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The Reception of Byron in Europe (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Richard Cardwell The Reception of Byron in Europe (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Richard Cardwell
R16,470 Discovery Miles 164 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Richard Cardwell was given the Elma Dangerfield Award of the International Byron Society for the best book on Byron in 2005-06 Byron, arguably, was and remains the most famous and infamous English poet in the modern period in Continental Europe. From Portugal in the West to Russia in the East, from Scandinavia in the North to Spain in the South he inspired and provoked, was adored and reviled, inspired notions of freedom in subject lands and, with it, the growth of national idealisms which, soon, would re-draw the map of Europe. At the same time the Byronic persona, incarnate in Childe Harold, Manfred, Lara and others, was received with enthusiasm and fear as experience demonstrated that Byron's Romantic outlook was two-edged, thrilling and appalling in the same moment. All the great writers-Goethe, Mickiewicz, Lermontov, Almeida Garret, Espronceda, Lamartine, among many others-strove to outdo, imitate, revise, and integrate the sublime Lord into their own cultures, to create new national voices, and to dissent from the old order. The volume explores Byron's European reception in its many guises, bringing new evidence, challenging old assumptions, and offering fresh perspectives on the protean impact of Lord Byron on the Continent. This book consistes of two volumes. Series Editor: Dr Elinor Shaffer FBA, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London Contributors Richard A. Cardwell, University of Nottingham, UK Joanne Wilkes, University of Auckland, NZ Peter Cochran, Cambridge, UK Ernest Giddey, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Edoardo Zuccato, IULM University, Milan Giovanni Iamartino, University of Milan, Italy Derek Flitter, University of Birmingham, UK Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal Mihaela Anghelescu Irimia, University of Bucharest, Romania Frank Erik Pointner, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Achim Geisenhansluke, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Theo D'haen, Leiden University, The Netherlands Martin Prochazka, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Miroslawa Modrzewska, University of Gdansk, Poland Orsolya Rakai, Budapest, Hungary Nina Diakonova, St. Petersburg, Russia Vitana Kostadinova, Plovdiv University, Bulgaria Jorgen E. Nielsen, Copenhagen, Denmark Bjorn Tysdahl, University of Oslo, Norway Ingrid Elam, Sweden Anahit Bekaryan, Institute of Fine Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia Innes Merabishvili, State University of Tbilisi, Georgia Litsa Trayiannoudi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Massimiliano Demata, Mansfield College, Oxford, UK

The Poetic Fantastic - Studies in an Evolving Genre (Hardcover, New): Vernon Hyles, Patrick Dennis Murphy The Poetic Fantastic - Studies in an Evolving Genre (Hardcover, New)
Vernon Hyles, Patrick Dennis Murphy
R2,757 Discovery Miles 27 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A groundbreaking contribution to the critical literature, this volume represents the most extensive study of the fantastic in poetry published to date. Designed to serve both as an introduction to and a historical overview of fantastic poetry in the Anglo-American tradition, the authors closely analyze specific periods and poems in order to illuminate more clearly the relationships among fantasty, the fantastic, science fiction, and poetry. The scope of the study is unusually broad and encompasses material from Spenser through the work of a wide range of contemporary American and British poets. Although the contributors focus primarily on English-language authors, their essays provide theoretical and practical criticism relevant to the study of the fantastic in poetry in any language. Among the innovative approaches developed are a feminist-fantastic revisionary reading of Keat's Lamia and a conceptualization of the role of fantasy in the writing of holocaust poetry. In addition, the contributors analyze such works as C.S. Lewis's Dymer, Ed Dorn's Slinger, Victorian women's fantasies, the poetry of Margaret Atwood, Anne Sexton, Ursula K. Le Guin, and many others. Taken together, these essays should not only spark critical debate on the intersection of fantasy and poetry but also become the essential starting point for any new criticism of fantastic poems.

Modern Poetry and Ethnography - Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist (Hardcover): S. Heuston Modern Poetry and Ethnography - Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist (Hardcover)
S. Heuston
R1,509 Discovery Miles 15 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Modern Poetry and Ethnography: Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Heuston analyzes the ways the works of each writer represent and explain a country or region (Ireland for Yeats, New England for Frost, the American South for Warren, and Northern Ireland for Heaney) as if the writers were anthropologists or ethnographers. This project argues provocatively that literary critics can benefit greatly from the insights and theories of anthropology and ethnography"--

Recovering Christina Rossetti - Female Community and Incarnational Poetics (Hardcover, New): M. Arseneau Recovering Christina Rossetti - Female Community and Incarnational Poetics (Hardcover, New)
M. Arseneau
R1,523 Discovery Miles 15 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book re-conceives Christina Rossetti's poetic identity by exposing the androcentric bias inherent in the histories of the Rossetti family and of Pre-Raphaelitism, by turning new attention to the Rossetti women, and by reconstituting a female and religious community for Rossetti's writing. Drawing on extensive archival research, Mary Arseneau investigates how Rossetti's religious faith sustains her poetic practice and authorizes her cultural and aesthetic critique; the result is a re-evaluation and re-contextualization of the whole range of Rossetti's writing.

Women's Poetry in the Enlightenment - The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820 (Hardcover): Isobel Armstrong, Virginia Blain Women's Poetry in the Enlightenment - The Making of a Canon, 1730-1820 (Hardcover)
Isobel Armstrong, Virginia Blain
R4,350 Discovery Miles 43 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of twelve critical essays on women's poetry of the eighteenth century and enlightenment is the first to range widely over individual poets and to undertake a comprehensive exploration of their work. Experiment with genre and form, the poetics of the body, the politics of gender, revolutionary critique, and patronage, are themes of the collection, which includes discussions of the distinctive projects of Mary Leapor, Ann Yearsley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, Charlotte Smith, Anna Barbauld and Lucy Aikin.

Tennyson Among the Novelists (Hardcover, New): John Morton Tennyson Among the Novelists (Hardcover, New)
John Morton
R4,235 Discovery Miles 42 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a study of allusions to Alfred Tennyson's poetry in works of fiction from the Victorian period to the present day. Until now, the study of literary allusion has focused on allusions made by poets to other poets. In "Tennyson Among the Novelists", John Morton presents the first book-length account of the presence of a poet's work in works of prose fiction. As well as shedding new light on the poems of Tennyson and their reception history, Morton covers a wide variety of novelists including Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, and Andrew O'Hagan, offering a fresh look at their approach to writing. Morton shows how Tennyson's poetry, despite its frequent depreciation by critics, has survived as a vivifying presence in the novel from the Victorian period to the present day.

Wordsworth and Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads (1798) (Paperback): Andrew Keanie Wordsworth and Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads (1798) (Paperback)
Andrew Keanie
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Reading for Wonder - Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Glenn Willmott Reading for Wonder - Ecology, Ethics, Enchantment (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Glenn Willmott
R2,628 Discovery Miles 26 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements. Yet this deeply felt experience-at once cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical-has been dangerously neglected in our cultural education. In order to cultivate the imaginative empathy and caution this feeling evokes, we need to teach ourselves and others to read for wonder. This book begins by unfolding the nature and artifice of wonder as a human capacity and as a fabricated experience. Ranging across poetry, foodstuffs, movies, tropical islands, wonder cabinets, apes, abstract painting, penguins and more, Reading for Wonder offers an anatomy of wonder in transmedia poetics, then explores its ethical power and political risks from early modern times to the present day. To save ourselves and the teeming life of our planet, indeed to flourish, we must liberate wonder from ideologies of enchantment and disenchantment, understand its workings and their ethical ambivalence, and give it a clear language and voice.

Serious Poetry - Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (Hardcover): Peter McDonald Serious Poetry - Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (Hardcover)
Peter McDonald
R4,646 Discovery Miles 46 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Peter McDonald offers a controversial reading of twentieth-century British and Irish poetry centred on six figures, all of whom are critics as well as poets: W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill. Serious Poetry provocatively returns these writers to the elements of difficulty and cultural disagreement where they belong.

Poetic Inquiry - Enchantment of Place (Hardcover): Pauline Sameshima Poetic Inquiry - Enchantment of Place (Hardcover)
Pauline Sameshima
R1,981 Discovery Miles 19 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Black Consciousness and South Africa's National Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Tom Penfold Black Consciousness and South Africa's National Literature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Tom Penfold
R1,872 Discovery Miles 18 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyses Black Consciousness poetry and theatre from the 1970s through to the present. South Africa's literature, like its history, has been beset by disagreement and contradiction, and has been consistently difficult to pin down as one, united entity. Much existing criticism on South Africa's national literature has attempted to overcome these divisions by discussing material written from a variety of different subject positions together. This book argues that Black Consciousness desired a new South Africa where African and European cultures were valued equally, and writers could represent both as they wished. Thus, a body of literature was created that addressed a range of audiences and imagined the South African nation in different ways. This book explores Black Consciousness in order to demonstrate how South African writers have responded in various ways to the changing history and politics of their country.

Queer Lyrics - Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry (Hardcover, 1st ed): J. Vincent Queer Lyrics - Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry (Hardcover, 1st ed)
J. Vincent
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Vincent uses formal concerns, difficulty and closure, to discuss innovations specific to queer American poets. He traces a genealogy based on these queer techniques from Whitman, through Crane and Moore, to Ashbery and Spicer. Queer Lyrics considers the place of form in queer theory, while opening new vistas on the poetry of these seminal figures.

Possibilities of Lyric - Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (Hardcover): Manuele Gragnolati, Francesca Southerden Possibilities of Lyric - Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (Hardcover)
Manuele Gragnolati, Francesca Southerden; Contributions by Antonella Anedda Angioy
R745 R655 Discovery Miles 6 550 Save R90 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gender, Sex, and the City - Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 (Hardcover): R. Vanita Gender, Sex, and the City - Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870 (Hardcover)
R. Vanita
R1,550 Discovery Miles 15 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow, which was the center of a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it became a catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal.

Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts - Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work (Hardcover): P.... Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts - Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work (Hardcover)
P. Simonsen
R1,514 Discovery Miles 15 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title proposes a fundamental revaluation of the central poet of British Romanticism. By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, and by relating these innovations to Wordsworth's sense that he was writing for posterity, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade.

Autobiography and Authorship in Renaissance Verse - Chronicles of the Self (Hardcover): E. Heale Autobiography and Authorship in Renaissance Verse - Chronicles of the Self (Hardcover)
E. Heale
R2,863 Discovery Miles 28 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The advent of relatively cheap editions in the mid-16th century produced an explosion of verse, much of which represented the first person speaker as a version of the author. This book examines ways in which writers, often seeking advancement in their careers, harnessed verse for self-promotional purposes. Texts studied include a manuscript autobiography by Thomas Whythorne, printed verse by a woman, Isabella Whitney, travel and war narratives, as well as canonical texts by Spenser, Sidney, and Shakespeare.

Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected (Hardcover): M. Wormald, N. Roberts, Terry Gifford Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected (Hardcover)
M. Wormald, N. Roberts, Terry Gifford
R1,968 Discovery Miles 19 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ted Hughes is one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Including a previously unpublished poem written by Ted Hughes, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers new insights into neglected but essential aspects of his work. New essays by his friends and fellow poets Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage lead a collection of largely new voices in Hughes studies offering fresh readings and newly available archive research. Beyond the poetry and stories, these contributors draw upon recordings, notebooks, letters, writing for children, prose essays and translations. Several contributors have conducted new interviews and correspondence for this book. For the first time, this book challenges established views about Hughes's speaking voice, poetic rhythms, study at Cambridge, influence of other poets, engagement with Christianity, farming, fishing and healing. Close readings of popular texts are accompanied by new arguments and contexts that show the importance of works hitherto overlooked.

Culture as Politics - Selected Writings (Hardcover): Christopher Caudwell Culture as Politics - Selected Writings (Hardcover)
Christopher Caudwell; Edited by David Margolies
R2,671 Discovery Miles 26 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Considered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanish Civil War at the age of 29. Although already a published writer of aeronautic texts and crime fiction, he was practically unknown to the public until reviews appeared of Illusion and Reality, which was published just after his death. A strikingly original study of poetry's role, it explained in clear language how the organising of emotion in society plays a part in social change and development. Caudwell had a powerful interest in how things worked - aeronautics, physics, human psychology, language and society. In the anti-fascist struggles of the 1930s he saw that capitalism was a system that could not work properly and distorted the thinking of the age. Self-educated from the age of 15, he wrote with a directness that is quite alien to most cultural theory. Culture as Politics introduces Caudwell's work through his most accessible and relevant writing. Material will be drawn from Illusion and Reality, Studies in a Dying Culture and his essay 'Heredity and Development'.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the French Arthurian Romance (Hardcover): Ad Putter Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the French Arthurian Romance (Hardcover)
Ad Putter
R4,941 Discovery Miles 49 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is an innovative and original exploration of the connections between Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the most well-known works of medieval English literature, and the tradition of French Arthurian romance, best-known through the works of Chretien de Troyes two centuries earlier. The book compares Gawain with a wide range of French Arthurian romances, exploring their recurrent structural patterns ad motifs, their ethical orientation and the social context in which they were produced. It presents a wealth of new sources and analogues, which provide illuminating points of comparison for analysis of the self-consciousness with which the Gawain-poet handled the staple ingredients of Arthurian romance. Throughout, Ad Putter plays close attention to the ways in which the modes of representation of Arthurian romance are related to social and historical context. By revealing in the course of their romances the importance of conscience, courtliness, and self-restraint, literati such as the Gawain-poet and Chretien de Troyes helped a feudal society with an obsolete chivalric ideology adapt to the changing times.

Andrew Marvell Chronology (Hardcover, New): N. Maltzahn Andrew Marvell Chronology (Hardcover, New)
N. Maltzahn
R2,896 Discovery Miles 28 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work provides a comprehensive account of the life and writings of Andrew Marvell (1621-78), as well as the reception of his work in the century after his death. A much-loved poet, a compelling controversialist, and once famous as a member of Parliament, Marvell's intersecting careers are here explored in detail. His biography is transformed with wide reference to print and manuscript sources, many of which are described for the first time in this useful resource for any student, historian, literary scholar or general reader interested in the life and works of this great writer.

The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book, Books V-VIII (Hardcover): Robert Browning The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book, Books V-VIII (Hardcover)
Robert Browning; Edited by Stefan Hawlin, Tim Burnett
R8,724 Discovery Miles 87 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the second instalment of Browning's great murder-story set in the Italy of the 1690s, The Ring and the Book, a poem which Henry James called a 'monstrous magnificence'. Here Browning lets the central characters of his poem - the corrupt aristocrat and murderer Franceschini, his victim, and her rescuer - tell the story in their own words.

On Keats's Practice and Poetics of Responsibility - Beauty and Truth in the Major Poems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016):... On Keats's Practice and Poetics of Responsibility - Beauty and Truth in the Major Poems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
G.Douglas Atkins
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This accessible, informed, and engaging book offers fresh, new avenues into Keats's poems and letters, including a valuable introduction to "the responsible poet." Focusing on Keats's sense of responsibility to truth, poetry, and the reader, G. Douglas Atkins, a noted T.S. Eliot critic, writes as an ama-teur. He reads the letters as literary texts, essayistic and dramatic; the Odes in comparison with Eliot's treatment of similar subjects; "The Eve of St. Agnes" by adding to his respected earlier article on the poem an addendum outlining a bold new reading; "Lamia" by focusing on its complex and perplexing treatment of philosophy and imagination and revealing how Keats literally represents philosophy as functioning within poetry. Comparing Keats with Eliot, poet-philosopher, this book generates valuable insight into Keats's successful and often sophisticated poetic treatment of ideas, accentuating the image of him as "the responsible poet."

Spring Shoots - Young Belarusian Poets in the Early Twenty-First Century (Hardcover): Arnold McMillin Spring Shoots - Young Belarusian Poets in the Early Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
Arnold McMillin
R1,197 Discovery Miles 11 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hunger For Wholeness - Poetry by D.H. Lawrence Selected and Interpreted (Hardcover): Don Jones Hunger For Wholeness - Poetry by D.H. Lawrence Selected and Interpreted (Hardcover)
Don Jones
R840 Discovery Miles 8 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital (Hardcover, New): Claire Colebrook Blake, Deleuzian Aesthetics, and the Digital (Hardcover, New)
Claire Colebrook
R4,919 Discovery Miles 49 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is an exploration of new aspects of Blake's work using the concept of incarnation and drawing on theories of contemporary digital media. Drawing on recent theories of digital media and on the materiality of words and images, this fascinating study makes three original claims about the work of William Blake. First, Blake offers a critique of digital media. His poetry and method of illuminated printing is directed towards uncovering an analogical language. Second, Blake's work can be read as a performative. Finally, Blake's work is at one and the same time immanent and transcendent, aiming to return all forms of divinity and the sacred to the human imagination, stressing that 'all deities reside in the human breast,' but it also stresses that the human has powers or potentials that transcend experience and judgement: deities reside in the human breast. These three claims are explored through the concept of incarnation: the incarnation of ideas in words and images, the incarnation of words in material books and their copies, the incarnation of human actions and events in bodies, and the incarnation of spirit in matter.

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