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Sallies, romps, portraits, and send-offs : selected prose, 2000-2016
\"Sixteen years' worth of incisive essays by the great poet and memoirist \"Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler\" (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years' worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts about great poets and bad poets, about kvetching fiction writers and homicidal musicians, about eccentric critics and discerning nobodies, always with insight and humor, and never suffering fools gladly. Here, in Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs, August Kleinzahler eulogizes famous friends, warts and all (Thom Gunn, Christopher Middleton, Leonard Michaels); leads the charge in carving up a few bloated reputations (E.E. Cummings, Richard Brautigan); and sings the praises of unjustly neglected masters (Lucia Berlin, Kenneth Cox). He also turns the spotlight on himself in several short, delightful memoirs, covering such subjects as his obsessive CD collecting, the eerie effects of San Francisco fog, and the terrible duty of selling of his childhood home.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dangerous bodies
Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. The book provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and Nosferatu. This collection of fictionalised dangerous bodies is traced back to the effects of the English Reformation, Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, Caribbean slavery, Victorian medical malpractice, European anti-Semitism and finally warfare, ranging from the Crimean up to the Vietnam War. The endangered or dangerous body lies at the centre of the clash between victim and persecutor and has generated tales of terror and narratives of horror, which function to either salve, purge or dangerously perpetuate such oppositions. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to academics and students of Gothic studies, gender and film studies and especially to readers interested in the relationship between history and literature.
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Worlds of written discourse : a genre-based view
\"This book addresses this theme from the perspectives of four rather different worlds: the world of reality, the world of private intentions, and world of analysis and the world of applications.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Monstrous media/spectral subjects : imaging gothic from the nineteenth century to the present
Monstrous media/spectral subjects explores the intersection of monsters, ghosts, representation and technology in Gothic texts from the nineteenth century to the present. It argues that emerging media technologies from the phantasmagoria and magic lantern to the hand-held video camera and the personal computer both shape Gothic subjects and in turn become Gothicised.
In a collection of essays that ranges from the Victorian fiction of Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker and Richard Marsh to the music of Tom Waits, world horror cinema and the TV series Doctor Who, this book finds fresh and innovative contexts for the study of Gothic. Combining essays by well-established and emerging scholars, it should appeal to academics and students researching both Gothic literature and culture and the cultural impact of new technologies.
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The Virago book of women gardeners
From diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of The Making of an English Country Garden and Favourite Flowers , has collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, to create a book that is replete with anecdotes and good-humoured advice.
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Women and the Gothic
This collection of newly commissioned essays brings together major scholars in the field of Gothic studies in order to re-think the topic of 'Women and the Gothic'.
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Liberty of the Imagination
InLiberty of the Imagination, Edward Cahill uncovers the surprisingly powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination-philosophical ideas about aesthetic pleasure, taste, genius, the beautiful, and the sublime-on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth century. Far from being too busy with politics and commerce or too anxious about the morality of pleasure, American writers consistently turned to ideas of the imagination in order to comprehend natural and artistic objects, social formations, and political institutions. Cahill argues that conceptual tensions within aesthetic theory rendered it an evocative language for describing the challenges of American political liberty and confronting the many contradictions of nation formation. His analyses reveal the centrality of aesthetics to key political debates during the colonial crisis, the Revolution, Constitutional ratification, and the advent of Jeffersonian democracy. Exploring the relevance of aesthetic ideas to a range of literary genres-poetry, novels, political writing, natural history writing, and literary criticism-Cahill makes illuminating connections between intellectual and political history and the idiosyncratic formal tendencies of early national texts. In doing so,Liberty of the Imaginationmanifests the linguistic and intellectual richness of an underappreciated literary tradition and offers an original account of the continuity between Revolutionary writing and nineteenth-century literary romanticism.
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On voice in poetry : the work of animation
\"What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice' - from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us - to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself. His study encompasses renaissance lyrics and concrete poetry, analyses of metre and discussions of technological treatments of voice, and radical and far-reaching readings of Augustine, Baudelaire, Derrida, Hopkins and Kristeva alongside contemporary poets such as Sean Bonney, Lisa Robertson, and John Wilkinson. It places voice at the crux of debates including political representation through rhythm and melody, the 'origin' of languages and the psychology of language acquisition. Throughout, this informs a reflection on how sounds come to have meaning, and on the ways in which we articulate ourselves as subjects\"-- Provided by publisher.
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How Russian Literature Became Great
How Russian Literature Became Great
explores the cultural and political role of a modern
national literature, orchestrated in a Slavonic key but resonating
far beyond Russia's borders.
Rolf Hellebust investigates a range of literary tendencies,
philosophies, and theories from antiquity to the present: Roman
jurisprudence to German Romanticism, French Enlightenment to Czech
Structuralism, Herder to Hobsbawm, Samuel Johnson to Sainte-Beuve,
and so on. Besides the usual Russian suspects from Pushkin to
Chekhov, Hellebust includes European writers: Byron and Shelley,
Goethe and Schiller, Chateaubriand and Baudelaire, Dante,
Mickiewicz, and more.
As elsewhere, writing in Russia advertises itself via a canon of
literary monuments constituting an atemporal \"ideal order among
themselves\" (T.S. Eliot). And yet this is a tradition that could
only have been born at a specific moment in the golden
nineteenth-century age of historiography and nation-building. The
Russian example reveals the contradictions between immutability and
innovation, universality and specificity at the heart of modern
conceptions of tradition from Sainte-Beuve through Eliot and down
to the present day.
The conditions of its era of formation-the prominence of the
crucial literary-historical question of the writer's social
function, and the equation of literature with national
identity-make the Russian classical tradition the epitome of a
unified cultural text, with a complex narrative in which competing
stories of progress and decline unfold through the symbolic
biographical encounters of the authors who constitute its members.
How Russian Literature Became Great thus offers a new
paradigm for understanding the paradoxes of modern tradition.
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