Poetry History Criticism category: 2222 books
American Bards
Walt Whitman and Other Unlikely Candidates for National Poet
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2010
Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national...
Parmenides’ Vision
A Study of Parmenides’ Poem
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
This book intends to establish, against his numerous modern critics, that the ancient philosopher Parmenides was a mystic. Instead of arriving at his conclusions by cold reason, Parmenides found the unity of Being, which he called “the Truth,” by turning to a life of meditation. His use of reason...
by Mark Griffith
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Aristophanes is widely credited with having elevated the classical art of comedy to the level of legitimacy and recognition that only tragedy had hitherto achieved, and producing some of the most intriguing works of literature to survive from classical Greece in the process. Among them, Frogs has...
by Susan Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
The Quarry presents new and pivotal Susan Howe prose pieces.
A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new "Vagrancy in the Park" (about Wallace Stevens) through such essential texts as "The Disappearance...
Egil, the Viking Poet
New Approaches to 'Egil's Saga'
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Egil, the Viking Poet focuses on one of the best-known Icelandic sagas, that of the extraordinary hero Egil Skallagrimsson. Descended from a lineage of trolls, shape-shifters, and warriors, Egil’s transformation from a precocious and murderous child into a raider, mercenary, litigant, landholder,...
Ovid (Routledge Revivals)
The Classical Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Ovid: The Classical Heritage, first published in 1995, contains a diverse collection of reflections, ranging from the first century, through the Middle Ages, to the twentieth, on a poet who has been adored and reviled in equal measure.
With the entire notion of ‘Western culture’ under duress,...
Reading Anew
José Lezama Lima's Rhetorical Investigations.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The work of the Cuban poet, novelist and thinker José Lezama Lima (Havana, 1910-1976) constitutes one of the most fascinating intellectual projects ever made in Latin America. He is the author of some of the most difficult poems in the Spanish language and of an ambitious theory of poetics, culture...
Modernity's Mist
British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Modernity’s Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to the past, Emily Rohrbach situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties in relation to historiographical debates that opened up a radically unpredictable...
by R. Howard Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
In the tradition of The Swerve comes this thrilling, detective-like work of literary history that reveals how a poem created the world we live in today.
It was, improbably, the forerunner of our digital age: a French poem about a shipwreck published in 1897 that, with its mind-bending possibilities...
by Edan Dekel
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Virgil’s Homeric Lens reevaluates the traditional view of the Aeneid’s relationship to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Almost since the death of Virgil, there has been an assumption that the Aeneid breaks into two discrete halves: Virgil’s Odyssey, and Virgil’s Iliad. Although modified in various...
Shakespeare the Man
New Decipherings
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and his works in their interaction with one another. Instead of restricting the search for bits and...
Writing in Real Time
Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
From Walt Whitman to the contemporary period, the long poem has been one of the more dynamic, intricate, and yet challenging literary practices of modernity. Addressing those challenges, Writing in Real Time combines systems theory, literary history, and recent debates in poetics to interpret a broad...
Shakespeare's Boys
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day.
Dirty Love
The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Some of the world's earliest large-form fictional narratives--what would today be called novels-are found in ancient Greece. Dating back to the first century CE, these narratives contain many of the elements common to the novelistic genre, for instance, the joining, separation, and reunion of two...