A vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present “( A) fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London“Delightful.’”—New York Times Book Review Poetry is...Loe edasi...
Sari: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jan-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781580469265)
Interweaves Eastern European postwar history, dissidence, and literature to expand our understanding of the significance of this important Lithuanian writer. Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova is a book in the European t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112249949)
The speech technologies of the digital age make everything speak from voice assistants and GPS navigators to streaming media. The dissociation of voice and speech from the speaker and the situation of speaking engendered by this condition imbues th...Loe edasi...
Dantes Paradiso delivers an accessible readers guide to the third canticle of The Divine Comedy, while providing critical overviews of the whole poem....Loe edasi...
This volume provides an analysis of the constitution of the idea of furor poeticus (poetic frenzy), the conception of the poet as an individual inspired and possessed by a kind of divine madness. This idea, deeply rooted in the Platonic tradition, w...Loe edasi...
Charles Peguy (1873–1914) is a French poet and essayist, whom Pierre Manent refers to as one of the most penetrating critics of the historical and sociological points of view which dominate modern consciousness. Praised by T.S. Eliot and Geoffrey H...Loe edasi...
While much has been written about spiritual poetry, few acknowledge the profound influence of Black poets on Britains spiritual landscape. Hurricanes Roar illuminates this often-overlooked legacy, weaving together thirty powerful poems that span con...Loe edasi...
This comprehensive guide to Shakespeares Sonnets provides an overview of the main themes, features and contexts as well as close readings of more than one hundred sonnets. This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the...Loe edasi...
This book demonstrates how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, his self-definition as an author, and the invention of his audience. ...Loe edasi...
With the arrival of Puritan settlers in New England in the middle decades of the 17th-century, accounts of sickness, colonial violence, and painful religious transformation quickly emerged, enabling new forms of testimonial writing in prose and po...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192894359)
A Handbook on allegory, as both a literary genre and a means of interpretation. The Handbook reflects the diversity of literature in which allegory appears, from Plato to medieval drama and on to contemporary film, and it traces the history of allego...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the work of internationally celebrated writer Lorna Goodison, with special attention paid to the body of poetry beginning with the 2001 volume Travelling Mercies, published some twenty years after her first collection, and endin...Loe edasi...
Two important books of criticism by the Pulitzer Prize finalist and former U.S. poet laureate now combined in a single volume with a new preface by the author...Loe edasi...
The edited collection explores the power of poetry as a voice in transforming librarians lives and shaping their motivations, directions, choices, and actions at intertwined personal and professional nexus of intersection from all around the globe....Loe edasi...
The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes the poet’s travels through...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807186084)
James Wright (192780) was considered one of the major poets of his era, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, even though the intense emotion of his work could prove divisive. So This Is What It Feels Like, a new critical study by poet and critic Adam...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271101569)
The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written in response to dramatic encounters on the peninsulaPonce de Leóns landfall in 1513, the founding of St. Augustine in 1565, and ongoing c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Pennsylvania State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780271101552)
The Epic of Florida brings to light a neglected tradition of colonial poetry from the sixteenth century. Written in response to dramatic encounters on the peninsulaPonce de Leóns landfall in 1513, the founding of St. Augustine in 1565, and ongoing c...Loe edasi...
