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This volume is a major, ground-breaking study of the modernist E. E. Cummings' engagement with the classics. With his experimental form and syntax, his irreverence, and his rejection of the highbrow, there are probably few current readers who would name Cummings if...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-22
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Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right. Not only has this created a gap in literary analytical scholarship which needs to be addressed, but it has also allowed...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-22
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One of the three seminal works of Japanese literature, this beautiful collection of poems and tales offers an unparalleled insight into ancient Japan.Along with the Tale of Genji andOne Hundred Poets,One Poem Each, The Tales of Ise is considered one of the three most...
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Penguin
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2016-09-01
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Recent critical studies of late modernism have explored the changing sense of both history and artistic possibility that emerged in the years surrounding World War II. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of poets' theological...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-09-01
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Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics. At the same time, literary histories of the period often invoke a Long Eighteenth Century that...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-25
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Von Opitz bis Lohenstein. Die verständlich geschriebene Einführung in die deutsche Lyrik des 17. Jahrhunderts liefert einen Abriss der sozial- und literaturgeschichtlichen Voraussetzungen der deutschen Barocklyrik. Der Autor stellt das barocke Regelsystem vor und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2016-08-09
Collection :
Sammlung Metzler
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Das Werk Rudolf Alexander Schröders steht symptomatisch für die literarisch-kulturellen Bemühungen eines im frühen 20. Jahrhundert weit verbreiteten ästhetischen Konservatismus. Die Autorin befasst sich mit der Frage, wie Geschichtsverständnis, politischer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-05
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Milton criticism often treats the poet as if he were the last of the Renaissance poets or a visionary prophet who remained misunderstood until he was read by the Romantics. At the same time, literary histories of the period often invoke a Long Eighteenth Century that...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-22
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Specially selected from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd edition, each article within this compendium covers the fundamental themes within the discipline and is written by a leading practitioner in the field. A handy reference tool.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-07-14
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Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early in his youth. A bard, a teacher, and a lover who has lived many lives, he is the quintessential gay who once cross-dressed, and yet defies categorization. In Secret Writings, he recounts his...
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OUP India
Parution :
2016-07-07
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Recent critical studies of late modernism have explored the changing sense of both history and artistic possibility that emerged in the years surrounding World War II. However, relatively little attention has been devoted to the impact of poets' theological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-07-01
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What is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behaviour? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives--perhaps sacred alternatives--to political and religious...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-04-21
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Secular Chains offers an original and richly contextualized account of the relationship between poetry and religious controversy between 1649 and 1745. This was a period of political conflict and intellectual upheaval, in which traditional sources of spiritual authority...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-04-07
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In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature. World famous overnight, he was translated into numerous languages. Meanwhile, in Slovenia, a young, still anonymous poet felt strongly drawn to the newly available works of the Indian bard. This young...
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OUP India
Parution :
2016-02-18
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A New Companion to Milton builds on the critically-acclaimed original, bringing alive the diverse and controversial world of contemporary Milton studies while reflecting the very latest advances in research in the field. Comprises 36 powerful readings of Milton's texts...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-12-31
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Seamus Heaney's prose poetics return repeatedly to the adequacy of poetry, its ameliorative, restorative response to the violence of public historical life. It is a curiously equivocal ideal, and as such most clearly demonstrates the intellectual origins, the humanist...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-10-15
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This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we encounter the grave...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-24
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This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we encounter the grave...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-24
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Verse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school. Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-09-10
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This, the first ever biography of John Hewitt, is based on archival material, both personal and literary. In many ways it is also a biography of his wife, Roberta (nee Black), whose manuscript journal is also in the public domain. To establish Hewitt's late arrival as a...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-09-10
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