Author : Kenneth Burke
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781570035890
Recognized as one of the most influential critics and rhetoricians of the twentieth century, Kenneth Burke (1897-1993) wrote poetry, short stories, and a novel in addition to more than a dozen books of critical theory. The poetry from the last quarter century of his life has remained largely unpublished until now. This collection of more than 150 poems provides new evidence that Burke continued "dancing an attitude" until the end of his life.
Author : Heather McHugh
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,39 MB
Release : 1994-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819572128
A renowned poet's artful collection is a striking body of work.
Author : Jack Selzer
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 17,69 MB
Release : 2008-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 160235068X
Kenneth Burke and His Circles consists of original papers focusing on the intellectual circles in which Burke participated during his long career. Instead of concentrating on Burke himself, as most recent scholarship has done, this book considers Burke as one participant in a host of important overlapping intellectual movements that took place over the course of the twentieth century.
Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781857431780
Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Author : Anthony Thwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134961685
This is the most authoritative and up to date survey of contemporary British poetry 1960-1995. It is the third version but second edition published by Longman of a successful survey that first appeared 30 years ago, and provides a succinct and accessible overview of British poets, movements and themes, ideal for English courses and the general reader alike.
Author : Laura Hinton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1498528740
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different voices and poetic styles. This book reconsiders the poetry activism of Cortez and Rich side-by-side, engaging poetics theory, cultural studies, and popular media in its literary analyses. A collection of eight integrated chapters by multiple poetry critics, as well as an artist-statement narrative by Wonder Woman sculptor Linda Stein, the book focuses upon the voice of bravado, the various calls for global justice, and Third Wave feminist "intersectional" critiques all embodied within these two women's poetic texts. The book also examines the twentieth-century figure of the American superhero, particularly Wonder Woman, bringing popular-culture studies into conversation with literary criticism, as well as visual art through the inclusion of Stein's commentary and illustrations. This beautiful and compelling book experiments with the festschrift concept by inviting multiple and competing disciplinary views on U.S. feminist poetics, women's art and aesthetics, racial and sexual identities, as well as politics and performance—all in tribute to the power of poetry by Cortez and Rich.
Author : Sandra M Gilbert
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 1995-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393037715
MotherSongs, a unique collection of verse about maternity and the celebration of motherhood, opens with poems about pregnancy, labor, delivery, and nursing and moves to poems about women raising children, delighting in their growth or mourning their loss. Includes works by such artists as Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Walt Whitman and others.
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Page : 1940 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Angela Leighton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019156432X
What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which contains the secret of art itself. She tracks the development of the word from the Romantics to contemporary poets, and offers close readings of, among others, Tennyson, Pater, Woolf, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath, to show how form has provided the single most important way of accounting for the movements of literary language itself. She investigates, for instance, the old debate of form and content, of form as music or sound-shape, as the ghostly dynamic and dynamics of a text, as well as its long association with the aestheticist principle of being 'for nothing'. In a wide-ranging and inventive argument, she suggests that form is the key to the pleasure of the literary text, and that that pleasure is part of what literary criticism itself needs to answer and convey.
Author : May Swenson
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1598532731
Often compared to the works of E.E. Cummings and Elizabeth Bishop, these poems are a free-ranging exploration of outer and inner worlds, of nature and the human mind In celebration of the centenary of May Swenson’s birth, The Library of America presents a one-volume edition of all of the poems that Swenson published in her lifetime—from her first collection Another Animal (1954) to the innovative shaped poems of Iconographs (1970) to her final work In Other Words (1987)—as well as a selection of previously uncollected work. The collection reveals the sweeping compass of Swenson’s curiosity: nature poems display her keen observation of wildlife; exuberant and erotic love poems celebrate beauty and passion; place poems record her travels to the American Southwest, France, and Italy and her residence in New York City and Sea Cliff, Long Island; verse “analyses” investigate baseball, wave motion, the DNA molecule, bronco busting, James Bond movies, and the first walk on the moon. Swenson was an inveterate reviser: poems in earlier volumes were frequently reworked for inclusion in later volumes, such as To Mix with Time (1963) and New and Selected Things Taking Place (1978). While preserving the order of publication, this volume presents the author’s final or definitive version. Substantive textual variants and title changes are detailed in the notes to the volume. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
