The Laughter of Foxes (Liverpool English Texts and Studies, #38)
by Keith Sagar
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 whi...
This remarkable book details the work of one of the most extraordinary publishing enterprises in history. Censor-baiting, provocative, simultaneous publisher of the literary elite and of 'dirty books', Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press published Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Lawrence Durrell, D. H. Lawrence, and James Joyce among others. At the same time Kahane subsidised his literary endeavours with cheap erotica and trash fiction from long-forgotten eccentrics such as New York Daily News' Rome correspond...
The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five v...
Employing a wide range of interpretive and theoretical approaches, this collection brings together distinguished James scholars from four continents to elicit new and exciting readings of a diverse array of James's fiction and non-fiction. Through their transformative acts, the essays investigate James's life-long engagement with cities, places, and tourist sites; offer theoretically informed readings of his work's textual richness; and explore his intricate involvement with social and cultural...
Q. How did the Zoosters feel when they got on the circus train? A. Chuffed! The Zoosters and their circus friends will have you howling with laughter when you read this totally bonkers book. As well as jokes, there are animal anagrams, fun-tastic facts and some silly circus songs to make you smile!
This study focuses on techniques of romance characterization and, through stylistic analysis, compares speech characteristics of parallel characters in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Philip Sidney's New Arcadia, and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
James Orr, Poet and Irish Radical (Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution, #5)
by Carol Baraniuk
James Orr (1770-1816) was the foremost of the Ulster Weaver poets. He wrote in both Scots and English and has been favourably compared to his near contemporary Robert Burns. A radical and a lifelong supporter of the Society of United Irishmen, Orr took part in the Rebellion of 1798, after which he fled for a period of self-imposed exile in America. Baraniuk looks at Orr's life and work, examining the changing social, political and theological context of his writing and reassessing his contributi...
Poetry & the Dictionary (Poetry &..., #8)
Poetry is an ancient verbal art, which has its roots in the oral epics and fragments that survive from classical times. Dictionaries of English, by contrast, are a comparatively recent phenomenon, beginning with the 'hard words' that Robert Cawdrey gathered in A Table Alphabeticall in 1604 and extending to the present edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, with its ongoing revisions. This innovative collection of essays is the first volume to explore the ways in which dictionaries have stim...
Virginia Woolf Volume 4 (Critical and Primary Sources)
The Antimodernism of Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (Irish Studies)
by Weldon Thornton
In this study of Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man", the author considers the important psychological and cultural issues arising in the novel. He argues that although "Portrait" may be a classic text of literary modernism, it is a fundamentally antimodernist work. To demonstrate this reading, Thornton first provides three contexts for reading the novel: the issue of defining modernism, especially the philosophical roots and implications of the modernist view of the self; Joyce's li...
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays (Shakespeare's Plays) (Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama)
by William Hazlitt
The critic, essayist and painter William Hazlitt (1778-1830) published and lectured widely on English literature, from Elizabethan drama to reviews of the latest work of his own time. His first extended work of literary criticism was Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, published in 1817. This volume from 1908 takes the text of the first edition and adds notes explaining complex terms to readers and an introduction by J. H. Lobban, a lecturer in English at Birkbeck College. As such it is the ideal...
Middle English Texts in Transition: A Festschrift Dedicated to Toshiyuki Takamiya on His 70th Birthday