Literary studies: poetry and poets

In this book, Heather McAlpine argues that emblematic strategies play a more central role in Pre-Raphaelite poetics than has been acknowledged, and that reading Pre-Raphaelite works with an awareness of these strategies permits a new understanding of the movement's engagements with ontology, religion, representation, and politics.

In Beyond Identity, thirteen of Scotland's best known poets reflect upon the theoretical, practical and political considerations involved in the act of writing.

This book presents a stylistic framework for analysing embodiment in lyric texts.

This book presents a stylistic framework for analysing embodiment in lyric texts.

Lawrence Durrell, Postmodernism and the Ethics of Alterity is of interest for any reader wishing to explore the interface between literature, and critical and cultural theory.

This volume offers a glimpse into the rich tradition of literary devices in Persian language and literature.

Vikram Seth is a critical enigma.

Vikram Seth is a critical enigma.

This book explores Margaret Atwood's distinctive use of language and style, across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses.

This book explores Margaret Atwood's distinctive use of language and style, across a selection of her prose texts, through reader-centred, cognitive stylistic analyses.

Cocteau had an ambition many a poet has: to become immortal.

Cocteau had an ambition many a poet has: to become immortal.

This book is the first of its kind in providing a lexicon of kinship terms prevalent in the Western dialects of Iran, with a parallel glossary in English.

This book is the first of its kind in providing a lexicon of kinship terms prevalent in the Western dialects of Iran, with a parallel glossary in English.

This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to "e;All-in-Allness"e;.

This book reinvents aspects of the rhetorical tradition as part of a philosophical pluralism oriented to "e;All-in-Allness"e;.

This book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in all of its uncertainties.

This book covers nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson who captured the multifaceted nature of life in all of its uncertainties.

This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods.

This book analyses the evolution of literary and artistic representations of the soul, exploring its development through different time periods.