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Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1610754050
Author : Rachel Carroll,Adam Hansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317104209
Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question: how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa? Contributions explore how various forms of writing have had a crucial role to play in making popular music what it is, and how popular music informs ’literary’ writing in diverse ways. The collection features musicologists, literary critics, experts in cultural studies, and creative writers, organised in three themed sections. ’Making Litpop’ explores how hybrids of writing and popular music have been created by musicians and authors. ’Thinking Litpop’ considers what critical or intellectual frameworks help us to understand these hybrid cultural forms. Finally, ’Consuming Litpop’ examines how writers deal with music’s influence, how musicians engage with literary texts, and how audiences of music and writing understand their own role in making ’Litpop’ happen. Discussing a range of genres and periods of writing and popular music, this unique collection identifies, theorizes, and problematises connections between different forms of expression, making a vital contribution to popular musicology, and literary and cultural studies.
Author : Tim Kendall,Peter McDonald
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0853238685
The authors of these essays see Muldoon from many different angles - biographical, formal, literary-historical, generic - but are also engaged in directing attention to complex moments of creativity in which an extraordinary amount of originality is concentrated, and on the clarity of which a lot depends.
Author : Thomas George McGuire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015060768515
This dissertation reconsiders the key importance of violence as an aesthetic, political, and cultural category in Seamus Heaney's poetry and translations. The dissertation begins by asking how the relation between violence, literature, and nationalism might be understood in the Irish postcolonial context. The author details how specific explosions of postcolonial violence as well as broader cultural manifestations and perceptions of violence have motivated and informed some of the key aesthetic developments and major projects in this poet's career. By examining a wide range of representations from his oeuvre, he details Heaney's deft negotiation of the related problems of violence and decolonization through a complex and compelling poetic of violence. Specifically, he examines Heaney's conception and development of the lyric as a field of force, his employment of the pastoral as an anticolonial mode of resistance, and his translations of canonical texts as acts of counterviolence carried out at the level of the vernacular and form. Through close readings of Heaney's verse, translations, prose, and journalism, the author demonstrates how many of his writings can be profitably read as part of an ongoing attempt to intervene textually in a Northern Irish culture of violence. He also argues that Heaney's often conflicted, occasionally uneven, and frequently brilliant attempts to outface violence through writing have necessitated a remarkable degree of experimentation and adaptation at the level of form, language, and genre. By bringing into interactive and critical focus a study of poetics and postcolonial criticism, the author attempts to demonstrate that a particular set of violent conditions and perceptions (which are endemic to postcolonial situations) have, to a remarkable degree, informed Heaney's highly innovative transformations of inherited cultural materials. (3 figures, 185 refs.).
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781555979829
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction “There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential.”—Marlon James Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young tours us through a rogue’s gallery of hoaxers, plagiarists, forgers, and fakers—from the humbug of P. T. Barnum and Edgar Allan Poe to the unrepentant bunk of JT LeRoy and Donald J. Trump. Bunk traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon, examining what motivates hucksters and makes the rest of us so gullible. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended was the 161-year-old nursemaid to George Washington, and What Is It?, an African American man Barnum professed was a newly discovered missing link in evolution. Bunk then turns to the hoaxing of history and the ways that forgers, plagiarists, and journalistic fakers invent backstories and falsehoods to sell us lies about themselves and about the world in our own time, from pretend Native Americans Grey Owl and Nasdijj to the deadly imposture of Clark Rockefeller, from the made-up memoirs of James Frey to the identity theft of Rachel Dolezal. In this brilliant and timely work, Young asks what it means to live in a post-factual world of “truthiness” where everything is up for interpretation and everyone is subject to a pervasive cynicism that damages our ideas of reality, fact, and art.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : High school libraries
ISBN : IND:30000070107978
Author : A. Poulin,Michael Waters
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000058695838
This highly respected anthology presents the work of 66 poets who have "shaped the contours and direction of the mainstream of American poetry" from 1955 to the present. The collection provides a generous sampling of each poet with a photo, biographical sketches, and bibliographies. A prolific poet, editor Michael Waters continues the careful selection process as A. Poulin's literary executor.
Author : Minnie Earl Sears,Marian Shaw,Dorothy Herbert West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic reference sources
ISBN : UVA:X004837791
Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately).
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2740 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111051640
Author : Wayne Dodd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0877452563
Meditations on mortality, modernity, and contemporary poetry, informed by the work of a large number of modern and postmodern poets. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Author : Jeremy P. Bushnell
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612193168
Literary fiction meets the otherworldly in this “wonderfully weird and entertaining” urban fantasy for Millennial fans of Victor LaValle (Esquire). “An utterly charming, silly, and heartily entertaining coming-of-age story about a man-boy who learns to believe in himself by reckoning with evil.” —Boston Globe What do you do when you wake up hung over and late for work only to find a stranger on your couch? And what if that stranger turns out to be an Adversarial Manifestation—like Satan, say—who has brewed you a fresh cup of fair-trade coffee? And what if he offers you your life’s goal of making the bestseller list if only you find his missing Lucky Cat and, you know, sign over your soul? If you’re Billy Ridgeway, you take the coffee.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781590304228
These warm, funny, and eloquent poems, spanning the years 2000 to 2005, by the celebrated author of Always Coming Home and The Language of the Night, showcase Le Guin’s many facets as a writer.
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author : David Wojahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0472052500
An impassioned consideration of the place of poetry--and the poet--in an ever-changing world
Author : Gregory Woods
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0300047525
Arguing that homosexual poetry is part of the mainstream of poetic writing--not a distinct and differentiated category within it--Gregory Woods provides a fastidious study of homosexual poetry in the twentieth century that emphasizes the homo-erotic themes in the works of D.H. Lawrence, Hart Crane, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, and Thom Gunn. Woods's controlled and elegant study demonstrates that a critic who ignores the sexual orientation of a poet, particularly a love poet, risks overlooking the significance of the poetry itself.
