Poetry History & Criticism 92

Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South’s and the nation’s most notable writers. A native of New Orleans ……続きを見る

The New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor uses the same skills to teach how to access accurate information in a rapidly changing 24/7 news cycle and become bet……続きを見る

Michael Ferber's accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language tackles a wide range of subjects from a linguistic point of view. Written with the non-expert in mind, the book explores……続きを見る

This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places. The first book of its kind, it embraces things as diverse as escalators, coins, skyscrapers, pottery, radios, and robo……続きを見る

Questo libro contiene poesie, poesie piccole ed essenziali come migliaia di granelli sparpagliati sulla spiaggia mentre il vento li porta via. Le parole nascono da dentro, dalla più piccola parte de……続きを見る

面對外境的衝擊與變化，書寫就是創作者最好的回應之道。她的筆將持續舞動，因為不願再錯過生命的可能。瘂弦如何透過詩作書寫，展現黒色、白色與紅色的美學意涵？錦連詩作中展現的白色意象，除了象徵情感世界，還藏……続きを見る

Iluminações dos silêncios (Razões e paixões) A Terceira parte deste livro é fascinante. Aqui estão reunidos noventa sonetos, alguns premiados. Cada página é densa, requer atenção e cuidado se não qu……続きを見る

In James Joyce and the Matter of Paris, Catherine Flynn recovers the paradigmatic city of European urban modernity as the foundational context of Joyce's imaginative consciousness. Beginning with Jo……続きを見る

Around the time this book is being written the world is faced with threats of terrorism, random shootings in various public places on a global scale, increased school violence especially in the Unit……続きを見る

American poets’ theater emerged in the postwar period alongside the rich, performance-oriented poetry and theater scenes that proliferated on the makeshift stages of urban coffee houses, shared apar……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Publié en 1936, Sentiment du temps est le troisième recueil de Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970). Mais dans Vie d’un homme, où se trouve……続きを見る

A Literary Biography of Robin Blaser: Mechanic of Splendor is the first major study illustrating Robin Blaser’s significance to North American poetry. The poet Robin Blaser (1925–2009) was an import……続きを見る

The way of life is like Just like the season and even more. Now comes a book of poetry, spoken word, craft, perceptions and proverbs. Confisting of love, discontentment, satisfaction, and thoughts y……続きを見る

This edited book represents the first cohesive attempt to describe the literary genres of late-twentieth-century fiction in terms of lexico-grammatical patterns. Drawing on the PhraseoRom internatio……続きを見る

Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which ……続きを見る

The work of Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016) often provokes bemusement or even hostility; however, he was often referred to as ‘the greatest living poet’ and variants thereof. Oxford Professor of Poetry fr……続きを見る

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholl……続きを見る

Taking up the work of prominent theater and performance artists, Beyond Text reveals the audacity and beauty of avant-garde performance in print. With extended analyses of the works of Edward Gordon……続きを見る

During the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to Virgil’s Georgics. This ancient poem betrays deep ambivalences……続きを見る

The Power "2b" (to be) or become is most certainly a divine right. Those who are direct decendants of the slave ships, jim crow south and institutionalized racism that is still causing inequality...……続きを見る

What do American poets mean when they talk about freedom? How can form help us understand questions about what shapes we want to give our poetic lives, and how much power we have to choose those sha……続きを見る

Originally published in 1974. This book discusses those aspects of Chaucer’s art which are concerned with the problem of specific form. These aspects have been concentrated on by the author for Chau……続きを見る

Este camino mío es un viaje a lo largo de veinte años, en el que hay un amor no correspondido que lleva inevitablemente a una crisis de identidad, desarrollándose luego en una nueva relación que lle……続きを見る

Este livro tem uma estrutura que se reparte em partes, dor e delícia andam de braços dados pelas cidades, praças e quintais, onde o filho da terra volta às origens, pensa na colheita do que plantou ……続きを見る

Written during the Italian winter of 1930, The Blue Spill is an unfinished detective novel written by Ezra Pound – the leading figure of modernist poetry in the 20th century – and his long-time comp……続きを見る

The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not onl……続きを見る

Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special li……続きを見る

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selectio……続きを見る

What does it mean to feel time, to sense its passing along the sinews and nerves of the body as much as the synapses of the mind? And how do books, as material arrangements of print and paper, media……続きを見る

Samtaler med danske digtere ved Niels Birger Wamberg udkom første gang i 1968 er lavet på baggrund af radiosamtaler mellem forfatteren og 11 af datidens store danske digtere: Knuth Becker, Karl Bjar……続きを見る