Now in its fourth edition, Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the exciting and diverse world of poetry. Jeffrey Wainwrights accessible introduction demystifies poetic forms and traditions, which can at first seem bewilde...Lasīt vairāk
Now in its fourth edition, Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the exciting and diverse world of poetry. Jeffrey Wainwrights accessible introduction demystifies poetic forms and traditions, which can at first seem bewildering. Dra...Lasīt vairāk
Why literary studies must confront digital mediationWe live and research in a technologically mediated landscape in which old models of reading and researchingmethods that presume an autonomous, single scholar gathering resources a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691254661)
In this book, Meredith Martin presents a historical account of prosodic criticism and, through the example of her own research path, argues for new scholarly practices in literary studies and the humanities more broadly. Challenging the common schol...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Mar-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198937180)
When modernist poets rejected meter at the beginning of the twentieth century, they seemed to reject something at the heart of poetry: sound. Yet meter was only one of the many sound media that poets on either side of 1900 used to structure their poe...Lasīt vairāk
Offers advice on reading and writing poetry, and discusses imitation, sound, the line, poem forms, free verse, diction, imagery, revision, and workshops With passion, wit, and good common sense, the celebrated poet Mary Oliver tells of t...Lasīt vairāk
This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the alcaic metre -- found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today. English poets have always admired the extraordinary beauty and i...Lasīt vairāk
The first-ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkiens most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, featuring previously unpublished and never-before-seen texts and...Lasīt vairāk
The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulks A History of Old English Meter, metrical theory has been bro...Lasīt vairāk
The importance of metrical analysis to the broad work of textual criticism and literary analysis cannot be overstated. In the thirty years since the publication of R. D. Fulks A History of Old English Meter, metrical theory has been bro...Lasīt vairāk
This book reveals how a remarkable ancient Greek and Latin poetic form -- the Alcaic metre -- found its way into English poetry, and continues shaping the imagination of poets today. English poets have always admired the extraordinary beauty and int...Lasīt vairāk
Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethiuss Consolation of Philosophy - one...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jan-2021, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520379800)
A dynamic translation of the timeless African epic.The feats of the hero Mwindo are glorified in this epic work, sung and narrated in a Bantu language and acted out by a member of the Nyanga tribe in the remote forest regions of what...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Jan-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9780812252644)
This book is a history of meter in English poetry. It questions literary periodization-- What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in En...Lasīt vairāk
The author offers a historical account of modernist poetic form and analyzes how poetry was read and written in the twentieth century. The rise of free verse in the early 1900s is commonly thought to be a resistance to or liberation from regimented...Lasīt vairāk
In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained in the archives, poems, letters, and pedagogy of modern poets and criti...Lasīt vairāk
He explores authorial purposes ranging from technical attempts to match sound and genre to the lofty aims of improving the vernacular or ennobling culture, from the dramatists practical search for verse forms suited to the stage to Miltons quest fo...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of W. H. Auden’s many syllabics, revealing them as highly various in both form and content. It also discusses his achievement in relation to the work of two pioneers in the writ...Lasīt vairāk
This revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition sheds new light on poems from Beowulf to Piers Plowman and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and challenges the idea that the alliterative tradition falls into two halve...Lasīt vairāk
This Bloomsbury Companion provides an overview of stylistics with a detailed outline of the scope and history of the discipline, as well as its key areas of research.The main research methods and approaches within the field are presented wi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Jul-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198827016)
Explores the ways in which nineteenth-century English poets-Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins-responded creatively to the difference between written and spoken language and the ambiguities involved in writing down their own voices and the melodies of their...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1970, this work outlines the principles of English prosody in a way that will enable the reader to recognise and scan any piece of English verse. It illustrates the close relationship between English speech patterns and verse pa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-May-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US, ISBN-13: 9780866985697)
The feature of Geoffrey Chaucers (1340-1400) poetry that is most distinctive is not its content, says Duffell, but its form. First, Chaucer dared to compose in the newly respectable English rather than the conventional and established Latin and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Feb-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472106981)
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Argues that free verse has deep historical roots, and traces them, from Milton to contemporary poetry. H. T. Kirby-Smith offers a far-ranging and intellectually engaging study of the literary history of the debated genre of fr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Apr-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107148338)
Given the structure of English, a sound echo involving stressed syllables will usually have semantic as well as phonological prominence. Ideally, semantic relations marked by the echo will take on special meaning within a particular work. Shakespear...Lasīt vairāk
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A collection of short essays and reflections on poetry which illustrate Maxwells poetic philosophy. With examples from canonical poets, this is a beautiful, accessible guide to the most ancient and sublime of the realms of literature. A...Lasīt vairāk
Justices insights serve as a sort of de facto taxonomy, an organically designed system that he uses to present his lecture on each respective aspect of the evolution of poetic form. There is no formal thesis here, but rather a kind of scrapbook...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Oct-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107169654)
The chapters of this book form an essay in a type of history I call verse history, a concept not covered by any of the usual terms applied to the study of literature. Verse history is the history of a tradition of composing poems in a certain mete...Lasīt vairāk
