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Backwaters Press The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women
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Univocal Publishing LLC The Groove of the Poem: Reading Philippe Beck
Book Synopsis“Music is the brute that shows. It is the avowal of materials, And stutters between its clanging of things.”How should one think this musical groove of the poem whose back and forth motion shuffles the material of ordinary language and revives the frozen speech of old chants? This question by renowned French thinker Jacques Rancière is the entry point for his earnest and careful reading of one of France’s most singular and important contemporary poets. For Rancière, Philippe Beck sets himself the task of a poetry after poetry whereby Beck re-writes and transforms the poems of the past, reanimating faded genres, poetizing the prose of popular tales and even commentaries regarding poems. To read and follow this groove traced as such cannot simply be done by way of taking the poems as objects of study. It supposes a dialogue regarding what these poems attempt to do as well as an idea of a poetry which serves as their foundation. This book on Philippe Beck is thus also a book made with him.
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West Virginia University Press Beowulf and the Grendel-Kin: Politics and Poetry
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Clemson University Digital Press Fascist Directive: Ezra Pound and Italian
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Clemson University Digital Press Rewriting The Hour-Glass: A Play Written in Prose
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Clemson University Digital Press The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with
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Clemson University Digital Press Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult
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University of Nevada Press Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces in
Book SynopsisWhat constitutes an environment in American literature is an issue that has undergone much debate across environmental humanities in the last decade. In the field, some have argued that environments are markedly natural or wild sites while others contend literary spaces can be both wild and urban, or even cultural. Yet, few of the works produced to date have addressed the pronounced influence the author of a text has on a literary environment. Despite exciting work on materiality and culture in conceptions of environments, critics have not yet fully examined the contributions of poetry’s language, form, and self-awareness in rethinking what constitutes an environment. By approaching environments in a new way, Nolan closes this gap and recognizes how contemporary poets employ self-reflexive commentary and formal experimentation in order to create new natural/cultural environments on the page. She proposes a radical new direction for ecopoetics and deploys it in relation to four major American poets. Working from literal to textual spaces through the contemporary poetry of A.R. Ammons’s Garbage, Lyn Hejinian’s My Life, Susan Howe’s The Midnight, and Kenneth Goldsmith’s Seven American Deaths and Disasters, the book presents applications of unnatural ecopoetics in poetic environments, ones that do not engage with traditional ideas of nature and would otherwise remain outside the scope of ecocritical and ecopoetic studies. Nolan proposes a new practical approach for reading poetic language. Ecocriticism is a very fluid and evolving discipline, and Nolan’s pioneering new book pushes the boundaries of second-wave ecopoetics—the fundamental issue being what is nature/natural, and how does poetic language, particularly self-conscious contemporary poetic agency, contribute to and complicate that question.Trade ReviewNolan’s book develops out of new materialist innovations transcending traditional ecopoetical interpretations of poetry. Her dazzling close readings are exciting to behold. They create a web of convincing matter that shore up her masterful take and development of this exciting field."" - Susan Morrison, Professor of English, Texas State University, San Marcos""A product of the built environments of greater Los Angeles whose ecopoetic ideas have been tempered by years of living in the Great Basin Desert on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Nolan thoroughly understands the natureculture continuum, while also recognizing and valuing the meaning of natural forces that exceed and constrain the human. She offers an ecumenical view of what an ‘environment’ is and how ‘this new era of ecopoetical theory’ enables readers to appreciate the materiality of texts and the textuality of the physical world."" - From the Foreword by Scott Slovic
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Clemson University Digital Press Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Blake and Lucretius: The Atomistic Materialism of
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood – the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world – with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. By addressing this philosophical debt, this study sets out a threefold re-evaluation of Blake’s work: to clarify the classical stream of Blake’s philosophical heritage through Lucretius; to return Blake to his historical moment, a thirty-year period from 1790 to 1820 which has been described as the second Lucretian moment in England; and to employ a new exegetical model for understanding the phenomenological parameters and epistemological frameworks of Blake’s mythopoeia. Accordingly, it is revealed that Blake was not only aware of classical atomistic cosmogony and sense-based epistemology but that he systematically mapped postlapsarian existence onto an Epicurean framework.Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Epicurean and Lucretian Slur: Francis Bacon 3 The Epicurean and Lucretian Slur: Isaac Newton 4 Simulacra and the Selfhood 5 Urizenic Phantasiae 6 The Cosmic Chains of the Machina Mundi
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Palgrave Macmillan Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics
Book Synopsis1. Reserve Language.- 2. '"lazy exterminator in their policies": Protest poetry in the age of 'practical reconciliation''.- 3. Violence and Guerrilla Poetics.- 4. Frisky Poem and Risky': Lionel Fogarty and Poetic Play.- 5. 'Please Don't Take Offence': Hatred and Unpleasantness in Lionel Fogarty's Poetry.- 6. Art is hard, love is harder'.- 7. The Sacred and The Political in the poetry of Lionel Fogarty.- 8. Radical Inversions in Lionel Fogarty's I am Not Santa': lies of the gift'.- 9. Thinking Beyond Insiders and Outsiders in the Poetry of Lionel Fogarty.- 10. Images of Language Loss in the Guerrilla Poems of Lionel Fogarty.- 11. Lionel Fogarty and Transnational Blackness.- 12. The Power of Lionel Fogarty's Poetry and Politics in American HBCUs* and Prisons.- 13. The Figure of the Tree in Lionel Fogarty's Poetry.- 14. I and I, just mean you and we: Ali Cobby Eckermann Interviews Lionel Fogarty.- 15. Afterword: Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics.
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De Gruyter Laevius - ein altlateinischer Liebesdichter
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de Gruyter I Canzonieri Napoletani del Secondo Quattrocento
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De Gruyter Dichtungen Der Schuljahre 1710-1715: 1: Texte. 2:
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Metzler Lexikon literarischer Symbole
Book Synopsis500 Artikel von „Abend“ bis „Zypresse“: Dieses Lexikon versammelt die wichtigsten Symbole der abendländischen Literatur und zeichnet ihre Geschichte an exemplarischen Belegstellen nach. Zahlen, Farben, Pflanzen, Tiere, Orte, Räume, Dinge, Tages- und Jahreszeiten u.v.m. werden jeweils in ihren zentralen Bedeutungen von der griechisch-römischen und biblischen bis in die gegenwärtige Literatur beschrieben.Die dritte Auflage hat neben 30 neuen Artikeln ein ausführliches Bedeutungsregister, das ermöglicht, von Bedeutungen ausgehend die für diese verwendeten Symbole zu ermitteln.Table of ContentsVorwort.- Vorwort zur 2. Auflage.- Vorwort zur 3. Auflage.- Verzeichnis der Neuartikel.- Alphabetisches Artikelverzeichnis.- Artikelverzeichnis nach Sachgebieten.- Auswahlbibliografie.- Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren.- Siglen und Abkürzungsverzeichnis.- Artikel A–Z.- Bedeutungsregister.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Geschichte der deutschen Lyrik: Einführung und Interpretationen
Book SynopsisWie lese ich Gedichte der Romantik? Wie kann ich Sonette des Barock entschlüsseln? Und welche Besonderheiten sind bei expressionistischen Gedichten zu beachten? Dieser Band bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der deutschsprachigen Lyrik – von der Reformation bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Der Autor erläutert den historischen Kontext und die Hintergründe der Lyrikproduktion, die für das Verständnis der Gedichte unerlässlich sind. Mit zahlreichen Musterinterpretationen und umfangreichen Literaturhinweisen zu jeder Epoche. – Für die zweite Auflage wurde der Band aktualisiert und erweitert.Table of Contents1 Einleitung: Alte und neue Lyrik lesen.- 2 Wie lese ich Lyrik der Reformationszeit und des Humanismus (1500–1620)?.- 3 Wie lese ich Lyrik der Barockzeit (1620–1720)?.- 4 Wie lese ich Lyrik der Aufklärung, der Anakreontik und der Empfindsamkeit (1720–1770)?.- 5 Wie lese ich Lyrik des Sturm und Drang, der Weimarer Klassik und der Romantik (1770–1830)?.- 6 Wie lese ich Lyrik der Restaurationszeit, des Realismus und des Naturalismus (1830–1890)?.- 7 Wie lese ich Lyrik der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (1890–1945)?.- 8 Wie lese ich Lyrik der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (1945–1990)?.- 9 Wie lese ich Gedichte der Gegenwart (seit 1990)?.- 10 Anhang.- Personenregister.- Sachregister.
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Springer Slam Poetry: Deutsch–US-amerikanische Studie zu
Book SynopsisMinu Hedayati-Aliabadi zeigt anhand ihrer deutsch–US-amerikanischen Studie, dass der Begriff Slam Poetry in erster Linie als Bedeutungsträger für performative, zeitgenössische und interaktive Literatur verwendet wird, während die reale Ausprägung bei Veranstaltungen weniger interaktiv ist. Sie setzt sich in Ihrer Arbeit mit den Ansichten und Handlungsweisen der beteiligten Akteure auseinander und untersucht das in 1986 in Chicago entstandene Veranstaltungsformat Poetry Slam. 1989 wurde dieses durch die Slam-Szene in New York City international bekannt und kann aufgrund der Ergebnisse der Studie in Deutschland heute als wenig elitäres, nicht kommerzielles, geplantes und kulturelles Event klassifiziert werden, das hauptsächlich von jungen Erwachsenen aus dem Bildungsbürgertum besucht wird. Table of Contents
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Heine-Jahrbuch 2022
Book Synopsis2022 erscheint der 61. Jahrgang des Heine-Jahrbuchs. Er enthält u. a. Untersuchungen zu zwei der berühmtesten lyrischen Werke Heines: eine narratologische Analyse der „Heimkehr“ und eine Quellenstudie zum „Sklavenschiff“. Neben Artikeln von Norbert Waszek über Heines Verhältnis zu dem französischen Philosophen Victor Cousin, Ernst-Ulrich Pinkert über Heine-Rezeption in Dänemark und von Inge Rippmann und Joseph A. Kruse über Literatur und Judenemanzipation im 19. Jahrhundert präsentiert er bisher unbekannte Briefe Heinrich Heines.Table of ContentsSiglen.- Aufsätze.- Heinrich-Heine-Institut. Sammlungen und Bestände aus der Arbeit des Hauses.- Buchbesprechungen.- Heine-Literatur 2021 mit Nachträgen.- Veranstaltungen des Heinrich-Heine-Instituts und der Heinrich-Heine-Gesellschaft e. V. Januar bis Dezember 2021.- Ankündigung: 26. Forum Junge Heine-Forschung, Heinrich-Heine-Institut, Düsseldorf, 9. Dezember 2023.- Abbildungsnachweise.- Hinweise für die Manuskriptgestaltung.- Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des Heine-Jahrbuchs 2022.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Schillers Werke. Nationalausgabe: Band 2, Teil II
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Schillers Werke. Nationalausgabe: Band 19/II:
Book SynopsisDer Band 19 II der Schiller Nationalausgabe bietet erstmals einen umfassenden historisch-kritischen Anmerkungsapparat zu den in den Bänden 17 und 18 abgedruckten historischen Schriften Schillers. Dazu gehören ausführliche Dokumentationen und Darstellungen zu den Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichten der einzelnen Werke, deren Überlieferung sowie die Lesarten unterschiedlicher Ausgaben zu Schillers Lebzeiten. Die Quellenarbeit Schillers wird systematisch rekonstruiert und dokumentiert. Ausführliche Stellenkommentare bieten nicht nur historische Personen-, Sach- und Worterläuterungen, sondern geben auch Einblick in den Diskurs- und Werkzusammenhang der Schillerʼschen Schriften. Mit Registern zu allen historiografischen Werken (Bände 17-19/I) und einer Chronik der ‚historischen Phase‘ Schillers.Table of ContentsAnmerkungen.- Handschriften.- Chronik.- Register
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Schillers Werke. Nationalausgabe: Band 41/II B:
Book SynopsisDieser Band enthält die Erläuterungen zu den beiden Bänden Lebenszeugnisse, Teil I (Schillers Kalender, Schillers Bibliothek) und Teil IIA (Dokumente zu Schillers Leben), die Schillers Leben beginnend mit dem Marbacher Taufeintrag von 1759 und endend mit dem Eintrag im Weimarer Sterberegister 1805 anhand der überlieferten Dokumente seines beruflichen und privaten Werdegangs darstellen. Die umfassenden Erläuterungen werden durch ein Personenregister erschlossen.Table of ContentsVorbemerkungen zur Edition.- Abkürzungen und Siglen.- Erläuterungen.- Personenregister
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Schillers Werke. Nationalausgabe: Band 8:
Book SynopsisMit der dreibändigen Ausgabe ist die Neuedition des "Wallenstein " im Rahmen der Schiller-Nationalausgabe jetzt abgeschlossen und stellt die Schillerforschung auf eine neue Grundlage. Die Bände entsprechen den zeitgemäßen Anforderungen historisch-kritischer Ausgaben und enthalten erstmals buchstaben- und zeichengetreu die vollständigen Texte aller von Schiller autorisierten "Wallenstein"-Fassungen.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Schillers Werke. Nationalausgabe: Band 8:
Book SynopsisMit der dreibändigen Ausgabe ist die Neuedition des "Wallenstein " im Rahmen der Schiller-Nationalausgabe jetzt abgeschlossen und stellt die Schillerforschung auf eine neue Grundlage. Die Bände entsprechen den zeitgemäßen Anforderungen historisch-kritischer Ausgaben und enthalten erstmals buchstaben- und zeichengetreu die vollständigen Texte aller von Schiller autorisierten "Wallenstein"-Fassungen.
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Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP The Story of King Lo: Lilit Phra Lo
Book SynopsisHighly regarded as an important part of the poetic heritage of Thailand, The Story of King Law received royal acclaim in 1914 and is included in official school curricula. All students of Thai literature memorize parts of it and retain them for decades. The story has been extolled as beautiful and deeply moving poetry, with admirable and virtuous protagonists. It has also been vilified as undignified vulgarity, as a piece of ancient titillation unworthy of attention in the modern day. And, for admirers and critics alike, it has proven to be a source of great confusion and unresolvable obscurity. Robert Bickner uses comparative and historical linguistics as the foundation for his examination and interpretation of the poem and with this translation guides readers through the many complexities of this fascinating text.
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Poetry in Exile: Czech Poets During the Cold War
Book SynopsisIn this comparative tour de force, Josef Hrdlička--one of the Czech Republic’s foremost experts on lyric poetry--examines the impact of exile, literal or spiritual, on poetry. Hrdlička argues that exile serves to disrupt the fundamental elements of poetry, especially its linguistic and cultural framework. Beginning with an examination of exile as a cultural phenomenon in the Western tradition, Hrdlička follows its complex history and treatment by poets from Solon to Celan. Focusing on the specific poetics of exile, he identifies Ovid’s elegies as an early model of exile in poetics before tracing the metamorphosis of exile as a concept through the modern age and the very Baudelarian idea that a person can be metaphorically exiled by the act of daily living itself. The core of Poetry in Exile, however, hews closer to Hrdlička’s homeland, homing in on the postwar poetry of Czech exiles. Poets such as Ivan Blatný, Milada Součková, Ivan Diviš, and Petr Král are investigated as examples to test the theoretical questions raised in the first part of the book and discover the answers that their individual poems provide.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Poetry and Exile 2. Shaded by Reminiscence 3. Exile and Shelter 4. Arcadia, Utopia, Exile 5. The Invisible Home 6. Ivan Blatný’s Orphic Theatre 7. The Case of Milada Soucková’s Poetry 8. Ivan Diviš and Leaving Bohemia 9. In the Space of a Day 10. Exile, Nomadic life and Language 11. Exile and the Imagination BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Things in Poems: From the Shield of Achilles to
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the place of material objects in modern poetry. In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic tradition. From there, the focus shifts to things and objects in the poetry of the twentieth and the twenty-first century, examining the work of Czech, Polish, and Russian poets alongside other key figures such as Rilke, Francis Ponge, William Carlos Williams, and Paul Muldoon. Along the way, the reader gets an introduction to key terms and phrases that have been associated with things in the course of poetic history, such as ekphrasis, objective lyricism. and hyperobjects. Table of ContentsJosef Hrdlicka: Introduction: Things in WordsIA.Karel Thein: The Projected Heart: Ekphrasis, Material Imagination, and the Shield of Achilles B.Michael Squire: Navigating Poetry as Object and Object as Poetry: Optatian Porfyry and the Ancient History of Dinggedichte C.Zornica Kirkova and Olga Lomová: Beautiful Stones and Exotic Objects – Symbolism of “Things” in Early Medieval China D.Alice Stašková: The Poetics of Things in the Didactic Poetry of Early German Enlightenment: Barthold Heinrich Brockes IIA.Michel Collot: Francis Ponge’s Objective Lyricism B.Anne Hultsch: In Mandelstam’s Kitchen C.Jakub Hankiewicz: Two Polish Poems about Things D.Josef Vojvodík: “Time’s seconds prominent arise / trembling in the façade”: A Look Back at Roman Architecture. “Il Gesù” by Milada Soucková E.Pavel Novotný: The Poem as a Rotary Object. On texts by H. M. Enzensberger and H.C. Artmann F.Julie Koblížková Wittlichová: Words becoming Objects: Things in Visual Poetry G.Josef Hrdlicka: Things on an Island H.Jaromír Typlt: The Brazenness of Things in Czech Surrealism of the 1960s I.Dalia Satkauskyte: Thing in Modern Lithuanian Poetry: From Social Imprint to Metaphor of Subjectivity J.Kirill Korchagin: Two Ekphrastic Strategies in Russian Poetry of the Latter 20th Century: “Emptiness” in the Works of Andrei Monastyrski and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko K.Justin Quinn: Paul Muldoon’s Hyperobjects BibliographyIndex
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Leiden University Press Ayatollah Khomeini’s Mystical Poetry and its
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Tulika Books The Dancing Poet – Rabindranath Tagore and
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The Chinese University Press Dai Wangshu: The Life and Poetry of a Chinese
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City University of Hong Kong Press Love and War in Ancient China: The Voices of
Book SynopsisMore than any other treasure, Shijing contains the historical roots of China, from which much of modern culture grew. From a lovelorn young man to an aging woman spurned by her wedded husband, from an elder statesman admonishing a young sovereign, to footsoldiers facing the unspeakable fate of sacrificial burial, the love and war in Shijing serves as a key to unlock the myth of Ancient China.The book presents the reader with a fascinating glimpse of Ancient Chinese by analysing many poems in Shijing 詩經 and discussing aspects of culture and events reflected in the poems from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, history and linguistics.Reading this book will enhance the general reader’s knowledge of Chinese culture as well as familiarity with the language as a “bare-bone”. Minimalist English translation are used which enables readers getting closer to and gain a better sense and flavour of the original text.
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The Chinese University Press The Southern Garden Poetry Society: Literary
Book SynopsisWhat has traditionally been the main matter explored by Cantonese literati? Oceanic elements and riparian scenes contrasted with rock formations; a love for the exotic, especially local plants, products, and lore; Daoist transcendentalism; and a fierce pride in being culturally authentic Chinese. The Southern Garden Poetry Society in Guangzhou was the only major literary club in Chinese history to be periodically reconvened over the Ming, Qing, and Republican eras. Beginning with an examination of its five founding members during the Yuan/Ming period, in particular Sun Fen (1335–1393), the author traces the various elements of this Southern Muse that became embodied in later Cantonese poetry, further examining the issue of social memory through later reconvenings of the society.
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University of the Philippines Press Poetry Is
Book SynopsisJosé Garcia Villa, a twentieth century Philippine phenomenon, took by storm the Filipino and American literary establishments, winning wide acclaim for short stories and poems in English.Turning to poetics — what poetry is and does — he lectured at his Greenwich Village workshops.Editor Robert King — Villa’s long-time student — has restored these lectures from Villa’s theory of poetry notebooks at Harvard’s Houghton Library. They unfold in plain textbook form and make the case for restoration of lyric poetry divested of prose elements and for an expanded readership of same.
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University of the West Indies Press Una Marson
Book SynopsisUna Marson's work embodied anti-colonialism, anti-racism, feminism, class politics and pan-Africanism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her poetry and dramatic work symbolically ushered in a new era in Jamaica's literary landscape and her efforts in championing early Jamaican literature, as well as her avid support for Caribbean writers in Britain and the region, made her a key proponent of the development of a nationaland West Indian literary canon. She challenged racial inequality, affirmed standards of black beauty and black identity, and explored the complexities of gender, religious discrimination and class/economic exploitation. She did not frame her work around a single cause but, instead, she was mindful of the multiple intersections of oppression. Britain's hold on Jamaica's cultural imagination would finally be challenged by artists like Marson who were eager to free their nation of colonial authority and cultural dominance. In the end, through her advocacy and pioneering work, Marson achieved a voice for the oppressed.
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Stanford University Press Mantis: A Journal of Poetry, Criticism &
Book SynopsisA Stanford University Press classic.
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Hardpress Publishing The Works of Edmund Spenser 1
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HardPress Publishing An Apologie for Poetrie 1595
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HardPress Publishing Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews
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HardPress Publishing Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews
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YouCaxton Publications Shakespeares Cryptic Sonnets
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Alreves Pasolini y la cultura española
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Ediciones Catedra, S.A. La Araucana
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Biblioteca Autores Cristianos Los evangelios apócrifos en la literatura
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Nordica Libros El barco ebrio y otros poemas
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Oxford University Press Letters Volume 6 Volume 6 18261834 Oxford Scholarly Classics
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Oxford University Press, USA Writing Under Tyranny English Literature and the Henrician Reformation
Book SynopsisWriting Under Tyranny is both a study of the birth of Renaissance literature in England and a history of the reign of Henry VIII told through and around the lives of its poets and writers. It shows how political tyranny prompted resistance in and through literature.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition Walker's readings invest the literature of the early sixteenth century with a complex political urgency that is more often associated with Elizabethan texts. This thoroughly researched and well-written book asks us to rethink the standard narrative of sixteenth-century literary history... For scholars in the fields of literature and history, Writing under Tyranny is destined to become a classic. * Journal of British Studies *A new book by Greg Walker... is a major event. * Reviews in History *... an exceptionally good book... will surely remain an important work * Lucy Wooding, English Historical Review *Walker's ability to invoke very specific points of reference in clarifying the contemporary significance of his texts is ... remarkable ... This is an important book, which deserves to have a profound influence upon the ways in which we understand the literature of the Henrician period. * Roderick J. Lyall, Cahiers Elisabethains *Walker gives voice to a fascinating dialogue between literature and politics... in a compelling work ... This is an actively engaging book, required reading for anyone interested in the relation between literature and politics, and a welcome addition to the ranks of intellectual history. * Alessandra Petrina, Renaissance Quarterly *Walker's strength is that he understands and engages intimately with the culture of a generation schooled in the rhetorical tradition... Walker is a most acute critic of the literature of an age when most published writers were active politicians and most politicians were writers. * Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books *... a monumental achievement that furthers our understanding of an area that Walker has done much to illuminate over the years. The careful and scrupulous analysis of a whole range of texts that deserve to be better known, and more meticulously read, has resulted in a serious, scholarly and, in places, profound work, well written throughout. * Andrew Hadfield, Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents1. The Long Divorce of Steel: Tyranny and Political Culture in Henry VIII's England ; POETRY AND THE CULTURE OF COUNSEL: THE 1532 IWORKES OF GEFFRAY CHAUCER/I AND JOHN HEYWOOD'S IPLAY OF THE WETHER/I ; 2. A Gift for Henry VIII ; 3. The Signs of the World: The 'Wondrous' Divisions of the early 1530s ; 4. Reading Chaucer in 1532 ; 5. Thynne and Tuke's Apocrypha ; 6. Mocking the Thunder: Henry VIII, Jupiter, and John Heywood's iPlay of the Wether/i ; 'TO VIRTUE PERSUADED'?: THE PERSISTENT COUNSELS OF SIR THOMAS ELYOT ; 7. Sir Thomas Elyot and the King's Great Matter ; 8. iThe Boke Named the Governor/i: Good Kingship and the Royal Supremacy ; 9. Tyranny and the Conscience of Man: Elyot's Dialogues, 1533-34 ; 10. From Supremacy to Tyranny ; 11. The Apotheosis of Sir Thomas Elyot ; THE DEATH OF COUNSEL: SIR THOMAS WYATT AND HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF SURREY ; 12. Sir Thomas Wyatt: Poetry and Politics ; 13. Tyranny Condemned: Wyatt's Epistolary Satires ; 14. Wyatt's Embassy, Treason, and 'The Defence' ; 15. Pleading With Power: Wyatt's Penitential Psalms ; 16. 'Wyatt Resteth Here': Henry Howard and the Invention of Resistance ; 17. Writing under Tyranny: Wyatt, Surrey, and the Reinvention of English Poetry
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Oxford University Press Iliad
Book SynopsisHomer''s Iliad is one of the foundational texts of Western Civilization. The timelessness of its story, of men battling fate amidst the horrors of war, still stirs the imaginations of readers year after year. What is offered here is the first translation by someone who is both an eminent scholar and published poet. Based on his thorough familiarity with Homeric language, Powell''s free verse translation preserves the clarity and simplicity of the original, while recreating the original feel and sound of the oral-formulaic style. By avoiding the stylistic formality of earlier translations, and the colloquial and sometimes exaggerated effects of recent attempts, he deftly captures and conveys the most essential truths of this vital text. Helpfully included in this edition are a detailed introduction, illustrations, maps, and notes. Modern and pleasing to the ear while accurately reflecting the meaning of the Greek, Powell steers a middle path between the most well-known translations and Trade Reviewcomprehensive and authoritative ... user friendly ... This generous scholarly gift will be joined by Powell's forthcoming Odyssey (2014) ... Highly recommended. * R. Cormier, CHOICE *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; List of Maps ; List of Figures ; Preface ; Introduction ; Acknowledgments ; About the Translator ; Maps ; Homeric Timeline ; Book 1: The Anger of Achilles ; Book 2: False Dream and the Catalog of Ships ; Book 3: A Duel to the Death ; Book 4: Trojan Treachery, Bitter War ; Book 5: The Glory of Diomedes ; Book 6: Hector and Andromache Say Goodbye ; Book 7: The Duel Between Hector and Ajax ; Book 8: Zeus Fulfills his Promise ; Book 9: The Embassy to Achilles ; Book 10: The Exploits of Dolon ; Book 11: The Glory of Agamemnon and The Wounding of the Captains ; Book 12: Attack on the Wall ; Book 13: The Battle at the Ships ; Book 14: Zeus Deceived ; Book 15: Counterattack ; Book 16: The Glory of Patroklos ; Book 17: Fight Over the Corpse of Patroklos ; Book 18: The Shield of Achilles ; Book 19: Agamemnon's Apology ; Book 20: The Dual Between Hector and Ajax ; Book 21: Fight with the River; Battle of the Gods ; Book 22: The Killing of Hector ; Book 23: The Funeral of Patroklos ; Book 24: The Ransom of Hector ; Bibliography ; Credits ; Pronouncing Glossary/Index
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Oxford University Press George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism
Book SynopsisRegard for George Oppen''s poetry has been growing steadily over the last decade. Peter Nicholls''s study offers a timely opportunity to engage with a body of work which can be both luminously simple and intriguingly opaque. Nicholls charts Oppen''s commitment to Marxism and his later explorations of a ''poetics of being'' inspired by Heidegger and Existentialism, providing detailed accounts of each of the poet''s books. He is the first critic to draw extensively on the Oppen archive, with its thousands of pages of largely unpublished notes and drafts for poems; in doing so, he is able to map the distinctive contours of Oppen''s poetic thinking and to investigate the complex origins of many of his poems. Oppen emerges from this study as a writer of mercurial intensities for whom every poem constitutes a ''beginning again'', a freeing of the mind from thoughts known in advance. A strikingly innovative and challenging poetics results from Oppen''s attempt to avoid what he regards as the Trade ReviewReview from previous edition ...an important book...subtly probing book... * Edward Neill MLR *...a fresh and engaging study of Oppen's work, his life and his relationship with the Objectivist movement...One of the strengths of this book is its extensive use of unpublished materials...It also provides a compelling rereading of Objectivism through Oppen's own continual reassessment of its usefulness as a term. * Emma Kimberly Journal of American Studies *a thoroughly researched and closely argued account * Jules Smith, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Beginning again ; 2. Materials ; 3. 'That it is', or This In Which ; 4. 'What it is': Of Being Numerous ; 5. From Avant-Garde to Hegel ; 6. A metaphysical edge': Seascape: Needle's Eye ; 7. 'Out of the whirl wind': Myth of the Blaze and Primitive ; Appendices
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