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Roscoe Tanner was ranked the No. 4 tennis player in the world, but
after his retirement his life crumbled under the weight of personal
destruction that eventually led to being extradited from Germany to
serve a 10-month prison sentence before he realized he had to
change his life or risk losing it.
Essays discussing the concept of globalisation as present in works
of art and literature. Like Freud's `civilisation', globalisation
is both cause and consequence of its own discontents, visible at
times only in the resistances it generates. Study of the phenomenon
has until recently been confined largely to economists and
political and social scientists. The present volume brings a range
of literary and cultural analyses to bear to demonstrate both its
actual time-depth and the all-encompassing nature of its influences
on culture and consciousness. The English language and English
literature have been major elements in its forging, underwriting
first British and then American cultural hegemony. Unlike most
readings of globalisation, these essays depict notan irresistible
juggernaut but a process that, in generating its own resistances,
opens up the possibility of an alternative world order founded not
on the inequities of power and capital, but on shared commitment to
a fragile planet and a common and universal culture. Ranging from
Homer to Michael Crichton, Shakespeare to Suleyman Al-Bassam, John
Donne to Les Murray, John Keats to Derek Walcott, Conrad, Gissing
and Edward Lear to V. S. Naipauland Salman Rushdie, and addressing,
among many others, writers as diverse as Paul Valery and Edouard
Glissant, Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens, George Orwell, Martha
Gellhorn and Storm Jameson, Eliot, Yeats and Auden, Seamus Heaney
and Paul Muldoon, these essays explore a remarkable range of
responses to the process of globalisation from earliest times to
the present day. Contributors: STAN SMITH, GRAHAM HOLDERNESS, BRYAN
LOUGHREY, JENNIFER BIRKETT, PHYLLIS LASSNER, SHARON OUDITT, TONY
SHARPE, EDWARD LARRISSY, MICHAEL MURPHY, LIAM CONNELL
The Hunched Man lives inside each of us. We deny him our love and
understanding, not because we are mean, but because he scares and
confuses us. He is our inner world, not all that different from the
one we read about in the news of the day, The sooner we understand
him, the sooner we can make peace with ourselves and each other.
The rest of the poems and the one short story are lighter
adventures into the mix and magic of our lives and the words we use
to meet and match our moments with each other.
This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some
of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden,
one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century.
The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's
literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed
biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden
critics, alongside specialists from such diverse fields as drama,
ecological and travel studies. It provides scholars, students and
general readers with a comprehensive and authoritative account of
Auden's life and works in clear and accessible English. Besides
providing authoritative accounts of the key moments and dominant
themes of his poetic development, the Companion examines his
language, style and formal innovation, his prose and critical
writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion, psychoanalysis,
politics, landscape, ecology, and globalisation. It also contains a
comprehensive bibliography of writings about Auden.
This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some
of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden,
one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century.
The volume's contributors include prize-winning poets, Auden's
literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed
biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from new and
established Auden critics, alongside specialists from such diverse
fields as drama, ecological and travel studies. It provides
scholars, students and general readers with a comprehensive and
authoritative account of Auden's life and works in clear and
accessible English. Besides providing authoritative accounts of the
key moments and dominant themes of his poetic development, the
Companion examines his language, style and formal innovation, his
prose and critical writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion,
psychoanalysis, politics, landscape, ecology, and globalisation. It
also contains a comprehensive bibliography of writings about Auden.
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