著者:Sanford E. Marovitz
出版社: The Kent State University Press
発売日: 2013年11月01日
Herman Melville’s literary reputation is based chiefly on his fiction, especially Moby-Dick and Billy Budd. Yet he was a gifted poet, as evidenced by his collection of Civil War poems, Battle-Pieces……続きを見る
著者:Helen Lovatt
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
The epic genre has at its heart a fascination with the horror of viewing death. Epic heroes have active visual power, yet become objects, turned into monuments, watched by two main audiences: the go……続きを見る
Get on Stage and Perfect Your Performance
Have you ever enjoyed a slam or two and thought, "I could do this," but felt apprehensive staring at that empty micーor worse, you climbed up on stage and s……続きを見る
著者:Eric Ball
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2013年05月01日
Treasuring the past, savouring the present, and wanting to do right by the future, Archibald Lampman was a poet keenly focused on the workings of time. He was also a thinker of mystical predispositi……続きを見る
著者:Dan Curley
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Ovid is today best known for his grand epic, Metamorphoses, and elegiac works like the Ars Amatoria and Heroides. Yet he also wrote a Medea, now unfortunately lost. This play kindled in him a lifelo……続きを見る
Explores pioneering works of digital poetry and demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and enriched poetic discourse
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Emphasizing the significance of early modern prose fiction as a hybrid genre that absorbed cultural, ideological and historical strands of the age, this fascinating study brings together an outstand……続きを見る
I have set three aims before me in constructing this book. First, to introduce a new kind of documentation to those who are interested in the contemporary state of culture whether as critics, as phi……続きを見る
Masks of Anarchy tells the extraordinary story of Shelley's "The Masque of Anarchy," its conception in Italy, its suppression in England, and how it became a rallying cry for workers across the Atla……続きを見る
著者:Adam Potkay
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2012年11月01日
A comprehensive examination that breathes new life into Wordsworth and the ethical concerns that were vital to his nineteenth-century readers.
Why read Wordsworth’s poetryーindeed, why read poetry a……続きを見る
Forty chapters, written by leading scholars across the world, describe the latest thinking on modern Irish poetry. The Handbook begins with a consideration of Yeats's early work, and the legacy of t……続きを見る
In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully rounded introducti……続きを見る
著者:Kathleen Raine
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年09月05日
First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England’s only prophet. He challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which now un……続きを見る
著者:Craig Raine
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2011年12月12日
His pieces, on the literary world and some of its most fascinating figures and classics, bear his hallmark of vitality and distinctive approach. Raine’s knowledge of the span of literary theory (and……続きを見る
著者:Eleanor Cook
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2009年03月09日
Wallace Stevens is one of the major poets of the twentieth century, and also among the most challenging. His poems can be dazzling in their verbal brilliance. They are often shot through with lavish……続きを見る
著者:John J. Su
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Imagination and the Contemporary Novel examines the global preoccupation with the imagination among literary authors with ties to former colonies of the British Empire since the 1960s. John Su draws……続きを見る
著者:Don W. King
出版社: Abilene Christian University Press
発売日: 2013年05月01日
A collection of essays by a career C . S . Lewis scholar on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Lewis's death. C. S. Lewis scholar Don W. King has kept a critical eye on the work by and abou……続きを見る
著者:James Wright
出版社: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
発売日: 2005年08月17日
The life and work of a major American poet described in his own words.
"There is something about the very form and occasion of a letter--the possibility it offers, the chance to be as open and tenta……続きを見る
A reviewer of JOHN FRASER'S widely praised Violence in the Arts (1973) spoke of encountering in it "an extremely agile and incessantly active mind that illuminates almost every subject that he touch……続きを見る
Byron's life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so ……続きを見る
著者:Andrew M Feldherr
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2010年08月16日
This book offers a novel interpretation of politics and identity in Ovid's epic poem of transformations, the Metamorphoses. Reexamining the emphatically fictional character of the poem, Playing Gods……続きを見る
著者:Emmet I. Robbins
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2014年06月16日
Emmet I. Robbins earned an international reputation as a scholar of ancient Greek poetry, possessing a broad cultural background and a command of many languages that allowed him to present sensitive……続きを見る
This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens’ poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles,……続きを見る
著者:Maureen N. McLane
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
More than any other period of British literature, Romanticism is strongly identified with a single genre. Romantic poetry has been one of the most enduring, best loved, most widely read and most fre……続きを見る
The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Ma……続きを見る
Authors, Audiences, and Old English Verse re-examines the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition from the eighth to the eleventh centuries and reconsiders the significance of formulaic parallels and the natur……続きを見る
First published in 1965, this reissue of the second edition of T. R. Henn’s seminal study offers an impressive breadth and depth of meditations on the poetry of W. B. Yeats. His life and influences ……続きを見る
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the most influential, as well as one of the most enigmatic, of all Romantic figures. The possessor of a precocious talent, he dazzled contemporaries with his poetry……続きを見る