Literary studies: poetry and poets Books
Edinburgh University Press Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisThese comparative essays explore the shared terrain of these modernist women writers and shed new light on their 'curious & thrilling' literary relationship.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural
Book SynopsisWith an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this groundbreaking book merges phenomenology and ecocritical literary criticism.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press HolderlinS Philosophy of Nature
Book SynopsisThis collection of 15 essays by distinguished international scholars reconsiders what Friedrich Holderlin's work reveals about the impulses toward form and formlessness in nature and the role that poetry plays in creating Holderlin's 'harmonious opposition'.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Seamus Heaney Virgil and the Good of Poetry
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of Heaney's dialogue with Virgil, one of Seamus Heaney's major literary exemplars.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Writing the Field Recording
Book SynopsisThe 11 essays collected here take the recent explosion of interest in field recording as the point of departure for an investigation of the sounded field in music and its relationship to literature and writing.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism
Book SynopsisThe Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism.
£153.00
Edinburgh University Press Performing Robert Burns
Book SynopsisThis book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to the worldwide community of Burns enthusiasts, without compromising on scholarship.Trade Review"This book is a reminder that experiencing Burns has always been as much a voice or an event as pages in a book. In our time, as in his own, Burns is encountered as recitation, on stage and screen, in speeches, preeminently as song, and in the drama and debates surrounding new discoveries and new editions. Contributors to this imaginative new interdisciplinary collection bridge the divide between performers and scholars, with readable but authoritative short essays that will spark interest in all Burnsians and open up new directions for Burns research. " -Patrick Scott, University of South Carolina
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Philip James Bailey Festus
Book SynopsisFirst scholarly edition of Philip James Bailey's epic masterpiece in a readable, modern volume.
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press The Modernist Exoskeleton
Book SynopsisFocusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Modernism Edited
Book SynopsisModernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine makes visible Moore's contribution to the production of modernism even as it complicates the concept of editorial agency.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Lucretius II
Book SynopsisHuman suffering, the fear of death, war, poverty, ecological destruction and social inequality: Thomas Nail shows that Lucretius proposed an ethics of motion as simple and stunning solution to these ethical problems in his first-century BC didactic poem De Rerum Natura.
£16.14
Edinburgh University Press Specters of World Literature
Book SynopsisAt the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an other that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Rural Modernity in Britain
Book SynopsisRural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much if not more than urban and suburban areas.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Material Poetics in Hemispheric America
Book SynopsisThis book examines poets and artists in the Americas during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to show how they worked to make language into material objects and material objects into language.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Arabic Prose Poem
Book SynopsisHuda J. Fakhreddine explores the 'new genre' of the Arabic prose poem as a poetic practice and a critical lens. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Arabic Prose Poem
Book SynopsisHuda J. Fakhreddine explores the 'new genre' of the Arabic prose poem as a poetic practice and a critical lens. Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated.Trade Review"Huda Fakhreddine has given us a splendid apologia of modern Arabic poetry's decisive step into the future. Her impeccable critical voice brims with validating avant-garde conviction as she reveals the fascinating drama of a series of tensing manifestos of a new Arabic poetic modernism. The Arabic Prose Poem will remain as a milestone in Arabic literary critical studies." -Jaroslav Stetkevych, Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature, The University of Chicago
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Eliot and Becketts Low Modernism
Book SynopsisExplores the relation between humility and humiliation in the works of T. S. Eliot and Samuel Beckett.Trade Review"This is an exemplary work in the singular clarity of its argument, and the marshalling of its considerable primary and secondary resources." -Prof. John Higgins
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Secret Architecture of Shakespeares Sonnets
Book SynopsisThis book argues the idea that Shakespeare was deeply engaged with other poets and with pursuing a career as a poet, and that the organisational schemes of the Sonnets have been hiding in plain sight for over four centuries.Trade Review"Monte's The Secret Architecture of Shakespeare's Sonnets traces the historical milieu of Shakespeare's own aesthetic principle and thereby demonstrates the inseparability of form and context. This beautiful book attests to the importance of risking audacity in argument and interpretive practice even as it models the affordances of scholarly patience and care. " -Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press The Persian Prison Poem
Book SynopsisThrough a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia., offering an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity.Trade Review"Gould draws on history and political theory alongside comparative poetics to offer a brilliant new way of reading classical Persian poetry as a mode of political critique. This first-ever study of Persian prison poetry in English opens new frontiers within Persian studies through its lucid translations and refreshingly insightful analysis. The Persian Prison Poem will change how the prison poem genre is read - indeed, how genre in general is read - within Persian and world literature." -Muzaffar Alam, Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Philip James Bailey Festus
Book SynopsisFirst scholarly edition of Philip James Bailey's epic masterpiece in a readable, modern volume.Trade Review"Scholars of nineteenth-century culture will want to thank Mischa Willett for this beautifully curated critical edition of Philip James Bailey's Festus. Seldom read today, Festus was devoured by Victorian readers from all walks of life and was reverenced in literary circles. Willett's thoughtful introduction unfolds for us the magnificent strangeness, as well as the abiding interest of this remarkable work.? " -Charles LaPorte, University of Washington
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press NeoAvantGardes
Book SynopsisA systematic transnational investigation of post-war literary experiments in Europe and the Americas.Trade Review"Neo-Avant-Gardes provides nuanced critical perspectives on the resurgent avant-gardes active in Europe and elsewhere globally during the long 1960s". With particular focus on literary intermedia and experimental writing, the authors set out new directions in the theory and history of the neo-avant-gardes, beyond previous dismissals and defenses."" -Tyrus Miller, University of California, Irvine
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press Poetics and the Gift
Book SynopsisDiagnoses the Western poetic tradition's determinative association of poetry with giving.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Women Poetry and the Voice of a Nation
Book SynopsisA pioneering study of women poets exploring the four laureate roles of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press From Rumi to the Whirling Dervishes
Book SynopsisWalter Feldman traces the historical development of Mevlevi music and the spiritual legacy of Rumi. He brings to light the remarkable musical and mystical aesthetics of the Mevlevi ayin the instrumental and vocal accompaniment to the sublime ceremony of the 'Whirling' Dervishes.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Quintus of Smyrnas Posthomerica
Book SynopsisOffers a literary and cultural-historical analysis of the Posthomerica.Trade Review"As this splendid collection demonstrates, our times are suited to an appreciation of Quintus of Smyrna's epic, What Came after Homer, which might be called The Iliad: A Modern Sequel (with a wink to Kazantzakis). This volume is unquestionably the best introduction to its originality and complex relation to the past." -David Konstan, Professor of Classics, New York University
£28.49
Lexington Books Migrant Ecologies
Book SynopsisMigrant Ecologies investigates the ways in which Zheng Xiaoqiong's poetry exposes the entanglements of migrant ecologies embedded within local and global networks of capital and labor. The author contends that women migrant workers in particular, as portrayed in Zheng's poems, are the visible manifestation of the interconnections between the so-called factories of the world and slum villages-in-the-city, between urban development and rural decline, and between the local environmental degradation and the global market. By adopting an ecological approach to Zheng's poems about women migrant workers in China, the author explores what Donna Haraway calls webbed ecologies (49). The concept of ecologies serves to enhance not only the layered, complex interconnections underlying women migrant workers' plight and environmental degradation in China, but also the emergence and transformation of migrant spaces, subjects, activism, and networks resulting in part from globalization.Trade ReviewIn Migrant Ecologies, Zhou Xiaojing articulates the hidden intricacies and intimacies of gendered labor, mass migration, ecological devastation, rural decline, and worker resistance in China through her brilliant analysis and translations of Zheng Xioaquion’s poetry. This book makes an invaluable contribution to global ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, and migration studies. -- Craig Santos Perez, associate professor, University of Hawaiʻi, MānoaTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgments Introduction: Migrant Ecologies as a Site of Critical Inquiry Chapter 1: Vignettes of Material Memoirs: Toxic Environment and Women Migrant Workers’ Industrial DiseasesChapter 2: “Carceral Capitalism”: Factory Cities and Villages-in-the-CityChapter 3: The Other Scene of Globalization: Hollow Villages and Migrant Workers’ FamiliesConclusion: A Politics of Migrant EcologiesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author and Translator
£73.15
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry
Book SynopsisGiven that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the vitality and continued popularity of the movement today. As Willard Bohn demonstrates, Surrealism was not just a French phenomenon but one that eventually encompassed much of the world. Concentrating on the movement's theory and practice, this extraordinarily broad-ranging book documents the spread of Surrealism throughout the western hemisphere and examines keys texts, critical responses, and significant writers. The latter include three extraordinarily talented individuals who were eventually awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (Andre Breton, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz). Like their Surrealist colleagues, they strove to free human beings from their unconscious chains so that they could realize their true potential. One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry explores not only the birthTrade ReviewOne Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry is at once an anthology and a beautifully accessible handbook, providing guidance, insights and information on essential aspects of surrealist theory and practise. From automatic writing and objective chance to mad love and black humour, the topics explored are exemplified by astonishing poems and oneiric prose from French, Hispanic and Portuguese writers, all translated by Willard Bohn with characteristic flair and empathy. * Peter Read, Professor Emeritus of Modern French Literature and Visual Arts, University of Kent, UK and author of Picasso and Apollinaire The Persistence of Memory (2008) *With his characteristic clarity, as well as formidable aesthetic and linguistic breadth, Bohn has produced a major work for serious students and scholars of Surrealism. Using important examples from many different cultural and theoretical sources, he offers new, wide-ranging perspectives on the origins and later history of the movement throughout the world. He also presents close readings of several key texts, many of which incorporate, and often surpass, analyses published by some of the most influential critics (Riffaterre, Bonnet, Balakian, Jenny, Caws, Murat ) who have worked on these often mysterious, enigmatic works. I highly recommend it, therefore, to anyone working in comparative literature, art history, even film studies, thanks to his explanations of surrealist images in a variety of art forms. * Stamos Metzidakis, Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. André Breton and Automatic Writing 2. Revisiting the Surrealist Image 3. Paul Eluard and Surrealist Love 4. Surrealism and the Poetic Act 5. José María Hinojosa and Early Spanish Surrealism 6. Federico García Lorca 7. J. V. Foix and Catalan Surrealism 8. Portuguese Experiments with Surrealism 9. Octavio Paz 10. South American Surrealists Coda Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£23.21
Pan Macmillan Void Studies
Book SynopsisVoid Studies, Rachel Boast's extraordinary new collection, realizes a project that the French Symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud had proposed, but never written. Études néantes was to consist of poems written as musical études; these would not convey any direct message - but instead summon the abstract spirit of their subject. This 'impossible project' has been completed by Boast in the most astonishing way, and in doing so she has increased the expressive possibilities of poetry itself. These tone poems are indeed works of pure music - but despite their esoteric nature are by no means 'difficult' in the usual sense: instead they conjure the recognizable states, emotions, moods, ambiances and strange atmospheres that lend our lives meaning, and together comprise a kind of lexicon of feeling. Void Studies is an airy and beautiful book - one in which Boast has spun a pure music to both ask and answer the most profound questions poetry can frame.
£9.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Colourworks: Chromatic Innovation in Modern
Book SynopsisAs joint winner of the Gapper Book Prize, 2021, this new edition of Susan Harrow's award-winning study of modern French poetry and art writing offers a bold approach to studying the relationship between text and image. Exploring key questions such as how modern writers write colour, and to what extent critical thought on colour in visual media can illuminate the textual life of colour, Susan Harrow argues that colour is integral to the exploration of ethics, ekphrasis, objects, bodies, landscape and interiority in painting and poetry. The question of colour, in a variety of disciplines and media, has provoked debate from Aristotle to Goethe, and from Baudelaire to Derek Jarman. If the past twenty years have witnessed a ‘colour turn’ in contemporary cultural studies and screen research, colour values in literary and textual media are often elided or, simply, overlooked. Colourworks tackles this lacuna in the study of modern poetry and art writing in French, revealing the integral role of colour in the work of three iconic French writers in the modern tradition: Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Valéry and Yves Bonnefoy. This book spans the broad modern period from the 1860s to the early twenty-first century in taking an exploratory approach to the visuality of the verbal medium through an adventurous reading of text and image. Harrow uncovers how colour moves and morphs in texts as it challenges the traditionalist containments of chromatic symbolism. Beyond its primary area of investigation in modern poetry and art writing in French, this richly colour-illustrated study has significant interdisciplinary implications—conceptual, methodological, and practical—for the study of visuality in humanities research, from literature studies to material and visual culture studies.Trade ReviewHarrow brings her field up to date with a colour turn already well underway in anthropology and film and cultural studies, thus carving a new space for literary studies within the interdisciplinary humanities. * French Studies *This is a bold and intellectually ambitious project both in its scale but also in its agenda of bringing colour studies to the fore. Stimulating, convincing and supremely crafted…This is the culmination of many years of research, and the expertise, erudition and style on display are quite breath-taking. * The Society for French Studies, 2021 Gapper Book prize awards panel *A scholarly, detailed, in-depth investigation into how color is utilized in both poetry and art writing…As Harrow shows, color [sic], a seemingly simple word with obvious connotations, is far more complex than we realize. * Leonardo *Colourworks: Chromatic Innovation In Modern French Poetry and Art Writing by Susan Harrow is an immersive book analyzing color in modern French poetry and art writing ... The writing is dense at times but always maintains its own poetic air. * STC Technical Communication *Starting with Mallarmé’s ‘monochromes’, Susan Harrow takes us on an extended exploration of the colour worlds of modern French poetry, via Valéry’s greys down to the complex chromatics of Bonnefoy. Her study is a tour de force. * Christopher Prendergast FBA, Professor Emeritus of Modern French Literature and Fellow of King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK *Through a series of penetrating readings, Susan Harrow sheds fascinating light on the workings of colour when it is mediated through the poet’s words. The subtlety of this alchemical process finds eloquent expression in lucid analyses of Mallarmé, Valéry and Bonnefoy. Harrow’s interdisciplinary study offers a wealth of insights that prompt us to think anew about the affective, cultural, sensory and theoretical ramifications of colour and the myriad ways in which its textual articulation shapes our world. * Eric Robertson, Professor of Modern French Literary and Visual Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsList of plates Introduction Thinking Colour-Writing Part One Objects and Affects: Mallarmé’s Monochromes Colour Culture Red Bricks and Yellow Thoughts Making Modern, Moving Colour Displacements of Black Migrations of Blue White (Im)material Conclusion Part Two Matter, Metaphor, Metamorphosis: Valéry’s Intermittent Colour Valéry, Vanguard and Rear-guard ‘Carroty-Red Bits of Fibre’ and a Pink-Bristled Toothbrush Thinking Art and Writing Colour Resisting and Revealing Colour Sense and Sensuousness: Seascape and Landscape Ekphrasis: Figure and Fruit Chiaroscuro Modulations Conclusion Part Three Emblematic Chromatics and the Colour of Ethics: Yves Bonnefoy’s Lessons in Things The Dereliction of Colour The Equipoise of Grey Colour Incarnate Unbiddable Colour: The Ethical Turn Acts of Attention Ethics and Ekphrastics Interrupted White The Curve of Colour Conclusion Conclusion: Colour Moving Forward Bibliography Index
£24.99
John Murray Press Stronger than Death: Hart Crane's Last Year in
Book Synopsis'Poignant and fiercely intelligent, this is the best work of creative non-fiction I have read in years' FIONA MOZLEY'Profound, moving and courageous' NICHOLAS ALLEN, IRISH TIMESIn April 1931, modernist poet Hart Crane arrived in Mexico City. Between mood swings, dire financial difficulties, and a rotating series of personal estrangements, Hart was struggling to make the parts of a fragmentary world cohere. This move to Mexico was one in a long list of attempts to find security. In just over a year he would be dead.In July 1932, Grace Crane picks up the morning paper. Scanning the headlines, she is halted on page five. Her son's eyes stare back at her, tinted pink by the thin paper: 'POET LOST AT SEA FROM SHIP'.Hart Crane's death has accrued a morbid mythology, often overshadowing discussions of his work. In Stronger than Death Francesca Bratton focuses instead on Hart's vivid life and his turbulent final year among the vibrant artistic and political communities of Mexico City. Interwoven with Hart's story is that of his mother, exploring Grace's lifelong frustrated creativity and, after his death, her attempts to reach him through seance. Finally, the book explores Hart's legacy as a queer man and as a poet, informed by Francesca's responses to his work during her own periods of mental illness. Part-memoir, part-biography, Stronger than Death is a profound and lyrical meditation on grief, mental health, enduring love and the power of poetry.Trade ReviewBrilliant and unsettling . . . Bratton's observations of Crane, mental suffering and re-entry to the world as being like the sight of the white tip of a rolling wave, are profound, moving and courageous -- Nicholas Allen * Irish Times *Francesca Bratton is a brilliant writer on Hart Crane * Shane McCrae *I wholeheartedly recommend . . . this interesting, very modern and compelling, emotional reading of a poet's life -- Will Burns
£14.24
Little, Brown & Company The Strangers' House: Writing Northern Ireland
Book SynopsisNorthern Ireland is one hundred years old. Northern Ireland does not exist. Both of these statements are true. It just depends on who you ask. How do you write about a place like this? THE STRANGERS' HOUSE asks this question of the region's greatest writers, living and dead. What have they made of Northern Ireland - and what has Northern Ireland made of them?Northern Ireland is roughly the same size as the State of Connecticut, yet has produced an extraordinary number of celebrated poets and novelists. Louis MacNeice, too clever to be happy, formed by his childhood on the shores of Belfast Lough. C. S. Lewis, who discovered Narnia in the rolling drumlins and black rock of County Down. Anna Burns, chronicler of North Belfast and winner of the Booker Prize. And Seamus Heaney, the man of wry precision, the poet with the gift of surprise.As well as household names, Poots also examines writers who may be less familiar to an American readership. These include the dark and bawdy novels of Ian Cochrane, a celebrated raconteur obsessed with Columbo, and Forrest Reid, a man who saw Arcadia in the Irish countryside, and who was, perhaps, the North's first queer author. Reading the work of these writers together produces a testament to over one hundred years of literary endeavour and human struggle. THE STRANGERS' HOUSE is the story of how men and women have written about a home divided, and used their work to move, in the words of Seamus Heaney, "like a double agent among the big concepts."Authors and works discussed...C. S. Lewis - Surprised by JoySeamus Heaney - NorthAnna Burns - MilkmanLouis MacNeice - Autumn JournalForrest Reid - Brian WestbyDerek Mahon - A Disused Shed in Co. WexfordMichael Longley - KindertotenliederMedbh McGuckian - Drawing BallerinasPatrick Kavanagh - The Green FoolIan Cochrane - F for Ferg
£22.50
Red Sea Press,U.S. Violence And Trauma In Selected African
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£17.95
Red Sea Press,U.S. Introduction To Burkinabe Literature In English
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£21.21
The New York Review of Books, Inc Miserable Miracle
Book Synopsis'This book is an exploration. By means of words, signs, drawings. Mescaline, the subject explored.' In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. At once lacerating and weirdly funny, challenging and Chaplinesque, his book is a breathtaking vision of interior space and a piece of stunning writing wrested from the grip of the unspeakable.Includes forty pages of black-and-white drawings.
£15.29
The New York Review of Books, Inc Memoirs Of Montparnasse
Book SynopsisMemoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco’s memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the inevitable passage of time.
£15.29
Africa World Press The Mines Of His Mind: Critical Reflection on the
Book SynopsisA collection of rich ideas and commentary on the much celebrated African author Tayo Olafioye. Includes essential biographical information.
£25.46
Africa World Press Emerging Perspectives On Syl Cheney-coker
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£29.71
Toby Press Ltd To Stand and Serve
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£18.04
Lehigh University Press Genesis B and the Comedic Imperative
Book SynopsisReaders of Old English would generally agree that the poem Genesis B, a translation into Old English of an Old Saxon (that is, continental) retelling of the story of the Fall, is a vigorous and moving narrative. They would disagree, however, as to the meaning of the poem. Some hold that it reflects an orthodox Christian viewpoint and others claim that it assumes a distinctly unorthodox position in portraying Adam and Eve as not morally culpable in their disobedience but merely tricked into disobedience through the wiles of the Devil's agent. The study Genesis B and the Comedic Imperative, examining these incompatible readings, infers that the poem is essentially orthodox, that it demonstrates sufficiently the moral culpability of Adam and Eve, and that it departs from orthodoxy only insofar as it conveys a strong impression that Adam and Even will undertake what amounts to Christian penance, leading them eventually to Heaven. The poem thereby attains the happy ending typical of early medieval Christian narrative. Hence the titular "Comedic Imperative." The inference of orthodoxy follows as a nigh-inevitable conclusion of the interpretation of several motifs: the poem's culturally imbued martiality, its allegorical bent, and also what A. N. Doane noted as its tropological bent. The argument depends heavily upon philological inquiry and on examination of prevailing beliefs and attitudes of contemporaneous Frankish society, religious and civil, leading to the reinterpretation of crucial passages. Of these, most notably, is the passage in which Adam, in refusing the Tempter's invitation to eat the fruit, observes that the Tempter has given no tacen ‘sign’ as evidence that he truly is God’s emissary. Other passages that have impeded critical perception of the poem's significance are also examined, such as the notorious micel wundor clause (lines 595-98) and the pseudo-gnomic declaration swa hire eaforan sculon after lybban (623-35). In sum, Genesis B sustains the orthodoxy otherwise of the Junius 11 manuscript.Trade ReviewThis is a serious, highly polemical study by a distinguished scholar. Vickrey seeks to establish his view that the Anglo-Saxon poetic fragment known as Genesis B, dealing with the fall of Eve and Adam, was composed in conformity with the Christian 'happy ending' of human salvation from that original sin through Christ (this he terms 'the comedic imperative'). In particular, he seeks to discredit critics who espouse the 'exonerative' reading of the poem as treating that act as merely a lapse of judgment, while God remains a remote and inscrutable deity. Vickery argues with great plausibility, through much explicit textual citation and interpretation, that the poem has a tropological structure enabling it to represent the temptations of Genesis 3 and their consequences while reflecting the tribus modis structure of temptation (through suggestio, sensus, and ratio); the comitatus structure of early medieval Frankish and Germanic societies; and the doctrine of the 'fortunate fall,' with the correlative importance of the sign of the cross. . . .Vickrey decisively achieves his objective. Summing Up: Recommended . . . Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *Vickrey is at his best when he offers detailed analyses of subtle dramatic movements in Genesis B that arise from grammatical structures and semantic change. He explores themes of obedience, Anglo-Saxon martiality, the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon warrior ethos and vocabulary, the languages of visionary experience and cunning. His close readings reveal a sharp ear for modulations in tone, especially in dialogue, where he teaches us to hear the living voice as it cajoles, threatens, commands, and defies. At such moments, Vickrey makes his most convincing case for the poet’s largely unacknowledged wit. Throughout the book he also illuminates Genesis B’s historical and theological contexts in ways that modern critics should find instructive…. There is much to be learned from this book, the summa of the author’s lifelong study of Genesis B. * Modern Philology *Table of ContentsContents Introductory Note List of Abbreviations Foreword I: Deposition of a Dame II: Comedy, Wit, Tropology, Allegory III: Adamic Resolve IV: Adamic Failure V: Father of Lies VI: "God Was Himself a Warlord” VII: "No Fiend Here in the Realm" VIII: Dom Is Darker and Deeper IX: The Boda and Gottschalk X: Adam and Eve and the Light Notes Bibliography Index
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IRISH PAGES Irish Pages: the Classic Heaney Issue
Book SynopsisA hardback reprint of the classic Irish Pages issue on Seamus Heaney to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death on 30 August 2013. “So many people in Ireland and overseas read, admired, and watched him. The extraordinary degree to which Heaney was a creative and ethical exemplar, shaper, mentor, influence, and generous friend for his fellow poets and writers comes through especially powerfully in this book, with its 54 contributors from Ireland, Britain, the United States and further afield...” Including four last poems by Seamus Heaney, this truly commemorative volume is sure to sell in very large numbers. Sven Birkerts and Helen Vendler on the man and the poet. A Suite of Obituaries & Global Reminiscences by leading poets and writers in Ireland, Britain and the United States. Poems by Kerry Hardie, Michael Coady, Paddy Bushe, Kathleen Jamie, Katie Donovan, Seán Lysaght, Damian Smyth, Ignatius McGovern, John F. Deane, Francis Harvey, Michael Longley, Alan Gillis, Moya Cannon and Harry Clifton. President Michael D. Higgins on John Hewitt & Richard Murphy on poetry and terror. Writing in Irish from Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Cathal Ó Searcaigh and others. PLUS: “Seamus Justin Heaney 1939-2013”, a unique photographic portfolio by Bobbie Hanvey.
£999.99
Bloodaxe Books Ltd Quantum Poetics: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry
Book SynopsisIn this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity to learn what the poets themselves think about their own subject. Gwyneth Lewis's three lectures explore the connection linking form and politics with the content of poetry while exploring how each of these changes our understanding of time. She argues that the poet steers a path between making music and making sense - not at the level of the line, but in the deep structures of meaning which are poetry's terrain. The accuracy of what they say is just as important as its expression, both for their own well-being and for its worth to the reader. Taken together, her lectures begin to posit not the science in poetry but a science of the art form. 'The Stronger Life': Much has been made of the volatility of poets, which is largely a myth. Because it can be "confessional", poetry is often assumed to be therapeutic, but it can, equally, be toxic. The lives and work of poets are distinct but not unrelated. Using examples from Laura Riding and George Herbert, Gwyneth Lewis argues in this lecture that poets are more, not less resilient than the rest of the population. Looking at her own modern epic, A Hospital Odyssey, she questions how form is essential to health. 'What Country, Friends, is This?': Using Illyria in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as a starting point, this lecture explores language politics and writing, describing how far poets will go to negotiate safe passage between one and the other. Fluent in Welsh and English, Gwyneth Lewis reflects on writing in two opposed traditions at the same time and reflects on what light the work of poets such as Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Anne Carson, among others, throws on the nature of poetry as a whole. 'Quantum Poetics': Form is the science of poetry. Because of its peculiar relationship with time, poetry's history isn't linear. Language works with a quantum indeterminacy. With special reference to the early Welsh tradition's extreme formalism, Gwyneth Lewis discusses in this lecture how what seems like ornament conjures probability waves into being, adding an extra, unheard, dimension to the sound of metre.
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Bloodaxe Books Ltd About Poems: and how poems are not about
Book SynopsisIn this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the university. The lectures are then published in book form by Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity to learn what the poets themselves think about their own subject. Anne Stevenson argues that change is time's one permanent condition, that it continually transforms the present into the past at the very moment it opens the future to further change. She also argues that without an understanding of how poetry has re-invented itself through its history, today's present innovations are likely to remain rootless and unnourished. Drawing on lines from her own poem, 'The Fiction Makers' - 'They thought they were living now/ But they were living then' - Stevenson traces the theories, fashions and beliefs of modern poets in America and Britain since the 1930s (the span, in fact, of her own lifetime). Giving special attention to the voices of T.S.Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop and Wallace Stevens, she shows how, after World War II, populist movements in the United States rose up against a university-based establishment, introducing a barbarian energy into the art while at the same time destroying its solid base in traditional rhythm and form. Each lecture features poets she considers to be among the most effective of their kind, ranging from W.B. Yeats, Robert Lowell and Richard Wilbur, to Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and Denise Levertov. In her final lecture, she quotes extensively from friends and contemporaries recently deceased: G.F. Dutton, Frances Horovitz, William Martin, and finishing with a tribute to the voice and ear of Seamus Heaney. To the three texts of her 2016 Newcastle/Bloodaxe Lectures Stevenson has conjoined additional essays originally given as talks in the Chapel of St Chad's College in the University of Durham. These have mainly to do with rhythms and sounds rather than with subject-matter, arguing that, until very recently, it was a defining virtue of poetry not to be about anything that could better or more clearly be said in prose.Finally Stevenson, having had a number of second thoughts about Bitter Fame, her biography of Sylvia Plath (1989), includes a talk on this American poet's astonishing gift and tragic life, first given at Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2013.Trade ReviewAnne Stevenson’s writing on poetry is generous, judicious and not without its asperities. In About Poems (And how poems are not about), which brings together her 2016 Newcastle/Bloodaxe lectures and other recent addresses on poetry, she charts an idiosyncratic path from the formalism of the 1950s to the predominantly free verse of a more egalitarian age. She does so with an authority derived from having read, written and thought about poetry for over sixty years… It should not need saying that Anne Stevenson’s precepts come from practice: it is hard to think of many contemporary poets whose work is based on more solid foundations or shows more promise of longevity. -- Roger Caldwell * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Poems for the Voice and Ear 2 The Anthology as Manifesto 1960-1980 3 What is Poetry? 4 How to Read Poetry 5 Affinities: Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop 6 Epiphanies: Among the Poems of Wallace Stevens 7 Sylvia Plath: The Illusion of a Greek Necessity
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Poetry Wales Press In Her Own Words
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Omnibus Press Adrian Henri: I Want Everything To Happen!
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC European Competition Law Annual 2001: Effective
Book SynopsisThe European Competition Law Annual 2001 is the sixth in a series of volumes following the annual workshops on EU Competition Law and Policy held at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University in Florence. The volume reproduces the materials of the roundtable debate that took place at the sixth edition of the Workshop (1-2 June 2001),which examined the conditions for an effective private enforcement of EC antitrust rules. The application of EC antitrust rules in the context of private litigation before national courts and arbitration tribunals is becoming a highly topical subject against the background of the on-going debate about the decentralisation of EC antitrust enforcement. The participants - a group of senior representatives of the Commission, national judges, arbitrators, renowned academics and international legal experts in the field of antitrust - discussed in particular the following aspects: a) the availability and effectiveness of substantive remedies in the enforcement of EC antitrust rules at the EU level in general and in four major EU jurisdictions in particular (England, France, Italy and Germany); b) the procedural issues arising in the enforcement of EC antitrust rules by national courts in four EU jurisdictions (England, France, Italy and Germany) and at the EU level in general; c) the problems arising in the application of Article 81(3) EC by arbitration tribunals. In addition to these issues, the participants also discussed whether the public enforcement of EC antitrust rules could be rendered more efffective by introducing sanctions applicable to the individuals responsible for their violation.Table of ContentsList of Sponsors Table of Cases INTRODUCTION PANEL ONE: SUBSTANTIVE REMEDIES 1. Introductory Statement by Commissioner Mario Monti Panel Discussion 2. Working Papers I. Walter van Gerven II. Clifford A. Jones III. Jeremy Lever,QC IV. Antoine Winckler V. Jurgen Basedow VI. Marina Tavassi PANEL TWO: PROCEDURAL ISSUES 1. Discussion 2. Working Papers I. Francis G. Jacobs and Thomas Deisenhofer II. Justice Hugh Laddie III. Chantal Momege and Laurence Idot IV. Karsten Schmidt V. Giuseppe Tesauro PANEL THREE: ARBITRATION COURTS 1. Discussion 2. Working Papers I. Laurence Idot II. Yves Derains III. Carl Baudenbacher IV. Assimakis P. Komninos PANEL FOUR: CRIMINAL SANCTIONS 1. Discussion 2. Working Papers I. Wouter P. J. Wils II. Manfred Zuleeg BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Trent Editions Starting to Explain: Essays on Twentieth Century
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of
Book SynopsisFor readers of West Indian literature, a study of Eric Roach requires no justification. He is the most significant poet in the English-speaking Caribbean between Claude McKay (who spent nearly all of his life abroad) and Derek Walcott. Roach would be celebrated as the leading poet of Trinidad, were he not overshadowed by Walcott, a native of Saint Lucia strongly associated with Trinidad. Roach began publishing in the late 1930s and continued, with a few interruptions, until 1974, the year of his suicide. His career thus spans an extraordinary period of Anglophone Caribbean history, from the era of violent strikes that led to the formation of most of the region's political parties, through the process of decolonization, the founding and subsequent failure of the Federation of the West Indies (1958-1962), and the coming of Independence in the 1960s. This book presents a critical analysis of all of Roach's published poetry, but it presents that interpretation as part of a broader study of the relations between his poetic activity, the political events he experienced (especially West Indian Federation, Independence, the Black Power movement, the "February Revolution" of 1970 Trinidad), and the seminal debates about art and culture in which he participated. Laurence Breiner establishes Roach's particular importance in his thinking about the relation between poetry as 'High Art' and the products and elements of popular culture, and his sense of the place of the folk, their language and customs in Caribbean life. Throughout his career, as the study establishes, Roach steadily reflected on the salient issues of West Indian life in poetry of vigor and authority. Breiner shows persuasively that Roach's poetry was impressively crafted and worthy of discussion in its own right, but he argues that it is especially valuable because of its engagement with the events and forces that shaped the societies of the contemporary Caribbean. By exploring his work within its conditions, this book aims above all to confirm Roach's rightful place among West Indian and metropolitan poets of comparable gifts and accomplishments.
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Peepal Tree Press Ltd Tourist, Traveller, Troublemaker: Essays on
Book SynopsisThis isn't a conventional book of academic essays, though these pieces on Caribbean, African, British and American poets are always scholarly and intellectually rigorous. They are particularly rewarding as the work of a practicing poet writing about those of his peers whose work he admires. There are essays on major Caribbean figures, on Walcott, Brathwaite and Martin Carter, and on the major African poets Niyi Osundare, Jack Mapanje and Femi Oyebode, but there are also pieces on less well-known poets such as Frank Collymore, Ian McDonald and James Berry that, without any agenda, bring to view work that ought to be taken far more seriously. As the editor of major anthologies of Caribbean poetry, Stewart Brown is more than usually aware of the new directions that Caribbean poetry has taken, and pieces on Olive Senior, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Kwame Dawes indicate some of these.How other societies are perceived has long been a preoccupation of Stewart Brown's own poetry and critical writing, and essays on the work of poets who have travelled frame this collection. Here he explores his own and other writers' work to make distinctions between the discourses of tourist, traveller and troublemaker.One subtext of the collection is a mistrust of the academic industry of postcolonial criticism. Here it is always the poem that matters (although the essays are alert to social, political and cultural contexts) and the emphasis is on close and sensitive reading rather than theory. A good many of these essays began as papers for oral delivery. One of their great pleasures is that they retain a flavour of the speaking voice: enthusiastic, generous and respectful of the presence of listeners, and now readers.Stewart Brown is the editor of several major anthologies as well as critical studies of Derek Walcott, Kamau Brathwaite and Martin Carter.
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