Literary studies: poetry and poets Books

Book SynopsisThese essays develop key advances in Pound studies. They respond to the new availability of primary sources and bring new insights to the analysis of Pound's poetry and prose. The essays integrate recent developments in literary studies, such as transnationalism, gender and sexuality, sound studies, and textual genetics.Trade Review'The essay is informative and will be useful to readers interested in modernist publishing culture and book history. It also contains a substantial amount of unpublished material from Pound's archives, much of which is intelligently analyzed.' Robert Harris, Journal of Modern LiteratureTable of ContentsEditor's introduction Mark Byron; Part I. Pound's Texts: 1. Classical literature Leah Culligan Flack; 2. Early medieval philosophy and textuality Mark Byron; 3. Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos: the promise and the limits of the archive Ronald Bush; 4. 'Scoured and cleansed': Ezra Pound and musical composition Josh Epstein; 5. The visual field: beyond vorticism Rebecca Beasley; 6. Texts of The Cantos and theories of literature Michael Kindellan; 7. Pound and influence Richard Parker; Part II. Ezra Pound and Asia: 8. Pound's representation of the Chinese frontiers: from the war zone to the green world Akitoshi Nagahata; 9. 'A treasure like nothing we have in the occident': Ezra Pound and Japanese literature Andrew Houwen; 10. Ezra Pound and Chinese poetry Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas; Part III. Culture and Politics: 11. The transnational turn Josephine Park; 12. Pound, gender, sexuality Carrie J. Preston; 13. Italian fascism Anderson Araujo; 14. Late Cantos, 'Aesopian language' states' rights, and John Randolph of Roanoke Alec Marsh; 15. Copyright Archie Henderson; 16. The temple and the scaffolding: The Cantos of Ezra Pound and digital culture Roxana Preda; Afterword. 'Read Him'.

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Book SynopsisVirgil''s fourth Eclogue is one of the most quoted, adapted and discussed works of classical literature. This study traces the fortunes of Eclogue 4 in the literature and art of the Italian Renaissance. It sheds new light on some of the most canonical works of Western art and literature, as well as introducing a large number of other, lesser-known items, some of which have not appeared in print since their original publication, while others are extant only in manuscript. Individual chapters are devoted to the uses made of the fourth Eclogue in the political panegyric of Medici Florence, the Venetian Republic and the Renaissance papacy, and to religious appropriations of the Virgilian text in the genres of epic and pastoral poetry.The book also investigates the appearance of quotations from the poem in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century fresco cycles representing the prophetic Sibyls in Italian churches.Trade Review'This excellent volume will be a valuable guide and resource for scholars of Renaissance literature and of classical reception, and should be made available in every university library.' Syrithe Pugh, International Journal of the Classical TraditionTable of ContentsEclogue 4: text and translation; Part I. Prolegomena: 1. Introduction: noua progenies; 2. A new age: the Virgilian Renaissance; Part II. Politics: 3. Florentine fantasies: Maro and the Medici; 4. Maritime Maro: Virgil in Venice; 5. Princely propaganda: the Italian states; 6. Vatican vaticinations: the Papal Golden Age; Part III. Religion: 7. Poet and Christian? The Messianic Fourth Eclogue; 8. tua dicere facta: the Messianic epic; 9. A child is born: the Nativity eclogue; 10. teste Sibylla: Virgil in church; Epilogue: time regained.

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Book SynopsisPART I: PERFORMANCE EFFECTS Introduction: Materializing the Immaterial Theorizing Theatrical Privilege: Rethinking Weimann's Concepts of Locus and Platea PART II: THEATRICAL WAYS OF KNOWING Staging Sight: Visual Paradigms and Perceptual Strategies in Love's Labor's Lost Imaginary Forces: Allegory, Mimesis, and Audience Interpretation in The Spanish Tragedy PART III: EXPERIENCING EMBODIED SPECTACLE Dancing and Other Delights: Spectacle and Participation in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth Artful Sport: Violence, Dismemberment, and Games in Titus Andronicus , Cymbeline , and Doctor FaustusTrade Review"Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance powerfully redirects our attention as scholars of early modern drama to the fact that the plays we discuss were performed before audiences carrying specific cultural assumptions about what it meant to engage in watching and listening to theatrical spectacle. This book is of value to scholars interested in performance theory more broadly but will also be useful to historicist scholars seeking to understand the nuances of bodies, actors, and representational drama converging in particular moments upon the early modern stage . . . Lin's analyses are sharp, provocative, and helpful for scholars seeking to approximate early modern ideological and social conditions of interpretative strategies in theater." - Journal of the Northern Renaissance "Lin's close-readings of the play are often penetrating . . . [Lin] does not overstate the claims she makes; she is cautious with numbers in particular. She is precise with her examples." - Shakespeare Jarhbuch "Lin's reading of early modern performance traditions and spectatorship serves as a valuable working model for scholars of drama seeking to marry rigorous historical investigations with critical theory. For those interested in reception theory, material studies, and early modern stage practices, Shakespeare and the Materiality of Performance can be read productively alongside other studies in historical phenomenology as well as early modern audience and reception studies." - Theatre Survey ". . . Lin establishes that our theatrical experiences are radically different and how we enter into, perceive, and understand the dramatic stage has little in common with our ancestors . . . In assessing this 'theatrical language', Lin turns to the notion of materiality itself, something which she rightly points out has become a significant focus of Shakespearean studies . . . She emphasizes the role of the theatre and 'entertainment' in the construction of early modern lives, a role - and a visual vocabulary - that we need to learn in order to fully appreciate the differences, rather than the similarities of our play-words" Shakespeare Survey "In comparing [Cymbline's] representations of mutilation and dismemberment onstage with other accounts, such as the execution of criminals, accounts of martyrdom, and violent murders, Lin establishes the importance of the body, and how it (and its parts) may have been viewed by the audience." Year's Work in English Studies "...This is an important book for scholars of early modern drama in performance. It could also enrich the work of practitioners, and its examination of the psychology of audiences could benefit cognitive studies as well. Lin's work is engaging and at times even exciting: there is a sense that she is revealing hidden mysteries of the past, that the reader is entering the early modem playhouse as it once was. I wish that more scholars would engage in such meticulously informed speculation about practices that we can never fully recover through other means. Lin also provides convincing explanations for a number of puzzling spots in the plays. She is especially good at pointing out the blinders that modem scholars and practitioners wear because of their own cultural and theatrical assumptions." Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England "Although Lin examines an impressive range of documents to construct historically situated interpretive paradigms, most astute are her analyses of episodes that critics have either ignored or explained through 'elaborate conjectures', such as the witches' dance in Macbeth and the irreverent stage play of bodily mutilation in Titus Andronicus (p. 157). Lin's work intervenes in the study of early modern drama and culture and shifts the conversation toward a focus on those who populated the offstage world of the play. These interpreters might well have considered Hamlet as the show with the exciting 'swordfight in the final act' and understood Doctor Faustus as a play that 'sports with severed limbs' (p. 164), and so, perhaps, should we." Theatre Research InternationalTable of ContentsPART I: PERFORMANCE EFFECTS Introduction: Materializing the Immaterial Theorizing Theatrical Privilege: Rethinking Weimann's Concepts of Locus and Platea PART II: THEATRICAL WAYS OF KNOWING Staging Sight: Visual Paradigms and Perceptual Strategies in Love's Labor's Lost Imaginary Forces: Allegory, Mimesis, and Audience Interpretation in The Spanish Tragedy PART III: EXPERIENCING EMBODIED SPECTACLE Dancing and Other Delights: Spectacle and Participation in Doctor Faustus and Macbeth Artful Sport: Violence, Dismemberment, and Games in Titus Andronicus , Cymbeline , and Doctor Faustus

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Book SynopsisThis important new book is the first monograph on children's poetry written between 1780 and 1830, when non-religious children's poetry publishing came into its own. Introducing some of the era's most significant children's poets, the book shows how the conventions of children's verse and poetics were established during the Romantic era.Trade Review“The strength of this ambitious monograph lies in the quality of its extensive historical and archival research. In recovering a wealth of children’s secular verse forms, this impressive and rich study is an important and much welcomed addition to the fields of both Romanticism and Children’s Literature Studies.” (Katherine Ingle, Charles Lab Bulletin, Vol. 161, Spring, 2016)“British Children’s Poetry in the Romantic Era is a valuable study of a poetic tradition that has long been rendered invisible by the reigning Romantic aesthetic. … The book is written in a clear yet exploratory prose style, never straying far from its sources as it allows them to guide its lines of inquiry. … British Children’s Poetry is productively utilitarian, offering teachers and scholars a rich taxonomic vocabulary.” (Angela Sorby, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 40 (4), Winter, 2016)“Ruwe’s thorough and thought-provoking formalist study tracks metrical patterns and evaluates the frequency of dramatic, narrative and lyric modes by authors such as Adelaide O’Keeffe and Sara Coleridge. Detailed, perceptive, and crisply written, Ruwe’s case studies identify and define an area that, thanks to her scholarship, will attract much more attention in years to come.” (SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Vol. 55 (4), Autumn, 2015)'[British Children's Poetry in the Romantic Era] features numerous black-and-white illustrations, and the appendices of chapbooks and the rest of the apparutus all display a thoroughness which reveals the fourteen years it took to complete this pioneering work.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Donelle Ruwe's monograph is an excellent study of secular children's verse between 1780 and 1835. As you would expect from the editor of Culturing the Child: Essays in Memory of Mitzi Myers (2005) and Co-President of 18th- and 19th-century British Women Writers Association, Ruwe is an erudite scholar and a flag-bearer for women writers of the past. What a delight to have a book devoted to children's poetry covering a relatively short period of history so that insightful in-depth analysis is possible. As the vast majority of Romantic era poetry for children was written by women, what a joy to find the pages full of references to the often neglected Taylors, O'Keeffe, Smith et al. Ruwe has been extremely thorough in her investigation of children's poetry of the Romantic period and has come up with exciting and original new research.' - Morag Styles, IRSCL JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Reading Romantic-Era Children's Verse 2. Myths of Origin: Original Poems for Infant Minds 3. The Mother Attitudes: Ann Taylor's "My Mother" and the Rise of the Sentimental 4. Teaching Nature and Nationalism: Adelaide O'Keeffe and the Poetry of Active Learning 5. Utilitarian Poetry: Versified Study Guides and Riddles, and the Handmade Verse Cards of Sara Coleridge 6. The Limits of the Romantic-Era Children's Poem: The Case of The Butterfly's Ball

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Book SynopsisThe Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.Where do we ?nd magic? Peace? Connection?We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, o?cial archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to livein kindness, justice, morality. These rhythms and structures of society were all once set by religion. Now, for many, religion no longer runs the show.So how then to celebrate milestones? Find rules to guide us? Figure out which texts can focus our attention but still o?er space for inquiry, communion, and the chance to dwell for a dazzling instant in what can't be said? Where, really, are truth and beauty? The answer, says The Wonder Paradox, is in poetry.In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversations with those looking for an authentic and mea

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Book SynopsisA Sidney Chronology: 1554-1654 offers a comprehensive chronological survey of the literary, political and personal history of the Sidney family of Penshurst Place, Kent.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction A Sidney Chronology Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book is the first study of the 10th century Iraqi poet Ibn al-Hajjaj who popularized a new genre of obscene and scatological parody (sukhf) and is considered the most obscene poet in Arabic literature. Antoon traces the genealogy of this fascinating genre in and examines its rise by placing it in its sociopolitical context.Trade Review"Exciting and vital to the unearthing of new trajectories for the Arabic literary tradition . . . [Antoon's book] is a timely and uplifting work, which must be taken seriously and built upon." - Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World 'Sinan Antoon is among the few scholars who in recent years have embarked on the unprejudiced study of what in Arabic is called muj?n or sukhf. It is not surprising that until recently in the West, and still in most Islamic countries, the study of obscenity and scatology was hampered by moral and religious scruples, aided by aesthetic prejudice. This makes the present study all the more welcome and important. Scholarly and thorough, it is also readable (if one can stomach the poems with their unstoppable outpouring of filth), written in an accessible style, neither marred by the excessive use of jargon nor suffering from being clothed in a straightjacket of Theory. The numerous translations of poems are reliable and accompanied by the Arabic text in transliteration.' - Geert Jan van Gelder, Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford, UK "This groundbreaking study opens up for the first time an important and fascinating, but heretofore studiously avoided, aspect of classical Arabic literature." - Everett K. Rowson, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Ibn al-?ajj?j and Sukhf: Genealogies 2. Parodying the Tradition 3. Sukhf in Mad?? 4. Sukhf as sukhf : Abü Nuw?s, Mujün and Ibn al-?ajj?j 5. Sukhf , Scatology and Society Conclusion

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Book SynopsisCelebrated as a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer, and the winner of numerous major literary prizes including the Whitbread Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, John Burnside is one of Britain's leading contemporary writers. John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary literature to guide readers through the full range of the author''s writings, from his fiction and poetry to his autobiographical and nature writing, exploring texts such as The Dumb House, The Light Trap, A Lie about My Father, Glister and Black Cat Bone. The book examines the major themes of Burnside''s work, including the environment and the natural world, hauntings and dwelling, and his intertextual engagement with philosophy, music and the visual arts. Featuring a timeline of Burnside's life, an interview with the writer himself and a detailed list of further reading, this is the firstTrade ReviewThis is a rich and insightful collection. Drawing on a wide variety of Burnside’s texts, and exploring themes ranging from masculinity to spirituality, and animals to ghosts, the contributors offer the most comprehensive account of Burnside’s writing to date. The volume will expand readers’ understanding of the diversity of Burnside’s work, and cements his importance within the contemporary literary canon. * Dr Timothy C. Baker, Senior Lecturer in Scottish and Contemporary Literature, University of Aberdeen *This first book-length academic survey of John Burnside’s work brings home just how hard it is to think of another living writer whose distinctive style extends so impressively across poetry, memoir, and fiction. Often drawing on currents of thought with which Burnside is in sympathy (particularly the work of Heidegger), the expert contributors identify, analyse, and explore tropes and preoccupations that permeate his oeuvre. Special attention is paid to Burnside’s deep ecological commitment, and to his often disturbing intermingling of haunted lyricism with irrationality, violence, and a frequently frustrated search for healing. * Robert Crawford, Professor of Modern Scottish Literature and Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Poetry, University of St Andrews, UK *John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives provides a long overdue exploration of John Burnside’s works. Though Burnside has received relatively little critical attention to date, he is one of the most important contemporary Scottish writers, with a prolific output spanning across genres. The essays collected here engage with all the major strands of Burnside’s works, including his interest in the metaphysical, spiritual and supernatural, as well as issues of masculinity, gender and class. The volume’s admirable breadth does justice to the expansiveness of Burnside’s oeuvre, from his poems and novels, to his autobiographical and non-fiction writings. * Astrid Bracke, Lecturer in British literature, HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands *Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface Foreword: Nicholas Royle Acknowledgements Contributors Chronology of John Burnside’s Life INTRODUCTION By Way of an Introduction: John Burnside, Writer Ben Davies (University of Portsmouth) CHAPTER ONE John Burnside’s Metaphysical World: From The Dumb House to A Summer of Drowning Peter Childs (Newman University, Birmingham) CHAPTER TWO John Burnside’s Numinous Poetry Jan Wilm (Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen, Germany) CHAPTER THREE ‘A temporary, sometimes fleeting thing’: Home in John Burnside’s Poetry Monika Szuba (Gdansk University, Poland) CHAPTER FOUR Violent Dwellings and Vulnerable Creatures in Burning Elvis and Something Like Happy Alexandra Campbell (University of Edinburgh) CHAPTER FIVE ‘This learned set of limits and blames’: Masculinity, Law and Prohibition in the Work of John Burnside Ruth Cain (University of Kent) CHAPTER SIX Consequences of Pastoral: The Dialectic of History and Ecology in The Light Trap Tom Bristow (University of Durham) CHAPTER SEVEN Walking the Tightrope: Félix Guattari’s Three Ecologies and John Burnside’s Glister Phil Pass (Independent Scholar) CHAPTER EIGHT ‘A Kindred Shape’: Hauntings, Spectres and the Poetics of Return in John Burnside’s Verse David Borthwick (University of Glasgow) CHAPTER NINE ‘It was suddenly hard winter’: John Burnside’s Crossings Julian Wolfreys (University of Portsmouth) INTERVIEW The Space at the back of the Mind: An Interview with John Burnside Ben Davies (University of Portsmouth) Notes Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Remaking Shakespeare: Performance Across Media, Genres and Cultures; P.Aebischer and N.Wheale Shakespeare in the Fourth Dimension: Twelfth Night and American Sign Language; P.Novak Modernity, Post-Coloniality and Othello: The Case of Saptapadi; P.Chakravarti Reading 'Other Shakespeares'; P.Trivedi Othello's Travels in New Zealand: Shakespeare, Race and National Identity; C.Silverstone 'Alas poor country!': Documenting the Politics of Performance in Two British Television Macbeths Since the 1980s; S.Greenhalgh Julius Caesar in Interesting Times; J.Chothia Will! Or Shakespeare in Hollywood: Anthony Burgess's Cinematic Presentation of Shakespearean Biography; K.H.Smith The Singing Shakespearean: Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost and the Politics of Genre; R.Wray Romeo and Juliet: The Rock and Roll Years; R.Shaughnessy Re-Incarnations; B.Hodgdon IndexTable of ContentsIntroduction: Remaking Shakespeare: Performance Across Media, Genres and Cultures; P.Aebischer and N.Wheale Shakespeare in the Fourth Dimension: Twelfth Night and American Sign Language; P.Novak Modernity, Post-Coloniality and Othello: The Case of Saptapadi; P.Chakravarti Reading 'Other Shakespeares'; P.Trivedi Othello's Travels in New Zealand: Shakespeare, Race and National Identity; C.Silverstone 'Alas poor country!': Documenting the Politics of Performance in Two British Television Macbeths Since the 1980s; S.Greenhalgh Julius Caesar in Interesting Times; J.Chothia Will! Or Shakespeare in Hollywood: Anthony Burgess's Cinematic Presentation of Shakespearean Biography; K.H.Smith The Singing Shakespearean: Kenneth Branagh's Love's Labour's Lost and the Politics of Genre; R.Wray Romeo and Juliet: The Rock and Roll Years; R.Shaughnessy Re-Incarnations; B.Hodgdon Index

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Book SynopsisBlake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and Blanchot's writings in the twentieth.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: 'The Sun is Gone Down' 'In the Silent of the Night' Young, and 'Weary Night' Night Dreams: The Four Zoas 'I see London, Blind...' 'Forests of the Night': Blake and Madness Dante's 'Deep and Woody Way' Notes Index

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Book SynopsisNICHOLAS MARSH previously taught English at Francis Holland School, Regent's Park, London, UK, and is Fellow of the English Association. He is author of the popular How to Begin Studying English Literature, now in its third edition and many titles in the Analysing Texts series, of which he is also the General Editor.

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Book SynopsisRICHARD BRADFORD is Professor of Literary History and Theory at the University of Ulster, UK. His publications include The Novel Now, acclaimed biographies such as First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin and The Life of a Long Distance Writer: The Authorised Biography of Alan Sillitoe, and introductory student textbooks Introducing Literary Studies and Stylistics (New Critical Idiom).

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