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Haiku and Modernist Poetics (Hardcover): Y. Hakutani Haiku and Modernist Poetics (Hardcover)
Y. Hakutani
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces its impact on modernist poetics. This study shows that the most pervasive East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was in the reading and writing of haiku in the West. Hakutani roots Y.B Yeats' symbolism in cross cultural visions; reveals Ezra Pound's imagism to have originated in haiku; and discusses some of the finest haiku written by Jack Kerouac, Richard Wright, Sonia Sanchez, and James Emanuel.

The Lyric in the Age of the Brain (Hardcover): Nikki Skillman The Lyric in the Age of the Brain (Hardcover)
Nikki Skillman
R930 Discovery Miles 9 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Exploration of our inner life-perception, thought, memory, feeling-once seemed a privileged domain of lyric poetry. Scientific discoveries, however, have recently supplied physiological explanations for what was once believed to be transcendental; the past sixty years have brought wide recognition that the euphoria of love is both a felt condition and a chemical phenomenon, that memories are both representations of lived experience and dynamic networks of activation in the brain. Caught between a powerful but reductive scientific view of the mind and traditional literary metaphors for consciousness that have come to seem ever more naive, American poets since the sixties have struggled to articulate a vision of human consciousness that is both scientifically informed and poetically truthful. The Lyric in the Age of the Brain examines several contemporary poets-Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Robert Creeley, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, and experimentalists such as Harryette Mullen and Tan Lin-to discern what new language, poetic forms, and depictions of selfhood this perplexity forces into being. Nikki Skillman shows that under the sway of physiological conceptions of mind, poets ascribe ever less agency to the self, ever less transformative potential to the imagination. But in readings that unravel factional oppositions in contemporary American poetry, Skillman argues that the lyric-a genre accustomed to revealing expansive aesthetic possibilities within narrow formal limits-proves uniquely positioned to register and redeem the dispersals of human mystery that loom in the age of the brain.

Writing Under Tyranny - English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (Hardcover, New): Greg Walker Writing Under Tyranny - English Literature and the Henrician Reformation (Hardcover, New)
Greg Walker
R5,777 Discovery Miles 57 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Writing Under Tyranny: English Literature and the Henrician Reformation spans the boundaries between literary studies and history. It looks at the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights, and prose writers of the early English Renaissance. It shows the profound effects that political oppression had on the literary production of the years from 1528 to 1547, and how English writers in turn strove to mitigate, redirect, and finally resist that oppression. The result was the destruction of a number of forms that had dominated the literary production of late-medieval England, but also the creation of new forms that were to dominate the writing of the following centuries. Paradoxically, the tyranny of Henry VIII gave birth to many modes of writing now seen to be characteristic of the English literary Renaissance.

The Language of Emily Dickinson (Paperback): Nicole Panizza The Language of Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
Nicole Panizza
R1,196 Discovery Miles 11 960 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Music of Verse - Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (Hardcover): Joseph Phelan The Music of Verse - Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry (Hardcover)
Joseph Phelan
R1,415 Discovery Miles 14 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Through its recovery of the metrical principles underlying the work of some of the century's major poets, this study highlights the intricacy of the relation between the "music" of verse and its meaning, and helping us to understand the way in which the ferment of metrical experiment eventually led to the emergence of free verse.

Northern Irish Poetry - The American Connection (Hardcover): E. Kennedy-Andrews Northern Irish Poetry - The American Connection (Hardcover)
E. Kennedy-Andrews
R2,788 R1,887 Discovery Miles 18 870 Save R901 (32%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Through discussion of the ways in which major Northern Irish poets (such as John Hewitt, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice and Derek Mahon) have been influenced by America, this study shows how Northern Irish poetry overspills national borders, complicating and enriching itself through cross-cultural interaction and hybridity.

William Wordsworth - Interviews and Recollections (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): H. Orel William Wordsworth - Interviews and Recollections (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
H. Orel
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

William Wordsworth: Interviews and Recollections collects and reprints, on a generous scale, selections from the texts of both immediately recorded opinions and characterizations that were written down in later years. Represented in this anthology are 22 of Wordsworth's most important contemporaries. With the exception of Shelley, they all knew Wordsworth personally. It was difficult, and perhaps impossible, for any of them to write neutrally or objectively about the impression that Wordsworth made on them. Their comments make for lively reading.

New Hampshire - (annotated) (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Robert Frost New Hampshire - (annotated) (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Robert Frost
R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
John Clare - A Literary Life (Hardcover): Richard Dutton John Clare - A Literary Life (Hardcover)
Richard Dutton; R. Sales
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book situates John Clare's long, prolific but often badly neglected literary life within the wider cultural histories of the Regency and earlier Victorian periods. The first half considers the construction of the Regency peasant-poet and how Clare performed this role on stages such as the London Magazine. It also looks at the way in which it went out of fashion as Regency mentalities were replaced by early Victorian ones. The second half recreates asylum culture and places Clare's performances as Regency boxers and Lord Byron within this bleak new world.

Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century - Theoretical Renewals (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Debashish Banerji Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century - Theoretical Renewals (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Debashish Banerji
R2,891 R1,990 Discovery Miles 19 900 Save R901 (31%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This critical volume addresses the question of Rabindranath Tagore's relevance for postmodern and postcolonial discourse in the twenty-first century. The volume includes contributions by leading contemporary scholars on Tagore and analyses Tagore's literature, music, theatre, aesthetics, politics and art against contemporary theoretical developments in postcolonial literature and social theory. The authors take up themes as varied as the implications of Tagore's educational vision for contemporary India; new theoretical interpretations of gender, queer elements, feminism and subalternism in Tagore's literary and social expressions; his language use as a vehicle for a dialogue between positivism, Orientalism and other constructs in the ongoing process of globalization; the nature of the influence of Tagore's music and literature on national and cultural identity formation, particularly in Bengal and Bangladesh; and intersubjectivity and critical modernity in Tagore's art. This volume opens up a space for Tagore's critique and his creative innovations in present theoretical engagements.

Matsuo Bash?'s Poetic Spaces - Exploring Haikai Intersections (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): E. Kerkham Matsuo Bash?'s Poetic Spaces - Exploring Haikai Intersections (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
E. Kerkham
R1,417 Discovery Miles 14 170 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikai master's literary and philosophical contributions. Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative links to the rest of Japanese literature and culture, to Chinese prose and poetry, and to the social, intellectual, and everyday realities of seventeenth century Tokugawa life.

James Joyce - Collected Poems (Hardcover): James Joyce James Joyce - Collected Poems (Hardcover)
James Joyce
R586 Discovery Miles 5 860 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry - A Study of Children's Verse in English (Hardcover): Katherine Wakely-Mulroney,... The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry - A Study of Children's Verse in English (Hardcover)
Katherine Wakely-Mulroney, Louise Joy
R4,493 Discovery Miles 44 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection gives sustained attention to the literary dimensions of children's poetry from the eighteenth century to the present. While reasserting the importance of well-known voices, such as those of Isaac Watts, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, A. A. Milne, and Carol Ann Duffy, the contributors also reflect on the aesthetic significance of landmark works by less frequently celebrated figures such as Richard Johnson, Ann and Jane Taylor, Cecil Frances Alexander and Michael Rosen. Scholarly treatment of children's poetry has tended to focus on its publication history rather than to explore what comprises - and why we delight in - its idiosyncratic pleasures. And yet arguments about how and why poetic language might appeal to the child are embroiled in the history of children's poetry, whether in Isaac Watts emphasising the didactic efficacy of "like sounds," William Blake and the Taylor sisters revelling in the beauty of semantic ambiguity, or the authors of nonsense verse jettisoning sense to thrill their readers with the sheer music of poetry. Alive to the ways in which recent debates both echo and repudiate those conducted in earlier periods, The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry investigates the stylistic and formal means through which children's poetry, in theory and in practice, negotiates the complicated demands we have made of it through the ages.

Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry (Hardcover): Alan Robinson Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry (Hardcover)
Alan Robinson
R1,410 Discovery Miles 14 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the latest work of Seamus Heaney and of younger poets including Michael Hofmann and James Fenton, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock, Douglas Dunn, Geoffrey Hill, Tom Paulin and Anne Stevenson.

Milton's Paradise Lost - Moral Education (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): M. Thickstun Milton's Paradise Lost - Moral Education (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
M. Thickstun
R1,399 Discovery Miles 13 990 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book reads Milton's "Paradise Lost" as a poem that seeks to educate its readers by narrating the education of its main characters. Many of Milton's characters enter the action in late adolescence, newly independent and eager to test themselves, to discover who they are and their place in the world. The poem charts their progress into moral adulthood. Taking as its premise that attention to the moral development of the poem's main characters will open the poem to most undergraduate readers, this book explores both the pedagogical activity within "Paradise Lost" and the pedagogical activity that the poem encourages.

The Soul Is a Stranger in This World (Hardcover): Micah Mattix The Soul Is a Stranger in This World (Hardcover)
Micah Mattix
R941 R804 Discovery Miles 8 040 Save R137 (15%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Sex, Scandal, and Sermon in Fourteenth-Century Spain - Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor (Hardcover, First): L. Haywood Sex, Scandal, and Sermon in Fourteenth-Century Spain - Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor (Hardcover, First)
L. Haywood
R1,400 Discovery Miles 14 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Juan Ruiz's "Libro de Buen Amor" (1330/1343) is a lively and challenging medieval classic that ranks alongside the works of Dante and Chaucer. This volume is the first to systematically approach the role of humor in the "Libro de Buen Amor "through the treatment of the body, the visual, and the representation of first-person protagonist as lover. Haywood examines the place of the bawdy and the grotesque in the "Libro de Buen Amor" in relation to secular and sacred culture. This innovative study will be of interest to scholars and students interested in humor, cultural domains, medieval studies, and Spanish studies.

Young Adult Poetry - A Survey and Theme Guide (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Rachel Schwedt, Janice DeLong Young Adult Poetry - A Survey and Theme Guide (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Rachel Schwedt, Janice DeLong
R2,048 Discovery Miles 20 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Teachers and librarians will find this one-volume reference guide an indispensable tool for identifying anthologies and poem collections that have particular appeal to young adult readers. Comprised of two main components, this resource features an annotated bibliography of 198 poetry volumes, and a thematic guide to over 6,000 individual poems. The carefully chosen anthologies and collections span reading levels from sixth to twelfth grade, and a tremendous breath of interest areas. Poets whose works are cited range from the classic to the contemporary, cover a broad ethnic and geographic spectrum, and range in style from humorous to tragic, rap to blues, free verse to rhymes, and limericks to haiku.

This survey of young adult poetry represents a careful selection and evaluation process undertaken by the authors in consultation with classroom teachers. The annotations help users identify themes in the works, grade level appropriateness, as well as format and content in the poetry collections and anthologies. The authors offer helpful suggestions for ways that these poetry works may be used in the English classroom and beyond; for igniting creative sparks with young writers, for science and social studies discussion, counseling sessions, and for sheer enjoyment. Librarians will value this well-organized resource as both a collection development tool, and--with its index of writers and titles and extensive theme guide--as a way of connecting young readers to wonderful poetry.

Layli & Majnun (Paperback): Dick Davis Layli & Majnun (Paperback)
Dick Davis
R1,172 Discovery Miles 11 720 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Tennyson - Seven Essays (Hardcover): Philip Collins Tennyson - Seven Essays (Hardcover)
Philip Collins
R4,002 Discovery Miles 40 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

These essays are lectures, mostly revised or expanded, given to the Tennyson Society by leading Victorianists, including one of the doyens of Tennyson studies, Jerome H. Buckley. In Memoriam and Maud are central texts, but many other poems are discussed - lyrics, dramatic monologues, narratives, ballads - and such recurrent topics as loss, the numinous and distance in space and time. The poems are related to their intellectual context and to other poets such as Wordsworth and Edward Fitzgerald. The author also wrote Dickens and Crime.

The Politics of Shakespeare (Hardcover, 1993 ed.): D. Cohen The Politics of Shakespeare (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
D. Cohen
R2,637 Discovery Miles 26 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book is an attempt to explore Shakespearean drama from the vantage point of the oppressed, invisible, and silent individuals and collectivities constructed in the plays. It examines the ideological apparatuses which produce and naturalise oppression and the political structures through which that oppression is sustained. Derek Cohen is concerned to demonstrate the many ways in which political and personal life, always interdependent, intersect. contradict, and disrupt one another often in the interests of and to the advantage of the dominant social ideology.

Contemporary British Poetry (Hardcover): David Wheatley Contemporary British Poetry (Hardcover)
David Wheatley
R2,851 Discovery Miles 28 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Reader's Guide provides a timely critical overview that allows readers to orient themselves authoritatively in the rapidly-evolving field of contemporary British poetry. Focusing on key themes and issues, and a wide range of poets, the Guide captures the intersection between the historical and cultural contexts of critical debate today.

Shelley's Ambivalence (Hardcover): Christine Gallant Shelley's Ambivalence (Hardcover)
Christine Gallant
R2,646 Discovery Miles 26 460 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This is the first full-length psychoanalytic study of Shelley's poetry, approaching it from the viewpoint of contemporary Jungian analytical psychology that incorporates the theories of Melanie Klein and D.W.Winnicott. The author uses materials that relate to the earliest stages of the ego's development, going back beyond the Oedipal to pre-Oedipal situation. The book is designed to be of interest to lovers of Shelley as well as feminist readers who want to know how pre-Oedipal images of the mother can profoundly affect literature. Christine Gallant is editor of "Coleridge's Theory of Imagination Today" (AMS Press 1988) and "Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos" (Princeton UP, 1978).

Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire - Made in Mexborough (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Steve Ely Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire - Made in Mexborough (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Steve Ely
R1,830 Discovery Miles 18 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire tells the untold story of Hughes's Mexborough period (1938-1951) and demonstrates conclusively that Hughes's experiences in South Yorkshire in town and country, educationally, in literature and love were decisive in forming him as the poet of his subsequent fame.

The Fall of Icarus (Paperback, 73 Ed): Ovid The Fall of Icarus (Paperback, 73 Ed)
Ovid
R106 Discovery Miles 1 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky, he left his guide and soared upwards...' Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Ovid (c.43 BCE-17 CE). Ovid's other works available in Penguin Classics are The Erotic Poems, Fasti, Heroides and Metamorphoses.

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