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Edinburgh University Press The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature
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Ebury Publishing Allen Ginsberg Beat Poet
Book SynopsisAllen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg''s death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg''s journals and correspondence to produce an immensely readable account of one of the twentieth century''s most extraordinary poets.Trade ReviewThis is a scholarly work and also much fun. * Guardian *Will surely be consulted as an Ur-text for decades to come. Read it at the end, along with Ginsberg's fifteen best books, and you'll know why he matters. -- Michael Horowitz * Sunday Times *Skilfully evokes the poet's childhood, authoritatively expresses his opinions on sundry matters of later life and work, gives him his due as lifeforce of youthful rebellion and in the 1960s counter. Read it; you'll enjoy yourself. -- Paul Berman * New York Times *Concentrating on the simultaneity of the public and private in Ginsberg's life, Miles gives us a richer insight into his poetic value - and a better read - than many a tight-lipped critical filleting. -- Saul Frampton * Time Out *
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Humour in Iran
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHumor in Iran provides a remarkably rich medley of Persian prose and poetry, spanning eleven hundred years, in equally delectable translations into English, offering a rare view into how Iranian poets and writers have dealt with subjects as varied as human foibles, tyranny, politics, religion, forbidden desire, and social taboos. * Nasrin Rahimieh, Professor, University of California, USA *Humour in Iran is the record of a quest, a journey through over a millennium of Persian literature, focusing on the lighter side of Persian culture. It is a compendium of all varieties of satire including “hajv” (lampoon) and “hazl” (ribaldry), with ample examples provided in Persian with English translations. * M. R. Ghanoonparvar, Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, USA *Homa Katouzian, with his diverse scholarly interests and acumen, is the ideal candidate to expand upon the existing body of research on Persian Humour. This undertaking involves meticulous exploration of classical and contemporary texts that span over a millennium looking for wit and witty wisdom. Humour in Iran: Eleven-hundred Years of Satire and Humour in Persian Literature, with its rich tapestry of narratives, serves as an enlightening, captivating, and all-encompassing narrative that interests both general readers and experts in the field. * Kamran Talattof, Professor, The University of Arizona, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and note on transliteration Preface Introduction 1. The First Three Centuries 2. Rumi, Sa‘di, Hafiz 3. Obeyd Zakani 4. From the Classics to the Neoclassics 5. The Neoclassical Period: Bazgasht-e Adabi 6. Iraj and Bahar 7. Dehkhoda and Eshqi 8. Aref, Seyyed Ashraf, Parvin E‘tesam, etc. 9. Satirical Fiction 10. The satirical Press
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Running Press Kids The Raven
Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' comes to life for young readers in this enchantingly illustrated picture book of the classic spooky poem. Once upon a midnight dreary . . . So begins the story of a man and his unusual encounter with a raven on a dark winter's night in Edgar Allan Poe's infamous 'The Raven.' The man's struggle with his deep sadness at the loss of the love his life is heightened with the arrival of the raven, who sits watching him, and only uttering a single word: nevermore. As the night grows darker, the man tries to escape the shadows of his grief before it is too late. Poe's beloved and mysterious poem is brought to life for young readers and adult fans alike by Chloe Bristol's rich, moody illustrations. The Raven is the perfect book to snuggle in and read as a family during the Halloween season or on any blustery, cold day.
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Cornell University Press Voicing American Poetry
Book SynopsisThe most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emphasizes poetry's reliance on sound, which is prominent in ethnic American writings, new formalism, and...Trade ReviewThis is a fine study which demonstrates the innovative ways poets have tested the limits of poetry and the relationship between poet and audience.... As a teacher, reader, and writer of poetry who is watching the poetry community fragment and stagnate in unproductive ways, I find Wheeler's study an important contribution to the conversation that I hope will provide a framework by which we may incorporate these many differing methods of performing poetic voice. -- Heidi Czerwiec * North Dakota Quarterly *
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Ohio State University Press Scripting the Nation
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The University of Alabama Press After the Whale Melville in the Wake of MobyDick
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Duke University Press Chinese Poetry 2nd ed. Revised
Book SynopsisCovering the genres of Chinese poetry, this volume provides an introduction to the Chinese poetry. The sections of the volume are introduced by a short essay on the mode or genre of poem and is followed by a comprehensive bibliography. It is aimed at students of Chinese poetry.Trade Review“For three decades now, Wai-lim Yip has been a linking figure between American modernism (in-the-line-of-Pound) and Chinese traditions and practices form which that modernism has long drawn. His two classic American works—in the lovely way that classic, as a word and concept, can still resonate in Chinese context—are his Pound’s Cathay and Chinese Poetry.”—Jerome Rothenberg, from the introduction to Between Landscapes: Poems by Wai-lim Yip“Yip, himself a poet, captures the rhythm of Chinese nature poetry in his characteristically punctuated and contracted imagery. The inclusion of the word-for-word annotations is a feature that distinguishes the book from most anthologies of Chinese poetry in translation.”—Jing Wang, author of The Story of Stone
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Fordham University Press A Common Strangeness
Book SynopsisExamines poetic responses to the transition from the late Cold War period to the post-Cold War era of globalization, focusing on the work of Bei Dao and Yang Lian from China, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Dmitrii Prigov from Russia, and Charles Bernstein and Lyn Hejinian from the United States.Trade Review"This is an engaging and bold study, which combines skillful close reading with theoretical astuteness." -- Alexander K. Harrington, Durham University -The Russian Review "There is no doubt that A Common Strangeness, with its focal point in the aesthetic concept and device of estrangement, is a valuable contribution to recent scholarship that aims at finding new ways to look at the intricate network of relations of poetry to the world." -- -Cosima Bruno The China Quarterly "In this ambitious and rich work, Jacob Edmond explores the relationship between recent poetry and globalism. Rejecting both the traditional East/West binary and the local/global opposition which he sees as its replacement, Edmond maps out the middle ground- an area of contact and exchange in which seemingly disparate poets pursued a common poetics of strangeness in the post- Cold War years." -Slavic and East European Journal "The words transnational and globalization appear frequently within scholarship on contemporary poetry, but so far there have been few sustained attempts to narrate recent developments across more than two language-groups or geographical regions ... At least one person can now be said to fill the bill... Edmond shows himself to be thoroughly grounded in the relevant literary traditions, and whether a given poem is written in English, Russian, or Mandarin, he proves able to supply the kind of intensive, patient, erudite textual analysis that one associates with the Yale school back in its heyday." -- -Brian Reed Contemporary Literature "The strength of Edmond's study is the close readings of each poet, which are subtle and insightful across the broad range of national traditions he examines." --Joseph Acquisto in The Modern Language Review "In this superb study Jacob Edmond adeptly and convincingly unites the theory and practice of disparate writers seeking varying cultural philosophies of commonness and strangeness under the broad, all-encompassing umbrella of politics, literary theory, culture, art, and philosophy. His edifying investigation invites further avenues of inquiry." -Journal of Cold War Studies, MIT Press (Project Muse) "This book examines the changes in poetic discourses that have followed from the end of the Cold War and the rise of a global literature, and it engages with impressive competence in the fields of Chinese, American, and post-Soviet literary cultures... An understated, versatile, and clear exponent of poetic analysis and cultural commentary" --Andrew Kahn in the Slavic Review "This book is a remarkable accomplishment. It resists the fashionable solution to the problem it sets itself-it does not seek to dismantle the genre of the poem in deference to the authority of contexts." -Brian Glaser in symploke "Edmond's book offers a rich and thought-provoking study and stimulates comparatist research... the book offers an interesting juxtaposition of 'estranged' poets of various backgrounds and calls the reader's attention to important politically and culturally controversial trends in societies such as China, Russia, and the U.S. It opens up new research vistas by drawing scholarly attention to issues that have become increasingly important in the contemporary world where old oppositions are no longer operative" --Marina Grishakova and Mart Laanemets in Recherche litteraire / LiteraryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Yang Lian and the Flaneur in Exile 2. Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Poetic Correspondences 3. Lyn Hejinian and Russian Estrangement 4. Bei Dao and World Literature 5. Dmitri Prigov and Cross-Cultural Conceptualism 6. Charles Bernstein and Broken English Conclusion Notes Works Cited
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) German Poetry from 1750 to 1900 Goethe Holderlin
Book SynopsisThis anthology of German verse in English translation covers a period that includes perhaps two-thirds of the superlative poets of the German language. Here are 147 poems representing 27 poets from Matthias Claudius to Friedrich Nietzsche. The selection is representative, including both the universally known (Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin) and the less familiar (Brentano, Droste-Hulshoff, Holty, Hebbel, Storm). Among the translations are classics by Coleridge, Longfellow, and the Irish poet James Mangan.Table of ContentsForeword: Michael Hamburger Introduction: Robert M. Browning MATTHIAS CLAUDIAS (1740-1814) Der Säemann säet den Samen/The sower is sowing his seed (K. Negus) Abendlied/Evening Song (A. Gode) Die Sternseherin Lise/The Stargazing Maiden (S.Z. Buehne) Kriegslied/A Song of War (A. Bloch) Christiane (J.W. Thomas) Der Tod und das Mädchen/Death and the Girl (J.W. Thomas) Der Tod/Death (R.M. Browning) GOTTFRIED AUGUST BÜRGER (1747-1794) Lenore/Leonore (J.C. Mangan) LUDWIG CHRISTOPH HEINRICH HÖLTY (1748-1776) Auftrag/Mandate (G.C. Schoolfield) Die Schale der Vergessenheit/The Cup of Oblivion (G.C. Schoolfield) An den Abendstern/To the Evening Star (J.W. Thomas) JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832) Mailied/May Song (J.F. Nims) Willkommen und Abschied/The Meeting, The Departure (J.F. Nims) Im Herbst 1775/Autumn, 1775 (R.M. Browning) Prometheus (M. Hamburger) Mahomets Gesang/A Song to Mahomet (C. Middleton) Auf dem See/On the Lake (J.S. Dwight) An den Mond/To the Moon (J.F. Nims) Grenzen der Menschheit/Human Limits (M. Hamburger) Wandrers Nachtlied/Ein Gleiches/Wanderer's Night-Songs (H.W. Longfellow) Mignon (Kennst du das Land)/Mignon (You know that land) (J.F. Nims) Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt/Who Yearning Knows (S. Spender) Alles geben die Götter/The Gods Give Everything (S. Spender) Anakreons Grab/Anacreon's Grave (M. Hamburger) Natur und Kunst/Sonnet (M. Hamburger) Gefunden/In a Glade (R. Garnett) Wiederfinden/Reunion (C. Middleton) Proemion (E.A. Bowring) Urworte, Orphisch/Primeval Words, Orphic (M. Knight and J. Fabry) Selige Sehnsucht/Blessed Longing (M. Hamburger) Dauer im Wechsel/Permanence in Change (J.F. Nims) FRIEDRICH SCHILLER (1759-1803) Dithyrambe/The Visit of the Gods (S.T. Coleridge) Des Mädchens Klage/The Maiden's Plaint (J.C. Mangan) Der Ring des Polykrates/Polycrates and His Ring (J.C. Mangan) Das Glück/The Gifts of Fortune (A. Gode) Nänie/Nenia (A. Gode) JOHANN GAUDENZ VON SALIS-SEEWIS (1762-1834)Lied, zu singen bei einer Wasserfahrt/Song to be Sung During a Trip on the Water(G.C. Schoolfield)FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN (1770-1843)Hyperions Schicksalslied/Hyperion's Song of Fate(C. Middleton)Abendphantasie/Evening Fantasy(K. Negus)Menschenbeifall/Public Approval(K. Negus)An die jungen Dichter/To Young Poets(K. Negus)An die Parzen/To the Fates(M. Hamburger)Diotima (Du schweigst und duldest/Diotima (You suffer and keep silent)(M. Hamburger)Geh unter, schöne Sonne.../Go down, fair sun...(E. Henderson) Der Abschied. Zweite Fassung/The Farewell. Second Version (C. Middleton) Andenken/Remembrance (C. Middleton) Lebensalter/The Ages of Life (M. Hamburger) Hälfte des Lebens/Half of Life (W. Trask and A. Gode) FRIEDRICH VON HARDENBERG ("NOVALIS") (1772-1801)Hymnen an die Nacht/Hymns to Night (R.M. Browning) LUDWIG TIECK (1773-1853) Liebe/Love (H. Salinger) CLEMENS BRENTANO (1778-1842) Der Spinnerin Lied/The Spinstress' Song (A. Gode) Abendständchen/Serenade (H. Salinger) Wenn ich ein Bettelmann wär/If I were a beggarman (D.B. Dickens) Am Berge hoch in Lüften/Adieu, Heart's Love, Adieu! (R. Garnett) Heil'ge Nacht, heil'ge Nacht/Holy night, holy night! (D.B. Dickens) Nachklänge Beethovenscher Musik/Echoes of Beethoven's Music (G.C. Schoolfield) JOSEPH FREIHERR VON EICHENDORFF (1778-1857) Wünschelrute/Divining Rod (A. Turner) Das zerbrochene Ringlein/The Broken Ring (G.H. Chase) Der Abend/Evening (E. Morgan) Nachts/Nocturne (H. Salinger) Mondnacht/Night of Moon (G.H. Chase) Sehnsucht/Longing (G.H. Chase) Der alte Garten/The Old Garden (W. Heider) Die Nachtblume/Night (I.S. MacInnes) Waldgespräch/Conversation in the Forest (G. Gillhoff) Auf meines Kindes Tod/On the Death of my Child (E. Dvoretzky) Memento mori! (R.M. Browning) Todeslust/Death Wish (R.M. Browning) JUSTINUS KERNER (1786-1862) Der schwere Traum/Oppressive Dream (J. Fitzell) LUDWIG UHLAND (1787-1862) Frühlingsglaube/Spring Faith (J.W. Thomas) Das Schloß am Meer/The Castle by the Sea (H.W. Longfellow) Der gute Kamerad/The Good Comrade (M. Münsterberg and C.T. Brooks) Der Wirtin Töchterlein/The Hostess' Daughter (M. Münsterberg) FRIEDRICH RÜCKERT (1788-1866) Barbarossa (J.W. Thomas) WILHELM MÜLLER (1794-1827) Der Lindenbaum/The Linden Tree (J. Fitzell) Wanderschaft/The Journeyman's Song (F. Owen) AUGUST GRAF VON PLATEN-HALLERMÜNDE (1797-1848) Tristan (H. Salinger) Wie rafft'ich mich auf/Remorse (H.W. Longfellow) Venedig liegt nur noch im Land der Träume/Venice, mere shadow of her elder day (C.T. Brooks) Der Pilgrim vor St. Just/The Pilgrim at St. Yuste (E. Morgan) ANNETTE VON DROSTE-HÜLSHOFF (1797-1848) Der Weiher/The Pond (H. Salinger) Die Mergelgrube/The Marl-pit (J.B. Dallett) Im Grase/In the Grass (U. Prideaux) HEINRICH HEINE (1797-1856) Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam/A Spruce is standing lonely (M. Knight) Wenn ich an deinem Hause/When I go past your window (H. Draper) Ich wollte, meine Lieder/I wish that all my love-songs (L. Untermeyer) Mir träumte wieder der alte Traum/I dreamt the old, old dream anew (H. Salinger) Die Lotusblume ängstigt/The lotus flower is drooping (H. Draper) Aus alten Märchen winkt es/From olden tales it flings out (H. Draper) Der Asra/The Asra (L. Untermeyer) Helena (E. Lazarus) Gedächtnisfeier/Memorial Day (M. Knight)
£30.39
Liverpool University Press Lucretius De Rerum Natura IV
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface; Bibliography & Abbreviations; Introduction; Parallel Latin Text and English Translation; Commentary
£29.95
Oldcastle Books Ltd Southern Cross Crime
Book SynopsisAustralian and New Zealand crime and thriller writing - collectively referred to as Southern Cross Crime - is booming globally, with antipodean authors regularly featuring on awards and bestseller lists, such as Eleanor Catton's Booker Prize winning The Luminaries and Jane Harper's big commercial hit, The Dry, winner...Trade ReviewGroundbreaking and eye-opening -- Mark Sanderson * Times *Southern Cross Crime is informative, knowledgeable, wide ranging. If you have any ideas about writing a crime novel you need to read it, if you enjoy reading crime novels, you need to read it, if you simply love reading, you need to read it. This is not a dry as dust tome - the writer's encyclopaedic knowledge is carried lightly... a box of the finest literary chocolates -- Renée Taylor * Renée's Wednesday Busk *A valuable and illuminative resource for crime fiction fans everywhere * Book'd Out *
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Poetry of Norman MacCaig
Book SynopsisNorman MacCaig''s poetry is clear and lucid and filled with the shifting light of Edinburgh and Assynt. MacCaig stands in the first rank of twentieth-century poets: Seamus Heaney said of him, He means poetry to me. Roderick Watson''s SCOTNOTE study guide will enhance any student''s enjoyment of MacCaig''s poetry, as well as providing a deeper understanding of the poet''s craft.
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Cambridge University Press Birdsong Speech and Poetry
Book SynopsisIn the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the ''science of birdsong'' as it developed from the ''ingenious'' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.
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Cambridge University Press Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry
Book SynopsisChallenging established narratives of literary history, this book investigates how the earliest known Greek poets (seventh to fifth centuries BCE) signposted their debts to their predecessors and prior traditions placing markers in their works for audiences to recognise (much like the ''Easter eggs'' of modern cinema). Within antiquity, such signposting is usually considered the preserve of later literary cultures, closely linked with the development of libraries, literacy and writing. But Thomas Nelson shows that these devices were already deeply ingrained in oral archaic Greek poetry, deconstructing the artificial boundary between a supposedly ''primal'' archaic literature and a supposedly ''sophisticated'' book culture of Hellenistic Alexandria and Rome. In three interlocking case studies, he highlights how poets from Homer to Pindar employed the language of hearsay, memory and time to index their allusive relationships, as they variously embraced, reworked and challenged their inhTable of ContentsI. Introduction; II. The Pre-Alexandrian footnote; III. Poetic Memory; IV. Time for allusion; V. Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Poetry in Italy
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Cambridge University Press Claudian and the Roman Epic Tradition
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Cambridge University Press Texts and Violence in the Roman World
Book SynopsisExamines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christian martyrdom narratives of Late Antiquity. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Greek and Roman literature and culture, and of cultural studies more broadly.Table of ContentsIntroduction – reading Roman violence Monica R. Gale and J. H. D. Scourfield; 1. Comic violence and the citizen body David Konstan and Shilpa Raval; 2. Contemplating violence: Lucretius' 'De rerum natura' Monica R. Gale; 3. Discipline and punish – Horatian satire and the formation of the self Paul Allen Miller; 4. Make war not love: militia amoris and domestic violence in Roman elegy Donncha O'Rourke; 5. Violence and resistance in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' Carole E. Newlands; 6. Tales of the unexpurgated (Cert PG) – Seneca's Audionasties (Controversiae 2.5, 10.4) John Henderson; 7. Dismemberment and the critics – Seneca's 'Phaedra' Duncan F. Kennedy; 8. Violence and alienation in Lucan's 'Pharsalia' – the case of Caesar Efrossini Spentzou; 9. Tacitus and the language of violence Bruce J. Gibson; 10. Cruel narrative: Apuleius' 'Golden Ass' William Fitzgerald; 11. Violence and the Christian heroine – two narratives of desire J. H. D. Scourfield.
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Cambridge University Press Romanticism and Theatrical Experience
Book SynopsisBringing together studies in theater history, print culture, and literature, this book offers a new consideration of Romantic-period writing in Britain. Recovering a wide range of theatrical criticism from newspapers and periodicals, some of it overlooked since its original publication in Regency London, Jonathan Mulrooney explores new contexts for the work of the actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats. Kean''s ongoing presence as a figure in the theatrical news presented readers with a provocative re-imagining of personal subjectivity and a reworking of the British theatrical tradition. Hazlitt and Keats, in turn, imagined the essayist and the poet along similar theatrical lines, reframing Romantic prose and poetics. Taken together, these case studies illustrate not only theater''s significance to early nineteenth-century Londoners, but also the importance of theater''s textual legacies for our own re-assessment of ''Romanticism'' as a historical and culturalTrade Review'The value of (this book) is in its meticulous historicism, and its careful attention to the rarely acknowledged role of theatre and theatrical affairs in the lives of its authors.' Chris Townsend, Times Literary Supplement'Mulrooney makes a valuable contribution to Romantic-period studies through his sustained attention to the ways in which public and private experiences were transformed by both print and performance … This is a beautifully written and important book.' Susan Valladares, The Review of English Studies'This truly important book - generous in its acknowledgment of other scholars and energizing in its vivid, sharp, entertaining style - expands our sense of Romantic era theater and print culture, advances our sense of Cockneyism in the period, and offers fresh, powerful accounts of Haz-litt and Keats.' Jeffrey N. Cox, The Wordsworth CircleTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Making of British Theater Audiences: 1. Theater and the daily news; 2. Britain's theatrical press 1800–1830; Part II. Theater and Late Romanticism: 3. Edmund Kean's controversy; 4. Hazlitt's romantic occasionalism; 5. Keats, Kean, and the poetics of interruption; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Sexti Properti
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Cambridge University Press The New Cambridge Companion to T S Eliot
Book SynopsisDrawing on the latest developments in scholarship and criticism, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot opens up fresh avenues of appreciation and inquiry to a global twenty-first century readership. Emphasizing major works and critical issues, this collection of newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars provides seven full chapters reassessing Eliot's poetry and drama; explores important contemporary critical issues that were previously untreated, such as the significance of gender and sexuality; and challenges received accounts of his at times controversial critical reception. Complete with a chronology of Eliot's life and work and an up-to-date select bibliography, this authoritative and accessible introduction to Eliot's complete oeuvre will be an essential resource for students.Trade Review'This volume replaces the 1994 Companion, since when much of Eliot's prose, letters and uncollected poems have finally been published, accompanied by (the editor claims in his preface) a 'seismic upheaval in Eliot scholarship and criticism'.' David Geall, Huntington Library Quarterly'Having benefited from current biographical and theoretical advances in scholarship, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot provides an authoritative and coherent overview of Eliot's career as a poet, critic, and dramatist. The essays reassess and reinterpret Eliot's whole oeuvre from fresh angles. Concentrating on fundamental and emerging problems in Eliot studies, this latest Cambridge Companion innovatively sparks inspiration on topics that were not covered in the previous Companion, such as gender and sexuality. Thus, the collection reflects recent shifts in focus and a changing framework for the now thriving field of Eliot studies.' Chen Lin, Journal of Modern LiteratureTable of Contents1. Unravelling Eliot Jason Harding; 2. Eliot: form and allusion Michael O'Neill; 3. Prufrock and Other Observations Anne Stillman; 4. Banishing the backward devils: Eliot's quatrain poems and 'Gerontion' Rick de Villiers; 5. With automatic hand: The Waste Land Lawrence Rainey; 6. 'Let these words answer': Ash-Wednesday and the Ariel poems Sarah Kennedy; 7. Four Quartets Steve Ellis; 8. 'A precise way of thinking and feeling': Eliot and verse drama Anthony Cuda; 9. T. S. Eliot as literary critic Helen Thaventhiran; 10. T. S. Eliot's social criticism John Xiros Cooper; 11. Gender and sexuality Gail McDonald; 12. Eliot's philosophical studies: Bergson, Frazer, Bradley Jewel Spears Brooker; 13. Anglo-Catholic in religion: T. S. Eliot and Christianity Barry Spurr.
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Taylor & Francis An Introduction to Pope Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Restoration and EighteenthCentury Poetry 16601780 Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Swift Routledge Revivals
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Palgrave Macmillan Blake and Modern Literature
Book SynopsisWilliam Blake is one of the most important influences on twentieth-century literature. This study will ask why he is a figure central to the Modernist re-definition of past art. He also appears to be an acceptable sage for postmodernists, he can be associated with an opposition to authority without imposing one version of his own mythology.Trade Review'this first full-length study of Blake's influence on twentieth-century literature is fascinating in it's range of reference.' - The Use of English '...the most consistent and comprehensive text yet on Blake's literary influence.' - Jason Whittaker, Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Blake, Between Romanticism, Modernism and Postmodernism Zoas and Moods: Myth and Aspects of the Mind in Blake and Yeats Eliot between Blake and Yeats Blake and Oppositional Identity in Yeats, Auden and Dylan Thomas Blake and Joyce Deposits and Rehearsals: Repetition and Redemption in The Anathémata of David Jones: A Comparison and Contrast with Blake Blake, Postmodernity and Postmodernism Joyce Carey: Getting It From the Horse's Mouth Two American Disciples of Blake: Robert Duncan and Allen Ginsberg Postmodern Myths and Lies: Iain Sinclair and Angela Carter Salman Rushdie, Myth and Postcolonial Romanticism Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Sonnets and the English Woman Writer 15601621
Book SynopsisPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Gender, Genre and Attribution in Early Modern Women's Sonnet Sequences and Collections 'In a mirrour clere': Anne Lock's Miserere mei Deus as Admonitory Protestantism Generating Absence: The Sonnets of Mary Stuart The Politics of Prosopopoeia: The Pandora Sonnets The Politics of Withdrawal: Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Lindamira's Complaint Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexTrade Review'Smith shows that precedents of published women's writing can be as inhibiting as enabling, and therefore disrupts any smoothly progressive model of women's literary history.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Rosalind Smith has produced a well-organized and effective work, with much to recommend it...The strength of the work lies not only in its clearly defined remit but also in Smith's ability to range effortlessly from close textual analysis to a consideration of the wider context for these works, and to dovetail literary criticism with historical insight.' - Lucinda Becker, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction: Gender, Genre and Attribution in Early Modern Women's Sonnet Sequences and Collections 'In a mirrour clere': Anne Lock's Miserere mei Deus as Admonitory Protestantism Generating Absence: The Sonnets of Mary Stuart The Politics of Prosopopoeia: The Pandora Sonnets The Politics of Withdrawal: Lady Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Lindamira's Complaint Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World; G.Sullivan & M.Floyd-Wilson Spongy Brains and Material Memories; J.Sutton Marvell's Amazing Garden; M.Thomas Crane The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History; E.D.Harvey Affective Irony: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage; S.Mullaney Inconstancy: Changeable Affections in Stuart Dramas of Contract; K.Rowe The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels , and Severed Heads; J.Egan 'My liquid journey': The Frontispiece to Coryat's Crudities (1611); D.J.Baker Becoming the Landscape: The Ecology of the Passions in the Legend of Temperance; G.Kern Paster 'The Material Point of Poesy': Reading, Writing and Sensation in Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie K.Craik Spelling the Body; T.Pollard Humanist Habitats; Or, 'Eating Well' with Thomas More's Utopia ; J.Yates IndexTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: Inhabiting the Body, Inhabiting the World; G.Sullivan & M.Floyd-Wilson Spongy Brains and Material Memories; J.Sutton Marvell's Amazing Garden; M.Thomas Crane The Souls of Animals: John Donne's Metempsychosis and Early Modern Natural History; E.D.Harvey Affective Irony: Toward an Emotional Logic of the Elizabethan Stage; S.Mullaney Inconstancy: Changeable Affections in Stuart Dramas of Contract; K.Rowe The East in British-American Writing: English Identity, John Smith's True Travels , and Severed Heads; J.Egan 'My liquid journey': The Frontispiece to Coryat's Crudities (1611); D.J.Baker Becoming the Landscape: The Ecology of the Passions in the Legend of Temperance; G.Kern Paster 'The Material Point of Poesy': Reading, Writing and Sensation in Puttenham's The Art of English Poesie K.Craik Spelling the Body; T.Pollard Humanist Habitats; Or, 'Eating Well' with Thomas More's Utopia ; J.Yates Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Experiencing Poetry
Book SynopsisHow do we experience poetry as readers? What is it in the text that provokes particular reactions, and how can we methodologically reveal these effects?Introducing an evidence-based approach to poetics, this book explores the psychological effects of poetic form and content, with an emphasis on how real readers respond to and experience poetry. Engaging with texts from diverse cultural and historical settings, it covers the basics of stylistic theory while at the same time outlining the specific methods required to categorize readers' cognitive, emotional and attitudinal reactions. Chapters guide you through engaging experiments, covering key concepts such as significance, averages, deviation, outliers and reliability, and bring poetry to life by drawing on YouTube performances and musical renditions of the texts. With further readings, a glossary of key terms and ancillary resources providing an overview of research methodology, this book equips you with all the linguistic and analyTrade ReviewThe chapters present a number of interesting methodological approaches that the authors themselves have implemented...As with all kinds of linguistic experience and ability, the evidence from direct and indirect assessment will show how, in the experiencing of poetry, language interfaces with other faculties of the mind. * Scientific Study of Literature *Experiencing Poetry welcomes readers into the field of empirical literary studies by connecting familiar aspects of poetry with scholarly concepts and research methods. The result is an engaging book for students or scholars who are new to the psychological study of poetry and its effects. -- Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USAExperiencing Poetry by Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokova is a new volume exploring the concept of ‘psychopoetics’, ‘the study of the psychological experience of literature, and more specifically, of poetry in its various aspects and meanings’. Using stylistic approaches and empirical methods to analyse a range of poems for their prototypical features against established theoretical models, readers are presented with an insightful discussion of poems under novel chapter headings such as Poetry is Madness and Poetry is Prettiness. -- Marina Lambrou, Kingston University, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface Foreword, David I. Hanauer Acknowledgments 1. Poetry is Structure 2. Poetry is Madness 3. Poetry is Prettiness 4. Poetry is Surprise 5. Poetry is Revelation 6. Poetry is Power 7. Poetry is Persistence 8. Methods to Study Psychopoetics 9. Toward a General Theory of Psychopoetics Bibliography Glossary Ancillary Resources Questionnaire Samples Dimensions of Foregrounding Effects Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Experiencing Poetry
Book SynopsisHow do we experience poetry as readers? What is it in the text that provokes particular reactions, and how can we methodologically reveal these effects?Introducing an evidence-based approach to poetics, this book explores the psychological effects of poetic form and content, with an emphasis on how real readers respond to and experience poetry. Engaging with texts from diverse cultural and historical settings, it covers the basics of stylistic theory while at the same time outlining the specific methods required to categorize readers' cognitive, emotional and attitudinal reactions. Chapters guide you through engaging experiments, covering key concepts such as significance, averages, deviation, outliers and reliability, and bring poetry to life by drawing on YouTube performances and musical renditions of the texts. With further readings, a glossary of key terms and ancillary resources providing an overview of research methodology, this book equips you with all the linguistic and analyTrade ReviewExperiencing Poetry welcomes readers into the field of empirical literary studies by connecting familiar aspects of poetry with scholarly concepts and research methods. The result is an engaging book for students or scholars who are new to the psychological study of poetry and its effects. -- Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona, USAThe chapters present a number of interesting methodological approaches that the authors themselves have implemented...As with all kinds of linguistic experience and ability, the evidence from direct and indirect assessment will show how, in the experiencing of poetry, language interfaces with other faculties of the mind. * Scientific Study of Literature *Experiencing Poetry by Willie van Peer and Anna Chesnokova is a new volume exploring the concept of ‘psychopoetics’, ‘the study of the psychological experience of literature, and more specifically, of poetry in its various aspects and meanings’. Using stylistic approaches and empirical methods to analyse a range of poems for their prototypical features against established theoretical models, readers are presented with an insightful discussion of poems under novel chapter headings such as Poetry is Madness and Poetry is Prettiness. -- Marina Lambrou, Kingston University, UKTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface Foreword, David I. Hanauer Acknowledgments 1. Poetry is Structure 2. Poetry is Madness 3. Poetry is Prettiness 4. Poetry is Surprise 5. Poetry is Revelation 6. Poetry is Power 7. Poetry is Persistence 8. Methods to Study Psychopoetics 9. Toward a General Theory of Psychopoetics Bibliography Glossary Ancillary Resources Questionnaire Samples Dimensions of Foregrounding Effects Index
£25.64
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisTaking readers through the various stages of criticism of Emily Dickinson's poetry, this guide identifies both the essential critical texts and the key debates within them. The texts chosen for discussion represent the canonical readings which have typically shaped the area of Dickinson studies throughout the twentieth- and twenty-first century and provide a lens through which to view current critical trends. Chapters focus on style and meaning, gender and sexuality, history and race, religion and hymn culture, and performance and popular culture. In all, this guide serves as a user-friendly reference tool to the vast body of criticism on Dickinson to date by suggesting formative starting points and underlining essential critical highlights. It provides students and scholars of Dickinson with a sense of where these critical texts can be placed in relation to one another, as well as an understanding of pivotal moments within the history of reception of Dickinson from late nineteeTrade ReviewMorgan expertly guides readers through the history of Dickinson criticism and provides them with key insights that help illuminate the most pertinent issues and recurring debates that have shaped and continue to shape Dickinson’s reputation. * Dr Páraic Finnerty, Reader in English and American Literature, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Biographies and publication 1.1 Biographers 1.2 Dickinson as poet: Self-publication and early publication 2. Style and Meaning 2.1 Early criticism 2.2 Later revaluations 3 The female tradition, gender and sexuality 3.1 The female tradition 3.2 Writing the body 3.3 Queering Dickinson 4 History, Civil War and race 4.1 Historicizing Dickinson 4.2 The US Civil War 4.3 Dickinson, ethnicity and race 5 Religion and hymn culture 5.1 Rejecting orthodoxy 5.2 Religion and aesthetics 5.3 Dickinson and hymnody 6 Performance and reception 6.1 Performance in Dickinson’s Poetry 6.2 Dickinson and popular Culture 6.3 Digital Dickinson and international reception Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Lulu.com Poetics
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Palgrave Macmillan Poetry and Pedagogy
Book SynopsisWhy Teach Contemporary Poetries?; J.Retallack & J.Spahr Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy; A.Golding FFFFFalling with Poetry: the Centrifugal Classroom; L.Keller Reading for Affect in the Lyric; C.Altieri )Writing Writing(; J.Monroe New World Studies and the Limits of National Literatures; R.Greene What Hawai'i's 'Local' Poetry Has Taught Me About Pedagogy; M.Young Post-literary Poetry, Counter-performance, and Micro-poetries; M.Damon The Difficult Poem; C.Bernstein Deformance and Interpretation; L.Samuel & J.McGann Nourbese Philip's 'Discourse on the Logic of Language'; M.McMorris The Didactic; L.Shaw Stages of Encounter with a Difficult Text; L.Hejinian 'My Susan Howe', or, 'Howe to Teach'; G.M.Jenkins Language as Visible Vapor; J.Keller Teaching Kimiko Hahn's The Unbearable Heart ; J.Chang 'Gumshoe Poetry'; J.Osman A Case for Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom; H.Maxim Sex Dolls, Mice, and Mother's Suitcase; D.Owens Creative Wreading: A Primer; C.Bernstein Understanding AltTable of ContentsWhy Teach Contemporary Poetries?; J.Retallack & J.Spahr Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy; A.Golding FFFFFalling with Poetry: the Centrifugal Classroom; L.Keller Reading for Affect in the Lyric; C.Altieri )Writing Writing(; J.Monroe New World Studies and the Limits of National Literatures; R.Greene What Hawai'i's 'Local' Poetry Has Taught Me About Pedagogy; M.Young Post-literary Poetry, Counter-performance, and Micro-poetries; M.Damon The Difficult Poem; C.Bernstein Deformance and Interpretation; L.Samuel & J.McGann Nourbese Philip's 'Discourse on the Logic of Language'; M.McMorris The Didactic; L.Shaw Stages of Encounter with a Difficult Text; L.Hejinian 'My Susan Howe', or, 'Howe to Teach'; G.M.Jenkins Language as Visible Vapor; J.Keller Teaching Kimiko Hahn's The Unbearable Heart ; J.Chang 'Gumshoe Poetry'; J.Osman A Case for Poetry in the Foreign Language Classroom; H.Maxim Sex Dolls, Mice, and Mother's Suitcase; D.Owens Creative Wreading: A Primer; C.Bernstein Understanding Alternative Poetries; H.Mullen He Has More Than One Ear; D.Glancy Notes Towards Exploding 'Exploding Text: Poetry Workshop'; B.Holman Some Places to Find new Poetries and Pedagogies Notes on Contributors
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Pearson Education Lyrical Ballads York Notes Advanced everything
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Edinburgh University Press Joe Brainards Art
Book SynopsisThis collection offers the first place for the importance of Brainard's poetry, collaborations and art to be recognised for their contribution and influence, all in one place.
£33.30
Edinburgh University Press Conversations with New York School Poets
Book SynopsisIn these exclusive interviews, New York School poets reveal what the New York School meant to them and how its legacy continues today.
£106.25
Edinburgh University Press Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place
Book SynopsisThe first book-length literary-geographical study of late modernist poetry.
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Edinburgh University Press Poetics and the Gift
Book SynopsisDiagnoses the Western poetic tradition's determinative association of poetry with giving.Trade Review"An ingenious reading of Derrida against himself frames a highly original exploration of responses to the notion of poetry as gift, from the Homeric Hymns to Flarf, showing its foundational status for the Western tradition and the possibility of distinguishing a realm of art and imagination from the prose of material existence." -Jonathan Culler, author of Theory of the Lyric
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Edinburgh University Press The TeaTable Miscellany
Book SynopsisThe first ever edition of the Tea-Table Miscellany, the seminal collection in defining eighteenth-century Scottish songTrade Review"The new volume of The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay is a magnificent addition and a triumph for the editorial team. For readers familiar with Ramsay's work, but frustrated by the absence of a proper scholarly edition, this volume will more than satisfy. For those coming to Ramsay for the first time, it will introduce them to the man, his life and work, his deft editing practices, the rich musical scene in eighteenth-century Edinburgh and the significance of tea tables. The expert annotation illuminates his textual and musical choices, decisions and sources. Three hundred years after its first appearance, The Tea-Table Miscellany has been recovered and rehabilitated for the twenty-first century." -Fiona Stafford, University of Oxford
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Stanford University Press The Connected Condition: Romanticism and the
Book SynopsisThe Romantic poet's intense yearning to share thoughts and feelings often finds expression in a style that thwarts a connection with readers. Yohei Igarashi addresses this paradox by reimagining Romantic poetry as a response to the beginnings of the information age. Data collection, rampant connectivity, and efficient communication became powerful social norms during this period. The Connected Condition argues that poets responded to these developments by probing the underlying fantasy: the perfect transfer of thoughts, feelings, and information, along with media that might make such communication possible. This book radically reframes major poets and canonical poems. Igarashi considers Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a stenographer, William Wordsworth as a bureaucrat, Percy Shelley amid social networks, and John Keats in relation to telegraphy, revealing a shared attraction and skepticism toward the dream of communication. Bringing to bear a singular combination of media studies, the history of communication, sociology, rhetoric, and literary history, The Connected Condition proposes new accounts of literary difficulty and Romanticism. Above all, this book shows that the Romantic poets have much to teach us about living with the connected condition and the fortunes of literature in it.Trade Review"The Connected Condition is a brilliant, nuanced, and elegantly written work on media as concept and practice in the Romantic period. Writing about the 'dream of communication,' Yohei Igarashi restages through intriguing research and deft theoretical argument what earlier generations of Romanticists hallowed as imagination."—Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara"This elegantly framed book cuts to the core of what the literary is, where it came from in English letters, and what it's for today. Yohei Igarashi's Romantic authors are pioneers seized by the quintessentially modern problem of communication—its imperative, norms, and all but certain failures."—Lisa Gitelman, New York University"The connections forged in the pages of The Connected Condition are revelatory, not least because they are pursued with tact, wit, and serious learning. As a critic, Yohei Igarashi combines the gifts and the practices of several generations of scholars, and he makes us think about the long-term gestation of our most recent preoccupations with communication, information, and efficiency. Never has the power of the norm appeared more exciting."—Kevis Goodman, University of California, Berkeley"A transformative contribution to the vital subfield of Romantic media studies....What emerges as a result of Igarashi's innovative methodology is no less than an entirely original vision of Romantic poetics as a unique kind of communicative order."—Andrew Burkett, Romantic Circles"Igarashi's timely new book ... takes a fresh look at the conflicted relationship between poetic distinction and the 'fantasy of perfectible contact' by considering it in conjunction with the emergence of a modern communications order...The Connected Condition forwards a way of doing media studies-informed poetry criticism... Igarashi's chapters convincingly demonstrate that norms of efficiency influence Romantic formal practices, often in surprising ways."—Alexis Chema, Genre"Igarashi presents a persuasive vision of the Romantic period as a proto-networked era and these Romantic poets as thinkers and writers who engaged with the conventions and fantasies of communication in their period."—Susan Shelangoskie, Nineteenth-Century Contexts"The impact of 'reimagin[ing] Romantic poeticity as shaped by the modern world of communication' is, I believe, even larger than Igarashi would hope. The interpretations offered at the level of detail throughout this book, as to how theories of communication enter into specific passages of poetry, transform 'Romanticism' as we know it. But The Connected Condition does much more as well . . . examining the effects of living in a communicative regime, using its technologies on a daily, habitual basis, and the effects of 'internalizing the logic associated with efficient communications media and technologies' so that even the activity of protesting against that logic must take heed of its forms."—Laura Mandell, The Wordsworth Circle"The scope of sociological concerns that Igarashi brings to the fore means that... this book will be of interest.... As Igarashi points out at the end of his Shelley chapter and in his conclusion, Romantic ambivalence about media, as it is instantiated in poetry, offers a way to cope with the alienation of their—and our—communication regime."—Thora Brylowe, Keats-Shelley Journal"An erudite and agile consideration of medium thinking in Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Igarashi's book also contains a meditation on the reflexive poetics of communication in Keats's Hyperion, an award-winning study in its earlier, article form."—Orrin N. C. Wang, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Dream of Communication 1. Scribble-Scrabble Genius: Coleridge, Transcription, and the Shorthand Effect 2. Wordsworth and Bureaucratic Form 3. Shelley amid the Age of Separations; or, a Poetry of Ambiversion for Networked Life 4. Keats's Ways: The Dark Passages of Mediation and Giving Up Hyperion Conclusion: Communication and Literary Competence, Anew
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Manchester University Press Polysituatedness
Book SynopsisJohn Kinsella is one of the pre-eminent poets writing today; Polysituatedness provides a sequel to his critical work Disclosed Poetics. If offers an approach to creating poems and literary texts constituted by multiple places, considering the relationships that occur between place, individual and the natural environment. -- .
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Manchester University Press A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English
Book SynopsisThis volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016). The full-length Introduction examines English Renaissance pastoral against the history of the mode from antiquity to the present, with its multifarious themes and social affinities. The study covers many genres – eclogue, lyric, georgic, country-house poem, ballad, romantic epic, prose romance – and major practitioners – Theocritus, Virgil, Sidney, Spenser, Drayton and Milton. It also charts the circulation of pastoral texts, with implications for all early modern poetry. All poems in the Anthology were edited from the original texts; the Companion documents the sources and variant readings in unprecedented detail for a cross-section of early modern poetry. Includes notes on the poets and analytical indices. The Companion is indispensable not only to users of the Anthology but to all students and advanced scholars of Renaissance poetry.Trade Review‘Professor Chaudhuri has now produced the largest anthology of pastoral poetry yet published, a major collection in every sense, which illustrates the broad historical development outlined in his concise introduction, but with an unexpected diversity. It comprises 277 items, ranging from an anonymous 1588 translation of Theocritus to poems from Charles Cotton published posthumously in 1689… In sum, this wonderfully wide-ranging collection ought to be in every library of English literature. Congratulations are due to the editor and publisher, who have also published Chaudhuri's complementary A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance (2018). The appearance of both volumes will make lovers of pastoral, present and future, deeply indebted to Sukanta Chaudhuri.’Maria Delgado, Times Higher Education‘In sum, this wonderfully wide-ranging collection ought to be in every library of English literature. Congratulations are due to the editor and publisher, who have also published Chaudhuri’s complementary A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance (2018). The appearance of both volumes will make lovers of pastoral, present and future, deeply indebted to Sukanta Chaudhuri.’Brian Vickers, School of Advanced Study, University of London, The Review of English Studies‘…this wonderfully wide-ranging collection ought to be in every library of English literature. Congratulations are due to the editor and publisher, who have also published Chaudhuri’s complementary A Companion to Pastoral Poetry of the English Renaissance (2018). The appearance of both volumes will make lovers of pastoral, present and future, deeply indebted to Sukanta Chaudhuri.’Brian Vickers, University of London, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 70, Issue 295, June 2019 -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionI: PastoralII: TextTextual notes Notes on authors Analytical indices (A) Genres (B) Themes (C) Pastoral and other fictional names (D) Mythological names and allusions (E) Biblical names and allusions (F) Historical and other personal names and allusions (G) Place-names (geographical and mythological)Index
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Manchester University Press Contemporary Chaucer Across the Centuries
Book SynopsisThis unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The chapters are linked by the organic and naturally occurring affinities that emerge from Trigg's ongoing legacy; containing diverse methodological approaches and themes, they engage with Chaucer through ecocriticism, medieval literary and historical criticism, and medievalism. The contributors, trailblazing international specialists in their respective fields, honour Trigg's distinctive and energetic mode of enquiry (the symptomatic long history) and intellectual contribution to the humanities. At the same time, their approaches exemplify shifting trends in Chaucer scholarship. Like Chaucer's pilgrims, these scholars speak to and alongside each other, but their essays are also attentive to 'hearing Chaucer speak' then, now and in the future.Trade Review'This collection will interest all readers of Chaucer. It is a fitting tribute, in the range andquality of its scholarship, to Stephanie Trigg, author of the great Congenial Souls (2001)… This book is a celebration of a great scholar, put together with care, containing scholarship of permanent value.'Renaissance Quarterly -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction – Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry and Melissa Raine1 Identifying, and identifying with, Chaucer – Paul Strohm2 First encounter: ‘snail horn perception’ in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde – Elizabeth Robertson3 Sir Thopas’s mourning maidens – Helen Cooper4 Chaucerian rhyme-breaking – Ruth Evans5 ‘Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face?’ – Stephanie Downes6 Heavy atmosphere – Jeffrey Jerome Cohen7 Hunting and fortune in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Frank Grady8 The implausible plausibility of the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn – Thomas A. Prendergast9 Caxton in the middle of English – David Matthews10 ‘Hail graybeard bard’: Chaucer in the nineteenth-century popular consciousness – Stephen Knight11 Chaucer as Catholic child in nineteenth-century English reception – Andrew Lynch12 Flesh and stone: William Morris’s News from Nowhere and Chaucer’s dream visions – John M. Ganim13 ‘In remembrance of his persone’: transhistorical empathy and the Chaucerian face – Louise D’Arcens14 Textual face: cognition as recognition – James SimpsonIndex
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Manchester University Press The Heat of Beowulf
Book SynopsisThe heat of Beowulf develops a new approach to the aesthetics of Beowulf by engaging with the work of twentieth-century poets Robin Blaser and Jack Spicer, whose avant-garde poetics were informed by a serious encounter with the poem in the seminar of medievalist Arthur G. Brodeur. By considering Blaser’s and Spicer’s poetics as they were shaped by their encounter with Beowulf, the book is able to open up questions about the non-representational poetics of the poem, rebooting a mid-century approach to aesthetics on a new critical trajectory. The book considers the poem’s aesthetics through relationship translation theory, as well as early medieval discourses of sensory-affective experience and twentieth-century phenomenology. The heat of Beowulf reexamines the scholarship on Old English poetics from the mid-twentieth century as it intersected with post-war avant-garde poetics, and how understanding these critical histories can reshape how we read Beowulf now.Table of ContentsIntroduction: translative comparative poetics 1 The aesthetics of Beowulf in the middle of the twentieth century 2 ‘Heat’, early medieval aesthetics, and multisensory complexion in Beowulf 3 The heat of earmsceapen style: translatability and compound diction 4 ‘Real cliffs’: variation and lexical kinetics 5 Narrating heat in a hot world Afterword Appendix: catalog of ‘fire’ and ‘heat’ words in Beowulf Index
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Manchester University Press The Early Spenser, 1554–80: 'Minde on Honour
Book SynopsisBrink’s provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx’s described as ‘Elizabeth’s arse-kissing poet’. In this readable and informative account, Spenser is depicted as the protégé of a circle of London clergymen, who expected him to take holy orders. Brink shows that the young Spenser was known to Alexander Nowell, author of Nowell’s Catechism and Dean of St. Paul’s. Significantly revising the received biography, Brink argues that that it was Harvey alone who orchestrated Familiar Letters (1580). He used this correspondence to further his career and invented the portrait of Spenser as his admiring disciple. Contextualising Spenser’s life by comparisons with Shakespeare and Sir Walter Ralegh, Brink shows that Spenser shared with Sir Philip Sidney an allegiance to the early modern chivalric code. His departure for Ireland was a high point, not an exile.Trade Review'In what is arguably the most important contribution to Spenser studies since Andrew Hadfield’s landmark biography, Jean Brink has rendered a superb service to the field, filling in blanks in the poet’s life and opening up fresh lines of inquiry for future scholars. Brink’s account of the 1560s and 1570s is exemplary in its scholarly scrupulousness. A sustained analysis of Spenser’s schooldays and undergraduate experiences, a meticulous reading of The Shepheardes Calender and a firm putting of Gabriel Harvey in his proper, if less witty and familiar place are just some of the highlights of this splendid monograph. It is a work that is sure to be of lasting impact. Brink is less interested in Spenser’s access to Ireland prior to 1580 than some of her readers will be, but she opens a gateway into the poet’s early encounter with that country that her counterparts have yet to fully explore ... We speak nowadays of ‘research monographs’ when we really mean simply book-length arguments. The Early Spenser really is a research monograph. It reads like a volume that was pieced together over decades rather than years and for that reason it is certain to be a work of enduring criticism.'Willy Maley, The Spenser Review'She [Brink] has a special talent for the capsule biography, and she exploits it to considerable advantage.'Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Lineage and the ‘Nowell Account Book’2 Spenser’s education and Merchant Taylors’ School3 Pembroke College (1569–74) 4 ‘Southerne shepheardes boye’ (1574–79)5 Gabriel Harvey and Immerito (1569–78)6 ‘Minde on honour fixed’: Spenser, Sidney, and the early modern chivalric code7 Aprill and November8 Puzzling identities: From E.K. to Roffy’s ‘boye’ to Rosalind9 Familiar Letters (1580)10 Ireland and the preferment of Edmund Spenser (1580)Conclusion
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Manchester University Press The Early Modern English Sonnet: Ever in Motion
Book SynopsisThis volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions. Drawing from book history and relying on close reading and textual criticism, this collection offers a more nuanced account of the history of the sonnet. It discusses how sonnets were written, published and received in England as compared to mainland Europe, and explores the works of major (Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser) and minor (Barnes, Harvey) poets alike. Reflecting on current editorial practices, it also provides the first modern edition of an early seventeenth-century Elizabethan miscellany including sonnets presumably by Sidney and Spenser.Trade Review'This remarkable volume is a fine addition to the current body of scholarship on the sonnet form. Scholars of English lyric would benefit from a look at this volume, as would those who have especial interest in the structure and material production of early modern verse miscellanies.'The Spenser Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionLaetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin, Enrica ZaninShaping the sonnet, from Italy and France to England1 English Petrarchism: From commentary on poetry to poetry as commentaryWilliam J. Kennedy2 Early modern theories of the sonnet: Accounts of the quatorzain in Italy, France and England in the second half of the sixteenth centuryCarlo Alberto Girotto, Jean-Charles Monferran, Rémi VuilleminPerforming the English sonnet3 Sonnet-mongers on the early modern English stageGuillaume Coatalen4 In and out: Shakespeare's shifting sonnets. From Love's Labour's Lost to The Passionate PilgrimSophie ChiariPlacing the sonnet: Sonnets isolated or sequenced5 'Small parcelles': Unsequenced sonnets in the sixteenth centuryChris Stamatakis6 ' ... and sweetly nectarize this bitter gall': Gabriel Harvey's sonnet therapyElisabeth Chaghafi7 Barnabe Barnes's sonnet sequences: Moral conversion and prodigal authorshipRémi VuilleminEditing the sonnet8 The Muses Garland (1603): Fragment of a printed verse miscellanyHugh Gazzard9 Sonnet sequence as sound continuum: How we read Shakes-speares SonnetsAndrew Eastman
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Quercus Publishing The Chosen: who pays the price of a writer's
Book Synopsis'A delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight' Hilary MantelSHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2023One Wednesday morning in November 1912 the ageing Thomas Hardy, entombed by paper and books and increasingly estranged from his wife Emma, finds her dying in her bedroom. Between his speaking to her and taking her in his arms, she has gone.The day before, he and Emma had exchanged bitter words - leading Hardy to wonder whether all husbands and wives end up as enemies to each other. His family and Florence Dugdale, the much younger woman with whom he has been in a relationship, assume that he will be happy and relieved to be set free. But he is left shattered by the loss.Hardy's bewilderment only increases when, sorting through Emma's effects, he comes across a set of diaries that she had secretly kept about their life together, ominously titled 'What I Think of My Husband'. He discovers what Emma had truly felt - that he had been cold, remote and incapable of ordinary human affection, and had kept her childless, a virtual prisoner for forty years. Why did they ever marry?He is consumed by something worse than grief: a chaos in which all his certainties have been obliterated. He has to re-evaluate himself, and reimagine his unhappy wife as she was when they first met.Hardy's pained reflections on the choices he has made, and must now make, form a unique combination of love story and ghost story, by turns tender, surprising, comic and true. The Chosen - the extraordinary new novel by Elizabeth Lowry - hauntingly searches the unknowable spaces between man and wife; memory and regret; life and art.Trade ReviewDoes art enhance life, or negate it? The painful question runs through Lowry's portrait of Thomas Hardy, and produces a sombre, delicate novel, finely judged and full of insight -- Hilary MantelIn The Chosen, Lowry conjures the torments of a writer's life wonderfully. It is full of understanding, shrewd and often lyrical - a thing of beauty and sadness. -- Alison Light, author of Mrs Woolf & the ServantsElizabeth Lowry writes like a dream; finely attuned to the hopes, desires and secret hauntings of her characters, she brings them to life like no other writer I know. Every new book from Lowry is a rare treat, best devoured slowly. -- Marina Benjamin'[A] novel which is both a fascinating analysis of Hardy and a powerful and exquisite work of art in its own right . . . her writing is utterly without mercy while also being underpinned by deep compassion . . . Lowry's view of marriage and, more particularly, the creative life is almost unbearably bleak, but her novel is glorious - the best that I have read in several years. -- Alice Jolly * Literary Review *Hardy's doomed first marriage is the subject of this beautifully rendered and poignant novel . . . The prose is exquisite . . . Above all, like many of the best novelists, Lowry understands the intricacies of the human heart. * The Times *In this exquisite imagining of the days after Emma's unexpected death, The Chosen excavates Hardy's emotions . . . Felled by the bitterness in her diaries . . .Hardy experiences 'a savage sense of liberty' and overwhelming feelings of loss, beautifully described in Lowry's bellclear, silvery prose. * Daily Mail *This novel is exquisitely written and powerfully perceptive, yet never loses sight of its biographical nature. * Country Life *Deserves to be read by anyone interested in Thomas Hardy or in good literature. * Sherborne Times *It's a remarkable, mesmeric piece of writing . . . an authentic cri de coeur from a deeply reserved man. There are utterly remarkable passages in The Chosen where something shifts, time seems to alter and language starts to glow. It's rare and quite extraordinary. It feels as though two levels of language like two currents of different salinity are flowing across each other - the sensation is one of looking through the 3rd person narration into Hardy's innermost lived experience, and through or behind those the further layer of the poems themselves, still fluid, in formation in the mind. -- Andrew Greig, author of Rose NicolsonA stylistic tour de force . . . Miss this work of art -- and cautionary tale against long-term gaslighting -- at your peril. * Strong Words *The Chosen combines psychological depth with prose of mesmerising beauty. The result is an exquisite double portrait of a marriage and a writer, and the elusively complex relationship between the two. This is a novel of tremendous range, from the elegiac to the humorous to the sublime. Vladimir Nabokov described the best of fiction as "a game of intricate enchantment and deception". In this heartbreaking, life-affirming exploration of the perversity of the human heart and the paradox of creativity, Elizabeth Lowry shows herself the mistress of both. * Financial Times *With remarkable steadiness and fine judgment, Elizabeth Lowry goes right into the midst of this legendary literary maelstrom and opens a space for fiction . . . Slowly and feelingly, the novel pores over questions about the costs of art, refusing to shout out answers, letting many perspectives tell upon each other . . . Where Poems of 1912-13 intensify around single visions, utterly concentrated, The Chosen works by looking around at everything going on in the house. Max Gate is vividly realised in all its tree-shadowed gloominess, gobbling coal and effort, too large yet grimly confining. -- GuardianA lyrical meditation on love and literary inspiration. Lowry's richly evocative novel plunges the reader into Hardy's day-to-day life at Max Gate, the Dorset house he built for himself, as he rakes over the ashes of his strained marriage and channels his grief into the extraordinary outpouring of creativity that was the "Poems of 1912-13". * Financial Times (Best Summer Books 2022) *A wise and beautifully written book * The Times *Lowry's theme is the underside of artistic devotion - the monstrousness of the writing life for those closest, or trying to be. In the year in which we lost Hilary Mantel, it's a real joy to have discovered in Elizabeth Lowry another meticulous, restrained and humane chronicler of lives past. I'll be looking out for more of her work. * The Lonely Crowd (Book of the Year) *An extraordinary feat of imagination, perception and empathy * Irish Times *
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Purdue University Press Cities in Ruins: The Politics of Modern Poetics
Book SynopsisThe attacks in New York on September 11, 2001, and in Madrid on March 11, 2004, provoked diverse political reactions, but the imminence of the ruins triggered a collective historical awakening. In Cities in Ruins, Cecilia Enjuto Rangel argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the historical process of modernization that developed during the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Enjuto Rangel's study investigates the virtually unexplored map of modern ruins in modern poetry. She interprets modern poetry on ruins as a critique of both capitalist definitions of progress and the devastating effects of modern warfare. Furthermore, she argues that the representation of ruins provokes a historical awakening that empowers the text, and the reader, with political and historical agency.
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The New York Review of Books, Inc My Century
Book SynopsisIn My Century the great Polish poet Aleksander Wat provides a spellbinding account of life in Eastern Europe in the midst of the terrible twentieth century. Based on interviews with Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, My Century describes the artistic, sexual, and political experimentation --in which Wat was a major participant-- that followed the end of World War I: an explosion of talent and ideas which, he argues, in some ways helped to open the door to the destruction that the Nazis and Bolsheviks soon visited upon the world. But Wat''s book is at heart a story of spiritual struggle and conversion. He tells of his separation during World War II from his wife and young son, of his confinement in the Soviet prison system, of the night when the sound of far-off laughter brought on a vision of 'the devil in history.' 'It was then,' Wat writes, 'that I began to be a believer.'
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