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Critical Rhythm : The Poetics of a Literary Life Form
Explores both the theory and practice of rhythm in literature with a focus on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. Emphasis on rhythm's role in contemporary literary criticism, including debates about poetic form and genre. This collection intervenes in recent debates over formalism, historicism, poetics, and lyric by focusing on one of literary criticism's most important, most vested, and …
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- 9780823282043
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- Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
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- 800 GLA c
Doubt's Boots Even Doubt's Shadow
Charles Noble’s long poem playfully connects autobiography, narrative, philosophy, history, and satire and experiments with language and structure in a way that pushes the limits of contemporary poetry. Noble leaves no leaf unturned as he touches on issues related to contemporary Western society, including mass media culture, gender politics, postindustrial technology, and the politics of pos…
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- 9781552386668
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- 821
Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.511-733
This extract from Ovid's 'Theban History' recounts the confrontation of Pentheus, king of Thebes, with his divine cousin, Bacchus, the god of wine.
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- 9781783740840
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- 821
Contemporary Irish Women Poets : Memory and Estrangement
This study examines the intersection of private and public spheres through the representation of memory in contemporary poetry by Irish women. Collins explores how memory shapes creativity in the work of well-known poets such as Eavan Boland, Eiléan Nà Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian as well as in that of an exciting group of younger poets. This book analyses, for the first time, the …
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- 9781781381878
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- Liverpool English Texts and Studies
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- 800 COL c
Father of Persian Verse Rudaki and his Poetry
This book presents Rudaki as the founder of a new poetic aesthetic, which was adopted by subsequent generations of Persian poets. Rudaki is credited with being the first to write in the ruba'i form; and many of the images we first encounter in Rudaki's lines have become staples of Persian poetry.
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- 9789087280925
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Liza's Monday and Other Poems
Published in 1986, Bettie Sellers's book of poems speaks for ordinary women whose lives have been confronted with unfortunate circumstances. Writing in a narrative and lyrical style, Sellers brings life to new stories and songs based on the downtrodden women she has encountered.
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- 9781469636542
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Love and its Critics
This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
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- 9781783743506
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- 821
Vozes femininas da poesia latino-americana
É a partir de uma perspectiva de "dupla revisão" que Vozes femininas da poesia latino-americana: Cecília e as poetisas uruguaias ressalta um outro perfil da escritora brasileira Cecília Meireles: a de grande estudiosa e conhecedora da produção de autoria feminina latino-americana.
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- 9788579830327
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- 869.1
Twentieth-Century Russian Poetry
The canon of Russian poetry has been reshaped since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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- 9781783740895
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The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems, Volume 3: Poems of Rural Life in…
This is the third volume in a series that sets out to provide a phonemic transcript and an audio recording of each individual poem in Barnes’s three collections of Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect.
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- Vol. 3
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- 9781925261585
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