Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Wayne State University Press The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself
Book SynopsisA collection of modern Hebrew poetry. In this new and expanded edition of a volume first printed in 1965, a new generation of Hebrew poets is added. Each poem appears in both its original Hebrew and an English phonetic transcription, along with a commentary and a literal English translation.
£27.16
Wayne State University Press Paper Bridges Selected Poems of Kadya Molodowsky
Book SynopsisKadya Molodowsky (1894-1975) was among the most accomplished and prolific of modern Yiddish poets. Between 1927 and 1974, she published six major books of poetry, as well as fiction, plays, essays, and children's tales.Trade ReviewThe balance between situating the poems in their original framework and making them speak eloquently to today's reader is the major challenge of translating Yiddish poetry. Hellerstein has given us a comprehensive sample of one of the most important Yiddish women poets that is, as I can attest, an excellent introduction to Yiddish poetry for college students. Paper Bridges is a major contribution to the still relatively small library of Yiddish poetry in English translation and a reliable introduction to the poetics of Yiddish.""- Polin Review
£22.95
New York University Press The Life and Times of Abu Tammam
Book SynopsisA robust defense of a poetic geniusAbu Tammam (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria to Greek Christian parents, he converted to Islam and quickly made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad, promoting a new style of poetry that merged abstract and complex imagery with archaic Bedouin language. Both highly controversial and extremely popular, this sophisticated verse influenced all subsequent poetry in Arabic and epitomized the modern style (badi?), an avant-garde aesthetic that was very much in step with the intellectual, artistic, and cultural vibrancy of the Abbasid dynasty.In The Life and Times of Abu Tammam, translated into English for the first time, the courtier and scholar Abu Bakr Mu?ammad ibn Ya?yaal-?uli (d. 335 or 336/946 or 947) mounts a robust defense of modern poetry and of Abu Tammam's significance as a poet against his detractors, whilTrade ReviewAnother welcome addition to the Library of Arabic Literature....In the field of Arabic poetry and poetics in general, and classical Arabic poetry and criticism in particular, I expect the impact of this project to be groundbreaking. The study of Arabic poetry, both modern and classical, has the potential of being significantly affected by the introduction of voices like al-Sulis, especially when presented in fresh and timely translations as is the case here. -- Hoda Fakhreddine * Journal of the American Oriental Society *
£33.25
John Wiley & Sons The Adam of Two Edens Poems
Book SynopsisA collection of poems by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The poems range from dreamy reflections to bitter longings for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.Trade Review[Darwish's] lyrical writings have long been a touchstone of Palestinian national passions.... [he] has written poems that range from dreamy reflections and love to bitter longing for the Palestine that was lost when lsrael was created in 1948. He writes of pain and exile." - The New York Times"Darwish is the Essential Breath of the Palestine people, the eloquent witness of exile and belonging.... What he speaks has been embraced by readers around the world - his is an utterly necessary voice, unforgettable once discovered. If you know his words already, you need to know this comprehensive new translation. If you do not know him yet, please celebrate this crucial meeting." - Naomi Shahib Nye, author of The Space Between our Footsteps: Poems and Paintings from the Middle East
£15.26
MP-SYR Syracuse University P An Irish Literature Reader Poetry Prose Drama
Book SynopsisMaureen ORourke Murphy and James MacKillop survey 13 centuries of Irish literature, including old Irish epic and lyric poetry, Irish folksongs and a selection of 19th-century prose and poetry. For each author there is a biographical sketch, discussion of how his or her selections relate to a larger body of work, and a selected bibliography.
£22.46
MP-SYR Syracuse University P In the Wake of the Poetic Palestinian Artists
Book SynopsisHeralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. Through an examination of selected works by key artists Rahman articulates an aesthetic founded on loss, dispersion, dispossession, and transformation.
£23.36
Syracuse University Press Mihr238 Hatun Performance GenderBending and
Book SynopsisThe Ottoman poet Mihrî Hatun (1460-1515) succeeded in drawing an admiring audience and considerable renown during a time when few women were accepted into male-dominated intellectual circles. Placing the poet in the context of her era and environment, Havliog?lu finds that the poet's dramatic, masterful performance and subversiveness are the very reasons for her endurance.
£19.76
MP-SYR Syracuse University P In the Alley of the Friend
Book SynopsisShahrokh Meskoob is one of the first scholars to take an innovative approach to Hafez's poetry. Meskoob goes beyond a linguistic and rhetorical analysis of Hafez's poetry in the Divan to access the interior thoughts of the poet and summon his spirit in the process of understanding Hafez's mysticism.
£19.76
John Wiley & Sons The Magic Mirror of Literary Translation
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Magic Mirror of Literary Translation
Book SynopsisInvites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of literary translators. With wry humour and an engaging conversational style, Sellin shares his insight on the art and science of translation, including the many nuanced solutions he's developed for some of the more sensitive problems that frustrate translators of formal poetry.
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Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson
Book SynopsisPresents the life and works of Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous and widely studied American poets of the 19th century. This book contains close readings and critical analyses of more than 150 of Dickinson's best-known poems. It discusses the different aspects of Dickinson's life that influenced her work - family, friends, and many others.
£63.75
Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats Critical Companion Hardcover
Book SynopsisThe Irish poet William Butler Yeats is often considered the premier English-language poet of the 20th century, but he was also an important playwright, folklorist, critic, and politician. This title covers Yeats' important poems, as well as his volumes of poetry, and his plays and important drama-related topics, including Dublin's Abbey Theatre.
£60.00
Critical Companion to Robert Frost A Literary
Book SynopsisKnown for his favorite themes of New England and nature, Robert Frost may well be the most famous American poet of the 20th century. This is an encyclopedic guide to the life and works of this great American poet. It combines critical analysis with information on Frost's life, providing a one-stop resource for students.
£60.00
University of Arizona Press Snake Poems
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University of Arizona Press Our Bearings
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University of Arizona Press Horsefly Dress
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University of Arizona Press Navigating CHamoru Poetry
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University of Arizona Press Aina Hanau Birth Land
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University of Arizona Press Light as Light
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UNIV OF ARIZONA PR Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala
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University of Minnesota Press The Poetics of Information Overload
Book SynopsisTrade Review"‘Isn’t the avant-garde always technological?’ asks Paul Stephens in this exciting book, which poses key questions and ventures revealing answers at every turn. He offers one of the freshest and smartest perspectives on the past century’s avant-garde, as well as an exceptionally clear view of the most exigent poetry from our contemporary moment."—Craig Dworkin, University of Utah and author of No Medium"Well-documented and elegantly written, Stephens's book demonstrates the vitality of literary and poetic studies in the age of big data criticism."—Leonardo Reviews"Enthralling and rigorous."—Neural"The Poetics of Information Overload offers rewarding insights into these processes and establishes a compelling new perspective on the development of American poetry."—Amerikastudien/American Studies "Stephens offers an engaging and stimulating introduction to the breadth of the American avant-garde’s conscious poetic engagement with the data age, its anxieties, and its ongoing struggle for recuperation." —British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsContentsPreface: Stars in My Pocket Like Bits of DataIntroduction1. "Reading At It": Gertrude Stein, Information Overload, and the Makings of Americanitis2. Bob Brown, "Inforg": The "Readies" at the Limits of Modernist Cosmopolitanism3. Human University: Charles Olson and the Embodiment of Information4. "When Information Rubs/Against Information": Poetry and Informatics in the Expanded Field in the 1960s5. Paradise and Informatics: Lyn Hejinian, Bruce Andrews, and the Posthuman Adamic6. Vanguard Total Index: Conceptual Writing, Information Asymmetry, and the Data GlutAfterword. "Proliferating Raw Data": Robert Grenier in the Expanded Field of New Media PoeticsAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press First Thought
Book SynopsisThe Beat Generation's best-known poet, in previously uncollected interviews, on reading and writing, poetry and politicsTrade Review"With a knowledge born out of personal interviews conducted with Allen Ginsberg himself, Michael Schumacher understands more about Ginsberg’s poetry than anyone alive. This book presents Ginsberg’s own words in a thought-provoking, entertaining, and intelligent way. It is destined to be a perfect companion to any study of Ginsberg, the poet."—Bill Morgan, author of The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation"Michael Schumacher has dug deep and come up with a treasure trove of Ginsbergian thought—on topics ranging from sex and drugs and rock & roll to the genesis of "Howl" and On the Road. We even get a writing how-to via the transcript of a Naropa classroom discussion between Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, and William S. Burroughs. This fascinating compendium is the perfect addition to the Beat canon."—Holly George-Warren, author of A Man Called Destruction: The Life and Music of Alex Chilton and editor of The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats "Schumacher provides an introduction to First Thought that ought to make Ginsberg fans scream with joy."—San Francisco Chronicle"First Thought reacquaints us with a wonderfully authentic person and poet."—PopMatters"The collection is genuinely worthwhile."—Rain TaxiTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Ginsberg’s Visions of Ordinary Mind Michael SchumacherPortrait of a BeatAl Aronowitz, 1960Ginsberg Makes the World SceneRichard Kostalanetz, 1965Ginsberg in Washington: Lobbying for TendernessDon McNeill, 1966A Conversation between Ezra Pound and Allen GinsbergMichael Reck, 1968Identity GossipGordon Ball, 1974A Conversation with Allen GinsbergJohn Tytell, 1974An Interview with Allen GinsbergJames McKenzie, 1978Slice of Reality LifeStephen M. H. Braitman, 1974Visions of Ordinary Mind (1948–1955): Discourse, with Questions and Answers, June 9, 1976Paul Portuges, 1976Allen Ginsberg Talks about PoetryKenneth Koch, 1977Words and Music, Music, MusicMitchell Feldman, 1982William Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg: How to Notice What You Notice, How to Write a Bestseller, How to Not Solve a Crime in AmericaAllen Ginsberg, 1985Dreams, Reconciliations, and “Spots of Time”: An Interview with Allen GinsbergMichael Schumacher, 1986No More Bagels: An Interview with Allen GinsbergSteve Silberman, 1987Ginsberg Accuses Neo-Conservatives of Political CorrectnessKathleen O’Toole, 1995A Conversation with Allen GinsbergTom McIntyre, 1995The Beats and the Boom: A Conversation with Allen GinsbergSeth Goddard, 1995Allen Ginsberg: An InterviewGary Pacernick, 1997ChronologyBooks by Allen Ginsberg
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The University of Alabama Press Poetic Voices Discourse Linguistics and the Poetic Text
Book SynopsisRecent developments in linguistic theory offer scholars new tools for understanding poems. This text reviews poetic texts which respond well to analysis from a particular stylistic perspective. Works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Frost, Shelley and Tennyson are among those analysed.
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The University of Alabama Press No One to Meet
Book SynopsisThe literary establishment tends to regard Bob Dylan as an intriguing, if baffling, outsider. That changed when Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This book places Dylan the artist within a long tradition of literary production and offers an innovative way of understanding his unique, and often controversial, methods of composition.
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The University of Alabama Press Wallace Stevens and the Critical Schools
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The University of Alabama Press Radical Affections
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Nichols’s book presents the ‘new American’ poetry as ‘a living counter tradition’ that was too quickly dismissed as utopian, naive, or simply out of touch during the ‘theory decades’ of the 1980s and 1990s. . . . The book’s subtitle refers to the dual condition of embodiment and ‘emplacedness’ that roots an individual in that ‘something larger,’ and Nichols lays out the ways in which these poets track ‘the cartography of the outside’ and enact models of experience that engage fully with ‘the practice of outside.’ The chapters on Olson and Duncan are especially strong, but Nichols sustains a sophisticated argument with surprising engagement throughout the book. Highly recommended.”--CHOICE
£30.56
The University of Alabama Press Phenomenal Reading Essays on Modern and
Book SynopsisThe essays in Phenomenal Reading entice readers to cross accepted barriers, and highlight the work of poets who challenge language-as-usual in academia and the culture at large. Phenomenal Reading is comprised of essays that are central to how best to read poetry. This book examines individually and collectively poets widely recognised as formal and linguistic innovators.
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The University of Alabama Press Money and Modernity
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The University of Alabama Press Stubborn Poetries
Book SynopsisOffers a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more-or-less firmly outside the canon. The focus of the essays is on non-mainstream poets - often unknown, unstudied, and neglected writers whose work bucks preconceived notions of what constitutes the avant-garde.
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The University of Alabama Press Reading the Difficulties Dialogues with
Book SynopsisThe bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry. The essays collected here ask what kinds of stances allow readers to interact with verse that deliberately removes many of the comfortable cues to comprehension—poetry that is frequently nonnarrative, non-representational, and indeterminate in subject, theme, or message.
£26.96
The University of Alabama Press Walt Whitman and 19thCentury Women Reformers
Book SynopsisCeniza provides a dramatic rereading of Walt Whitman's poetry through the lens of 19th-century feminist culture. Walt Whitman and 19th-Century Women Reformers documents Whitman's friendships with women during the 1850s, the decade of Whitman's most creative period. The book reveals startling connections between the first three editions of Leaves of Grass and the texts generated by the women he knew during this period, many of whom were radical activists in the women's rights movement. Sherry Ceniza argues that Whitman's editions of Leaves became progressively more radically 'feminist' as he followed the women's rights movement during the 1850s and that he was influenced by what he called the 'true woman of the new aggressive type . . . woman under the new dispensation.' Ceniza documents the progression of the National Woman's Rights movement through the lives and writings of three of its leaders- Abby Hills Price, Paulina Wright Davis, and Ernestine L. Rose. By juxtaposing the texts
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The University of Alabama Press Contemporaries and Snobs Modern Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding's Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of the outsider. For readers today, it offers a compelling accountby turns personal, by turns historicalof how the institutionalization of modernism denuded experimental poetry. Most importantly, Contemporaries and Snobs offers a counter-history of the idiosyncratic, of what the institution of modernism left (and leaves) behind. With Gertrude Stein as its figurehead, the book champions the noncanonical, the barbaric, and the undertheorized. Riding's nuanced defense of a poetics of the person in Contemporaries and Snobs represents a forgotten but essential first attempt to identify and foster what is now a well-defined poetic lineage that leads from Stein to the contemporary experimental avant-gar
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The University of Alabama Press Intricate Thicket Reading Late Modernist Poet
Book SynopsisMark Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In nineteen lively and accessible essays, he persuasively argues that the innovations of modernist verse were not replaced by postmodernism, but rather those innovations continue to infuse contemporary writing and poetry with intellectual and aesthetic richness.
£36.51
The University of Alabama Press Recursive Desire Rereading Epic Tradition
Book SynopsisExamining a diverse array of texts from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Derek Walcott's Osmeros, from the Homeric epics to H.D.'s Helen in Egypt, this book develops a broadened, inclusive tradition of epic poetry, demonstrating the continuities of that tradition across dramatic discontinuities in time, place, worldview, and technology.
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The University of Alabama Press Word Toys
Book SynopsisWith the ascent of digital culture, new forms of literature and literary production are thriving while traditional genres and media have been transformed. Word Toysis a thought-provoking volume that speculates on a range of poetic, novelistic, and programmed works that lie beyond the language of the literary and views them instead as technical objects.Trade ReviewWord Toys is an engaging and delightfully quirky overview of the philosophy and aesthetics of technicity in digital, constraint-based, and speculative poetry and its many cousins, aunts, fellow travelers, and, crucially, outliers."" - Charles Bernstein, author of Recalculating and Pitch of Poetry""Stefans’s work distinguishes itself from any run-of-the-mill scholarly study in being the product of an expansive, ultra-contemporary, kaleidoscopic intelligence, and a spontaneous, razor-sharp wit."" - Jennifer Scappettone, author of Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice
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The University of Alabama Press Of Such a NatureÍndole
Book SynopsisJosé Kozer is one of the most influential contemporary Cuban poets working today. A key figure in the neobaroque movement within contemporary Latin American poetry, he is one of only three Cubans to win the Pablo Neruda Prize. This is a bilingual edition translated into English by Peter Boyle. In addition, Boyle provides an extensive introduction placing Kozer's work in a critical context.Trade ReviewÍndole hangs together as a collection; each poem is an exploration composed of careful deliberate details. While Kozer’s style and poetic structure are different, his poems in Índole are reminiscent of Neruda’s Odas elementales for their revelation of the miraculous and the epiphanic to be found in the every day."" - Emily A. Maguire, author of Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography
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The University of Alabama Press Illusion Is More Precise than Precision
Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive critical study of the American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) and her work, Erickson demonstrates the poet's ability to combine close observation with a worldview presentation that is at once intuitive, kaleidoscopic, and optimistic.
£23.36
University of Georgia Press Hong Kong without Us A Peoples Poetry
Book SynopsisDrawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition protests, these poems consist of submitted testimonies and found materials - and are all anonymous from end to end, from first speech to translated curation. This collected poetic documentation of protest is thus an authorless work that brings together many voices.
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Ohio University Press The FindeSiècle Poem
Book SynopsisFeaturing innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siècle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England.Trade Review“This collection is a significant contribution to the scholarship on late Victorian literature. It will also allow scholars of modernist literature to reassess the modernity of the fin-de-siècle in Britain.”“This book is a masterful collection of articles that seeks to freshen critical interest in this strange transition period between the apparent softness of Victorian poetry and deliberate hardness of the modernist poetry waiting around the century’s corner.” * Rocky Mountain Review of Language & Literature *“The volume is a major contribution to the study of late-Victorian poetics. Bristow should be commended for inspiring and assembling it and Ohio should be recognised for publishing an anthology of higher quality than more established presses.” * Victorian Studies *“The Fin-de-Siécle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s is one of the most important books in the field of fin-de-siécle poetry of the last twenty years. Erudite, bold, and impressive, this collection offers new ways of reading the poetry of the 1890s and demonstrates just how rewarding those new ideas can be.” * Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies *
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Ohio University Press Indian Angles
Book SynopsisA new historical approach to Indian English literature Mary Ellis Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry written in colonial situations can tell us as much or even more about figuration, multilingual literacies, and histories of nationalism than novels can. Gibson re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that were experienced by writers in colonial Indiawriters of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities.Advancing new theoretical and historical paradigms for reading colonial literatures, Indian Angles makes accessible many writers heretofore neglected or virtually unknown. Gibson recovers texts by British women, by nonelite British men, and by persons who would, in the nineteenth century, have been called Eurasian. Her work traces the mutually constitutive history of English-language poets from Sir William Jones to Toru Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore. Drawing onTrade Review“This is genuinely groundbreaking work: ambitiously conceived, suggestively presented, and potentially paradigm-shifting.” -- Tricia Lootens, author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization“Indian Angles showcases and reflects the vibrant poetry culture of India in the nineteenth century and therein lies its contribution to the scholarship of that period.” * Victorian Studies *“Both of Gibson’s books (Indian Angles and Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India) stand as shining examples of the strategic comparativist work needed to assess the full array of literary voices in/on India during the long nineteenth century.” * English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 *“In this thoroughly researched, well-theorized study, Gibson traces the rise of English-language poetics in India from the late 18th century to the early 20th. She acknowledges the complex, changing identity politics informing colonial affiliation, showing how poets of British, Indian, or mixed origin and affiliation were involved in the complementary project of establishing Anglo-Indian poetics…. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *”Asserting that poetry—rather than prose fiction—dominated English-language writing in India for most of the nineteenth century, Indian Angles examines ‘the rise and expansion of English language poetics in India,‘….” * Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 *
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Ohio University Press Indian Angles
Book SynopsisIndian Angles is a new historical approach to Indian English literature. It shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and re-creates the historical webs of affiliation and resistance that writers in colonial India—writers of British, Indian, and mixed ethnicities—experienced.Trade Review“This is genuinely groundbreaking work: ambitiously conceived, suggestively presented, and potentially paradigm-shifting.” -- Tricia Lootens, author of Lost Saints: Silence, Gender, and Victorian Literary Canonization“Indian Angles showcases and reflects the vibrant poetry culture of India in the nineteenth century and therein lies its contribution to the scholarship of that period.” * Victorian Studies *“Both of Gibson’s books (Indian Angles and Anglophone Poetry in Colonial India) stand as shining examples of the strategic comparativist work needed to assess the full array of literary voices in/on India during the long nineteenth century.” * English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920 *“In this thoroughly researched, well-theorized study, Gibson traces the rise of English-language poetics in India from the late 18th century to the early 20th. She acknowledges the complex, changing identity politics informing colonial affiliation, showing how poets of British, Indian, or mixed origin and affiliation were involved in the complementary project of establishing Anglo-Indian poetics…. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” * Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries *”Asserting that poetry—rather than prose fiction—dominated English-language writing in India for most of the nineteenth century, Indian Angles examines ‘the rise and expansion of English language poetics in India,‘….” * Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900 *
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Ohio University Press Love among the Poets
Book SynopsisBritish literature of the Victorian period has always been celebrated for the quality, innovativeness, and sheer profusion of its love poetry. Every major Victorian poet produced notable poems about love. This includes not only canonical figures, such as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Christina Rossetti, but also lesser-known poets whose works have only recently become widely recognized and studied, such as Augusta Webster and the many often anonymous working-class poets whose verses filled the pages of popular periodicals. Modern critics have claimed, convincingly, that love poetry is not just one strain of Victorian poetry among many; it is arguably its representative, even definitive, mode.This collection of essays reconsiders the Victorian poetry of love and, just as importantly, of intimacy—a more inclusive term that comprehends not only romance but love for family, for God, for animals, and for language itself. Together the essays
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Duke University Press Shards of Love
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the multiple perspectives that Professor Menocal's book offers to the reader is to understand it as a genealogy of the discipline 'Romance Philosophy'. . . . Romance philology, for Menocal, is a late concretization of a century-long process of nostaglia: a nostalgia for a truly 'multicultural' world which constituted the 'Middle Ages' on the Iberian penisula and which was definitely destroyed, from 1492 on, by the Inquisition and the conquest of America as double departure towards European modernity. Menocal's genealogy of this nostalgia reveals an almost uncanny closeness between lyrical poetry and erudite discourses as the basis for academic medievalism."—Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University"This is a brilliant book, exhibiting far-ranging comparativist expertise, from Medieval Arabic, Hebrew, and Provençal lyric poetry, Dante and Petrarch, through the scholarly paladins of Romance philology and the Parry-Lordian theory of oral composition, up to modern rock music and its lyrics. . . . A pathfinding book."—Samuel G. Armistead, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsPrelude ix 1. The Horse Latitudes 1 II. Scandal 55 1. Love and Mercy 57 2. The Inventions of Philology 91 3. Chasing the Wind 142 III. Desire 185 IV. Readings and Sources 189 Works Cited 271 Index 287
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Duke University Press The Ruins of Allegory
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Duke University Press Dying Modern
Book SynopsisIn Dying Modern, renowned literary critic Diana Fuss argues that as death has been increasingly shunted off-stage, out of the public eye, poets have taken up the task of reckoning with dying, loss, absence, and grief.Trade Review“[Fuss] approaches variations on the form of elegy with such complexity and acumen, and provides much insight into the complexities of our relation to death and the enigma of our simultaneous proximity and avoidance. These are things, after all, about which it can be almost impossible to talk.” -- Diana Arterian * Los Angeles Review of Books *“[An] elegant meditation. . . . Even Fuss admits that she is surprised that ‘her little book on elegy . . . [which] I thought was about dyig quietly evolved into a book about surviving. It is a pleasure to be surprised alongside her.” -- Sally Connolly * TLS *“This book is an erudite, beautifully written study of them. If you’re a lover of Emily Dickinson’s work or that of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, or Richard Wilbur, you will want to read this book. If you teach literary criticism or simply love poetry, you will want to read Fuss’s book. Superb book.” -- Hope Leman * Critical Margins *“In a luminous, beautifully considered study of the modern elegy, Fuss (Princeton) demonstrates the ways that poets have creatively imagined modes of talking about the dead...Highly recommended.” -- D. A. Henningfeld * Choice *“[Fuss] argues persuasively for the continued value of the consolatory elegy and examines “the ethical dimentions of the modern elegy.”... [A] concise, insightful, meditative book.” -- Barbara Kelly * Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin *"An exceptionally lively, often glitteringly witty essay on the vagaries, contents, and discontents of nineteenth- and twentieth-century elegy, a genrewhose fate, in England and America, has been radically disrupted and even, sometimes, deformed by the cultural fate of modern death itself." -- Sandra Gilbert * Literature and Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Dying . . . Words 9 poetry 10 consolation 12 defiance 20 banality 24 newness 31 lastness 35 2. Reviving . . . Corpses 44 comic 46 religious 50 political 57 historical 61 literary 67 poetic 73 3. Surviving . . . Lovers 78 loving 82 waiting 86 leaving 90 refusing 95 existing 98 surviving 102 Conclusion 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 131 Index 141 Copyright Acknowledgments 149
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Duke University Press Dying Modern
Book SynopsisIn Dying Modern, renowned literary critic Diana Fuss argues that as death has been increasingly shunted off-stage, out of the public eye, poets have taken up the task of reckoning with dying, loss, absence, and grief.Trade Review“[Fuss] approaches variations on the form of elegy with such complexity and acumen, and provides much insight into the complexities of our relation to death and the enigma of our simultaneous proximity and avoidance. These are things, after all, about which it can be almost impossible to talk.” -- Diana Arterian * Los Angeles Review of Books *“[An] elegant meditation. . . . Even Fuss admits that she is surprised that ‘her little book on elegy . . . [which] I thought was about dyig quietly evolved into a book about surviving. It is a pleasure to be surprised alongside her.” -- Sally Connolly * TLS *“This book is an erudite, beautifully written study of them. If you’re a lover of Emily Dickinson’s work or that of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, or Richard Wilbur, you will want to read this book. If you teach literary criticism or simply love poetry, you will want to read Fuss’s book. Superb book.” -- Hope Leman * Critical Margins *“In a luminous, beautifully considered study of the modern elegy, Fuss (Princeton) demonstrates the ways that poets have creatively imagined modes of talking about the dead...Highly recommended.” -- D. A. Henningfeld * Choice *“[Fuss] argues persuasively for the continued value of the consolatory elegy and examines “the ethical dimentions of the modern elegy.”... [A] concise, insightful, meditative book.” -- Barbara Kelly * Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin *"An exceptionally lively, often glitteringly witty essay on the vagaries, contents, and discontents of nineteenth- and twentieth-century elegy, a genrewhose fate, in England and America, has been radically disrupted and even, sometimes, deformed by the cultural fate of modern death itself." -- Sandra Gilbert * Literature and Medicine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Dying . . . Words 9 poetry 10 consolation 12 defiance 20 banality 24 newness 31 lastness 35 2. Reviving . . . Corpses 44 comic 46 religious 50 political 57 historical 61 literary 67 poetic 73 3. Surviving . . . Lovers 78 loving 82 waiting 86 leaving 90 refusing 95 existing 98 surviving 102 Conclusion 107 Notes 113 Bibliography 131 Index 141 Copyright Acknowledgments 149
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Duke University Press Spill
Book SynopsisIn Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism.Trade Review"Gumbs’s writing has luscious urgency and rhythmic drive, which will make it of interest beyond its titular audience." -- Barbara Hoffert * Library Journal *"Spill is not just a poetic collection where art meets criticism or where art is criticism. Instead, it is an intricately woven, polyvocal, ever-expansive map that details and gives rise to new and old black feminisms instructing us how to live and move with(in) these proliferating epistemologies." -- Sasha Panaram * New Black Man (In Exile) *"Inspired by the work of black feminist intellectual Hortense Spillers, Gumbs’ collection of poems appear as a series of powerful scenarios. Reading the volume is akin to being a member of a theatre audience. The fourth wall is peeled away and one is suddenly witness to heartbreaking, inspiring and insightful scenes depicting fugitive black women and girls – unsung and celebrated 'sheroes' – seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism." -- Thomasi McDonald * News & Observer *"Spill is poetry that invites the reader to imagine these poems weren't written- they was lived, they were felt, and in some deep sense, re-membered. In other words, this book happened in somebody's body, a body committed to Black Feminist ways of knowing and feeling in the world.... By embracing and applying these through the form of the parable, Spill speaks to the radical, spiritual power that belongs to those 'black women who made and broke narrative.'" -- Lara Mimosa Montes * Poetry Project Review *"Gumbs’s poetry takes up the detritus of the everyday that surrounds theory — the affective social and political worlds in which black feminist theorists write — and bends it, splits it, like a prism breaking a beam of light into a rainbow." -- Maria Velazquez * Cascadia Subduction Zone *"Gumbs seamlessly moves between historic reference, inherited memories, and a series of visions or a journal of dreams-the result is bigger than text itself. Her writing blurs the lines between past, present, and future. The book communes with ancestral knowledge while offering conjectures of what could be, reminding us that Black women have always seen what comes next, past the edges of what seemed or seems possible.... Spill is first and foremost a love offering to all Black women, but all readers who bear witness will leave its pages knowing of radical imagined possibilities and the difficult path laid before us toward elsewhere: 'our work here is not done.'" -- Zaina Alsous * Bitch *"This book is a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. Like Audre Lorde, Gumbs writes for the complexity of her vision." -- Jaki Shelton Green * NBC News (NBCBlk) *"Blending my love of Black queer feminist authors with genre bending and analytically complex poetry, Gumbs’s work inflicted pleasantly unfamiliar feelings upon me that I cannot 'claim to have invented.' Spill transformed me from a reluctant bystander of theory and poetry into a willing and enthused participant…. Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Spill is an offering for all seeking an unpredictable and experimental journey of Black feminist artistic expression and self-discovery." -- Eden Sena Kokui Segbefia * Scalawag *"Gumbs not only speaks to the spiritual, bodily and otherworldly experience of black women, she allows readers to imagine new possibilities for poetry as a portal for understanding and deepening feminist theory." * Triangle Tribune *"This book is alive. The more I read it, the more gingerly I found myself handling its pages, despite the strength and determination of the women depicted within. . . . The scenes read as half song, half sermon (though intimately pitched), and taken as a whole create a richly textured chorus through which an exhilarating and deeply intelligent life force surges." -- Kim Adrian * The Rumpus *"[G]round-breaking. . . . Gumbs’s trilogy embraces the lyric beauty in the acts of naming, remembering, and finding one’s way back to the source. . . . Reading Gumbs’s books feels like reading an archive that will someday, who knows maybe even someday soon, usher in an era of radical transformation." -- Kathryn Nuernberger * West Branch *Table of ContentsA Note xi How She Knew 1 How She Spelled It 17 How She Left 31 How She Survived until Then 45 What She Did Not Say 61 What He Was Thinking 75 Where She Ended Up 91 The Witnesses the Wayward the Waiting 111 How We Know 125 The Way 141 Acknowledgments 151 Notes 153 Bibliography 161
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University of Pittsburgh Press When Thy King Is A Boy
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