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Coleridge's Philosophy of Language
Häftad, 1986
393 kr
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This book traces the development of Coleridge's philosophy of language, situating it in the intellectual climate of his era. James C. McKusick offers the persuasive and original argument that Coleridge's linguistic theories for a coherent body of thought underlying his poetry, criticism, and …
Wordsworth and the Poetry of What We Are
Av Paul H. Fry
Inbunden, 2008
945 kr
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In this original book, distinguished literary scholar and critic Paul H. Fry sharply revises accepted views of Wordsworth’s motives and messages as a poet. Where others have oriented Wordsworth toward ideas of transcendence, nature worship, or—more recently—political repression, Fry redirects the …
Uncloseting Drama
American Modernism and Queer Performance
Av Nick Salvato
Häftad, 2010
677 kr
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In this elegant book, modernism is illuminated through little-known but striking works by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and others who revived the “closet drama”—plays written largely for private reading—as a means of exploring forbidden sexualities.
Prison and the American Imagination
Av Caleb Smith
Häftad, 2011
544 kr
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How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the question is particularly urgent. In this timely, provocative study, …
Renaissance Epic and the Oral Past
Häftad, 2012
734 kr
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This book explores why Renaissance epic poetry clung to fictions of song and oral performance in an age of growing literacy. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, Anthony Welch argues, came to view their written art as newly distinct from the oral cultures of their ancestors. Welch shows how …
Virtue of Sympathy
Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-Century England
Av Seth Lobis
Inbunden, 2015
1387 kr
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A revealing look at how the cultural meaning of sympathy shifted during the seventeenth century Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and building to a new reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost, author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the …
