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Smokestack Books Dont Forget the Couscous
Book SynopsisDon't Forget the Couscous is a book of poetry about exile and home, love and loss. It is a beautiful love-song to the Arab world Syria, Kurdistan, Morocco, Palestine and his native Aleppo. It is a memoir of the failed Arab Spring and the civil-war that has turned his native Syria into a fountain of blood'. It's a bitter account of the demonization of Islam in the West, and the violent interference of the West in the Islamic world. It is about being a Muslim and not a terrorist.Amir Darwish draws on the magical-realism of Naguib Mahfouz, the social satire of Muhammad al-Maghut and the love poetry of Rumi to describe the experience of Islam in Europe from a Friday night doner kebab after a good night out' to a girl who has taken off the hijab in order to feel safe' and a mosque with broken windows'. It is a book about travel and love, and an apology on behalf of Muslims everywhere for having contributed nothing to the modern world except astronomy, coffee, clocks, algebra, falafels, apricots and doner kebabs. And don't forget the couscous...
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Cinnamon Press What Rain Taught Us
Book SynopsisWhat Rain Taught Us follows a mind fracturing into a subjective landscape of association, reflection and invention, where words, images and conflicting voices tumble and echo almost to the point of destruction. But, gradually, islands of stability form. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru
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Augur Press Visions Breaths and Sighs
Book SynopsisUsing beautiful freeform verse, Paola draws the reader into each situation and experience with the clarity, depth of vision, gentle affection and spiritual wisdom with which she was gifted.Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction Friends 1Frozen night 2March 4Libeccio 5Fragments 1 and 2 6Snapshot 7Two days in Paris 7The young girl of the metro 8Look of love 9Summer rain 10On the bank 10To Bob Dylan 11Homer 12The desert rose 13June 14The desert 14Crossing the Po Valley 15To be elsewhere 16The choir 18Mamma 19Summer twilight 20Autumn in Tuscany 21The call 22The chopped tree 23Voice of a little girl 23Vanity 24Hopes 25 Who am I? 26Know yourself 27Stars 27The tears of the world 28A prayer for you 28Simplicity 29 Poor people 29The shepherd 30Sardinia 31 Early poems, aged nine: Pigeons 32 The daisy 33 The robin 33 Poems for my children: The little Tibetan Goats 34 The snack 35 Fifth birthday 35
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Flapjack Press Petroleuse
Book SynopsisChallenging oppression with objectivity and prejudice with passion, feminist activist and poet Steph Pike confronts the politics of social, economic and gender inequality with a viscerally charged and indisputable truth. Includes a Foreword by Rosie Garland. Adult poetry / LGBTQ+
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Rogue Press Limited Unfinished Business
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Smokestack Books Subject Matters
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Sunesis Ministries Ltd Sucking Sugar Cane Dreams in Paradise
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Concrete Wolf The Physics of Love Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook
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As Darkness Falls
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DOS Gatos Press ShallowRooted Heart
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Cambridge University Press Poetry and Number in GraecoRoman Antiquity
Book SynopsisPoetry and mathematics might seem to be worlds apart. Nevertheless, a number of Greek and Roman poets incorporated counting and calculation within their verses. Setting the work of authors such as Callimachus, Catullus and Archimedes in dialogue with the less well-known isopsephic epigrams of Leonides of Alexandria and the anonymous arithmetical poems preserved in the Palatine Anthology, the book reveals the various roles that number played in ancient poetry. Focussing especially on counting and arithmetic, Max Leventhal demonstrates how the discussion, rejection or enacting of these two operations was bound up with wider conceptions of the nature of poetry. Practices of composing, reading, interpreting and critiquing poetry emerge in these texts as having a numerical component. The result is an illuminating new way of approaching Greek and Latin poetry and one that reaches across modern disciplinary divisions.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Numbers Up; Part I. Counting and Criticism: 1. Callimachus and his Legacy; 2. Leonides of Alexandria's Isopsephic Epigrams; Part II. Arithmetic and Aesthetics: 3. Archimedes' Cattle Problem; 4. The Arithmetical Poems in A.P. 14; Conclusion: Summing Up Poetry.
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Cambridge University Press Black Shakespeare
Book SynopsisRace may dominate everyday speech, media headlines and public policy, yet still questions of racialized blackness and whiteness in Shakespeare are resisted. In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the influence of systemic whiteness on the interpretation of Shakespeare''s plays. This far-reaching study shows that significant parts of Shakespeare''s texts have been elided, misconstrued or otherwise rendered invisible by readers who have ignored the presence of race in early modern England. Bringing the Black American intellectual tradition into fruitful dialogue with European thought, this urgent interdisciplinary work offers a deep, revealing and incisive analysis of individual plays, including Othello, The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. Demonstrating how racial illiteracy inhibits critical practice, Ian Smith provides a necessary anti-racist alternative that will transform the way you read Shakespeare.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 75
Book SynopsisShakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year''s textual and critical studies and of the year''s major British performances. The theme for Volume 75 is ''Othello''. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.Table of Contents1. Understanding Iago (2009): Clientelism, Corruption, Politics Mark Thornton Burnett; 2. Circumventing marginality: The curious case of India's Othello screen adaptations Abhirup Mascharak; 3. Othello's Kin: Legacy, Belonging, and The fortunes of the Moor Patricia Cahill; 4. 'More fair than black': Othellos on British radio' Andrea Smith; 5. 'This fair paper': Othello and the Artists' book' Agnieszka Żukowska; 6. Othello: A dialogue with the built environment Yik Ling Yong; 7. '[A] maid called barbary:' Othello, Moorish maidservants, and the black presence in early modern England Iman Sheeha; 8. 'The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave, some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow': Legal spaces, Racial trauma, and Othello' Lisa R. Barksdale-Shaw; 9. Ben Jonson's Sejanus and Shakespeare's Othello: Two Plays Performed by the King's Men in c.1603 John-Mark Philo; 10. 'Lago and the clown: Disassembling the vice in Othello Nicole Sheriko; 11. Pitying desdemona in Folio Othello: Race, Gender, and the willow song Joshua Held; 12. 'Desdemona's honest friend' Jeremy Lopez; 13. 'Suffering scstasy: Othello and the drama of displacement' Jennifer J. Edwards; 14. 'Othello's sympathies: Emotion, Agency, and identification' Richard Meek; 15. 'Warning the Stage: Shakespeare's mid-scene entrance conventions' Margaret Jane Kidnie; 16. 'Looking for perdita in Ali Smith's summer' Bailey Sincox; 17. 'Grafted to the Moor: Anglo-Spanish dynastic marriage and miscegenated whiteness in The winter's tale' Zainab S. Cheema; 18. 'Rhyme, History, and Memory in A Mirror for Magistrates and Henry VI' Molly Clark; 19. 'Bad' Love lyrics and poetic hypocrisy from Gascoigne to Benson's Shakespeare' Katherine Mennis; 20. 'Viola's Telemachy' Robert B. Pierce; 21. 'New analogical evidence for Cymbeline's folkloric composition in the medieval icelandic Ála flekks saga' Jonathan Hui; 22. 'But when extremities speak': Harley Granville-Barker, Coriolanus, the world wars and the state of exception' Richard Ashby; 23. Shakespeare performances in England 2021: London Lois Potter; 24. Shakespeare performances in England 2021: outside London Peter Kirwan; 25. Professional Shakespeare productions in the British Isles, January-December 2020 James Shaw; 26. The Year's contribution to Shakespeare studies: 1. Critical Studies reviewed by Jane Kingsley Smith, 2. Performance reviewed by Russell Jackson, 3. Editions and Textual Studies reviewed by Emma Depledge.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Introduction to Literary
Book SynopsisAt a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this book offers a through-line. Beginning with Mary Shelley''s Frankenstein and continuing into the post-print, born-digital excursions of Shelley Jackson''s Patchwork Girl, this literary introduction defines posthumanism and provides a summary account of the key literary and cultural theorists in the field. It embraces humanist refusals from Melville''s Bartelby to Thomas Pynchon''s authorial surrogation, and more recent evasions and avoidances in the writing of William Gibson, Tom McCarthy, Coleson Whitehead, Jeanette Winterson, and Claire-Louise Bennett. This book also provides close readings of key posthuman fiction, poetry, and conceptual approaches that help ground the discipline.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to John Clare
Book SynopsisA window into the fascinating life and writing of the early nineteenth-century labouring-class poet John Clare, this Companion discusses his poetic craft and reappraises ideas of self-image and identity. Essays situate Clare's work within a wide range of discourses, including ecocriticism, health studies, religion, natural history and aesthetics.
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Cambridge University Press Fate and the Hero in Virgils Aeneid
Book SynopsisExplores how Virgil's incorporation of Stoic thought on human responsibility and providential world fate into the Aeneid permits a reassessment of the characterisation and morality of the poem's gods and heroes. Of interest to both students and professional scholars.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Stoic world fate and Virgil's Aeneid; 2. Fate and the human responsibility of dido and Aeneas in Aeneid 4: a case study; 3. Stoic world fate and the gods of the Aeneid; 4. Stoic world fate and the humans of the Aeneid; 5. Stoic world fate and roman imperium in the Aeneid; Tragedy and didacticism; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Literary Sources for Roman Britain
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. From Caesar to Claudius (55 BC-AD 41); 2. The first century (AD 41-98); 3. The second century (AD 98-193); 4. Severus and the third century (AD 193-284); 5. Carausius and the fourth century (AD 284-410).
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Cambridge University Press The Trojan Horse and Other Stories
Book SynopsisWhat makes us human? What, if anything, sets us apart from all other creatures? Julia Kindt unpacks ten ancient stories of marvelous mythical beings to explore bold new ways of thinking about humanity that reach from antiquity to the present and ultimately challenge our understanding of who we really are.Trade Review'Julia Kindt has found a miraculous new lens through which to scrutinise our oldest, most loved stories and find in them colours, shapes and qualities that we have never really seen before. Humankind's relationship with animals has been examined through archaeology, history and art, but never before, to my knowledge, through myth, legend and story. The insights that this absorbing and imaginative approach reveal are enthralling and profound. The stories are told with wit, imagination and sparkle; the animals who star in them brought wondrously to life.' Stephen Fry'Kindt's wide-ranging volume tackles a question seldom addressed in the ever-expanding literature of ancient animal studies: how do non-human animals make us human? Investigating this question through an examination of ten animals and animal types that appear in classical mythology and history and live on in recent literature and art, she offers fresh insights on issues central to ancient animal studies, including the nature of animal intellect and emotion, the ethical obligations of human beings toward other species, and the significance of hybridity and metamorphosis. Kindt's scrupulously researched yet highly readable text will prove informative and stimulating to classical scholars and non-specialists alike.' Stephen T. Newmyer, Duquesne University'In this beautifully written and timely book, Julia Kindt provides a fascinating account of how humans use real and imaginary animals to think about what it means to be human and an eloquent defence of the power of storytelling. With each of its chapters comparing classical and modern sources in innovative, accessible and engaging ways, The Trojan Horse and Other Stories is sure to start an important conversation about how the ancient world foreshadows our contemporary consideration of the human-animal relation.' Chris Danta, Australian National University'The stories from ancient Greece are foundational for all our imaginations – and they are some of the best and long-lasting stories we have! Julia Kindt is a wonderful guide to what they are, what they mean and how they have influenced us.' Simon Goldhill, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Sphinx (Sphinx aenigmatica); 2. Xanthus, Achilles' Speaking Horse (Equus eloquens); 3. The Lion of Androclus (Panthera leo philanthropus); 4. The Cyclops (Cyclops inhospitalis); 5. The Trojan Horse (Equus troianus); 6. The 'Trojan' Boar (Aper troianus ostentator); 7. The Political Bee (Apis politica); 8. The Socratic Gadfly (Haematopota oxyglotta socratis); 9. The Minotaur (Hybrida minotaurus); 10. The Shearwaters of Diomedea (Calonectris diomedea transformata); Conclusion.
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LEGARE STREET PR Courage
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LEGARE STREET PR Un autre monde
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LEGARE STREET PR The Mystery of Hamlet An Attempt to Solve an Old
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LEGARE STREET PR Poems of Giosue Carducci
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Legare Street Press The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns
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Legare Street Press Le Barbier De Seville Ou La Precaution Inutile
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Legare Street Press The Poetical Works of Wordsworth
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Legare Street Press The Poetical Works of Christine Georgina Rossetti
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LEGARE STREET PR A Selection From the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett
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LEGARE STREET PR King Arthur
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LEGARE STREET PR The WeddingSong of Wisdom
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Legare Street Press Der Messias.
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Legare Street Press Jacob Cats...
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Poems. New Complete Ed
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Creative Media Partners, LLC La Battagli Di Abba Garima Esposizione Analitica
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Creative Media Partners, LLC Paradise Lost With Notes by Sir Egerton Brydges
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Legare Street Press Choix Des Poésies De Ronsard Dubellay Baïf
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LEGARE STREET PR Théâtre Complet Des Latins Comprenant Plaute
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LEGARE STREET PR Poems 1799
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeares Sublime Pathos
Book SynopsisWinner of the AEDEAN Enrique García Díez Literature Research Award 2023Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. More specifically, it explores how Shakespeare generates experiences of sublime pathos, for which audiences have been prepared by the sublime ethos described in the companion volume, Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos. To do so, it examines Shakespeare's model of mutualistic character, in which entangled language brokers a psychic communion between fictive persons and real-life audiences and readers. In the process, Sublime Critical platitudes regarding Shakespeare's liberating ambiguity and invention of the human are challenged, while the sympathetic imagination is reinstated as the linchpin of the playwright's sublTrade Review"Complex, far-ranging, at times dazzling, there is nothing really comparable to the sweep of this work" - Clark Hulse, University of Illinois at Chicago"This is a magnum opus in every sense of the word […] A thorough, indeed breath-takingly thorough knowledge of Shakespearean writing is everywhere in evidence"- Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University"Complex, far-ranging, at times dazzling, there is nothing really comparable to the sweep of this work"--Clark Hulse, University of Illinois at Chicago"This is a magnum opus in every sense of the word […] A thorough, indeed breath-takingly thorough knowledge of Shakespearean writing is everywhere in evidence"--Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University"Taken together, then, these two works on Shakespeare’s sublime [Shakespeare’s Sublime Ethos and Shakespeare’s Sublime Pathos] represent an outstanding contribution not only to Shakespeare studies, but more broadly to intellectual history. In seeking to make intelligible the seemingly inexplicable, Sell has succeeded in revealing the secrets of the apparent magic of the sublime."--Rocío G. Sumillera, Universidad de Granada"The powerful categorizing of the sublime’s coefficients is proof of Sell’s immense merit and designates this monograph as superior research destined to become seminal in Shakespeare studies."--Zenón Luis-MartínezTable of ContentsIntroductionAims and "ethos"Plan of the workChapter 1. The Conundrum of Character, the Sublime MistookJudith’s faceAmbiguity, realism, sublimityAmbiguity, freedom, sublimityContemptus mundiChapter 2. Hollow MenLiberal humanist characterProtean personsThe moral coreFreedom of choice?Mutualistic characterMyriad mindsChapter 3. Sympathetic Imagination Sympathy and imagination Psychology and phantasiaPassionate playgoingChapter 4. Language of PassionCause and effect"Conceit deceitful"Thought in progressBotching wordsEntangled, obscure, baroqueChapter 5. The Mutualist’s DividendGoing mad with ShakespeareTranscendence?"The sticking place"General ConclusionsThe Shakespearean sublimeShakespeare’s originalityEnter perfection? Letting in the daylightEpilogue Mechanical dreamsOrsino’s luckIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Poems of Robert Browning Volume Six
Book SynopsisThe Ring and the Book, published serially in 18689, is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman, Guido Franceschini, for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698.Browning's discovery of the old yellow book', a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial, on a second-hand market stall in Florence, sparked an imaginative engagement with this sordid tale of domestic cruelty, adultery, and greed which grew, through four years of arduous labour, into an epic peopled not by gods and warriors but by concrete, recognizably human beings. Fusing the technique of the dramatic monologue, the form he had made his own, with the grandeur of classical epic and the vivid realism of the modern novel, Browning created a unique hybrid form that allowed him not only to bring to life an entire historical period but also to reflect on the process of artistic creation itself the forging
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Poem and the Garden in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisThis book draws attention to the pervasive artistic rivalry between Elizabethan poetry and gardens in order to illustrate the benefits of a trans-media approach to the literary culture of the period. In its blending of textual studies with discussions of specific historical patches of earth, The Poem and the Garden demonstrates how the fashions that drove poetic invention were as likely to be influenced by a popular print convention or a particular garden experience as they were by the formal genres of the classical poets. By moving beyond a strictly verbal approach in its analysis of creative imitation, this volume offers new ways of appreciating the kinds of comparative and competitive methods that shaped early modern poetics. Noting shared patternsboth conceptual and materialin these two areas not only helps explain the persistence of botanical metaphors in sixteenth-century books of poetry but also offers a new perspective on the types of contrastive illusioTable of ContentsIntroduction: Commonplace Concerns 1. "Glory to Garden, Glory to Muses, Glory to Vertue": The Englishing of Mount Parnassus 2. "A pleasaunt plotte of fragrant floures": Biblio-botanical Metaphors as Paratextual Framing Devices 3. To wander "as it were in a Labyrinthe": Spenser’s Garden Critiques on Reading Poetry 4. Of Patterns "more or lesse busie and curious": The Early Modern Knot Garden as a Poetic Device 5. Epilogue: Trans-media Matters
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Routledge Greek Tragedy Education and Theatre Practices in the UK Classics Ecology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Global Haiku Reader
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku's various global developments, demonstrating the form's complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present.The sixteen chapters are carefully organized into categories that reflect the salient areas of practice and study: Haiku in Transit, Haiku and Social Consciousness, Haiku and Experimentation, and The Future of Global Haiku. An insightful introduction surveys haiku's influence beyond Japan and frames the collection historically and culturally, questioning commonly held assumptions about haiku and laying the groundwork for new ways of seeing the form. Haiku's elusiveness, its resistance to definition, is partly what keeps it Trade Review"This wide-ranging and imaginatively organized collection includes articles by most of the leading practitioners and theorists of global haiku today. It provides a good view of the state of the art now and a sense of how it has developed over the last decades. Highly recommended!" —Janine Beichman, Professor Emerita, Daitō Bunka University "This book is a marvel of ideas, debates, scholarly investigations and inspired readings of the phenomenon of the global haiku. These essays show, dramatically, that this tiny poetic form is marked by its capaciousness and by its tenacious hold on the attention of contemporary poets across the world. The haiku’s apparently simple form teases, baffles, and metamorphoses under the varied lights these essays throw on it. Whether the haiku is a mirror (possibly even an x-ray) of its cultural moment, whether it is a dissident form or a sentimental craft best left to amateurs and siloed communities—are the kinds of questions debated here with passion and precision. As a poet, this is the kind of talking-about-poetry that I yearn to read. The point of this book, though, is not to find answers to whether haiku is a global movement or a local movement, a deeply misunderstood Japanese art-form or a ‘spirit’ that all poets can share, but it is to understand and explore the meanings, ideas, values and desires that inhere in such questions. It is that rare event, a scholarly book that will be taken up gratefully by general readers, students, and poets themselves." —Kevin Brophy, Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne"An instantly indispensable volume for anyone interested in haiku itself—its own knapsack-journey to far norths, souths, easts, wests, and to deeply human interiors—as well as for anyone interested in the development of current world poetry, whose course was profoundly and permanently altered by haiku's emergence in global translation." —Jane Hirshfield, author of The Heart of Haiku, Ledger, and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World"This definitive compilation of essays by haikuists, critics and scholars is destined to transform the understanding and appreciation of the myriad modern offshoots—let alone traditional Japanese taproot—of the world’s most popular verseform. Surveying for the first time the influence of haiku on literary arts around the globe over the past century, from Modernism, Imagism and Surrealism to anti-war verse, indigenous people’s resistance poetry, ecological paean and so on, The Routledge Global Haiku Reader sows the seeds of a truly efflorescent epiphany." —Adam L. Kern, author of The Penguin Book of Haiku "The Routledge Global Haiku Reader champions a geopolitically sophisticated approach to haiku studies that cuts through the distortions and exoticisms of the Japan/West binary in which the commentary has been entrenched. The essays span a compelling diversity of haiku situations: compositions in Taiwan and Singapore critical of Japan’s imperialism, by indigenous peoples of America, Japanese-Canadians, or poets in Latin America, Brazil, and Russia. This curiosity, this awareness and exploration of the layered factors of race, myth, and politics as they give impetus to and occasion meaning for haiku poetry is what makes this volume so fresh, so new, and so necessary. This collection blends the dispositions of both poets and scholars to create a commentary that is rigorously informed while insistent upon haiku as a living, active practice that has a present and future." —Arthur Mitchell, Associate Professor, Macalester CollegeTable of ContentsList of Contributors List of Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction I Haiku in Transit 1 Beyond the Haiku Moment: Bashō, Buson, and Modern Haiku Myths 2 Hearn, Bickerton, Hubbell: Translation and Definition 3 Reading an Evening Breeze: Buson’s Hokku in Translation II Haiku and Social Consciousness 4 A Second-Class Art: On Contemporary Haiku 5 From the 2.26 Incident to the Atomic Bombs: Haiku During the Asia-Pacific War 6 New Rising Haiku: The Evolution of Modern Japanese Haiku and the Haiku Persecution Incident 7 Translations and Migrations of the Poetic Diary: Roy Kiyooka’s Wheels III Haiku and Experimentation 8 Ezra Pound, Yone Noguchi, and Imagism 9 Haiku as a Western Genre: Fellow-Traveler of Modernism 10 Marking Time in Native America: Haiku, Elegy, Survival 11 The Disjunctive Dragonfly: A Study of Disjunctive Method and Definitions in Contemporary English-Language Haiku IV The Future of Global Haiku 12 Non-Japanese Haiku Today 13 One Hundred Bridges, One Hundred Traditions in Haiku 14 In the Shade of the Cherry Blossoms: The Reception of Haiku in Post-Soviet Russia 15 From Haiku to the Short Poem: Bridging the Divide 16 Future of World Haiku V Afterword Afterword Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lessons from Shakespeares Classroom
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century. This study asks us what lessons we can learn today from Shakespeare's Latin grammar school. What were the cognitive benefits of an education so deeply rooted in what Demosthenes and Quintilian called actioacting? Because of the vast difference between educational practice then and now, we have not often followed one essential thread: the focus on performance. This study examines the connections relevant to the education offered in schools today. This book will be of great interest to teachers, scholars, and administrators in performing arts and education.Trade Review''I guarantee that Lessons from Shakespeare's Classroom will be the most surprising, most readable learning you will do all year, and that you will laugh out loud in every chapter. Zwounds!—hie thee to these pages most expeditiously.'' Eric Booth, Actor and author of "The Everyday Work of Art," "The Music Teachers' Bible," "Playing for Their Lives," and "Tending the Perennials."''Robin Lithgow has done anyone interested in Shakespeare or education (and more particularly those of us interested in both Shakespeare and education) a great service with her book. By detailing the classical grounding of Shakespeare’s writing she shows us the great tradition of which we are a part; a tradition that expands in its inclusivity as the world changes and evolves. This tradition is the "fertile soil" that contributed to the brilliance of Shakespeare’s generation and lights a path for our own. It is truly an "education for the benefit of the commonwealth," which we perhaps need now more than ever.'' Louis Fantasia, Artistic Associate, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles''Lithgow’s book reanimates the Erasmian spirit of teaching in all the best ways: it’s artfully copious, humanely conversational, and models throughout a witty flair for drama. Her students were fortunate; now we are, too.''Scott Newstok, author of How to Think like ShakespeareTable of ContentsTimelineCast of CharactersAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Time Travel: Setting the sceneChapter 2. Engagement before Information: Instruction in both colloquial and rhetorical language in Elizabethan schoolsChapter 3. Angels and Eaglets: Schoolboy actors set the sceneChapter 4. Good Behavior and Audacity: The training up of Elizabethan schoolboysChapter 5. The Lego Snap of Learning: Research in arts education and neuroscience Chapter 6. Context: The Hatch and Brood of Time: A brief history of the English ReformationChapter 7. Erasmus’ Egg: His life and his works in support of performing arts in educationChapter 8. The Delightful Mulcaster: Playmaking schoolmasters in Tudor EnglandChapter 9. Per Quam Figuram? Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s classroomChapter 10. Erasmus Writes Colloquies: Classroom training in Latin conversationChapter 11. The Little Eyases: Professional boy actors in the 16th centuryChapter 12. ConclusionBibliographyAppendix I: Performing the ColloquiesExamples of Erasmus’ Colloquies in Latin and English Proci and puellae (Courtship) Naufragium (The Shipwreck) Uxor (Marriage) Abattis et eruditae (The Abbot and the Learned Woman) Herilia (A Master’s Commands) Appendix II: Selection of Educational Drama Resources for Teachers Index
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Routledge Black Women Centre Stage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Poetry and the Global Climate Crisis
Book SynopsisThis book demonstrates how humans can become sensitized to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analyzing, and teaching poetry. It offers both theoretical and practice-based essays, providing a diversity of approaches and voices that will be useful in the classroom and beyond.The chapters in this edited collection explore how poetry can make readers climate-ready and climate-responsive through creativity, empathy, and empowerment. The book encompasses work from or about Oceania, Africa, Europe, North America, Asia, and Antarctica, integrating poetry into discussions of specific local and global issues, including the value of Indigenous responses to climate change; the dynamics of climate migration; the shifting boundaries between the human and more-than-human world; the ecopoetics of the prison-industrial complex; and the ongoing environmental effects of colonialism, racism, and sexism. With numerous examples of how poetry reading, teaching, and lTable of ContentsPart I: Perspectives on Indigenous Poetries 1. Embodiment and Solace: The Entanglement of Culture with Nature in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand Ecopoetry 2. From Burning Beds to Rising Seas: Environmental Issues in the Song Lyrics of Midnight Oil 3. From Standing Rock to Flint, Michigan: How Indigenous Poets Contextualise the Fight for Clean Water Part II: Perspectives on the More-than-Human 4. Last Migrations: The Poetry of Migratory Birds 5. Animal Politics and Ecological Haiku 6. Greeting a Ginkgo: How Anthropomorphism in Poetry Can Inspire Eco-Empathy 7. Of Jellyfish, Lichen, and Other More-Than-Human Matter: Ecopoethical Writing Research as Transformative Politics 8. Using Poetry to Learn from the Animals We Brought to Antarctica Part III: Critical and Theoretical Perspectives 9. Imaging the Real in Times of Crisis: Empowerment and Ecosophy in Shaun Tan’s Tales from The Inner City 10. Vegetal Relationality: Three Australian [Eco]poets 11. Carceral Climates: Poetry, Ecology, and the U.S. Prison System 12. Black Ecologies, the “Weather,” and “Renegade” Poetic Sensorium 13. “Everything depends on us:” The Ecofeminist Vision in Naomi Shihab Nye’s Honeybee Part IV: Global Juxtapositions 14. Mitigating Ecological Threats: Amplifying Environmental Activism in Gabeba Baderoon’s Poetry 15. Capitalism and Environmental Activism in Selected Nigerian Poetry 16. Bugtong, or the Philippine Riddle as an Ecopoem 17. Poetry and Ecological Awareness: Inspiration from Pierluigi Cappello’s Poetry Conclusion: From Poetry to the World
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Taylor & Francis Imagination Besieged
Book SynopsisImagination Besieged records the silenced stories of a mediterranean defined by displacement, dispossession, loss, sexual and racial violence. Stories in which the protagonists find ways to express their dissent, sometimes in tragic ways.The book grapples with the legacies of colonialism and the histories of violence that define the past and present of the Mediterranean in the regional artistic and cultural production. According to their viewpoints, artists and writers from the region have described a mediterranean deeply divided, where communities live alienated from each otherâs, and yet similarly affected by the violent process of modernization in the post-war, post-colonial world produced, and its effects on the bodies, the landscape, the environment. Each essay taps into the depth of the archive of the modern mediterranean to bring into the present precisely what this present seeks to conceal.
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