Literary studies: poetry and poets

Gedicht-, Balladen- und Lieder-Sammlungen erreichen seit der Barock-Zeit interessierte Lesergruppen fast aller Altersstufen.

Magic and the Occult in Contemporary Poetry investigates the relationship between poetry and magic in the context of contemporary poetics.

Magic and the Occult in Contemporary Poetry investigates the relationship between poetry and magic in the context of contemporary poetics.

"e;Para completarse, las obras requieren de miradas, ojos y sentidos que descubran en cada practica los acontecimientos liminares con que osan sacudirnos.

This work examines African American children's poetry through a variety of lenses: jazz poetics, the blues, nonsense verse, gender and working-class studies.

This work examines African American children's poetry through a variety of lenses: jazz poetics, the blues, nonsense verse, gender and working-class studies.

Band 52 des Lessing Jahrbuchs dokumentiert Beitrage zur Konferenz Das Erbe Lessings (Lessing's Legacy), die im November 2023 in Chicago stattfand und von Jonathan Fine, Joseph A.

Ernst Jandl (1925-2000) gehort zu den wichtigsten Lyrikern des 20.

Ernst Jandl (1925-2000) gehort zu den wichtigsten Lyrikern des 20.

In dem vorliegenden Buch wird untersucht, auf welche Weise Rilkes religiöse Erfahrungen einen ästhetischen Ausdruck in seinem Werk finden und wie diese Motive literarisch verarbeitet werden.

This volume explores the theme of age and aging, uniquely combining personal reflections from literature professors with sound scholarly analysis of a range of fiction and poetry.

This book examines the use of colour terms in the poetry of Dylan Thomas, adopting a primarily linguistic and stylistic - rather than literary - approach.

This volume explores the theme of age and aging, uniquely combining personal reflections from literature professors with sound scholarly analysis of a range of fiction and poetry.

This book examines the use of colour terms in the poetry of Dylan Thomas, adopting a primarily linguistic and stylistic - rather than literary - approach.

Ernst Jandl (1925–2000) gehört zu den wichtigsten Lyrikern des 20.

Ernst Jandl (1925–2000) gehört zu den wichtigsten Lyrikern des 20.

In dem vorliegenden Buch wird untersucht, auf welche Weise Rilkes religiöse Erfahrungen einen ästhetischen Ausdruck in seinem Werk finden und wie diese Motive literarisch verarbeitet werden.

A pioneering study of the aesthetic function of grotesque imagery in Roman love elegy.

Argues that the ephemeral appears in enduring forms through the body and inscribed texts in Greek poetry.

Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric''s relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography (''biofiction'').

Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.

A wide-ranging and novel study of metaphor as the generative principle giving shape and substance to Eliot''s poetic imagination.

Presents an ecocritical study of poetic atmosphere, a concept first developed through Romanticism, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Sidonius'' rich and varied letters recount the defining stories of Roman Gaul''s transition into the barbarian successor kingdoms.

Offers a critical history of African American poetry from the transatlantic slave trade to present day hip-hop.

Explores a literary translation dedicated more to the reader''s perception and experience of text than to textual interpretation.

Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900–1920.

A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.

Comprehensive survey of the conductus over a period of more than one hundred years, demonstrating how music and poetry interact.

Explores the ways poets address the difficult question of how to remember, and commemorate, those killed in the First World War and beyond.

Linking ecstasy with art and liberty, the book advances understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the humanities today.

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a ''sister-art'' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

A study of remembrance in post-Reformation England in religious and secular artworks and texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and women writers.

Robinson explains how poetry makes things happen through the interaction of its chosen words and forms with the reader''s responses.

First full-length study of the mouth''s centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual ''good'' in Middle English literature.

Offers fresh understanding of British Romanticism by exploring how anxieties about decline impacted debates about literature''s form and meaning.

A study of the tradition in nineteenth-century thought that imagines the body as one of the reproductive media of poetry.

Connects American poetry to the emergence of the United States as the leading global economic and political power.

Suicide Century investigates suicide as an increasingly ''normalised'' but still deeply traumatic and profoundly baffling act in twentieth-century writing.