Author: J. V. CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804006712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Collected Essays of J. V. Cunningham
Author: J. V. CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804006712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
The Collected Essays of J. V. Cunningham
Author: James Vincent CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The Collected Poems of J.V. Cunningham
Author: James Vincent CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The Collected Essays of J.V. Conninham
Author: J. V. CunninghamIn Praise of the Impure
Author: Alan ShapiroPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810150287
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A collection of essays on the situation of poetry in contemporary American culture, from Shapiro's multiple perspectives as poet (four volumes), teacher of poetry (U. of North Carolina, Greensboro), and reader. A TriQuarterly book. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Example of J. V. Cunningham
Author: Henry TaylorThe Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel
Author: Charles J. ShieldsPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477320105
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee traces the life of National Book Award-winning novelist John Williams, author of the cult classic novel Stoner.
Masters and Slaves
Author: Michael PalmerPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739102770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This collection of essays sheds light on the writings of leading figures in the history of political philosophy by exploring a nexus of questions concerning mastery and slavery in the human soul. To this end, Masters and Slaves elucidates archetypal human alternatives in their import for political life: the philosopher and king; the lover of wisdom and the lover of glory; the king and the tyrant; and finally, the master and the slave. Palmer re-examines these ideas as a framework for achieving a deeper understanding of the work of famous thinkers--from the ancient to modern times--including Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Rousseau. As well, the book addresses distinctions between the 'ancients' and the 'moderns, ' and touches on the work of contemporary theorists such as Leo Strauss, George Parkin Grant, and Allan Bloom.
The Poet's Work
Author: Reginald GibbonsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226290549
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"This anthology brings together essays by 20th-century poets on their own art: some concern themselves with its deep sources and ultimate justifications; others deal with technique, controversies among schools, the experience behind particular poems. The great Modernists of most countries are presented here—Paul Valéry, Federico García Lorca, Boris Pasternak, Fernando Pessoa, Eugenio Montale, Wallace Stevens—as are a range of younger, less eminent figures from the English-speaking world: Seamus Heaney, Denise Levertov, Wendell Berry. . . . The reader will find here a lively debate over the individualistic and the communal ends served by poetry, and over other issues that divide poets: inspiration and craft; the use or the condemnation of science; traditional and 'organic' form."—Alan Williamson, New York Times Book Review
Shakespeare’s Tragic Art
Author: Rhodri LewisPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691246718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain world In Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it—of what drew him toward tragic drama, what makes his tragedies distinctive, and why they matter. After reconstructing tragic theory and practice as Shakespeare and his contemporaries knew them, Lewis considers in detail each of Shakespeare’s tragedies from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus. He argues that these plays are a series of experiments whose greatness lies in their author’s nerve-straining determination to represent the experience of living in a world that eludes rational analysis. They explore not just our inability to know ourselves as we would like to, but the compensatory and generally unacknowledged fictions to which we bind ourselves in our hunger for meaning—from the political, philosophical, social, and religious to the racial, sexual, personal, and familial. Lewis’s Shakespeare not only creates tragedies that exceed those written before them. Through his art, he also affirms and invigorates the kinds of knowing that are available to intelligent animals like us. A major reevaluation of Shakespeare’s tragedies, Shakespeare’s Tragic Art is essential reading for anyone interested in Shakespeare, tragedy, or the capacity of literature to help us navigate the perplexities of the human condition.