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Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader. Offers a detailed...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-01-05
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Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman: The American West and Beyond discovers a previously unacknowledged connection between the poet and the historian. Parkman in his historical narratives served as a source for a variety of poems by Stevens, including some of his more...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-07-05
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A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field,A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-12-14
Collection :
Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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Im Zentrum des Buches stehen zwei Essays von den Autoren, die sich nach den geopolitischen Schreibweisen richten. Es werden dabei drei Begriffe hervorgehoben: Anverwandlung (Goethe) in Bezug auf den Umgang mit dem deutschen Erbe in Polen und in Tschechien (Jörg Bernig),...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-17
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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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Obscenity and Disruption in the Poetry of Dylan Krieger is the first full-length study of the radical poetry of Baton Rouge-based poet Dylan Krieger. Wickedly smart, iconoclastic, daring in their critiques of religion and contemporary culture, Krieger’s poems rank with...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-07-26
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Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) was often hailed as one of the most important – and one of the most difficult – poets of his lifetime. This book is a timely investigation into a writer whose work seems simultaneously to invite analysis and to refuse explanations of its...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-04-15
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'In a world in which we tend to look to what's new, to cutting-edge science and to medical breakthroughs for hope in better health, there's something marvellous in the realisation that one of the most beautiful and longest-lasting cures has been here all along - on the...
Editeur :
Yellow Kite
Parution :
2018-10-04
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This book examines the development of English-translated Tang poetry and its propagation to the Western world. It consists of two parts, the first of which addresses the initial stage of English-translated Tang poetry’s propagation, and the second exploring its further...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-03-08
Collection :
China Academic Library
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William Blake (1757–1827) is one of the most significant figures in the history of English poetry. He is also one of the most mysterious, most challenging, and most frequently misunderstood. His Songs of Innocence and of Experience, on the surface so simple, are laden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-08
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This book explores contemporary Anglophone Cameroon poetry’s engagement with the environment through an eco-textual analysis of a cross section of poems from different poets. In this regard, the work broadens the field of ecocriticism beyond the original Anglo-American...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-13
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Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor. Discussing how changes in electronic communication and artificial notions...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-06-06
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This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wife, Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, along with many of his poems. Close...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-22
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Poema heroyco hispano-latino (1687), a national chronicle or “epic poem,” commemorates the founding and greatness of Lima, Peru. Its unique rhymed quatrains can be read in either Latin or Spanish with equal meaning, and its insightful marginal notes interpret the city’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-22
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'The story of Coleridge's life does undoubtedly echo that of his poem; this is a book that provides rewarding rereadings of both' - The Sunday TimesA new biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, shaped and structured around the story he himself tells in his most famous...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2017-02-09
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Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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The essays collected in this volume study the poetry and thought of four major Francophone Caribbean writers: Saint-John Perse, Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon and Édouard Glissant. In a context where identity was a question, an original conception of subjectivity appeared,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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This study traces the poetic development of Arthur Hugh Clough through a methodological approach based on close readings of his most important works with separate chapters devoted to the three great poems of his maturity: The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, Amours de Voyage...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-01-25
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Die Autorin rekonstruiert Goethes Persien-Bild, wie es sich einerseits aus dem «West-Östlichen Divan» und andererseits aus den umfangreichen Nachforschungen, Lektüren, Briefwechseln und Schriften ergibt, die der Dichter im Verlauf der Entstehung und Produktion seines...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-18
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