Literary studies: poetry & poets books

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The Epic Poetry of Mazisi Kunene: African Literature, Aesthetic, and Transatlantic Formulation

The Epic Poetry of Mazisi Kunene: African Literature,...

Author: Prof. or Dr. Dike Okoro (Harris Stowe State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501398896
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An interrogation of the poetry of Mazisi Kunene that places his work in the context of African literature and the...  Read More >>

Allen Ginsberg in Context

Allen Ginsberg in Context

Author: Erik Mortenson (Lake Michigan College)
ISBN: 9781009525589
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Provides both scholars and interested readers the context necessary to understand how Allen Ginsberg's life and...  Read More >>

Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics

Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital...

Author: Bruno Daniel Ministro dos Santos (Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Porto)
ISBN: 9781399551533
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines the transformative power of repetition in contemporary poetic practices.  Read More >>

Looting Hummingbirds: Selected poems of Daniel Thaly

Looting Hummingbirds: Selected poems of Daniel Thaly...

Author: Mark Andrews (Emeritus associate professor French and Francophone studies at Vassar College, New York State.) ,  Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
ISBN: 9781739130398
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Daniel Thaly, from Dominica, was once one of France's most celebrated poets. Then in the 1930s, came a descent into...  Read More >>

Poetry For Dummies

Poetry For Dummies

Author: John Timpane (Poet, journalist, and academic) ,  The Poetry Center
ISBN: 9781394375554
Format: Paperback
$44.95

A guide to reading, writing and appreciating poetry - the fun and easy way. Advice is given on how to polish and...  Read More >>

Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated: Selections from Yi Kyubo’s Tongguk Yi Sangguk Chip

Not Everything Unfolds As Anticipated: Selections from...

Author: Remco E. Breuker ,  Robert E. Buswell
ISBN: 9798880701902
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Yi Kyubo (1168–1241) was the foremost writer and poet of the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392). Not Everything Unfolds as...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the Holocaust

Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the...

Author: Rina Dudai
ISBN: 9781032517452
Format: Paperback
$90.54

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  Read More >>

Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray

Lives in Adab: Essays in Honour of Julia Bray

Author: Alexander Key (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University) ,  Letizia Osti (Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Milan)
ISBN: 9781399543132
Format: Hardback
$230.00

Essays and translations by modern-day scholars organised along the principles of the Arabic narrative tradition....  Read More >>

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John...

Author: J.A. Weingarten ,  Lorna Crozier
ISBN: 9781771126847
Format: Paperback
$84.70

The Weather and the Words depicts the poet John Newlove's life. Newlove's letters are a record not just of one person's...  Read More >>

Before I Forget: A Memoir (and Then Some)

Before I Forget: A Memoir (and Then Some)

Author: Aram Saroyan
ISBN: 9781953103680
Format: Paperback
$34.99

""A writer's vivid recollection of an age when every day could be a dream."" Kirkus Reviews From humble beginnings...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the Holocaust

Psychoanalysis, Poetic Testimony and the Trauma of the...

Author: Rina Dudai
ISBN: 9781032517469
Format: Hardback
$388.12

In this fascinating and innovative book, Rina Dudai looks at Holocaust trauma through the lens of poetic testimony:...  Read More >>

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Author: Johanna Winant
ISBN: 9780231217477
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of...  Read More >>

Female Agency and Virtue in the Odyssey

Female Agency and Virtue in the Odyssey

Author: Elizabeth Stockdale
ISBN: 9781032982526
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This is the first work that examines the actions and conduct of both immortal and mortal female figures in the Odyssey,...  Read More >>

Affairs of the Hearth: Victorian Poetry and Domestic Narrative

Affairs of the Hearth: Victorian Poetry and Domestic...

Author: Rod Edmond
ISBN: 9781041245551
Format: Hardback
$245.79

This book (1988) challenges widely held assumptions about Victorian culture and shows that its poetry was far more...  Read More >>

›Versus ad picturas‹ – Text/Image Relation in Greek, Latin and Arabic Poetry: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

›Versus ad picturas‹ – Text/Image Relation in Greek,...

Author: Michele Cutino ,  Francesco Stella
ISBN: 9783119146272
Format: Hardback
$319.41

Millennium transcends boundaries – between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch,...  Read More >>

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Author: Johanna Winant
ISBN: 9780231217460
Format: Hardback
$215.95

Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of...  Read More >>

Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity: Classics, Imagism, and the Great War

Richard Aldington's Modernist Antiquity: Classics, Imagism,...

Author: Elizabeth Vandiver (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Emerita, Whitman College)
ISBN: 9780198958598
Format: Hardback
$296.95

This book examines the work of Richard Aldington, a poet, war poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic, and translator...  Read More >>

Writing Under Fascism: On Poetry and Creative Expression

Writing Under Fascism: On Poetry and Creative Expression...

Author: Margaret Randall
ISBN: 9781956375589
Format: Paperback
$26.40

In this standalone essay, Margaret Randall looks to poets Bertolt Brecht, Carolyn Forché, Nâzım Hikmet, Roque Dalton,...  Read More >>

Juana Borrero

Juana Borrero

Author: Anne Kern
ISBN: 9783110748352
Format: Paperback
$92.92

This study takes a comprehensive look at the aesthetics and oeuvre of Juana Borrero y Pierra (1877-1896), one of...  Read More >>

Continuing to Look: Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet, Constable, Turner

Continuing to Look: Bruegel, Matisse, Leonardo, Manet,...

Author: Robert Cumming ,  Gino Ballantyne
ISBN: 9780718898373
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Your experience of Slow Looking will deepen with Seeing is Believing as Robert encourages you to explore art through...  Read More >>

Reden Über Lyrik: Autorkonstitution in Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen Von 1959 Bis 1989

Reden Über Lyrik: Autorkonstitution in Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen...

Author: Insa Braun
ISBN: 9783111327822
Format: Hardback
$188.67

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.), Humboldt-Universitèat zu Berlin, 2020.  Read More >>

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