Book Description
Anthology of Australian verse, arranged in five sections.
Author : Ian Mudie
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Australian poetry
ISBN :
Anthology of Australian verse, arranged in five sections.
Author : A. M. Klein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1187 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0802058027
This collection includes all Klein's poetry, both original works and translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and Latin. Many of them, coming from all periods of his careers, have never been published.
Author : Rina Lapidus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134516908
This book deals with the work of fifteen young Jewish poets who were killed, died of wounds, or were executed in captivity while serving in the Red Army in the Second World War. All were young, all were poets, most were thoroughly assimilated into Soviet society whilst at the same time being rooted in Jewish culture and traditions. Their poetry, written mostly in Russian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian, was coloured by their backgrounds, by the literary and cultural climate that prevailed in the Soviet Union, and was deeply concerned with their expectation of impending death at the hands of the Nazis. The book examines the poets’ backgrounds, their lives, their poetry and their deaths. Like the experiences and poetry of the British First World War poets, the lives and poems of these young Jewish poets are extremely interesting and deeply moving.
Author : Salvador Novo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477306110
In "The War of the Fatties," a campy, tongue-in-cheek retelling of an episode from the Mexican "Trojan War," naked fat women from Tlatelolco discombobulate Tenochtitlan’s invading army by squirting them with breast milk. Told with satiric allusions to the policies and tactics used by Mexico’s current ruling party, PRI, to consolidate its power, the play unfolds a history of vain rivalry and decadence, intricate political maneuvers, corruption, and unchecked ambition that determined the course of Mexican history for two centuries before the Spanish conquest. Novo’s other works in this collection—"A Few Aspects of Sex among the Nahuas," "Ahuítzotl and the Magic Water," "Cuauhtémoc: Play in One Act," "Cuauhtémoc and Eulalia: A Dialogue," "Malinche and Carlota: A Dialogue," and "In Ticitézcatl or The Enchanted Mirror: Opera in Two Acts"—represent nearly all of his Aztec-related writings. Taken together, they provide a delightful introduction to Novo’s later works and a light-hearted, historically accurate introduction to Aztec culture. The text is supplemented by a glossary of Nahuatl terms, notes on the historical characters, and an introduction that provides historical background and places Novo’s works within their cultural context.
Author : Jane Stafford
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 2218 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1775581667
From the earliest records of exploration and encounter to the globalized, multicultural present, this compilation features New Zealand's major writing, from Polynesian mythology to the Yates' Garden Guide, from Allen Curnow to Alice Tawhai, and from Wiremu Te Rangikaheke's letters to Katherine Mansfield's notebooks. Including fiction, nonfiction, letters, speeches, novels, stories, comics, and songs, this imaginative selection provides new paths into New Zealand writing and culture.
Author : Brian Easton
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1775581977
This is a collection of linked essays on individuals and companies from 1931 to 1984 who contributed in major ways to building the New Zealand nation. It captures the intertwining of the lives of politicians, their advisers, and those influence them, as well as the ideas and experiences that drove them. While it focuses on economic strategy, the book also looks at the cultural, social, union, business, and foreign policy strands of nationbuilding. An original and provocative book, it is backed by powerful nationalistic emotions and by a deep distaste for the kind of country that has been fashioned in New Zealand since 1984.
Author : Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1944
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : Richard Danson Brown
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0746311850
This study investigates Louis MacNeice in two major central strands, exploring MacNeice's ambiguous positioning as an Irish poet and the self-consciousness in his writing.
Author : Lawrence Jones
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780864734556
The story of the generation of New Zealand writers who came of age in the 1930s and who deliberately and decisively changed the course of literature is told in this book, shedding important new light on the key participants, including Allen Curnow, Denis Glover, and Robin Hyde. The movement is traced through small circulation magazines and small press publications from 1932 to 1941. The repudiations and loyalties by which the movement defined itself are explored, including its opposition to the literary establishment and to late Georgian verse, its naming of its precursors and allies from the 1920s, and its choice of overseas models such as the British Moderns and the new American short-story writers for the creation of a new literature. oppose the cultural myths supported by the literary establishment and the writers' responses to the world-wide social upheavals of the period -- the Depression, the international crises of 1935 to 1939, and World War II.
Author : Oscar Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0671496107
447 British and American poems by 150 poets, including contemporary poets.