Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Cambridge University Press D. H. Lawrence and the Bible
Book SynopsisThe Bible, as this book demonstrates, plays a key role in nearly all D. H. Lawrence's work. It supplies not only the inspiration but on occasion the target for his parody. In D. H. Lawrence and The Bible, Terry Wright establishes that Lawrence was familiar with the modernist critique of the Bible by higher critics and by anthropologists of religion.Trade Review"It is good to see Wright turn his considerable knowledge to Lawrence... He has a scrupulous sense of Lawrence's biography and publishing history... I would recommend this book to students and Lawrence scholars." D.H. Lawrence Review"Wright's long-overdue study addresses a crucial, heretofore neglected aspect of Lawrence's canon..." Choice"T.R. Wright 's book install renewed respect both for the Bible's continuing resonance and for the ways in which that resonance shape s creative and critical writing alike...this study will prove very useful to readers interested in Lawrence, the Bible, and, most importantly, their fruitful intersection." English Literature in Transition 2002Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. 'The Work of Creation': Lawrence and the Bible; 2. Biblical intertextuality: Bakhtin, Bloom and Derrida; 3. Higher criticism: Lawrence's break with Christianity; 4. Poetic fathers: Nietzsche and the Romantic tradition; 5. Pre-war poetry and fiction: Adam and Eve come through; 6. Re-making Genesis: The Rainbow as counter-Bible; 7. Double-reading the Bible: Esoteric Studies and Reflections; 8. Genesis versus John: Women in Love, The Lost Girl and Mr Noon; 9. Books of Exodus: Aaron's Rod, Kangaroo and The Boy in the Bush; 10. Prose sketches, 'Evangelistic Beasts' and Stories with biblical 'Overtones'; 11. Prophetic voices and 'red' mythology: The Plumed Serpent and David; 12. The Risen Lord: The Escaped Cock, Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Paintings; 13. Apocalypse: the conflict of love and power; 14. Last Poems: final thoughts; List of references; Indices.
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Cambridge University Press The Art of D. H. Lawrence
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Narrative and Humanism
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Cambridge University Press Ethical Joyce
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Cambridge University Press Henry James and the Culture of Publicity
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Cambridge University Press The Catholic Side of Henry James
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Mass Culture and the Aesthetics of Obscenity
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Cambridge University Press Islam and Postcolonial Narrative
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Cambridge University Press British Modernism and Censorship
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Cambridge University Press Disjunctive Poetics
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Cambridge University Press From Modernism to Postmodernism American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century 149 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 149
Book SynopsisIn this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. Ashton moves between the iconic figures of American modernism - Stein, Williams, Pound - and developments in contemporary American poetry to show how contemporary poetics, specially the school known as language poetry, have attempted to redefine the modernist legacy. She explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest that connect contemporary poets with their modernist forebears. The works of poets such as Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are explained and analysed in detail. This major account of the key themes in twentieth-century poetry and poetics develops important ways to read both modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. It will be of interest to all working in American literature, to modernists, and to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: modernism's new literalism; 1. Gertrude Stein for anyone; 2. Making the rose red: Stein, proper names and the critique of indeterminacy; 3. Laura (Riding) Jackson and the New Criticism; 4. Modernism's old literalism: Pound, Williams, Zukofsky and the objectivist critique of metaphor; 5. Authorial inattention: Donald Davidson's literalism, Jorie Graham's Materialism and cognitive science's embodied minds; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press H.D. and Sapphic Modernism 1910 1950
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Cambridge University Press The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance
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Cambridge University Press The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams
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Cambridge University Press The Political Aesthetic of Yeats Eliot and Pound
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Cambridge University Press The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative
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Cambridge University Press American Literary Realism Critical Theory and Intellectual Prestige 18801995 126 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 126
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Cambridge University Press The Modernist Short Story
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Cambridge University Press T S Eliot The Modernist in History 51 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 51
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Cambridge University Press Bulgakovs Last Decade The Writer as Hero Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
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Cambridge University Press CrossCultural Reckonings A Triptych of Russian American and Canadian Texts 84 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 84
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Cambridge University Press H. D. and Hellenism
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Cambridge University Press Hart Crane The Contexts of The Bridge 14 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 14
Book SynopsisWhen Hart Crane's epic poem The Bridge was published in 1930, it was generally judged a failure. Critics said the poet had unwisely attempted to create a mystical synthesis of modern America out of inadequate materials. Crane himself, who committed suicide in 1932, did little to correct this impression; and although the poet's reputation has fluctuated over the past fifty years, many people still find The Bridge unsatisfactory. In this analysis of Crane's long poem, Paul Giles demonstrates that the author was consciously constructing his Bridge out of a huge number of puns and paradoxes, most of which have never been noticed by Crane's readers. Dr Giles shows how Crane was directly influenced by the early work of James Joyce; how the composition of The Bridge ran parallel to the first serialisation of Finnegans Wake in Paris; and how The Bridge is the first great work of the 'Revolution of the Word' movement, predating the final published version of Finnegans Wake by nine years.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Bridge as pun; 2. Relativity; 3. Capitalism; 4. Capitalism and the underworld; 5. Burlesque; 6. Bridge as myth; 7. Abstraction and the city; 8. Music; 9. The new machine and the new word; 10. James Joyce; 11. La Révolution Surréaliste; 12. Surrealism and madness; 13. Pscyhoanalysis and homosexuality; 14. Paradox and oxymoron; 15. Alchemy and the Romantic quest; 16. Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Works cited; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Novel Arguments
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Cambridge University Press William Faulkner The Art of Stylization in his Early Graphic and Literary Work 24 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 24
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Cambridge University Press Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry The Contemporaneity of Modernism 37 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 37
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Cambridge University Press A House Undivided
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Cambridge University Press The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson
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Cambridge University Press H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Siecle
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Cambridge University Press Sublime Enjoyment On the Perverse Motive in American Literature Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 112 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 112
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Cambridge University Press The Esoteric Comedies of Carlyle Newman and Yeats
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Cambridge University Press Reminiscence and Recreation in Contemporary American Fiction
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Cambridge University Press Three Russian Writers and the Irrational Zamyatin Pilnyak and Bulgakov Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
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Cambridge University Press Women Writers and National Identity
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Cambridge University Press The Cliffs of Solitude A Reading of Robinson Jeffers 1 Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series Number 1
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Cambridge University Press Blackness and Value
Book SynopsisThe book traces several interrelations between value and race, and offers fresh readings of two novels by Ann Petry. While approaches to race and value are commonly examined historically or sociologically, this intriguing study provides a new critical approach that speaks to theorists of race as well as gender and queer studies.Trade Review'What makes this volume valuable … is its connection of the theory of race to the theory of value as well as an analysis of a broad range of cultural manifestations in which the interplay of race and value is demonstrated … Lindon Barrett offers an extensive analysis of the phenomenon of value … His complex inquiries covering a variety of seemingly disparate fields offer a revealing read to senior students and scholars engaged in the field of African American studies.' American StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Violence and the unsightly: 2. Figures of violence; 3. Figuring others of value; 4. (Further) figures of violence; Part II. Reasonings and Reasonableness: 5. De-marking limits; Part III. Phonic and Scopic Economies: 6. Signs of others; 7. Signs of the visible.
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Cambridge University Press Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite
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Cambridge University Press Discrepant Engagement
Book SynopsisDiscrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric - black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets.Trade Review"...an exciting collection of essays that promote what Cornel West calls 'dedeisciplinizing modes of knowing.'" Michael Coyle, American LiteratureTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction: and all the birds sing bass; 2. The changing same: black music in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka; 2. To define an ultimate dimness: the poetry of Clarence Major; 4. The world-poem in microcosm: Robert Duncans 'The Continent'; 5. Uroboro's: Robert Duncan's Dante and A Seventeenth Century Suite; 6. Robert Creeley's The Gold Diggers: Projective prose; 7. That words can be on the page: the graphic aspect of Charles Olson's poetics; 8. New series 1 (Folk series): Edward Kamau Brathwaite's New World Trilogy; 9. Limbo, dislocation, phantom limb: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean occasion; 10. Poseidon (Dub version); 11. The unruly pivot: Wilson Harris's The Eye of the Scarecrow; 12. The Imagination of Justice: Wilson Harris's Ascent to Omai; 13. Sound and sentiment, sound and symbol; 14. On edge; 15. Other: from noun to verb; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism
Book SynopsisThis fascinating account of Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism allows the reader to understand the causes and results of Pound's ideology and actions as well as the broader implications they have for the poetry and politics of this century.Trade Review"...an important book for Pound scholarship, and an extremely useful book for anyone interested in the political and ideological history of the first half of this century....As a piece of literary historical scholarship, the book is exemplary, and ought to put an end once and for all to denials of Pound's political heresy." Queen's Quarterly"...he is always informative and often ground-breaking, leading us a good deal closer to an understanding of Pound's political evolution." PaideumaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. A moralist and thence an economist; 1. A. R. Orage and the education of a poet; 2. C. H. Douglas and social credit; 3. The writer-critic, 1930–1; 4. The turn to Fascism; 5. The discovery of Gesell; Part II. Pound's Worlds at War: 6. The wizard in general practice; 7. The Second World War; 8. The republic of Salo and left-wing Fascism; Selected Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The American T. S. Eliot
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Mass Culture and Professionalism
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Cambridge University Press Partisans and Poets
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to J M Synge Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press James Joyce and the Problem of Justice
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Cambridge University Press Becketts Fiction In Different Words 29 Cambridge Studies in French Series Number 29
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Cambridge University Press Robert Musils The Man Without Qualities A Critical Study Cambridge Studies in German
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Cambridge University Press Nabokovs Early Fiction Patterns of Self and Other Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
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Cambridge University Press Joseph Brodsky A Poet for our Time Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature
Book SynopsisThe Russian poet Joseph Brodsky has in recent years commanded increasing attention among both Russian specialists and a wider audience interested in modern culture. In 1987 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. This book, the first in English to be devoted entirely to him, presents a sustained and comprehensive analysis of his work to date, and offers an interpretation of his major themes: love, faith, creation, time, exile and empire. Individual poems are closely scrutinised to show the complexity and sophistication of Brodsky's ideas about perennial human problems, and the ways in which his language conveys his perception of certain values. Valentina Polukhina locates Brodsky in relation to other Russian writers from Derzhavin to Akhmatova, as well as drawing comparisons between his work and poetry in English. She also provides a comprehensive bibliography. Her book constitutes a timely study of the poetry and poetics, style and ideas of one of the most important poets of the tTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Transliteration; Acknowledgement; Part I. A Stepson of the Empire: 1. The generation of 1956; 2. A new pre-Gutenberg epoch; 3. The northern exile; 4. A change of empires; Part II. Longing for World Culture: 5. In defence of culture; 6. A modern descendant of classicism; 7. Elegies to the admired dead: John Donne, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden; Part III. The Mask of Metaphor: 8. A web of metaphors; 9. Similarity in disparity; 10. Ars est celare artem; 11. A form of identity of two versions; Part IV. Words Devouring Things: 12. Thing - Veshch; 13. Man - thing - number; 14. Man - word - spirit; 15. An intellectual and poetic tour de force; Part V. A Song of Disobedience: 16. Poet versus empire; 17. A masochistic joy; 18. Speaking into silence; Part VI. Image of Alienation: 19. A stern metaphysical realist; 20. Man against time and space; 21. Credo quia absurdum est; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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