This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of material inscriptions and the systems view of media ecology, which considers media as complex nodes of exchange.
This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of material inscriptions and the systems view of media ecology, which considers media as complex nodes of exchange.
Yemeni Poetry on the Frontline investigates popular literary responses to conflict in the different regions of Yemen, comparing responses to, and expressions of, traditional conflict with those to the new externally fuelled conflict.
Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers D.
Through an examination of paratextuality in late antique literature, this collection of essays reconsiders the importance of the written material that appears in the margins of ancient poetic texts.
With this three-volume companion, students can access the literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible yet authoritative introduction and line-by-line commentary.
The story of Branwell Brontë has been plagued by misconceptions, lies, and misunderstandings for decades This incredible new volume seeks to set the record straight.
The first full-length study of the poet, artist and activist Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), this book consolidates Mendelssohn's reputation as one of the most important avant-garde British poets of her generation and explores her contribution to the powerful tradition of women writing enclosure and escape.
First published in 1985, Seventeenth-Century Poetry considers the way the poetry of the major seventeenth-century writers functioned in a social context: how it grew out of the poets' social circumstances and ambitions, enhance their relationships with friends and patrons, how it proposed ideals of conduct and the good life.
With this three-volume companion, students can access the literary and historical significance of the Aeneid in English through an accessible yet authoritative introduction and line-by-line commentary.
First Published in 1960, Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson presents a collection of essays, most of which have been previously published in periodicals and written by renowned critics of Tennyson's work.
Incluyendo un extraordinario estudio de Bécquer a cargo de Julián Marías (Real Academia Española) y Manuel Carrión (Biblioteca Nacional), reunimos las Rimas, con su Introducción sinfónica, que constituyen una obra universalmente reconocida como «la más honda y fina poesía del siglo xix, en tono menor» donde predomina como tema el amor y la muerte, así como sus Cartas donde demuestra ser un prosista a la altura de los mejores de su siglo, de superior inspiración e imaginación y un maestro absoluto en el terreno de la prosa lírica.
Wolfhart Heinrichs' Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes that showcase a great number of Heinrichs' writings on his central field of research: Arabic literature.
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.
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.
Aunque la desaparición de las abejas es un signo de los tiempos, Donald Wellman construye una colmena de poemas de resistencia cívica donde se oye el zumbido de numerosas voces fundidas con la suya: Virgilio y Cicerón, Emily Dickinson y Sylvia Plath, Bertolt Brecht y Paul Celan, Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari, entre otros.
This innovative collection of essays is focused on the idea of transmedialization: the ways that the traditional forms of the predominantly oral cultures of Scotland and Brittany (poetry, song and story) can be transformed by the use of hybrid forms and new digital technologies.
Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative.
In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare.
The present book examines William Carlos Williams's negotiation with cultural modes and systems of the Chinese landscape tradition in his landscape writing.
A C R O T T Y Vonya thinks in the soul of her teeth, I catch words in the streams of feelings; And fame - admiringly rude, Trusting as a string, Or trusted as a bullet, Instant, like my life, Il eternal - I do not want.
This book explores Yeats's later poetry through the metaphor of the poetic tower, where different kinds of 'building' - architectural, textual, political and symbolic - were closely interrelated.
Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative.
