Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Cinq cents ghazals environ composent le Dīwān du poète persan Hāfiz (1320 env.-1389 ou 1390), mais il n’existe aucune copie de ce recueil datant de son vivant. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Howl, ce long poème d’Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), composé sous l’influence de Jack Kerouac et de William Burroughs, fut lu en public en octobre 1955, lors d’une séance organisée par Kenneth Rexroth dans la Galerie...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis À la mi-mars 1914, Georg Trakl (1887-1914) s’est rendu d’Innsbruck à Berlin auprès de sa sœur, avec laquelle il avait noué une relation incestueuse et qu’il avait entraînée sur la pente de la drogue (née en 1891,...

¿Qué significa ser poeta en el Nuevo Mundo? ¿Cómo se escribían versos en la época colonial? ¿Cómo se leía y se analizaba la poesía? En este libro se habla de las formas en que se articuló el pensamiento poético en la América de los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII mediante el análisis de alabanzas...

Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection...

Con La Renault di Aldo Moro Luca Ariano prosegue il suo percorso di un romanzo – o forse meglio racconti – in versi iniziato nel 2010 con Contratto a termine. I personaggi sono gli stessi: Fiulin, Teresa, l’Emilio, l’Enrico, l’Andrea (rigorosamente con l’articolo, retaggio di lombardismi...

Whether the rapt trances of Romanticism or the corpse-like figures that confounded Victorian science and religion, nineteenth-century depictions of bodies in suspended animation are read as manifestations of broader concerns about the unknowable in Anne C. McCarthy’s Awful Parenthesis. Examining...

This book addresses the poetics of space and place in Scottish literature. Focusing chiefly on twentieth- and twenty-first century texts, with acknowledgement of historical and philosophical contexts, the essays address representation, narrative form, the work of the poetic, perception and experience....

En El río de los amigos –título también de un poema de Gamoneda–, un conjunto de escritores y críticos celebra la trascendencia de la obra de Antonio Gamoneda, así como el renovador sustrato que ésta aporta al panorama de las letras hispanas contemporáneas. Rafael Saravia ha reunido a un...

This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. In the post-9/11 era, where we are once again compelled to entertain debates about the legality of torture, this volume speaks about the practice in an...

¿Sabías que el soneto en castellano nace durante una conversación entre dos embajadores? ¿Que los franceses inventaron la poesía moderna europea en bares y hostales de mala muerte? ¿Que una mujer excéntrica, empeñada en vestir de blanco durante los últimos años de su vida, cambió la poesía...

An Introduction to Octavio Paz is a valuable and concise primer to the ideas of the world renowned Mexican writer and Nobel Prize winner. Written and edited by Alberto Ruy Sánchez, a well-respected writer whom Paz considered one of Mexico's best essayists, this book offers a comprehensive overview...

«Ma la preziosa monografia di Rombi, dopo tanti anni dalla sua prima edizione del 1983, sostanzialmente di altro non ha avuto bisogno che di aggiornamento biobibliografico, è un esempio prezioso di lettura letteraria juxta propria principia. Satta non è visto astrattamente, né “misurato” su...

When T.S. Eliot wrote of W.S. Graham's collection, The Nightfishing, that 'some of these poems - by their sustained power, their emotional depth and maturity and their superb technical skill - may well be among the more important poetical achievements of our time', he could not have stated the truth...