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Poet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne Kyger addresses the work of poet Joanne Kyger from a variety of approaches, from her first book The Tapestry and the Web (1965) to her last major work On Time (2015), situating her within various movements of 20th century American poetry.
Marianne Moore and the Archives features new archival research to explore the work of a major American modernist poet, providing innovative approaches to Moore's career as it is documented in her archives in Philadelphia. This volume is also the first that draws upon the Marianne Moore Digital Archive (MMDA).
2023 marks 400 years since the death of English renaissance composer, William Byrd. Byrd's rich musical oeuvre and storied career has long captured the attention of audiences and scholars alike. This all-new collected edition marks his anniversary with thirteen brand-new essays from leading scholars on Byrd's musical life and legacy.
"Imagining Musical Pasts considers the ways early twentieth-century musicologists Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson approached gender and sexuality in their scholarly and creative work. This book explores the place of musicology as literature, as well as the role of gossip and speculation in constructing queer music histories"--
"This study explores Mahler's songs based on poetry from an 1805 collection of German folk poetry entitled Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Alte deutsche Lieder, collected by Arnim and Brentano, and identifies the connections the composer found between these products of Germany's folk past and his own cultural, social and political environments"--
Analyzing a number of important works from influential poets drawn from the Late Modernist period (ca. 1930-1970), this book demonstrates how the fresh insights provided by New Materialism can inform our thinking about poetry. This fresh theoretical perspective challenges longstanding assumptions about our anthropocentric worldview.
"As the first scholarly treatment of the relationship between Beat writers and the academy, this book will open exciting new directions in the field of Beat Studies and will reshape our understanding of the historical tensions between the Beats and higher education"--
Poetry as Theology in Eliot Stevens and Joyce. Religion has become suspect in literary studies, often for good reason, as it has becomeassociated with reactionary politics and outdated codified beliefs.nbsp In iModernist Reformations Poetry as Theology in Eliot, Stevens, and Joyce/i, the author demonstrates how three high modernist writers work to reform religious experience for an age dominated by the extremes of radical skepticism and dogmatic rigidity. The author offers new and provocative readings of these well-studied writers Joyce and Stevens are usually considered purely secular, and the Eliot in this book
This essay collection explores the inextricable link between rhetoric, public memory, and campus history projects. Since the early twentieth century after Brown University appointed its Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, higher education institutions around the globe have launched initiatives to research, document, and share their connections to slavery and its legacies. Many of these explorations have led to investigations about the rhetorical nature of campus history projects, including the names of buildings, the installation of monuments, the publication of books, the production of resolutions, and the hosting of
vol 2 Yeatss Writings. This book is itself a resource to enable scholars and students in Yeats studies to explore the materials in his library, which, together with most of his unpublished papers and manuscripts, forms part of the writers archive in the National Library, and all are available for consultation. This book could not have been written without the generous participation of the Yeats family over many years. Their legacy, now entrusted to the National Library, is robust and endless in potential. This book is about individual cases but also the building of an ioeuvre/i.In short, this book enriches our understanding
"The essays in Locating Milton examine Milton's works as the product of the intellectual and experiential influences Milton encountered, while also tracing the ways in which those works themselves express their influence. The volume explores how Milton locates himself within intellectual traditions, and how others locate him"--
"Using the paradox of freedom and confinement to frame the ways travel represented both opportunity and restriction for African Americans, Freedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination from post Reconstruction (ca. 1877) to the present"--
"American Modern(ist) Epic argues that a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the United States according to modern, diverse, and pluralistic grounds. These modern(ist) epic novels undermined and revised the foundational ideology of the United States, modernizing the epic form in an effort to refound the nation"--
This volume addresses the integration of Beat authors, texts, and themes into formal academic settings. Addressed to secondary and post secondary instructors, the book features six domains: 1) Foundational Issues, 2) Beat Literary Genres, 3) Beat Literary Topics, 4) Beat Lineages and Legacies, 5) Selected Resources, and 6) Sample Assignments.
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