Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Bibliotech Press Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
£23.47
Dexterity Study Guide to Beowulf
£10.59
Dexterity Study Guide to The Romantic Poets
£15.19
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BLACK EAGLE BOOKS Kahanti Kabir
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BLACK EAGLE BOOKS Gopapura O Anyanya Kabita
£15.05
BLACK EAGLE BOOKS Odia Samalochana Sahityara Nabadiganta
£16.02
Black Eagle Books Kumara Sambhaba
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Black Eagle Books Sarjanara Urjana
£17.10
BLACK EAGLE BOOKS Within Her Home and Outside
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BLACK EAGLE BOOKS Brahma Kamal
£14.08
BLACK EAGLE BOOKS Akhiru Akhiku Jaha Dishe
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Elmcroft Publications Searching For Azaleas
£11.48
Wipf and Stock Leonard Cohens Book of Mercy
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Wipf and Stock Leonard Cohens Book of Mercy
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Lexington Books Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics
Book SynopsisTamil Dalit feminist poetry occurs in the nexus of caste demands and literary expectations based on Tamil high culture, as set in the literary conventions of both classical and contemporary aesthetics. Tamil Dalit feminist poets and their allies challenge literary expectations set for women poets as well as caste stigma. In Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics: Resistance, Power, and Solidarity, Pramila Venkateswaran argues that Dalit poets Sukirtharani, Arangamallika, Umadevi, Meena Kandasamy, and Tamil feminist allies, such as Malathi Maitri and Kutty Revathi, challenge the literary tradition of Tamil poetry by presenting their radical poems on themes based on their experience and witnessing the trauma of violence on Dalit women's bodies, thus placing caste and gender at the center of their work. They assert their subjectivity, offering us a feminist poetics that is rich with insights on the Dalit body, spirituality, music, culture, Dalit connection to land, and democracy. Their poems theorize women's experiences, using metaphor, symbol, folk idioms, as well as satire and irony to express feminist connectedness to all spheres of life. Replete with anti-caste resistance of language, form, and content, Tamil Dalit feminist poets reframe both feminism and contemporary Tamil poetry. Thus, Dalit feminist poetry and other cultural productions are vehicles for solidarity and democracy.
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Bloomsbury Academic Beyond Haiku
Book SynopsisCe Rosenow is Instructor in the Department of Writing and Literature at Lane Community College,.
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Bloomsbury Academic A Study of Intertextuality in Mohja Kahfs EMails from Scheherazad
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Academica Press The Making of Afro-Caribbean Consciousness and
Book SynopsisIn the context of a diversified and pluralistic arena of contemporary literature embodying previously marginalized voices of region, ethnicity, gender, and class, black poets living in Britain developed a distinct branch of contemporary poetry. Having emerged from a struggle to give voice to marginalized groups in Britain, the poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Dabydeen, and Fred D'Aguiar helped define national identity and explored racial oppression. Motivated by a sense of responsibility towards their communities, these poets undertook the task of transmitting black history to young blacks who risked losing ties to their roots. They also emphasized the necessity of fighting racism by constructing an awareness of Afro-Caribbean national identity while establishing black cultural heritage in contemporary British poetry. In this book, Turkish literary scholar Dilek Bulut Sar?kaya examines their works. Linton Kwesi Johnson's Voices of the Living and the Dead (1974), Inglan is a Bitch (1980), and Tings an Times (1991) open the study, followed by David Dabydeen's Slave Song (1984), Coolie Odyssey (1988), and Turner (1994) and, finally, Fred D'Aguiar's Mama Dot (1985), Airy Hall (1989) and British Subjects (1993).
£135.00
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Poet as Experiencer
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Cluny Media Spirit of Flame
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Lulu.com The History of My Family: William Butler Yeats's
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Independently Published Pazìnzia e distèin in Walter Galli: un grande poeta dialettale romagnolo
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ANGELA MAE MORRISON Every Day Poetry
£8.53
Barnard Publishing Empty Vessels
£10.00
Simon C.H. Lai The Game of the Dragon
£11.19
Wilfrid Laurier University Press Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries
Book SynopsisAvant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde production: ""Concrete Poetics,"" which accentuates the visual and material aspects of language; ""Language Writing,"" which challenges the interconnection between words and things; ""Identity Writing,"" which interrogates the self and its sociopolitical position; and ""Copyleft Poetics,"" which undermines our habitual assumptions about the ownership of expression. A fifth section commemorates the importance of the Centennial in the 1960s at a time when avant-garde cultures in Canada began to emerge.Readers of this book will become familiar with some of the most challenging works of literature - and their creators - that this country has ever produced. From Concrete Poetry in the 1960s through to Indigenous Literature in the 2010s, Avant Canada offers the most sweeping study of the literary avant-garde in Canada to date.Trade ReviewThis collection of academic essays and creative pieces takes an enthusiastic, engaged attitude to the unrolling of Canadian literature, starting with an intelligent introduction by editors Gregory Betts and Christian Bök [...] -- Derek Webster -- Canadian Notes and Queries, 2018Table of Contents List of Figures I INTRODUCTION 1 Gregory Betts and Christian Bök—Time for the Avant-Garde in Canada II PROLOGUE 2 Lisa Robertson—The Collective 3 Liz Howard—Against Assimilation I Rose into Poetry III THE CENTENNIAL 4 Kristine Smitka—The Sublation of Obduracy: Nationalism and the Avant-Garde Marketing of Beautiful Losers 5 Stephen Cain—""A Vision in the UofT Stacks"": bpNichol in the Library IV CONCRETE POLITICS 6 Julia Polyck-O'Neill—Words With(out) Syntax: Reconsidering Concrete Poetry: An Exhibition in Four Parts 7 Mike Borkent—Post/Avant Comics: bpNichol's Material Poetics and Comics Art Manifestos 8 Eric Schmaltz—A Field Guide to North Concrete: Identification Chart 9 Kelly Mark—National and Time 10 Kaie Kellough—Continents V LANGUAGE WRITING 11 Michael Roberson—Transformation or Resistance: The Kootenay School of Writing in Context 12 Kit Dobson—A Poetics of Neoliberalism 13 Dorothy Trujillo Lusk—Sleek Vinyl Drill 14 Erín Moure—Pillage 12 (""Anaximenes"") 15 Donato Mancini—If Violence (Hey You) VI IDENTITY WRITING 16 Myra Bloom—Messy Confessions: Sheila Heti's How Should a Person Be? 17 Sonnet L'Abbé—Erasures from the Territories Called Canada: Sharpening the Gaze at White Backgrounds 18 Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—caribou ghosts & untold stories 19 Lee Maracle—Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel 20 Annharte—cum cum how cum dat cums around even from behind VII COPYLEFT POLITICS 21 Katie L. Price—A ≠ A: The Potential for a Pataphysical Poetics in Dan Farrell's The Inkblot Record 22 Darren Wershler—Everyday Practice Before and After Conceptual Writing 23 Derek Beaulieu—Prose of the TransCanada 24 Moez Surani—1988 25 Dani Spinosa—Anxious Influence: Reading John Cage Theoretically VIII EPILOGUE 26 André Alexis—On Amanda PL's Cancelled Exhibit 27 An Interview with Jordan Abel—A Line Can Be Drawn IX AFTER MATTER Notes and Acknowledgements Bibliography About the Authors Index
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Iguana Books Finding the Right Words
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Asemana Books Hafez and Irony
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Lives of the Greek Poets
Book SynopsisMary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her classic study to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece's most famous poets. With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical data in the poets' own works and in comic poetry about them. Lefkowitz describes how biographical mythology was created and offers a sympathetic account of how individual biographers reconstructed the poets' lives. She argues that the life stories of Greek poets, even though primarily fictional, still merit close consideration, as they provide modern readers with insight into ancient notions about the creative process and the purpose of poetic composition.Trade ReviewThis second edition is enriched by references to recent studies as well as by deeper analysis. * L'Antiquité Classique (Bloomsbury translation) *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Hesiod Homer Eight Archaic Poets Solon Simonides Pindar Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Comic Poets Hellenistic Poets Conclusion Abbreviations Bibliography Notes Index
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Gracewing The Poems of Nakahara Chuya
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Modern Humanities Research Association The Shadow of Night and Ovids Banquet of Sense
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Bloomsbury Academic Trespassing in the Archive
Book SynopsisKristina Marie Darling is author of over thirty volumes of poetry, essays, and fiction.
£76.00
Open Book Publishers 'Wit's Wild Dancing Light': Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope
£34.15
Michael Terence Publishing When Nature Calls: Sea, Air and Land
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Legenda The War Poetry of Anton Schnack
£94.05
Modern Humanities Research Association The Shadow of Night and Ovids Banquet of Sense
£58.89
Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry
Book SynopsisA full survey and overview of the extraordinary flowering of Scottish poetry in the middle ages. The poetry written in Scotland between the late fourteenth and the early years of the sixteenth century is exceptionally rich and varied. The contributions collected here, by leading specialists in the field, provide a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the material. There are introductions to the literary culture of late medieval Scotland and its historical context; separate studies of the writings of James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and Sir David Lyndsay; and essays devoted to general themes or genres, including the historiographical tradition, religious verse, romances, and the legendary history of Alexander the Great. A final chapter provides bibliographical guidance on the major advances in the criticism and scholarly study of this poetry during the last thirty years. Contributors: PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, JULIA BOFFEY, JOHN BURROW, ELIZABETH EWAN, R. JAMES GOLDSTEIN, DOUGLAS GRAY, JANET HADLEY WILLIAMS, R. J. LYALL, ANNE MCKIMM, JOANNA MARTIN, RHIANNON PURDIE, NICOLA ROYAN.Trade ReviewOffers a comprehensive guide to early Scots vernacular literature. Illustrated with copious references, it should prove especially useful as a reference point for students and scholars from neighbouring disciplines.[...]This volume supplies a significant and rewarding introduction to the rich literary culture of late medieval Scotland. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *Can be recommended to students, and others, with confidence. There are indeed some wondrously good essays in it, and...others would do well to match its execution and quality. * INNES REVIEW *A welcome addition to the Boydell & Brewer Companion list. [...] Will be valued by students and scholars alike for its excellent contribution to the field of Scottish literature. MEDIUM AEVUM The most significant publication this year in the world of Middle Scots poetry. * YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES, 2008 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Poets `of this Natioun' - Priscilla Bawcutt and Janet Hadley Williams Late Medieval Scotland: a Study in Contrasts - `I will my proces hald': Making Sense of Scottish Lives and the Desire for History in Barbour, Wyntoun and Blind Hary - R James Goldstein `Mark your Meroure be Me': Richard Holland's Buke of the Howlat - Nicola Royan The Kingis Quair and other poems of Bodleian Library MS Arch. Selden. B. 24 - Julia Boffey `Of Wisdome and of Guide Governance': Sir Gilbert Hay and The Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour - Joanna Martin Henryson's Morall Fabillis: Structure and Meaning - Roderick J Lyall Orpheus and Eurydice and The Testament of Cresseid: Robert Henryson's `fine poetical way' - Anne McKim Religious Verse in Medieval Scotland - Priscilla Bawcutt William Dunbar - John A. Burrow Gavin Douglas - Douglas Gray Medieval Romance in Scotland - Sir David Lyndsay - Janet Hadley Williams Guide to Further Reading Index of Manuscripts General Index
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Salt Publishing Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court
Book SynopsisPoetry Wars is an account of the six-year battle at the National Poetry Society during the 1970s when this highly conservative institution and its journal Poetry Review were taken over by radical poets. The story is told from primary sources, including the Arts Council’s Records at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Eric Mottram Archive at King's College London, and the Barry MacSweeney Collection at Newcastle University, and from contemporary newspaper accounts. The story has never been made public before in documentary detail, though brief reference is often made to it in accounts of contemporary poetry, and anecdotes and hearsay about these events have been in circulation for over twenty years. The repercussions continue to reverberate, and struggles of the same nature continue in the Poetry Society and other cultural institutions today. The question of how an avant-garde ‘negotiates’ with the ‘centre’ it seeks to displace remains crucial, and this issue is of increasing importance to the study of literature and the arts in the twentieth and twenty first centuries.The book is in three sections: the first, ‘Chronology’ (chapters 1-5), tells the story of the events; the second, ‘Themes’ (chapters 6-9), considers the events from various thematic viewpoints, and includes a detailed chapter on the writing, teaching, and editing practice of Eric Mottram, and another on the characteristics of the ‘British Poetry Revival’ of the 1970s. The third section, ‘Documents’, reproduces a series of contemporary documents from the relevant archives, along with new summary data about the personalities involved.Table of Contents Foreword: Andrew Motion Preface: Robert Hampson Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction Chronology 1. The back story and moving in: 1951-1972 2. Editing under pressure: 1972-1975 3. The empire bites back: 1976 4. The Witt investigation: 1976 5. Endgame and aftermath: 1977-2005 THEMES 6. The ‘British Poetry Revival’: some characteristics 7. Eric Mottram as critic, teacher, and editor 8. The Poetry Society transformed 9. Taking a long view Documents Eric Mottram’s ‘Editor’s Note’ (1975) Manifesto for a Reformed Poetry Society (1975) The Manifesto of the Poetry Society (1977) Eric Mottram, ‘Editing Poetry Review’ (1979-80) Mottram’s appointment and extensions at Poetry Review Data on issues of Poetry Review edited by Mottram Outline Chronology of ‘The Battle of Earls Court’ The Structure of the Poetry Society Membership of the General Council of the Poetry Society Relevant UK Poetry Organisations in the 1970s Alphabetical Who’s Who Sources General bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Iqbal
Book SynopsisHere is a highly informative yet accessibly-written introduction to the life and works of the writer and political thinker Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), who as President of the Muslim League played a vital role in the birth of Pakistan, and is revered today as its spiritual founder. In discussing Iqbal's thought, and analysing his poetry and prose at some length, Mir suggests that Iqbal represents a paragon for modern Muslims, caught as they are between tradition and modernity. Iqbal's attempt to integrate Islamic and Western elements in his intellectual, artistic and political lives makes him a figure that Muslims may respect and emulate, since he declared his passionate loyalty to the religion of Islam while at the same time differentiating between the eternal, or essential, and the historical, or incidental, in the Islamic tradition.
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Humanities - Ebooks.co.uk The Fenwick Notes of William Wordsworth
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Humanities - Ebooks.co.uk The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth: v. 2
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Humanities - Ebooks.co.uk The Poems of William Wordsworth: Collected Reading Texts from the Cornell Wordsworth: v. 3
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Humanities - Ebooks.co.uk The Cornell Wordsworth: A Supplement
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Shearsman Books A Manner of Utterance - the Poetry of J.H. Prynne
Book Synopsis"A Manner of Utterance" offers a collection of responses to J.H. Prynne's poetry by his readers: not merely academics, but poets, composers, teachers and a painter (Ian Friend, one of whose works is featured on the cover). The contributors include Ian Brinton (also editor of the volume), David Caddy, Ian Friend, Richard Humphreys, Li Zhi-min, Rod Mengham, Keston Sutherland, John Douglas Templeton and Erik Ulman.
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Shearsman Books The Long 1950s: Morality and Fantasy as Stakes in the Poetic Game
Book SynopsisWhere poetry is dominated by amateurs, its key ideas are the ones that nobody owns. Underneath the glittering cavalcade of conscious and innovative art is another world of poetry without technique, protected from change. Can we find a history of what seems to be most inaccessible to time? Can we write a history of the unheard voices, articulate the unconscious and write a stylistics of the conventional? Most people who write poetry are untouched by theory and have no expectations of winning prizes. Is there a much deeper, inarticulate, pulse of style history, almost detached from reflexivity and concealed from view by an elite who write directly from theory? The 1950s now seem like a mystery, only remembered as the factory which produced all the rebels of the succeeding two decades. But its rejection of rhetoric opened the gates to the amateur poet, its existential preoccupation with authenticity gave the unknown poet a chit to justify writing for and about themselves alone. It seems as if the 1950s have never stopped. The return to them is an attempt to crystallise the unchanged, the underlying stock of linguistic practices which was damaged by all the changes that washed over it but was finally intact, indifferent, unlearning. A kind of safe world where dissidents didn't rush in to subvert the text at every minute and where there was a comforting shared feeling among literary people. An era of naivety, virtue-and Close Reading. Did Pop and protest poetry come out of the Church's inner crisis on discovering that urban youth had given up church-going and that its noble oratory seemed irrelevant to social issues? Existentialism looks at the concrete and close at hand and turns out to be looking at white goods, pass marks for the bourgeoisie. Inhibitions seemed to be part of the kitchen equipment. How would we recover such a history? Surely, by discarding names and isolating styles, entities recovered by emphasis from a vast amorphous mass of data. So we address the domestic anecdote, the Pop poem, the academic poem, the communalist poem, the Oxford Line, the late Christian poem. These foci allow us to define and reflect on what seemed to be transparent and anti-technical. They reach highlights, where we look at supremely gifted exponents of the styles. The mass of material is far greater than any classification can round up and frame. Looking for tensions within the material, we recover a break within the gatekeepers' rules. A trail through a static landscape leads to a legend about a crisis and the fall of a wall: an unmarked point during the 1980s where the restrictions failed to turn up for work and so the 1950s ended, giving way to a new regime of the 'post-modern' or 'deregulated'.
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