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Late Modernism and 'The English Intelligencer' - On the Poetics of Community (Hardcover): Alex Latter Late Modernism and 'The English Intelligencer' - On the Poetics of Community (Hardcover)
Alex Latter
R4,586 Discovery Miles 45 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite the brevity of its run and the diminutive size of its audience, The English Intelligencer is a key publication in the history of literary modernism in the British Isles. Emerging in the mid-1960s from a dissatisfaction with the prevailing norms of 'Betjeman's England', the young writers associated with it were catalysed by the example of Donald Allen's The New American Poetry as they sought to establish a revitalised modernist poetics. Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer gives the first full account of the extraordinary history of this publication, bringing to light extensive new archival material to establish an authoritative contextualisation of its operation and its relationship with post-war British poetry. This material provides compelling new insights into the work of the Intelligencer poets themselves and, more broadly, the continued presence of an international poetic modernism as a vital force in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century.

What Poets Used to Know - Poetics - Mythopoesis - Metaphysics (Hardcover): Charles Upton What Poets Used to Know - Poetics - Mythopoesis - Metaphysics (Hardcover)
Charles Upton
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Focus On Keats - Isabella: or, the Pot of Basil, The Eve of St Agnes, Lamia and La Belle Dame sans Merci (Paperback): Andrew... Focus On Keats - Isabella: or, the Pot of Basil, The Eve of St Agnes, Lamia and La Belle Dame sans Merci (Paperback)
Andrew Keanie
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - A New Translation from the Persian (Hardcover): Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - A New Translation from the Persian (Hardcover)
Omar Khayyam; Translated by Juan Cole
R2,849 Discovery Miles 28 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A repository of subversive, melancholic and existentialist themes and ideas, the rubaiyat (quatrains) that make up the collected poems attributed to the 12th century Persian astronomer Omar Khayyam have enchanted readers for centuries. In this modern translation, complete with critical introduction and epilogue, Juan Cole elegantly renders the verse for contemporary readers. Exploring such universal questions as the meaning of life, fate and how to live a good life in the face of human mortality, this translation reveals anew why this singular collection of poems has struck a chord with such a temporally and culturally diverse audience, from the wine houses of medieval Iran to the poets of Western twentieth century modernism.

By A River, On A Hill (Hardcover): John Durbin Husher By A River, On A Hill (Hardcover)
John Durbin Husher
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
When the Eternal Can Be Met (Hardcover): Corey Latta When the Eternal Can Be Met (Hardcover)
Corey Latta
R1,188 R995 Discovery Miles 9 950 Save R193 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dante and the Sense of Transgression - 'The Trespass of the Sign' (Hardcover, New): William Franke Dante and the Sense of Transgression - 'The Trespass of the Sign' (Hardcover, New)
William Franke
R4,231 Discovery Miles 42 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante's poetic vision. Conversely, Dante's medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory. Beyond suggestive archetypes like Adam and Ulysses that hint at an obsession with transgression beneath Dante's overt suppression of it, there is another and a prior sense in which transgression emerges as Dante's essential and ultimate gesture. His work as a poet culminates in the Paradiso in a transcendence of language towards a purely ineffable, mystical experience beyond verbal expression. Yet Dante conveys this experience, nevertheless, in and through language and specifically through the transgression of language, violating its normally representational and referential functions. Paradiso's dramatic sky-scapes and unparalleled textual performances stage a deconstruction of the sign that is analyzed philosophically in the light of Blanchot, Levinas, Derrida, Barthes, and Bataille, as transgressing and transfiguring the very sense of sense.

Semiotics and City Poetics - Jakobson's Theory and Praxis (Hardcover): Mary Coghill Semiotics and City Poetics - Jakobson's Theory and Praxis (Hardcover)
Mary Coghill
R4,384 Discovery Miles 43 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Roman Jakobson stands alone in his semiotic theory of poetic analysis which combines semiotics, linguistics and structuralist poetics. This groundbreaking book proposes methods for developing Jakobson's theories of communication and poetic function. It provides an extensive range of examples of the kinds of Formalist praxis that have been neglected in recent years, developing them for the analysis of all poetry but, especially, the poetry of our urban future. Throughout the book the parameters of a city poetic genre are proposed and established; the book also develops the theory of the function of shifters and deixis with special reference to women as narrators. It also instantiates an experimental poetic praxis based on the work of one of Jakobson's great influences, Charles Sanders Peirce. Steadfastly adhering to the text in itself, this volume reveals the often surprising, hitherto unconsidered structural and semiotic patterns within poems as a whole.

The Works of Tomas Transtroemer - The Universality of Poetry (Hardcover): Lee Ching Lim The Works of Tomas Transtroemer - The Universality of Poetry (Hardcover)
Lee Ching Lim
R2,594 Discovery Miles 25 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Colonial Australian Women Poets - Political Voice and Feminist Traditions (Paperback): Katie Hansord Colonial Australian Women Poets - Political Voice and Feminist Traditions (Paperback)
Katie Hansord
R812 Discovery Miles 8 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Selected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy: York Notes Advanced - Selected Poems (Paperback, 1st New edition): Carol Ann Duffy Selected Poems of Carol Ann Duffy: York Notes Advanced - Selected Poems (Paperback, 1st New edition)
Carol Ann Duffy
R247 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270 Save R20 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

Ezra Pound in the Present - Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity (Hardcover): Paul Stasi, Josephine Park Ezra Pound in the Present - Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity (Hardcover)
Paul Stasi, Josephine Park
R4,582 Discovery Miles 45 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? Or did he inaugurate a form of comparative literature that could save the discipline from its untimely demise? Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis? What might he say about America's economic dependence on China? Would he have been appalled at the rise of the "digital humanities," or found it amenable to his own quasi-social scientific views about the role of literature in society? What, if anything, would he find to value in today's economic and aesthetic discourses? Ezra Pound in the Present collects new essays by prominent scholars of modernist poetics to engage the relevance of Pound's work for our times, testing whether his literature was, as he hoped it would be, "news that stays news."

Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 2 - Books IX - XIII, Appendices, Glossary, Index (Hardcover): Gordon Kendal Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 2 - Books IX - XIII, Appendices, Glossary, Index (Hardcover)
Gordon Kendal
R1,590 Discovery Miles 15 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Virgil's story of Aeneas, exiled from fallen Troy and leading his people to a new life through the founding of Rome, was familiar in the middle ages. The first true and full translation into any form of English was completed in Scotland in 1513 by Gavin Douglas and published in print forty years later. His version (still considered by some to be the finest of all) is significant historically but also for its intrinsic qualities: vigour, faithfulness, and a remarkable flair for language. Douglas was a scholar as well as a poet and brought to his task a detailed knowledge of the Latin text and of its major commentators, together with a sensitive mastery of his own language, both Scots and English, contemporary and archaic. The present edition is the first to regularise his spelling and make access easier for the modern reader without compromising the authentic Scots-English blend of his language. Glossaries (side- and end-) explain obscurities in his vocabulary while the introduction and notes set the work in context and indicate how Douglas understands and refocusses the great Virgilian epic. It will be of interest to medievalists and Renaissance scholars, to classicists and to students of the English language, and not least to the general reader whom Douglas had especially in mind. Gordon Kendal is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews.

Marjory Fleming (Paperback, New edition): Oriel Malet Marjory Fleming (Paperback, New edition)
Oriel Malet; Preface by Oriel Malet
R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A novel based on fact about the child prodigy who lived in Scotland from 1803-11.

Meditations in Times of Wonder (Hardcover): Michael Martin Meditations in Times of Wonder (Hardcover)
Michael Martin
R722 Discovery Miles 7 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 1 - Introduction, Books I - VIII (Hardcover): Gordon Kendal Gavin Douglas, 'The Aeneid' (1513) Volume 1 - Introduction, Books I - VIII (Hardcover)
Gordon Kendal
R1,595 Discovery Miles 15 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Virgil's story of Aeneas, exiled from fallen Troy and leading his people to a new life through the founding of Rome, was familiar in the middle ages. The first true and full translation into any form of English was completed in Scotland in 1513 by Gavin Douglas and published in print forty years later. His version (still considered by some to be the finest of all) is significant historically but also for its intrinsic qualities: vigour, faithfulness, and a remarkable flair for language. Douglas was a scholar as well as a poet and brought to his task a detailed knowledge of the Latin text and of its major commentators, together with a sensitive mastery of his own language, both Scots and English, contemporary and archaic. The present edition is the first to regularise his spelling and make access easier for the modern reader without compromising the authentic Scots-English blend of his language. Glossaries (side- and end-) explain obscurities in his vocabulary while the introduction and notes set the work in context and indicate how Douglas understands and refocusses the great Virgilian epic. It will be of interest to medievalists and Renaissance scholars, to classicists and to students of the English language, and not least to the general reader whom Douglas had especially in mind. Gordon Kendal is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews.

An Introduction to Piers Plowman (Hardcover): Michael A. Calabrese An Introduction to Piers Plowman (Hardcover)
Michael A. Calabrese
R2,172 Discovery Miles 21 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

William Langland's allegorical poem Piers Plowman is becoming ever-more popular in medieval English literature courses. But most current introductions focus primarily on the B text, leaving a gap in available resources for the poem's study. As Piers Plowman continues to gain academic attention in all its three versions (the A, B, and C-texts), teachers and students need a new perspective and new approach to the poem as an evolving whole. This first comprehensive introduction to Langland's masterful work covers all three iterations and outlines the various changes that occurred between each. Useful for individuals reading any version of Piers Plowman, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical notes about Langland, and keys to characters and proper pronunciation. Calabrese's definitive and refreshingly lively volume allows readers to navigate this daunting poem and to contextualize it within the literary history of Western culture.

The Art of Revising Poetry - 21 U.S. Poets on their Drafts, Craft, and Process (Hardcover): Charles Finn, Kim Stafford The Art of Revising Poetry - 21 U.S. Poets on their Drafts, Craft, and Process (Hardcover)
Charles Finn, Kim Stafford
R2,334 Discovery Miles 23 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using side-by-side pairings of first drafts and final versions, including full-page reproductions from the poets’ personal notebooks, as well as an insightful essay on each poem’s journey from start to finish, The Art of Revising Poetry tracks the creative process of twenty-one of the United States’ most influential poets as they struggle over a single word, line break, or thought. This behind-the-scenes look into the creative minds of working poets, including African American, Latino, Asian American, and Native poets from across the US, is an essential resource for students practicing poetry, and for instructors looking to enliven the classroom with real world examples. Students learn first-hand from the deft revisions working poets make, while poetry teachers can show in detail how experienced poets self-edit, tinker, cut, rearrange, and craft a poem. The Art of Revising Poetry is a must-have for aspiring poets and poetry teachers at all levels.

Reading Julia Alvarez (Hardcover, New): Alice L. Trupe Reading Julia Alvarez (Hardcover, New)
Alice L. Trupe
R1,809 Discovery Miles 18 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author's important works and the intentions behind them. Reading Julia Alvarez reviews the author's acclaimed body of writing, exploring both the works and the woman behind them. The guide opens with a brief biography that includes the saga of the Alvarez family's flight from the Dominican Republic when Julia was ten, and carries her story through the philanthropic organic coffee farm that she and her husband now operate in that nation. The heart of the book is a broad overview of Alvarez's literary achievements, followed by chapters that discuss individual works and a chapter on her poetry. The book also looks at how the author's writings grapple with and illuminate contemporary issues, and at Alvarez's place in pop culture, including an examination of film adaptations of her books. Through this guide, readers will better understand the relevance of Alvarez's works to their own lives and to new ways of thinking about current events. Chapters on individual works to help the user understand the author's plots, themes, settings, characters, and style Discussion questions in each chapter to foster student research and facilitate book-club discussion Sidebars of interesting information An up-to-date guide to Internet and print resources for further study

Walt Whitman - Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul (Hardcover): Steven B. Herrmann Walt Whitman - Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul (Hardcover)
Steven B. Herrmann
R761 R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Save R47 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul begins with a dream that sent the author, Steven B. Herrmann, on a journey to analyze the "shamanic structures" of the collective unconscious that are present in the poetry and prose of America's greatest bard, Walt Whitman. From a contemporary, analytical psychological point of view, Herrmann demonstrates how Whitman speaks to age-old sociopolitical and religious questions that are highly relevant to our world today. The book discusses topics including: * Whitman's Emergence as a World-Liberating Figure * The Three Stages of American Democracy * Bi-Erotic Marriage * Whitman's Religious Vision Based on extensive research into the roots of the American mythos, this book will be essential reading for literary, political, religious, and psychological studies. Steven B. Herrmann is a Jungian writer and psychotherapist and lives with his wife in the hills of Oakland, California. Publisher's Web site: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/WaltWhitman-Shamanism.html

Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero - Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary... Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero - Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics (Hardcover)
Laura Hinton; Contributions by Laura Hinton, Renee M. Kingan, Linda Kinnahan, Deborah Mix, …
R2,784 Discovery Miles 27 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging poetics theory, cultural studies, and popular media in its literary analyses. A collection of eight integrated chapters by multiple poetry critics, as well as an artist-statement narrative by Wonder Woman sculptor Linda Stein, the book focuses upon the voice of bravado, the various calls for global justice, and Third Wave feminist "intersectional" critiques all embodied within these two women's poetic texts. The book also examines the twentieth-century figure of the American superhero, particularly Wonder Woman, bringing popular-culture studies into conversation with literary criticism, as well as visual art through the inclusion of Stein's commentary and illustrations. This beautiful and compelling book experiments with the festschrift concept by inviting multiple and competing disciplinary views on U.S. feminist poetics, women's art and aesthetics, racial and sexual identities, as well as politics and performance-all in tribute to the power of poetry by Cortez and Rich.

William Wordsworth's Poetry (Hardcover): Daniel Robinson William Wordsworth's Poetry (Hardcover)
Daniel Robinson
R3,365 Discovery Miles 33 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title provides a comprehensive guide to studying Wordsworth at undergraduate level. William Wordsworth continues to be one of the most popular and widely studied poets from the nineteenth century. This Reader's Guide provides an overview of Wordsworth's career, which began in obscurity, persisted through ridicule, and culminated finally in popular success and acclaim. It introduces readers to the literary, philosophical, and political contexts crucial to understanding Wordsworth's poetry, offering fresh approaches for reading his most important poems in light of recent developments in literary studies while also spotlighting traditional ones. This guide explores the reasons why Wordsworth continues to be the leading figure of British Romantic literature. It is an indispensable guide to studying Wordsworth's poetry, language, contexts and criticism. "Continuum Reader's Guides" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to key texts in literature and philosophy. Each book explores the themes, context, criticism and influence of key works, providing a practical introduction to close reading, guiding students towards a thorough understanding of the text. They provide an essential, up-to-date resource, ideal for undergraduate students.

Not Born Digital - Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media (Hardcover): Daniel Morris Not Born Digital - Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media (Hardcover)
Daniel Morris
R4,582 Discovery Miles 45 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives - ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic - the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry. The premise of Not Born Digital is that the innovative contemporary poets studied in this book engage obscure and discarded, but nonetheless historically resonant materials to unsettle what Charles Bernstein, a leading innovative contemporary U.S. poet and critic of "official verse culture," refers to as "frame lock" and "tone jam." While other scholars have begun to analyze poetry that appears in new media contexts, Not Born Digital concerns the ambivalent ways page poets (rather than electronica based poets) have grappled with "screen memory" (that is, electronic and new media sources) through the re-purposing of "found" materials.

Romanticism and the Rule of Law - Coleridge, Blake, and the Autonomous Reader (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Mark L. Barr Romanticism and the Rule of Law - Coleridge, Blake, and the Autonomous Reader (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Mark L. Barr
R3,121 Discovery Miles 31 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book frames British Romanticism as the artistic counterpart to a revolution in subjectivity occasioned by the rise of "The Rule of Law" and as a traumatic response to the challenges mounted against that ideal after the French Revolution. The bulk of this study focuses on Romantic literary replies to these events (primarily in the work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake), but its latter stages also explore how Romantic poetry's construction of the autonomous reading subject continues to influence legal and literary critical reactions to two modern crises in the rule of law: European Fascism and the continuing instability of legal interpretive strategy.

British Children's Poetry in the Romantic Era - Verse, Riddle, and Rhyme (Hardcover): D. Ruwe British Children's Poetry in the Romantic Era - Verse, Riddle, and Rhyme (Hardcover)
D. Ruwe
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This important new book is the first monograph on children's poetry written between 1780 and 1830, when non-religious children's poetry publishing came into its own. Introducing some of the era's most significant children's poets, the book shows how the conventions of children's verse and poetics were established during the Romantic era.

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