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Cornell University Press The Mute Immortals Speak PreIslamic Poetry and
Book SynopsisThe Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature...Trade Review"The Mute Immortals Speak will be of interest to anyone seriously interested in Islam. It should also engage a wide, interdisciplinary audience through its demonstration that at the heart of the qasidah and its satellite genres is a central human dilemma involving human identity, conflict, belonging, and community."-International Journal of Middle East Studies "In this analysis of the great Arabic language classics, the pre-Islamic ode, or qasidah, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych ventures into such various fields as anthropology, religion, gender studies, history, philology, and folklore to augment her effectiveness as a literary theorist. Combining insights gleaned using the tools of these many disciplines, she has produced a brilliantly original and thought provoking analysis... By giving voice to the mute immortals, Stetkevych has made these pre-Islamic masterworks accessible to a wider readership. In shedding much-needed light on these poems, the ethos of which has suffused the Arabic literary tradition since the beginning of Islam, Stetkevych has opened a door to understanding the Arab world."-American AnthropologistTable of ContentsForeword by Gregory NagyPrefacePART ONE: PRESENTING THE RITUAL PARADIGM1. Voicing the Mute Immortals: The Mu'allaqah of Labid and the Rite of Passage2. Eating the Dead / The Dead Eating: Blood Vengeance as SacrificePART TWO: THE PARADIGM OF PASSAGE MANQUÈ3. Ta'abbata Sharran and Oedipus: A Paradigm of Passage Manqué4. Archetype and Attribution: AI-Shanfara and the Lamiyyat al-'ArabPART THREE: ORALITY AND GENDER IN THE ELEGY5. The Obligations and Poetics of Gender: Women's Elegy and Blood Vengeance6. Memory Inflamed: Muhalhil ibn Rabi'ah and the War of al-BasusPART FOUR: THE MASTER POEM7. Regicide and Retribution: The Mu'allaqah of Imru' al-QaysAppendix of Arabic TextsWorks CitedIndex
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Cornell University Press Mallarm233 The Poet and His Circle
Book SynopsisUpon his death in 1898, the French Symbolist poet Stephane Mallarmé (b. 1842) left behind a body of published work which though modest in quantity was to have a seminal influence on subsequent poetry and aesthetic theory. He also enjoyed an...Trade ReviewAn extremely thoughtful and well-documented new study, a book that sheds as much light on the cultural dynamics of the fin-de-siecle as it does on the aesthetics, ethics, and personality of Mallarmé himself.... In the end, Lloyd skillfully demonstrates that Mallarmé's correspondence holds much hidden significance. * French Forum *Lloyd's richly insightful study focuses on the way Mallarmé's correspondence with his friends and acquaintances (his circle) sheds light on the process of poetic composition.... Lloyd's style is elegant rather than artful, and the erudition of the author, while understated, is apparent on every page. * French Review *The book places Mallarmé within the blazing late-19th-century Parisian artistic ferment and offers credible looks at the origins of his endlessly complicated and beautiful work. * Publishers Weekly *Rosemary Lloyd's book stands out among recent publications on Mallarmé for its readability and its intimate portrait of the poet in the context of his times. * The European Legacy *This articulate literary biography... sheds new and important light on Mallarmé's own poems and essays.... An important addition to large public as well as scholarly collections,... this volume will be a sine qua non for any library supporting serious study in poetry, art, and music of late 19th-century France. Endnotes, a substantial bibliography, a useful index, and excellent print, paper, and binding add to the book's value. * Choice *Throughout her book Lloyd segues gracefully from the poet's life and milieu to his poems, always matched with her first-rate translations and subtle explications. While insisting on the everyday simplicity of Mallarmé's symbols (mirrors, sunsets, vases) she never tries to explain away the poems' irreducible complexity. This is biographical criticism of the highest order; it is also an absorbing portrait of a dazzling subculture. * Times Literary Supplement *
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Cornell University Press The Allegory of Female Authority
Book SynopsisThe first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work...Trade ReviewThe Allegory of Female Authority eleborates the case for the uniqueness and relevance of Christine de Pizan and her work and for bringing both 'the problem of the author' and the reexamination of medieval texts closer to current centers of critical and theoretical attention. * Speculum *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Homer
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEdwards makes reading Homer exciting and meaningful. He's alert to every aspect of his subject, including the problem of translations. His book is an indispensable companion for anyone keen on drawing from this great source of wisdom and delight. Christian Science MonitorTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Characteristics of Homeric PoetryChapter 1. The Bard, Oral Poetry, and Our Present TextChapter 2. Narrative: The Poet's VoiceChapter 3. LanguageChapter 4. Meter and FormulaeChapter 5. Word Order and EmphasisChapter 6. Story Patterns and Use of MythChapter 7. Type-Scenes and ExpansionChapter 8. Battle ScenesChapter 9. DescriptionChapter 10. Speeches, Soliloquies, and CharacterizationChapter 11. Paradigms and AphorismsChapter 12. SimilesChapter 13. MetaphorsChapter 14. SymbolismChapter 15. SoundChapter 16. Word Play and Significant NamesChapter 17. gods, Fate, and MortalityChapter 18. Personification and PsychologyChapter 19. Honor, Proper, Behavior, and WarfareChapter 20. History and SocietyPart II. CommentariesChapter 21. Iliad Book 1Chapter 22. Iliad Book 3Chapter 23. Iliad Book 6Chapter 24. Iliad Book 9Chapter 25. Iliad Book 13Chapter 26. Iliad Book 14Chapter 27. Iliad Book 16Chapter 29. Iliad Book 22Chapter 30. Iliad Book 24Afterword: The World-view of HomerBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe
Book SynopsisRenza, Shawn Rosenheim, and Laura Saltz.Trade Review"Avoiding the mere Frenchification of Poe that was dominant in the eighties, on the one hand, but, on the other, steadfastly refusing to return to the traditional formalist and thematic style which never really accounted for the French Poe, these essays make a wonderful case for a vitally social Poe--returning him home again, but with a difference that makes all the difference. They do so because their authors are at once theoretically current and widely experienced with the American canon. And they do so, even more, because they are quality essays, valuable individually as well as collectively."--Kenneth Dauber, State University of New York, Buffalo
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Body of Beatrice
Book SynopsisHarrison's elegant poems follow in the steps of his work on interpreting the classic "Divine Comedy"by Dante. (Poetry)Trade ReviewThe quality and intensity of Harrison's attention, and the subtlety with which his argument gradually unfolds, makes The Body of Beatrice as compelling and pleasurable to read as a fine work of fiction... The best book on the Vita Nuova I have ever read. SpeculumTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsEditions and TranslationsIntroduction: Critical DifferencesPart I. Beatrice AliveChapter One. Dante's DreamChapter Two. The Ideal LyricChapter Three. Figures of LoveChapter Four. The Ghost of Guido CalvalcantiPart Two. Beatrice DeadChapter Five. The Death of Beatrice and the Petrarchan AlternativeChapter Six. Beyond the LyricChapter Seven. The Narrative BreakthroughChapter Eight. Vision and Revision: The Provisional Essence of the Vita NuovaEpilogueNotesIndex of Passages CitedGeneral Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Odyssey
Book SynopsisLouden's comprehensive achievement gives the reader a fresh perspective on the role of divine hostility and the artistry of an epic survivor on his timeless journey home.Trade ReviewOften illuminating... The reader will find much to welcome. -- Matthew Clark Phoenix
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University of Toronto Press Chaucers Pardoners Prologue and Tale
Book SynopsisThe Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale.
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University of Toronto Press The White Savannahs
Book SynopsisThe White Savannahs, originally published in 1936, is the first study of Canadian poetry from a modern point of view. It contains essays on Archibald Lampman, Marjorie Pickthall, E.J. Pratt, Leo Kennedy, A.M. Klein, A.J.M. Smith, F.R. Scott, Marie Le Franc, and Dorothy Livesay. The contributions are based on a series of analytical essays originally published in the Canadian Forum and in the University of Toronto Quarterly. Professor Collin's work added much to the establishment of a new climate of opinion among readers and publishers of poetry in Canada.
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University of Toronto Press Saul and Selected Poems
Book SynopsisSaul and Selected Poems is an original and useful introduction to the work and poetic personality of Charles Heavysege (1816-76), an important but currently neglected nineteenth-century Canadian writer. Heavysege was handicapped by a limited education and a lack of public support, yet nonetheless established himself in Great Britain and America as the 'leading intellect of [the] Dominion' in a period when native literature was scantily regarded. His struggle to express himself and to find an audience for his work mirrors the dilemma of the émigré writer of his time.Heavysege's work is related in this volume to the early nineteenth-century English revival of poetic drama, and seen in the context of the Canadian cultural milieu of the 1860s. Saul is a powerful presentation of the tormented soul caught in a world of order and universal degree. Its main interest is to be found in the psychological frankness - Saul's recognition of his demon resonates with the deeper impl
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MY - University of Toronto Press Xenophanes of Colophon
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University of Toronto Press Catullus
Book SynopsisThis work contains a major revision of Douglas Thomson''s Catullus: A Critical Edition (1978), with the addition of a full commentary and a wholly new introduction. For the introduction and for each of the poems there is an extensive and current bibliography.In the introduction, apart from sections on the life of Catullus, on the arrangement of the poems, and on their literary background, there is a lengthy discussion of the history of the text, as well as a review of the progress of Catullan studies from the editio princeps to the present day.There are about seventy changes from the previous edition in the text of the poems. The critical apparatus has also been extensively revised. In addition, the Table of Manuscripts, which has come to be regarded as standard, has been updated without alteration to the numbering sequence.Though this is not primarily intended as a ''school edition,'' the commentary includes, in addition to critical judgments, traTrade Review'Thomson is a most reliable and sympathetic guide to the poet. In addition to issues of text, he is especially concerned with matters of language and structure ... Here a well-known poem appears in a new light, and this is characteristic of the very considerable achievement of this edition. Thomson has made a significant contribution to the study of Latin poetry by producing a freshly considered and sharply illuminated text of Catallus that is founded upon the sound practice of philology.' -- Christopher G. Brown University of Toronto Quarterly
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MY - University of Toronto Press Sounding Objects
Book SynopsisOften abstracted by the aesthetic implications of music itself, musical instruments can be seen as physical signifiers apart from the music that they produce. In Sounding Objects, Carla Zecher studies the representation of musical instruments in French Renaissance poetry and art, arguing that the efficacy of these material objects as literary and pictorial images was derived from their physical characteristics and acoustic properties, as well as from their aesthetic product.Sounding Objects is concerned with ways in which musical culture provided poets with a rich, nuanced vocabulary for reflecting on their own art and its roles in courtly life, the civic arena, and salon society. Poets not only depicted the world of musical practice but also appropriated it, using musical instruments figuratively to establish their literary identities. Drawing on music treatises and archival sources as well as poems, paintings, and engravings, this unique study aims to enrich our unTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Of Strings, Trumpets, and the Future of French Poetry Musical Rivalries Musical Instruments, Governance, and Oratory The Anatomy of the LuteEpilogueNotes Bibliography Index
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MY - University of Toronto Press Snorri Sturluson and the Edda
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University of Nebraska Press The Poetry of Ezra Pound
Book SynopsisAn examination of the Cantos and other major works that would strongly influence the course of contemporary poetry.Trade Review"An indispensable text for the student of modern literature in any of its manifestations."—New Yorker"Mr. Kenner has gone far to achieve what he set out to do, make the reader see Mr. Pound as a poet possibly great and certainly important to our time."—Bonamy Dobrée, Spectator"The book contains numerous quotations from Ezra Pound's works and gives some excellent examples of the gusto and vitality of Pound's dealing with ideas."—Serge Hughes, Commonweal"Kenner's work of gathering the essential statement of [Pound's] intelligences merits the serious attention of those still supple enough to accept the demands of a difficult beauty."—J. H. Edwards, San Francisco Chronicle
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Ohio University Press Zen Poetry the Art of Lucien Stryk
Book SynopsisLucien Stryk has been a presence in American letters for almost fifty years. Those who know his poetry well will find this collection particularly gratifying. Like journeying again to places visited long ago, Stryk’s writing is both familiar and wonderfully fresh.For
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Ohio University Press A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke
Book SynopsisThis timely and accessible companion to the work of twentieth-century American poet Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) gathers essays that illuminate his poetics, themes, and the contexts of his poems through the diverse critical approaches that have emerged in the past five decades.Trade Review“[T]his new anthology’s many critical voices suit Roethke’s multi-faceted work…. A Field Guide should bring new readers closer to the liveliness of Roethke’s poems, which will become their own.” * Poetry Northwest *“[T]he Field Guide brings together all the elements needed for a sophisticated understanding of Roethke, his contexts, and his art. It presents leading historical and contemporary critical approaches to his poetry, and it suggests areas deserving further study.” -- Philip A. Greasley * MidAmerica *“This book draws readers closer to Roethke’s poetry than any other single study has. Recommended.” * Choice *“Barillas’s thoroughly diverse and democratic reassessment of Roethke’s radically diverse oeuvre resituates Roethke’s high and proper place in American poetry…. A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke has altered and deepened my thinking, not just about Roethke but poetry itself.” * Poetry International Online *“This ingeniously structured ‘field guide’ to Roethke’s poetry reintroduces us to a body of work that changed the sound and sense of twentieth-century poetry. Timely, engaging, and stylistically diverse essays consider Roethke’s poems from new angles, and situate him as an early practitioner of ecopoetry. These reappraisals remind us of the power of Roethke’s ‘weird word-music,’ his mastery of the greenhouse’s ‘alien textures,’ and the reach of his ‘defamiliarizing’ poetic language, which influenced Sylvia Plath, Robert Bly, James Wright, Seamus Heaney, and so many others. This is an indispensable collection for a new generation of Roethke’s readers.” -- Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath“What a lovely model this book sets: a gathering of short essays by skilled readers on a great poet whose work is ripe for rediscovery. William Barillas has devised an elegant format that allows many voices to sound in a variety of registers, while keeping the poems themselves constantly in the foreground. This book offers scholars, poets, teachers, and students a wide array of paths through the inexhaustibly rich terrain of Roethke’s poems, traversing their vibrant renderings of both inner and outer landscapes, their sustained dialogue with poetic tradition, and their prescient engagement with environmental concerns.” -- Roger Gilbert, author of Walks in the World: Representation and Experience in Modern American Poetry“These essays, written from multiple perspectives, make a welcome and accessible companion to Roethke’s Collected Poems, while making the case for exploring the full range of the poet’s work.” -- Christopher MacGowan, author of Twentieth-Century American Poetry“A long overdue re-examination and celebration of the incandescent work of poet Theodore Roethke, bringing his work to a whole new generation of readers. Highly recommended.” -- Nicholas O’Connell, author of On Sacred Ground: The Spirit of Place in Pacific Northwest Literature“Roethke’s large, multitudinous body of work, while never out of print, has somehow gotten lost in the past decades. This book, expertly edited by William Barillas, should help rectify that odd neglect. It puts his work in perspective.” -- Edward Hirsch, from the Foreword“One of the great strengths of this book is its reconsideration of Roethke’s work in the light of critical developments such as ecocriticism, feminist criticism, and reader response theory. This is an extremely timely and important collection.” -- Sally Connolly, author of Grief & Meter: Elegies for Poets after AudenWhat the Field Guide effectively reveals in its contributions, all of which are worthy of critical celebration, is that when we read closely, from any perspective[,] . . . we can discover the lasting qualities of poetry, and in this instance a poet whose quality of self-critique has never been more needed for the nation. * American Book Review *Table of ContentsForeword (EDWARD HIRSCH) Preface Acknowledgments House, Field, Stones, and Stars: An Introduction (WILLIAM BARILLAS) Open House (1941) 1. “Open House”: Prying and Potential in an Early Poem (BRANDON RUSHTON) 2. “To My Sister” (WILLIAM HEYEN) 3. “Beneath an Undivided Sky”: Environmental Disorder and Human Passivity in “Interlude” (KRISTIN M. DISTEL) 4. “Sharper on the Ear”: “The Light Comes Brighter” and the Subtle Phenomena of Place (ROD PHILLIPS) 5. Smart Like Auden? “Lull” and “September 1, 1939” (PATRICK GILL) 6. Ironic Quest in “Highway: Michigan” (RONALD PRIMEAU) 7. Movement through Space, Sound, and Time in “Night Journey” (MARCEL INHOFF) The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948) 8. “Cuttings” and “Cuttings (later)”: Roethke’s Minute Carnivals (MICHAEL HINDS) 9. All the Small, Unlovely Things: “Root Cellar” (JOHN ROHRKEMPER) 10. Locating the Poet in “Weed Puller” (LYN COFFIN) 11. “Orchids”: Undomesticating the Greenhouse (BROOKE HORVATH) 12. “Moss-Gathering” and Roethke’s Romantic Child of Nature (MARC MALANDRA) 13. The Storm of the Mind vs. Family and Machine in “Big Wind” (RUSSELL BRICKEY) 14. “Long Days under the Sloped Glass”: Greenhouse Memories in “Transplanting” (CARRIE DUKE) 15. “Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze” and the Sleeping Beauty Tale (MARCIA NOE and LAURA DUNCAN) 16. Meter in “My Papa’s Waltz” (WILLIAM BARILLAS) 17. Syntax and Diction in “Dolor” (LUKE BREKKE) 18. Imagery and Abstraction in “Night Crow” (SARAH KATHRYN MOORE) 19. “The Lost Son”: An Emotional Journey through the Landscapes of Loss (BORJA AGUILÓ OBRADOR) 20. Respite for the Lost Son: “A Field of Light” (JEFFREY CLAPP) Praise to the End! (1951) 21. Homegrown Cosmologies: Animism and Elegy in “Where Knock Is Open Wide” (DAVID WOJAHN) 22. “Give Way, Ye Gates” and Roethke’s Praise to the End! Sequence (PETER BALAKIAN) The Waking (1953) 23 “The Visitant” (CAMILLE PAGLIA) 24. “Elegy for Jane”: The Nature of Grief (DAVID RADAVICH) 25. Dancing “The Dance”: Roethke’s Poetics of Appropriation (ADAM PUTZ) 26. Subduing Fear in “The Waking” (FRANK J. KEARFUL) Words for the Wind (1958) 27. Love, Selfhood, and Sublimation in “Words for the Wind” (ANDREW DAVID KING) 28. Moving Circles in “I Knew a Woman” (JAY PARINI) 29. “First Meditation” and Roethke’s Career (DON BOGEN) I Am! Says th e Lamb (1961) 30. A Few Thousand Words on Theodore Roethke, Children’s Poetry, and Three Poems Concerning Two Turtles (One of Whom Is Named Myrtle) (JOSEPH T. THOMAS JR.) The Far Field (1964) 31. “The Longing”: Alienation, Place, and the Desire for Home (KATHARINE BUBEL) 32. Spirit, Self, and Shorebirds: The Pacific Pastoral of “Meditation at Oyster River” (NICHOLAS BRADLEY) 33. “Journey to the Interior,” “The Longing,” and the Search for a Definitive Text (NEAL BOWERS) Contents 34. Mnetha in “The Long Waters” (JOHN J. MCKENNA) 35. The Ecological Vision of “The Far Field” (BERNARD QUETCHENBACH) 36. Nature Mysticism in “The Rose” (EDWARD MORIN) 37. “The Abyss”: Finding the Next Life in This One (TRENTON HICKMAN) 38. “Otto”: An Insight into Roethke’s Poetic Vision (JEFF VANDE ZANDE) 39. “The Meadow Mouse”: A Poem of Compassion (NORMAN CHANEY) 40. The Zoopoetics of “The Pike” (AARON M. MOE) 41. Roethke’s Dark Society: Revisiting “In a Dark Time” (WALTER KALAIDJIAN) 42. “I Am Not Yet Undone”: Navigating the Journey from Life to Death in “Infirmity” (LAURA GILL) 43. Symbolism and the Mystic’s Way in “The Tree, the Bird” (CHRISTOPHER GIROUX) 44. “Once More, the Round”: Roethke’s Last Word (WILLIAM BARILLAS) Works Cited Notes on Contributors Index
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Stanford University Press The Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on
Book SynopsisIn a series of studies over the last 30 years, Henrich has shown that Holderlin played a decisive role in the development of philosophy from Kant to Hegel. This book includes six of Henrich's most important essays on Holderlin.
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Stanford University Press Pushkin and Romantic Fashion Fragment Elegy
Book SynopsisThis book is about the interpenetration of culture and personality, specifically Alexander I's Russian Empire, a latecomer in post-Napoleonic European history, and Aleksandr Pushkin, virtuoso improvisor yet prisoner of the Golden Age discourses that now bear his name.Trade Review"Greenleaf's notes demonstrate her impressive research in an unusually broad range of sources. . . . If all interpretations are contingently valid, few are more powerfully and sensitively argued than Greenleaf's." -- Choice"This is one of those rare books that both present new material (the result of extensive research) and new understanding (the result of intensive and luminous thought). . . . It is a major contribution." -- William Mills Todd III * Harvard University *Table of ContentsA note to the reader; Pushkin and the fragment: an introduction; 1. The romantic fragment: a genealogy; 2. From epitaph to elegy: Russia's entry into European culture; 3. The foreign fountain: self as other in the oriental poem; 4. 'What's in a name?' the rhetoric of imposture in Boris Godunov; 5. The sense of not ending: romantic irony in Eugene Onegin; 6. How to read an epitaph: the 'Kleopatra' tales; Autoportraiture: an afterword; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Against Coercion Games Poets Play
Book SynopsisThis book looks at how poems work, showing how they speak to historical, ethical, and aesthetic questions. It also demonstrates how to read poetry—how to go beyond an elementary approach, to recover the sheer pleasure of good poems.Trade Review“This brilliantly written work is authentic literary criticism: sharp, perceptive, learned, original, individual, and life-enhancing. The scholarship is both astonishing and in itself a mode of wit; its handling is exquisite. The book establishes Cook as a first-rate critic.”—Harold Bloom, Yale University.Table of ContentsForeword; Introduction; Part I. Empire, War, Nation: 1. Eliot, Keynes, and Empire: The Waste Land; 2. Schemes against coercion: Geoffrey Hill, Elizabeth Bishop, and others; 3. Fables of war in Elizabeth Bishop; 4. Faulkner, typology and black history in Go Down, Moses; 5. A seeing and unseeing in the eye: Canadian literature and the sense of place; Part II. Culture and the Uses of memory: Allusion: 6. Questions of allusion; 7. The language of scripture in Wordsworth's Prelude; 8. The senses of Eliot's salvages; 9. Wallace Stevens and the King James bible; 10. Birds in paradise: revisions of a topos in Milton, Keats, Whitman, Stevens, and Ammons; Part III. Poetry at Play: 11. Melos versus logos, or, why doesn't God sing? Some thoughts on Milton's wisdom; 12. The poetics of modern punning; Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and others; 13. Riddles, charms, and fictions in Wallace Stevens; 14. The function of riddles at the present time; 15. The flying griphos: in pursuit of enigma from Aristophanes to Tournesol, with stops in Carroll, Ariosto, and Dante; Part IV. Practice: 16. Ghost rhymes and how they work; 17. Methought as dream formula in Shakespeare; Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, and others; 18. Reading a poem: on John Hollander's 'owl' 19. Teaching poetry: accurate songs, or thinking-in-poetry; Appendix; Notes; Indices; Acknowledgments.
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Stanford University Press The End of the Poem
Book SynopsisThis book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante.Table of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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Stanford University Press The End of the Poem Studies in Poetics Meridian
Book SynopsisThis book, by one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers, represents a broad, general, and ambitious undertaking-nothing less than an attempt to rethink the nature of poetic language and to rearticulate relationships among theology, poetry, and philosophy in a tradition of literature initiated by Dante.Table of ContentsContents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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Stanford University Press Chinese Women Poets An Anthology of Poetry and
Book SynopsisThe book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.Trade Review“Well organized and thorough, it fills an enormous gap in Western literature on women’s literature in China.”—Stephen H. West, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsEditorial conventions; Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction: genealogy and titles of the female poet; Part I. Poetry: 1. From ancient times to the six dynasties (222-589); 2. Tang (618-907) and five dynasties (907-60); 3. Song dynasty (960-1279; 4. Yuan dynasty (1264-1368); 5. Ming dynasty (1368-1644; 6. Qing dynasty (1644-1911); Part II. Criticism: 7. Female critics and poets; 8. Male critics and poets; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index of names.
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Stanford University Press Poetry as Experience Meridian Crossing Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity.Table of ContentsContents PART I CELAN PAUL PART II 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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Stanford University Press The Title to the Poem
Book SynopsisThe title of a poem is often seen as no more than a convenient means of reference. But in shorter lyric poems the title can often be as long as a line of verse, and as allusive. This is a theoretical, critical, and historical exploration of the traditions for titling shorter English poems.Trade Review"This is a powerful, elegant, and most original study that moves across and through the range of English and American verse. . . . What is so impressive, too, about this book is that the author's thought about the nature and structure and function of titles is rooted in, and leads to, wonderfully illuminating readings of the poems in question."—John Hollander, Yale University"There hasn't been an adequate history of the business of poetic titling until this new book by Ferry, and it is stimulating and welcome. . . .This is an indispensable hornbook. Anne Ferry has written the last word on the first words on any poem."—Partisan ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Ownership and Self-Presentation; 1. Who gives the title; 2. Who has the title; Part II. Interpretive Fictions: 3. Who 'says' the poem' 4. Who 'hears' the poem; Part III. Authoritative Hierarchies: 5. What kind the poem belongs to; 6. What the poem is 'about'; Part IV. Undermining Titles: 7. Quotations in the title space; 8. Evasions of the title space; Afterward; Notes; Index.
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Stanford University Press Sing Stranger
Book SynopsisSing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. This anthology reveals both an amazing achievement of Jewish creative work and an important body of American poetry.Trade Review"This latest work of Benjamin and Barbara Harshav, truly the doyens of the field of Yiddish poetry in translation, is an important achievement. Many anthologies have tended to give relatively furtive glimpses of a poet's creation, or suggestive hints of the flavours of his or her poetry. Both the impressive, but not cumbersome, size of this anthology and its historical and geographic focus allow for making more than such fleeting acquaintances. The strength of the work, the thing that makes it of such moment, is the heterogeneous and fluid notion of Americanness which is at the heart of the project."—Modern Language Review"This anthology consists of excellent English translations of the Yiddish poetry of major American Yiddish writers... highly recommended reading for all."—Association of Jewish Libraries NewsletterTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:A Note on Transcriptions iii Preface iii @toc1:Prelude 000 @toc1:Part One: Proletarian Poets 000 @toc2: Morris Rosenfeld(18621923) 000 Dovid Edelshtat(18661892) 000 Yoysef Bovshover(18731915) 000 @toc1:Part Two: The Lyrical Turn 000 @toc2: Yehoash (18721927) 000 Mani Leyb (18831953) 000 Y. Rolnik (18791955) 000 Ruven Ayzland (18841955) 000 B. Vladek (18861938) 000 Zisho Landoy (18891937) 000 Avrom Reyzen (18761953) 000 @toc1:Part Three: Symbolism and Expressionism 000 @toc2: H. Leyvik (18881962) 000 Moyshe-Layb Halpern (18861932) 000 Berish Vaynshteyn (19051967) 000 @toc1:Part Four: Introspectivism 000 @toc2:A. L'yeles (18891966) 000 Jacob Glatshteyn (18961971) 000 J. L. Teller (19121972) 000 Ruven Ludvig (18951926) 000 B. Alquit (n.d.) 000 @toc1:Part Five: On the Left 000 @toc2:Moyshe Nadir (18851943) 000 Menke Katz (19061991) 000 @toc1:Part Six: Narrative Poetry 000 @toc2: I. Y. Shvarts (18851971) 000 @toc1:Part Seven: Women Poets 000 @toc2:Anna Margolin (18871952) 000 Tsilya Drapkin (18881956) 000 Malka Heifetz-Tussman (18961987) 000 @toc1:Songs by Yiddish Poets 000 @toc4:Glossary 000
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Stanford University Press The Polyphony of Jewish Culture
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of seminal essays on major aspects of Jewish culture: Yiddish and Hebrew literature, Europe, America and Israel, transformations of Jewish history, the Holocaust, and the formal traditions of Hebrew verse.Trade Review"By the evidence of this volume, Harshav's recent intellectual energies have been harnessed to the project of making the achievements of high Yiddish culture present to the contemporary Jewish mind and, by so doing, allowing us to hear something of the polyphonic music that has accompanied his life from his earliest childhood until now." -- Alan Mintz * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *"This book is an illuminating companion to Harshav's Explorations in Poetics." -- CHOICE"Using 'polyphony' as its unifying thematic thread, this book addresses the dynamic cultural systems which form the kaleidoscopic core of the modern Jewish experience. In this collection of articles, introductory essays, and memoirs culled from a body of work spanning over forty years, we are given a rich diversity of access points to what Benjamin Harshav calls the 'Modern Jewish Revolution'." -- Jordan Finkin, The Oriental Institute * Oxford *Table of ContentsCONTENTS Preface xxx Culture and History 1 1. Theses on the Historical Context of the Modern Jewish Revolution 00 2. Multilingualism 00 3. The Crisis of Jewish Identity: S.Y. Agnon's Only Yesterday 00 4. American Poetry in Yiddish and its Background 00 5. The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania 00 Art and Poetry 00 6. On the Beginnings of Israeli Poetry and Yehuda Amichai's Quatrains: A Memoir 00 7. The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself: Nathan Alterman, Abba Kovner 00 8. The Role of Language in Chagall's Early Paintings 00 9. A. Sutzkever: Life and Poetry 00 10. Note on the Systems of Hebrew Versification: Bible to Present 00 Sources of the Chapters 00
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Stanford University Press Race and the AvantGarde
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study of contemporary American poetry, Race and the Avant-Garde changes the way we think about race and literature. Examining two of the most exciting developments in recent American writing, Timothy Yu juxtaposes the works of experimental language poets and Asian American poetsconcerned primarily with issues of social identity centered around discourses of race. Yu delves into the 1960s social upheaval to trace how Language and Asian American writing emerged as parallel poetics of the avant-garde, each with its own distinctive form, style, and political meaning. From its provocative reevaluation of Allen Ginsberg to fresh readings of Ron Silliman, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and John Yau, along with its analysis of a new archive of Asian American writers from the 1970s, this book is indispensable for readers interested in race, Asian American studies, contemporary poetry, and the avant-garde.Trade Review"Timothy Yu expands and further delineates the complicated relationship between ethnic minorities and self-proclaimed avant-grade communities." -- J. Michael Martinez and Jordan Windholz * Puerto del Sol *"Yu's Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 is ... provocative text that scholars of contemporary poetry and Asian American literature will be citing, discussing, and arguing over for many years to come." -- Kimberly Lamm * Contemporary Literature. *"Though this book at first appears narrowly focused, it manages to illuminate large areas of contemporary American poetry. The book is perhaps most compelling when it links poetry to late-20th-century social and political developments, for instance, the volatile situation during the late 1960s when the New Left fragmented into the competing, identity-conscious factions of the 1970s." -- CHOICE"With Race and the Avant-Garde, Timothy Yu goes an extraordinarily long way toward overcoming the historical divorce between the "aesthetic" and the "ethnic." And excitingly, for teachers and students of Asian American literature, he has made Asian American poetry a central part of the case. Treating the rise of Asian American poetry and Language poetry in light of each other, Yu illustrates the indelible presence of race in experimental writing and the constitutive role of form in ethnic writing." -- Colleen Lye * Author of America's Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 *"Race and the Avant-Garde marks a major turning point in genre and culture studies: it treats what is known as Asian American poetry not as a separate entity, but as a community in constant dialogue with that other community known as the avant-garde. In the latter part of the 20th century, Yu argues, the social groupings of American poetry come to cross-fertilize one another in intriguing ways, so that a 'minority' poetry like Asian American can best be understood as itself an avant-garde. Yu's sociology is both sophisticated and revelatory. Allen Ginsberg, Ron Silliman, John Yau, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: these poets will never look the same after reading Yu's outstanding book." * Marjorie Perloff,Author of Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media and Differentials *"Explores how conflicts, anxieties, and confusions fuse with aesthetics, ideologies, and social formations in the unsettling project of a syncretic Asian American poetics. In order to fully engage such poetics, Yu looks at roots but also rootlessness, lineages as well as misalignments. Yu takes risks; the welcome result is a provocatively informative excursion into the productive synergy of race and aesthetic innovation." * Charles Bernstein *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xxx Introduction: Toward a Sociology of the Contemporary Avant-Garde 1 1. Auto Poesy: Allen Ginsberg and the Politics of Poetry 000 2. Ron Silliman and the Ethnicization of the Avant-Garde 000 3. Inventing a Culture: Asian American Poetry in the 1970s 000 4. Audience Distant Relative: Reading Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 000 5. Mr. Moto's Monologue: John Yau and Experimental Asian American Writing 000 Conclusion 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press Contextual Practice
Book SynopsisFredman makes the original argument that some of the most innovative works of poetry and art in the postwar period (1945–1970) engaged in a "contextual practice," a term that refers both to a way of making art characterized by assemblage and to a new relationship between art and life, an "erotic poetics."Trade Review"Fredman has written a clear, well-informed study of a specific facet of mid-20th-century poetry: how 'contextual practice' informed much of the work of avant-garde poets, painters, and filmmakers . . . Recommended." -- B. Wallenstein * CHOICE *"Contextual Practice takes a wide-angle, interdisciplinary look at some of the most important if overlooked works, figures, and social scenes specic to the American avant-garde from around 1945 to 1970 . . . Fredman recovers the provocatively contingent and charmingly social structures that informed some of the most dynamic art made after the Second World War. Those of us interested not only in the postwar American poetry scene, but in the humanities and counterculture history broadly speaking, will find in Fredman's evocative juxtapositions a Grand Collage indeed." -- Daniel Kane * Review of English Studies *"Stephen Fredman's Contextual Practice provides an in-depth exploration of cultural and aesthetic contexts shared by poets Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley and Denise Levertov, filmmaker Harry Smith, philosopher Norman O. Brown, and artist Wallace Berman and the circle around his seminal Semina magazine. Fredman has written a brilliant treatise on the poetics of collage in the New American poetry. And he puts his theories into practice with his exemplary use of contingent juxtapositions of a precisely ordered constellation of examples." -- Charles Bernstein * University of Pennsylvania *
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Stanford University Press Sound and Sight
Book SynopsisAs the first book-length study of the Yongming poets, this book focuses on unraveling the complexity and hybridity of the poetic voices beneath their seemingly "technical" pursuit of prosodic innovation.Trade Review"[A] highly readable study if Yongming poetry that explores its new modes, devices, and themes in a compelling way." -- Nicholas Morrow Williams * China Review International *"Sound and Sight helps us to understand a pivotal period in Chinese poetry and its characteristic style. The formal innovations of the Yongming era, bearing particularly on sound patterns, are a forest of fearsomely technical issues ordinarily left to specialists. As this book demonstrates, "sound" is not just a physical phenomenon, but a mode of perception. Perception in all its modes was a matter of intense interest for the Yongming poets, an area in which their receptivity to Buddhist teaching met their attention to verbal craft; and it is through her attention to the modes of perception made active in the poetry that Meow Hui Goh links literary style with intellectual history." -- Haun Saussy * Yale University *"Goh's solidly researched effort to understand the Yongming era through its own aesthetic ideals not only takes a comprehensive approach to the much debated euphonic guidelines, but examines a change in the poet's sense of self-worth and situates major themes in the context of the court's environment and culture." -- Cynthia L. Chennault * Editor, Early Medieval China *"It is to the author's credit that in the short pages of the main body of the book, she presents a precise and clear picture of how the Yongming poets distinguished themselves and their poetry . . The author serves as a perceptive, reliable, and oftentimes inspiring guide leading us through the multifarious and emotionally charged landscape as it unfolds visually and acoustically before her poet protagonists . . . [H]eroic and laudable . . . [A] fresh and important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of this pivotal period in Chinese literary and cultural history. This carefully researched and finely written book provides a solid basis for further studies in the future." -- Yugen Wang * Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews *"The author's persuasively argued case—that the new poetics of Yongming-era court poetry was founded on, and in practice subtly guided by, Buddhist principles—takes up roughly the first three chapters of Sound and Sight. In the remaining three chapters, she extends her study into the world outside the court, as her poets encountered it in their poetic excursions . . . We have therefore all the more reason to wish to learn from these remarkable poets, and—in the same way that they helped their contemporaries to see and hear the world anew—perhaps we can, with the help of Meow Hui Goh's interpretations, see and hear them again as if for the first time." -- Alice W. Cheang * Journal of Chinese Studies *
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Stanford University Press Thinking Its Presence Form Race and Subjectivity
Book SynopsisThis book makes an argument for paying serious attention to the full complexity, formal and social, of Asian American poetry—and of minority poetry—and for rethinking how we read American poetry in general.Trade Review"Dorothy Wang provides an extraordinarily rich reading of minority discourse among experimental Asian American writers. In this theoretically sophisticated study, Wang reads identity as a function of specific linguistic, rhetorical practices that force us to re-think normative attitudes towards racial formations. Rather than discover 'Asianness' through thematic content, Wang studies ethnic identity in linguistic deformations, rhetorical figures, and idioms, which bear the weight of historical marginalization and silencing. It is a brilliant effort, theoretically sophisticated yet grounded in focused readings of individual works." -- Michael Davidson * University of California, San Diego *"Can race sit at the poetry table? Wang's passionate meditation on the inseparability of aesthetics and politics in poetry and poetics will fundamentally transform the ways in which we think racial difference and form in the literary. We will never approach metaphor, irony, parody, or contingency in the same way again. This is a fearless defense of poetry, race, and reading." -- David L. Eng * University of Pennsylvania *"The tendency not to address the formal properties of Asian American poetry—not to take it seriouslyas poetry, in Dorothy Wang's trenchant words—is rigorously corrected in her readings of John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and others. This corrective is augmented by a theoretical assertion that demands that mainstream poetry be taken seriously as a record of the complexities of racial formation, and the racialized formation of personal and poetic identity, in the United States. Wang forcefully demands that we become better readers while carefully and generously showing us how to do just that." -- Fred Moten * Duke University *"[A] powerful challenge to conventional ways of thinking (or not thinking) about race and poetry." -- Ben Lerner The Books We Loved In 2016 * The New Yorker *
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Stanford University Press Thinking Its Presence Form Race and Subjectivity
Book SynopsisThis book makes an argument for paying serious attention to the full complexity, formal and social, of Asian American poetry—and of minority poetry—and for rethinking how we read American poetry in general.Trade Review"Dorothy Wang provides an extraordinarily rich reading of minority discourse among experimental Asian American writers. In this theoretically sophisticated study, Wang reads identity as a function of specific linguistic, rhetorical practices that force us to re-think normative attitudes towards racial formations. Rather than discover 'Asianness' through thematic content, Wang studies ethnic identity in linguistic deformations, rhetorical figures, and idioms, which bear the weight of historical marginalization and silencing. It is a brilliant effort, theoretically sophisticated yet grounded in focused readings of individual works." -- Michael Davidson * University of California, San Diego *"Can race sit at the poetry table? Wang's passionate meditation on the inseparability of aesthetics and politics in poetry and poetics will fundamentally transform the ways in which we think racial difference and form in the literary. We will never approach metaphor, irony, parody, or contingency in the same way again. This is a fearless defense of poetry, race, and reading." -- David L. Eng * University of Pennsylvania *"The tendency not to address the formal properties of Asian American poetry—not to take it seriouslyas poetry, in Dorothy Wang's trenchant words—is rigorously corrected in her readings of John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and others. This corrective is augmented by a theoretical assertion that demands that mainstream poetry be taken seriously as a record of the complexities of racial formation, and the racialized formation of personal and poetic identity, in the United States. Wang forcefully demands that we become better readers while carefully and generously showing us how to do just that." -- Fred Moten * Duke University *"[A] powerful challenge to conventional ways of thinking (or not thinking) about race and poetry." -- Ben Lerner The Books We Loved In 2016 * The New Yorker *
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John Wiley & Sons Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World
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LSU Press Six Poets from the Mountain South Shermans Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns Southern Literary Studies
Book SynopsisIn the most extensive work to date on major poets from the mountain South, John Lang takes as his point of departure an oft-quoted remark by Jim Wayne Miller: “Appalachian literature is - and has always been - as decidedly worldly, secular, and profane in its outlook as the [region's] traditional religion appears to be spiritual and otherworldly.”
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LSU Press The Elephant of Silence
Book SynopsisA poem is an act of faith because the poet believes in it, contends John Wall Barger in The Elephant of Silence, a collection of essays exploring forms of knowing (and not knowing) that awaken a poetic mind.Trade ReviewWhat a pleasure to follow poet John Wall Barger's singular, brilliant, unpretentious, generous mind, as he writes in an utterly natural and precise way about subjects notoriously difficult to discuss: poetry, film, writing, marriage, even silence." - Matthew Zapruder, author of Story of a Poem"If you can't go to the movies with Barger, do the next best thing and enjoy these sensitive, playful essays on what he's watched, read, and observed, with a poet's blend of thought and feeling." - Adrienne Su, author of Peach State"Barger's essays are all, in some way, about the creative process itself and the audience's role as a vital participant in that process. An author has defined a set of parameters, yet it is up to us, the viewer, to bring our own lived experience to bear it out. Barger navigates this terrain with the ease and imagination of an expert tour guide, a 'Stalker'—in the spirit of Tarkovsky—who understands our own pivotal involvement in helping to create this world we inhabit." - Bill Morrison, director of Dawson City: Frozen Time
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LSU Press Living Name
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LSU Press A New Way of Seeing
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Sylvia Plath The Poetry of Initiation
Book SynopsisShows how Plath's remarkable lyric dramas define a private ritual process. This book deals with the emotional material from which Plath's poetry arises and the specific ritual transformations she dramatizes. It covers all phases of Plath's poetry, closely following the development of image and idea from the apprentice work through the last lyrics of Ariel.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Varieties of Enchantment Early Greek Views of the Nature and Function of Poetry
Book SynopsisUNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.Trade ReviewWell-written, original, and intelligent.--Greece & Rome|""What makes the modest book refreshing is its rejection of well-worn approaches in poetics (rhetoric, themes of inspiration, distinctions of genre) and the inclusion of excellent critical passages.""--Choice
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Northwestern University Press Stein Reader
Book SynopsisThis important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity. Ulla E. Dydo's textual scholarship demonstrates Stein's constant questioning of convention, and A Stein Reader changes the balance of work in print, concentrating on Stein's experimental work and including many key works that are virtually unknown or unavailable.
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Northwestern University Press Sex Changes with Kleist
Book SynopsisAnalyses how the dramatist and poet Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) responded to a change in the conception of sex and gender that occurred between 1790 and 1810. Specifically, Katrin Pahl shows that Kleist resisted the shift from a one-sex to the two-sex and complementary gender system that is still prevalent today.
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Northwestern University Press The Bilingual Muse SelfTranslation Among Russian Poets Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Book SynopsisAnalyses the work of seven Russian poets who translated their own poems into English, French, German, or Italian. Investigating the parallel versions of self-translated poetic texts, Adrian Wanner considers how verbal creativity functions in different languages, the conundrum of translation, and the vagaries of bilingual identities.Trade Review“The Bilingual Muse confirms Adrian Wanner as the leading scholar of Russian literary translingualism. His scintillating study of self-translation by seven disparate poets is attentive to the nuances of prosody as well as issues of cultural and personal identity. Especially luminescent are Wanner’s discussion of the short-lived polyglot prodigy Elizaveta Kul’man, his recuperation of the painter Wassily Kandinsky as a formidable trilingual poet, and his account of why Vladimir Nabokov regarded autotranslation as ‘self-torture.” - Steven G. Kellman, author of The Translingual Imagination “The Bilingual Muse is illuminating and useful. It is rare and unusual to see the kind of thorough treatment of all levels of language and prosody that Wanner provides.” - Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, author of Alien Tongues: Bilingual Russian Writers of the “First” EmigrationTable of Contents Introduction: “The Trick of Doubling Oneself” 1. Elizaveta Kul’man: The Most Polyglot of Russian Poets 2. Wassily Kandinsky’s Trilingual Poetry 3. Marina Tsvetaeva’s Self-Translation into French 4. Vladimir Nabokov’s Dilemma of Self-Translation 5. Joseph Brodsky in English 6. Self-Translation among Contemporary Russian-American Poets Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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Northwestern University Press Mother Tongues Poems
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize, Tsitsi Ella Jaji's second full-length collection of poems, Mother Tongues, is a three-tiered gourd of sustenance, vessel, and folklore.Table of Contents Mother Tongues Table of Contents (i) Dedication: Our lingering embrace iii mother tongue (1) 1 On the Isle of Lesbos Our Mother of Stone Daughtering And They Didn't Die In Praise of the Great Cat * lingua: corral Five Bagatelles Fingerings flare Symphony Dinner with Piano Soloist Blue Note Bandwagon Cooking with Miles Relaxing with Miles * lingua: tongue-tied Tell me something good A Song at Dawn Auxiliary Prelude to a Kiss First Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Time Second Guardian of Flight: The Angel of Refinement After Tonsure * lingua: ladyfingers Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands Manual for Initiation into the Zebra Sisterhood Electioneered Old News After the Coup (or Not) The Crystal River Profile How I Write * lingua: good tast Real Simple Way Out West Autumn Leaves Marvin in Stereo/Right Ear Marvin in Stereo/Left Ear morning, 11.9.16 Burying Willie, Our Lion Malick Sidibé's Camera Calls * lingua: gorgon Benin Bronze Unaccompanied Minor Children's Swings Pond in Museum Garden Ritual Object The Body Counts at war Wildcat * lingua: a quick tongue The Graves Suite Ballade: Thyroid Goes Rogue 3 Intermezzi for Unaccompanied Thyroid Misterioso: Iodine 131 Meets the Royal Thyroid Cadenza: Thyroid Rides Again Koan of the Great Cat * lingua: babble We are the darker sister Boy Lotus Three Lessons on a Friday Stumbling Block Facing El Greco When Thomas Finally Rolled Up, I Said Infinitive
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Northwestern University Press Love Childs Hotbed of Occasional Poetry
Book SynopsisOffers a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and treasured artifacts - copper coins struck from a new matrix for poetry.Trade Review“A paean to the culture of African Americans and their history and culture of survival through creativity—in your face, loud, emotional, outrageous truth.” —Ed Roberson, author of To See the Earth Before the End of the World
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Northwestern University Press What Water Knows Poems
Book SynopsisJacqueline Jones LaMon delivers a stunning third collection that shows the elements of life that both unite us and create our greatest distances. What Water Knows transports the reader from drought to drowning, from the transatlantic Middle Passage to the breaking of water, from water wielded as a weapon to used as a reward.Trade Review“Such a vibrant and beautiful book. I truly read it with my heart in my throat. LaMon speaks a language at once as familiar and foreign as love itself—with so much love. There is such a deep quietude to this book. She takes us beneath the covers of what it means to be a woman, to be a mother, to be Black, to be trapped—and finally, what it means to be free. I cannot wait for this book to be in the world. Everything I needed right now.” — Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award winner and the author of Red at the Bone: A Novel“With intimacy and clarity, What Water Knows offers us transcendent, lyric language that explores womanhood, race, history, justice, love, and the politics of our identities contained by the memory of water, released by it, or both. Fluid in her craft, LaMon’s powers are fully claimed here. In a poem about womanhood, she writes ‘We were our own fine line, / never crossed.’ Elsewhere LaMon asks a timeless question for us all: ‘What is it you need when you’re fleeing your home?’ The poet’s intuition and intelligence rise and crest without ending, and in remarkable turns of self-knowledge, strength, and grace, the intimations of water are as elusive and marvelous as the poet’s desire. Indispensable and elemental, What Water Knows achieves a truth that does not spare our most primal needs. Aware of the ordinary and celestial energy of language itself, and what it may mean to choose to speak at all in any form, the poet writes, ‘Some would say there are no oceans between us, only / land. I would say it all depends on the direction we choose to face.’” — Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of Seeing the Body: PoemsTable of Contents I: This Fragile, Resilient Life No One Eats Icicles Anymore Her Silk Scarf Was Blood-Soaked by I-495 Travelogue What Happens When a Brother Flees Up the River “Governor Snyder Drinks Flint Water” Pipeline Lemonade Mob Six Niagara Ownership What Is Human, or Culture, or Left Hanging in the Air All That We Need to Be Happy On Watch for the Spontaneous The Garonne River Shifts Her Direction Classification Is the Beginning of Our Greatest Understanding Nine to the Limit Prodigal The Browning II: The Open, Empty Mouth We Could Walk into the Waters, or Leave Life as It Seems Thermostat This Wholeness, Beyond Everything We Know With a View of the Water from Stable, Cleared Ground Disregarding the Alarm The Night Before Euthanasia What We Wear to Meet the Water Cleansing My Mother’s Cold Body The Merchant Seaman’s Wife Rockaway And All the Rest Will Have Washed Away Quiet on the Set Still Life Polar Vortex My Body Speaks of Hatred Water, Water Everywhere, But How Am I to Drink? Martini III: The Promise of Relief The Latitude, The Longitude, and a Third Axis Called Time Socratic We Put So Much Faith in the Power of Doors Cruise to Nowhere Bathwater Breaking & Entering Ornithology Aftermath Holding Boarding the Six Train at Brooklyn Bridge No Matter What the Incline, The River Around Us Still Flows Primate The Death and the Dying, A Million Times Over It Is Happy Hour, Somewhere There Are Some Things We Can’t Create in Life There are Sixty-Five Steps Between There and Here The Only Time We Think of It Is When It’s No Longer There Bay One Currency What To Do When Everything Gets Tossed from the Vessel And Tomorrow, We Learn to Name the Air Skully In the Beginning Commitment That Which We Reach for When Given the Chance Acknowledgements
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Northwestern University Press A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Baudelaire
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