Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Dragon in Ambush
The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Dragon in Ambush by Jeremy Ingallsis a critique and new translation of the first twenty poems of Mao Zedong’s published poetry. This seminal work stands out from previous translations of Mao’s poems in seeing them as an expression of his core political beliefs, rather than for their poetic effect....
A Mandala of Words
Cultural Realities in the Poems of Ashok Vajpeyi
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet who – while searching for...
by Jordan Kistler
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Arthur O'Shaughnessy's career as a natural historian in the British Museum, and his consequent preoccupation with the role of work in his life, provides the context with which to reexamine his contributions to Victorian poetry. O'Shaughnessy's engagement with aestheticism, socialism, and Darwinian...
by Daljit Nagra
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Look We Have Coming to Dover! is the most acclaimed debut collection of poetry published in recent years, as well as one of the most relevant and accessible. Nagra, whose own parents came to England from the Punjab in the 1950s, draws on both English and Indian-English traditions to tell stories of...
Victorian Soul-Talk
Poetry, Democracy, and the Body Politic
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
This book explores the decades between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884 when British poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Robert Browning, and Algernon Charles Swinburne, along with their transatlantic contemporary Walt Whitman, defended the civil rights of disenfranchised...
Routledge Revivals: Essays on Style and Language (1966)
Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close analysis of the language of literature contributed to by critics and linguists, examining linguistic theory and poetry, and as part of this the rhythm and...
Melville as Poet
The Art of Pulsed Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
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 and Aspects of the War (1866), and by his epic-length poem, Clarel (1876), a symbolic rendering of...
Voices of the Headland
Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Voices of the Headland: Robinson Jeffers and the Bird of Prey explores the image of the raptor in the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. Emanating from the continent’s end of the American West, Jeffers’ poetic eagles, hawks, falcons, vultures, and other birds of prey symbolize the compelling presence...
Literature of Crisis
Spain's Engagement with Liquid Capital
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
The book explores novels, essays and poetry published by Spanish writers in response to the global economic crisis that began in 2008. Spain has been experiencing the crisis in a particularly painful way, and the artistic response to these traumatic events has been powerful and abundant. The literature...
by Gillian White
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. “Lyric” is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems—an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere.
Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory
Russian Literary Mnemonics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories...
The Pattern in the Web
The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1990
Charles Williams has achieved considerable reputation for his novels. He has been recognized as a brilliant theologian and a sensitive literary critic. But Williams himself wished most to be remembered as a poet, and trusted his future literary reputation to the two-volume series of poems on the...
Lady Anne
A Chronicle in Verse
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse by Antjie Krog is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history—the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Usually...
by J. Hart
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Examines possible and fictional worlds, author and authority, otherness and recognition, translation, alternative critique, empire, education, imagination, comedy, history, poetry, and culture. The analyzed works include classical and modern texts and theorists of the past sixty years ranging from Jerome Bruner to Stephen Greenblatt.