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Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures. Its relation to the worlds of human experience has perplexed writers and readers for centuries, as has the question of evaluation and judgment: what makes a poem "work"...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-03-13
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Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation argues that the dialectic and dynamic relationship between the periodical review and poetry creates a culture of evaluation which shapesVictorian poetic form. The mediation of poetry by the periodical review orients poets...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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68,14€
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Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation argues that the dialectic and dynamic relationship between the periodical review and poetry creates a culture of evaluation which shapesVictorian poetic form. The mediation of poetry by the periodical review orients poets...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-27
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58,40€
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When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well. By making poems available to anyone who either had the means to a buy a book or knew someone who did, print...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-07
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70,58€
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When poetry was printed, poets and their publishers could no longer take for granted that readers would have the necessary knowledge and skill to read it well. By making poems available to anyone who either had the means to a buy a book or knew someone who did, print...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-02-07
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76,67€
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The Urdu Ghazal presents the unique flowering of the ghazal as a by-product of India’s composite culture.
It explores a variety of influences on the ghazal, including Sufism, Bhakti movement, and infusion of Rekhta and Persian languages and culture.The book elucidates...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2020-01-02
ePub
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Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature brings together the latest understandings of how central music was to Bishop’s writing. This collection considers Bishop’s reworking of metrical and rhythmic forms of poetry; the increasing presence of prosaic utterances...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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This book explores the incorporation of untranslated fragments from various languages within modernist writing. It studies non-translation in modernist fiction, poetry, and other forms of writing, with a principally European focus and addresses the following questions:...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-24
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77,88€
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This book explores the incorporation of untranslated fragments from various languages within modernist writing. It studies non-translation in modernist fiction, poetry, and other forms of writing, with a principally European focus and addresses the following questions:...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-10-24
ePub
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77,88€
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Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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9,12€
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Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect....
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-26
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9,12€
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Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work. Comprising literary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-19
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86,40€
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Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly dedicated to this perspective on his work. Comprising literary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-09-19
ePub
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74,23€
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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-22
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Originally writing over 600 years ago, Geoffrey Chaucer is today enjoying a global renaissance. Why do poets, translators, and audiences from so many cultures, from the mountains of Iran to the islands of Japan, find Chaucer so inspiring? In part this is down to the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-22
ePub
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The book is the first volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors.The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-08-14
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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-13
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121,70€
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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-08-13
ePub
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121,70€
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Eighteenth-century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century's novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-30
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43,80€
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Eighteenth-century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century's novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-30
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43,80€
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