The Laughter Of Foxes

Author : Keith Sagar
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781387023

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The Laughter of Foxes by Keith Sagar Pdf

The Laughter of Foxes was the first study to be published after Hughes’ death, and therefore the first to survey the whole of Hughes’ achievement, including Birthday Letters. It contains a great deal of new information, including extracts from Hughes’ letters, and the first publication of the background story of Crow. There are chapters on the mythic imagination, on the poetic relationship of Hughes and Plath, and on the evolution of a Hughes poem through all its manuscript drafts. But the main purpose of the book is to attempt an adequate reading of Hughes’ poetry, revealing the underlying quest which transformed his imagination, leading him by painful stages from a vision of a world made of blood to a vision of a world made of light.

Author : Keith M. Sagar
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781846310119

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The Laughter of Foxes by Keith M. Sagar Pdf

A literary figure often overshadowed by his famed wife, Sylvia Plath, and their troubled marriage, Ted Hughes was a brilliant poet in his own right who wrote some of the most important British poetry of the twentieth century. The first in-depth study of Hughes’s personal papers published after his death, The Laughter of Foxes, is here offered in a newly revised second edition. An intimate yet critical survey of Hughes’s work, The Laughter of Foxes is penned by an acclaimed scholar and one of Hughes’ closest friends. Keith Sagar probes all aspects of the poet's life and work, delving into the specifics of his life as revealed by his writings and correspondence. A wide array of topics—including the mythic imagination, the poetic relationship between Plath and Hughes, and a detailed analysis of Hughes’s poem “A Dove Came” through its evolving drafts—reveals fascinating new avenues of literary and biographical analysis in Hughes’s work. Augmenting the rich text in this edition are excerpts of letters from Hughes to Sagar, a detailed chronology of Hughes’s life by Ann Skea, and the first publication of the story "Crow." Sagar also revisits his original introduction in this new edition, expanding it with additional insights into Hughes’s poetry as well as a detailed account of Hughes’s version of Euripedes’ Alcestis. A compelling study that the Daily Telegraph called “invaluable for anyone interested in Hughes’ work,” The Laughter of Foxes unearths the man behind the myth who struggled to transform his imaginative life from pain into hope.

Author : Keith Sagar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015043259897

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The Laughter of Foxes by Keith Sagar Pdf

This study surveys Hughes's entire achievement, including Birthday Letters. It contains a great deal of new information, including extracts from Hughes's letters, and the first publication of the background story of Crow. There are chapters on the mythic imagination, on the poetic relationship of Hughes and Plath, and on the evolution of a Hughes poem through all its manuscript drafts. However, the main purpose is to attempt an adequate reading of his poetry, revealing the underlying quest which transformed his imagination, leading him by painful stages from a vision of a world made of blood to a vision of a world made of light.

Author : Ryan Johnson
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785274350

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Transnationalism and Translation in Modern Chinese, English, French and Japanese Literatures by Ryan Johnson Pdf

The theory of “literary worlds” has become increasingly important in comparative and world literatures. But how are the often-contradictory elements of Eastern and Western literatures to cohere in the new worlds such contact creates? Drawing on the latest work in philosophical logic and analytic Asian philosophy, this monograph proposes a new model of literary worlds that is best suited to comparative literature dealing with Western and East Asian traditions. Unlike much discussion of world literature anchored in North American traditions, featured here is the transnational work of artists, philosophers, and poets writing in English, French, Japanese and Mandarin in the twentieth century. Rather than imposing sharp borders, this book suggests that vague boundaries link Eastern and Western literary works and traditions, and that degrees of distance can better help us to see the multiple dimensions that both distinguish and join together literary worlds East and West. As such, it enables us to grasp not only how East Asian and Western writers translate one another’s works into their own languages and traditions, but also how modern writers East and West modify their own traditions in order to make them fit in the new constellation of literary worlds brought about by the complex flow of literary information across twentieth-century Eurasia.

Author : Neil Roberts,Mark Wormald,Terry Gifford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319975740

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Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture by Neil Roberts,Mark Wormald,Terry Gifford Pdf

The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes’s proposition that ‘every child is nature’s chance to correct culture’s error.’ Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate relationships between the natural world and cultural environments — political, as well as geographical — which his work unsettles. Combining close readings of his encounters with animals and places, and explorations of the poets who influenced him, these essays reveal Ted Hughes as a writer we still urgently need. Hughes helps us manage, in his words, ‘the powers of the inner world and the stubborn conditions of the other world, under which ordinary men and women have to live’.

Author : Mark A. Fabrizi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004366251

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Horror Literature and Dark Fantasy by Mark A. Fabrizi Pdf

In Horror Literature and Dark Fantasy: Challenging Genres, more than a dozen scholars and teachers explore the pedagogical value of using horror literature in the classroom to teach critical literacy skills to students in secondary schools and higher education.

Author : M. Wormald,N. Roberts,Terry Gifford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137276582

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Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected by M. Wormald,N. Roberts,Terry Gifford Pdf

Including a previously unpublished poem by Ted Hughes, as well as new essays from Seamus Heaney and Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected offers fresh readings and newly available archival research, challenging established views about Hughes's speaking voice, study at Cambridge and the influence of other poets on Hughes's work.

Author : Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746310038

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Ted Hughes by Susan Bassnett Pdf

This new study of the work of Ted Hughes traces the stages of his development as a poet, from his powerful early collection, The Hawk in the Rain to his last award-winning translations. Hughes is seen as a complex, multi-faceted writer, a great poet in the tradition of English nature poetry, who also sought inspiration from international sources, ancient and modern. His lifelong concern for language and his use of mythology and history are explored, while his poetic achievements are examined in context, together with his writing for children and his experiments with forms of theatre.

Author : Joanny Moulin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135330637

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Ted Hughes by Joanny Moulin Pdf

This is the first collection of essays to be published since the poet's death. Continuing a tradition of more than thirty years of Ted Hughes studies, it gathers contributions by most of the major international Hughes scholars, voicing their critical preoccupations at the turn of the century. Over the years, academic criticism on the poetry of Ted Hughes has established some well-trodden paths, which this collection still strongly reflects, however, the productions of the latter Hughes, in poetry as well as in criticism, demand a revisiting of the critical discourse on his work. The biographical dimension, for instance, has gradually gathered momentum, and it is no longer possible to study the work of Ted Hughes without due reference to the life and work of Sylvia Plath. This book is, nonetheless, also motivated by the wish to bring some fresh blood to the Hughes studies by politely rocking the boat of a rather comfortably established critical reception that has prided itself on being the mouthpiece of the poet's own ideological discourse. For this reason, some of the chapters in this collection belong to a continental European tradition that is resolutely foreign to the former partisanships. For all that, Ted Hughes: Alternative Horizons suggests that steering clear of the polemical ruts dug by fans and detractors alike can only benefit the future of scholarly studies devoted to a great poet.

Author : Kathleen Connors,Sally Bayley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199233878

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Eye Rhymes by Kathleen Connors,Sally Bayley Pdf

Here is the first book to bring long-overdue attention to Sylvia Plath's surprisingly accomplished visual art and to place that art in relation to her literary career. Plath trained as a studio artist before her sophomore year at Smith and her work in tempera and watercolor paintings, pastels, ink, crayon and pencil drawings, and other media reveals a talent that both complements and illuminates her genius as a writer. Eye Rhymes brings together essays by six Plath scholars-including renowned authors Diane Middlebrook, Landgon Hammer and Christiana Britzolakis, book editors Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley, and Fan Jinghua-and contextualizes approximately sixty of Plath's visual works within her writing oeuvre, starting with juvenilia that reveal the extensive play between her two disciplines. Special attention is given to Plath's unpublished teen diaries and book reports containing drawings and early textual experiments, created years before her famous "I am I" diary notes of age seventeen, when critical examination of her writing usually begins. The book offers new critical approaches to the artist's multidimensional output, including writing that appropriates sophisticated visual and color effects years after painting and drawing became her hobby and writing her chosen profession. The essays gathered here also relate Plath's visual art interests to her early identity as a writer in Cambridge, her teen artwork and writing on war, mid-career "art poems" on the works of de Chirico, her representations of womanhood within mid-century commercial culture, and her visual aesthetics in poetry. Filled with stunning reproductions of her art and fresh readings of many of her most important poems, Eye Rhymes offers readers a new way of understanding the full range of Plath's creative expression.

Author : Leslie Austin
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481762205

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A Fox Called Woff by Leslie Austin Pdf

This is a fictional survival story about a young fox ripped from his family in a harsh mountain region. Unique obstacles from raging river rapids, cruel humans, chasing bloodhounds, bloodthirsty wolves, and hungry bears all offer challenges to conquer. Unexpected help comes in many unusual ways and strong bonds are formed along his path. This is a journey of growth through danger, love and faith. This perilous adventure awaits your vivid imagination. If you dare to enter into A Fox Called Woff's world! Heading straight towards the blood-thirsty lynx, thoughts start rambling around inside his brain. They bounce around his head faster than his legs are running. "What am I going to do? Am I going to fight him? Are they all dead? Am I crazy or is this just a dream? Where is Mom? We are all going to die?! No I must save them even if it means . . ." WHAM, Woff rams straight into the side of the grinning cat with a complete disregard for the safety of his own body.

Author : Sense
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600065000

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Sense and laughter, by the author of 'Story after story'. by Sense Pdf

Author : C.L. Stewart
Publisher : Fulton Books, Inc.
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781637104019

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The Phoenix and the War God by C.L. Stewart Pdf

Fall into the world of Aramanthia, a world of fairies, dragons, and shape shifters. Follow Rayna as she grows from an injured little Fox Fairy to a protector of the persecuted and exploited as the Blue Dragon Phoenix. While as a woman Rayna learns to be the Phoenix, she struggles to let go of Ryker, the man she loves, believing he could never love her in return. Ryker the War God struggles to suppress his love for Rayna, believing that she is not meant for him. Outside forces work to keep them apart as other forces draw them together. Can his hero's heart beat only for her?

Author : Terry Gifford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134384334

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Ted Hughes by Terry Gifford Pdf

For the first time, one volume surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth-century: Ted Hughes. This accessible guide to Hughes’ writing provides a rich exploration of the complete range of his works. In this volume, Terry Gifford: offers clear and detailed discussions of Hughes’ poetry, stories, plays, translations, essays and letters includes new biographical information, and previously unpublished archive material, especially on Hughes’ environmentalism provides a comprehensive account of Hughes’ critical reception, separated into the major themes that have interested readers and critics offers useful suggestions for further reading, and incorporates helpful cross-references between sections of the guide. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, Ted Hughes presents an accessible, fresh, and fascinating introduction to a major British writer whose work continues to be of crucial importance today.

Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828109

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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry by Neil Corcoran Pdf

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.