In this collection, eight distinguished critics of literature assess the nature and range of Dantes influence on the major British and American modernist writers.
Brown proposes a theory of poetic metaphor that attempts to account for literatures complex role in the discovery and creation of significant patterns within both language and life.
Andrew Marvell, Orphan of the Hurricane studies the poetry and polemics of one of the greatest of early modern writers, a poet of immense lyric talent and political importance.
This volume is a study of Jewish liturgical poetry (Piyyut) from late antiquity in Byzantine Palestine (5-6th century CE) through 11th century in Ashkenaz (Rhineland) and in northern Egypt.
Propertius' Cynthia considers Propertius' metapoetic and intra- and intertextual habits and their relationship with the repetitious amatory discourse that he fashions for himself with his beloved, Cynthia.
Propertius' Cynthia considers Propertius' metapoetic and intra- and intertextual habits and their relationship with the repetitious amatory discourse that he fashions for himself with his beloved, Cynthia.
The Literary Mirroring of Aboriginal Australia and the Caribbean challenges the structural opposition of indigeneity and creolisation through a historical and literary analysis of the connections between the 'First and Last of the New Worlds': Australia and the Caribbean.
Providing an unprecedented exploration of key moments in queer literary history, Never By Itself Alone changes our sense of both the American literary and political landscapes from the late 1940s through the 21st century.
In the one hundred and ten years covered by volume four of The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, what characterized translation was above all the move to encompass what Goethe called 'world literature'.
The Dark Side of Statius' Achilleid explores systematically and for the first time the darker aspects of Statius' Achilleid, bringing to light the poem's tragic and epic dimensions.
American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to reveal the broad institutional, technological, and cultural resonances of poetic voice.
American Poetic Voice in the Era of Global Broadcast situates American poetry within a world of global media to reveal the broad institutional, technological, and cultural resonances of poetic voice.
The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics-tools for living developed in poetry-to navigate the challenges of their age.
A collection of meditations on poetry, art and life, taken from the creative writing lectures of one of South Korea s most prominent living poets'Kick against words like you would kick back on a swing.
The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep but uncharted relationship with logic.
The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition, and Argument, 1479-1630 is the first substantial account of early modern English literature's deep but uncharted relationship with logic.
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century.
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century.
A woman drowned for loving the wrong man, a Turkish lord cut down in revenge, and a Christian stranger left to live with it: the first of Byron's Turkish tales.
Laurence Hutchman's third volume of In the Writers' Words, makes a valuable contribution to Canadian literature, showcasing his interviews with eight significant poets of the contemporary period: Di Brandt, Hermenegilde Chiasson, Lorna Crozier, Mary Dalton, Keith Garebian, Robert Hilles, Liz Howard, and John Steffler.
