Literary studies: poetry and poets

This lively, accessible book is the first to explore Victorian literature through scent and perfume, presenting an extensive range of well-known and unfamiliar texts in intriguing and imaginative new ways that make us re-think literature's relation with the senses.

As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature.

"e;The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art.

"e;The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art.

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe.

This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey.

This book is the first in-depth examination of revenge in the Odyssey.

Historically, Kashmir was one of the most dynamic and influential centers of Sanskrit learning and literary production in South Asia.

Some of the world's earliest large-form fictional narratives--what would today be called novels-are found in ancient Greece.

This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the classical world.

This book analyzes the relationship between wedding poetry and love poetry in the classical world.

In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl.

In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl.

Homer and the Poetics of Gesture is the first book of its kind to consider the epic formula in terms that are gestural as well as verbal.

Homer and the Poetics of Gesture is the first book of its kind to consider the epic formula in terms that are gestural as well as verbal.

Romantic Appropriations of History: The Legends of Joanna Baillie and Margaret Holford Hodson focuses on Joanna Baillie's Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters (1821) and on various historical tales, either written or translated, by one of her very close friends, Margaret Holford Hodson.

News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 is a powerful account of how civilian poets confront the urgent problem of writing about war.

From Feydeau to Fitzgerald, from Hugo to Hemingway, the Paris locations that have influenced modern literatureA photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of Europe's favourite tourist destinationLiterary Landscapes: Paris takes this major European city and with picture perfect photography, compiles an album of memorable views linked to the words of Parisian authors, or writers who made Paris their home.

Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity.

Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity.

The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s.

The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from the Good Neighbor diplomacy of World War II through the Cold War cultural policies of the late 1960s.

Where Is All My Relation?

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career.

Ovid's Homer examines the Latin poet's engagement with the Homeric poems throughout his career.

From a corpus of Greek epics known in antiquity as the "e;Epic Cycle,"e; six poems dealt with the same Trojan War mythology as the Homeric poems.

Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils offers a major theoretical statement of where poetic conventions come from.

One of America's most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her lifetime.

One of America's most celebrated poets, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her lifetime.

This book brings together researchers with cognitive-scientific and literary backgrounds to present innovative research in all three variations on the possible interactions between literary studies and cognitive science.

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe.

Poetic Conventions as Cognitive Fossils offers a major theoretical statement of where poetic conventions come from.

Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty.

The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture.

Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner of marking out objects for notice, attention, praise, and a means of exploring qualities of mental engagement other than interpretation and representation.

With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century.

News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 is a powerful account of how civilian poets confront the urgent problem of writing about war.

John Edgar Tidwell and Steven C.

From a corpus of Greek epics known in antiquity as the "e;Epic Cycle,"e; six poems dealt with the same Trojan War mythology as the Homeric poems.

After a sleepless night spent longing for his absent wife Sita, Rama, god-prince and future king, surveyed his army camps on a clear autumn morning and spied a white goose playing in a pond of lotus flowers.

This book brings together researchers with cognitive-scientific and literary backgrounds to present innovative research in all three variations on the possible interactions between literary studies and cognitive science.

Dante's Commedia compels readers to confront the mystery of their existence, to seek understanding of their relationship to the living conscious reality from which all possible experience arises.

After a sleepless night spent longing for his absent wife Sita, Rama, god-prince and future king, surveyed his army camps on a clear autumn morning and spied a white goose playing in a pond of lotus flowers.

This book presents a substantially revised version of some of the most important and innovative articles published by Alan Cameron in the field of late antique Greek poetry and philosophy.

Ornamental Aesthetics offers a theory of ornamentation as a manner of marking out objects for notice, attention, praise, and a means of exploring qualities of mental engagement other than interpretation and representation.

On Biblical Poetry takes a fresh look at the nature of biblical Hebrew poetry beyond its currently best-known feature, parallelism.

"e;Poetry was declining/ Painting advancing/ we were complaining/ it was '50,"e; recalled poet Frank O'Hara in 1957.

Foreign Accents examines the various transpacific signifying strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.

Walt Whitman called the Orient "e;The Past!

Poet, short-story writer, feverish inventor--Fernando Pessoa was one of the most innovative figures shaping European modernism.