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Paul Dry Books, Inc Homeric Moments
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Massey University Press Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2017
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Massey University Press Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018
Book SynopsisPoetry New Zealand Yearbook, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, showcases new writing from New Zealand and overseas. It presents the work of talented newcomers as well as that of established voices.This issue features the winning entries of the Poetry New Zealand competition, as well as over 100 new poems by writers including Albert Wendt, David Eggleton, Johanna Emeney and Bob Orr. Issue #52 also features essays by Owen Bullock, Jeanita Cush-Hunter, Ted Jenner, Robert McLean and Reade Moore, and reviews of 33 new poetry collections.Continually in print since 1951, when it was established by leading poet Louis Johnson, this annual collection of new poetry, reviews and poetics discussion is the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from established and emerging New Zealand poets.
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Massey University Press Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2019
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Massey University Press Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020
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Massey University Press Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2021
Book SynopsisEach year Poetry New Zealand, this country's longest-running poetry magazine, rounds up important new poetry, reviews and essays, making it the ideal way to catch up with the latest poetry from both established and emerging New Zealand poets.The packed issue #55 features 180 new poems including by this year's featured poet, Aimee-Jane Anderson-O'Connor and by John Allison, Stephanie Christie, Michele Leggott, Wes Lee, Elizabeth Morton, David Eggleton, Bob Orr and Kiri Piahana-Wong and essays and extensive reviews of new poetry collections.Poems by the winners of both the Poetry New Zealand Award and the Poetry New Zealand Schools Award are among the line-up.
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Massey University Press On We Go
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Massey University Press Felt
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Cambridge University Press A Bibliography of William Wordsworth 2 Volume Hardback Set 17871930
Book SynopsisThe publishing history of William Wordsworth's writings is complex and often obscure. These two volumes set out, for the first time, a comprehensive, detailed bibliographic description of every edition of Wordsworth's writings up to 1930. The great variety of forms in which readers encountered both authorized and unauthorized texts by Wordsworth is revealed, not only as produced during his lifetime but also during the years of his largest sales, popularity and influence, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The bibliography provides new information about hundreds of printings and their internal and external designs, processes of production, sales, contents and variant texts and illustrations. More than a record of the transmission and reception of Wordsworth and his writings, it offers invaluable new data for the study of British publishing history and the reception and readership of British Romantic literature.
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Cambridge University Press Geoffrey Chaucer in Context
Book SynopsisGeoffrey Chaucer is widely acknowledged as the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. His texts are studied extensively but, in order to be fully appreciated, they demand a nuanced understanding of the medieval period. This volume provides freshly illuminated access to Chaucer''s writing through an unrivalled repertoire of contextual information and perspectives designed to enhance the independence and critical capacities of his modern readers. The featured essays are written not only by distinguished literary scholars but also by leading international historians. Geoffrey Chaucer in Context is an essential reference tool for anyone studying Chaucer and will help readers to identify his different voices and engage with the complexity and colour of his times with new awareness.Trade Review'This is a breathtaking collection of essays in terms of scope and content, and one not easy to review in so few words … For anyone teaching Chaucer for the first time, at any level, this collection will be an indispensable resource. Even those who have taught Chaucer before have much to gain from it.' A. L. Kaufman, Choice'… many chapters are insightful and, especially, potentially quite useful for classroom teaching … Each piece contains a wealth of riches, and every Chaucerian will surely find something new to enjoy here, with the volume's myriad offerings allowing, as it were, diverse folk diversely to read.' Leah Schwebel, Studies in the Age of ChaucerTable of ContentsIntroduction: contextualising contexts of Chaucer Ian Johnson; Part I. Chaucer as Context: 1. What was Chaucer like? J. A. Burrow; 2. Chaucer's life and literary 'profession' Andrew Galloway; Part II. Books, Discourse and Traditions: 3. Chaucer's linguistic invention Jeremy J. Smith; 4. Chaucer and London English Jeremy J. Smith; 5. Manuscripts and manuscript culture Rhiannon Purdie; 6. Chaucer's books Wendy Scase; 7. Authority Mishtooni Bose; 8. Literary theory and literary roles Ian Johnson; 9. Metre and versification Ad Putter; 10. Dialogue Sarah James; 11. Romance Stephen H. A. Shepherd; 12. Love Corinne Saunders; 13. Chaucer and the classics Vincent Gillespie; 14. The French context Stephanie Kamath; 15. The Italian tradition K. P. Clarke; 16. The English context Marion Turner; 17. Chaucer's competitors Wendy Scase; 18. Boethius Tim William Machan; Part III. Humans, the World and Beyond: 19. Chaucer's God Ryan Perry; 20. Holiness Marlene Villalobos Hennessy; 21. Secularity Alastair Minnis; 22. The self Valerie Allen; 23. Women Rosalynn Voaden; 24. Sex and lust Bruce Holsinger; 25. Animals in Chaucer Gillian Rudd; Part IV. Culture, Learning and Disciplines: 26. Childhood and education Nicholas Orme; 27. Philosophy Stephen Penn; 28. The medieval universe Seb Falk; 29. Medicine and the mortal body Samantha Katz Seal; 30. The law Richard W. Ireland; 31. Art Julian Luxford; 32. Architecture Richard Fawcett; 33. Heraldry, heralds and Chaucer Katie Stevenson; Part V. Political and Social Contexts: 34. Dissent and orthodoxy John H. Arnold; 35. The Church, religion and culture Rob Lutton; 36. England at home and abroad Anne Curry; 37. Chaucer's borders Anthony Bale; 38. Rank and social orders Chris Given-Wilson; 39. Chivalry Craig Taylor; 40. Chaucer and the polity Gwylim Dodd; 41. The economy Christopher Dyer; 42. Towns, villages and the land Mark Bailey; 43. London's Chaucer: A psychogeography John J. Thompson; 44. Everyday life Wendy Childs; 45. Household and home Peter Fleming; 46. Marriage Sally Dixon-Smith; 47. Dress Laura F. Hodges; Part VI. Chaucer Traditions: 48. The first Chaucerians: reception in the 1400s Robert J. Meyer-Lee; 49. The reception of Chaucer in the Renaissance Alex Davis; 50. The Reception of Chaucer from Dryden to Wordsworth Bruce E. Graver; 51. The reception of Chaucer from the Victorians to the twenty-first century David Matthews; 52. Cyber-Chaucer Stephen Kelly.
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Cambridge University Press A Mirror for Magistrates A Modernized and Annotated Edition
Book SynopsisThe first modern critical edition of A Mirror for Magistrates - a collection of tragic verse narratives compiled by William Baldwin in 1559. This volume is aimed at scholars and advanced students of early modern English literature and history, and undergraduates researching the Mirror's influence on early modern English authors.Table of ContentsIntroduction;, The 1559 Mirror for Magistrates; Appendices.
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Cambridge University Press The Myth of Piers Plowman Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive 89 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Series Number 89
Book SynopsisAddressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem and contextualizes its first modernization. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Books Online and via Knowledge Unlatched.Trade Review'A rollicking tale of how an entire field of study came to be created, or rather, fabricated … Warner's book is full of page-turning discoveries.' The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction: archive fever and the madness of Joseph Ritson; 1. William and the werewolf: the problem of William of Palerne; 2. Localizing Piers Plowman C: Meed, Corfe Castle, and the London Riot of 1384; 3. Latinitas et Communitas Visionis Willielmi de Longlond; 4. Quod Piers Plowman: non-Reformist prophecy, c.1520–55; 5. Urry, Burrell, and the pains of John Taylor: the Spelman MS (Huntington Hm 114), 1709–66; 6. William Dupré, Fabricateur: Piers Plowman in the Age of Forgery; Conclusion: Leland's madness and the tale of Piers Plowman; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Lord Rochester in the Restoration World
Book SynopsisThis collection of interdisciplinary essays by a team of international scholars focuses new attention on Lord Rochester's writings; on their political force and social identity, on the worlds from which they emerged and which they disclose, and not least on their unsettling aesthetic power.Table of Contents1. Lord Rochester in the Restoration world: introduction Matthew C. Augustine and Steven N. Zwicker; 2. John Wilmot and the writing of 'Rochester' Jonathan Sawday; 3. From script to print: marketing Rochester Paul Davis; 4. Trading places: Lord Rochester, the Laureate, and the making of literary reputation Matthew C. Augustine; 5. Lord Rochester: a life in gossip Steven N. Zwicker; 6. Rochester and the satiric underground Nicholas von Maltzahn; 7. Rochester, the theatre, and restoration theatricality David Francis Taylor; 8. Rochester and the play of values Christopher Tilmouth; 9. Sexual and religious libertinism in Restoration England Tim Harris; 10. Sex and sovereignty in Rochester's writing Melissa E. Sanchez; 11. Rochester, Behn, and Enlightenment liberty Ros Ballaster; 12. Unfit to print: Rochester and the poetics of obscenity Tom Jones; 13. The perspective of Rochester's letters Nicholas Fisher; 14. Rochester and rhyme Tom Lockwood.
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Cambridge University Press John Keats in Context
Book SynopsisJohn Keats (17951821) continues to delight and challenge readers both within and beyond the academic community through his poems and letters. This volume provides frameworks for enhanced analysis and appreciation of Keats and his work, with each chapter supplying a succinct, informed, and accessible account of a particular topic. Leading scholars examine the life and work of Keats against the backdrop of his influences, contemporaries, and reception, and explore the interaction of poet and world. The essays consider his enduring but ever-altering appeal, engage with critical discussion and debate, and offer revisionary close reading of the poems and letters. Students and specialists will find their knowledge of Keats''s life and work enriched by chapters that survey subjects ranging from education, relationships, and religion to art, genre, and film.Trade Review'For new readers of Keats, the problem is staying abreast of 200 fertile years of reviews, criticism and biographies. John Keats in Context works as a curative. The final four essays on reception and Keats scholarship from 1821 to the present (by Kelvin Everest, Francis O'Gorman, Matthew Scott and Richard Marggraf Turley) are essential reading … In O'Neill's volume, Keats is prevented from settling into a single mode - medical student, cultural observer, reader, philosopher, liberal, friend, nurse, lover - but rather given space to exhibit these fluctuations. The strongest essays follow Keats through critical dicta into less settled territory.' Christy Edwall, The Times Literary Supplement'Michael O'Neill's edited collection of essays presents very succinct statements on different aspects of Keats's life and writings … The need for brevity enforces on the writers a compressed succinctness, and the length of each essay is perfect for reading on a half-hour bus journey (I speak from experience). … The diversity and depth of Keats's involvement in the many contexts represented in O'Neill's excellent collection stimulate reflections on the multi-faceted poet's other interests and influences … Michael O'Neill and his team in this handsome and well-conceived volume … have done Keats proud by giving him the contexts which well and truly position him where he wished to be, 'among the English Poets'.' R. S. White, European Romantic Review'This collection of scholarly reassessments in the interests of 'a full-scale reconsideration of Keats's achievement and its enabling contexts' … comprises thirty-four short chapters of around ten pages each, organized into six parts: 'Life, Letters, Texts'; 'Cultural Contexts'; 'Ideas and Poetics'; 'Poetic Contexts'; 'Influence'; and 'Critical Reception'.' William Christie, The Review of English StudiesTable of ContentsPart I. Life, Letters, Texts: 1. Biographies and film Sarah Wootton; 2. Formative years and medical training Nicholas Roe and Hrileena Ghosh; 3. Surgery, science and suffering Nicholas Roe; 4. Fanny Brawne and other women Heidi Thomson; 5. Mortality Shahidha Bari; 6. Travel Jeffrey C. Robinson; 7. Letters Madeleine Callaghan; 8. Manuscripts and publishing history John Barnard; Part II. Cultural Contexts: 9. The Hunt circle and the Cockney School Gregory Leadbetter; 10. London Timothy Webb; 11. Politics Richard Cronin; 12. Sociability Grant F. Scott; 13. The visual and plastic arts Nancy Moore Goslee; 14. Religion and myth Anthony John Harding; Part III. Ideas and Poetics: 15. The Enlightenment and history Porscha Fermanis; 16. Keats and Hazlitt Duncan Wu; 17. Imagination, beauty and truth Charles W. Mahoney; 18. The poetical character Seamus Perry; 19. The senses and sensation Stacey McDowell; 20. Prosody and versification in the Odes Michael O'Neill; Part IV. Poetic Contexts: 21. Poetic precursors (1): Dante and Shakespeare Chris Murray; 22. Poetic precursors (2): Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Pope Beth Lau; 23. Contemporaries (1) (and immediate predecessors): Tighe, Radcliffe, Southey, Burns, Chatterton, Hunt, Wordsworth Michael O'Neill; 24. Contemporaries (2): Coleridge, Byron, Shelley Jane Stabler; 25. Ballad, romance and narrative Andrew Bennett; 26. Epic and tragedy Susan J. Wolfson; 27. Lyrical genres Christopher R. Miller; Part V. Influence: 28. Tennyson to Wilde Herbert F. Tucker; 29. Hardy, Edward Thomas, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney Michael O'Neill; 30. American writing Mark Sandy; Part VI. Critical Reception: 31. Contemporary reviews Kelvin Everest; 32 Critical reception, 1821–1900 Francis O'Gorman; 33. Keats criticism, 1900–63 Matthew Scott; 34. Keats criticism, post-1963 Richard Marggraf Turley.
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Cambridge University Press A History of NineteenthCentury American Womens Poetry
Book SynopsisA History of Nineteenth-Century American Women''s Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women''s poetry of the period. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, it explores a wide variety of authors, texts, and methodological approaches. Organized into three chronological sections, the essays examine multiple genres of poetry, consider poems circulated in various manuscript and print venues, and propose alternative ways of narrating literary history. From these essays, a rich story emerges about a diverse poetics that was once immensely popular but has since been forgotten. This History confirms that the field has advanced far beyond the recovery of select individual poets. It will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and critics of both the literature and the history of this era.Table of ContentsIntroduction: making history: thinking about nineteenth-century American women's poetry Jennifer Putzi and Alexandra Socarides; Part I. 1800–40, American Poesis and the National Imaginary: 1. Claiming Lucy Terry Prince: literary history and the problem of early African-American women poets Mary Louise Kete; 2. Before the poetess: women's poetry in the early republic Tamara Harvey; 3. The passion for poetry in Lydia Sigourney and Elizabeth Oakes Smith Kerry Larson; 4. Album verse and the poetics of scribal circulation Michael C. Cohen; 5. Presents of mind: Lydia Sigourney, gift book culture, and the commodification of poetry Elizabeth A. Petrino; 6. The friendship elegy Desirée Henderson; 7. Gendered Atlantic: Lydia Sigourney and Felicia Hemans Gary Kelly; Part II. 1840–65, Unions and Disunion: 8. Women, Transcendentalism, and The Dial: poetry and poetics Michelle Kohler; 9. Poets of the loom, spinners of verse: working-class women's poetry and The Lowell Offering Jennifer Putzi; 10. Women's transatlantic poetic network Páraic Finnerty; 11. Making and unmaking a canon: American women's poetry and the nineteenth-century anthology Alexandra Socarides; 12. 'What witty sally': Phoebe Cary's poetics of parody Faith Barrett; 13. Nineteenth-century American women's poetry of slavery and abolition Eric Gardner; 14. Fever-dreams: antebellum Southern women poets and the Gothic Paula Bennett; 15. The Civil War language of flowers Eliza Richards; 16. Poetry and bohemianism Joanna Levin and Edward Whitley; Part III. 1865–1900, Experiment and Expansion: 17. Women poets and American literary realism Elizabeth Renker; 18. Verse forms Cristanne Miller; 19. Braided relations: towards a history of nineteenth-century American Indian women's poetry Robert Dale Parker; 20. Frances Harper and the poetry of reconstruction Monique-Adelle Callahan; 21. (Hear the bird): Sarah Piatt and the dramatic monologue Jess Roberts; 22. Women writers and the hymn Claudia Stokes; 23. Women poets, child readers Angela Sorby; 24. Emma Lazarus transnational Shira Wolosky; 25. The creation of Emily Dickinson and the study of nineteenth-century American women's poetry Mary Loeffelholz.
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Cambridge University Press Virgils Ascanius
Book SynopsisAscanius is the most prominent child hero in Virgil''s Aeneid. He accompanies his father from Troy to Italy and is present from the first book of the epic to the last; he is destined to found the city of Alba Longa and the Julian family to which Caesar and Augustus both belonged; and he hunts, fights, makes speeches, and even makes a joke. In this first book-length study of Virgil''s Ascanius, Anne Rogerson demonstrates the importance of this character not just to the Augustan family tree but to the texture and the meaning of the Aeneid. As a figure of prophecy and a symbol both of hopes for the future and of present uncertainties, Ascanius is a fusion of epic and dynastic desires. Compelling close readings of the representation and reception of this understudied character throughout the Aeneid expose the unexpectedly childish qualities of Virgil''s heroic epic.Trade Review'This fine and stimulating book discusses multivalent and slippery prophecies, significant names and their etymologies, and especially the importance of variant and inconsistent versions of myth.' James J. O'Hara, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The heir and the spare; 3. Old names and new; 4. Andromache and Dido; 5. Trojan games; 6. Trojan fire; 7. Protecting Ascanius; 8. Growing up; 9. Relegating Ascanius; 10. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare for Freedom
Book SynopsisShakespeare for Freedom presents a powerful, plausible and political argument for Shakespeare''s meaning and value. It ranges across the breadth of the Shakespeare phenomenon, offering a new interpretation not just of the characters and plays, but also of the part they have played in theatre, criticism, civic culture and politics. Its story includes a glimpse of ''Freetown'' in Romeo and Juliet, which comes to life in the 1769 Stratford Jubilee; the Shakespearean careers of the Leicester Chartist, Cooper, and the Hungarian hero, Kossuth; Hegel''s recognition of Shakespearean freedom as the modern breakthrough; its fatal effects in America; the disgust it inspired in Tolstoy; its rehabilitation by Ted Hughes, and its obscure centrality in the 2012 Olympics. Ultimately, it issues a positive Shakespearean prognosis for freedom as a vital (in both senses), unending struggle. Shakespeare for Freedom shows why Shakespeare has mattered for four hundred years, and why he still matters today.Trade Review'Professor Fernie's exhilarating new book is a timely and rigorous reminder of the political and philosophical potency and daring of both the characters and the plays. A passionate and compelling call to remember Shakespeare's radical credentials. A rich and fascinating tour of historical and contemporary encounters with Shakespeare's words and meanings, which should inspire scholars and theatre-makers alike to treat him once again as a liberating spirit, an existential provocateur and a playwright for our times.' Erica Whyman, Deputy Artistic Director and Director of The Other Place, Royal Shakespeare Company'Ewan Fernie's book rescues freedom from the impoverished, and blatantly ideological, uses to which it is all too often put - and shows how central Shakespeare has been to the history of true modern freedom. A scholar of great honesty, dialectical seriousness, and historical range, Fernie eloquently demonstrates that Shakespeare remains a powerful resource for anyone committed to both individual and collective liberty.' Peter Holbrook, Chair, International Shakespeare Association'Ewan Fernie's writing is, as always, invigorating and original, powerful and thoughtful. In familiar areas, he always has much that is new to say. In unfamiliar ones, he sends us off, eager to read what intrigues him.' Peter Holland, McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana'While the cultural ubiquity of Shakespeare silently reinforces the liberal humanist assumption that these plays have survived because of their inherent or transcendent value, Fernie bravely, like the boy wondering out loud about the emperor's new clothes, dares to ask, 'What good is Shakespeare?' As every barrister knows, never ask a question to which you don't know the answer and fortunately, here, it is not long in coming: 'Shakespeare means freedom'. Fernie's scope is magisterial and panoramic; freedom is assessed in relation to David Garrick's Jubilee of 1769, the 19th-century Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth, the Leicester Chartist Thomas Cooper, the philosophy of Hegel, the suffragettes, and the Shakespearean influence on Goethe, Freud, John Moriarty and Ted Hughes. … The parting shot of this compelling book maintains the plays 'are politically unstable, always in process. What we do or do not make of them, in contemporary life and politics, is our responsibility'.' The Times Higher Education'Fernie writes clearly and passionately, combining deep learning and theoretical sophistication with an intimate colloquial style. … the book is ultimately able to reanimate a progressive political Shakespeare without relying on easy answers or obscuring the darker undercurrents of Shakespearean freedom.' The Times Literary Supplement'The Trumpian Caesar in Central Park takes his place in a long line of reflections of real-life leaders and despots in Shakespeare productions. Into this controversy wades Ewan Fernie of the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, with a timely new study, Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter. Over nine chapters, Fernie pays homage to Shakespeare's creations and to the real-life figures who drew inspiration from the Bard in their aspirations and struggles for freedom …' Santa Fe New Mexican'A serious and at times exhilarating attempt to rescue Shakespeare from the sort of obligatory respectfulness that accrues to ubiquity. As with the Beatles, it's often easy to forget the radical nature of Shakespeare's work. Fernie is bent on demonstrating Shakespeare's continuing vitality and usefulness in the world. Fernie sees Shakespeare as 'deep therapy' for the culture, stressing the ever-changing nature of how we relate to them: 'Shakespearean character is always made in interaction, as well as before an audience.' This dynamic nature cuts both ways. So Fernie leaves us with a warning: 'The plays … are not in any simple way utopian. They are politically unstable, always in process. If they are sometimes ethically promising, at others they are undeniably dangerous … What we do or do not make of them, in contemporary life and politics, is our responsibility'.' Arkansas Democrat Gazette'… Fernie has without doubt identified one of the central aspects of Shakespeare's persistent appeal. This is a refreshing addition to Shakespeare studies. … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' CHOICE'… Shakespeare for Freedom: Why The Plays Matter, by Ewan Fernie, is … [an] update on Jan Kott's classic Shakespeare Our Contemporary. My favorite part is in the chapter titled 'Against Shakespearean Freedom'. The next time some dolt walks out of the theater grumbling, 'Well, that was no Shakespeare', remind that person what Tolstoy had to say on the subject: 'Shakespeare cannot be recognized as a great genius or even as an average author', sniffed the Count, charging Billy Big Boy with the crime of turning the theater, 'this important weapon of progress,' into 'an empty and immoral amusement'. To which we can only append, 'thank goodness'.' Deadline (www.deadline.com)'Ewan Fernie is one of the most original and adventurous Shakespeare scholars at work today … In Shakespeare for Freedom, Fernie assembles a wide-ranging set of reflections for the sake of illuminating his ambitious central claim: 'Shakespeare means freedom. That is why the plays matter, and not just aesthetically but also in terms of the impact they historically have had'. … Shakespeare should be celebrated and studied 'less as heritage to be preserved at all costs than as a stimulus to new life' … If Shakespeare is 'for' freedom, then it is not as an ideal 'for'' or 'against' which to fight. But, as Fernie admirably helps us to see, something whose meaning we struggle to grasp in the contours of our lives together.' Shakespeare Quarterly'To appreciate the importance of Shakespeare for Freedom beyond Shakespearean and literary studies, consider what this journal's title recognizes. Narratives work; they perform multiple works. Shakespeare for Freedom describes how Shakespeare's stories do the narrative work of making freedom an expectation for a full human life … We - scholars, political activists, anybody trying to do the right thing - turn to stories because definitions become progressively less useful as any idea gets bigger, and freedom is among the biggest, up there with dignity, truth, and love … Fernie situates that vision of social freedom on a dual axis of historical breadth, in which Shakespeare's plays act as a stimulus to freedom in different times and places, and textual depth, in which specific characters seek to be free, creating language that evokes their particular freedom. Fernie's far-reaching contribution can provoke scholars from multiple disciplines to think differently.' Narrative Works'In a field dominated by convention, Ewan Fernie's Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter (Cambridge University Press) asks, refreshingly, 'What good is Shakespeare?' - before providing an energetic answer: 'Shakespeare means freedom'. The book uses real and varied examples to politicise a cultural debate. The result is a pertinent Shakespearean canon that is far from neutral.' 'Higher Books of the Year 2017', Times Higher Education'Breaking open the culturally contingent shackles of language and aesthetics, Fernie addresses the value of freedom, and how it is explored and expounded, confounded and conjured by the plays in which 'freedom is richly various'.' Shakespeare Survey'There is something wonderfully disarming about Ewan Fernie's writing and his approach to the subject of Shakespeare for Freedom.…. Possibly the best work Fernie does here [includes] his often brilliant exploration, in two successive chapters, of Hegel's reading of Shakespeare and of their points of connection and divergence on the subject of freedom …' Shakespeare Studies'In this absorbing, passionate book, Ewan Fernie ranges through the histories (and geographies) of Shakespearean appropriation, and offers insightful readings of some of the plays' characters, in an effort to inspire contemporary audiences to revive Shakespeare's liberating political potential now … It is hard not to experience a profound admiration for Fernie's work …' Spenser ReviewTable of Contents1. Reclaiming Shakespearean freedom; 2. Shakespeare means freedom; 3. 'Freetown!' (Romeo and Juliet); 4. Freetown-upon-Avon; 5. Freetown-am-Main; 6. Free artists of their own selves!; 7. Freetown philosopher; 8. Against Shakespearean freedom; 9. The freedom of complete being.
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Cambridge University Press Prudentius Spain and Late Antique Christianity
Book SynopsisThis book provides an innovative approach to the Hispano-Roman Christian poet Prudentius and his poetry. It is a breakthrough in Prudentian scholarship which unifies the differing disciplines of history, archaeology, literature and art history in arguing that Prudentius and his envisaged Spanish audience cannot be fully understood in isolation from their environment in late fourth- and early fifth-century Spain. Paula Hershkowitz focuses on Prudentius'' Peristephanon, his collection of verses celebrating the deaths of martyrs, and places these poems within the context of Prudentius'' world, uniquely employing material, visual and textual remains as evidence for its religious, social and cultural affiliations. It also draws on this material evidence to contextualise Prudentius'' awareness of the significance of the visual as a means of promoting beliefs against the background of this crucial formative period in religious history when many of his Spanish audience were not yet fully commiTrade Review'Hershkowitz's book is a solid contribution to knowledge on Prudentius and his historical context. Understanding how the poet related to his contemporary audience and material culture in fourth-century Hispania sheds new light on his Peristephanon and refutes a number of tautological assertions found in previous scholarship. This book will definitely be very useful for those interested in Late Antiquity and late Latin poetry, as well as early Christian art, history and society.' Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Bryn Mawr Classical Review'… welcome scholarly monography by Paula Hershkowitz … has a firm grasp of the archaeological literature in Spanish and English and introduces English-speaking readers to a range of materials that they would otherwise be unlikely to know. The Spanish bibliography is extraordinarily rich and extensive, and Hershkowitz elegantly negotiates the two different scholarly worlds. Her work merits a place next to the useful volumes of Michael Kulikowski and Kim Bowes that will be well known to readers.' PlekosTable of Contents1. An introduction to Prudentius: a Spanish poet for the martyrs; 2. Prudentius' audience: society and religious belief in late antique Hispania; 3. The Peristephanon and the martyr cults in Roman Spain; 4. Visual culture and martyrs: Prudentius, painter of pictures in words; 5. Prudentius' poetry in the context of the late antique culture of Hispania; 6. An epilogue for a Christian poet.
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Cambridge University Press Imagining Reperformance in Ancient Culture
Book SynopsisThis book studies the idea and practice of reperformance as it affects ancient lyric poetry and drama, and especially how poets and critics use this idea to create a deep temporal sense. All chapters are informed by recent developments in performance studies, and all Greek and Latin is translated.Table of ContentsIntroduction: what is reperformance? Richard Hunter and Anna Uhlig; Part I. Interpretive Frames: 1. Archives, repertoires, bodies and bones: thoughts on reperformance for classicists Johanna Hanink; 2. Performance, reperformance, preperformance: the paradox of repeating the unique in Pindaric epinician and beyond Felix Budelmann; 3. Thebes on stage, on site, and in the flesh Greta Hawes; Part II. Imagining Iteration: 4. Reperformance, exile, and archive feelings: rereading Aristophanes' Acharnians and Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus Mario Telò; 5. Models of reperformance in Bacchylides Anna Uhlig; 6. Mimêsis, mortality and reperformance: the dead among the living in Hecuba and Hamlet Karen Bassi; 7. Double act: reperforming history in the Octavia Erica Bexley; Part III. Texts and Contexts: 8. Festival, symposium and epinician (re)performance: the case of Nemean 4 and others Bruno Currie; 9. Comedy and reperformance Richard Hunter; 10. Performance, transmission and the loss of Hellenistic lyric poetry Giambattista D'Alessio; 11. Reperformance and embodied knowledge in Roman pantomime Ruth Webb; Reflections: Is this reperformance? Simon Goldhill.
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Cambridge University Press Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry
Book SynopsisAchilles inflicts countless agonies on the Achaeans, although he is supposed to be fighting on their side. Odysseus'' return causes civil strife on Ithaca. The Iliad and the Odyssey depict conflict where consensus should reign, as do the other major poems of the early Greek hexameter tradition: Hesiod''s Theogony and the Homeric Hymns describe divine clashes that unbalance the cosmos; Hesiod''s Works and Days stems from a quarrel between brothers. These early Greek poems generated consensus among audiences: the reason why they reached us is that people agreed on their value. This volume, accordingly, explores conflict and consensus from a dual perspective: as thematic concerns in the poems, and as forces shaping their early reception. It sheds new light on poetics and metapoetics, internal and external audiences, competition inside the narrative and competing narratives, local and Panhellenic traditions, narrative closure and the making of canonical literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Gods: 1. Conflict, consensus and closure in Hesiod's Theogony and Enūma eliš Johannes Haubold; 2. Divine conflict and the problem of Aphrodite Barbara Graziosi; 3. Sparring partners: fraternal relations in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes Oliver Thomas; Part II. Heroes: 4. Achilles in control? Managing oneself and others in the funeral games Adrian Kelly; 5. Uncertainty and the possibilities of violence: the quarrel in Odyssey 8 Jon Hesk; 6. ΙΡΟΣ ΙΑΜΒΙΚΟΣ: archilochean Iambos and the Homeric poetics of conflict Donald Lavigne; 7. Conflict and consensus in the epic cycle Jim Marks; Part III. Men: 8. Fraternal conflict in Hesiod's Works and Days Lilah Grace Canevaro; 9. On constructive conflict and disruptive peace: the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi Paola Bassino.
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespeare Circle
Book SynopsisThis original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation to his life. Well-known figures such as Richard Burbage, Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton are freshly considered; little-known but relevant lives are brought to the fore, and revisionist views are expressed on such matters as Shakespeare''s wealth, his family and personal relationships, and his social status. Written by a distinguished team, including some of the foremost biographers, writers and Shakespeare scholars of today, this enthralling volume forms an original contribution to Shakespearian biography and Elizabethan and Jacobean social history. It will interest anyone looking to learn something new about the dramatist and the times in which he lived. A supplementary website offers imagined first-person audio accounts from the featured subjects.Trade Review'Wonderfully conceived and executed, and drawing on the expertise of some of the finest literary historians at work today, The Shakespeare Circle offers a richly rewarding alternative to the 'cradle to grave' biography, allowing us to see Shakespeare afresh through the lives of his friends, relatives, neighbours, fellow actors and rivals.' James Shapiro, Columbia University, New York'Anyone who reads these collected biographical essays and sketches will come to know Shakespeare himself better.' Dame Margaret Drabble, from the Afterword'Full of fresh and fascinating detail, The Shakespeare Circle zooms out for the long view, linking the life of the playwright to the many different lives that surrounded him. A completely new way of understanding Shakespearian biography.' Andrew Dickson, author of Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe'Stanley Wells [is the] doyen of Shakespeare studies … As the novelist Margaret Drabble observes in her afterword, we should not be surprised that Shakespeare's life still yields surprises - but invariably we are.' Jerry Bruton, Financial Times'… a remarkable collection …' Charles Nicholl, London Review of Books'For readers in search of Shakespeare, this collection holds out the promise of discovery, anticipating more evidence of collaboration, heralding fresh findings which may be gleaned from the ongoing archeologic dig at New Place, and issuing a call for scholars to pursue Shakespeare's missing papers, which might be discovered in the possession of descendants of the Barnard family. Its essays are distinguished by their thought-provoking research and fertile re-examination of the documentary record, creating intersections that generate fresh perspectives and invite the reader to imagine new narratives.' The Shakespeare NewsletterTable of ContentsGeneral introduction Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells; Part I. Family: 1. His mother Mary Shakespeare Michael Wood; 2. His father John Shakespeare David Fallow; 3. His siblings Catherine Richardson; 4. His sister's family: the Harts Cathy Shrank; 5. His wife Anne Shakespeare and the Hathaways Katherine Scheil; 6. His daughter Susanna Hall Lachlan Mackinnon; 7. His son-in-law John Hall Greg Wells; 8. His son Hamnet Shakespeare Graham Holderness; 9. His daughter Judith and the Quineys Germaine Greer; 10. His granddaughter Lady Elizabeth Barnard René Weis; 11. His 'cousin': Thomas Greene Tara Hamling; Part II. Friends and Neighbours: 12. A close family connection: the Combes Stanley Wells; 13. Schoolfriend, publisher and printer Richard Field Carol Chillington Rutter; 14. Living with the Mountjoys David Kathman; 15. Ben Jonson David Riggs; 16. Richard Barnfield, John Weever, William Basse and other encomiasts Andrew Hadfield; 17. Last things: Shakespeare's neighbours and beneficiaries Susan Brock; Part III. Colleagues and Patrons: 18. His fellow dramatists and early collaborators Andy Kesson; 19. His theatre friends: the Burbages John H. Astington; 20. His fellow actors Will Kemp, Robert Armin and other members of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and the King's Men Bart Van Es; 21. His literary patrons Alan H. Nelson; 22. His collaborator George Wilkins Duncan Salkeld; 23. His collaborator Thomas Middleton Emma Smith; 24. His collaborator John Fletcher Lucy Munro; 25. His editors John Heminges and Henry Condell Paul Edmondson; Closing remarks Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells; Afterword Margaret Drabble; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer
Book SynopsisGeoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of gender and sexual difference, fascinated by the ideological differences between the pagan past and the Christian present, and a man of science, knowledgeable in astronomy, astrology and alchemy. This concise book is an ideal starting point for study of all his major poems, particularly The Canterbury Tales, to which two chapters are devoted. It offers close readings of individual texts, presenting various possibilities for interpretation, and includes discussion of Chaucer''s life, career, historical context and literary influences. An account of the various ways in which he has been understood over the centuries leads into an up-to-date, annotated guide to further reading.Trade Review'… [this book] conveys a continuing enjoyment and delight in reading and interpreting Chaucer's writings. By mixing the experience of a lengthy teaching career with the authority of his widely admired scholarship, Minnis encourages us to pause, observe, take stock, and share the wonders and conundrums of Chaucer's achievement. We are in the hands of an expert guide who knows his own mind without being overbearing in the manner of Chaucer's overinformed, loquacious eagle in the House of Fame. Instead he is plain-speaking and confident even in acknowledging the limits of his own eagle-eyed interpretations.' Peter Brown, SpeculumTable of ContentsIntroduction: life and historical contexts; 1. Love and lore: the shorter poems; 2. Fictions of antiquity: Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women; 3. The Canterbury Tales, I: war, love, laughter; 4. The Canterbury Tales, II: experience and authority; Afterword; Guide to further reading.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets offers a fascinating introduction to Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. Aimed primarily at lovers of poetry, it examines a wide range of poets, including household names, such as Jonathan Swift, Thomas Moore, W. B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Patrick Kavanagh, Eavan Boland and Paul Muldoon. The book is comprised of thirty chapters written by critics, leading scholars and poets, who bring an authoritative and accessible understanding to their subjects. Each chapter gives an overview of a poet''s work and guides the general reader through the wider cultural, historical and comparative contexts. Exploring the dual traditions of English and Irish-speaking poets, this Companion represents the very best of Irish poetry and highlights understanding that reveals, in clear and accessible prose, the achievement of Irish poetry in a global context. It is a book that will help and guide general readers through the many achieveTrade Review'A collection of what are individually insightful, accessible and often probing introductions to the chosen poets. The scholarship in this volume is undoubtedly excellent … and Dawe has made some surprising and excellent pairings … Dawe's volume is admirable in its balancing of complexity and readability …' Seán Hewitt, The Irish Times'This accessible and valuable introduction to Irish poetry will serve both nonspecialists and those already familiar with Irish poets but wishing to become acquainted with writers who are less familiar. In sum, this collection provides valuable insights into the rich heritage and the wide spectrum of Irish poetry.' J. S. Baggett, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Gerald Dawe; 1. Prolegomena – 'Spenser's Island' Sean Lysaght; 2. Jonathan Swift 1667–1745 James Ward; 3. Aogan O'Raithille c.1670–1729 Aodan MacPoilin; 4. Oliver Goldsmith 1728–1774 Michael Griffin; 5. Thomas Moore 1779–1852 Jeffrey Vail; 6. James Clarence Mangan 1803–1849 John Mc Auliffe; 7. W B Yeats 1865–1939 Nicholas Grene; 8. Francis Ledwidge 1887–1917 Fran Brearton; 9. Thomas MacGreevy 1893–1967 David Wheatley; 10. Austin Clarke 1896–1974 Lucy Collins; 11. Patrick Kavanagh 1904–1967 Tom Walker; 12. Samuel Beckett 1906–1989 Gerald Dawe; 13. Louis Mac Neice 1907–1963 Chris Morash; 14. John Hewitt 1907–1987 Guy Woodward; 15. Séan Ó Ríordáin 1916–1977 Louis de Paor; 16. Richard Murphy 1927 Benjamin Keatinge; 17. Thomas Kinsella 1928 Andrew Fitzsimons; 18. John Montague 1929 Maurice Riordain; 19. Brendan Kennelly 1936 Richard Pine; 20. Seamus Heaney 1939–2013 Terence Brown; 21. Michael Longley 1939 Florence Impens; 22. Michael Hartnett 1941–1999 Peter Sirr; 23. Derek Mahon 1941 Matt Campbell; 24. Eilean Ni Chuilleanain 1942 Hugh Haughton; 25. Eavan Boland 1944 Justin Quinn; 26. Paul Durcan 1945 Alan Gillis; 27. Ciaran Carson 1948 Nicholas Allen; 28. Medbh McGuckian 1950 Maria Johnston; 29. Paul Muldoon 1951 Peter Mc Donald; 30. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill 1952 John Dillon.
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Cambridge University Press The Sound Sense of Poetry
Book SynopsisWhat real role can poetry have in the world? How are its truths created by the words and sounds chosen by the poet and by the way readers respond to them? Acclaimed poet Peter Robinson brings his knowledge of poetic art to the understanding of the reader''s contribution in enabling poetry to play its part in life. Emphasising the value of individual writers'' and readers'' interactions, together with such key matters as meter and rhythm, voicing and form, rhyme and syntax, Robinson shows how poems engage in speech performances such as promising, justifying, excusing, and explaining - including the telling of truths. Illustrated with detailed readings of poems by, among others, Jonson, Marvell, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Dickinson, Kipling, Basil Bunting, Frank O''Hara, Tony Harrison, and Denise Riley, this book shows how important poetry is as a means to do things with words and make things happen.Table of Contents1. Sound sense; 2. Reading techniques; 3. Meter, rhythm, and rhyme; 4. Forming voice, voicing form; 5. Intelligence disabling; 6. Sounding a subject; 7. Burdens of sound; 8. Keeping promises; 9. Responding as uptake; 10. A sense of poetry; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Reading Sidonius Epistles
Book SynopsisSidonius Apollinaris'' letters offer a vivid series of glimpses into an otherwise sparsely documented period. His rich anecdotes feature the events, characters, and moments that defined his life, ranging from the treason trial of Arvandus to the Visigothic raiding of Clermont, from the corrupt and vile Seronatus to the holy widow Eutropia, and the day-to-day incidents that confronted a Gallo-Roman poet, aristocrat, and bishop as the Late Roman West transitioned into the barbarian successor kingdoms. Like any good storyteller, Sidonius exploited a wide array of narratological tools, manipulating temporality for dramatic effect, sketching his heroes and villains in vivid detail, and recreating witty dialogue in a collection that is highly organised and carefully strategised. This book provides a fuller understanding of his contribution to Latin literature, as a careful arranger of his self-image, a perceptive exploiter of narrative dynamics, and an influential figure in Late Antique Gaul.Table of Contents1. Sidonius' world; 2. Self and status; reading 'Sidonius' in the Epistles; 3. Reading time: Erzählzeit and Lesezeit; 4. Reading epistolary characters; 5. Narrating dialogue; 6. Arrangement; Epilogue; Appendix I: timeline 378–485; Appendix II: catalogue of content and addressees
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Cambridge University Press Catullus Through His Books
Book SynopsisModern readings of the Roman poet Catullus'' work have always been constrained by doubts about the surviving text. Does the sequence of our corpus reflect the artistically coherent and meaningful arrangement of the poems? Why are the various parts of the collection so jarringly different in content and emotional tone? To what extent, if at all, can we explain these shifts by appealing to Catullus'' famously vivid portrayals of his emotions and life circumstances? Catullus Through his Books argues that we possess three separate books of poems designed by the poet himself; at key moments in these books, the poems dramatise the creative activity of their own composition, embedding apparent autobiographical details and purportedly revealing the poet''s intentions and goals. These dramas of composition direct us through the poems, integrating our understanding of each part and generating a holistic vision of Catullus as poet of self-destroying longing and irreparable loss.Trade Review'… a book with which every expert of Catullus will have to confront himself and that certainly testifies the intelligence, acuity and even the esprit de finesse of its author.' Sergio Audano, Resenas ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction; Prolegomenon to the Catullus problem; 1. Ax (Poems 52-60); 2. A (Poems 1-51); 3. B (Poems 61-64) and C1 (65-68b); 4. C2 (Poems 69-116); Conclusion: two interpretive applications; Bibliography; Index; Index Locorum.
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Cambridge University Press Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature
Book SynopsisThis book explores the miscommunications of the prophet Cassandra - cursed to prophesy the truth but never to be understood until too late - in Greek and Latin poetry. Using insights from the field of translation studies, the book focuses on the dialogic interactions that take place between the articulation and the realization of Cassandra''s prophecies in five canonical ancient texts, stretching from Aeschylus'' to Seneca''s Agamemnon. These interactions are dogged by confusion and misunderstanding, but they also show a range of interested parties engaged in creatively ''translating'' meaning for themselves from Cassandra''s ostensibly nonsensical voice. Moreover, as the figure of Cassandra is translated from one literary work into another, including into the Sibyl of Virgil''s Aeneid, her story of tragic communicative disability develops into an optimistic metaphor for literary canon-formation. Cassandra invites us to reconsider the status and value of even the most riddling of female prophets in ancient poetry.Trade Review'… an exceptionally detailed and minutely researched text which explores how the figure of Cassandra is used to effect within the texts it examines … Yet the argument of the study remains clear throughout and will encourage its reader to re-examine all that they know of Cassandra, seeking out texts with which they are unfamiliar; a successful result for any academic study.' Anactoria Clarke, Classics For All'… this rich monograph provides a multifaceted view of Cassandra from Aeschylus to Seneca that stresses again and again Cassandra's own polyvalence as a figure of translation.' Christopher Trinacty, Classical PhilologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: translating Cassandra; 1. Understanding too much: Aeschylus' Agamemnon; 2. Rewriting her-story: Euripides' Trojan Women; 3. A scholarly prophet: Lycophron's Alexandra; 4. Greco-Roman Sibylline scripts: Virgil's Aeneid; 5. Cassandra translated: Seneca's Agamemnon; Conclusion: transposing Cassandra.
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Cambridge University Press Exhausted Ecologies
Book SynopsisThis book evaluates twentieth century British and Global Anglophone literature in relation to the growth of ecological thinking in the United Kingdom. Restless modernists such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and Jean Rhys developed a literary aesthetic of slowness and immediacy to critique the exhausting and dehumanizing aspects of modern urban and industrial life. At the same time, environmental groups such as the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves and the Smoke Abatement League moved from economic registers of ''value'' and ''trust'' to more cultural terms of ''recovery'' and ''regeneration'' to position nature as a healing force in the postwar era. Through a variety of literary, scientific, and political texts, an environmental movement emerged alongside the fast, fragmented, and traumatic aspects of modernization in order to sustain place and community in terms of lateral influence and ecological dependence.Trade Review'… a significant contribution to this nascent but rapidly growing body of modernist eco-criticism.' William Kupinse, James Joyce Literary Supplement'In his introduction, Kalaidjian expresses the need for both modernism and ecocriticism to advance each other and not “simply reinterpret one through the other's lens”. Exhausted Ecologies therefore has much to offer to those studying Europe and its empires, environmental historians, modernist literary critics, and ecocritical scholars alike. Kalaidjian's work here overall is timely in light of the increasing threat of climate disaster, as well as a fascinating view into the connections between modernist literature and the beginnings of modern environmentalism.' Leanna Lostoski-Ho, EuropeNowTable of ContentsIntroduction: places of rest; 1. Nature's reserves: rural exhaustion, inertia, and generative aesthetics; 2. Urban environs: James Joyce and the politics of shared atmosphere; 3. Waste lands: dark pastoral in T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Djuna Barnes; 4. Uprooting empire: Jean Rhys and unrest in imperial centers; 5. Decolonizing ecology: Chinua Achebe's new forms of unease; Conclusion: the limits of modernist regeneration.
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Cambridge University Press Achilles beside Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisIt is widely recognised that the epics of Homer are closely related to the earlier mythology and literature of the Ancient Near East, above all the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. But how should this influence our response to the meaning and message of either poem? This book responds to this question through an experiment in intertextual reading. It begins by exploring Gilgamesh as a work of literature in its own right, and uses this interpretation as the springboard for a new reading of the Homeric epic, emphasising the movement within the poem - beginning from a world of heroic action and external violence, but shifting inwards to the thoughts and feelings of Achilles as he responds to the certainty that his own death will follow that of his best friend. The book will be of interest both to specialists and to those coming to ancient literature for the first time.Trade Review'Engaging, up-to-date, and deeply informed across disciplinary lines, this is an important resource for those interested in classics, mythology, and world literature.' P. E. Ojennus, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Divinity, humanity and wisdom; 3. Gilgamesh and glory; 4. Gilgamesh confronts death; 5. Interlude on Homer and the muse; 6. The race of half-gods; 7. The plan of Zeus; 8. The coming of Achilles; 9. The strife of the Iliad; 10. Achilles looks inward; 11. The death of the friend; 12. Achilles responds; 13. From lamentation to vengeance; 14. Achilles like a lion; 15. Mortality and wisdom; 16. The truths of lamentation; Conclusion: the slender-winged fly.
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Cambridge University Press Abused Bodies in Roman Epic
Book SynopsisGreco-Roman martial epic poetry, from Homer and Virgil to Neronian and Flavian epic, is obsessed with the treatment of dead bodies. This book provides an extensive survey and analysis of corpse mistreatment and funeral violation in Latin epic poetry, thereby enabling a fundamental re-evaluation of violence and warfare.Trade Review'… M.'s thoroughly researched and authoritative study is undoubtedly a very valuable contribution to the field and will be of interest mainly to readers already familiar with the epics of Lucan, Statius, Valerius Flaccus and Silius Italicus.' Giles Gilbert, Classics for All'… energetic and creative … an excellent review of the poets' historical circumstances, which may account for some of the differences in their approach to corpse abuse.' Neil Bernstein, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; Notes on texts and abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Setting the stage: corpse abuse in Homer and Virgil; 2. Decapitation in Lucan, Statius, and Silius Italicus; 3. Unburied past: Lucan's Bellum ciuile; 4. Argonautic abuses: Valerius Flaccus' (and Apollonius') Argonautica; 5. Funeral 'rights': Statius' Thebaid; 6. Grave encounters: Silius Italicus' Punica; Epilogue: a post mortem; Bibliography; Index locorum; General index.
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Cambridge University Press Apollonius Rhodius Herodotus and Historiography
Book SynopsisThis book examines the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes through one aspect of its relationship with other texts. The particular intertextual relationship examined is that with the Histories of Herodotus, focusing on the presence of the latter text in the former in terms of the poem''s employment of characteristics and features of historiographical discourse, narrative structures, presentation and description of characters, aetiology and patterns of explanation, portrayal of ethnic groups, depiction of kingship and tyranny; the relationship between particular passages in both texts is also explored. The consequences for the interpretation of the poem are profound: the Argonautica employs Herodotean historiography as a key intertext in order to manipulate and frustrate the reader''s generic expectations for an epic poem and to complicate the relationship between the contemporary Hellenistic Mediterranean (and its kingdoms) and the distant mythological Argonautic past.Trade Review'An excellent resource for those engaged in advanced study of classics.' S. M. Burstein, Choice'… this is a valuable contribution to the study of Herodotus and Apollonius and the ways that historiography in general and Herodotus in particular can influence epic.' Laura Marshall, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Receiving Herodotus; 3. Creating authorities; 4. Explaining the past; 5. Telling stories; 6. Greeks and non-Greeks; 7. Kings and leaders; 8. Conclusions and consequences.
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Cambridge University Press Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of SixteenthCentury English Love Poetry
Book SynopsisA dedicated study of how classical Latin erotic elegy was read in the Renaissance and helped shape the emergence of English love poetry. This book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature and classical literature, in particular love, gender, sex and the body.Trade Review'… the most enjoyable thing about this volume is the author's delight in the poetry she presents to the reader, which is described within the space of a couple of pages as 'exuberant', 'un-anxious', 'creative' and 'confident, even blasé', with an 'untroubled “pick-and-mix” approach' to reception that is 'programmatically promiscuous'. For G.,[Linda Grant] Renaissance classical reception is a playful and imaginative adventure-and her enthusiasm carries the reader along.' Cora Beth Knowles, Classics for AllTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'All that rout of lascivious poets that wrote epistles and ditties of love'; 1. 'Ovid was there and with him were Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus': transmission, teaching and receptions of Roman love elegy in the Renaissance; 2. 'For truth and faith in her is laid apart': women's words and the construction of masculinity in Catullus' Lesbia poems and Thomas Wyatt; 3. ''Fool', said my muse to me': reading metapoetics in Propertius 2.1 and 4.7, and Astrophil and Stella 1; 4. 'In six numbers let my work rise, and subside in five': authority and impotence in Amores 1.5 and 3.7, Donne's 'To his mistress going to bed', and Nashe's Choice of Valentines; 5. 'My heart … with love did inly burn': female authorship and desire in Sulpicia, Mary Sidney's Antonie and Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus 1.
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F&W Publications Inc Smash Poetry Journal
Book SynopsisA Poetry Journal to Poem Your Days Away! Don't wait for inspiration to strike! Whether you're an aspiring or published poet, this book will help you get in a frame of mind to make creative writing a consistent part of your life. With prompts from Robert Lee Brewer's popular Writer's Digest blog, Poetic Asides, you'll find 125 ideas for writing poems along with the journaling space you need to respond to the prompt. • 125 unexpected poetry prompts such as from the perspective of an insect, about a struggle, or including the word change • Plenty of blank space to compose your own poems • Tips on unique poetic forms and other poetry resourcesPerfectly sized to carry in a backpack or purse, you can jot down ideas for poems as you're waiting in line for a morning coffee or take it to the park for a breezy afternoon writing session. Wherever y
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Harvest Bells
Book SynopsisA charming new collection of previously unpublished and uncollected poems by Sir John Betjeman.John Betjeman's unforgettable poems on landscape and suburbia, desire and death, faith and doubt, helped to establish him as the beloved voice of a nation. Yet the ten books of poetry he published individually, later assembled in the Collected Poems, were an incomplete representation of his poetic oeuvre. Many poems published in journals or magazines were excluded from Betjeman's books by him or his editors and a substantial number of finished poems were never printed at all, remaining unknown to readers until now.In this exquisite new edition of Betjeman's verse editor Kevin Gardner promises new treasures for Betj's' admirers the world over. Betjeman wrote many of these poems in the late 1920s and early 1930s, when he was still developing his unique poetic voice. They reveal a young poet experimenting with both Modernism and post-Romanticism, yet influenced by Shelley and PopeTrade ReviewKevin J Gardner has dug up 80 or so lost or neglected poems from the archives, which show the full range of Betjeman’s oeuvre over half a century. * The Sunday Times *A marvellous gathering of hitherto hidden Betjeman, varied and surprising. -- Anthony Thwaite, poet and editor of Philip Larkin’s 'Collected Poems'The Betjeman music, but satire, fear and dissonance are its vivid companions. -- Peter Scupham, poetTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Notes HARVEST BELLS: NEW AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS A.D. 1980 Ye Olde Cottage (Quite Near a Town) The Song of a Cold Wind A Sentimental Poem Sweets and Cake Dentist's Dining Room Sezincote Pastoral Incident A Squib on Norman Cameron Blisland, Bodmin Home Thoughts from Exile Work Popular Song Nine O'Clock Emily Wren The Tamarisks Sonnet Wisteria Branches A Poem by My Old Bear Archibald Harvest Bells Country Silence Channel Crossing Eighteenth-Century Pint Lerici 1930 Evangelistic Hymn Sudden Conversion Zion The Outer Suburbs St Aloysius Church, Oxford Charterhouse School Song London Spreading Satires of Circumstance The Heartless Heart's Ease: A Lament by Tom Moore The Most Popular Girl in School The Electrification of Lambourne End Edgware The Wykehamist at Home Tea with the Poets A Poet's Prayer On Miss E. Badger, 9 Beverley Gardens, Wembley Park, Middlesex, Who Sat Opposite to Me on the GWR, Ascension Day 1939 Big Business Chestnut Hair Clifton 1940 Order Reigns in Warsaw Prologue Specially Written for the 70th Anniversary Gaiety Theatre, Dublin To Uffington Ringers Rosemary Hall The Tailwaggers' Friend Margate, 1946 A Memory of 1940 Aberdeen In Overcliffe October Bells The Corporation Architect The Weary Journalist The Death of the University Reader of Spanish A Curate for Great Kirkby Clay and Spirit Not Necessarily Leeds The St Paul's Appeal The Divine Society Village Wedding John Edward Bowle 1962 Prologue Spoken by Peggy Ashcroft at the Opening of Peggy Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, 5 November 1962 A Good Investment St Mary's Chapel of Ease The Finest Work in England: I.K. Brunel La Cometa Moraira A Lament for Middlesex Castle Howard Lines Read at the Wing Airport Resistance Movement Protest Meeting, June 1970 Sonnet Revenge St Mary-le-Strand My Landlady's Dog Guyhirn Chapel of Ease St Bartholomew's Hospital Who Took Away... Lines on the Unmasking of the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Dawlish Notes on the poems Appendix A: A Portuguese Translation Appendix B: A Possible Attribution
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Transworld Publishers Ltd The Wild Track: adopting, mothering, belonging
Book Synopsis'A remarkable book...wise and arresting' Sarah Winman'Exquisite... a deeply insightful memoir which charts our fundamental longings for place and identity, and ultimately our yearnings for love.' Helena KennedySingle, in her mid-forties and having experienced a sudden early menopause, a realisation comes to Peggy quietly, and clearly: she decides to adopt a child. But the preparation is arduous and the scrutiny intense. There are questions about past lives, about capability and expectations.Asking big questions about identity and belonging, as well as about what makes a mother - and a home - this is a beautiful meditation on how the legacies of childhood might be overcome by a mother's determination to love.'Extremely moving...an unusually thoughtful take on becoming a mother, enabled by removing babyhood and biology.' GuardianTrade ReviewExquisite. Beautifully written, The Wild Track is a deeply insightful memoir which charts displacement and our fundamental longings for place and identity and ultimately our yearnings for love. -- Helena KennedyThis memoir is a triumph; an extraordinarily wise and rich analysis of what it means to belong, to a place and to beloved others. Deeply moving, richly allusive, surprising and thought-provoking, The Wild Track deserves to be one of the great successes of 2021. -- Bel MooneyA remarkable book. Wise and arresting in its candour. -- Sarah WinmanEnlightening...The Wild Track is a passionate, heartfelt exploration of a woman who wants to be a mother. I found it utterly compelling. -- Alex WheatleExtremely moving...an unusually thoughtful take on becoming a mother, enabled by removing babyhood and biology. A testament to the joy of finding home and belonging...the precariousness of the care system is painfully felt and it's this that makes Reynolds's book such a necessary contribution to the literature on motherhood. * Guardian *
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John Murray Press Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of
Book Synopsis'Making Darkness Light is an illumination' Adam Phillips'His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs' SpectatorFor most of us John Milton has been consigned to the dusty pantheon of English literature, a grim puritan, sightlessly dictating his great work to an amanuensis, removed from the real world in his contemplation of higher things. But dig a little deeper and you find an extraordinary and complicated human being.Revolutionary and apologist for regicide, writer of propaganda for Cromwell's regime, defender of the English people and passionate European, scholar and lover of music and the arts - Milton was all of these things and more.Making Darkness Light shows how these complexities and contradictions played out in Milton's fascination with oppositions - Heaven and Hell, light and dark, self and other - most famously in his epic poem Paradise Lost. It explores the way such brutal contrasts define us and obscure who we really are, as the author grapples with his own sense of identity and complex relationship with Milton. Retracing Milton's footsteps through seventeenth century London, Tuscany and the Marches, he vividly brings Milton's world to life and takes a fresh look at his key works and ideas around the nature of creativity, time and freedom of expression. He also illustrates the profound influence of Milton's work on writers from William Blake to Virginia Woolf, James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges.This is a book about Milton, that also speaks to why we read and what happens when we choose over time to let another's life and words enter our own. It will change the way you think about Milton forever.Trade ReviewMaking Darkness Light is elegant, nuanced, and comprehensive. Moshenska gives us a fresh and vivid account of Milton as an individual and a poet while pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional biography. Blending the personal with the historical and the literary, the results are compelling' -- Bart van Es, author of The Cut Out GirlJoe Moshenska's superb new biography of Milton is, like the poetry of his subject, a miracle of form, moving from moments of arresting detail to vast contemplations of time, history, and art, all set within an intimate narrative that is at once deeply embedded in its historical moment and aware of how that history connects through other moments to the present. The result is a stirring and compelling account of how great poetry gets written and gets read -- Edward Wilson-Lee, author of The Catalogue of Shipwrecked BooksMoshenska has written a new kind of literary biography. At once glancingly a memoir, a rivetingly informative biography, and a fascinating reading of Milton as poet, scholar and ordinary man in his everyday life, Making Darkness Light is an illumination. Milton and everything and everybody around him are seen in a quite different, intriguing light. -- Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and Becoming FreudJoe Moshenska is professionally committed to creating a readership for Milton among those for whom Genesis, Virgil, Homer and Tasso are closed books . . . A great imaginative exercise . . . His sympathetic yet challenging account will undoubtedly win Milton new readers - and for that a chorus of Hallelujahs -- A.N. Wilson, SpectatorStrikingly original . . . a poetic tour of 17th-century England . . . Literature lovers of all sorts will find something to savor here -- Publishers WeeklyOxford literature professor Moshenska takes a fresh perspective on John Milton (1608-1674), the art of biography, and the experience of reading . . . An inspired biographical and autobiographical journey -- KirkusMaking Darkness Light is unlike any book on Milton I have ever read. It is often densely erudite, but also richly inventive . . . [its] avoidance of easy certainties is typical of this subtle, challenging book -- John Carey, The Sunday TimesJoe Moshenska . . . is astute in placing music, especially rhythm (a word neither Milton nor Shakespeare used) and its visceral relationship to the body, at the root of this original, penetrating, cleverly constructed and occasionally frustrating biography -- Paul Lay, The TimesTantalisingly different and new...an extraordinary, seductive work of intellectual imagination -- Financial TimesMoshenska . . . brings his own experiences into this searching creative portrait of the visionary English poet. The book . . . comes alive in its alert close readings -- New York TimesMaking Darkness Light is not a conventional biography . . . despite the ambitious and demanding nature of his project, Moshenska writes with humility and agility -- Literary ReviewOf course, anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the facts of Milton's life and the context for his poetry will certainly find what they're looking for here. Making Darkness Light includes not only moments in Milton's life and the landscape of 17th century England as well as close readings of his work. But it's the exploration of what the author describes as one of Milton's deepest occupations, "the place of literature in a life," that sets the book apart. Moshenska has no aspirations to separate the biographer from the biography, and Making Darkness Light is richer for his presence throughout the book -- Jessie Gaynor, Lit Hub Senior EditorMoshenska knows his way around Milton's world... Making Darkness Light privileges us with a peek inside its author's mind in contemplation of such a life and makes a compelling case that it could be told in no other way -- Boston Globe
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Broadview Press Ltd Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meter, Verse
Book SynopsisThere are numerous introductions to poetry and prosody available, but none at once so comprehensive and so accessible as this. With the increasing emphasis on free verse, the past generation has developed a widespread impression that the study of poetic meter is old fashioned—or even that form ‘doesn’t matter’ in poetry. It is an impression that has not been dispelled by the emphasis of some of the existing texts in the area on forms that are now rare or outmoded. The irony is that simultaneously in the past decade interest in formal matters among many poets and literary scholars has been on the increase; the reality is that prosody is today on the cutting edge of literary studies.Stephen Adams’ text provides a full treatment of traditional topics, from the iambic pentameter through other accentual-syllabic rhythms (trochaic, dactylic and so on) and covering as well other metrical types, stanza structure, the sonnet and other standard forms. Adams also includes a variety of topics not covered in most other introductions to the topic; perhaps most significantly, he provides a full chapter on form in free verse. Moreover, he treats rhyme extensively and includes a comprehensive chapter on literary figures. Poetic Designs is thus much more that an introduction to prosody; it is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the nature of poetry in English. It is a book for the general reader and the aspiring writer as well as for the student, a book intended (in the words of the author) to help ‘heighten the experience of poetry.’Trade ReviewOne of the book's most salient strengths is how gracefully the author handles some of the knottiest problems a teacher of prosody will encounter. This is a very strong book." - Annie Finch, Miami University, Ohio."One of the most impressive features is Adams' mastery at introducing various intricacies as they surface in his examples instead of giving lists of rules and the like. Adams' writing style is impeccable, lucid and tightly controlled. He manages to get through a great deal of material quite quickly, without ever sacrificing accuracy and thoroughness." - Demetres Tryphonopoulos, University of New Brunswick"A very good guide to the subject, full of erudition, but also full of pedagogical savvy. There is a fine and informal ear evident throughout." - Don McKay, winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry"Adams offers help to students and teachers of poetry with his lively, accessible guide to the mechanics of verse. [His] clear and measured examination of the elements of poetry and straight-ahead style make Poetic Designs a valuable resource" - Quill and QuireTable of ContentsAcknowledgements1. Meter and RhythmTHE IMPORTANCE OF PROSODY / The Sound of Meter / Different Metrical Systems and Their Histories / The Meaning of Meter / THE ACCENTUAL-SYLLABIC SYSTEM / The Regular Iambic Pentamenter Line / Variation 1: The Reversal of Accent (Trochaic Substitution) / Variation 2: The Principle of Relative Accent (Spondaic and Pyrrhic Substitution) / Variation 3: Added Syllables (Anapestic and Dactylic Subsitution) / Variation 4: Omitted Syllables / SYNTACTIC RHYTHM AND THE LINE UNIT / Rhyme, Alliteration, Assonance and Onomatopoeia / Facility2. Beyond Iambic PentameterACCENTUAL METERS AND THE BALLAD STANZA / The Accentual Meters / THE LONGER AND SHORTER IAMBIC METERS / The Trochaic Meters / The Triple Meters: Anapestic and Dactylic / SYLLABIC AND QUANTITATIVE SYSTEMS3. Stanza and FormTHE DYNAMICS OF STANZA AND FORM: RHYME, LINE AND CLOSURE / Some Standard English Stanzas / Beyond the Single Stanza / Some Virtuoso Pieces / SOME STANDARD VERSE FORMS: FIXED AND NOT SO FIXED: The Sonnet / The French Forms / The Ode4. Figures of SpeechRHETORIC AND FIGURE / THE SCHEMES: Figures of Balance and Parallelism / Figures of Repetition / Figures of Amplification and Omission / Figures of Address / Figures of Syntactic Deviation / Figures of Verbal Play / THE TROPES / Metaphor and Simile / Metonymy and Synecdoche / Personification / Irony and Paradox5. Form in Free VerseLines: The Master Convention of Free Verse / Numbers: Metrical Presences in Free Verse / Figures: Syntactic Patterning in Free Verse / THE MARGINS OF GENRE: Shaped Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Sound Poetry / The Prose PoemAppendix 1: The Terminology of RhymingAppendix 2: Sample Scansions, with CommentaryIndex of SourcesIndex of Names and Terms
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Broadview Press Ltd The Alexandreis: A Twelfth-Century Epic
Book SynopsisWalter of Châtillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century “best-seller:” scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The poem follows Alexander from his first successes in Asia Minor, through his conquest of Persia and India, to his progressive moral degeneration and his poisoning by a disaffected lieutenant. The Alexandreis exemplifies twelfth-century discourses of world domination and the exoticism of the East. But at the same time it calls such dreams of mastery into question, repeatedly undercutting as it does Alexander’s claims to heroism and virtue and by extension, similar claims by the great men of Walter’s own generation. This extraordinarily layered and subtle poem stands as a high-water mark of the medieval tradition of Latin narrative literature.Along with David Townsend’s revised translation, this edition provides a rich selection of historical documents, including other writings by Walter of Châtillon, excerpts from other medieval Latin epics, and contemporary accounts of the foreign and “exotic.”Trade Review“In 1996, David Townsend published a very free but also very good verse translation of the Alexandreis by Walter of Châtillon, one of the most influential poems of the ‘Twelfth-Century Renaissance.’ This new volume improves upon the earlier translation; it also provides additional materials to shed light on Walter’s other writings, the twelfth-century Latin epic tradition in general, and the medieval Alexander tradition. Townsends elegant and readable English could be used with other translations in a course on medieval epic and romance. It could provide a focal point for students and general readers in understanding the image of Alexander the Great across time. The possibilities are legion.” — Jan. M. Ziolkowski, Harvard University“While the Alexandreis did much to shape the medieval attitude to history, this translation helps to define it.” — The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextThe AlexandreisAppendix A: Other Works by Walter of Châtillon Satirical and Moral Poems A Treatise Against the Jews (Tractatus contra Judaeos) The Rhythmical Life of Thomas Becket Appendix B: Latin Epic of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Bernard Silvestris, Cosmographia Alan of Lille, The Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae) John of Hauville, The Arch-Lamenter (Architrenius) Joseph of Exeter, The Ylias of Dares Phrygius Henry of Avranches, The Metrical Life of St. Francis (Vita sancti Francisci) Appendix C: The Medieval Alexander Tradition Quintus Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander the Great (Historiae Alexandri Magni) The History of Alexander’s Battles (Historia de preliis) The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle Anecdotes of Alexander from John of Salisbury’s Policraticus Appendix D: Twelfth-Century Images of the Foreign, Strange, and Exotic William of Tyre, A History of Things Done in the Territories across the Sea (Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum) Gerald of Wales, The Description of Wales (Descriptio Cambriae) From Wonders of the East (De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus) Select BibliographyIndex of Proper Names
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Broadview Press Ltd Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales (19th
Book SynopsisEdgar Allan Poe’s stories and poems are among the most haunting and indelible in American literature, but critics for decades persisted in seeing Poe as an anomaly, or even an anachronism. His works, with their bizarrely motivated characters and mysterious settings, did not seem to be a part of the literature of early nineteenth-century America. Critics realize now, though, that Poe was even more a part of the contemporary American literary scene than many of his more “nationalistic” peers, and that in much of his work Poe was making commentaries on slavery and Southern social attitudes, technology, the urban landscape, political economy, and other subjects.This Broadview Edition includes a selection of Poe’s poems, tales, and sketches in such diverse modes of writing as tales of the supernatural and psychic conflict, satires and hoaxes, science fiction and detective fiction, and nonfiction essays on literary and social topics. These are supplemented by a selection of contextual documents—newspaper and magazine articles, treatises, and other historical texts—that will help readers understand the social, literary, and intellectual milieus in which Poe wrote.Trade Review“Carefully selected, expertly edited, and judiciously annotated, James M. Hutchisson’s Broadview Edition makes an excellent introduction to Poe’s imaginative and critical writings. Though intended for classroom use, this exciting new edition will appeal to all readers who wish to deepen their appreciation of Edgar Allan Poe, the ‘bad boy’ of American literature.” — Kevin Hayes, University of Central Oklahoma“Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales brilliantly represents the best scholarly material on Poe, delivered in an accessible, conversational tone that will appeal to students. The contents run the gamut from Poe’s notorious and imaginative horror tales to his literary criticism. Moreover, James M. Hutchisson has included examples of Poe’s science fiction stories, detective tales, and the oft-overlooked satires. Instructors and students alike will benefit from this edition’s introduction, timeline, footnotes, and appendices, which help to place Poe within his literary and social timeframe, a consideration too often neglected.” — Amy Branam, Frostburg State UniversityTable of Contents Acknowlegements Introduction Edgar Allan Poe: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Texts Poetry Tales Appendix A: Social and Historical Contexts Appendix B: Literary Contexts Appendix C: Poe on Writers and Writing Selected Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition
Book SynopsisJohn Milton’s epic story of cosmic rebellion and the beginning of human history has long been considered one of the greatest and most gripping narratives ever written in English. Yet its intensely poetic language, now-antiquated syntax and vocabulary, and dense allusions to mythical and Biblical figures make it inaccessible to many modern readers. This is, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote in 2000, “a great sorrow, and a true cultural loss.”Dennis Danielson aims to open up Milton’s epic for a twenty-first-century readership by providing a fluid, accessible rendition in contemporary prose alongside the original. The edition allows readers to experience the power of the original poem without barriers to understanding.Trade Review[Dennis] Danielson … has fashioned a powerful pedagogical tool that is a gift to any teacher of Milton whatever the level of instruction." Stanley Fish, The New York Times, 2008Table of Contents Foreword Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V Book VI Book VII Book VIII Book IX Book X Book XI Book XII
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Broadview Press Ltd The Quest of the Holy Grail
Book SynopsisThe Old French Lancelot-Graal is an important but massive work, providing a place for King Arthur not only in the history of Britain but also in Christian history. This new translation of one section, the Quest of the Holy Grail, will be a flexible addition to courses on medieval literature or romance. The notes and guides are designed to help readers enjoy the text while appreciating its relationship to social and literary history. Appendices include translations of material from two of Chrétien de Troyes’s romances (Perceval and Yvain); translations from other parts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (the early history of the Grail and the conception of Galahad); and excerpts from apocryphal works (from French versions written at about the same time as the Quest).Trade Review“The Quest of the Holy Grail is a seminal work of medieval literature and still a constant source for allusion, quasi-proverbial citation, and even parody. The canonical version of the story is an early-thirteenth-century Old French prose romance, and Judith Shoaf provides a lucid and readable translation accompanied by an excellent learned introduction in which she situates the Quest in the history of medieval Arthurian romance and explains some of the key concepts of the romance for readers unfamiliar with medieval Arthurian romance and medieval Christian thought. This translation and introduction are clearly the best available for anglophone teachers of undergraduate (or high-school) courses in medieval romance, and scholars of Arthurian romance can learn much from both the introduction and the annotations to the text. This is a brilliant achievement that students and more advanced scholars alike can celebrate.” — Thomas D. Hill, Professor of English and Medieval Studies, Cornell University“Judith Shoaf’s new translation of the Quest of the Holy Grail is essential for anyone encountering the Quest either for the first time or after repeated study. Shoaf’s text surpasses earlier translations in accuracy and readability. Its explanatory notes, always illuminating, are helpfully placed at the bottom of the page rather than at the back of the book. Shoaf’s is the first English translation to include alternative conclusions found in manuscripts of the Quest. Her Introduction is as accessible as it is scholarly, guiding the reader expertly through the Quest, the chivalric and religious culture it portrays, and its place in the Vulgate Cycle and the Grail legend. The translation is richly supplemented with manuscript illustrations, an identification list of proper names, a genealogy of Galahad, and appendices featuring relevant passages from the Quest’s contexts in Arthurian legend and biblical apocrypha.” — Michael Twomey, Professor Emeritus, Ithaca CollegeTable of Contents The Round Table at Pentecost Galahad’s First Adventures Lancelot’s First Adventures Perceval’s Adventures Lancelot’s Adventures, Continued Lord Gawain’s Adventures Bors’s Adventures Galahad’s Adventures, Continued King Solomon’s Ship Galahad, Perceval, Bors, and Perceval’s Sister Lancelot Completes His Quest Galahad Completes His Quest Sarras Alternate Ending Appendix A: Chrétien de Troyes Perceval, or the Story of the Graal: The Three Grail Excerpts The Graal at the Fisher King’s Castle The Quest Is Declared Perceval and the Hermit Yvain, or the Knight of the Lion: Two Episodes Repurposed in the Quest The Serpent and the Lion The Two Daughters of the Lord of the Black Thorn Appendix B: Apocryphal Bible Stories From André de Coutances, The “Gospel of Nicodemus” Joseph of Arimathea after the Crucifixion The Harrowing of Hell The Tree of Mercy The History of the Holy Rood-Tree Jean Beleth’s Summary of the Legend of the Holy Cross Appendix C: Excerpts from the Lancelot-Grail Cycle History of the Holy Grail: The Nature of the Grail Object Joseph of Arimathea The Priesthood of Josephus Nascien and the Grail The Book of Lancelot du Lac: The Grail Procession and the Conception of Galahad Works Cited
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Broadview Press Ltd Pearl: Text and Translation
Book SynopsisThe fourteenth-century Middle English poem Pearl is one of the best dream vision poems ever written, yet its Language (the North-west Midlands dialect of late-medieval England) and literary allusions (to biblical, mythological, and medieval works) make it difficult for modern readers to understand. This new dual-Language of Pearl provides the original Middle English with a facing-page modern English translation. It includes a comprehensive introduction, annotations of key words and ideas, reproduction of the four manuscript Illustrations, a literary sourcebook, and lists of biblical sources, significant liturgical dates, and the concatenation words. Literary and biblical sources for the poem are provided as appendices.Trade Review“A riddling meditation on loss, grief, and the nature of faith, Pearl is a tour de force of language and a masterpiece of poetic form. Jane Beal’s achievement in this edition is to render Pearl accessible to a contemporary audience without evacuating the wonder that the poem inspires or the productive ambiguity through which it creates meaning. The introduction and contextualizing materials will be invaluable to students seeking to understand the poem’s cultural contexts, and Beal’sjudicious editorial work and facing-page translation illuminate Pearl’s slippery language while encouraging engagement with the original Middle English.” — David K. Coley, Simon Fraser University“Jane Beal’s edition and translation of Pearl will be a treasure for both students and scholars. In a thorough introduction that expertly frames the contexts and critical issues surrounding this singularly important poem, Beal also makes a compelling case for the value of having the original Middle English text alongside a student-friendly translation. Her close but graceful translation enriches the study of the poem for those who are not expert in Middle English, and the numerous footnotes that accompany the translation deepen our understanding of the Pearl-poet’s world. The edition also includes reproductions of relevant manuscript images, along with a wealth of key biblical and classical sources informing the poem. Beal’s edition will surely be a welcome addition to many university syllabi as well as an excellent resource for those researching the poetic gem that is Pearl.” — Randy Schiff, University at Buffalo, SUNYTable of Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction A Note on the Text Pearl Appendix A: Literary Sourcebook – Key Passages Parable Parable of the Pearl of Great Price Parable of the Treasure in the Field Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard Descriptions of Pearls From Pliny, Natural History From Albert the Great, De animalibus From Marbod of Rennes, De lapidibus From Bartholomæus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum From The Peterborough Lapidary From Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries Life of Saint Margaret of Antioch (from the Legenda Aurea) The Spring of Narcissus (from The Romance of the Rose) The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice (from King Alfred's Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, trans. Walter John Sedgefield) Dante Meets Matilda and Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise (from Dante's Purgatorio XXIX-XXXIII, trans. A. S. Kline) Pygmalion and Galatea (from Ovid's Metamorphoses) The Phoenix of Arabia (from Ovid's Metamorphoses) Origen on the Song of Songs The New Jerusalem (Revelation 21) Appendix B: List of Biblical Source Passages Appendix C: List of Significant Liturgical Dates Appendix D: Chart of Concatenation Words Select Bibliography
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Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. Why Longfellow Lied: The Truth About Paul
Book SynopsisPaul Revere''s daring midnight ride made him an instant celebrity, right? Wrong! At first, no one in Boston even wanted to mention it. Jeff Lantos pulls apart Longfellow''s famous poem "Paul Revere''s Ride" to unravel how and why he twisted historical facts.Do you know how historically inaccurate "Paul Revere''s Ride" is? And do you know why? Author Jeff Lantos pulls apart Longfellow''s poem, tells the real story about Paul Revere''s historic ride, and sets the record right. Not only that, he lays out when and why Longfellow wrote his poem and explains how without it, many of us wouldn''t know much about Revere at all. This is Steve Sheinkin for the younger set, complete with an American mystery and a look at two important moments in the history of our country.A 2022 ILA Children''s and Young Adults'' Book Awards Honor recipient
£15.29
IBEX Publishers,U.S. Walt Whitman & the Persian Poets: A Study in
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£85.00
Lehigh University Press James Thomson's The Seasons, Print Culture, and
Book SynopsisDrawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson’s The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions shaped reading habits. At the same time, through the addition of paratexts such as memoirs of Thomson, notes, and illustrations, it was recast by changing readerships, consumer fashions, and ideologies of culture. The book investigates the poem’s cultural afterlife by charting the prominent place it occupied in the visual cultures of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. While the emphasis of the chapters is on printed visual culture in the form of book illustrations, the book also features discussions of paintings and other visual media such as furniture prints. Reading illustrations of iconographic moments from The Seasons as paratextual, interpretive commentaries that reflect multifarious reading practices as well as mentalities, the chapters contextualise the editions in light of their production and interpretive inscription. They introduce these editions’ publishers and designers who conceived visual translations of the text, as well as the engravers who rendered these designs in the form of the engraving plate from which the illustration could then be printed. Where relevant, the chapters introduce non-British illustrated editions to demonstrate in which ways foreign booksellers were conscious of British editions of The Seasons and negotiated their illustrative models in the sets of engraved plates they commissioned for their volumes.Trade ReviewRanging widely without sacrificing what is an exhaustive analysis of single images, the book wears its encyclopedic knowledge lightly.... What distinguishes James Thomson’s The Seasons, Print Culture, and Visual Interpretation,1730–1842 and what will win it a broad audience is Jung’s salutary commitment to “reconnecting” book-historical inquiries to art-critical discussions of illustration or iconotext... This focus on both the technological and cultural contexts for book illustration will attract a broad, interdisciplinary audience... Fusing book history with art criticism toinvestigate the intersections of technology, marketing, and eighteenth-century poetic reception, Jung’s study promises to reshape the field of book illustration studies. * ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews *More than 100 reproductions, many from the author's own collection, make this book impressive as a labor of love as well as of scholarship.... Jung has made a significant contribution to Thomson scholarship and the history of eighteenth century book illustration. * New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century *Sandro Jung’s study of The Seasons is a fresh and stimulating history of the publishing and marketing of one of the most popular texts of the eighteenth century. But it is also far more than that. This book radically extends our understanding of the cultural and economic value of Thomson’s poem by investigating its visual readings and its complex cultural afterlife within and far beyond Britain as the poem’s imagery morphed across an astonishing range of visual arts, including engravings in books, prints, cartoons, ceramics, furniture, and music. The result is a persuasive demonstration of the intersections between technology, aesthetics, commerce, market, and reception. -- James Raven, University of Essex and Magdalene College, University of CambridgeHere is the writing of a fresh new chapter in the scholarship of The Seasons. Consideration of print, paratexts, pictures, price, and pocket diaries all make for the richest contextualisation yet of the production and consumption of James Thomson's poetic masterpiece from its first appearance to the early decades of the nineteenth century. -- Gerard Carruthers, Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgments Reading the Visual Paratext Editions of The Seasons: 1730–1798 Paintings and Prints Subscription Ventures, Pocket Diaries, and Up-Market Prints Editions of The Seasons: 1802–1842 Epilogue
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisThis stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, timeline, glossary, and correspondences between lines of the translation and those of the original texts. "A comprehensive Introduction with a light touch (Beckman), a poetic rendering with verve and moxie (Lombardo): This edition of the colossal Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic should satisfy all readers who seek to plumb its wealth and depth without stumbling over its many inconvenient gaps and cruxes. A fine gift to all lovers of great literature."—Jack M. Sasson, Emeritus Professor, Vanderbilt University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTrade Review"Stanley Lombardo’s new Gilgamesh weighs in at a slim 91 pages, including useful front and back matter as well as newly discovered segments from the middle of the story, the so-called Monkey Tablet. . . . Similar to other books produced by Hackett to serve study in liberal arts and humanities, Lombardo’s work is attractive without being ornate and is easily affordable for the college market. It is furnished with auxiliary materials to enhance the ability of a student (or a nonspecialist instructor) to contextualize and navigate an ancient and non-Western primary text. Gary Beckman's introduction is an excellent overview of the five-millennia-old literary tradition about Gilgamesh, legendary king of the historical ancient city of Uruk, and provides an account of the discovery and decipherment of cuneiform that is remarkably concise and comprehensible. . . . Additional material includes an 'About This Edition' section, a timeline, a glossary of proper names, suggestions for further reading, and a table showing how pages in Lombardo’s version correspond with lines of the original text. . . . Lombardo's contribution to the Gilgamesh tradition offers English-language readers a pleasurable, companionable, and rewarding entryway to a very long and ancient humanistic legacy." —Kathryn Slanski, Yale University, in Review of Biblical Literature
£13.29
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisThis stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, timeline, glossary, and correspondences between lines of the translation and those of the original texts. "A comprehensive Introduction with a light touch (Beckman), a poetic rendering with verve and moxie (Lombardo): This edition of the colossal Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic should satisfy all readers who seek to plumb its wealth and depth without stumbling over its many inconvenient gaps and cruxes. A fine gift to all lovers of great literature."—Jack M. Sasson, Emeritus Professor, Vanderbilt University and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
£33.29
Fulton Books Inconsiderate Bastard
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£9.45
