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.
In the 19th century, an era that saw a reconfiguration of the relationship between the self, the world and the divine, women writers probed the theological depths of embodied faith in new ways through poetry, fiction, devotional prose and life writing.
This volume reproduces primary texts which embody the polymathic nature of the literature of science, and provides editorial overviews and extensive references, to provide a resource for specialized academics and researchers with a broad cultural interest in the long 18th century.
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.
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.
Nuestro volumen aborda el estudio de la antología Nueve novísimos poetas españoles cincuenta años después de su publicación a cargo de Josep Maria Castellet.
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.
