Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature.
Garcia Lorca at the Edge of Surrealism: The Aesthetics of Anguish examines the variations of surrealism and surrealist theories in the Spanish context, studied through the poetry, drama, and drawings of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936).
A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary MantelA genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others.
The Frenzied Poets: Andrey Biely and the Russian Symbolists delves into the complexities of the Symbolist movement in Russia, a pivotal yet often overlooked aspect of the nations cultural history.
An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat's work has helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it's revolutionary period.
This bilingual collection of essays celebrates Marko Pavlyshyn's outstanding contribution to the study of modern and contemporary Ukrainian literature and culture.
In this book, Guy Raffa offers a fresh reading of Dante's major literary works - the Divine Comedy and the Vita nuova - that combines central tenets of incarnational theology and dialectical thought to illuminate the poet's renowned ability to 'have it both ways' on issues that conventionally elicit an 'either/or' response.
A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last fifty years in light of the massive changes in people's working lives.
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) had the highest reputation among living English poets during much of the 1790s, through the great success of his long poem in rhyming couplets, The Botanic Garden, published complete in 1792.
Mit einer Gattungsgeschichte der Ballade fragt diese Untersuchung nach einem Spezifischen der DDR-Literatur, jenseits von kulturpolitischen Richtlinien und Eckdaten.
Lange bevor Deutschland als politische oder nationale Einheit überhaupt gedacht werden konnte, gab es ein dichterisches Sprechen über »unser lant« (Walther von der Vogelweide).
More than 900 entries, carefully selected, organized, and annotated, and accompanied by informative background material, make this volume a unique and indispensable guide to Chaucer and related studies.
This rich selection of John Fuller s poems, made by the author himself, is taken from his last eight collections and spans over twenty-five years of work.
Emily Harrington offers a new history of women's poetry at the turn of the century that breaks from conventional ideas of nineteenth-century lyric, which focus on individual subjectivity.
Innovatively extending counterfactual thought experiments from history and the social sciences to literary historiography, criticism and theory, Counterfactual Romanticism reveals the ways in which the shapes of Romanticism are conditioned by that which did not come to pass.
Die klassische Gattung des Versepos von Milton bis Klopstock ist nach dem Ende ihrer letzten Hochphasen im europäischen Raum (je nach Sprachkultur zwischen 1750 und 1850) wenig beachtet, obschon weiterhin eine erstaunliche Breite an Formen und Inhalten zu finden ist.
In Book II of the "e;Aeneid"e;, Aeneas relates to Dido his own account of Troy's destruction and his escape, including the episode of the Wooden Horse.
Its lines and verses have become part of the western literary canon and his translation of this most famous of poems has been continuously in print in for almost a century and a half.
For centuries, critics, poets, poet-scholars, and philosophers have either openly proclaimed or tacitly assumed the long poem as the highest expression of literary ambition and excellence.
This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative theology, which proposes using negative statements as a means of attesting to the superior, unrepresentable being of God.
El feliz ingenio neomexicano is a bilingual recovery edition of Obras de Felipe Maximiliano Chacon, el Cantor Neomexicano: Poesia y prosa, the first collection of poetry published by a Mexican American author.
Selena Didnt Know Spanish Either is a debut poetry collection which seeks Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla as a means of reconnecting to the speaker's cultural identity.
