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Arranz Bravo Bartolozzi. Fiesta de la confusión
Primera traducción íntegra de la poesía de Marianne Moore.En la poesía del siglo XX, el nombre de Marianne Moore ocupa un lugar esencial. Quizá sea, después de Emily Dickinson, la poeta más radical que han dado las letras norteamericanas.Compañera de generación de Wallace Stevens o de William Carlos Williams, Moore logró crear un universo poético, tanto en el fondo como en la forma, muy distinto a lo que hasta entonces se había hecho. Poeta del mundo natural, muy poco dada al tono confesional, su poesía nace en el imaginismo de su generación y desemboca en el alumbramiento de una poesía construida con imágenes y símbolos de una belleza pura.Ahora publicamos, por primera vez en castellano, su poesía completa, al cuidado de Olivia de Miguel, experta en la obra de Moore. Un texto de T. S. Eliot sobre la poeta y la entrevista que le hizo Donald Hall completan la edición.
£37.50
Oxford University Press Poetry of the Second World War
The Second World War is now recognized as a watershed for British poetry. The changes that arose were masked for some time by the enormous power and shock of the conflict itself, and by the restrictions on poetry publishing consequent on paper rationing and the general business of wartime. This anthology seeks to showcase not only the harrowingly beautiful poetry born from the conflict, but also the radical changes to style and form that came from the epoch and altered the face of British poetry. Featuring generous selections of famous poets, including Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden, alongside works by civilians and soldiers, the collection offers a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. Tim Kendall''s introduction charts the history of the war poets'' reception, explaining their relationship with their First World War predecessors and some of the reasons why they have never managed to reach such a wide audience. The
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WW Norton & Co Catching Life by the Throat: Poems from Eight Great Poets
Catching Life by the Throat unites the sound, sense, and sensibility that lie at the heart of great poetry. It features eight great poets, with brief, accessible essays concerning their life and work and a selection of their poems, and it is accompanied by an 80-minute CD recorded live at the British Library: Ralph Fiennes reading Auden, Edward Fox reading Eliot, Roger Moore reading Kipling, Harold Pinter reading Larkin, and more. Whether you believe (like Robert Frost, who inspired the title) that poetry is a way of “taking life by the throat” or (like T. S. Eliot) that it “is one person talking to another,” nobody does it better than the poets featured in this book. For a novice discovering the rich heritage of English-language verse or a seasoned poetry reader, Catching Life by the Throat is an extraordinary introduction to eight iconic poets.
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Everyman Poems of London
Poems of London brings together a remarkably wide range of poems inspired by the storied city, from its teeming medieval streets to the multicultural metropolis it is today.The pantheon of classic English poets, from Shakespeare and Donne to Wordsworth and Blake to T. S. Eliot and Ted Hughes, provide their views of London alongside tributes by notable visitors including Arthur Rimbaud, Samuel Beckett, and Sylvia Plath. Here, too, are poetic contributions by an array of immigrants and the children of immigrants, including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Fleur Adcock, Patience Agbabi, and Booker Prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo. All the famous sights of London, from the Thames to the Tower, are touched on in this vibrant collection, and denizens of its busy streets, ranging from princes to pub-goers to pickpockets, wander through these pages. The result is an enthralling portrait of an endlessly varied and fascinating place.
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Cornell University Press Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay
Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to Marshall McLuhan and Daniel Bell, Brantlinger considers the many versions of negative classicism and shows how the belief in the historical inevitability of social decay—a belief today perpetuated by the mass media themselves—has become the dominant view of mass culture in our time. While not defending mass culture in its present form, Brantlinger argues that the view of culture implicit in negative classicism obscures the question of how the media can best be used to help achieve freedom and enlightenment on a truly democratic basis.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Wolfgang Hildesheimer und England: Zur Topologie eines literarischen Transfers
In Leben und Werk Wolfgang Hildesheimers kommt England der Status eines Kulturtopos zu, der in bestimmten Lebensphasen prominent, in anderen verschleiert in Erscheinung trat. Der Einfluss englischsprachiger Autoren prägte Hildesheimers Schaffen – von Shakespeare, Shaw, Joyce, T. S. Eliot über Barnes und Beckett – und die englische Sprache durchzieht Werk und Briefe. Wie läßt sich die englische Topografie in Hildesheimers Werk vermessen? Wie das Geopoetische in seinen England-Bezügen werten? Auf welches ‘England’ bezog sich Hildesheimer? War es jenes Shakespeares, Shaws, T.S. Eliots, Becketts oder die Welt des James Joyce? Was am Englischen äußerte sich stilbildend, sprachprägend in seinem Werk? Dieser Band dokumentiert erstmals thematisch zusammenhängend die Lebensspuren Hildesheimers im englischen Kulturraum und die Spuren des Englischen in seinem literarischen und bildkünstlerischen Œuvre. Er präsentiert die Ergebnisse der Tagung «Wolfgang Hildesheimer und England», die im September 2010 am Queen Mary College der University of London stattfand.
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Princeton University Press The Complete Works of W. H. Auden, Volume V: Prose: 1963–1968
This fifth volume of W. H. Auden's prose displays a great writer's mind in its full maturity of wisdom, learning, and emotional and moral intelligence. It contains his most personally revealing essays, the ones in which he wrote for the first time about the full history of his family life, his sexuality, and the development of his moral and religious beliefs. Among these works are the lightly disguised autobiographies that appear in long essays on the Protestant mystics and on Shakespeare's sonnets. The book also features the full text of his T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, Secondary Worlds, and many unpublished or unavailable lectures and speeches. Edward Mendelson's introduction and comprehensive notes provide biographical and historical explanations of obscure references. The text includes corrections and revisions that Auden marked in personal copies of his work and that are published here for the first time.
£55.80
Liverpool University Press Don Paterson
Don Paterson is one of Britain’s leading contemporary poets. A popular writer as well as a formidably intelligent one, he has won both a dedicated readership and most of Britain's major poetry prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Prize on two occasions, the Forward Prize in every category, and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. In this first comprehensive study of Paterson’s poetry, Ben Wilkinson presents him as a modern-day metaphysical, whose work is characterised by guileful use of form, musicality, colloquial diction and playful wit, in pursuit of poetry as a moral and philosophical project. Drawing on a wide range of commentators, Wilkinson traces Paterson’s development from collection to collection, providing detailed close readings of the poems framed by theoretical and literary contexts. An essential guide for students, specialists, and the general reader of contemporary poetry, it presents Paterson as a major lyric poet.
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Notas para una ficcin suprema
El libro que representa la cristalización del pensamiento poético de Wallace Stevens, en traducción de Javier Marías.Cuando llegué a la poesía de Wallace Stevens era muy joven y llevaba un par de años leyendo a Ezra Pound y a T. S. Eliot. Poco después, llegó Wallace Stevens. Y lo hizo con un discurso epifánico, el largo poema Sunday Morning, y un luminoso fogonazo: el faisán adentrándose en la espesura (Adagia), como definición de la epifanía poética y la fugacidad de su origen en el tiempo.Contra la tradición romántica del vivere byroniano, estos poetas de comienzos del siglo XX se enfundan el traje y se anudan la corbata, pasan la jornada laboral en un despacho, están felizmente -o no- casados y son buenos padres de familia.Dudo si me he perdido algo llevando una vida excesivamente regular y disciplinada, escribirá Stevens. Pero hay cierta coquetería intelectual detrás: él sabe que en un mundo que sólo puede verse a través de la imaginación y de l
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Editorial Pre-Textos El tiempo tras nosotros
Cuando nació allí Vicenzo Cardarelli, el primero de mayo de 1887, Corneto aún se seguía llamando Corneto, y no como se llamaría después, más poéticamente, Tarquinia, en recuerdo de su pasado etrusco. Tampoco Cardarelli, al tiempo de su inscripción en el registro de nacimientos, se llamaba así, sino Nazzareno Caldarelli. Se ve que ambos, la ciudad y el hombre, buscaron inventarse, o reinventarse un poco. Es decir, encontrarse, que es lo que etimológicamente significa esto de inventarse. Sólo un año mayor que F. Pessoa o que T. S. Eliot, era seis años más joven que Juan Ramón Jiménez. Cantidades despreciables, que lo serán aún más a medida que pasen los años.Frente a la anarquía de las vanguardias y al desorden del futurismo, Cardarelli reivindicó una poesía discursiva e inteligible. Admiró a Baudelaire y renegó de Valéry. Y fue él quien lanzó a sus compatriotas la siempre sensata consigna de volver a Leopardi. Dejó, además de su poesía, una notable obra en prosa, memorialística, crí
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A favor o en contra autores británicos y norteamericanos se pronuncian sobre la guerra civil española
Novelistas, poetas, ensayistas, intelectuales? se mojan.Otoño de 1937. La revista británica Left Review, por medio de la editora y activista Nancy Cunard, lanza dos preguntas: 1. Estás a favor o en contra del Gobierno legal y del pueblo de la España republicana?. 2. Estás a favor o en contra de Franco y del fascismo?.Resultado: 148 escritores y escritoras de Reino Unido se pronuncian y toman partido sobre la guerra civil española.Se incluye, además, una selección de las respuestas al cuestionario llevado a cabo en Estados Unidos.Dividido en tres secciones, A favor del Gobierno, Neutral y En contra del Gobierno, se trata de uno de los documentos más citados sobre el posicionamiento político de intelectuales.George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Nancy Cunard, C. Day-Lewis, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett, Katherine Anne Porter, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Dashiel Hammett, Rebecca West, Ernest Hemingway, Marianne Moore, Cyril Connolly, Aldous Huxle
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azar no tanto
El último libro de Aldo Sanz, azar (+ no tanto) puede ser leído como una sucesión de estampas más o menos difuminadas por el paso, el correr, el olvido, la deformación del tiempo, como se prefiera. Confluyen, en su brevedad, temas recurrentes de su última poesía, como la presencia de Antón Makarenko (posible símbolo de disciplina paterna) o la de T. S. Eliot, símbolo más complejo y ambiguo, polisémico en todo caso.Al mismo tiempo instala su escritura en distintos planos, tanto espaciales como temporales, planos que bien pudiéramos llamar cubistas, a la manera de El músico de Saint-Merry, célebre poema de G. Apollinaire.Juego de espejos o catálogo de alucinaciones controladas son otras posibles lecturas que nos acercan (y cercan) a la poética de Aldo Sanz.La clave final, como siempre, la urdimbre certera la pondrá el lector con su lectura, que es el lugar donde se terminan de escribir todos los poemas.C. Z.
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WW Norton & Co Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters
"The history of poetry and Poetry in America are almost interchangeable, certainly inseparable," A. R. Ammons wrote. Dear Editor, in gathering over 600 surprisingly candid letters to and from the editors of Poetry, traces the development of poetry in America: Ezra Pound's opinion of T. S. Eliot ("It is such a comfort to meet a man and not have to tell him to wash his face, wipe his feet") and of Robert Frost ("dull as ditch water...[but] set to be 'literchure' someday"); Edna St. Vincent Millay's pleas for an advance ("I am become very, very thin, and have taken to smoking Virginia tobacco"); Wallace Stevens on himself ("I have a pretty well-developed mean streak"). Here are the inside stories, the rivalries between aspiring authors, the inspirations behind classics, the practicalities (and politicking) of publishing. In fascinating anecdotes and literary gossip, scores of poets offer insights into the creative process and their reactions to historic events.
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Stanford University Press What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon
What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Ankhi Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts. Emergent canons are scrutinized in the context of the wider cultural phenomena of book prizes, the translation and distribution of world literatures, and multimedia adaptations of world classics. Throughout, Mukherjee attunes traditional literary critical concerns to the value contestations mobilizing postcolonial and world literature. The breadth of debates and topics she addresses, as well as the book's ambitious historical schema, which includes South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America, set this study apart from related titles on the bookshelf today.
£104.40
Faber & Faber Quiet
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZEWINNER OF THE JOHN POLLARD INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEPOETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION'In Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley advances a poetics of balance. The poems collected in these pages mix a technically assured, sonically resonant, surface with a profoundly evocative, scrupulously integrated core. This book is a seismic event; its vibrations will be felt for a long time to come.' Kayo ChingonyiVictoria Adukwei Bulley's debut collection, Quiet, circles around ideas of black interiority, intimacy and selfhood, playing at the the tensions between the impulse to guard one's 'inner life' and the knowledge that, as Audre Lorde writes, 'your silence will not protect you'. The poems teem with grace and dignity, are artful in their shapes, sharp in their intelligence, and possessing of a good ear, finely attuned to the sonics that fascinate and motivate the writing 'at the lower end of sound'.
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Michael O'Mara Books Ltd Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright: Much-Loved Poems You Half-Remember
Great poetry 'finds its way to the hearts of many, not just the minds of the few', and this delightful collection is the ideal way to browse, remember and enjoy some of poetry's greatest hits.The new hardback edition of the first poetry anthology from Ana Sampson, Tyger Tyger, Burning Bright contains verses from more than eighty of the world's favourite poets, from the thirteenth century to the present day.It includes such leading lyricists as Burns, Keats, Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney – taking in the work of W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, Wilfred Owen, and many others along the way.Perfect to dip into on the reader's whim, the chapters cover childhood and youth, nature, love and romance, home and travel, elegies, and more – each poem set in context with a lively introduction and entertaining notes on the poets themselves.This anthology is a lovely reminder of the nation's finest poems, and the perfect addition to any poetry lover's collection.
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En el castillo de Barba Azul aproximacin a un nuevo concepto de cultura
Los cuatro textos de este volumen constituyen un hito en el pensamiento contemporáneo por tratarse de una de las primeras tomas de posición ante las tendencias de pesimismo cultural presentes en autores como T. S. Eliot ya a mediados del siglo xx. A partir de su concepto de poscultura, Steiner formula una serie de réplicas de gran lucidez, belleza y atrevimiento, precisamente en un momento en que este pesimismo reaparece en todo su radicalismo y violencia.La cultura, nueva divinidad del siglo xx, había mostrado su impotencia ante la confianza puesta en ella al constatar que no pudo evitar ni suavizar las peores atrocidades surgidas de la mente humana. Y, sin embargo, postular la muerte de la cultura es un sinsentido mientras existan seres humanos. Deben ampliarse entonces las fronteras del concepto de cultura, aceptando como hechos culturales no sólo lo indecible del Holocausto, sino también la ciega destrucción masiva de un patrimonio cultural irrestituible?Steiner propone sopor
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Laura y Francisca
Laura (Riding) Jackson (Nueva York, 1901 - Florida, 1991) es una gran desconocida entre el gran público hispanohablante. Salvo raras excepciones, la mitad no ha oído hablar nunca de ella y la otra mitad solo la tiene presente como musa hechicera de Robert Graves. Sin embargo es una de las mayores poetas del siglo XX y su poesía no tiene nada que envidiar a la de sus compatriotas Ezra Pound y T. S. Eliot.El propósito de la presente edición es enderezar el entuerto que pesa sobre la figura y la obra de esta originalísima poeta y empezar a colmar esta laguna presentando este extenso poema en sus dos versiones: la original de 1931 y la corregida que la autora incluyó, transcurridos casi cincuenta años, en los Collected Poems de 1980. Como colofón añadimos un facsímil de la publicación original de Laura and Francisca, manufacturada en The Seizin Press (Deià, Mallorca) en 1931.
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Pan Macmillan November
November is Sean O’Brien’s first collection since his widely celebrated The Drowned Book, the only book of poetry to have won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes. November is haunted by the missing, the missed, the vanished, the uncounted, and the uncountable lost: lost sleep, connections, muses, books, the ghosts and gardens of childhood. Ultimately, these lead the poet to contemplate the most troubling absences: O’Brien’s elegies for his parents and friends form the heart of this book, and are the source of its pervasive note of départ. Elsewhere – as if a French window stood open to an English room – the islands, canals, railway stations and undergrounds of O’Brien’s landscape are swept by a strikingly Gallic air. This new note lends O’Brien’s recent poems a reinvigorated sense of the imaginative possible: November shows O’Brien at the height of his powers, with his intellect and imagination as gratifyingly restless as ever.
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University of Illinois Press Power to Hurt: THE VIRTUES OF ALIENATION
William Monroe addresses what William J. Bennett ignores in The Book of Virtues: How do readers use literature as "equipment for living"? Tackling modernism and postmodernism, Monroe outlines "virtue criticism," an alternative to current theory. Focusing on works by T. S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, and Donald Barthelme, he demonstrates that these alienistic texts are not just filled with belligerence but are also endowed with virtues, such as trust and the promise of solidarity with the reader. By considering these vital texts as responses to personal situations and institutional practices, Monroe brings literature back to the common reader and shows how it offers functional responses to the dysfunctional situations of modern life. Readers interested in literary criticism, American culture, and the relationship between ethics and literature will be fascinated by virtue criticism and this fresh look at the virtues and vices of alienation. Chosen as a Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book for 1999.
£17.99
Stanford University Press What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon
What Is a Classic? revisits the famous question posed by critics from Sainte-Beuve and T. S. Eliot to J. M. Coetzee to ask how classics emanate from postcolonial histories and societies. Exploring definitive trends in twentieth- and twenty-first century English and Anglophone literature, Ankhi Mukherjee demonstrates the relevance of the question of the classic for the global politics of identifying and perpetuating so-called core texts. Emergent canons are scrutinized in the context of the wider cultural phenomena of book prizes, the translation and distribution of world literatures, and multimedia adaptations of world classics. Throughout, Mukherjee attunes traditional literary critical concerns to the value contestations mobilizing postcolonial and world literature. The breadth of debates and topics she addresses, as well as the book's ambitious historical schema, which includes South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and North America, set this study apart from related titles on the bookshelf today.
£27.99
Enitharmon Press Selected Prose, 1934-96
This is a major collection of more than seventy essays, critical pieces, biographical sketches, and memoirs by the renowned poet, translator, and essayist. It includes long-inaccessible contributions to journals and magazines together with previously unpublished material. Included are essays on Carlyle, Parchen, and Novalis, memoirs on Dali and Durrell, reviews of Miller, Ferlinghetti, and Watkins, and a number of pieces on Surrealism.These works reflect Gascoyne's continuing engagement with the changing context of his times, and his close involvement with and response to luminary figures in twentieth-century art and literature. The subjects include: Eileen Agar, Louis Aragon, W. H. Auden, George Barker, Andre Breton, Thomas Carlyle, Leonora Carrington, Rene Char, Salvador Dali, Lawrence Durrell, T. S. Eliot, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst, Vincent van Gogh, Geoffrey Grigson, S. W. Hayter, Friedrich Holderlin, Humphrey Jennings, Pierre Jean Jouve, Man Ray, Henry Miller, Novalis, Kenneth Patchen, Roland Penrose, Francis Picabia, Jeremy Reed, Elizabeth Smart, Tambimuttu, Graham Sutherland, Julian Trevelyan, Vernon Watkins, and, Antonia White.
£27.00
Mentes creativas
Ya hace mucho tiempo que Howard Gardner cambió nuestro modo de pensar sobre la inteligencia. En su obra clásica Frames of Mind destruyó el tópico de que se trataba de una simple habilidad que cada ser humano poseía en mayor o menor medida. Y ahora, apoyándose en el propio sistema que él mismo desarrolló para comprender la inteligencia, nos ofrece una revolucionaria visión de la creatividad, así como fascinantes retratos de algunos de los personajes que más han contribuido a reinventar el conjunto del ser humano.Tomando como punto de partida su noción de las "siete inteligencias" , Gardner pasa revista a siete figuras absolutamente extraordinarias: Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, T. S. Eliot, Martha Graham y Mahatma Gandhi, cada uno de ellos destacado ejemplo de un tipo específico de inteligencia. Gardner, así, aporta pruebas de que las personas creativas de nuestro tiempo se caracterizan por una configuración específica de su personalidad y de que los
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La piel bajo el mármol
Jane Ellen Harrison encarna el desarrollo de un poder intelectual que considero no solo notable sino inmenso.VIRGINIA WOOLFJane Ellen Harrison cambió el modo en que pensamos en la cultura de la antigua Grecia, arañando ese apacible exterior de mármol blanco para revelar debajo algo mucho más violento, enmarañado y extático. Fue además la primera mujer en Inglaterra en convertirse en académica, en un sentido plenamente profesional: una investigadora y profesora universitaria ambiciosa, asalariada y a tiempo completo. Ella hizo posible que yo haga lo que hago.MARY BEARDEn lo concerniente a los orígenes de los mitos y rituales griegos, pocos libros resultan más fascinantes que los de Jane Ellen Harrison. En ellos los hechos se funden con la interpretación, y la interpretación con la metafísica.T. S. ELIOTLos estudios clásicos han contribuido enormemente a la devaluación sistemática de lo femenino. Hasta que apareció una investigadora, la maravillosa Jane Ellen Harrison.<
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EL VUELO DEL AVE FNIX
Akiko Yosano. Piedra angular de la poesía moderna japonesa cuyos versos, poderosos, sensuales e iconoclastas, trascienden fronteras geográficas y temporales.En 1901, una joven poeta causó una sensación sin precedentes con su debut en el mundo literario nipón y se erigió en abanderada de la modernidad. Akiko Yosano no solo renovó por completo la poesía tradicional, sino que desafió a una sociedad rígida e hipócrita al reivindicar el amor en todos sus matices: pasión, erotismo, celos, soledad?La presente antología rinde homenaje a una poeta, novelista, estudiosa y pionera del feminismo que brilló con luz propia en todas las facetas de su deslumbrante personalidad. Edición bilingüe.AKIKO YOSANO, POETA DE LA PASIÓNAkiko Yosano ha dejado un legado literario imperecedero de más de setenta libros y un valioso legado poético que anticipa la renovación poética realizada pocos años después por consagrados autores occidentales como Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot o Vicente Huidobro.
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Coach House Books Portable Altamont
Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and raconteur Brian Joseph Davis could have imagined Margaret Atwood as a human beatbox, Jessica Simpson applying for arts grants or the Swedish Chef reciting T. S. Eliot? Davis uses every literary form available to revel in and rearrange pop culture. Even the index turns into a short story about Luke Perry's descent into a shadowy underworld of Parisian intellectuals and terrorists. A word of warning: this book is a complete and utter fiction. Philip Roth is not David Lee Roth's brother. Reese Witherspoon is not a Communist cell leader, and Don Knotts has never been a New Age guru. The stuff about Nicole Richie, however, is absolutely true. Portable Altamont is that rare book that is both incendiary and compulsively readable. Get to it before the lawyers do!
£10.58
New Directions Publishing Corporation Personae: The Shorter Poems
If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, it was Pound alone who provided (in Hugh Kenner's words) "the synergetic presence") to convert individual experiment into an international movement. In 1926 Pound carefully sculpted his body of shorter poems into a definitive collection which would best show the concentration of force, the economy of means, and the habit of analysis that were, to him, the hallmarks of the new style.This collection, where Pound presented himself in a variety of characters or "masks," was called Personae. In 1926, Personae's publication gave solidity to a movement today the work stands as one of the classic texts of the twentieth century. Pound scholars Lea Baechler (of Columbia) and A. Walton Litz (Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton) have prepared a corrected text and supplied an informative "Note on the Text" explaining both Pound's original criteria for his selection and the volume's subsequent history.
£15.80
Penguin Books Ltd So To Speak
A dazzling collection of poems from the T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted author of American Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinSince the publication of his first book, Muscular Music, in 1999, Terrance Hayes has been one of America''s most exciting and innovative poets, winning acclaim for his sly, twisting, jazzy poems, and his mastery of emotive, restless wordplay.In So to Speak, his seventh collection, a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds, talking cats tell jokes in the Jim Crow South and a father addresses his daughter. In lyric fables, folk sonnets, quarantine quatrains and ekphrastic do-it-yourself sestinas, Bob Ross paints your portrait, green beans bling in the mouth of Lil Wayne and elegies for the late David Berman and George Floyd unfold amid the pandemic. These poems lyrically capture the often-incomprehensible predicaments of the present, as Hayes shapes music into language, and language into music.
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Faber & Faber Selected Poems
Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the way. God's Gift Women took the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997, Landing Light won it again in 2003 and the Whitbread Award besides, and Rain (2009), his most recent collection, won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. This selection, drawn from twenty years of work, is made by the author himself and includes not only those poems from his four single volumes, but his thrilling and original adaptations of the poems of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. For any readers unfamiliar with Don Paterson's work, this Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to this most captivating of writers; and for fans, an essential gathering from a master craftsman.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
'An essential book for anyone invested, not only in Vietnamese literature, but the historic power of the national epic . . . and its perennial place in our species' efforts toward self-knowledge. Tim Allen's new translation offers clean fluidity while honouring the original's varied rhythms and jagged lyricism. A luminous feat.' Ocean Vuong, winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot PrizeEver since it exploded into Vietnam's cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation's most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu, who agrees to marry to save her family from debt but is tricked into working in a brothel. Over the course of a swift-moving story involving kidnap, war, jealous wives and rebel heroes, she will become a queen, wife, nun, slave, victim and avenger, surviving through the strength of her words and her wits alone.Translated with an introduction by Timothy Allen
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats's work is essential. This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times. Paradoxical, proud and passionate, Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever.
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Reino de Redonda, S.L. El significado de la traición
Prólogo de Agustín Díaz Yanes Traducción y notas de Antonio IriarteEl 9 de junio de 1944, a los tres días de haber desembarcado con su regimiento en las playas de Normandía, Keith Castellain Douglas caía en Tilly-sur-Seulles, cerca de Bayeux. Sólo tenía veinticuatro años, pero ya había escrito los mejores poemas bélicos de su generación -admirados por T. S. Eliot y por Ted Hughes-, además del muy notable De El Alamein a Zem Zem, en el que narra sus experiencias durante la campaña aliada en el Norte de África.Nacido en 1920 en Tunbridge Wells (Kent), Douglas era un hombre complejo, un individualista de personalidad algo anárquica y displicente, siempre dispuesto a obrar por cuenta propia y a enfrentarse a la autoridad cuando le parecía preciso, lo que le valió no pocos problemas a lo largo de su vida.Cuando estalló la guerra, Douglas se alistó de inmediato, pero no fue enviado a Oriente Medio hasta julio de 1941. Como dice en su libro, pensaba que la exp
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Sumergirse en el naufragio Prxima aparicin
Sumergirse en el naufragio es el libro de poemas más celebrado de Adrienne Rich. Puede leerse como una respuesta a la tradición en que se inscriben La tierra baldía de T. S. Eliot o los Cantos de Ezra Pound. La poeta se sumerge en las profundidades de un océano de mitos para explorar los restos de un naufragio. Ese naufragio es nuestra civilización, toda su podredumbre y toda su belleza. Poco a poco se va desprendiendo de todas las historias que rodean al naufragio, hasta quedarse solo con lo esencial. También se despoja de su cuerpo de mujer, hasta quedarse con un cuerpo primigenio: un cuerpo andrógino, mitad sirena, mitad tritón. Y con él recorre los restos de lo que fuimos. Pero, sobre todo, rescata lo que aún queda intacto y que podrá ayudarnos a reconstruir una nueva civilización, donde la mujer sea un hombre y el hombre, una mujer. Un nuevo comienzo despojado de historias y de mitos, centrado en la presencia. Un comienzo no de igualdad, sino de identificación, de reconocim
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Ulises
Ulises, de James Joyce (Dublín, 1882 - Zúrich, 1941), es la novela que cambió para siempre la historia de la literatura y constituye una de las cumbres de la creación artística del siglo XX. Proscrita por obscena, transcurre en una sola jornada: el 16 de junio de 1904, día en que el protagonista, Leopold Bloom, se pasea por las calles de Dublín. Así el lector se adentra, de la mano de su autor, el más famoso escritor irlandés de todos los tiempos, en un laberinto, más real que la realidad misma, tan trufado de acertijos que daría trabajo a los críticos durante al menos un siglo, y que transita por el lenguaje, el tiempo, el cuerpo, la psique y el sexo... Un libro con el que, según T. S. Eliot, "todos estamos en deuda", y que, cien años después de su publicación, está más vivo que nunca. La traducción de María Luisa Venegas Lagüéns y Francisco García Tortosa, calificada como "prodigiosa" por Ian Gibson, y realizada teniendo en cuenta al menos cinco versiones diferentes, permite a
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Faber & Faber Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
A rediscovered story of unrequited love which reveals an intimate new portrait of the poet T. S. Eliot - and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history.'Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.' Susan Hill, Spectator Books of the Year'Compelling ... compulsive.' Margaret Drabble, New StatesmanIn 1938 T.S. Eliot struck up a friendship with Mary Trevelyan, a passionately curious woman and intrepid traveller. Their relationship was cosy and domestic - characterised by churchgoing, record-playing, day trips with Mary at the wheel or Eliot in his rolled shirt-sleeves cooking up sausages for dinner. Over the years, Mary came to believe that their friendship might lead to something more . . . but their journey together did not end as she would have hoped.Trevelyan left a unique document - of diaries, letters and pictures - charting their twenty-year-long relationship in her vivid prose. Erica Wagner has brought this untold story together for the first time. Mary and Mr Eliot is a revelatory tale of joy, misunderstanding and betrayal that feels utterly modern and deeply human.
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The University of Chicago Press The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study
The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan open up “the teaching archive”—the syllabuses, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments—of critics and scholars including T. S. Eliot, Caroline Spurgeon, I. A. Richards, Edith Rickert, J. Saunders Redding, Edmund Wilson, Cleanth Brooks, Josephine Miles, and Simon J. Ortiz. This new history of English rewrites what we know about the discipline by showing how students helped write foundational works of literary criticism and how English classes at community colleges and HBCUs pioneered the reading methods and expanded canons that came only belatedly to the Ivy League. It reminds us that research and teaching, which institutions often imagine as separate, have always been intertwined in practice. In a contemporary moment of humanities defunding, the casualization of teaching, and the privatization of pedagogy, The Teaching Archive offers a more accurate view of the work we have done in the past and must continue to do in the future.
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Penguin Books Ltd American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
THE SUNDAY TIMES POETRY BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZEThe black poet would love to say his century beganWith Hughes or God forbid, Wheatley, but actuallyIt began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors,Poetry whiners & winos falling from ship bows, sunsetBridges & windows. In a second I'll tell you how littleWriting rescues.So begins this astonishing, muscular sequence by one of America's best-selling and most acclaimed poets. Over 70 poems, each titled 'American Sonnet for my Past and Future Assassin' and shot through with the vernacular energy of popular culture, Terrance Hayes manoeuvres his way between touching domestic visions, stories of love, loss and creation, tributes to the fallen and blistering denunciations of the enemies of the good.American Sonnets builds a living picture of the whole self, and the whole human, even as it opens to the view the dividing lines of race, gender and political oppression which define the early 21st Century. It is compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, bewildered - and unstoppably, rhythmically compelling, as few books can hope to be.
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Faber & Faber Was It for This
Hannah Sullivan's first collection, Three Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the inaugural John Pollard International Poetry Prize. Was It for This continues that book's project, offering a trenchant exploration of the ways in which we attempt to map our lives in space and time. But there is also the wider, collective experience to contend with, the upheaval of historic event and present disaster. 'Tenants', the first poem, is an elegy for Grenfell, written from the uneasy perspective of a new mother living a few streets away. Elsewhere, from the terraces and precincts of seventies and eighties London to the late-at-night decks of American suburbs, intimately inhabited geographies provide reference points and sites for revisiting. Nothing is too small or unlovely to be transfixed by the poet's attention, from the thin concrete pillars of a flyover to an elderly peacock's broken train. There is a memorialising strain in the forensic accumulation of detail, but there is also celebration, a keen sense of holding on to and cherishing what we can.
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The University of Chicago Press Impersonality: Seven Essays
Philosophers have long debated the subjects of person and personhood. Sharon Cameron ushers this debate into the literary realm by considering impersonality in the works of major American writers and figures of international modernism—writers for whom personal identity is inconsequential and even imaginary. In essays on William Empson, Jonathan Edwards, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, T. S. Eliot, and Simone Weil, Cameron examines the impulse to hollow out the core of human distinctiveness, to construct a voice that is no one’s voice, to fashion a character without meaningful attributes, a being that is virtually anonymous. “To consent to being anonymous,” Weil wrote, “is to bear witness to the truth. But how is this compatible with social life and its labels?” Throughout these essays Cameron examines the friction, even violence, set in motion from such incompatibility—from a “truth” that has no social foundation. Impersonality investigates the uncompromising nature of writing that suspends, eclipses, and even destroys the person as a social, political, or individual entity, of writing that engages with personal identity at the moment when its usual markers vanish or dissolve.
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Manchester University Press Victorians in Theory: From Derrida to Browning
"Each century," wrote Charles Dickens "[is] more amazed by the century following it than by all the centuries before." Victorians in theory explores the startling conceit that nineteenth-century poetry is amazed by twentieth-century literary theory. In a daring and exciting departure from critical convention, Schad re-reads postructuralist theory through Victorian poetry. Each chapter pairs a poet with a theorist: Robert Browning meets Jacques Derrida; Christina Rossetti encounters Luce Irigaray; Matthew Arnold is after Michel Foucault; Gerald Manley Hopkins dreams with Jacques Lacan; and Elizabeth Barrett Browning haunts Hélène Cixous. Reading both across and between these writers, Schad opens up a radically intertextual space; he wanders, in Matthew Arnold's words, "between two worlds." Across this no-man's land appear a host of unlikely specters, among them T. S. Eliot, Martin Luther, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lewis Carroll's Alice, Walter Benjamin's "angel of history," and the woman taken in adultery.This book will fascinate anyone interested in the Victorians or theory; at once rigorous and readable, it will appeal to both the scholar and the student.
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Yale University Press Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
Terry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated from society at large. In the years following, a younger generation of critics came to the fore. Their work represented a reaction to the impoverishment of language in a commercial, utilitarian society increasingly under the sway of film, advertising, and the popular press. For them, literary criticism was a way of diagnosing social ills and had a vital moral function to perform. Terry Eagleton reflects on the lives and work of T. S. Eliot, I. A. Richards, William Empson, F. R. Leavis, and Raymond Williams, and explores a vital tradition of literary criticism that today is in danger of being neglected. These five critics rank among the most original and influential of modern times and represent one of the most remarkable intellectual formations in twentieth-century Britain. This was the heyday of literary modernism, a period of change and experimentation—the bravura of which spurred on developments in critical theory.
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Simon & Schuster Ltd The Groucho Letters: Letters to and from Groucho Marx
THE GROUCHO LETTERS enjoys the very best of Groucho's correspondence with the greatest wits and minds of his day. Correspondents include James Thurber, T.S. Eliot, President Harry Truman, Edward R. Murrow, Jerry Lewis, Howard Hughes, Irving Berlin and of course, Chico, Harpo and Gummo. He writes to comics, corporations, children, presidents, and even his daughter's boyfriend. Here is Groucho swapping photos with T. S. Eliot ('I had no idea you were so handsome!'); advising his son on courting a rich dame ('Don't come out bluntly and say, "How much dough have you got?" That wouldn't be the Marxian way'); reacting with utmost composure when informed that he has been made into a verb by James Joyce ('There's no reason why I shouldn't appear in Finnegan’s Wake . I'm certainly as bewildered about life as Joyce was'); and crisply declining membership in a Hollywood club ('I don't care to belong to any social organization that will accept me as a member'). No personage is too big, no nuance too small, no subject too far-out for Groucho's spontaneous, hilarious, and ferocious typewriter.
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Vintage Publishing Time is a Mother: From the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'One of the most important poets of his generation'ANDREW MCMILLAN, author of Physical'Powerful'DUA LIPA'Redefines our idea of what an elegy can do it, what it is for'ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf RepublicIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Vivid, brave and propulsive, Vuong's poems contend with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit.The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time is a Mother is a return and a forging-forth all at once.
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British Library Publishing Edward Lear and the Pussycat: Famous Writers and Their Pets
Behind every great writer there is a beloved pet, providing inspiration in life and in death, and companionship in what is often a lonely working existence. They also offer practical services, such as personal protection, although they may sometimes eat first drafts, or bite visitors. This book salutes all of the cats and dogs, ravens and budgerigars, monkeys and guinea pigs, wombats, turtles, and two laughing jackasses, who enriched the lives of their masters and mistresses, sat on their keyboards, slept in their beds, and occasionally provided the creative spark for their stories and poems. Gathered here are the tales of Beatrix Potter's rabbit, Benjamin Bouncer; Lord Byron's bear; the six cats of T S Eliot; Camus' cat, Cigarette; Arthur C Clarke's dog, Sputnik; and George Orwell's goat, Muriel. Enid Blyton's fox terrier, Bobs, `wrote' her columns in Teacher's World magazine, while John Steinbeck's poodle accompanied him on his 1960 US road trip, their exploits published as Travels with Charley. Agatha Christie dedicated her 1937 novel Dumb Witness to her favourite dog, Peter - the ultimate tribute.
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Pan Macmillan All The Names Given
From the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021'[Raymond Antrobus] has built another beautiful paper house which you can spend a very long and deeply satisfying time inside.' Mark Haddon 'Moving deftly between tenderness and violence, hope and grief, praise and lament, this is a deeply evocative collection that will linger in the reader’s mind.' GuardianRaymond Antrobus’s astonishing debut collection, The Perseverance, won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award, amongst many other accolades; the poet’s much anticipated second collection, All The Names Given, continues his essential investigation into language, miscommunication, place, and memory. Throughout, All The Names Given is punctuated with [Caption Poems] partially inspired by Deaf sound artist Christine Sun Kim, which attempt to fill in the silences and transitions between the poems, as well as moments inside and outside of them. Direct, open, formally sophisticated, All The Names Given breaks new ground both in form and content: the result is a timely, humane and tender book from one of the most important young poets of his generation.
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Pan Macmillan Innovation: The History of England Volume VI
‘Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman’ – Ian Thomson, IndependentInnovation brings Peter Ackroyd’s History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades. A century of enormous change, encompassing two world wars, four monarchs (Edward VII, George V, George VI and the Queen), the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the Labour Party, women’s suffrage, the birth of the NHS, the march of suburbia and the clearance of the slums. It was a period that saw the work of the Bloomsbury Group and T. S. Eliot, of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, of the end of the post-war slump to the technicolour explosion of the 1960s, to free love and punk rock and from Thatcher to Blair. A vividly readable, richly peopled tour de force, Innovation is Peter Ackroyd writing at his considerable best.
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Vintage Publishing Arias
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 T. S. ELIOT PRIZE*Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman’s intimate life and political conscience. The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mother’s return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique melody and moral logic, as Olds stands centre stage to account for her own late romance and chance wisdom, and faces the tragic life of our nation and our planet. ‘I cannot say I did not ask / to be born,’ begins one aria, which considers how, with what actions, with what thirst, we each ask for a turn, and receive our portion on earth. Olds delivers these pieces with all the passion, anguish, and solo force that make a great performance, in the process enlarging the soul of her readers. ‘Olds is a supreme poet of the body; I’ll be reading her till I die’ Fiona Benson
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Cambridge University Press Modernism, Empire, World Literature
After World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary renaissances and social upheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, émigré and domestic-based writers produced dazzling new works that challenged London's or Paris's authority to fix and determine literary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic accomplishment that were later codified as 'modernism'. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and to contest Soviet conceptions of 'world literature'. Here, in accomplished readings of major works and essays by Henry James, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe Cleary situates Anglophone modernism in terms of the rise and fall of European and American empires, changing world literary systems, and disputed histories of 'world literature'.
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