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: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199237555)
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other, with a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198920649)
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other, with a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political...Loe edasi...
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) makes its own distinctive contribution to the editorial tradition. It presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other. However, unlike previous scholarly edition...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198198)
This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198266)
This book shows that the poems of Geoffrey Hill (19322016) are characteristically end-directed, tending constantly towards prosodic and thematic consummations. It offers a new thematic reading of Hills entire body of work and touches on questions o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070007)
This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in...Loe edasi...
This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Audens earlier poetry and poetics. By dividing the poets ethical consciousness into three thematic groups (cognition, emotion and conation), it demonstrates how readers can construct poetic themes...Loe edasi...
Redefining Faith in Dantes Divine Comedy offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the worlds most studied poems. Through close readings of all three canticles, Jason Aleksander shows how Dantes poem provocatively reconfigures faith as a mode of cr...Loe edasi...
This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths, Bronowski was prominent in the fields of philosophy, mathematics, history and literary criticism, and is perhaps best remembered tod...Loe edasi...
How does French poetics navigate the advent of the digital and an increasingly polarized political landscape? Centering on the 1990s to the present, this book examines French poetry’s turn away from lyrical expression towards the language and practic...Loe edasi...
The legendary Academy Award–winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198994756)
A Book of Greek Life: The Ancient World Through Epigram introduces interested general readers to the richness and weirdness of the ancient world through its own social media (little poems called epigrams, of which we have thousands)....Loe edasi...
This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spenser’s long and shorter poems for creating comedy, parody, and satire. This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marve...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Belknap Press, ISBN-13: 9780674298637)
Though Paul Celans poems are widely appreciated, the richness of his life has escaped scholarly attention. Anna Arno pens the definitive biography of one of the twentieth centurys great writers, exploring Celans Jewish upbringing at the crossroad...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1973, this is foremost a study of Dryden as a writer, but, the author maintains, his ideas cannot be separated from his art. Drydens concern with familiar 17th Century problems make him almost as important to the historian as...Loe edasi...
Henry Fielding (1933) examines Fieldings prodigious activity as dramatist, journalist, novelist and magistrate. Though Fielding lived mainly by his pen, the profession he had chosen for himself was that of the law, and this book takes the man as a w...Loe edasi...
Confession is everywhere in our culture. It drives banal social media posts, sensational reality television shows, revolutionary social justice movements, and popular fiction. It has also been central to feminist movements throughout the twentieth a...Loe edasi...
First published in 1977, The Function of the Fool explores the fools role in literature and society. Stuart Evans wit and lyrical mastery shine across five sections, blending satire, reflection, and philosophical inquiry. Essential for En...Loe edasi...
Dante’s Paradiso delivers an accessible reader’s guide to the third canticle of The Divine Comedy, while providing critical overviews of the whole poem. This unique collaborative volume, written by a team of international scho...Loe edasi...
The first monograph to address Ben Jonson’s thought on the visual arts, Image, Word, and Catholicism in Ben Jonson’s Works: Curating Pictures shows how Jonson placed a high value on the visual arts and the extent to which he designed his po...Loe edasi...
Ben Lerner, Edges of Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Artistic Collaborations is the first comprehensive academic study of a major contemporary author. Praised by The New York Times as “the most talented writer of his generation,” Lern...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: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009646789)
Exploring Romantic writers free and imaginative confrontation with eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century scientific research, Sophie Musitelli reveals how the physiology of the senses allowed them to envision new modalities of sensation, in an a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199237555)
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other, with a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198920649)
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other, with a new intellectual context for interpreting the work, demonstrating its intricate intersections with the political...Loe edasi...
This edition of Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) makes its own distinctive contribution to the editorial tradition. It presents the two lifetime versions of Miltons poem in juxtaposition with each other. However, unlike previous scholarly edition...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198198)
This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198266)
This book shows that the poems of Geoffrey Hill (19322016) are characteristically end-directed, tending constantly towards prosodic and thematic consummations. It offers a new thematic reading of Hills entire body of work and touches on questions o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070007)
This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in...Loe edasi...
This book takes a thematic-cum-stylistic approach to Audens earlier poetry and poetics. By dividing the poets ethical consciousness into three thematic groups (cognition, emotion and conation), it demonstrates how readers can construct poetic themes...Loe edasi...
Redefining Faith in Dantes Divine Comedy offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the worlds most studied poems. Through close readings of all three canticles, Jason Aleksander shows how Dantes poem provocatively reconfigures faith as a mode of cr...Loe edasi...
This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths, Bronowski was prominent in the fields of philosophy, mathematics, history and literary criticism, and is perhaps best remembered tod...Loe edasi...
How does French poetics navigate the advent of the digital and an increasingly polarized political landscape? Centering on the 1990s to the present, this book examines French poetry’s turn away from lyrical expression towards the language and practic...Loe edasi...
You are asking me where I live and its making me think all these things about space, where I start and end in space and where space starts and ends in me and when, in space, I am a body and when Im a book, in space. So begins Renee Gladmans Theor...Loe edasi...
The legendary Academy Award–winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.We all want inspiration. We want to feel connected to something universal. And we want to be able to share that...Loe edasi...
Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land.In Third Commonness, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography, from Zen Bu...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081724)
The biography of a Honduran writer who defied conventions through her life and writing Clementina Suárez (1902-1991), the legendary matriarch of Honduran letters, scandalized Central American society with her bohemian lifestyle, her passi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198994756)
A Book of Greek Life: The Ancient World Through Epigram introduces interested general readers to the richness and weirdness of the ancient world through its own social media (little poems called epigrams, of which we have thousands)....Loe edasi...
This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spenser’s long and shorter poems for creating comedy, parody, and satire. This study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marve...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Belknap Press, ISBN-13: 9780674298637)
Though Paul Celans poems are widely appreciated, the richness of his life has escaped scholarly attention. Anna Arno pens the definitive biography of one of the twentieth centurys great writers, exploring Celans Jewish upbringing at the crossroad...Loe edasi...
Neil K. Besner, Regina Przybycien, Thomas Travisano
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807186107)
Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybyciens Black Beans and Diamonds has become a foundational study of the critical and highly productive years from 1951 to 1974 during which the American poet Elizabeth Bishop lived and worked...Loe edasi...
