Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:422101544
Moly, and My Sad Captains
Thom Gunn
Moly And My Sad Captains
Moly And My Sad Captains Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Moly And My Sad Captains book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Thom Gunn
Michael Nott
Author : Michael Nott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374721374
Thom Gunn by Michael Nott Pdf
A no-holds-barred biography of the great poet and sexual rebel, who could “give the dead a voice, make them sing” (Hilton Als, The New Yorker). Thom Gunn was not a confessional poet, and he withheld much, but inseparable from his rigorous, formal poetry was a ravenous, acute experience of life and death. Raised in Kent, England, and educated at Cambridge, Gunn found a home in San Francisco, where he documented the city’s queerness, the hippie mentality (and drug use) of the sixties, and the tragedy and catastrophic impact of the AIDS crisis in the eighties and beyond. As Jeremy Lybarger wrote in The New Republic, the author of Moly and The Man with Night Sweats was “an agile poet who renovated tradition to accommodate the rude litter of modernity.” Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life chronicles, for the first time, the largely undocumented life of this revolutionary poet. Michael Nott, a coeditor of The Letters of Thom Gunn, draws on letters, diaries, notebooks, interviews, and Gunn’s poetry to create a portrait as vital as the man himself. Nott writes with insight and intimacy about the great sweep of Gunn’s life: his traditional childhood in England; his mother’s suicide; the mind-opening education he received at Cambridge, reading Shakespeare and John Donne; his decades in San Francisco and with his life partner, Mike Kitay; and his visceral experience of sex, drugs, and loss. Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life is a long-awaited, landmark study of one of England and America’s most innovative poets.
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
Eric L. Haralson
Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2479 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317763215
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century by Eric L. Haralson Pdf
The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
Writers Directory
NA NA
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1555 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349036509
Writers Directory by NA NA Pdf
Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights
Emmanuel S. Nelson
Author : Emmanuel S. Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313017094
Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights by Emmanuel S. Nelson Pdf
Gay presence is nothing new to American verse and theater. Homoerotic themes are discernible in American poetry as early as the 19th century, and identifiably gay characters appeared on the American stage more than 70 years ago. But aside from a few notable exceptions, gay artists of earlier generations felt compelled to avoid sexual candor in their writings. Conversely, most contemporary gay poets and playwrights are free from such constraints and have created a remarkable body of work. This reference is a guide to their creative achievements. Alphabetically arranged entries present 62 contemporary gay American poets and dramatists. While the majority of included writers are younger artists who came of age in the post-Stonewall U.S., some are older authors whose work has continued or persisted into recent decades. A number of these writers are well known, including Edward Albee, Harvey Fierstein, and Allen Ginsberg. Others, such as Alan Bowne, Timothy Liu, and Robert O'Hara, merit wider recognition. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies.
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
Alan Sinfield
Author : Alan Sinfield
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441185594
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain by Alan Sinfield Pdf
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.
The Letters of Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn
Author : Thom Gunn
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374605704
The Letters of Thom Gunn by Thom Gunn Pdf
The Letters of Thom Gunn presents the first complete portrait of the private life, reflections, and relationships of a maverick figure in the history of British and American poetry. “I write about love, I write about friendship,” remarked Thom Gunn. “I find that they are absolutely intertwined.” These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, family, lovers, and fellow poets, and they shed new light on “one of the most singular and compelling poets in English during the past half-century” (Hugh Haughton, The Times Literary Supplement). The Letters of Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler, Michael Nott, and Clive Wilmer, reveals the evolution of Gunn’s work and illuminates the fascinating life that informed his poems: his struggle to come to terms with his mother’s suicide; settling in San Francisco and his complex relationship with England; his changing relationship with his life partner, Mike Kitay; the LSD trips that led to his celebrated collection Moly (1971); and the deaths of friends from AIDS that inspired the powerful, unsparing elegies of The Man with Night Sweats (1992).
At the Barriers
Joshua Weiner
Author : Joshua Weiner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226890371
At the Barriers by Joshua Weiner Pdf
Maverick gay poetic icon Thom Gunn (1929–2004) and his body of work have long dared the British and American poetry establishments either to claim or disavow him. To critics in the UK and US alike, Gunn demonstrated that formal poetry could successfully include new speech rhythms and open forms and that experimental styles could still maintain technical and intellectual rigor. Along the way, Gunn’s verse captured the social upheavals of the 1960s, the existential possibilities of the late twentieth century, and the tumult of post-Stonewall gay culture. The first book-length study of this major poet, At the Barriers surveys Gunn’s career from his youth in 1930s Britain to his final years in California, from his earliest publications to his later unpublished notebooks, bringing together some of the most important poet-critics from both sides of the Atlantic to assess his oeuvre. This landmark volume traces how Gunn, in both his life and his writings, pushed at boundaries of different kinds, be they geographic, sexual, or poetic. At the Barriers will solidify Gunn’s rightful place in the pantheon of Anglo-American letters.
Woman's Power, Man's Game
Joy K. King,Mary DeForest
Author : Joy K. King,Mary DeForest
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0865162581
Woman's Power, Man's Game by Joy K. King,Mary DeForest Pdf
Woman's Power, Man's Game is a revealing and thoughtful analysis of women in antiquity, as portrayed in classical literature. The book features essays by 12 classicists who provide provocative examinations of significant aspects of female situations in antiquity.
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
Alan Sinfield
Author : Alan Sinfield
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 082647702X
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain by Alan Sinfield Pdf
Alan Sinfield (1941-) is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. The publication of Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain in 1989 firmly established him as one of our foremost writers on literature and a leading critic of postwar culture and society. Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms, and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author, specially written for the Impact edition.
The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain
Barbara J. Eckstein
Author : Barbara J. Eckstein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812213211
The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain by Barbara J. Eckstein Pdf
This book offers new and provocative readings of Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting, J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Life and Times of Michael K, selected short fiction of Nadine Gordimer and Grace Paley, Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain, John Hawkes's Travesty, and others.
The Poetry of Thom Gunn
Stefania Michelucci
Author : Stefania Michelucci
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786436873
The Poetry of Thom Gunn by Stefania Michelucci Pdf
Thom Gunn served as a mouthpiece for his time, illustrating the social, cultural, and historical transformations that have characterized western civilization from World War II until today. Starting with theoretical premises drawn from philosophy, anthropology, and sociology, this work examines Thom Gunn's entire poetic career. In Gunn's early poetry, the author argues, the predominant theme is the desire for freedom from the painful prison of the intellect and from the masks that the individual feels compelled to wear even in his sexual relationships. In Gunn's later poetry, the author notes a gradual opening to human relationships and to Nature, which is also Gunn's vindication and reevaluation of his own nature and the liberation of his long repressed and hidden homosexuality.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
Jay Parini
Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780195156539
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature by Jay Parini Pdf
This set treats the whole of American literature, from the European discovery of America to the present, with entries in alphabetical order. Each of the 350 substantive essays is a major interpretive contribution. Well-known critics and scholars provide clear and vividly written essays thatreflect the latest scholarship on a given topic, as well as original thinking on the part of the critic. The Encyclopedia is available in print and as an e-reference text from Oxford's Digital Reference Shelf.At the core of the encyclopedia lie 250 essays on poets, playwrights, essayists, and novelists. The most prominent figures (such as Whitman, Melville, Faulkner, Frost, Morrison, and so forth) are treated at considerable length (10,000 words) by top-flight critics. Less well known figures arediscussed in essays ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words. Each essay examines the life of the author in the context of his or her times, looking in detail at key works and describing the arc of the writer's career. These essays include an assessment of the writer's current reputation with abibliography of major works by the writer as well as a list of major critical and biographical works about the writer under discussion.A second key element of the project is the critical assessments of major American masterworks, such as Moby-Dick, Song of Myself, Walden, The Great Gatsby, The Waste Land, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Death of a Salesmanr, or Beloved. Each of these essays offers a close reading of the given work,placing that work in its historical context and offering a range of possibilities with regard to critical approach. These fifty essays (ranging from 2,000 to 5,000 words) are simply and clearly enough written that an intelligent high school student should easily understand them, but sophisticatedenough that a college student or general reader in a public library will find the essays both informative and stimulating.The final major element of this encyclopedia consists of fifty-odd essays on literary movements, periods, or themes, pulling together a broad range of information and making interesting connections. These essays treat many of the same authors already discussed, but in a different context; they alsogather into the fold authors who do not have an entire essay on their work (so that Zane Grey, for example, is discussed in an essay on Western literature but does not have an essay to himself). In this way, the project is truly "encyclopedic," in the conventional sense. These essays aim forcomprehensiveness without losing anything of the narrative force that makes them good reading in their own right.In a very real fashion, the literature of the American people reflects their deepest desires, aspirations, fears, and fantasies. The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature gathers a wide range of information that illumines the field itself and clarifies many of its particulars.
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
David Scott Kastan
Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 2656 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199725311
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature by David Scott Kastan Pdf
From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant. An ideal companion to The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, this set will prove invaluable for students, scholars, and general readers. For more information, including a complete table of contents and list of contributors, please visit www.oup.com/us/ebl
Who's who in Twentieth-century World Poetry
Mark Willhardt,Alan Michael Parker
Author : Mark Willhardt,Alan Michael Parker
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415163560
Who's who in Twentieth-century World Poetry by Mark Willhardt,Alan Michael Parker Pdf
Brings a uniquely global perspective to bear on modern verse. Readers will be delighted with this comprehensive volume, providing biographical information on the greatest poets of the century, and critical accounts of their work.
