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Philip Larkin (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback): Andrew Motion Philip Larkin (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
Andrew Motion
R1,392 Discovery Miles 13 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Philip Larkin is recognised as one of the most important writers to have emerged in Britain since the Second World War. First published in 1982, Andrew Motiona (TM)s study begins with an account of Larkina (TM)s life and literary background and discusses his literary relationship with Hardy and Yeats and his association with the Movement. He analyses Larkina (TM)s two novels and assesses his three mature collections. Throughout the book much reference is made to uncollected reviews and articles and occasionally to unpublished manuscripts. Rather than developing the familiar line on Larkin as an empirical and melancholy writer, Andrew Motion explores the Symbolist and transcendent element in his work, and emphasises its range and variety.

The Life and Letters of John Donne, Vol I (Hardcover): Edmund Gosse The Life and Letters of John Donne, Vol I (Hardcover)
Edmund Gosse
R1,182 R995 Discovery Miles 9 950 Save R187 (16%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Shakespearean Marriage - Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands (Hardcover, 1998 ed.): L. Hopkins The Shakespearean Marriage - Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
L. Hopkins
R1,406 Discovery Miles 14 060 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies. Situating his representations of marriage firmly within the ideologies and practices of Renaissance culture, Lisa Hopkins argues that Shakespeare anatomises marriage much as he does kingship, and finds it similarly indispensable to the underpinning of society, however problematic it may be as a guarantor of personal happiness.

The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hardcover): Russ Castronovo The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Hardcover)
Russ Castronovo
R5,408 Discovery Miles 54 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth Century American Literature offers a cutting-edge assessment of the period's literature, providing readers with practical insights and proactive strategies for exploring novels, poems, and other literary creations.

Edmund Spenser - A Literary Life (Hardcover, 1994 ed.): Gary Waller Edmund Spenser - A Literary Life (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
Gary Waller
R2,649 Discovery Miles 26 490 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A provocative approach to a famous figure in English poetry and to the relationship of literature to biography - both the poet's and the critic's own. Gary Waller, known for accessibly combining contemporary literary and cultural theory with Renaissance poetry, provides an intriguing overview of the period's most praised poet. Examining Spenser's career in terms of the material conditions of his poetry's production - factors of race, gender, class, agency - and the 'places' of its production - court, church, nation, colony - he also writes movingly of the 'place' the biographer occupies in the construction of a 'literary life'. The book includes chapters on Spenser's poetry and career, including an original account of the gender politics of his work and his difficult position between Ireland and England, the 'homes' about which he held increasingly painful feelings.

Contemporary British Poetry and the City (Paperback): Peter Barry Contemporary British Poetry and the City (Paperback)
Peter Barry
R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets who visit the 'mean streets' of the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous music of what happens here. Poets discussed include: Ken Smith, Iain Sinclair, Roy Fisher, Edwin Morgan, Sean O'Brien, Ciaran Carson, Peter Reading, Matt Simpson, Douglas Houston, Deryn Rees-Jones, Denise Riley, Ken Edwards, Levi Tafari, Aidan Hun, and Robert Hampson. Approaches contemporary poetry within a broad spectrum of personal, social, literary, and cultural concerns. Includes 'loco-specific' chapters, on cities including Hull, Liverpool, London, and Birmingham, with an additional chapter on 'post-industrial' cities such as Belfast, Glasgow and Dundee. -- .

Reading the Cantos (Routledge Revivals) - A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound (Hardcover): Noel Stock Reading the Cantos (Routledge Revivals) - A Study of Meaning in Ezra Pound (Hardcover)
Noel Stock
R4,202 Discovery Miles 42 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1967, this is a study which tackles the central problem of meaning, within Ezra Pound's The Cantos. It deals with the question of important critical issues, as well as of interpretation and understanding. Students of modern poetry will derive great benefit from this vigorous and lucid analysis of Pound's masterpiece. Noel Stock's finding is radical: that The Cantos is not a really a poem at all, but rather notes towards a poem. It is a collection of fragments of varying quality - some of extraordinary power and beauty - but in no sense formed into a work of art.

To be in the Same World (Paperback): Peter Kane Dufault To be in the Same World (Paperback)
Peter Kane Dufault
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Philip Larkin (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Andrew Motion Philip Larkin (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Andrew Motion
R3,351 Discovery Miles 33 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Philip Larkin is recognised as one of the most important writers to have emerged in Britain since the Second World War. First published in 1982, Andrew Motiona (TM)s study begins with an account of Larkina (TM)s life and literary background and discusses his literary relationship with Hardy and Yeats and his association with the Movement. He analyses Larkina (TM)s two novels and assesses his three mature collections. Throughout the book much reference is made to uncollected reviews and articles and occasionally to unpublished manuscripts. Rather than developing the familiar line on Larkin as an empirical and melancholy writer, Andrew Motion explores the Symbolist and transcendent element in his work, and emphasises its range and variety.

Irish Poetry Since 1950 - From Stillness into History (Paperback): Annette Musker Irish Poetry Since 1950 - From Stillness into History (Paperback)
Annette Musker; John Goodby
R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A survey of poetry from Northern Ireland, the Republic, Britain and the USA. The five chapters of the book cover the 1950s, 1960s, the early troubles period to 1976, the 1980s and 1990s. Each poet is placed firmly within his or her historical and social contexts, with an emphasis on the response to the processes of modernisation, the representation of violence, poetic form and gender. While the distinctiveness of Northern and Southern poetries is respected, Irish poets are seen to be engaged in a continual process of cross-border exchange. Over 30 individual poets are dealt with, and in each case detailed readings of individual poems are given along with contextual material. While the major critical issues are addressed the book is primarily concerned to break with the small canon of texts and poets which tends to dominate discussions of the subject, and emphasizes a heterogeneity and diversity of achievement. It avoids the imposition of a single interpretation on a diverse body of writing and makes the case for a wider appraisal of Irish poetry which considers international and mainstream influences. It concludes with a discussion of poetry of the diaspora at a time of the fragile Northern Ireland ceasefire and the "Celtic Tiger" phenomenon in the Republic.

The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash - A Biography (Hardcover): David Stuart The Life and Rhymes of Ogden Nash - A Biography (Hardcover)
David Stuart
R636 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R121 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ogden Nash was a rare poet. He celebrated the ordinary with delight and curiosity: husbands and wives at work, children at play, a society in motion. He studied popular culture with a penetrating eye and wrote about America, its icons, habits, and affectations with humor and levity. He struggled with comparisons to serious poets, those heroes of the canon who abandoned the rhyme and meter that Nash found crucial to his style of writing. His witty, insightful, and graceful vignettes captured those moments in life that defy heavy-handed treatment. Nash did not live out the stereotype of the aloof poet-recluse. In addition to his writing, Nash pursued publishing, screenwriting, and a rigorous lecture circuit. This self-styled poet of wide appeal appeared in newspapers and magazines found in homes across the country, accessible publications such as Life, The New Yorker, Cosmopolitan, Sports Illustrated, Reader s Digest, and McCall s. At a time when children s literature meant Winnie-the-Pooh, Nash produced verses for and about young people that amused, educated, and more important, didn t pander or lecture. These poems and collections, including Custard the Dragon, The New Nutcracker Suite and Other Innocent Verses, A Boy Is a Boy, and Girls Are Silly, were classics of the genre. Nash left behind an invaluable body of work: charming, clever, and utterly unique."

Modern Verse Drama in English - An Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover, New): Kayla J. Wiggins Modern Verse Drama in English - An Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover, New)
Kayla J. Wiggins
R1,921 Discovery Miles 19 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This bibliography provides a comprehensive record of verse drama in modern literature. The volume begins with an introduction, which discusses the significance of verse drama in modern theater, and which overviews the history and intent of modern verse drama. The bibliography that follows provides entries for more than 500 plays written in verse or in verse and prose between 1935 and 1992. Included are works by renowned playwrights such as T.S. Eliot, Christopher Fry, and John Arden, as well as plays by lesser-known dramatists. The plays are organized alphabetically by the name of the author. Included are anthologies of plays as well. Each entry is accompanied by an annotation that succinctly overviews the major themes and significance of the work. Title and subject index conclude the reference.

Hafiz, Master of Persian Poetry - A Critical Bibliography (Hardcover): Parvin Loloi Hafiz, Master of Persian Poetry - A Critical Bibliography (Hardcover)
Parvin Loloi
R4,326 Discovery Miles 43 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Within the pantheon of world literature, the Persian poet Hafiz (born in around 1320 in the city of Shiraz) occupies an exalted position, and his poems have long been translated and studied in the West. However, the degree of the English language's "interaction" with the work of Hafiz has often been underestimated. Parvin Loloi's contribution has been to collect and analyse the entire body of translations of Hafiz in English and to identify the specific problems which his writing presents to translators, together with varying strategies adopted by translators to surmount these difficulties. Her book includes a comprehensive first-line index of English translations of individual poems of Hafiz: a rich resource for students of comparative literature or translation studies, which demonstrates widespread and long-established interest in one of the major poets of Persia. It points to cultural encounters which the debate on Orientalism has largely ignored and highlights a significant influence on English poets of the 19th century, including Byron and Tennyson.

Synge and Irish Nationalism - The Precursor to Revolution (Hardcover): Nelson Ritschel Synge and Irish Nationalism - The Precursor to Revolution (Hardcover)
Nelson Ritschel
R2,038 Discovery Miles 20 380 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

One of the most important playwrights of the Irish Renaissance, John Millington Synge is receiving renewed attention as his works are reread in light of the political and cultural contexts of his time. This book argues that his plays are far more deeply rooted, thematically and aesthetically, in the ancient native literature than was previously believed. It demonstrates that Synge borrowed themes and ideology from the ancient culture, serving as a nationalist agenda far more radical and modern than the agendas of the most common nationalists in his day. Synge rejects these nationalists, whom he believed were embracing foreign influences that were drowning Ireland in conservatively capitalistic initiatives and values.

The book's most important section examines DEGREESIThe Playboy of the Western World. DEGREESR It discusses the play's characters as representative and recognizable types and reconsiders the play's thematic depiction of violence. Synge's representation of both commenced the process of separating and identifying the nationalist camps in Dublin from 1907 on. The volume argues that Synge's play drafted what became the Easter Rising. This argument is furthered through Synge's DEGREESIDeirdre of the Sorrows DEGREESR and the influence that his works ultimately bore on the plays and ideologies of Thomas MacDonagh, Padaraic Pearse, and James Connolly. The book also explores the acting style originally used to perform Synge's plays, thus gathering further evidence for its argument.

We Heal from Memory - Sexton, Corde, Anzaldua, and the Poetry of Witness (Hardcover, New): C. Steele We Heal from Memory - Sexton, Corde, Anzaldua, and the Poetry of Witness (Hardcover, New)
C. Steele
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Through an examination of the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa,We Heal From Memory paints a vivid picture of how our culture carries a history of traumatic violence--child sexual abuse, the ownership and enforcement of women's sexuality under slavery, the transmission of violence through generations, and the destruction of non-white cultures and their histories through colonization. According to Cassie Premo Steele, the poetry of Sexton, Lorde, and Anzaldúa allows us to witness and to heal from such disparate traumatic events.

Translating Poetry - The Double Labyrinth (Hardcover): Daniel Weissbort Translating Poetry - The Double Labyrinth (Hardcover)
Daniel Weissbort
R4,017 Discovery Miles 40 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume, with contributions in the form of narrations, or of work sheets, by leading British and American translators, shows what happens: how problems present themselves and how they are resolved. Ezra Pound regarded translation as a superior type of literary criticism, representing a fusion of creative and critical. In this collection, translators make explicit not only what is implicit in their translations, but also critical insights that inevitably and agonizingly, cannot be accommodated in them. The translator's complex role, or predicament, as mediator between cultures is exemplified here.

The Grief of Influence - Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Hardcover): Heather Clark The Grief of Influence - Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Hardcover)
Heather Clark
R3,242 Discovery Miles 32 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Throughout their marriage, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes engaged in a complex and continually evolving poetic dialogue about writing, love, and grief. Although scholars have commented extensively on the biographical details of Plath's and Hughes's marriage, few have undertaken a systematic intertextual analysis of the poets' work. The Grief of Influence reappraises this extraordinary literary partnership, and shows that the aesthetic and ideological similarities that provided a foundation for Plath's and Hughes's creative marriage - such as their mutual fascination with D. H. Lawrence and motifs of violence and war - intensified their artistic rivalry. Through close readings of both poets' work and analysis of new archival sources, Clark reveals for the first time how extensively Plath borrowed from Hughes and Hughes borrowed from Plath. She also explores the transatlantic dynamics of Plath's and Hughes's 'colonial' marriage within the context of the 1950s Anglo-American poetry scene and demonstrates how each poet's misreadings of the other contributed to the damaging stereotypes that now dominate the Plath-Hughes mythology. Following Plath and Hughes through alternating periods of collaboration and competition, The Grief of Influence shows how each poet forged a voice both through and against the other's, and offers a new assessment of the twentieth century's most important poetic partnership.

R. S. Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God - Meaning and Mediation in the Poetry of R. S. Thomas (Hardcover): D.Z. Phillips R. S. Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God - Meaning and Mediation in the Poetry of R. S. Thomas (Hardcover)
D.Z. Phillips
R2,646 Discovery Miles 26 460 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Reframing Yeats - Genre, Allusion and History (Hardcover, New): Charles I. Armstrong Reframing Yeats - Genre, Allusion and History (Hardcover, New)
Charles I. Armstrong
R4,307 Discovery Miles 43 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Reframing Yeats," the first critical study of its kind, uses a focus on genre and allusion to engage with a broad range of W. B. Yeats's writings, examining instances of his poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama. Identifying a schism in recent Yeatsian criticism between biographical and formalist methodologies, Armstrong's study combines an historicist perspective with close attention to literary form. The result is a flexible approach that casts new light on how Yeats's texts interact with their interpretative frameworks. Cognizant of both literary and political history, this book presents new interpretations of Yeats's work. Not only does it provide fresh readings of texts such as "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited," "Among School Children" and The Resurrection, but it also raises important new questions concerning Yeats's relationship to Modernism and literary genre.

Poetics of Redemption - Dante's Divine Comedy (Hardcover): Andreas Kablitz Poetics of Redemption - Dante's Divine Comedy (Hardcover)
Andreas Kablitz
R2,793 Discovery Miles 27 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The essays on Dante collected in this volume interpret his Commedia as the attempt of a renewal of the Christian work of salvation by means of literature. In the view of his author, the sacro poema responds to a historical moment of extreme danger, in which nothing less than the redemption of mankind is at stake. The degradation of the medieval Roman Empire and the rise of an early capitalism in his birth town Florence, entailing a pernicious moral depravation for Dante, are to him nothing else but a variety of symptoms of the backfall of the world into its state prior to its salvation by the incarnation of Christ. Dante presents his journey into the other world as an endeavor to escape these risks. Mobilizing the traditional procedures of literary discourse for this purpose, he aims at writing a text that overcomes the deficiencies of the traditional Book of Revelation that, on its own terms, no longer seems capable of fulfilling his traditional tasks. The immense revaluation of poetry implied in Dante's Commedia, thus, contemporarily involves the claim of a substantial weakness of the institutional religious discourse.

D.H. Lawrence: The Thinker as Poet (Hardcover): F. Becket D.H. Lawrence: The Thinker as Poet (Hardcover)
F. Becket
R2,656 Discovery Miles 26 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

D.H. Lawrence: The Thinker as Poet addresses a particular body of language and thought within Lawrence's oeuvre where the metaphorical, the poetic and the philosophical are intricately enmeshed. Lawrence emerges as a writer who pulls metaphor away from its merely rhetorical moorings: his distinctive style is the hallmark of one who thinks not analytically but poetically, about the birth of the self, the body unconscious, complex kinds of otherness and about metaphor itself as a mode of understanding.

Wordsworth's Vital Soul - The Sacred and Profane in Wordsworth's Poetry (Hardcover): J.R. Watson Wordsworth's Vital Soul - The Sacred and Profane in Wordsworth's Poetry (Hardcover)
J.R. Watson
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage (Hardcover): M. Gibson Yeats, Coleridge and the Romantic Sage (Hardcover)
M. Gibson
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This work explores an aspect of Yeats's writing largely ignored until now: namely, his wide-ranging absorption in S.T. Coleridge. Gibson explores the consistent and densely woven allusions to Coleridge in Yeats's prose and poetry, often in conjunction with other Romantic figures, arguing that the earlier poet provided him with both a model of philosopher - 'the sage' - and an interpretation of metaphysical ideas which were to have a resounding effect on his later poetry, and upon his rewriting of A Vision.

Republican Politics and English Poetry, 1789-1874 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): Stephanie Kuduk Weiner Republican Politics and English Poetry, 1789-1874 (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This study explores how poets who espoused republican political ideals sought to embody and advance those principles in their verse. By examining a range of canonical and non-canonical authors-including Blake, Shelley, Cooper, Linton, Landor, Meredith, Thomson and Swinburne, Kuduk Weiner connects the formal strategies of republican poems to the political theory and expressive cultures of republican radicalism. Her new study traces a strain of powerful, complex political poetry that casts new light on the political and literary history of nineteenth-century England.

Byron - Heritage and Legacy (Hardcover): C. Wilson Byron - Heritage and Legacy (Hardcover)
C. Wilson
R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This exciting collection represents a range of scholarly approaches and include close textual study, comparative readings, and broad cultural analysis. Contributors to this collection include Bernard Beatty, Peter Cochran, Marilyn Gaull, Charles E. Robinson, Andrew Stauffer, and Timothy Webb.

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