Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
Cheiron's Way
Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2018
This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides. Every fictional character comes with a past attached, a presumed personal history that is both implicit and explicit; for the youthful heroes and heroines of epic and tragedy, early education...
by Tony Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
As both a politically engaged and stylistically versatile poet, W.H. Auden is one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His work is not only widely studied and read, but has been used in musical scores and quoted in Hollywood films.
This guide to Auden’s compelling work...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
This collection of newly commissioned essays maps the vital contextual backgrounds to Ralph Waldo Emerson's life and work. The volume begins with a detailed chronology of Emerson's life and publishing history, setting the stage for a wide-ranging discussion of his geographic and environmental contexts...
Whole Oceans Away
Melville and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Essays on Melville and the culture of the Pacific“Like the young Melville, those who imagine Polynesia from the perspective of Europe or North America tend to envision a tropical garden set in a shining sea. But the Pacific experienced by a runaway American sailor in an earlier century presents a different...
Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611
Metaphor and National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline – to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies.
Cognition in the Globe
Attention and Memory in Shakespeare’s Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Early modern playing companies performed up to six different plays a week and mounted new plays frequently. This book seeks to answer a seemingly simple question: how did they do it? Drawing upon work in philosophy and the cognitive sciences, it proposes that the cognitive work of theatre is distributed across body, brain, and world.
Shakespeare's History
Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy.
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
First published in 1947 in the USA. This edition reprints the first UK edition of 1964.
Published to critical acclaim, the central argument of this book is that the historical play must be studied as a genre separate from tragedy and comedy. Just as there is in Shakespearean tragedies a dominant...
Shakespeare Reproduced
The text in history and ideology
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
First published in 1987.
The essays in Shakespeare Reproduced offer a political critique of Shakespeare's writings and the uses to which those writings are put
Some of the essays focus on Shakespeare in his own time and consider how his plays can be seen to reproduce or subvert the cultural...
Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy and Early Modern Law
Vindictive Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.
Knowing Shakespeare
Senses, Embodiment and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
A collection of essays on the ways the senses 'speak' on Shakespeare's stage. Drawing on historical phenomenology, science studies, gender studies and natural philosophy, the essays provide critical tools for understanding Shakespeare's investment in staging the senses.
Victorian Writers and the Stage
The Plays of Dickens, Browning, Collins and Tennyson
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This book examines the dramatic work of Dickens, Browning, Collins, and Tennyson, their interaction with the theatrical world, and their attempts to develop their reputations as playwrights. These major Victorian writers each authored several professional plays, but why has their achievement been overlooked?
by Anthony Cassell
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1984
Dante's Fearful Art of Justice deals primarily with the symbolic significance of 'the state of souls after death' in various episodes of the Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divina Commedia. The fruitlessness of the Auerbach-Singleton approach to the poem is demonstrated by Professor Cassell's...
Shakespeare and the Urgency of Now
Criticism and Theory in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
These essays address the intersections between Shakespeare, history and the present using a variety of new and established methodological approaches, from phenomenology and ecocriticism to the new economics and aesthetics.
Shards of Love
Exile and the Origins of the Lyric
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1993
With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic marker for the expulsion of a diversity in language and grammar that was disturbing to the Renaissance...