Catálogo de libros Estudios Literarios: Poesía Y Poetas

Michael W. Higgins / Michael WHiggins

Thirty years after his death, we are finally catching up to Thomas Merton as one of the greatest spiritual figures of the twentieth century. The genius and spirituality of this unusual man could not be contained in his life as a monk but spilled over richly into his life and work as a poet, critic, rebel, sage, and even artist and photographer.Merton was aware that he had heret...

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62,89 €

Reading Apollinaire’s Alcools

Willard Bohn

Apollinaire is generally considered to be one of the very best modern poets writing in any language. Published in 1913, Alcools is his most important book of poetry and continues to be highly influential. This book provides a detailed analysis for seventeen of the most important poems in Alcools and includes a state-of-the-art survey of current Apollinaire criticism. ...

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115,24 €

Communication Images in Derek Walcott’s Poetry

Sadia Gill

This book investigates the potential purpose of recurrent communication images in the poetry of Derek Walcott. The recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1992, Walcott is one of the most important postcolonial poets of the 20th century. His poetry delves into the dynamics of Caribbean marginalization and seeks to safeguard the paradigms characteristic of his island home...

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100,89 €

Ezra Pound in the Present

Paul Stasi

Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? Or did he inaugurate a form of comparative literature that could save the discipline from its untimely demise? Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis? What might he say about America’s economic dependence on China? Would he have been appalled at the rise of the 'digital humanities,†? or found it amenable to his ...

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206,47 €

The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry

Andrew Duncan

Failure starts from the key misrepresentation of orthodox poetry criticism, that the conservative is also the new, and sets out to define the whole British complex of refusing to innovate. In the attempt to set up publicly accountable criteria for what counts as new, the book goes through the whole period from the 1950s to the mid-1990s, identifying what the stylistic innovatio...

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23,89 €

Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry

Andrew Duncan

Does what is true depend on where you are? or, can we speak of a British culture which varies gradually over the 600 miles from one end of the island to the other, with currents gradually mutating and turning into their opposites as they cross such a distance? Any account of the matter must rapidly disclose the fact that where group A proclaims idea X, group B swiftly proclaims...

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21,81 €

The Red Book - Ode to Battle

Helene Lundbye Petersen

The Red Book – Ode to Battle, is the fourth book of artist and thinker Helene Lundbye Petersen's 'Colour Spectrum of 11 Spaces'. The Colour Spectrum is an artwork comprised of eleven manuscripts that seek to explore the complexities of contemporary life and represent spaces of courage, perspective, inspiration and hope. Five of the books within 'Colour Spectrum ...

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49,65 €

The Mathematical Sublime

Mark Scroggins

The poet Mark Scroggins has long been known as a leading authority on Louis Zukofsky, a prolific reviewer and critic, and the author of a series of authoritative essays on the history of twentieth-century poetry. The Mathematical Sublime presents a selection of Scroggins’s reviews, short essays, and weblog posts about a dazzling variety of poets, poems, and poetry criticism: fr...

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22,42 €

Inventions of a Barbarous Age

Robert Archambeau

What is the community for poetry? What is its fate, its future? Poet and critic Robert Archambeau begins Inventions of a Barbarous Age with these questions before ranging over the ridges and valleys of the contemporary poetry scene, pausing on the way to investigate mystic and Gnostic poetry, the norms of criticism, and the poetics of camp and the sublime. Taking in poets from ...

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22,15 €

Imagining the Jewish God

This book presents the possibility of a robust dialogue for all who are committed to critique and enhance the problem of graven images and yet know that even the absent God must be accounted for in contemporary thought. Itincludes the reflections of significant commentators, theologians, philosophers, scholars, and poets. ...

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199,68 €

Out of the Wilderness

Cathal O Searcaigh / Gabriel Rosenstock

Sparkling new translations by Gabriel Rosenstock of poems from five of Cathal O Searcaigh's most startling and refreshing collections. Rosenstock's lengthy introduction and concluding essay explain O Searcaigh's unique position in the Irish literary corpus, shedding light on his relationships with west Donegal, his poetic influences, his mother and mother tongue.In ...

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16,73 €

James Joyce - Collected Poems

James Joyce

This book contains the collected poetry of James Joyce. It includes ’Chamber Music’, ’Pomes Penyeach’, and ’Ecce Puer’. James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882 and is considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. He published his first short story in 1904 and wrote many poems and novels including A Portrait ...

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18,54 €

James Joyce - Collected Poems

James Joyce

This book contains the collected poetry of James Joyce. It includes ’Chamber Music’, ’Pomes Penyeach’, and ’Ecce Puer’. James Joyce was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1882 and is considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. He published his first short story in 1904 and wrote many poems and novels including A Portrait ...

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24,94 €

Spectral Realms No. 5

TABLE OF CONTENTSPoemsCarmilla / K. A. OppermanBorean Soul / Jeff BurnettSin Eater / Jennifer Ruth JacksonThe First Haunting / M. F. WebbThe Second Haunting / M. F. WebbThe Serpent Borne of Helios / Nathaniel ReedCoda / Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.Grin / John J. MundyGraveyards of the Living / G. O. ClarkOnly in Dreams / Darrell SchweitzerAngry Gods / Mary Krawczak WilsonThe Forest of...

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16,65 €

Charles Baudelaire - His Life

Théophile Gautier / Various / Guy Thorne

First published in 1915, this volume contains Théophile Gautier’s biography of the French poet, art critic, and essayist Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821–1867). Baudelaire’s wonderful poems are known for their masterful use of rhyme and rhythm which, together with their Romantic exoticism, inspired a whole generation of poets including Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane ...

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25,88 €

New International Voices in Ecocriticism

Oppermann

New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical texts, and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations, postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer ecologies. ...

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65,51 €

The Poetry of Personality

William Greenway

Poetry of Personality, on the hundredth anniversary of Dylan Thomas’s birth, is a must-read for both Thomas’s fans and newcomers interested in an introduction to his works and the unique sensibility that created them. It explores the heart and mind behind the poems, and shows why his work will always remain in the top rank of English poetry. ...

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57,62 €

Nets to Catch the Wind

Elinor Wylie / Martha Elizabeth Johnson

'Nets to Catch the Wind' is a 1921 collection of poetry by Elinor Morton Wylie. The poems include: 'Beauty', 'The Eagle And The Mole', 'Madman’s Song', 'The Prinkin’ Leddie', 'August', 'The Crooked Stick', 'Atavism', 'Wild Peaches', 'Sanctuary', 'The Lion And The Lamb', etc. A marvellous collection of melodious, sensuous poetry not to be missed by fans of Wylie’s seminal work. ...

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31,03 €

John Updike’s Pennsylvania Interviews

James Plath

John Updike wrote about his home town of Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania for much of his adult life, setting most of his early fiction and all of his award-winning novels in his home state. In John Updike’s Pennsylvania Interviews James Plath has compiled the first collection of interviews that illustrates and helps to explain the bond between one of America’s greatest li...

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142,75 €

George Oppen

Richard Swigg

For too long the essential basis of George Oppen's poetry—the words on the page and their acoustics—has been ignored in critical discussions of his work. Challenging this neglect, Richard Swigg offers the reader a direct route into the visual / auditory dimension of the poems as they develop from the 1930s to the 1970s, while also tracing his important literary relations wi...

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129,16 €

French Lessons

Roberta Hatcher

This collection, the author’s first, takes slippages in language as a starting point to explore gaps within the self, between the self and the world of others and everyday objects, as well as faultlines within the body politic. The encounter with a foreign tongue becomes an occasion for both loss of self and opening into otherness; the attempt to gain a hold on things by writin...

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15,84 €

The Driftwood Shrine

John Gendo Wolff

Representing a new approach to the West’s evolving understanding of Buddhism, The Driftwood Shrine is the first collection of Zen teachings to be based on the poems of great American writers. In reassuring, forthright, and often surprising language, Wolff explains how Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, H.D., Richard Wright, and many other poets enshrined the gentle light...

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17,79 €

Christina Rossetti and the Bible

Elizabeth Ludlow

Through theologically-engaged close readings of her poetry and devotional prose, this book explores how Christina Rossetti draws on the Bible and encourages her Victorian readers to respond to its radical message of grace. Structured chronologically, each chapter investigates her participation in the formation of Tractarian theology and details how her interpretative strategies...

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64,03 €

A History of Twentieth-Century American Women’s Poetry

Counting Descent

Clint Smith

Clint Smith’s debut poetry collection, Counting Descent, is a coming of age story that seeks to complicate our conception of lineage and tradition.Smith explores the cognitive dissonance that results from belonging to a community that unapologetically celebrates black humanity while living in a world that often renders blackness a caricature of fear. His poems move fluidly acro...

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18,84 €

Virgil’s Gaze

J. D. Reed / JDReed / Joseph D Reed

Virgil’s Aeneid invites its reader to identify with the Roman nation whose origins and destiny it celebrates. But, as J. D. Reed argues in Virgil’s Gaze, the great Roman epic satisfies this identification only indirectly--if at all. In retelling the story of Aeneas’ foundational journey from Troy to Italy, Virgil defines Roman national identity only provisionally, through oppos...

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37,75 €

New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene

Dike Okoro

New Perspectives on Mazisi Kunene shares with readers an interview inspired by correspondence and prolonged conversations on the telephone. The focus of this interview, Mazisi Kunene, is arguably one of Africa's greatest poets. Kunene's contributions to African literature as both scholar and artist remains significant, given his commitment to writing in his indigenous Z...

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28,69 €

WITHIN SILENCE WISDOM WHISPERS

Esther Austin

This wonderful book, Within Silence, Wisdom Whispers, offers a words of inspiration that will touch your heart and soul. Without doubt, this 2016 update of the 2012 version of this excellent book, continues to be a wonderful blueprint, for those who are on a personal development journey to find their true inner selves emotionally and spiritually. Moreover, “Within Silence, Wis...

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12,20 €

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