Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
OUP Oxford New Light on Tony Harrison
Book SynopsisNew Light on Tony Harrison explores the lifetime achievement and influence of one of Britain's greatest living poets; Tony Harrison. It explores his extensive body of poems and his profound contribution to the literary world.Trade ReviewTheir essays combine to form a remarkable celebration of the integrity, depth, learning, intelligence and politics of Britain's most important living poet: the bard of Leeds. * Sean Sheehan, Scottish Left Review *Edith Hall has skilfully edited this disparate collection into an affectionate tribute and an appreciative overview of his poetry. The volume makes a good introduction to the poet and his work, while celebrating TH at 80. * Alan Beale, Classics for all *
£45.00
Oxford University Press The Tale of alBarraq Son of Rawhan and Layla the Chaste
Book SynopsisThis book presents a bilingual edition and study of an anonymous work of early Arabic fiction set in pre-Islamic times: an Arab maiden called ''Layla the Chaste'' is kidnapped and threatened with forced marriage to a Persian king. Ultimately, she is saved by her handsome and beloved cousin al-Barraq, and they marry and live happily ever after. This knight-in-shining-armour-rescues-damsel-in-distress narrative, which combines elements of the Arabic popular epic (sira) with others from the Udhri; love story and the western fairy tale, was misinterpreted as history by scholars in the 19th century. In the two substantive chapters that frame her translation of the tale, Hammond discusses the text''s evolution in the Arab Renaissance and its metamorphoses in 20th-century popular culture. She also analyses the structure of the tale to look for clues as to its real origins, shedding new light on theories of the development of the Arabic novel.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Abbreviations A Note on Transliteration and Terminology A Note on the Manuscripts and Published Editions A Note on the (Incorrect) Attribution of the Tale to ?Umar b. Shabba Key Dates 1: From Fiction to History and Back: The Tale, its Versions and its Afterlives 2: The Tale of al-Barrāq Son of Rawḥān and Laylā the Chaste, in English translation 3: The Narrative, Its Components and its 'Novelisation' Bibliography Appendix: The Arabic Text
£66.50
The University of Chicago Press My Way Speeches and Poems
Book SynopsisExploring the place of poetry in American culture and in the university, this text addresses issues such as: the role of the public intellectual; the poetics of scholarly prose; vernacular modernism; idiosyncratic postmodernism; identity politics; aesthetics; and poetry as a performance art.
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The University of Chicago Press Nobodys Nation
Book SynopsisThis volume offers an illuminating look at the St Lucian, Nobel prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history.
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The University of Chicago Press Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 16501850
Book SynopsisRepresents T.S. Eliot as the complex figure, an artist attentive not only to literature but also to detective fiction, Vaudeville Theater, jazz, and the songs of Tin Pan Alley. The author discusses Eliot's persistent interest in popular culture, and traces his long, quixotic struggle to close the widening gap between high art and popular culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study uncovers a fascination with women cross dressers in the popular literature of early modern Britain, in a wide range of texts from popular ballads and chapbook life histories to the comedies and tragedies of aristocratic literature.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Prologue 1: Popular balladry, Mary Ambree, and the beginnings of the Female Warrior motif, 1600-1650 2: The fashion for Female Warrior ballads: new "hits" and old favorites, 1650-1800 3: The museum life of Mary Ambree and the decline of the Female Warrior, 1800 to the present 4: The Female Warrior motif as an idea 5: The Female Warrior and everyday life in the early modern world 6: The Female Warrior and the construction of gender 7: Hic-Mulier: imaginative preoccupation and genotype for the Female Warrior 8: The Female Warrior, Gay's Polly, and the heroic ideal Epilogue Appendix Select bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Poetics in a New Key Interviews and Essays
Book SynopsisPresents an accessible introduction to Marjorie Perloff's critical thought. In this book, fourteen interviews cover a broad spectrum of topics in the study of poetry: its nature as a literary genre, its current state, and its relationship to art, politics, language, theory, and technology.Trade Review"A compelling work, enthralling to read and filled with profound insight, provocations, and an awe-inspiring range of engagements and knowledge. Poetics in a New Key is the perfect companion to Perloff's many books, but, more than that, it is an ideal introduction to her thought." (Charles Bernstein, author of Recalculating)"
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University of Chicago Press Persius A Study in Food Philosophy and the
Book SynopsisFeatures poems of a Roman poet and satirist. This book argues that author sets his own bizarre metaphors of food, digestion, and sexuality against more appealing imagery to show that the latter - and the poetry containing it - harms rather than helps its audience.
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press Darkness Visible A Study of Vergils Aeneid
Book SynopsisWith an approach to the text that is both grounded in scholarship and intensely personal, and in a style both rhetorically elegant and passionate, this book offers readings of specific passages that are nuanced and suggestive as it focuses on the "somber and nourishing fictions" in Vergil's poem.Trade Review"Johnson's reinterpretation challenges many strong and common beliefs, not only about the Aeneid but about life itself." (William M. Porter, Arion)
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Vise and Shadow
Book SynopsisOffers a way to think about how the power of poetry, art, and the lyrical imagination illuminate history, trauma, and memory.Trade Review"Vise and Shadow belongs on a shelf alongside the literary essays of J. M. Coetzee, Adrienne Rich, and Seamus Heaney-all of whom are absorbed by the very same questions haunting and inspiring Balakian." (Askold Melnyczuk, author of The House of Widows)
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press How Poems Think
Book SynopsisTo write or read a poem is often to think in distinctively poetic ways-guided by metaphors, sound, rhythms, associative movement, and more. Poetry's stance toward language creates a particular intelligence of thought and feeling, a compressed articulation that expands inner experience, imagining with words what cannot always be imagined without them. Through translation, poetry has diversified poetic traditions, and some of poetry's ways of thinking begin in the ancient world and remain potent even now. In How Poems Think, Reginald Gibbons presents a rich gallery of poetic inventiveness and continuity drawn from a wide range of poets-Sappho, Pindar, Shakespeare, Keats, William Carlos Williams, Marina Tsvetaeva, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many others. Gibbons explores poetic temperament, rhyme, metonymy, etymology, and other elements of poetry as modes of thinking and feeling. In celebration and homage, Gibbons attunes us to the possibilities of poetic thinking.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press How Poems Think
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The University of Chicago Press Translation as Muse Poetic Translation in
Book SynopsisPoetry is often said to resist translation, its integration of form and meaning rendering even the best translations problematic. Elizabeth Marie Young disagrees, and with Translation as Muse, she uses the work of the celebrated Roman poet Catullus to mount a powerful argument that translation can be an engine of poetic invention. Catullus has long been admired as a poet, but his efforts as a translator have been largely ignored. Young reveals how essential translation is to his work: many poems by Catullus that we tend to label as lyric originals were in fact shaped by Roman translation practices entirely different from our own. By rereading Catullus through the lens of translation, Young exposes new layers of ingenuity in Latin poetry even as she illuminates the idiosyncrasies of Roman translation practice, reconfigures our understanding of translation history, and questions basic assumptions about lyric poetry itself.
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The University of Chicago Press The Poets Work 29 Poets on the Origins and
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The University of Chicago Press Pitch of Poetry
Book SynopsisPraised in recent years as a calculating, improvisatory, essential poet by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory. Pitch of Poetry is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary poetics. Subjects range across Holocaust representation, Occupy Wall Street, and the figurative nature of abstract art. Detailed overviews of formally inventive work include essays onor pitches fora set of key poets, from Gertrude Stein and Robert Creeley to John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Larry Eigner, and Leslie Scalapino. Bernstein also reveals the formative ideas behind the magazineL=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. The final section, published here for the first time, is a sweeping work on the poetics of stigma, perversity, and disability that is rooted in the thinking of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Blake. Pitch of Poetrymakes an exhilarating case for what Bernstein callsechopoetics: a poetry of call and response, re
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition
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The University of Chicago Press History and Warfare in Renaissance Epic
Book SynopsisThe author aims to bring an understanding of both the history of literature and the history of warfare to the study of the Renaissance epic. Analyzing English, Italian and Iberian epics published between 1483 and 1610, this text focuses on many aspects of warfare during this time.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Shakespeares Lyric Stage Myth Music and Poetry
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utteranceswhich should invite consolation, revelation, and connectionsomehow fall short of the listener's expectations? As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare's late plays invite us to contemplate that very question, offering up lyric as a displaced and sometimes desperate antidote to situations of duress or powerlessness. Lerer argues that the theme of lyric misalignment running throughout The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Henry VIII, and Cymbeline serves a political purpose, a last-ditch effort at transformation for characters and audiences who had lived through witch-hunting, plague, regime change, political conspiracies, and public executions. A deep dive into the relationship between aesthetics and politics, this book also explores what Shakespearean lyric is able to recupera
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The University of Chicago Press Shakespeares Lyric Stage Myth Music and Poetry in
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utteranceswhich should invite consolation, revelation, and connectionsomehow fall short of the listener's expectations? As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare's late plays invite us to contemplate that very question, offering up lyric as a displaced and sometimes desperate antidote to situations of duress or powerlessness. Lerer argues that the theme of lyric misalignment running throughout The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Henry VIII, and Cymbeline serves a political purpose, a last-ditch effort at transformation for characters and audiences who had lived through witch-hunting, plague, regime change, political conspiracies, and public executions. A deep dive into the relationship between aesthetics and politics, this book also explores what Shakespearean lyric is able to recupera
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The University of Chicago Press The Sound of Poetry The Poetry of Sound
Book SynopsisRanging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, this book explores such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme, and the role of sound repetition in novelistic prose.
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The University of Chicago Press Radical as Reality Form and Freedom in American
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Against our contemporary mania for growth, Campion positions poetry's particular contribution to a human understanding of the last hundred years of history as a form of cunning motility. The last line of this book proclaims, "We'll know the sincere poem by the way it moves," and the essays within move deftly with the poems themselves, capturing both spirit and form. American poetry, in Campion's story, doesn't celebrate freedoms preserved but acknowledges reality changed. I remember some of these essays, when they first appeared in the best journals, as vitally acerbic and fiercely challenging. And they remain so--but the raw material of the necessary book that collects them, Radical as Reality, is revealed to be wonder rather than judgment. Here, poet-critic Campion celebrates the spaciousness and splendor of a found family of American poets, less fathered by the great men of Modernism and their heir, Robert Lowell, than fostered in their own diverse practices."--Katie Peterson, author of A Piece of Good News and editor of Robert Lowell's New Selected Poems "Peter Campion's Radical as Reality returns poetry reviewing to its central place in American literary culture. His muscular prose is addressed to the reader looking for the pulse of America as it beats in the passions and rhythms of our best poets."--Bonnie Costello, author of The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others
£61.75
The University of Chicago Press Infrathin An Experiment in Micropoetics
Book SynopsisEsteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components.Trade Review“What is the difference between attending a botany seminar and immersing oneself in the forest in the company of a guide who passionately knows their flora and fauna? This is what one discovers by reading Perloff's Infrathin, an irresistible tour through the work of some of the main artisans of modernist and contemporary poetry, under the prism of an unusual mentor: Marcel Duchamp. A gift for lovers of the genre and a must-read for poets.” * André Vallias, poet and graphic designer *“INFRA, not intra, and THIN, a split second so sliced, its instant infinity so spilt. Infrathink with Duchamp and Co. to step into a whole new world of differential repetitions and serial departures across the world of modern(ist) art, especially poetry. Whether you just ‘think different’ or have already ‘done différance,’ as you continue to make your way through the alreadymadeness of modern times so remade, you, too, with Marjorie Perloff, our go-to code-breaker here, will get this: how and why reading between the cracks, not just lines, matters.” * Kyoo Lee, author of 'Reading Descartes Otherwise' *“This age of polarization needs those who build bridges—not necessarily to create unity or understanding, but to allow life-giving movement between thought and creativity. The impact of Perloff's impressive lifelong project becomes even clearer with this book: her refusal to let academic propriety constrain her and her determination to give her great intelligence free play and to follow her deepest enthusiasms. As a result, we have a book that will illuminate and give pleasure to both scholar and poet, wherever they might come from.” * Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, essayist, and musician *"If at times this book feels like the seven conference papers or essays they previously were, reworked into chapters, and if at times Perloff makes some rather personal, associative and conjectural leaps when undertaking her poetic deconstructions, it can be forgiven in the light of surprise, intelligence and originality. I haven’t enjoyed a serious and challenging critical book like this for a long time." * Tears in the Fence *"In Infrathin, the superb new book by one of America’s most engaging, irreverent, and original literary critics, Perloff returns to some of the main questions that have preoccupied her during her more than five decades of writing on 20th- and 21st-century poetry and poetics. . . . Perloff’s book is an exercise in attention to difference, to the smallest, subliminal variations that give a particular poetic passage its texture." -- Tal Goldfajn * Los Angeles Review of Books *"In Perloff's hands, reading for the infrathin means 'paying the closest possible attention to the bedrock of poetry. . . its language and rhythm' and turning a careful eye to the visual layout of words and images on pages. Infrathin is thus a romp through some very close readings of (or listenings to) a select few poems by authors familiar in Perloff's extensive oeuvre, including Stein, Pound, Eliot, Yeats, Stevens, Beckett, Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, and Rae Armentrout." * Choice *"Marjorie Perloff continues to write theoretical and critical books that are both perceptive and highly readable." * Tears in the Fence: An Independent, International Literary Magazine *"In Infrathin, Perloff shows how the Brazilian concrete poets kept faith with Pound’s sense of spatial syntax in ways which Olson, with his looser free-verse compositional method, did not. Her readings of Olson here are compelling. " * Fortnightly Review *"Perloff makes us see what was always literally before our eyes. She does so with an evident passion informed by a long saturation in the poets she analyzes... This book reminds us how rewarding that perennial practice [of close reading] can be." * Critical Inquiry *"Infrathin is Perloff at her most delightful and insightful, with startling, fresh, indeed original, readings of some of her longtime interests — Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Stein, Duchamp (who invented the term infrathin), Stevens, Beckett, Howe, Ashbery, Armantrout." * Common Knowledge *Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface A Note on Scansion and Notation Introduction: Toward an Infrathin Reading/Writing Practice 1 “A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rrose Sélavy”: Stein, Duchamp, and the “Illegible” Portrait 2 Eliot’s Auditory Imagination: A Rehearsal for Concrete Poetry 3 Reading the Verses Backward: The Invention of Pound’s Canto Page 4 Word Frequencies and Zero Zones: Wallace Stevens’s Rock, Susan Howe’s Quarry 5 “A Wave of Detours”: From John Ashbery to Charles Bernstein and Rae Armantrout 6 The Trembling of the Veil: Poeticity in Beckett’s “Text-Soundings” 7 From Beckett to Yeats: The Paragrammatic Potential of “Traditional” Verse Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Lyric Now
Book SynopsisFor more than a century, American poets have heeded the siren song of Ezra Pound's make it new, staking a claim for the next poem on the supposed obsolescence of the last. But great poems are forever rehearsing their own present, inviting readers into a nowness that makes itself new each time we read or reread them. They create the present moment as we enter it, their language relying on the long history of lyric poetry while at the same time creating a feeling of unprecedented experience. ?In poet and critic James Longenbach's title, the word now does double duty, evoking both a lyric sense of the present and twentieth-century writers' assertion of nowness as they crafted their poetry in the wake of Modernism. Longenbach examines the fruitfulness of poetic repetition and indecision, of naming and renaming, and of the evolving search for newness in the construction, history, and life of lyrics. Looking to the work of thirteen poets, from Marianne Moore and T. S. Eliot through George OpTrade Review"[Longenbach] does prove—with stylistic wit and epigrammatic verve—that close reading can be a literary art in its own right. In chapters on unfamiliar poems from familiar poets like Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore, Longenbach delivers fresh, often-surprising insights. . . . Taken together, these essays, and those on less familiar poets, make an implicit case for the importance of syntax to lyric poetry. This is particularly evident in Longenbach's reading of Moore’s 'The Octopus,' and in masterful readings of poems by Jorie Graham and Carl Philips. When he contrasts Patti Smith’s prose and John Ashbery’s poetry with the songs of Bob Dylan, his skill as an expert close reader proves his point about the power of syntax. This volume proves a simple yet fundamental truth: 'a lyric works particularly, sentence by sentence, line by line'. . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"A talented poet and critic.” * Commonweal *“Longenbach is a lyric poet, practical critic, and literary scholar. These are distinct roles, and there are vanishingly few people good, let alone so distinguished, in all three. In The Lyric Now, he brings a career's worth of wisdom to bear while writing with élan and urgency for both the specialist and nonspecialist reader. No one is better at explaining how poems work, how literary history happens, and why we should care about both.” -- Langdon Hammer, author of James Merrill: Life and Art“’A poem creates the moment as we enter it,’ writes Longenbach, and with his masterful discernment and elegant prose, he illuminates the richness of that moment. Wending from Marianne Moore’s Observations to Sally Keith’s River House, Longenbach traces the entire development of modern and contemporary American poetry, even as he attends to the unique imaginations of the poets themselves, to ‘the way in which a particular poem creates the repeatable event of itself.’ I’m convinced The Lyric Now will be with us for a long time to come.” -- Peter Campion, author of Radical as Reality: Form and Freedom in American Poetry"The Lyric Now will give great pleasure." * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsPreface I Poet of Argument II Home Thoughts III Visions and Revisions IV Drawing a Frame V A Test of Poetry VI Life after Death VII Very Rich Hours VIII Potential Space IX Moving On X Disliking It XI The Lyric Now Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Improvising Improvisation From Out of Philosophy
Book SynopsisIdeas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of poetry, he argues, stands to energize the transnational turn in the humanities. Poetry in a Global Age builds on Ramazani's award-winning A Transnational Poetics, a book that had a catalytic effect on literary studies. Ramazani broadens his lens to discuss modern and contemporary poems not only in relation to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism but also in light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, and cultural geography. He offers brilliant readings of postcolonial poets like Agha Shahid Ali, Lorna Goodison, and Daljit Nagra, as well as canonical modernists such as W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore. Ramazani shows that even wheTrade Review"Ramazani’s insight in Poetry in a Global Age is especially astute and timely: poetry is important and flourishing precisely because of its global perspective. . . . Among the book’s many merits are the close readings which, teeming from its dense pages, are uniformly insightful. Ramazani is either introducing us to poets who deserve a wider audience and showing us why. . . or reconceiving some aspect of long-studied figures with a fresh angle or a new context." * Time Present: The Newsletter of the International T. S. Eliot Society *"Over the past two decades [Ramazani] has shown how we might think transnationally and translocally about poetry. Much literature in the area concentrates on the novel, as critics assume that poetry is more integrally tied to particular traditions. If the real world is globalised, then, so the logic goes, since the novel incorporates larger tranches of that world, it must deal more immediately with globalism. This perhaps demonstrates the shortcomings of such critics than any shortcoming in the genre of poetry. . . Ramazani leaves no doubt that the genre can easily keep pace with the novel. . . Ramazani exemplifies what is best in transnational literary criticism." -- Justin Quinn * Dublin Review of Books *“In this generous and engaging book, the capstone of an informal trilogy, Ramazani further widens our gaze and clears up our confusion about poetry’s part in an interconnected world. Each chapter takes up one of the current topics within our broad discussion of globalism, summarizing critical debates with a clear-eyed and nuanced argument of its own that pushes beyond dichotomies. As always, Ramazani develops his claims through targeted close readings that return us to the joy and utility of reading poetry.” * Bonnie Costello, Boston University *“In Poetry in a Global Age, Ramazani demonstrates just how much scholars of world literature have missed by taking their bearings primarily from narrative. The book draws on an almost unbelievably wide swath of reading in scholarly fields, including world history, ecological theory, linguistics, the social science literature on globalization, studies of tourism and war, and debates over form and translation. Poetry in a Global Age will be necessary reading for virtually everyone thinking and writing about English-language poetry and comparative poetics.” * Nathan Suhr-Sytsma, Emory University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Chapter 1. “Cosmopolitan Sympathies”: Poetry of the First Global War Chapter 2. The Local Poem in a Global Age Chapter 3. Poetry and Tourism in a Global Age Chapter 4. Modernist Inflections, Postcolonial Directions Chapter 5. Poetry and the Transnational Migration of Form Chapter 6. Yeats’s Asias: Modernism, Orientalism, Anti-orientalism Chapter 7. Poetry, the Planet, and the Ecological Thought: Wallace Stevens and Beyond Chapter 8. Seamus Heaney’s Globe Chapter 9. Code-Switching, Code-Stitching: A Macaronic Poetics? Chapter 10. Poetry, (Un)Translatability, and World Literature Epilogue. Lyric Poetry: Intergeneric, Transnational, Translingual? Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Courtesy Phoenix Poets
Book SynopsisIn this, his first book, Alan Shapiro vividly recreates some of the more memorable and poignant moments from his Jewish-American childhood, and in the process reveals his compassionate interest in the forgotten, the alienated, and the infirm. The Courtesy is an intelligent, reflective examination of the poet's own psychological history. The Courtesy is really an admirable book: it shows up the unreality of a lot of the other poetry one reads, dealing honestly and with that perversity which is a sign of thoughfulness, with the slight but heavy matter of our everyday defeats.--Michael Hoffman, Poetry Nation Review
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The University of Chicago Press The Poets Freedom A Notebook on Making
Book SynopsisWhy do we need new art? How free is the artist in making? And why is the artist, and particularly the poet, a figure of freedom in Western culture? This book explores and celebrates the freedom of artists who, working under finite conditions, make considered choices and shape surprising consequences.Trade Review"Susan Stewart is an investigator of linguistic nuance and a new metaphysics, par excellence.... I believe she is one of the finest poets of the last fifty years." -John Kinsella, Salt Magazine "Stewart's meditations on the history of poetry and the poetic are in themselves an original contribution to the philosophy of culture." -Hayden White, author of Figural Realism"
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The University of Chicago Press Domestic Georgic
Book SynopsisInspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.Trade Review“This is a book of luminous intelligence. At once impeccably erudite and highly readable, textually focused and imaginatively wide-ranging, it opens up new ways of understanding not only the early modern texts that are central to Kadue’s argument, but any form of writing where labor is distributed, symbolically or literally, across a gender divide.” * Terence Cave, St John’s College, University of Oxford *“Kadue teaches her reader to pay attention to metaphors of pickling, maceration, sweeping, tinkering, mending; to quiet the din of warfare and the choir of resurrection, and listen to the burble of cookery and of the hungry body, in their daily rivalry with time. . . . Domestic Georgic will teach scholars and students alike to read in a different register, and its pages are lucid, lively, and shrewd, at once sophisticated and unpretentious.” * Jeff Dolven, Princeton University *“Where earlier feminist scholars have shown that women’s domestic labor facilitated men’s literary work, here Kadue argues that the method of men’s literary work itself drew on women’s domestic labor. Kadue shows how practices of pickling, fermenting, and preserving make up a surprising pantry of skilled literary techniques. This is work that gives us a recipe to reread the Renaissance.” * Katherine Ibbett, Trinity College, University of Oxford *"As Katie Kadue points out in Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton, a wonderful book on early modern writers and the kitchen arts, Eve’s independent forays into drying and preserving the fruits of Eden yield a counterintuitive understanding of perfection itself, not as a fixed state from which one must not swerve but as a dynamic process of trial, innocent error, and gradual improvement." -- Catherine Nicholson * New York Review of Books *"Kadue's analyses of Milton’s metaphors unveil a domestic analogy that has always coexisted with the grandeur of the imagined Miltonic library of vital books and discerning readers. This is one of the many local readings in Domestic Georgic that illuminate overlooked aspects of household work in familiar sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts. Now that I see the link between the library and the kitchen storeroom in Milton’s tract, I cannot unsee it, and I experienced this delightful sensation many times while reading this book. Kadue’s style, casual but erudite, also makes this book an unusually engaging read." * Modern Language Quarterly *In an elegantly organized and beautifully written book of five chapters plus an introduction and conclusion, Kadue ranges confidently across time, terrain, and language, moving from Rabelais (in the mid-sixteenth century) to Milton in the mid- and late seventeenth century and concluding with a discussion of two poems by women, one eighteenth century and one twenty-first century. Balancing a sharp eye for detail against a robust overarching argument, she offers both new insights into familiar authors and works and a new rubric one might use to discuss other texts and authors as well. * Genre *"Katie Kadue’s book makes an important contribution, defining domestic georgic, and how selected authors from Rabelais to Milton labor to preserve a kind of poetic housekeeping or daily literary chores." * Renaissance and Reformation *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Private Labors of Public Men 1: Rabelais in a Pickle: Fixing Flux in Le Quart Livre 2: Spenser’s Secret Recipes: Life Support in The Faerie Queene 3: Correcting Montaigne: Agitation and Care in the Essais 4: Marvell in the Meantime: Preserving Patriarchy in Upon Appleton House 5: Milton’s Storehouses: Tempering Futures in Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regain’d Conclusion: A Woman’s Work Is Never Done Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine A
Book SynopsisProvides a representation of French poet Paul Verlaine's oeuvre. This selection includes a number of Verlaine's early works; poems from his middle period, which reflect his on-again, off-again conversion to Catholicism; and poems from his late period, when he fell prey to poverty and disease.
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Columbia University Press Selected Poems of So Chongju Modern Asian
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Grangers Index to AfricanAmerican
Book SynopsisAddresses questions such as: What are the best anthologies of African-American poetry? What have African-American poets written about such highly charged issues as religion? Politics? Patriotism? Slavery? Racism? Money? Sex? What have they written about Harlem? The civil-rights movement? Martin Luther King Jr?
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Columbia University Press An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds Records of
Book SynopsisThis neglected Greek satire is now available in English. Basing their translation on two critical editions of the 14th-century anonymous poem, Nicholas and Baloglou reveal the full texture of this unique genre of the Byzantine period. The authors provide analysis on form, style and context.Trade ReviewNicholas and Baloglou have here produced a thorough study of a 14th-century 'popular' Byzantine poem concerning an assembly of herbivores and carnivores at the behest of King Lion... Reproductions of the drawings from the one illustrated manuscript of the tale are provided, along with textual notes, six appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and an index of Greek words... Clearly a labor of love. Choice The interest of this work is the insights it provides into various aspects of the life of the time...The introduction and commentary to the translation are both substantial and extensively researched, and would be a great resource for someone wishing to follow up any of these areas... a good read for those interested in the popular culture and daily life of the Eastern Roman Empire. Medieval History Both authors have a vision and an unequivocal perspective, which they have followed from the first page to the last: bringing a modern interested reader close to a mediaeval poem. They do this with a breath of fresh air, which blows away the traditional philologists' dust. -- Hans Eideneier Byzantinische Zeitschrift An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds definitely belongs in university libraries and could be used as a textbook in courses on Byzantine Greek literature and late medieval writing in general--in spite of a certain repetitiousness. Fifteenth Century Studies
£95.00
Columbia University Press The Undiscovered Country
Book SynopsisFor more than a quarter century, William Logan has delivered clear-eyed and razor-sharp assessments of contemporary and classic poetry. Combining the sensibilities of poet and critic, Logan vividly conveys what he finds most memorable and most damning in a poet's work. Poets discussed include Shakespeare, Whitman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, and Czeslaw Milosz.Trade ReviewLogan has firmly established himself as the pit bull of mainstream poetry reviewers. -- Maureen N. McLane Chicago Tribune Sharp writing about poetry can be as delightful as verse itself, a fact William Logan has been proving for years. -- John Freeman Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Exception to the happy talk. His bracing new collection... is filled with hard-hitting reviews that hail quality and drub mediocrity. -- Bil Marx WBUR.ORG Our wittiest critic of contemporary verse lets loose one lethal shaft after another. -- James Marcus Newsday Impeccable understanding of great poetry. Choice The most complete analysis of contemporary English-language poets that we are likely to have. Contemporary Poetry Review William Logan is the best practical critic around. -- Christian Wiman PoetryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Poetry in the Age of Tin Prisoner, Fancy-Man, Rowdy, Lawyer, Physician, Priest: Whitman's Brags Verse Chronicle: Sins and Sensibility Verse Chronicle: Vanity Fair "You Must Not Take it So Hard, Madame" The Mystery of Marianne Moore Verse Chronicle: No Mercy Verse Chronicle: The Way of All Flesh The Extremity of the Flesh Later Auden The Triumph of Geoffrey Hill Verse Chronicle: Author! Author! Verse Chronicle: Folk Tales Houseman's Ghosts Milton in the Modern: The Invention of Personality Verse Chronicle: All Over the Map Verse Chronicle: Falls the Shadow Poetry and the Age: An Introduction The World Out-Herods Herod Lowell's Bubble: A Postscript Verse Chronicle: The Real Language of Men Verse Chronicle: Satanic Mills Auden's Shakespeare Berryman's Shakespeare The Sins of the Sonnets Permissions Books Under Review Index of Authors Reviewed
£83.60
Columbia University Press Prose of the World
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewProse of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. It shows convincingly that the experience of colonial banality was a principal engine of literary modernism. Bringing a transnational perspective to the history of twentieth-century Anglophone fiction, Majumdar provincializes modernism by putting its aesthetic celebration of the ordinary into conversation with the geopolitics of crushing boredom. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English. -- Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers University, author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation This well-informed, searching study throws new light on the literary consequences of empire. Its insightful account of the experience of boredom and banality on the political and cultural periphery, and of writers' responses to this experience, will be valued by all those interested in the global transformations of modernism and the relation between artistic creativity and colonial hegemony. -- Derek Attridge, University of York There are many impressive things in this book: it provides us with a powerful rethinking of the vexed relationship between empire and modernism, an unprecedented probing of the internal logic of the modernist movement, and a smart meditation on the role of the ordinary and banal in the making of the language of modernism. -- Simon Gikandi, Princeton University Thorough and challenging, this study offers the reader... a new way of thinking about late-colonial modernist fiction's deployment of the banal... [and] offers a powerful if indirect commentary on the considerable failings of postcolonial modernity. Times Literary Supplement Highly recommended. Choice A timely contribution to global modernist and contemporary Anglophone literary studies... Provocative... [Prose of the World] will serve as a reference point for future discussions of modernist and contemporary literature. Contemporary Literature An ambitious and original study that is indispensable reading for any scholars of modernism and postcolonial studies. -- Adam Barrows The Comparatist This book provides a brilliant engagement with the topic from a previously largely ignored angle as it gives centre stage to the motifs of banality and its emotional corollary boredom by appraising a number of thoughtfully chosen texts Anthropological Notebooks A beautiful meditation on the relevance of the uneventful for modernist and postcolonial writing. Novel: A Forum on Fiction Prose of the World reminds us that while the everyday is always banal, it is not always boring. -- Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Interventions Saikat Majumdar's Prose of the World is an erudite, wide-ranging, and innovative study of Anglophone world literature that opens up an array of fundamental theoretical and methodological questions in literary studies. -- Pranav Jani James Joyce Quarterly Works such as these reenergize and alter our engagement with global literature. -- Celiese Lypka ARIELTable of ContentsIntroduction: Poetics of the Prosaic 1. James Joyce and the Banality of Refusal 2. Katherine Mansfield and the Fragility of Pakeha Boredom 3. The Dailiness of Trauma and Liberation in Zoe Wicomb 4. Amit Chaudhuri and the Materiality of the Mundane Epilogue: The Uneventful Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press Prose of the World
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewProse of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. It shows convincingly that the experience of colonial banality was a principal engine of literary modernism. Bringing a transnational perspective to the history of twentieth-century Anglophone fiction, Majumdar provincializes modernism by putting its aesthetic celebration of the ordinary into conversation with the geopolitics of crushing boredom. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English. -- Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers University, author of Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation This well-informed, searching study throws new light on the literary consequences of empire. Its insightful account of the experience of boredom and banality on the political and cultural periphery, and of writers' responses to this experience, will be valued by all those interested in the global transformations of modernism and the relation between artistic creativity and colonial hegemony. -- Derek Attridge, University of York There are many impressive things in this book: it provides us with a powerful rethinking of the vexed relationship between empire and modernism, an unprecedented probing of the internal logic of the modernist movement, and a smart meditation on the role of the ordinary and banal in the making of the language of modernism. -- Simon Gikandi, Princeton University Thorough and challenging, this study offers the reader... a new way of thinking about late-colonial modernist fiction's deployment of the banal... [and] offers a powerful if indirect commentary on the considerable failings of postcolonial modernity. Times Literary Supplement Highly recommended. Choice A timely contribution to global modernist and contemporary Anglophone literary studies... Provocative... [Prose of the World] will serve as a reference point for future discussions of modernist and contemporary literature. Contemporary Literature An ambitious and original study that is indispensable reading for any scholars of modernism and postcolonial studies. -- Adam Barrows The Comparatist This book provides a brilliant engagement with the topic from a previously largely ignored angle as it gives centre stage to the motifs of banality and its emotional corollary boredom by appraising a number of thoughtfully chosen texts Anthropological Notebooks A beautiful meditation on the relevance of the uneventful for modernist and postcolonial writing. Novel: A Forum on Fiction Prose of the World reminds us that while the everyday is always banal, it is not always boring. -- Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Interventions Saikat Majumdar's Prose of the World is an erudite, wide-ranging, and innovative study of Anglophone world literature that opens up an array of fundamental theoretical and methodological questions in literary studies. -- Pranav Jani James Joyce Quarterly Works such as these reenergize and alter our engagement with global literature. -- Celiese Lypka ARIELTable of ContentsIntroduction: Poetics of the Prosaic 1. James Joyce and the Banality of Refusal 2. Katherine Mansfield and the Fragility of Pakeha Boredom 3. The Dailiness of Trauma and Liberation in Zoe Wicomb 4. Amit Chaudhuri and the Materiality of the Mundane Epilogue: The Uneventful Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£25.20
Columbia University Press Everyday Reading
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMike Chasar's brilliant, witty book is the definitive guide to the growing field of American popular poetry. Empowered by prodigious research and informed by thorough knowledge of the traditional poetry canon, Chasar's five chapters take us deep into the way poetry functioned in the lives of ordinary people. -- Cary Nelson, Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry An ambitious, serious claim on present-day literary studies, and a surprise and a delight. Mike Chasar combines the painstaking, arduous archival methods of real historians with the close analyses that we expect from literary critics, applied to verse, images, and informative prose ephemera. He persuasively links William Carlos Williams's innovations to roadside signs, the Iowa Writers' Workshop to the Hallmark card, and he may change how you see eminent writers' work. More than that, Chasar gets twenty-first-century readers to notice the uses that so many Americans, only a couple of generations ago, found for the poetry they enjoyed. Or, to take up a mode Chasar appears to be the first to analyze: THIS OLD-TIME VERSE/HAS LOTS TO SAY/IF YOU CAN READ IT/CHASAR'S WAY. -- Stephen Burt, Harvard University Chasar shows us that if we can rethink our ideas about poets and poetry, we will find that poems have always been part and parcel of modern life. This is an important-really, a necessary-book for anyone interested in modern poetics, the history of reading, and the many appearances of poetry in the era of its supposed disappearance. -- Virginia Jackson, University of California, Irvine A brilliantly written book, startling the reader with his thorough research and analysis of the evolution of poetry through the 20th and 21 centuries. -- Sheila Erwin Portland Book Review Highly recommended. Choice The originality of Chasar's close readings, the sheer amount of research informing each chapter, and the speculations on what can be learned from such careful analyses of popular cultural practices make Everyday Reading not so everyday and well worth reading. -- Lisa M. Steinman The Journal of American History ... Well-documented, thoughtful... The publication of Chasar's book fits our times and provokes futuristic ponderings. Reception Innovative, important, and constantly successful. -- David Levine College Literature The lyric spring will never cease creating an emotional pressure, sought after by every searching consciousness--this is what Mike Chasar... has shown in his book Everyday Reading. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenieTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Poetry and Popular Culture 1. Saving Poetry 2. Invisible Audiences 3. The Business of Rhyming 4. The Spin Doctor 5. Popular Poetry and the Program Era Epilogue: In Memoriam Notes Bibliography Index
£83.60
Columbia University Press Everyday Reading
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMike Chasar's brilliant, witty book is the definitive guide to the growing field of American popular poetry. Empowered by prodigious research and informed by thorough knowledge of the traditional poetry canon, Chasar's five chapters take us deep into the way poetry functioned in the lives of ordinary people. -- Cary Nelson, Editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry An ambitious, serious claim on present-day literary studies, and a surprise and a delight. Mike Chasar combines the painstaking, arduous archival methods of real historians with the close analyses that we expect from literary critics, applied to verse, images, and informative prose ephemera. He persuasively links William Carlos Williams's innovations to roadside signs, the Iowa Writers' Workshop to the Hallmark card, and he may change how you see eminent writers' work. More than that, Chasar gets twenty-first-century readers to notice the uses that so many Americans, only a couple of generations ago, found for the poetry they enjoyed. Or, to take up a mode Chasar appears to be the first to analyze: THIS OLD-TIME VERSE/HAS LOTS TO SAY/IF YOU CAN READ IT/CHASAR'S WAY. -- Stephen Burt, Harvard University Chasar shows us that if we can rethink our ideas about poets and poetry, we will find that poems have always been part and parcel of modern life. This is an important-really, a necessary-book for anyone interested in modern poetics, the history of reading, and the many appearances of poetry in the era of its supposed disappearance. -- Virginia Jackson, University of California, Irvine A brilliantly written book, startling the reader with his thorough research and analysis of the evolution of poetry through the 20th and 21 centuries. -- Sheila Erwin Portland Book Review Highly recommended. Choice The originality of Chasar's close readings, the sheer amount of research informing each chapter, and the speculations on what can be learned from such careful analyses of popular cultural practices make Everyday Reading not so everyday and well worth reading. -- Lisa M. Steinman The Journal of American History ... Well-documented, thoughtful... The publication of Chasar's book fits our times and provokes futuristic ponderings. Reception Innovative, important, and constantly successful. -- David Levine College Literature The lyric spring will never cease creating an emotional pressure, sought after by every searching consciousness--this is what Mike Chasar... has shown in his book Everyday Reading. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenieTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Poetry and Popular Culture 1. Saving Poetry 2. Invisible Audiences 3. The Business of Rhyming 4. The Spin Doctor 5. Popular Poetry and the Program Era Epilogue: In Memoriam Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Do You Have a Band
Book SynopsisDuring the late 1960s, throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, New York City poets and musicians played together, published each other, and inspired one another to create groundbreaking art. In "Do You Have a Band?", Daniel Kane reads deeply across poetry and punk music to capture this compelling exchange and its challenge.Trade ReviewDaniel Kane's 'Do You Have a Band' illuminates the connection of Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith to Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, and beyond. The dialogue among poets hanging out at CBGB and punk rock pioneers reading at the Poetry Project in early-seventies NYC is where so many of us in the sonic-lit lineage enter, charmed into the future. -- Thurston Moore, recording artist and cofounder of Sonic Youth Daniel Kane's incisive study confirms what poets have known for years: that punk rock was spawned by the New York School. Meticulously researched, "Do You Have a Band?" is a must-read for any literature buff, poet, or punk rock fan. This book seamlessly blends historical analysis with literary critique, pop culture, and just the right amount of dirt. -- Gillian McCain, coauthor of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk "Do You Have a Band?" is a formidably researched and galvanizing cultural history of the poetry-punk rock connection, with its lofty aspirations, history, gossip, and genius. This tome continues Kane's passionate scholarship of the formative years of the downtown New York performance/poetry worlds. When were we ever so free to incubate our wild desires in language and sound? Current and next generations of artists, rockers, scholars, and fans will love this book. -- Anne Waldman, author of Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet to Be Born Critics have long remarked that Lou Reed, Richard Hell, Patti Smith and other musicians associated with the emergence of punk rock began their careers in the New York poetry world. Why then are timeless evocations of the Rimbaudian maudit all we ever hear about their interest in poetry? Banishing these cliches with a critical power chord, Daniel Kane's "Do You Have a Band?" finally brings into view the actual landscape of later New York School poetics in which (and often against which) New York punk rock took shape. -- Lytle Shaw, New York University, author of Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of CoterieTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Fugs Are Coming 2. Lou Reed: "In the Beginning Was the Word" 3. Proto-Punk and Poetry on St. Mark's Place 4. Richard Hell, Genesis: Grasp, and the Making of the Blank Generation 5. "I Just Got Different Theories": Patti Smith and the New York School of Poetry 6. Giorno Poetry Systems 7. Eileen Myles and the International Fuck Frank O'Hara Movement 8. "Sit on My Face!": Dennis Cooper, the First Punk Poet Afterword: People Who Died Notes Index
£79.20
Columbia University Press The Winter Sun Shines In
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this new biography of Masaoka Shiki, Donald Keene tells Shiki's story with a wonderful blend of brio and depth. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the work delves into hitherto slighted aspects of Shiki's oeuvre and personality. Readers of Japanese and world literature will welcome this book for its rich portrait of one of modern Japan's most important writers. -- Janine Beichman, author of Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works This biography excels. Japan TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Early Years 2. Student Days 3. The Song of the Hototogisu 4. Shiki the Novelist 5. Cathay and the Way Thither 6. Sketches from Life 7. Hototogisu 8. Shiki and the Tanka 9. Shintaishi and Kanshi 10. Random Essays (Zuihitsu), 1 11. Random Essays, 2 12. The Last Days Notes Bibliography Index
£63.00
Columbia University Press Sebalds Vision
Book SynopsisA major new assessment of one of the most important writers of the late twentieth century and his work with history and its representation.Trade ReviewCarol Jacobs's Sebald's Vision provides one of the first all-encompassing studies of W. G. Sebald. The match could not be better: one of the foremost literary scholars in the United States takes on the work of one of the best-known German-speaking authors of the twentieth century. The result is remarkable. Jacobs's careful, patient readings draw out the insights and blind spots of Sebald's influential oeuvre. -- Elke Siegel, Cornell University Attentive at every turn to the highly unusual literary practices of W. G. Sebald's texts, Jacobs asks whether such a radical stylistics can be reconciled with moral certitude, and, if not, what are the consequences? A work of great patience, stamina, and critical vigilance, Sebald's Vision is meticulously researched, beautifully written, and certain to become the standard by which future work on this important writer is measured. -- Michael G. Levine, Rutgers University In Sebald's Vision, Jacobs not only grants insight into the enigmatic source of Sebald's aesthetic authority but also provides a model of ethical reading that is grounded in the unsettling maxim she locates in his writing: 'Each time different perspectives.' -- Peter Fenves, Northwestern University [Sebald's Vision] will leave serious readers with plenty to contemplate regarding Sebald's aesthetic and moral insights. Publishers Weekly Her focus on the gaze does indeed offer a striking insight into Sebald's complex representations of history... Jacobs' book will doubtless make a long-lasting contribution to Sebald criticism. -- Simon Ward Times Higher Education An important addition to the criticism on this fascinating writer. Highly recommended. CHOICETable of ContentsPreface: "Sebald's Vision" Acknowledgments 1. "Like the snow on the Alps": After Nature 2. What Does It Mean to Count?: The Emigrants 3. Frames and Excursions: Rings of Saturn 4. Toward an Epistemology of Citation: "Air War and Literature" 5. A is for Austerlitz: Austerlitz 6. Deja vu or... : "Like Day and Night-On the Pictures of Jan Peter Tripp" 7. A Critical Eye: The Interviews Notes Works Cited Index
£29.75
Columbia University Press The Fate of Ideas
Book SynopsisAs editor of the magazine Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century’s most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers writes a wholly original intellectual memoir.Trade ReviewThe Fate of Ideas is a brilliant, highly original, and delightful book that achieves a unique balance between criticism and personal essay, revealing the author himself as both a decisive thinker and an appealingly flawed, divided human being. Looking at a wide range of ideas by peeling away attendant presuppositions and contradictions, Robert Boyers argues with friends, intellectual heroes, and respected elders while examining his own prejudices. Throughout we find ourselves in the company of a first-rate mind alert to changes in intellectual fashion and the quickness with which politically or aesthetically 'correct' assumptions harden into received ideas. -- Phillip Lopate, director (nonfiction) of the Writing Program, Columbia University School of the Arts, and author of Getting Personal: Selected Essays In a dance that is both demanding and exhilarating, Robert Boyers engages thinkers and ideas, insisting there are things worth arguing about that are larger and grander than the standard scholarly or academic discourse can get at. An elegant and courageous book. -- Mary Gordon, Mcintosh Professor, Barnard College, author of The Company of Women This book is a combination of memoir and cultural criticism, though all of the chapters shed light on the protean character of the author, a prominent cultural critic and-perhaps above all-the founder and longtime editor of the quarterly Salmagundi. Whatever form they take-some chapters are deeply personal, others are largely polemical-all are thought experiments, essays often ironic and self-deprecating, Emersonian in the sense that Robert Boyers is unabashed in his 'appetite for masters and masterpieces' that can become 'a constitutive aspect of my very being.' A superb and singular work. -- James Miller, director of liberal studies, graduate faculty, New School for Social Research, author of The Passion of Michel Foucault An attractive, original, subtle, and heartening book that combines the methods of the moral and personal essay with informal literary and cultural criticism. -- Richard Locke, Columbia University, author of Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels The 12 literary essays collected in this volume are bottomless wells of provocation and insight... Readers who crave rich food for thought will find much to savor in this volume. Publisher's Weekly (starred review) Boyers's intellectual rigor and literary acuity showcase the life's work of an individual deeply committed to the liberal arts. A timely collection... Essential. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Authority 2. Pleasure 3. Reading from the Life 4. Fidelity 5. Saving Beauty 6. My "Others" 7. Politics and the Novel 8. Realism 9. The Sublime 10. Psychoanalysis 11. Modernism 12. Judgment Bibliography Index
£80.39
Columbia University Press Ghalib
Book SynopsisThis selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib’s poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved throughout South Asia for their arresting intelligence and lively witTrade ReviewGhalib is the first ample and compact introduction to the Urdu oeuvre of the last great 'Mughal' poet of India. It fills a long-felt lacuna, and does so admirably well. The translators have provided all that a reader might need to get closer to the poet and the man, including Ghalib's own comments on many of his 'difficult' verses. -- C. M. Naim, University of ChicagoGhalib once described himself as "A nightingale of a yet to be created garden, singing with the white heat of an ecstatic imagination." Gifted with the vision of a seer, he could well be describing how this elegant and dazzling translation makes his poetry come alive in English, a world apart from his nineteenth century Delhi. This is a superb introduction to this marvelous poet, resonant with his subtle nuances and exquisite meanings. -- Asif Farrukhi, editor of An Evening of Caged Beasts: Seven Postmodernist Urdu PoetsGhalib: Selected Poems and Letters is a tour de force, an offering of love by one of our most prominent contemporary scholars of Urdu poetry. Pritchett brings to this anthology a lifetime of scholarly devotion to Ghalib, while Cornwall demonstrates his promise as an emerging scholar. This volume offers new insight to fellow devotees of Ghalib's poetry through extraordinary translations, all contextualized by a rich body of historical, cultural, biographical and secondary literary materials. To the interested novice who takes this book up, a door will open revealing a beguiling and wondrous world. -- Carla Petievich, The University of Texas at AustinThe engaging tone of this rigorous volume will make Ghalib accessible to a wide-ranging audience that does not speak Persian or Urdu. It successfully brings into focus the reigning tropes and motifs of Perso-Urdu poetry and Islam. Yet the real importance of the work lies in its profound approach to translation; Pritchett and Cornwall extract beauty from a close reading of the texts without venturing into a discourse that does not accord closely with the original Perso-Urdu words and idioms. -- Syed Akbar Hyder, The University of Texas at AustinTranslation is a labor of love; it is the breaking of silence between languages. It poses unique challenges. Ghalib’s multivalent, convoluted poetry is loaded with delicate metaphors and word play. Much of it is not even translatable. Frances Pritchett and Owen Cornwall have carefully chosen some of the best ghazals that are most translatable, and done a marvelous job of rendering them into idiomatic English. An indispensable part of the book are the endnotes that explicate nuances that were either impossible to capture or require cultural knowledge to understand. Valuable information about possible readings and further discussion is also provided. -- Mehr Farooqi, University of VirginiaThe book is reliable, reader-friendly, and translated with enthusiasm and relish. Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Ghalib's Life and TimesPart One: GhazalsPart Two: Ghazal VersesPart Three: Other Genres1. Poems2. Letters3. ProseNotesAppendix 1. Ghalib's Comments on His Own VersesAppendix 2. Ghalib Concordance, with Standard Divan NumbersGlossary of Technical Terms and Proper NamesBibliographyIndexUrdu Text
£19.80
Columbia University Press How to Read Chinese Poetry A Guided Anthology
Book SynopsisHow to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty. Presenting poems in Chinese along with English translations and commentary, it is a pioneering and versatile text for the study of Chinese language, literature, history, and culture.Trade ReviewDevoted exclusively to the rich, fantastical, labyrinthine matrix of poetry-making in ancient China. . . . [How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context] is both a gem of fresh scholarship and a compendium of luminous insights. . . . This book – in fact, the entire series – will be a game changer. -- Yunte Huang * Los Angeles Review of Books, China Channel *Zong-qi Cai is one of the finest scholars of Chinese poetry writing today. -- Jonathan Chaves, The George Washington UniversityTruly a landmark publication in the field of Chinese literary scholarship. -- Shuen-fu Lin, University of MichiganIn this magnificent volume on Chinese poetry, nineteen scholars demonstrate the importance of cultural reading. From questions of authorship to ideology, from the poetry of wars, heroes, women, and knights-errant to that of Daoism and Buddhism, this book offers a surprising and enlightening rereading of Chinese poetry and its context. -- Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale UniversityA splendid achievement! Intellectually rigorous and reader-friendly at once, this collection of essays lets both novice and specialist readers experience the beauty and poignancy of classical Chinese poetry one well-chosen topic at a time. -- Patricia Sieber, Ohio State UniversityThis volume joins others in editor Zong-qi Cai’s How to Read Chinese literature series as an important pedagogic and scholarly resource. Leading authorities set seminal poetic texts, across genres and periods, in their larger historical literary and intellectual contexts. A great contribution to a broader understanding of Chinese poetry. -- Ronald Egan, Stanford UniversityTable of ContentsThematic ContentsPreface to the How to Read Chinese Literature SeriesPreface to the VolumeChronology of Historical EventsSymbols and AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Cultural Role of Chinese Poetry, by Zong-qi CaiPart I: Pre-Han Times1. Poetry and Diplomacy in The Zuo Commentary(Zuozhuan), by Wai-yee Li2. Poetry and Authorship: The Songs of Chu (Chuci), by Stephen OwenPart II: The Han Dynasty3. Empire in Text: Sima Xiangru’s “Sir Vacuous/Imperial Park Rhapsody”(“Zixu/Shanglin fu”), by Yu-yu Cheng and Gregory Patterson4. Poetry and Ideology: The Canonization of the Book of Poetry (Shijing) During the Han, by Zong-qi Cai5. Love Beyond the Grave: A Tragic Tale of Love and Marriage in Han China, by Olga LomováPart III: The Six Dynasties6. Heroes from Chaotic Times: The Three Caos, by Xinda Lian7. The Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, by Nanxiu Qian8. The Poetry of Reclusion: Tao Qian, by Alan Berkowitz9. The Struggling Buddhist Mind: Shen Yue, by Meow Hui GohPart IV: The Tang Dynasty10. Knight-Errantry: Tang Frontier Poems, by Tsung-Cheng Lin11. Tang Civil Service Examinations, by Manling Luo12. Tang Women at the Public/Private Divide, by Maija Bell Samei13. Poetry and Buddhist Enlightenment: Wang Wei and Han Shan, by Chen Yinchi and Jing Chen14. Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon: Li Bai and the Poetics of Wine, by Paula Varsano15. Du Fu: The Poet as Historian, by Jack W. Chen16. Poetry and Literati Friendship: Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, by Ao Wang17. Li He: Poetry as Obsession, by Robert AshmoreAcknowledgmentsContributorsGlossary-Index
£101.70
Columbia University Press How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context
Book SynopsisHow to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty. Presenting poems in Chinese along with English translations and commentary, it is a pioneering and versatile text for the study of Chinese language, literature, history, and culture.Trade ReviewDevoted exclusively to the rich, fantastical, labyrinthine matrix of poetry-making in ancient China. . . . [How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context] is both a gem of fresh scholarship and a compendium of luminous insights. . . . This book – in fact, the entire series – will be a game changer. -- Yunte Huang * Los Angeles Review of Books, China Channel *Zong-qi Cai is one of the finest scholars of Chinese poetry writing today. -- Jonathan Chaves, The George Washington UniversityTruly a landmark publication in the field of Chinese literary scholarship. -- Shuen-fu Lin, University of MichiganIn this magnificent volume on Chinese poetry, nineteen scholars demonstrate the importance of cultural reading. From questions of authorship to ideology, from the poetry of wars, heroes, women, and knights-errant to that of Daoism and Buddhism, this book offers a surprising and enlightening rereading of Chinese poetry and its context. -- Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale UniversityA splendid achievement! Intellectually rigorous and reader-friendly at once, this collection of essays lets both novice and specialist readers experience the beauty and poignancy of classical Chinese poetry one well-chosen topic at a time. -- Patricia Sieber, Ohio State UniversityThis volume joins others in editor Zong-qi Cai’s How to Read Chinese literature series as an important pedagogic and scholarly resource. Leading authorities set seminal poetic texts, across genres and periods, in their larger historical literary and intellectual contexts. A great contribution to a broader understanding of Chinese poetry. -- Ronald Egan, Stanford UniversityThe translations are of high caliber, carefully done and polished. The book is user friendly. * China Review International *Table of ContentsThematic ContentsPreface to the How to Read Chinese Literature SeriesPreface to the VolumeChronology of Historical EventsSymbols and AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Cultural Role of Chinese Poetry, by Zong-qi CaiPart I: Pre-Han Times1. Poetry and Diplomacy in The Zuo Commentary(Zuozhuan), by Wai-yee Li2. Poetry and Authorship: The Songs of Chu (Chuci), by Stephen OwenPart II: The Han Dynasty3. Empire in Text: Sima Xiangru’s “Sir Vacuous/Imperial Park Rhapsody”(“Zixu/Shanglin fu”), by Yu-yu Cheng and Gregory Patterson4. Poetry and Ideology: The Canonization of the Book of Poetry (Shijing) During the Han, by Zong-qi Cai5. Love Beyond the Grave: A Tragic Tale of Love and Marriage in Han China, by Olga LomováPart III: The Six Dynasties6. Heroes from Chaotic Times: The Three Caos, by Xinda Lian7. The Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, by Nanxiu Qian8. The Poetry of Reclusion: Tao Qian, by Alan Berkowitz9. The Struggling Buddhist Mind: Shen Yue, by Meow Hui GohPart IV: The Tang Dynasty10. Knight-Errantry: Tang Frontier Poems, by Tsung-Cheng Lin11. Tang Civil Service Examinations, by Manling Luo12. Tang Women at the Public/Private Divide, by Maija Bell Samei13. Poetry and Buddhist Enlightenment: Wang Wei and Han Shan, by Chen Yinchi and Jing Chen14. Drinking Alone Beneath the Moon: Li Bai and the Poetics of Wine, by Paula Varsano15. Du Fu: The Poet as Historian, by Jack W. Chen16. Poetry and Literati Friendship: Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, by Ao Wang17. Li He: Poetry as Obsession, by Robert AshmoreAcknowledgmentsContributorsGlossary-Index
£29.75
Columbia University Press How to Read a Japanese Poem
Book SynopsisHow to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times to the present.Trade ReviewCarter’s book, no esoteric over-academic tome, is a lively exploration of Japanese poetic discourse, a guide to the formal delicacy and subtlety of Japanese verse, opening it up for the reader and showing, not telling, what’s inside. His book is accessible to all who enjoy Japanese poetry; he writes intelligently, sensitively and passionately about it, and the result is an indispensable book which will make Japanese poetry come alive and reveal its depth at the same time. -- John Butler * Asian Review of Books *In this thorough and wide-ranging book, Carter explores what to look for and what’s not obvious in each of Japan’s distinct genres of poetry. How to Read a Japanese Poem offers detailed analyses of specific poems in each era, exploring the textual and cultural context, social occasion, and the location and timing of composition. This book takes readers below the surface to understand the nuances of context. -- Michael Dylan Welch, founder and president, Tanka Society of AmericaThis fresh collection of poems, most of which have never appeared in translation before, illuminates the core and continuity of Japanese poetry. Carter’s commentary, based on a vast erudition worn as lightly as a feathered robe, opens up each poem, the world and the heart together. This book will enlighten and delight general readers and specialists alike. -- Sonja Arntzen, University of TorontoCarter’s colleagues and students have long waited to take this journey with him as guide to the formal subtleties and aesthetic principles that make Japanese poetry so rewarding and that he understands and explains so well. This is a most welcome volume. -- Edward Kamens, Yale UniversityFrom the songs of ancient Japan to haiku on World War II, through snow-flecked pines and into noisy streets, Carter guides us through more than a millennium of Japanese verse. Thanks to his contextual insights and masterful translations, the “clouds clear away” to reveal the beauty, power, wit, and utility of Japanese poetry. -- Christina Laffin, University of British ColumbiaThis book is a masterful tour of Japanese poetry from the earliest times to the late nineteenth century. The range of knowledge is astonishing, and there are very few people—perhaps no one—who could attempt this kind of book except for the author. -- Torquil Duthie, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Ancient Song and Poetry2. Long Poems and Short Poems3. Popular Songs4. Linked Verse5. Unorthodox Poems6. Comic Poems7. Poems in ChineseAppendix 1: Technical TermsAppendix 2: Aesthetic Ideals and DevicesNotesSources of Japanese TextsSelected BibliographyIndex of Japanese Names, Titles, and Terms
£71.25
Columbia University Press How to Read a Japanese Poem
Book SynopsisHow to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times to the present.Trade ReviewCarter’s book, no esoteric over-academic tome, is a lively exploration of Japanese poetic discourse, a guide to the formal delicacy and subtlety of Japanese verse, opening it up for the reader and showing, not telling, what’s inside. His book is accessible to all who enjoy Japanese poetry; he writes intelligently, sensitively and passionately about it, and the result is an indispensable book which will make Japanese poetry come alive and reveal its depth at the same time. -- John Butler * Asian Review of Books *In this thorough and wide-ranging book, Carter explores what to look for and what’s not obvious in each of Japan’s distinct genres of poetry. How to Read a Japanese Poem offers detailed analyses of specific poems in each era, exploring the textual and cultural context, social occasion, and the location and timing of composition. This book takes readers below the surface to understand the nuances of context. -- Michael Dylan Welch, founder and president, Tanka Society of AmericaThis fresh collection of poems, most of which have never appeared in translation before, illuminates the core and continuity of Japanese poetry. Carter’s commentary, based on a vast erudition worn as lightly as a feathered robe, opens up each poem, the world and the heart together. This book will enlighten and delight general readers and specialists alike. -- Sonja Arntzen, University of TorontoCarter’s colleagues and students have long waited to take this journey with him as guide to the formal subtleties and aesthetic principles that make Japanese poetry so rewarding and that he understands and explains so well. This is a most welcome volume. -- Edward Kamens, Yale UniversityFrom the songs of ancient Japan to haiku on World War II, through snow-flecked pines and into noisy streets, Carter guides us through more than a millennium of Japanese verse. Thanks to his contextual insights and masterful translations, the “clouds clear away” to reveal the beauty, power, wit, and utility of Japanese poetry. -- Christina Laffin, University of British ColumbiaThis book is a masterful tour of Japanese poetry from the earliest times to the late nineteenth century. The range of knowledge is astonishing, and there are very few people—perhaps no one—who could attempt this kind of book except for the author. -- Torquil Duthie, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Ancient Song and Poetry2. Long Poems and Short Poems3. Popular Songs4. Linked Verse5. Unorthodox Poems6. Comic Poems7. Poems in ChineseAppendix 1: Technical TermsAppendix 2: Aesthetic Ideals and DevicesNotesSources of Japanese TextsSelected BibliographyIndex of Japanese Names, Titles, and Terms
£23.75
Columbia University Press Poetry Unbound
Book SynopsisMike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, he follows poetry’s travels off the page into new media formats.Trade ReviewThis is a persuasive, thoroughly researched, memorable, and often delightful book. Mike Chasar has excelled in his ambitious coverage of primary sources. Moreover, this is a book that addresses questions that come up frequently in the poetry world about where and why and how "poetry matters," and about its place in the wider culture. -- Stephanie Burt, author of Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read PoemsPoetry is more than a creature of voice, hand, and press, as Chasar shows with verve, wit, insight, and sparkling detail. The public life of poetry in the twentieth-century United States is also a secret history of multimedia. Each medium remakes poetry. And poetry, in turn, remakes the media in which we live, move, and breathe. I love this book! -- John Durham Peters, author of The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental MediaBy disclosing what are at once poetry’s most inscrutable and its most public aspects, Chasar reorients our understanding of poetry’s relation to the media, throwing gasoline on the fire of a question we have dodged for too long: what is a poem? The old answers to that query won’t hold up in the wake of Chasar’s attention to the vulgar afterlives of bookish things. -- Daniel Tiffany, author of My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and KitschWith Poetry Unbound, Mike Chasar secures his place as our foremost investigator of poetry as a popular practice—ordinary, ubiquitous, and, indeed, fundamental to American cultural life. Poetry is dead; long live poetry, untethered from the constraints of the printed page and in the wilds of new media. -- Rita Raley, author of Tactical MediaIn this timely and engaging study, Chasar examines the largely untold story of poetry as it has appeared in various forms of emerging media over the last century and a half . . .This well-written book will have a broad audience. * Choice *For those stuck in the dichotomy of print and screen, or the dichotomy of analog and digital, this book is for you. It is an argument that looks beyond these dichotomies, into what binds and frees, of what something is (unbound) when it is not limited to one type of inscription. * Instasociety *Chasar’s argument powerfully renovates how we imagine 'a literary form available to all.' * Genre *While poetry studies has in recent years increasingly considered the ways in which print . . . mediates the transmission of poetry, Chasar extends and complicates this exploration through his emphasis on non-print media and in doing so necessarily enlarges what should count as poetry and what strategies we might use to study it. * Journal of Modern Periodical Studies *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Poetry Unbound1. Letters of Fire2. Receiving Millay3. “Overlook the Poem, but Look the Picture Over”4. Once More Into the Fray5. I Need a Phony Poet Tonight6. From Murder to milk and honeyAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
£76.00
Columbia University Press Poetry Unbound
Book SynopsisMike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, he follows poetry’s travels off the page into new media formats.Trade ReviewThis is a persuasive, thoroughly researched, memorable, and often delightful book. Mike Chasar has excelled in his ambitious coverage of primary sources. Moreover, this is a book that addresses questions that come up frequently in the poetry world about where and why and how "poetry matters," and about its place in the wider culture. -- Stephanie Burt, author of Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read PoemsPoetry is more than a creature of voice, hand, and press, as Chasar shows with verve, wit, insight, and sparkling detail. The public life of poetry in the twentieth-century United States is also a secret history of multimedia. Each medium remakes poetry. And poetry, in turn, remakes the media in which we live, move, and breathe. I love this book! -- John Durham Peters, author of The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental MediaBy disclosing what are at once poetry’s most inscrutable and its most public aspects, Chasar reorients our understanding of poetry’s relation to the media, throwing gasoline on the fire of a question we have dodged for too long: what is a poem? The old answers to that query won’t hold up in the wake of Chasar’s attention to the vulgar afterlives of bookish things. -- Daniel Tiffany, author of My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and KitschWith Poetry Unbound, Mike Chasar secures his place as our foremost investigator of poetry as a popular practice—ordinary, ubiquitous, and, indeed, fundamental to American cultural life. Poetry is dead; long live poetry, untethered from the constraints of the printed page and in the wilds of new media. -- Rita Raley, author of Tactical MediaIn this timely and engaging study, Chasar examines the largely untold story of poetry as it has appeared in various forms of emerging media over the last century and a half . . .This well-written book will have a broad audience. * Choice *For those stuck in the dichotomy of print and screen, or the dichotomy of analog and digital, this book is for you. It is an argument that looks beyond these dichotomies, into what binds and frees, of what something is (unbound) when it is not limited to one type of inscription. * Instasociety *Chasar’s argument powerfully renovates how we imagine 'a literary form available to all.' * Genre *While poetry studies has in recent years increasingly considered the ways in which print . . . mediates the transmission of poetry, Chasar extends and complicates this exploration through his emphasis on non-print media and in doing so necessarily enlarges what should count as poetry and what strategies we might use to study it. * Journal of Modern Periodical Studies *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Poetry Unbound1. Letters of Fire2. Receiving Millay3. “Overlook the Poem, but Look the Picture Over”4. Once More Into the Fray5. I Need a Phony Poet Tonight6. From Murder to milk and honeyAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press On Ovids Metamorphoses
Book SynopsisDrawing on many years of teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Gareth Williams offers a brisk and lively reading of the poem that emphasizes why it speaks in compelling ways to a twenty-first-century audience. He shows how the Metamorphoses is not just a colorful collection of stories about change but an exploration of change itself.Trade ReviewSmart close readings abound, and Williams’s punchy analyses make the book fun to read, though they never obscure his mastery of the subject. * Publishers Weekly *The perfect sidekick to accompany readers on their journey through Ovid’s epic—whether approaching the Metamorphoses for the very first time or revisiting this ever-changing kaleidoscope of a poem. -- Genevieve Liveley, author of Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A Reader’s GuideLucid, insightful, and lively, this book offers compelling new interpretations of Ovid that speak to current issues such as fake news, deceptive speech, sexual violence, gender inequity, and strategies of resistance within an autocracy. These are serious themes, but Williams adopts some of Ovid’s own wit and psychological nuance, providing an accessible and intellectually exciting approach to the Metamorphoses. -- Carole E. Newlands, author of Playing with Time: Ovid and the FastiThis is a wonderful book. It offers an introduction to Ovid's Metamorphoses and the life of the poet, guiding the reader through some of the epic’s most memorable moments. The primary pleasure of the book is to read about a great poem through the words of a sensitive and experienced teacher, who wears his erudition very lightly. The writing frequently sparkles, with contemporary allusions and wicked puns throughout. -- James Uden, Boston UniversityThe book is full of lively and provocative readings of Ovid’s greatest work, careening through its changing tales and tales about change to portray a work which, having endured throughout the two millennia since its composition, find a deep resonance even in—or especially in—the 2020s. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *A delightful volume....highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Diversity, Idiosyncrasy, and Self-Discovery in the Metamorphoses2.The Liabilities of Language: Change and Instability in Ovid’s World of Words3. The Path of Deviance: Sexual Morality and the Incestuous Urge in the Metamorphoses4. Rough Justice: Victimization, Revenge, and Divine Punishment in the MetamorphosesEpilogueFurther ReadingIndex
£42.50
