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This book explores the ways in which poetic inspiration came to be associated with madness in early nineteenth-century Britain. By examining the works of poets such as Barrett, Browning, Clare, Tennyson, Townshend, and the Spasmodics in relation to the burgeoning asylum...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-24
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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Polyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholarly voices to explore the cultural and aesthetic impact of Dylan’s musical and literary production. Significantly distinct in approach, each chapter draws attention to the function and implications...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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Geoffrey Hill (1932–2016) was often hailed as one of the most important – and one of the most difficult – poets of his lifetime. This book is a timely investigation into a writer whose work seems simultaneously to invite analysis and to refuse explanations of its...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-04-15
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'In a world in which we tend to look to what's new, to cutting-edge science and to medical breakthroughs for hope in better health, there's something marvellous in the realisation that one of the most beautiful and longest-lasting cures has been here all along - on the...
Editeur :
Yellow Kite
Parution :
2018-10-04
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Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the text engages with themes of the void,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-27
Collection :
Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
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This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; it also discusses particular poems that engage with such knowledge, including those of Lucretius, Vergil, and Vita Sackville-West. The book argues that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-05-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy’s oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-28
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This book examines the development of English-translated Tang poetry and its propagation to the Western world. It consists of two parts, the first of which addresses the initial stage of English-translated Tang poetry’s propagation, and the second exploring its further...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-03-08
Collection :
China Academic Library
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This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century poetry and liberal philosophy. It carries out a reassessment of the aesthetic possibilities of liberalism and it considers the variety of ways that poetry by William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-27
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Delving into travel writing, ecocriticism, translation and allusion, it offers a fresh comparative link between Greek modernity and Irish poetry that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-21
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This book is the first book devoted entirely to Hughes as an environmental activist and writer. Drawing on the rapidly-growing interest in poetry and the environment, the book deploys insights from ecopoetics, ecocriticism and Anthropocene studies to analyse how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-06
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William Blake (1757–1827) is one of the most significant figures in the history of English poetry. He is also one of the most mysterious, most challenging, and most frequently misunderstood. His Songs of Innocence and of Experience, on the surface so simple, are laden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-08-08
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This book examines sonic signals as something both heard internally and externally, through imagination, memory and direct response. In doing so it explores how the mind 'makes' sound through experience, as it interprets codes on the written page, and creates an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-14
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Sound
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This book explores contemporary Anglophone Cameroon poetry’s engagement with the environment through an eco-textual analysis of a cross section of poems from different poets. In this regard, the work broadens the field of ecocriticism beyond the original Anglo-American...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-06-13
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Monster: Distortion, Abstraction, and Originality in Contemporary American Poetry argues that memorable and resonant poetry often distorts form, image, concept, and notions of truth and metaphor. Discussing how changes in electronic communication and artificial notions...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-06-06
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This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-03-10
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The translations by Juan Ramón Jiménez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wife, Zenobia Camprubí Aymar, along with many of his poems. Close...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-22
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Poema heroyco hispano-latino (1687), a national chronicle or “epic poem,” commemorates the founding and greatness of Lima, Peru. Its unique rhymed quatrains can be read in either Latin or Spanish with equal meaning, and its insightful marginal notes interpret the city’s...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-22
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'The story of Coleridge's life does undoubtedly echo that of his poem; this is a book that provides rewarding rereadings of both' - The Sunday TimesA new biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, shaped and structured around the story he himself tells in his most famous...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2017-02-09
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Although he committed suicide at the age of twenty-five, Mário de Sá-Carneiro left behind a rich corpus of texts that is inventive, playful, even daring. The first collection in English to be dedicated to his work, this volume brings together scholars from Portugal,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-02-07
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