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Author : Craig Raine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Engelse digkuns
ISBN : UOM:39015002713082
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410352217
A Study Guide for Craig Raine's "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : David Solway
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0773516794
The first section of the book develops Solway's approach to literature, starting from the assumption that genuine criticism requires the intellectual freedom to range at will across the literary landscape rather than restricting one's direction based on what is current, fashionable, or politically correct. Solway argues that advocating a theoretical school - postmodernism, poststructuralism, semiotics, new historicism, Marxist revisionism, or queer theory - generally involves abandoning the real critical project, which is the discovery of one's own undetermined motives, dispositions, and interests as reflected in the secret mirrors embedded in literary texts. Instead Solway pursues what he calls elective criticism, writing that enables the critical writer to freely discover his or her own identity - a concept that he claims cannot reasonably be diluted, relinquished, or deconstructed. In the second section Solway practices what he preaches, exploring a wide range of authors and subjects. His essays include an analysis of Franz Kafka's The Trial as a Jewish joke, a personal memoir of Irving Layton, an interpretation of Erin Moure's "Pronouns on the Main," an examination of language in William Shakespeare's romances, a reading of Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" that is sympathetic to the Duke, an assertion that James Joyce has more in common with the traditional novelist than with the professional, (post-)modern alienator, and an exploration of Jonathan Swift's sartorial imagery that contends that form is the source of substantive identity.
Author : Michael Higgins,Clarissa Smith,John Storey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827959
British culture today is the product of a shifting combination of tradition and experimentation, national identity and regional and ethnic diversity. These distinctive tensions are expressed in a range of cultural arenas, such as art, sport, journalism, fashion, education, and race. This Companion addresses these and other major aspects of British culture, and offers a sophisticated understanding of what it means to study and think about the diverse cultural landscapes of contemporary Britain. Each contributor looks at the language through which culture is formed and expressed, the political and institutional trends that shape culture, and at the role of culture in daily life. This interesting and informative account of modern British culture embraces controversy and debate, and never loses sight of the fact that Britain and Britishness must always be understood in relation to the increasingly international context of globalisation.
Author : Craig Raine
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781447217596
His pieces, on the literary world and some of its most fascinating figures and classics, bear his hallmark of vitality and distinctive approach. Raine’s knowledge of the span of literary theory (and anecdote) and the incisiveness of his thinking uncover as far more contradictory and complex in their successes writers customarily held in reverence. The essays range from a powerful piece on the KGB’s literary archive to thoughts about tragedy in Kipling’s life, from Auden, Nabokov and Beckett to the state of health of Samuel Johnson’s testicles. This book celebrates the diversity of the world of books and Raine is a supremely entertaining and thought-provoking guide. ‘Raine pounces on writers lacking his own high degree of linguistic resolution and independence. The citizenly impulse behind these arresting critical interventions is usually commendable. One gets the impression of a man simmering in long silence, coming reluctantly to the boil because someone has to speak up’ Geoff Dyer, Guardian
Author : Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535816864
Author : Craig Raine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : English poetry
ISBN : OCLC:951260441
Author : Dennis Joseph Enright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015003349928
Author : Wolfgang Gortschacher,David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118843208
A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.
Author : Blake Morrison,Andrew Motion
Publisher : Penguin Uk
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0140585524
Author : David Kitchen
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0435145304
A collection of poems and activities designed to win over the most reluctant 14- to 16-year-olds
Author : Henry Widdowson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0194374459
This text goes back to basics by investigating fundamental assumptions about the way English should be defined and taught as a foreign language. It looks at different attitudes to English teaching, and critically examines proposals for course content.
Author : Craig Raine
Publisher : Atlantic Books Ltd
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781782397434
'By poetry we - we the masses - mean something vague, something untrue, something uplifting, something beautiful, something so eloquent it isn't for everyday. The word "poetry" is up there with "soul". And I am against it.' My Grandmother's Glass Eye deploys its considerable learning, its intelligent expertise, wittily, memorably. It is an exercise in demystification and clarity. If you want to know how poetry works on the page, here are sure-footed accounts of particular poems. There is something Johnsonian in Craig Raine's common sense - an elegant wrecking ball used with precision and delicacy to pick off the pretentious, the platitudinous, the over-promoted. Here, poetry is well read, attentively read, by a practitioner whose range runs from Bion to John Lennon, from Bishop to Balanchine.
Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446401378
'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The Times Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr Wrong... Martin Amis sustains an unnervingly high degree of suspense as Mary and the reader yearn to grasp what has happened to Mary's past and ponder what its loss has gained her. Unfolding is a metaphysical thriller where jealousy guarded secrets jostle with startling insights. Other People is ambitious and accomplished, heralding for Amis an unexpected new direction as a novelist and for the rest of us an experience not to be missed.
Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828109
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.