accentual verse; prophecies; anecdotes 6. Book of the O’Byrnes 7. Ossianic and accentual verse 8. Lecture to Philo-Celtic Society 9. Accentual verse; tale 10. Ossianic and accentual verse 11. Grammar; accentual verse 12. Tales 13. Accentual verse 14. Ossianic verse; tale 15. Life of St Finbarr 16. Tales 17. Accentual verse; tale 18. Folktales 19. Tale; Ossianic and accentual verse 20. Genealogies 21. Tales; accentual and Ossianic verse 22. Ossianic and accentual verse; tale 23. Religious prose; devotional and Ossianic verse 24. Reserved number 25. O’Clery’s Glossary 26. Trinity College, Dublin, Ms. H.3.18 (part) (photostat) 27. Drama of Christ’s Birth 28. Religious prose; syllabic and accentual verse 29. Royal Irish Academy, Ms. 23 A 46 (photostat) 30. Royal Irish Academy, Ms. 23 A 47 (photostat) 31. Royal Irish Academy, Ms. 23 A 33 (photostat) 32. Royal Irish Academy, Ms. 23 B 3 (photostat) 33. Maclean Manuscript (photostat) 34. Proverbs 35. Accentual verse; anecdote 36. Oidhche Sheanchais (documentary film) 37. Ridire an Chlóca Uaithne 38. Religious prose; verse 39. Trompa na bhFlaitheas 40. Accentual and Ossianic verse 41. Tale; accentual verse 42. Ossianic and accentual verse; tales 43. Frontier prose and verse 44. Frontier verse 45. Dictionary 46. Bibliography 47. Texts from Leabhar Breac
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Yale University Press On Color
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Sparkling and informative.”—Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal (Holiday Gift Book selection)“A great addition to the collection of anyone who is, to some degree, passionate about color.”—Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic“[A] scholarly yet highly entertaining book.”—Natalie Angier, New York Times“On Color pays tribute to everyday visual wonders so often taken for granted, and enriches our perception by emphasizing just how strange the history of seeing in colour can be.” —Eric Bulson, Times Literary SupplementWinner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award sponsored by Choice“Here is a subtle and imaginative insight into the slippery phenomenon we call colour – and how variously we perceive and emblemise it: a wise and fascinating study.”—Colin Thubron"Like the best works of cultural criticism, On Color changes how we see the world. I mean that quite literally. After reading this brilliant book, the mundane appears sharper, richer, and more meaningful."—James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare“This lively, erudite, and far-reaching introduction to the poetics of color combines anecdotal art history with cultural and literary studies to illustrate a fundamental truth: that color is relational as well as subjective. This entertaining and humane book effortlessly deepens our engagement with the visual world.”—David Salle“On Color is a deliciously readable, gloriously illumined work of meditation and exploration, written in high resolution.”—Jay Parini, author of The Last Station and Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) American Literature The Essential Glossary Essential Glossary Series 2
Book SynopsisStephen Matterson is Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin. He has taught at Sunderland Polytechnic an at the University of Minnesota. He is one of the co-authors of Studying Poetry (Arnold, 2000)
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Mariner Books On the Plain of Snakes
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Rowman & Littlefield Working with Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis book aims to increase the pleasure of studying Shakespeare, working with the plays as the craftsman-dramatist himself worked by concentrating on poetic detail and dramatic moments.Trade ReviewThis book will be found useful by students of Shakespeare who refuse to forego the pleasures of the...texture of the plays in pursuit of the bigger picture; by teachers of Shakespeare interested in strategies for leading their students beyond ideoligical cristicism to an aesthetic experience of the words themselves and by critics who are willing to witness a rebuttal of many latter-twentieth century critical trends that is carried out on a practical, rather than a theoretical, level. ...witty, reminiscent of A. P. Rossiter's prose, the scope daring but well defined, and the writing necessarily dense. -- Louis Burdhardt, University of Colorado at Boulder.This book will be found useful by students of Shakespeare who refuse to forego the "pleasures of the...texture" of the plays in pursuit of the bigger picture; by teachers of Shakespeare interested in strategies for leading their students beyond ideoligical cristicism to an aesthetic experience of the words themselves and by critics who are willing to witness a rebuttal of many latter-twentieth century critical trends that is carried out on a practical, rather than a theoretical, level. ...witty, reminiscent of A. P. Rossiter's prose, the scope daring but well defined, and the writing necessarily dense. -- Louis Burdhardt, University of Colorado at Boulder.
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WW Norton & Co The WellEducated Mind
Book SynopsisAn engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition.
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WW Norton & Co Essential Literary Terms
Book SynopsisHelp your students get the most out of their literature course.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd G Wilson Knight Collected Works On Shakespeare as
Book SynopsisFirst published in 2002. This is the final Volume IV of the five G. Wilson Knight collected works series and focuses on Shakespeare as the Poet of Royalism together with related essays and indexes to earlier volumes. The emphasis in this volume is the shift from Shakespeare as the poet of England to Shakespeare as the poet of royalism, in a wide sense.Table of ContentsChapter 1 This Sceptred Isle; Chapter 2 The Third Eye; Chapter 3 What’s in a Name?; Chapter 4 The Shakespearian Integrity; Chapter 5 Some Notable Fallacies;
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Penguin Publishing Group Ayn Rand Answers
Book SynopsisAfter the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed not only added an eloquent new dimension to Ayn Rand''s ideas and beliefs, but a fresh and spontaneous insight into Ayn Rand herself. Never before available in print, this publishing event is a collection of those enlightening Q & As. This is Ayn Rand on: ethics, Ernest Hemingway, modern art, Vietnam, Libertarians, Jane Fonda, religious conservatives, Hollywood Communists, atheism, Don Quixote, abortion, gun control, love and marriage, Ronald Reagan, pollution, the Middle East, racism and feminism, crime and punishment, capitalism, prostitution, homosexuality, reason and rationality, literature, drug use, freedom of the press, Richard Nixon, New Left militants, HUAC, chess, comedy, suicide, masculinity, Ma
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Penguin Publishing Group The Art of Nonfiction A Guide for Writers and Readers
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Black Books Galore
Book SynopsisKudos for Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children s Books "Offers a wonderful overview of literature with black children in its focus. " Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook "The perfect tool for parents and educators alike.Table of ContentsForeword by Evelyn K. Moore. Acknowledgments. Introduction. How Good Books Help Children Grow by James P. Comer, M.D. How to Use This Guide. "The Season for Reading" Calendar. Books for Babies and Preschoolers. Books for Early Readers: Grades K-3. Books for Middle Readers: Grades 4-8. Appendix A: Books for Parents and Families. Appendix B: Book Awards. The Coretta Scott King Awards. The Newbery Awards. The Caldecott Awards. Reading Rainbow Selections. Appendix C: Reading Interest Web Sites. Index of Titles. Index of Authors. Index of Illustrators. Index of Topics.
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Cambridge University Press Wordsworths Reading 1770 1799
Book SynopsisThis directory of the authors and books known to have been read by William Wordsworth up to the age of twenty-nine provides an essential reference tool - in a compact, easy-to-use form - for all scholars and students of Wordsworth's work.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Dates of readings; A note on texts; Wordsworth's reading 1770–1799; Appendix I: possible readings; Appendix II: Wordsworth's Hawkshead and classical educations, and his College examinations at Cambridge; Appendix III: books purchased for Wordsworth, 1784–6; Appendix IV: Wrangham and his library; Appendix V: Thomas Poole's library and the Stowey Book Society; Appendix VI: Coleridge's Bristol Library borrowings; Appendix VII: Joseph Cottle's Bristol Library borrowings; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Modern Literary Arabic
Book SynopsisThe lessons are clear, in non-technical language, and have generous examples, with plenty of exercises for translation from Arabic to English and from English to Arabic. This is the manual that students interested in Arabic as a living and expanding world language will prefer. It is the first to deal mainly with modern literary Arabic. In Mr Cowan's words: 'The purpose is to explain to the students, in as concise a manner as possible, the grammatical structure of the modern Arabic literary language as it is found today in newspapers, magazines, books, the radio, and public speaking. I have endeavoured to restrict the material to the minimum which may serve as a stepping-stone to a deeper study of Arabic. As the fundamental grammar of written Arabic has hardly changed as an introduction to the classical language also. Having once mastered its contents the student should have a sound grasp of Arabic grammar and can then direct his studies towards modern literature or classical according Trade Review'This is an excellent grammar which should commend itself to all teachers of Arabic.' J. Robson, Journal of Semitic Studies'This introduction to the grammar of both classical and modern literary Arabic is the best I have seen.' Arnold C. Satterthwait, Middle East Journal'Mr Cowan's work has strong claims to be considered the best introductory grammar which has yet appeared.' J. A. Haywood, Durham University Journal'An excellent grammar … the exercises strike a happy medium between the modern and literary.' Virginia Vacca, East and WestTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The Arabic alphabet; 2. Pronunciation of the consonants; 3. Vowels; 4. Doubled consonants; 5. 'Tanwin' or nunation; 6. Hamza; 7. Madda; 8. Accent; 9. Pronunciation; 10. Lessons 1-25; Appendix.
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Random House USA Inc To Read or not to Read Journal
Book SynopsisKeep track of the books you read, record thoughts on your favorite books, get inspired for your next read, and reflect on your literary spiritual journey with this beautifully designed journal for readers.The perfect addition to any personal library, To Read or Not to Read encourages readers of all genres to immerse themselves in a classically illustrated reading journal complete with DIY book review pages and inspirational reading lists. To Read or Not to Read allows readers to step into the book critic role and determine which books to recommend, and which ones to skip based on their reflections throughout the journal. It includes a How Bookish Are You? quiz and spotlights on authors such as Flannery O''Connor and Frederick Douglass, whose published works have greatly influenced the combined spheres of faith and literature.With additional fun facts and helpful conversation starters for literary discussions, this journal will become the signature a
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Faber & Faber The Fall at Home
Book SynopsisAphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades. In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his two previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today's world. Moving and mischievous, canny and profound - these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times. Consciousness is the turn the universe makes to hasten its own end. * Agnosticism is indulged only by those who have never suffered belief. * Poet: someone in the aphorism business for the money.
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Wildsam The Moon Wildsam Field Guides
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Pearson Education Limited The Merchant of Venice York Notes for GCSE
Book SynopsisTake Note for Exam Success! York Notes offer an exciting approach to English literature. This market leading series fully reflects student needs. They are packed with summaries, commentaries, exam advice, margin and textual features to offer a wider context to the text and encourage a critical analysis. York Notes, The Ultimate Literature Guides.Table of Contents - Intro – How to Study a Play, Novel, - Author Profile – Historical timeline, context with dates, author life, works , historical events.- Map/family tree/character tree- Summaries (numbered summaries for every scene)- Commentary – covering themes, characters, language analysis, style- exam questions end of each section- Answers to Checkpoints and exam questions- Exam questions with annotated model answers (D grade – B grade)- Coursework assignments/resources/top marks/advice- Key Quotations – how to use them.- Glossary/Literary terms- Timeline of events
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Romanticism
Book SynopsisThe Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.Trade Review"A major contribution to our understanding and appreciation of the period in which Wordsworth and his contemporaries lived and worked." The Keswick Reminder "It is a collection which will no doubt have extensive use in any library. It provides a sound and up-to-date introduction to contexts, ideas, approaches and texts, and frequently goes further than a mere introduction." Chris Jones, University of Wales, Bangor "Meticulously scholarly. An essential student course book." Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. . Part I: Contexts and Perspectives 1790-1830. 1. Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept (Seamus Perry). 2. Preromanticism (Michael Tolley). 3. From Revolution to Romanticism: The Historical Context from 1800 (David Duff). 4. Beyond the Enlightenment: the Philosophical, Scientific, and Religious Inheritance (Peter Kitson). 5. Britain at War: The Historical Context (Philip Shaw). 6. Literature and Religion (Maey Wedd). 7. The Picturesque, the Beautiful, and the Sublime (Nicola Trott). 8. The Romantic Reader (Stephen C. Behrendt) . Part II: Readings. 9. William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Nelson Hilton). 10. Edmund Burke, Reflections Upon the Revolution in France (David Bromwich). 11. Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House (Miranda Burgess). 12. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel (Seamus Perry). 13. Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (Scott McEathron). 14. Dorothy Wordsworth, Journals (Pamela Woof). 15. Joanna Baillie, A Series of Plays (Janice Patten). 16. William Wordsworth, The Prelude (Jonathan Wordsworth). 17. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin (John Strachan). 18. Mary Tighe, Psyche (John Anderson). 19. Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head (Jacqueline Labbe). 20. Walter Scott, Waverley (Fiona Robertson). 21. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (Beth Lau). 22. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (John Beer). 23. John Keats, Odes (John Creaser). 24. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Don Juan (Jane Stabler). 25. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound (Michael O'Neill). 26. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (Damian Walford Davies). 27. Charles Lamb, Elia (Duncan Wu). 28. William Hazlitt, Spirit of the Age (Bonnie Woodbery). 29. Letitia Landon (L. E. L.), The Improvisatrice (Adam Roberts). 30. John Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar (John Lucas). 31. Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman (Adam Roberts). Part III: Genres and Modes. 32. The Romantic Drama (Frederick Burwick). 33. The Novel (John Sutherland). 34. Gothic Fiction (David S. Miall). 35. Parody and Imitation (Graeme Stones). 36. Travel Writing (James A. Butler). 37. Romantic Literary Criticism (Seamus Perry) . Part IV: Issues and Debates. 38. Romanticism and Gender (Susan J. Wolfson). 39. Romanticism and Feminism (Elizabeth Fay). 40. New Historicism (David Simpson). 41. Romantic Ecology (Tony Pinkney). 42. Psychological Approaches (Douglas B. Wilson). 43. Dialogic Approaches (Michael James Sider). 44. The Romantic Fragment (Anne Janowitz). 45. Performative Language and Speech-Act Theory (Angela Easthammer). 46. Slavery and Romantic Writing (Alan Richardson). 47. Apocalypse and Millennium (Morton D. Paley). 48. The Romantic Imagination (Jonathan Wordsworth). 49. England and Germany (Rosemary Ashton). 50. Romantic Responses to Science (Ian Wylie). 51. Shakespeare and the Romantics (Frederick Burwick). 52. Milton and the Romantics (Nicola Trott). Index.
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Harvard University Press The Story of Myth
Book SynopsisSarah Iles Johnston argues that the nature of myths as gripping tales starring vivid characters enabled them to do their most important work: sustaining belief in the gods and heroes of Greek religion. She shows how Greek myths—and the stories told by all cultures—affect our shared view of the cosmos and the creatures who inhabit it.Trade ReviewWith unparalleled audacity and finesse, Sarah Iles Johnston cuts loose from traditional scholarship and connects us with the complicated, mysterious, high-wattage world of Greek myths. How did they gather their power and energize audiences? Johnston shows us how stories about Zeus, Theseus, Arachne, or Hecate not only entertained, engaged, and animated in their time but also did the important cultural work of shaping beliefs and values. -- Maria Tatar, author of Enchanted Hunters and coeditor of The Annotated African American FolktalesWhy people tell stories based on myths and how they come to believe those stories is central to understanding religion. In this compelling book, Sarah Johnston offers brilliant new analyses of the Greek myths and the stories through which they circulated in the ancient world. It will change the way in which we talk about myths, Greek literature, and religion. -- T. M. Luhrmann, author of When God Talks BackSarah Johnston has produced a wholly original treatment of ancient Greek mythology. Writing with verve and lucidity, she gives us a new way to understand myth’s enduring power to speak to us all. -- Peter Struck, author of Divination and Human NatureThe Story of Myth provides a vivid and clear account of how Greek myths engage ancient and modern audiences both cognitively and emotionally. Johnston probes the rich, elaborate evidence found in myths to uncover what the ancient Greeks thought and felt about their world. Using comparisons that range from the ancient myths of other cultures to contemporary movies and television series, Johnston shows parallels in modes of thought and expression while highlighting what makes Greek mythology distinctive. -- Radcliffe Edmonds, author of Myths of the Underworld JourneyAn excellent overview of Greek myth. -- Robert A. Segal * Times Higher Education *In this elegantly written, meticulously researched volume, Johnston invites the reader to consider how ancient Greek audiences experienced myths and to take seriously the narrative forms, rich with plots and characters (many gods, even more heroes), in which these compositions appeared. * Choice *Entertaining and clarifying. -- Carl Rudbeck * Svenska Dagbladet *Johnston is to be commended for such an informed, clear, and impressive work, which brings Greek myth back to the core of Greek religion and religious belief in Greek antiquity. -- Nickolas P. Roubekas * Religious Studies Review *
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Harvard University Press The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny
Book SynopsisThe papers collected in The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny explore the legacy for which James Loeb is best known, the Loeb Classical Library, and the three series it inspired, and take stock of these series in light of more general themes bearing on translations of classical texts and their audiences.Trade ReviewAn excellent collection shedding light on many facets of the translation (and publication) of classical literature. * Complete Review *Thought-provoking…Illustrates how much the ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and South Asian ‘classics’ have to offer us, either in the original or in translation…The illuminating chapters on the four Libraries provide a major contribution to the field of classical publications and demonstrate that bilingual editions are a promising topic within the study of translations. -- Mirte Liebregts * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Harvard University Press The Fairest of Them All
Book SynopsisVersions of the Snow White story have been shared across the world for centuries. Acclaimed folklorist and translator Maria Tatar places the well-known editions of Walt Disney and the Brothers Grimm alongside other tellings, inviting readers to experience anew a beloved fantasy of melodrama and imagination.Trade ReviewTilt the magic mirror this way, that, and you’ll find in The Fairest of Them All nearly two dozen reflections, each dazzling, of the ur-fairy tale known as Snow White. With her trademark brio and deep-tissue understanding, Maria Tatar opens the glass casket on this undying story, which retains its power to charm twenty-one times, and counting. -- Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Mirror MirrorA fascinating volume…Far from demystifying fairy tales, Tatar’s analysis has the effect of deepening an appreciation for their magic…The Fairest of Them All delivers a trove of forgotten fairy tales to readers and returns the Snow White of Disney and the Brothers Grimm to her international context—as but one version in a strange, beguiling history of stories about beauty, jealousy, and maternal persecution. * Wall Street Journal *Is the story of Snow White the cruelest, the deepest, the strangest, the most mythopoeic of them all? The answer must be yes. Maria Tatar trains a keen eye on the appeal of the bitter conflict between women at the heart of the tale, unearths retellings from far and wide, and spreads a feast of rich thoughts on the tale’s remarkable aesthetic migrations into literature and film. The Fairest of Them All is an exciting and authoritative anthology from the wisest good fairy in the world of the fairy tale. -- Marina Warner, author of Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale and Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsThe Snow White tales that Tatar presents here are not as slick as the confections of the Grimms and Disney… What Tatar urges in her deft and thoughtful introduction is that we read each variation, whether it is from West Africa, Afghanistan or China, with equal attention… This provides a way of thinking about how fairy tales reveal more than the essentially early 20th-century upper bourgeois insights of Freudian psychoanalysts. There are plenty of examples of mother–daughter rivalries in these tales to be sure, but there is so much more of the material and temporal world—food, hunger, disease, and war—too. -- Kathryn Hughes * The Guardian *[A] fascinating collection of tales…Shocking yet familiar, these stories of regeneration and transformation even when written down retain the secret whisper of storytelling. This is a properly magical, erudite book that follows Snow White’s trail into the darker forests of the human psyche in which she originated. -- Lucy Lethbridge * Literary Review *Going to the root of a story is a journey to the very core of the soul. Reading across the world, the inimitable Maria Tatar offers us a maze of mothers and daughters and within that glorious tangle an archetype with far more meaning than we imagine when we say ‘Snow White.’ -- Honor Moore, author of Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury
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Harvard University Press The Selected Letters of John Berryman
Book SynopsisJohn Berryman was an energetic correspondent. Assembled here for the first time, his letters tell of generosity, ambition, and struggle. He has encouraging words for fellow poets and younger writers and is deeply engaged in literary culture. But also visible are the struggles of a working artist grappling with alcoholism and depression.Trade ReviewThough the outer world of politics and civil strife may occasionally intrude, it proves no match for the smoke-filled rooms inside the poet’s head…Anyone who delights in listening to Berryman, and who can’t help wondering how the singer becomes the songs, will find much to treasure here. -- Anthony Lane * New Yorker *Happiness was as transformative for Berryman as suffering, and his accounts of ecstasy and contentment are as wonderful as his depictions of anxiety and despair are piercing…The voice of these letters is recognizably the voice of much of Berryman’s poetry. Language was, for him, not functional or utilitarian but a performance medium…[There’s] tremendous pleasure and fascination [in] this long-overdue collection. After too long an absence, it is wonderful to see Berryman once again resurrected. -- Troy Jollimore * Washington Post *Now, in addition to his poetic oeuvre, here are all the letters by Berryman you’ll ever want to read…His letters show much wide-ranging thoughtfulness, as in [his] wholly appropriate definition (written to New Yorker editor Katharine White) of originality in poetry…There are comparably fine statements made to Edmund Wilson about Jane Austen’s art, or about Mozart’s Figaro, or to Robert Frost about Ezra Pound…Perhaps the most useful thing any collection of letters provides is a fresh look at the work of their author. -- William H. Pritchard * Wall Street Journal *[A] most welcome book…The hundreds of pages of letters gathered here offer the most enjoyable and direct portrait of this wild poet we are ever likely to get. The composite figure who emerges from them is—although difficult, strange and occasionally hurtful—chiefly a lovable one…Makes for a new and much needed reckoning with Berryman’s astonishing, insurmountable mind. -- Tom Cook * Times Literary Supplement *Panic, procrastination, recrimination, anticlimax and farce: standard fare in a Berryman letter, and all to be found in abundance [in this volume], unobtrusively and expertly edited by Philip Coleman and Calista McRae…Though he appears the most biographically available of poets, the self that emerges from his letters is chaotic, elusive, and overflowing—a perpetual work in progress…Selected Letters is a book of volcanic energies. -- David Wheatley * Literary Review *Allows us to see Berryman trying on different personae, speaking in different styles and, in doing so, holding his many selves in vibrant, tensile relation…Through the accumulation of so much correspondence, we come to see Berryman’s style of writing, which tells us a lot about his style of being. -- Anthony Domestico * Commonweal *There is little in Berryman’s lettristic oeuvre—and this is no surprise to those who have admired the ambition of the poems—that does not depict the heart in all its convolutions, unsettled, unsatisfied, distracted, petty, combative, conflicted, and, often, sad…It is fair to say that in this case, more than 600 pages of letters amount to a page-turner…It seems that as with many voices of the confessional era of American poetry, it was his to burn this briefly, in real anguish. The Selected Letters well preserves that drama for those still wishing to know. -- Rick Moody * Poetry Foundation *An addictive volume, as full of drama as a literary soap opera, Berryman alternately grasping and sabotaging opportunities. The Berryman revealed in these letters is passionate, tortured, irascible, out of control, deeply moved and moving…It’s thrilling to read these letters as Berryman’s tragic genius unfolds. -- Meryl Natchez * Hudson Review *Pre-fax, pre-email, pre-text, here are hundreds of pages of loving and painful letters, of hopeful and disappointed letters, of joyful and death-haunted letters, of cautious and gossipy letters, of merry and hurt letters, of phallic and fatigued letters, of self-deprecating and vain letters, of admiring and critical letters. John Berryman, this great American poet of imagination, love, intellect, and pain, comes into optimistic, crystalline focus. -- Henri ColeLearned, literary correspondence…[The] meticulous editing, as well as the poems quoted in the letters, made me reappraise Berryman’s work…These letters, with rage simmering below the surface, made Berryman more of a human being to me, less of a one-sided self-destructive wreck…[A] superb selection. -- Marian Janssen * Berfrois *This capacious, warts-and-all selection of Berryman’s letters is a landmark…There are riches here…The letters can be entertaining, covering a range of tones reflecting his multi-voice verse…When Berryman talks about writing, he soars, and he talks about writing much of the time. -- Martina Evans * Irish Times *Berryman the wag is very much in evidence in his letters, as is Berryman the professor, Berryman the son, the husband, the wooer, all with their complement of registers…But it is Berryman the poet who keeps on reminding us how astonishingly life-giving his vocation can be. -- Ange Mlinko * Book Post *What makes The Selected Letters enjoyable is its utter capaciousness…The editors…have performed valuable, painstaking work. -- Chelsie Malyszek * Threepenny Review *We should be grateful for this fresh insight into Berryman and his starry, competitive circle. * The Spectator *Fills the major gap on the shelf of his books…This meticulous and generous selection of the poet’s typed and scrawled outgoing mail is infinitely suggestive. The editorial accuracy, especially where Berryman was writing by hand, seems all the poet could have wished for. -- William Logan * New Criterion *This sumptuous selection of John Berryman’s letters affords a welcome conspectus of the great poet’s life and work, from the protracted apprenticeship to the hard-won triumphs of the mature years, and covering even the brilliant but still underrated narrative of Love & Fame. By turns precocious, histrionic, hilarious, self-tormenting, rivalrous, shrewdly critical, abrasive, and abusive—and always ambitious for his poetry—Berryman in these extraordinary letters is shown to be the consummate craftsman and critic, as well as the hero-worshipper, the generous mentor, the fervent lover, and the tender father. -- John Haffenden, author of The Life of John Berryman and coeditor of The Letters of T. S. Eliot‘We asked to be obsessed with writing,’ wrote Robert Lowell in his elegy ‘For John Berryman,’ ‘and we were.’ The dizzying extremes to which that obsession pushed Berryman are on harrowing display in these letters, which oscillate between troughs of alcoholic abjection and peaks of manic creative confidence. Berryman was both a superbly conscientious craftsman and authentically crazed original; the publication of his letters to his gifted circle of friends—a circle that included Saul Bellow, Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, and Lowell himself—will reconfigure forever our understanding of mid-century American poetry. -- Mark Ford, author of This Dialogue of One: Essays on Poets from John Donne to Joan MurrayA revealing window into the poet’s mind and work through his own words…It is well worth the serious attention of any literary scholar. * Publishers Weekly *The publication of his selected letters suggests that a new look at the poet’s faith is not merely warranted but essential to understanding his art…Berryman’s letters reveal not only his continual shifting between belief and doubt but also that Catholicism remained his point of reference in life. -- Nick Ripatrazone * National Review *Offers an inside view of the poet’s chaotic life and storied literary career—his growth from precocious boarding school student and Columbia undergrad to prolific, opinionated man of letters to flamboyant, boundary-breaking father of Confessional poetry…A hymn to both the excitement and the challenges of a life lived in poetry. -- Andrew Epstein * On the Seawall *
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Harvard University Press What Was Literary Impressionism
Book SynopsisIf literary impressionism is anything, it is the project to turn prose into vision. But vision of what? Michael Fried argues that the impressionists compelled readers not only to see what was described and narrated but also to see writing itself: the upward-facing page, pen and ink, the written script, the act of inscription.Trade ReviewIn this book, Michael Fried has given us the best account of the relation of literary writing to its material basis in ink, paper, print, and corporeal movement. What Was Literary Impressionism? transforms our sense of a vital literary tradition and provides revelatory new readings of key texts by writers including Frank Norris, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, and many others. This is a major book by one of the most powerful and influential critical minds of our time. -- Michael Clune, Case Western Reserve UniversityMichael Fried subtly traces in varied detail a recurring scene in Anglo-American fiction of the turn of the nineteenth century. The display and occlusion of this scene—the scene of writing itself—is the ‘project’ and the ‘problematic’ of literary impressionism: modern but not modernist. The modernists, we may believe, foregrounded language, and even print, but they did not worry about the physical act of writing as the impressionists did. Fried hopes his book may ‘somewhat transform the terms’ of our understanding of a specific literary moment. It will do more than that. It will, if we let it, revise and enrich that understanding to an almost unimaginable degree. -- Michael Wood, Princeton University
£35.66
Harvard University Press Hearing Things
Book SynopsisDrawing on the writings of critics and philosophers and on the comments of poets and novelists who have pointed to the role of the ear in writing and reading, Angela Leighton offers a reconsideration of literature as an exercise in hearing things, and renews a call for criticism that is creatively attentive to sound's work in every literary text.Trade ReviewAngela Leighton’s Hearing Things is as good as her previous book on poetic form—which is to say it’s terrific—and illuminates a great deal about the sound effects of poetry that cannot be disentangled from its page-sense. -- Andrew Motion * The Guardian *[Full] of immense grace and critical intelligence…A book about beauty and a perhaps unfashionable defense of the beautiful as a reason for poems to exist. -- Seamus Perry * Times Literary Supplement *Understanding the role of sound helps you get at how a poem or piece of prose manages your aesthetic response…[Hearing Things] is a wise, suggestive reminder to readers to keep an eye on the ear. -- Sam Leith * Prospect *This is one of those rare books where we find ourselves changing our approach to how we read even as we’re reading. On every page, Leighton works skillfully to demystify how sound works in literature and how we can pay better attention to it. -- Jenny Bhatt * PopMatters *To my professor friends in the humanities (the ones who haven’t given up): Angela Leighton’s book will help you remember why you took this path in the first place. While its primary audience is lit-folk, it will speak to scholars in many disciplines if only they’re willing to lend an ear…I dare you to read ten pages without stopping to copy several arresting bits. -- John Wilson * First Things *Leighton shows us that what separates poetry from other things that humans make are those very moments when poems enact or allude to listening—hums, murmurs, echoes, incomprehensible language. Hearing Things is persuasive, ambitious, synthetic, clear, and powerful. -- Steph Burt, author of The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read ThemMany critics claim to engage in close reading, but nobody is as skilled as Angela Leighton at close listening. Heard through her ears, words sing and rhythms thrum on the page, making even familiar poems sound compellingly fresh and new. This approach makes Hearing Things something more than a traditional work of literary criticism. What Leighton offers us instead, as she ranges across poetry from the nineteenth century to the present day, is criticism as a form of play: inventive, witty, and joyfully experimental. -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
£28.86
Harvard University Press Self and Soul
Book SynopsisIn a culture of the Self that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, we spare little thought for the great ideals courage, contemplation, and compassion that once gave life meaning. Here, Mark Edmundson makes an impassioned attempt to defend the value of these ancient ideals and to resurrect Soul in the modern world.
£17.95
Harvard University Press Selling the Story
Book SynopsisEvery writer is a player in the marketplace for literature. Jonathan Paine locates the economics ingrained within the stories themselves, showing how the business of literature affects even storytelling devices such as genre, plot, and repetition. In this new model of criticism, the text is a record of its author’s sales pitch.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable, pathbreaking book. I found myself consistently challenged and engaged by its arguments. The book is most impressive in its suggestions as to how economic concerns are represented through strictly literary devices. Paine shows how works are shaped by their authors’ position in regard to literary value. He fascinatingly recasts what it means to read The Brothers Karamazov, and offers a genuinely new approach to Dostoevsky, Balzac, and Zola. -- Eric Naiman, University of California, BerkeleyPaine’s survey of these three novelists is masterful…As he depicts them, Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola are neither puppets of an inexorable free market nor puppeteers of their readers’ false consciousness. Instead, Paine shows how economic concerns, as one guiding force among many, influenced their creative impulses, but did not—in naive Marxian fashion—overdetermine them…[A] considerable achievement. -- Marta Figlerowicz * Public Books *Jonathan Paine provides a breath of fresh air for nineteenth-century fiction studies, especially for studies of Dostoevsky. -- William Mills Todd III, Harvard UniversityScrupulously situates each text within its historical context and adroitly mobilizes pertinent histories of finance and business…effectively demonstrates the importance of social, cultural, and economic history for literary analysis. -- Erika Vause * Journal of Modern History *An interesting, well-written consideration of important relationships between authors and their public in the 19th century. * Choice *
£34.81
Princeton University Press The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 393
£28.80
Princeton University Press The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries
Book Synopsis"The articles in this reference book, all fully updated and from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition, provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in over 100 major national, regional, and diasporic literatures and language traditions throughout the world"--Trade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 613
£28.50
Princeton University Press The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries
Book Synopsis"The articles in this reference book, all fully updated and from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition, provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in over 100 major national, regional, and diasporic literatures and language traditions throughout the world"--Trade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 613
£82.80
Princeton University Press The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms Third
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 393
£78.20
Princeton University Press The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms
Book SynopsisThis compact volume makes available a selection of 402 entries from the widely praised Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, with emphasis on prosodic and poetic terms likely to be encountered in many different areas of literary study. The book includes detailed discussions of poetic forms, prosody, rhetoric, genre, and topics such as theorTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. v*CONTENTS, pg. ix*LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL, pg. x*LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS GENERAL, pg. xiii*LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, pg. xiv*A, pg. 1*B, pg. 18*C, pg. 24*D, pg. 51*E, pg. 61*F, pg. 73*H, pg. 85*I, pg. 91*J, pg. 110*K, pg. 111*L, pg. 111*M, pg. 132*N, pg. 157*O, pg. 170*P, pg. 180*Q, pg. 227*R, pg. 227*S, pg. 247*T, pg. 277*U, pg. 286*V, pg. 289*W, pg. 298*Z, pg. 299*POETIC GENRES, MODES, AND FORMS: A SELECT READING LIST, pg. 301
£38.25
British Library Publishing A Book of Book Lists
Book SynopsisThis is a book of book lists. From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books most frequently left in hotels, from prisoners' favourite books to MPs' most borrowed books, these lists are proof that a person's bookcase tells you everything you need to know about them, and sometimes more besides.
£9.49
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The OneAct Play Companion A Guide to Plays Playwrights and Performance
Book SynopsisColin Dolley is a past Vice-Chairman of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators (GODA) and has adjudicated at over 200 drama festivals. Rex Walford OBE is a theatre critic and Chairman of GODA, and has judged many one-act plays in over thirty years of adjudicating festivals.Trade Review'A truly entrepreneurial publishing feat...Rich in diverse content...a veritable cornucopia...I suggest that you order your copy of this indispensable work' Amateur Stage (April 2006) "This is a book I have no hesitation in recommending - my only complaint is that every time I pick it up I spend far too long pottering through its pages". "those of us who frequent festivals will recognise the expertise and enthusiasm [the authors] show...in this invaluable book." Prompt Magazine Avon Association (October 2006) '...a very interesting, challenging and creative book, which should provide an engaging and provocative stimulus for young people, teachers and youth theatre workers at a time of ever increasing interest in the teaching of drama in this country, and in the relationship between theatre and society at large.' Youth Drama Ireland (Summer 2008)
£22.99
Manchester University Press Beginning Modernism
Book SynopsisThis book -- .Table of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgements1 Introduction2 Modernism and the visual arts3 History and the politics of modernism4 Modernist ideas5 Modernist spaces6 Modernist poetry7 Modernist fiction8 Performing modernism9 Conclusion: Continuing modernism
£10.44
Manchester University Press Beginning Postmodernism
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Beginning postmodernism offers clear, accessible and step-by-step introductions to postmodernism across a wide range of subjects. -- .Trade Review'Tim Woods' little gem ... I wish I had stuff like this when I was an undergraduate.' Gary Day, THES 'It is by far the best introduction to postmodernism that this reviewer has read.' Choice Reviews for the first editionTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Postmodernism: Philosophy and Cultural Theory3. Postmodernism and the Literary Arts4. Postmodern Architecture and Concepts of Space5. Postmodernism in Visual Art, Sculpture and the Design Arts6. Postmodernism, Popular Culture and Music7. Postmodernism, Film, Video and Television Culture8. Postmodernism and the Social Sciences9. Conclusion: Whither Postmodernism?10. Select bibliography
£11.39
LUP - Voltaire Foundation An Alternative Encyclopedia Dennis de Coetlogons
Book SynopsisTrade Review'[…] cette recherche, appuyée sur une parfaite connaissance de la littérature critique – voir l’abondante bibliographie très à jour – constitue enfin une très intéressante contribution aux nouvelles voies d’analyse de la lexicographie historique comparée.'- Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’‘Encyclopédie’'In his Conclusion, Loveland argues that the study of little-known encyclopedias adds to our understanding of the more famous ones. This fascinating account of one such example will be of value to readers interested in many issues of publishing and readership in the eighteenth century.'- French StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Coetlogon’s life and autobiography2. The publication of the Universal history3. The compilation of the Universal history4. A novel organisational plan5. Advertising in and around encyclopedias6. A polemical encyclopediaConclusionBibliographyIndex
£95.65
Lexington Books Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek
Book SynopsisAn investigation of the metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way in which the illegitimate child, "nothos", is imagined in narratives. The "nothos" is connected to concerns about gender, reproduction, marriage, and concepts of polity.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Metaphors of Illegitimacy Chapter 2 Where the Girls Are: Skotioi and Parthenoi Chapter 3 Teucer, the Bastard Archer Chapter 4 Images of Fertility and Sterility Chapter 5 Euripides' Hippolytos Chapter 6 Conclusion
£93.07
Lexington Books Writing as Resistance Life Stories of
Book SynopsisThis work charts the journey through the inner workings of apartheid, through the encounters - imprisonment, exile, homecoming - that crucially defined its violent reign and ultimate overthrow. It outlines and applies a theory of life story praxis in the context of political struggle.Trade Review...can be seen as a contribution to this vitial work of memory. * Research in African Literatures *. . . .Gready's work is excellent, providing a strong combination of psychological insight and literary analysis.. . . An excellent presentation of the variety of reactions and provides a fascinating perspective on the many members of the government who are themselves returnees from various exiles. Strongly recommended. * African Studies Review *Table of ContentsPart 1 Detention and Imprisonment Chapter 2 The Worlds of Dentention and Imprisonment Chapter 3 Rewriting the Prison, Rewriting the Nation Chapter 4 The Body and/in Space Chapter 5 Legal and Literary Narrative on the Space of Death Part 6 Exile and Homecoming Chapter 7 Situating Exile: Post-Colonialism, Globalization, Nationalism Chapter 8 Exile as a Space of Death: The Individual (William "Bloke" Modisane) and the Organization (the ANC) Chapter 9 Exiles, Migrants, Expatriates: The Life Stories of Breyten Breytenbach and Dan Jacobson as Creative Journeys Chapter 10 Home and Homecoming Part 11 Witness Chapter 12 The Witness: Imprisonment and Exile as Symbol
£94.50
Lexington Books Madness Unchained
Book SynopsisMadness Unchained is a comprehensive introduction to and study of Virgil''s Aeneid. The book moves through Virgil''s epic scene by scene and offers a detailed explication of not only all the major (and many minor) difficulties of interpretation, but also provides a cohesive argument that explores Virgil''s point in writing this epic of Roman mythology and Augustan propaganda: the role of fury or madness in Rome''s national identity. There have been other books that have attempted to present a complete guide to the Aeneid, but this is the first to address every episode in the poem, omitting nothing, and aiming itself at an audience that ranges from the Advanced Placement Virgil student in secondary school to the professional Virgilian and everyone in-between, both Latinists and the Latin-less. Individual chapters correspond to the books of the poem; unlike some volumes that prejudice the reader''s interpretation of the work by rearranging the order of episodes in order to influence thTrade ReviewAt last, a commentary on the Aeneid that doesn't need more decoding devices than Virgil's poem! Dr. Fratantuono's book stands apart for its adherence to a sensible, and yet profound, analysis of a poem that too often in the last several decades hasbeen the testing ground for any number of new approaches to literary criticism. F begins with a heartfelt lament on the way Books VII-XII have been practically ignored in the curricula of American Classical education at all levels. His commentary attemptsto correct this by paying due attention to what V himself considered to be the greater part of his poem. One of my favorite features of F's book is the way the author weaves into his commentary the relevant passages from the poem, and, in so doing, keeps the commentary focused strictly on the passages. The translations, which by F's own admission, do not aspire to any 'literary greatness,' are still some of the best I have ever read. (Perhaps F's description of all translations of the Aeneid as 'betrayals' of the original Latin poem is in fact a tad too harsh.) Like V, who did not compose his opus in a 'linear fashion' but who worked on individual sections as the spirit moved him, F chose to write a commentary which, while remarkably coherent, ca -- Blaise Nagy, College of the Holy CrossMadness Unchained is truly a stunning achievement! Fratantuono’s engaging commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid, written in lucid and economical prose, has something to offer everyone, from novice readers of the epic to seasoned, veteran scholars. There is much to glean from these pages, whether one dips in to read the author’s comments on individual scenes or uses the commentary to accompany a reading of Virgil’s epic in its entirety. One of Fratantuono’s primary contributions to Virgilian scholarship is the way in which he treats the epic as a whole, illustrating brilliantly that the poem is more than merely a sum of its individual parts. The reader will appreciate Fratantuono’s close and perceptive reading of the epic together with his masterful and authoritative survey of existing scholarship. This commentary will prove itself as a worthy sourcebook for generations of Virgil readers to come. -- Mary McHugh, Gustavus Adolphus Collegea wonderful book, because with its well-versed learning in all aspects of Vergilian scholarship it inspires its readers to think independently. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review, December 2007 *Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates. * CHOICE, Vol. 45 No. 6 (February 2008) *Fratantuono's detailed, image-by-image and often even line-by-line examination is the most thorough analysis of The Aeneid to appear in decades. It has the great virtue of not shying away from the most difficult cruces in the long interpretative history of the work, and it offers fresh insights into many of them. The readings he offers of individual passages are frequently not only provocative but also suggestive of further possibilities for extended exploration. In short, this is a book that will challenge many of us to rethink our presuppositions about many an aspect of Virgil's epic. -- Robert S. Dupree, The University of DallasAt last, a commentary on the Aeneid that doesn't need more decoding devices than Virgil's poem! Dr. Fratantuono's book stands apart for its adherence to a sensible, and yet profound, analysis of a poem that too often in the last several decades has been the testing ground for any number of new approaches to literary criticism. F begins with a heartfelt lament on the way Books VII-XII have been practically ignored in the curricula of American Classical education at all levels. His commentary attempts to correct this by paying due attention to what V himself considered to be the "greater part" of his poem. One of my favorite features of F's book is the way the author weaves into his commentary the relevant passages from the poem, and, in so doing, keeps the commentary focused strictly on the passages. The translations, which by F's own admission, do not aspire to any 'literary greatness,' are still some of the best I have ever read. (Perhaps F's description of all translations of the Aeneid as 'betrayals' of the original Latin poem is in fact a tad too harsh.) Like V, who did not compose his opus in a 'linear fashion' but who worked on individual sections as the spirit moved him, F chose to write a commentary which, while remarkably coherent, can nevertheless be read with profit in installments and in whatever order the reader selects. One thing is for sure: whatever part of the commentary a person reads, it soon becomes clear that these are the musings of a scholar who, through assiduous study and reflection, has an ear for Virgil and who can, at all times, see a passage within the larger themes of the poem. While not new, F's view, that the Aeneid embodies a 'profound reflection on the nature of the Augustan regime in Rome,' is presented in ways that are fresh and not at all hackneyed. Readers of all ages will profit from F's book. It will doubtless be welcomed by secondary school instructors, who will find in the commentary a perfect complement to their work in the classroom with the La -- Blaise Nagy, College of the Holy CrossTable of ContentsChapter 1 Arms and the Man . . . Chapter 2 All Fell Silent . . . Chapter 3 After It Seemed Best . . . Chapter 4 But the Queen . . . Chapter 5 Meanwhile Sure Aeneas . . . Chapter 6 So He Spoke, Weeping . . . Chapter 7 You Also, Dying . . . Chapter 8 As Turnus Raised . . . Chapter 9 And While These Things . . . Chapter 10 The House of Olympus . . . Chapter 11 Dawn Left the Ocean . . . Chapter 12 As Turnus Sees . . .
£123.30
Lexington Books Poetry as Power Yuan Meis Female Disciple Qu
Book SynopsisIn this thought-provoking analysis, Liuxi Meng profiles eighteenth-century poet Qu Bingyun and her development as an artist. By giving special attention to her dynamic interaction with contemporaries, Meng provides an extensive and detailed picture of the female writer's life and art in the golden age of Chinese women's literature.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Qu's Time, Hometown, and Family Background Chapter 2 Turning Her Household into a Literary Network Chapter 3 An Active Member of Yuan Mei's Female Disciple Group Chapter 4 Qu's Poetry Forms a Feminist Discourse Community Chapter 5 Domestic Poems Chapter 6 Relational Poems
£89.10
Lexington Books Broken Hallelujah
Book SynopsisBroken Hallelujah offers a unique perspective on one of the most prolific and celebrated twentieth-century European writers, Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957). Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Kazantzakis''s death, author Darren J. N. Middleton looks back on Kazantzakis''s life and literary art to suggest that, contrary to popular belief, Kazantzakis and his views actually comport with the ideals of Christianity. As a theologian and ordained Baptist minister, Middleton approaches Kazantzakisas as a broadly sympathetic spiritual seeker rather than the traditional religious villain as he is routinely portrayed. Based on archival work conducted at the Kazantzakis library in Iraklion and at various monasteries on Athos, Middleton finds important connections between Kazantzakis''s work and key themes in Eastern Orthodox theology, especially the hesychastic and apophatic traditions. This book advances modern Greek studies as well as general theological studies by acknowledging and celebratingTrade ReviewScholars who are familiar with Kazantzakis's works as well as those looking for an introduction to religious themes in Kazantzakis will benefit from this clearly written, insightful book. [Its] chief virtue lies in the way Middleton brings together the major themes in Kazantzakis's work (e.g., transubstantiation, the idea that we save God, etc.) with some of the major themes in contemporary theology (e.g., postmodern negative theology, process thought, etc.). An unbroken hallelujah for Middleton's Broken Hallelujah! -- Daniel A. Dombrowski, Seattle UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Kazantzakis and Mount Athos: A Heretic in the Virgin's Garden? Chapter 2 Kazantzakis and Apophatic Theology: What God is Not Chapter 3 Kazantzakis and Schweitzer: Connections, Comparisons, Contrasts Chapter 4 Kazantzakis and Christian Doctrine: Some Bridges of Understanding Chapter 5 Kazantzakis and Process Theology Chapter 6 Kazantzakis and Postmodern Theology
£82.80
Lexington Books Madness Unchained
Book SynopsisMadness Unchained is a comprehensive introduction to and study of Virgil''s Aeneid. The book moves through Virgil''s epic scene by scene and offers a detailed explication of not only all the major (and many minor) difficulties of interpretation, but also provides a cohesive argument that explores Virgil''s point in writing this epic of Roman mythology and Augustan propaganda: the role of fury or madness in Rome''s national identity. There have been other books that have attempted to present a complete guide to the Aeneid, but this is the first to address every episode in the poem, omitting nothing, and aiming itself at an audience that ranges from the Advanced Placement Virgil student in secondary school to the professional Virgilian and everyone in-between, both Latinists and the Latin-less. Individual chapters correspond to the books of the poem; unlike some volumes that prejudice the reader''s interpretation of the work by rearranging the order of episodes in order to influence thTrade ReviewAt last, a commentary on the Aeneid that doesn't need more decoding devices than Virgil's poem! Dr. Fratantuono's book stands apart for its adherence to a sensible, and yet profound, analysis of a poem that too often in the last several decades hasbeen the testing ground for any number of new approaches to literary criticism. F begins with a heartfelt lament on the way Books VII-XII have been practically ignored in the curricula of American Classical education at all levels. His commentary attemptsto correct this by paying due attention to what V himself considered to be the greater part of his poem. One of my favorite features of F's book is the way the author weaves into his commentary the relevant passages from the poem, and, in so doing, keeps the commentary focused strictly on the passages. The translations, which by F's own admission, do not aspire to any 'literary greatness,' are still some of the best I have ever read. (Perhaps F's description of all translations of the Aeneid as 'betrayals' of the original Latin poem is in fact a tad too harsh.) Like V, who did not compose his opus in a 'linear fashion' but who worked on individual sections as the spirit moved him, F chose to write a commentary which, while remarkably coherent, ca -- Blaise Nagy, College of the Holy CrossMadness Unchained is truly a stunning achievement! Fratantuono’s engaging commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid, written in lucid and economical prose, has something to offer everyone, from novice readers of the epic to seasoned, veteran scholars. There is much to glean from these pages, whether one dips in to read the author’s comments on individual scenes or uses the commentary to accompany a reading of Virgil’s epic in its entirety. One of Fratantuono’s primary contributions to Virgilian scholarship is the way in which he treats the epic as a whole, illustrating brilliantly that the poem is more than merely a sum of its individual parts. The reader will appreciate Fratantuono’s close and perceptive reading of the epic together with his masterful and authoritative survey of existing scholarship. This commentary will prove itself as a worthy sourcebook for generations of Virgil readers to come. -- Mary McHugh, Gustavus Adolphus Collegea wonderful book, because with its well-versed learning in all aspects of Vergilian scholarship it inspires its readers to think independently. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review, December 2007 *Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates. * CHOICE, Vol. 45 No. 6 (February 2008) *Fratantuono's detailed, image-by-image and often even line-by-line examination is the most thorough analysis of The Aeneid to appear in decades. It has the great virtue of not shying away from the most difficult cruces in the long interpretative history of the work, and it offers fresh insights into many of them. The readings he offers of individual passages are frequently not only provocative but also suggestive of further possibilities for extended exploration. In short, this is a book that will challenge many of us to rethink our presuppositions about many an aspect of Virgil's epic. -- Robert S. Dupree, The University of DallasAt last, a commentary on the Aeneid that doesn't need more decoding devices than Virgil's poem! Dr. Fratantuono's book stands apart for its adherence to a sensible, and yet profound, analysis of a poem that too often in the last several decades has been the testing ground for any number of new approaches to literary criticism. F begins with a heartfelt lament on the way Books VII-XII have been practically ignored in the curricula of American Classical education at all levels. His commentary attempts to correct this by paying due attention to what V himself considered to be the "greater part" of his poem. One of my favorite features of F's book is the way the author weaves into his commentary the relevant passages from the poem, and, in so doing, keeps the commentary focused strictly on the passages. The translations, which by F's own admission, do not aspire to any 'literary greatness,' are still some of the best I have ever read. (Perhaps F's description of all translations of the Aeneid as 'betrayals' of the original Latin poem is in fact a tad too harsh.) Like V, who did not compose his opus in a 'linear fashion' but who worked on individual sections as the spirit moved him, F chose to write a commentary which, while remarkably coherent, can nevertheless be read with profit in installments and in whatever order the reader selects. One thing is for sure: whatever part of the commentary a person reads, it soon becomes clear that these are the musings of a scholar who, through assiduous study and reflection, has an ear for Virgil and who can, at all times, see a passage within the larger themes of the poem. While not new, F's view, that the Aeneid embodies a 'profound reflection on the nature of the Augustan regime in Rome,' is presented in ways that are fresh and not at all hackneyed. Readers of all ages will profit from F's book. It will doubtless be welcomed by secondary school instructors, who will find in the commentary a perfect complement to their work in the classroom with the La -- Blaise Nagy, College of the Holy CrossTable of ContentsChapter 1 Arms and the Man . . . Chapter 2 All Fell Silent . . . Chapter 3 After It Seemed Best . . . Chapter 4 But the Queen . . . Chapter 5 Meanwhile Sure Aeneas . . . Chapter 6 So He Spoke, Weeping . . . Chapter 7 You Also, Dying . . . Chapter 8 As Turnus Raised . . . Chapter 9 And While These Things . . . Chapter 10 The House of Olympus . . . Chapter 11 Dawn Left the Ocean . . . Chapter 12 As Turnus Sees . . .
£47.70
Lexington Books The Eye of the Camera Visual Poetics of Raymond
Book SynopsisThe Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver draws on the study of visual arts to illuminate the short stories of noted author Raymond Carver, in the broader context of vision and visualization in a literary text. Ayala Amir examines Carver''s use of the eye-of-the-camera technique. Amir uncovers the tensions that structure his visual aesthetics and examines assumptions that govern scholarly discussions of his work, relating these matters to the complex nature of photography and to the current visual turn of cultural studies. The research uses visual approaches to reflect upon traditional issues of narrative study-duration, dialogue, narration, description, frame, character, and meaning. Amir shows how Carver''s visual aesthetics shapes the meaning of his stories, while also challenging accepted notions of the boundaries of the literary.Trade ReviewReaders have been aware of Raymond Carver's preoccupation with voyeurism and the visual for decades. Ayala Amir expands our knowledge of these issues by examining the links between the visual in fiction and related fields such as photography and cinema, opening up a whole new, interdisciplinary dimension to Carver's work. The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver is a very welcome contribution to our understanding of Carver's stories -- Sandra Lee Kleppe, International Raymond Carver SocietyThis is a terrific book that takes Carver studies in new directions. Ayala Amir's knowledge of both cinema theory and literary theory makes this a book in which the discussion moves seamlessly between these related arts. As I read it, I felt that I was both expanding my knowledge of Carver's work and simultaneously learning photographic theory which, while interesting in its own right, augmented the way I read Carver. Few books offer readers such an experience. -- Robert Miltner, Kent State UniversityReaders have been aware of Raymond Carver's preoccupation with voyeurism and the visual for decades. Ayala Amir expands our knowledge of these issues by examining the links between the visual in fiction and related fields such as photography and cinema, opening up a whole new, interdisciplinary dimension to Carver's work. The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver is a very welcome contribution to our understanding of Carver's stories -- Sandra Lee Kleppe, International Raymond Carver SocietyRecommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I. Movement Chapter 3 Chapter One "I don't do motion shots" - Representation of Movement Chapter 4 Chapter Two "Does that have a hidden meaning?" - Dialogue Part 5 Part II. The Eye of the Camera Chapter 6 Chapter Three "Whoever was using this bed" - Voice Chapter 7 Chapter Four "Why do I notice that?" - Vision Part 8 Part III. Seeing and Meaning Chapter 9 Chapter Five Raymond Carver's "Man in a Case" - frame and Character Chapter 10 Chapter Six Singularity or Doubleness- Effet de réel or Symbol? Chapter 11 Conclusion
£88.20
Rlpg/Galleys The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReaders have been aware of Raymond Carver's preoccupation with voyeurism and the visual for decades. Ayala Amir expands our knowledge of these issues by examining the links between the visual in fiction and related fields such as photography and cinema, opening up a whole new, interdisciplinary dimension to Carver's work. The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver is a very welcome contribution to our understanding of Carver's stories -- Sandra Lee Kleppe, International Raymond Carver SocietyThis is a terrific book that takes Carver studies in new directions. Ayala Amir's knowledge of both cinema theory and literary theory makes this a book in which the discussion moves seamlessly between these related arts. As I read it, I felt that I was both expanding my knowledge of Carver's work and simultaneously learning photographic theory which, while interesting in its own right, augmented the way I read Carver. Few books offer readers such an experience. -- Robert Miltner, Kent State UniversityReaders have been aware of Raymond Carver's preoccupation with voyeurism and the visual for decades. Ayala Amir expands our knowledge of these issues by examining the links between the visual in fiction and related fields such as photography and cinema, opening up a whole new, interdisciplinary dimension to Carver's work. The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver is a very welcome contribution to our understanding of Carver's stories -- Sandra Lee Kleppe, International Raymond Carver SocietyRecommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I. Movement Chapter 3 Chapter One "I don't do motion shots" - Representation of Movement Chapter 4 Chapter Two "Does that have a hidden meaning?" - Dialogue Part 5 Part II. The Eye of the Camera Chapter 6 Chapter Three "Whoever was using this bed" - Voice Chapter 7 Chapter Four "Why do I notice that?" - Vision Part 8 Part III. Seeing and Meaning Chapter 9 Chapter Five Raymond Carver's "Man in a Case" - frame and Character Chapter 10 Chapter Six Singularity or Doubleness- Effet de réel or Symbol? Chapter 11 Conclusion
£40.50
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Mardi and a Voyage Thither Masterworks of
Book SynopsisHerman Melville''s Mardi (1849) has stood the test of time as a superb allegorical fantasy, and as the third in a trilogy reflecting on Melville''s experiences on the sea. Set on a fictional Pacific island, this adventure, love story, and exploration of the metaphysical sets the stage for later writers in the twentieth century who delve into the psychological. Appearing only two years before Moby Dick, the book may be regarded as the key to Melville''s philosophical, religious, political, and social ideas during the most significant and productive period of his career. The incidents and scenes described in Mardi are often tragic in their implications, and the comments are highly critical of nineteenth-century society, but the vivid writing is laced with sparkling humor, spicy adventure, and crackling conversation.
£36.00
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Modern Chivalry Containing the Adventures of
Book SynopsisLike Don Quixote, Sterne''s Tristram Shandy, and Fielding''s Tom Jones, Modern Chivalry is a tale of adventuring, episodic and exciting. Despite the author''s European inspirations, it is a distinctively American book, not just because of its homespun, native characters and slapstick humor, but also because it is a narrative of journeying and questing. As it follows Captain Farrago and his sidekick on their travels, the book''s premise becomes clearthat democracy as practiced in America is valuable and worthy, but that it is subject to malfunctions when tinkered with by unfit men. A pointed caricature of American life, Modern Chivalry will be of great value to all interested in American history and literature.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Editor's Introduction Chapter 2 A Note on the Text Chapter 3 Volume I Chapter 4 Volume II Chapter 5 Volume III Chapter 6 Volume IV
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Rowman & Littlefield Rumors of War and Infernal Machines
Book SynopsisTrade Review[H]ighly convincing....[A]n interesting read, offering numerous insights into the cultural influence of science fiction....[T]his book is a timely study – especially since war is top of the agenda in current American politics – showing how America is open to both the progressive nature of speculative texts and the dangerous imagining of deadly new technologies. We have only to look at the war in Iraq to see how dangerous our technological imagination can be. * Journal of American Studies *The combination of textual analysis with historical as well as political facts offers readers a multidimensional approach, as it enables them to assess the primary texts examined from a literary as well as socio-cultural perspective. This makes the book a useful source of reference to anyone interested in transatlantic superpower politics in relation to science fiction, technothrillers and apocalypse narratives....Gannon's well-documented endnotes and epigraphs at the start of every chapter make this book a valuable resource for the general reader, scholar, undergraduate and postgraduate student who wishes to explore the point where technology, politics and future-war literature intersect. * Symbiosis *The book investigates an exchange between future-war fiction and political entities in Victorian and Edwardian Britain and in the USA through and beyond the Cold War....Gannon skilfully deploys a range of discursive materials to discuss and analyse fictional anticipations of a technologically enabled 'Great War....He then addresses America's rise to superpower status accompanied by literary imagining of nuclear destruction, death rays, cyborg soldiers, and starship troopers. * The Year's Work In English Studies *Gannon breaks new ground in a superior cultural study, investigating the influence military science fiction has exerted over military policy makers….The well-researched military backgrounds prove the author's thesis that science fiction has indeed influenced the conclusions of military think tanks. An essential acquisition for collections of science fiction and military history. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Emerging from both military history and literary criticism, this volume traces a remarkable genealogy of speculative fiction's "truth effects" in Britain and the United States...Gannon sees a powerful relationship between speculative military fiction and the rise of "technocentric" ideologies of the modern war state. * American Literature *If you are of a mind to tive less credence to the humanities of war than to the sciences, set that aside long enough to read Rumors of War. I think you'll be glad you did. * Analog Science Fiction & Fact *In , Gannon offers a thorough study of what future-war writers anticipated. * Science Fiction Studies *A fascinating and disturbing subject....The theme, examined in rich detail, is...that fiction plays its part in shaping and colonizing the military imagination—perhaps even seeping into the process of procurement or research and development....Is star wars fiction conducive to star wars fact? * Journal Of Technology Studies *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Assessing Rumors—of War and Infernal Machines Chapter 2 Armageddon by Gaslight: Victorian Visions of Apocalypse Chapter 3 Opportunistic Anticipations and Accidental Insights: William Le Queux's Exploitation of Edwardian Invasion Anxieties Chapter 4 Promoters of the Probable, Prophets of the Possible: Technological Innovation and Edwardian Near-Future War Fiction Chapter 5 H.G. Wells: The Far-Future War Prophet of Edwardian England Chapter 6 Hard Numbers, Hard Cases, Hard Decisions: Politics and Future-War Fiction in America Chapter 7 An Imperfect Future Tense(d): Anticipations of Atomic Annihilation in Post-War American Science Fiction Chapter 8 Nuclear Fiction and Silo Psychosis: Narratives of Life in the Shadow of a Mushroom Cloud Chapter 9 Radio Waves, Death Rays, and Transgressive (Sub)Texts: Future-War Fiction in the Wide Black Yonder Chapter 10 Making Man-Machines of Mass Destruction: Future-War Authors as Seers in an Age of Cyborg Soldiers Chapter 11 Cultural Casualties as Collateral Damage: The Fragment-ing/-ation Effects of Future-War Fantasies vs. Fictions Chapter 12 Afterword: On Conducting a Literary Reconnaissance in Force—and in Earnest
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DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) Writers Who Changed History
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