Humanities  /  Language & Literature
Lorca's Poet in New York Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780813151830
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
Description:
Written in 1929--1930, when Federico García Lorca was visiting Columbia University, Poet in New York stands as one of the great Waste Land poems of the 20th century. It expresses, as Betty Jean Craige writes in this volume,"a sudden radical estrangement of the poet from his universe" -- an an estrangement graphically delineated in the dissonant, violent imagery which the poet derives from the technological world of New York.Craige here describes -- through close analysis of the structure, style, and themes of individual works in Poet in New York -- the chaos into which this world plunges the poet, and the process whereby he is able, gradually, to recover his identity with the regenerative forces of nature.
Love and Remembrance Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780813152059
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
Description:
Jorge Manrique was the greatest poet of fifteenth-century Castile and one of the three or four greatest in Spanish literature. Frank A. Domínguez offers here an introduction to Manrique's poetry and the first book-length study of him in English in fifty years.
Loving Arms Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780813160108
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
Loving Arms examines the war-related writings of five British women whose works explore the connections among gender, war, and story-telling. While not the first study to relate the subjects of gender and war, it is the first within a growing body of criticism to focus specifically on British culture during and after World War II.Evoking the famous "St.
Magic in the Web Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780813152530
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
In his earlier work on King Lear, Mr. Heilman combined a number of critical procedures to form a new and important approach to Shakespearian criticism. His study of Othello displays the maturity of insight and skill in analysis the years have brought him in developing his critical method.
Mark Twain and the Bible Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780813151939
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
Mark Twain enthusiasts will welcome this study of the great writer's attitude toward the Bible -- and of the influence of Holy Writ upon both the man and the artist. While the theological beliefs of Twain have been well documented, Mr. Ensor's study is the first to consider only his familiarity with the Bible and the extensive use of it in his writings.
Milton's Ontology, Cosmogony, and Physics Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 242
ISBN: 9780813151878
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
Walter Clyde Curry, a well-known student of Milton, analyzes the origins and unique construction of the grand stage upon which Milton presents the drama of human destiny in Paradise Lost. Through close examination of four entities -- Heaven of Heavens, Hell, chaos, and the World -- a greatly expanded view is provided of the poet's concept of space and God's relation to total creation. In facing structural and philosophical problems Milton is shown to be neither a materialist, nor an eclectic, nor a pantheist, as many scholars have insisted; he emerges rather as a master syncretist of widely divergent materials and as a devout theopantist.
Naturalism in American Fiction Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780813151762
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
In this closely reasoned study, John J. Conder has created a new and more vital understanding of naturalism in American literature. Moving from the Hobbesian dilemma between causation and free will down through Bergson's concept of dual selves, Conder defines a view of determinism so rich in possibilities that it can serve as the inspiration of literary works of astonishing variety and unite them in a single, though developing, naturalistic tradition in American letters.
Nineteenth-Century Southern Literature Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780813154404
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
Few inhabitants of the South in 1800 thought of it as a "region" or of themselves as "southerners." In time, the need to defend the entire southern way of life became obsessive for many writers, too often precluding efforts at originality in form or style. Especially after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, southern identity and southern nationalism emerged as the grand themes, and literature became subservient to regional interests.
Partisans of the Southern Press Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780813160115
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
Carl R. Osthaus examines the southern contribution to American Press history, from Thomas Ritchie's mastery of sectional politics and the New Orleans Picayune's popular voice and use of local color, to the emergence of progressive New South editors Henry Watterson, Francis Dawson, and Henry Grady, who imitated, as far as possible, the New Journalism of the 1880s. Unlike black and reform editors who spoke for minorities and the poor, the South's mainstream editors of the nineteenth century advanced the interests of the elite and helped create the myth of southern unity.
Perspectives on Contemporary Literature Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 116
ISBN: 9780813152493
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
In all parts of the world and in every age, many of the greatest works of literature have been shaped or inspired by the swirl of historical events. The wars, holocausts, and mushroom clouds of our own era haunt the pages of many twentieth-century writers; events of the past, even the remote past, also inspire many authors, though their work is contemporary in every way. And if we agree with the poet Czeslaw Milosz that "historicity may reveal itself in a detail of architecture, in the shaping of a landscape," we come to recognize that our understanding of a given poem or novel can often be deepened by a reading from this point of view.
Perspectives on Contemporary Literature Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780813152509
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
Today's music, painting, and film share with literature in the development of a new aesthetic, even as these other arts influence (and are influenced by) literary themes and structures. And at the same time the music and art of the past continue to re-echo in twentieth-century letters.The thirteen essays gathered here open a fine and varied view of the ways in which contemporary literature interacts with the other arts.
Perspectives on Max Frisch Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780813160092
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
Max Frisch, with his countryman Friederich Diirrenmatt, shares the place of eminence in contemporary Swiss literature. Indeed, he ranks high among the recent leading writers in the German language. But, although several of his works -- novels and plays -- have been translated into English, he remains little known in America.
Professional Playwrights Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780813151670
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
The most neglected of the English Renaissance playwrights are the major Carolines -- Philip Massinger, John Ford, James Shirley, and Richard Brome. Writing in the 1620s and 1630s, always in the shadow of their great precursors, Shakespeare and Jonson, they have often been dubbed mere purveyors of slick, escapist sensationalism who avoided the great issues of their day and turned away from the impending breakdown of English society. Ira Clark's revisionist book shows us these dramatists and their time whole, particularly through analysis of their treatment of sociopolitical issues -- issues that find echoes in twentieth-century concerns.
Quests of Difference Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780813150901
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
In this eminently readable book, G. Douglas Atkins continues the efforts undertaken in Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading to open eighteenth-century texts to the insights of recent critical theory. Through close readings of most of Pope's major poems, Atkins demonstrates how the powerful theoretical movement known as deconstruction enriches, challenges, and significantly modifies our understanding of the work of the greatest poet of the eighteenth century.
Rappaccini's Children Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780813154824
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Description:
Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Rappaccini's Daughter" tells of a beautiful girl who has, from birth, absorbed the poison from the flowers of her father's garden. In this allegorical tale of the fallen Garden of Eden, William H. Shurr finds a metaphor for the fate of many American writers, for whom the heritage of calvinism has been the poisoned fruit of the Garden of the New World.
Religious Rite and Ceremony in Milton's Poetry Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780813154541
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
Milton, the arch-Puritan and outspoken critic of the stereotyped rituals of the established churches, has been regarded by most scholars as a writer who is unlikely to have employed liturgical materials in his poetry. Thomas B. Stroup shows to the contrary that Milton made extensive use of Christian liturgy not only as material within the body of his poems but also as a force in shaping them.