The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul after death.
A fresh and original introduction to the Odysseyand how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our livesReading the Odyssey is an introduction to Homer's masterpiece like no other.
A fresh and original introduction to the Odysseyand how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our livesReading the Odyssey is an introduction to Homer's masterpiece like no other.
Reorienting understandings of Adrienne Rich's later work through her interest in Marx and Marxist politics, this book engages with this overlooked part of her oeuvre through considerations of issues such as race, nationhood, and gender.
Arguing that the 19th century concept of living form (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book contends that the concept survived and flourished in the work of a number of contemporary experimental poets.
Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of Romantic and post-Romantic writers.
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.
En esta invitacion, abrimos las puertas al fascinante mundo de Alfonsina Storni, una autora cuya presencia en la literatura sudamericana es imborrable.
Zen, Meaning, and Craft in Jane Hirshfield's Poetry: Heartshoots is the first scholarly volume to be dedicated to the large body of work produced by North American Zen poet, Jane Hirshfield.
First published in 1978, this book argues that the troubadour revival in late medieval Spain was a conservative reaction to social crisis by those who belonged, or were affiliated, to a powerful, expanding and belligerent aristocracy.
Arguing that the 19th century concept of living form (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book contends that the concept survived and flourished in the work of a number of contemporary experimental poets.
Ein Überblick über Schillers gesamtes literarisches SchaffenDieses kleine Buch bietet eine gleichermaßen kompakte wie umfassende Einführung in Schillers Werk und setzt dabei einen Akzent auf seine poetischen Texte.
This book provides new empirical evidence about the ways in which social inequalities, especially those of class, shape and delimit forms of cultural reception and creative opportunity.
This long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife.
This title was first published in 2002: Making use of the growing body of research in recent years on the nature of creativity, Netta Goldsmith here presents a new view of the famous poet whose personality has long frustrated scholars as elusive.
The 16th century saw the rise of movements of religious reform which, in Spain as elsewhere, contributed to make the history of the period such a ferment.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) is one of the greatest poets in European literature, comparable to the likes of likes of Shakespeare, Chaucer, Keats and Wordsworth.
