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Spontaneity and Form in Modern Prose
E-bok, 2022
1476 kr
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This study analyzes post-Romantic prose whose authors--in terms of race, gender, class, nationality, and more--occupy a range of subject-positions. Unlike poetry, modern literary prose has no rhetorical repertoire or structure (beyond those of grammar) that one could tabulate. As a result, it …
Spontaneity and Form in Modern Prose
E-bok, 2022
1476 kr
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This study analyzes post-Romantic prose whose authors--in terms of race, gender, class, nationality, and more--occupy a range of subject-positions. Unlike poetry, modern literary prose has no rhetorical repertoire or structure (beyond those of grammar) that one could tabulate. As a result, it …
Spontaneity and Form in Modern Prose
Inbunden, 2022
1648 kr
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This study analyzes post-Romantic prose whose authors--in terms of race, gender, class, nationality, and more--occupy a range of subject-positions. Unlike poetry, modern literary prose has no rhetorical repertoire or structure (beyond those of grammar) that one could tabulate. As a result, it …
Worlds Woven Together
Essays on Poetry and Poetics
Inbunden, 2022
1185 kr
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Writing about poetry follows models provided either by academic scholarship or literary journalism, each with its pitfalls. The former distances the reader from the poem and effaces the critic’s personality. In literary journalism, the critic is front and center, but the discussion is introductory …
Worlds Woven Together
Essays on Poetry and Poetics
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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Writing about poetry follows models provided either by academic scholarship or literary journalism, each with its pitfalls. The former distances the reader from the poem and effaces the critic’s personality. In literary journalism, the critic is front and center, but the discussion is introductory …
Poetry and Opinion
Inbunden, 2026
1048 kr
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Identifying ourselves, others, writers, with their opinions-and taking the form of the opinion as the epitome of political engagement-we assert a picture of the self that ought to be scrutinized. Mass print generated, along with the railways, telegraph, information-relays national and global, as …
Poetry and Opinion
Häftad, 2026
324 kr
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Identifying ourselves, others, writers, with their opinions-and taking the form of the opinion as the epitome of political engagement-we assert a picture of the self that ought to be scrutinized. Mass print generated, along with the railways, telegraph, information-relays national and global, as …
Asian/Other
Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir
Häftad, 2025
198 kr
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Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both its political and psychological senses, he leaps adventurously between memoir and criticism, understanding his life through poetry, and vice versa. …
Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic
Inbunden, 2015
1478 kr
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Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse. Yet the …
Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic
E-bok, 2015
789 kr
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Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse. Yet the …
Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic
Häftad, 2017
725 kr
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Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse. Yet the …
Grun-tu-molani
Häftad, 2014
148 kr
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Vidyan Ravinthiran's much-anticipated first collection contains many poems about Sri Lanka which fuse politics, personal history and myth, yet his voice pitches itself not so much halfway between East and West as between emotional forthrightness and linguistic exuberance. Traditional forms - of …
Grun-tu-molani
E-bok, 2014
167 kr
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Vidyan Ravinthiran''s much-anticipated first collection contains many poems about Sri Lanka which fuse politi, personal history and myth. Yet his voice pitches itself not so much halfway between East and West as between emotional forthrightness and linguistic exuberance. Traditional forms contend …
Million-petalled Flower of Being Here
Häftad, 2019
177 kr
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Vidyan Ravinthiran’s second collection is a book of sonnets for his wife. These are love poems that turn analytical, consider the world, and in which the pronoun 'we' aspires to stand for a larger community, including (if you like) readers themselves. Many describe life in the North East for a …
Million-petalled Flower of Being Here
E-bok, 2019
164 kr
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Vidyan Ravinthiran’s second collection is a book of sonnets for his wife. These are love poems that turn analytical, consider the world, and in which the pronoun ''we'' aspires to stand for a larger community, including (if you like) readers themselves. Many describe life in the North East for a …
Out of Sri Lanka
Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas
Av Vidyan Ravinthiran, Vidyan Ravinthiran m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
185 kr
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Sri Lanka has thrilled the foreign imagination as a land of infinite possibility. Portuguese, Dutch and British colonisers envisioned an island of gems and pearls, a stopping-point on the Silk Road; tourists today are sold a vision of golden beaches and swaying palm trees, delicious food and …
Out of Sri Lanka
Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas
Av Shash Trevett, Seni Seneviratne m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
358 kr
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This first ever anthology of Sri Lankan and diasporic poetry features over a hundred poets writing in English, or translated from Tamil and Sinhala. It brings to light a long-neglected national literature, and reshapes our understanding of migrational poetics and the poetics of atrocity. In this …
Avidya
Häftad, 2025
166 kr
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These poems emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events.In 2017, Vidyan Ravinthiran travelled to the north of Sri Lanka …
Avidya
E-bok, 2025
181 kr
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The poems in this collection emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries: Sri Lanka, the UK and the USA. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 2017, Vidyan …
Asian/Other
Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir
Inbunden, 2025
221 kr
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*FROM THE JOINT WINNER OF THE 2025 FORWARD PRIZE**LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWARD*A perceptive exploration of poetry, race, and otherness from one of our most promising voices in criticism.Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United …
Angular Desire
Selected Poems and Prose
Av Srinivas Rayaprol, Graziano Kratli m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
236 kr
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Poetry Book Society Spring 2020 Special Commendation. A handful of writers defines the canon of postcolonial anglophone poetry in India. Srinivas Rayaprol has generally been omitted from the list, but his recently published correspondence with William Carlos Williams and publisher James Laughlin …
