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Author: Rodney Stenning Edgecombe Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443806498 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 252
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Whereas Thomas Hood has long been regarded as a minor comic poet, this book--the first to devote itself exclusively to his verse--provides a detailed analysis of two "serious" poems ("Hero and Leander" and "The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies") so as to give a better sense of his range. Most commentators have pointed to the influence of Keats on such occasions, but close examination reveals an even greater debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, whose sometimes playful deployment of the conceit struck a chord in his sensibility. At the same time, the book gives Hood's comic genius its due, supplying detailed accounts of the deftness and panache of his light-hearted oeuvre. One chapter examines his excursion into the mock-heroic mode (Odes and Addresses to Great People), and another his reliance on that airiest of forms, the capriccio (Whims and Oddities). The study concludes with an extensive examination of "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg," showing how Hood was here able to inflect a jeu d'esprit with a fine Juvenalian passion.
Author: Rodney Stenning Edgecombe Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443806498 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
Whereas Thomas Hood has long been regarded as a minor comic poet, this book--the first to devote itself exclusively to his verse--provides a detailed analysis of two "serious" poems ("Hero and Leander" and "The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies") so as to give a better sense of his range. Most commentators have pointed to the influence of Keats on such occasions, but close examination reveals an even greater debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, whose sometimes playful deployment of the conceit struck a chord in his sensibility. At the same time, the book gives Hood's comic genius its due, supplying detailed accounts of the deftness and panache of his light-hearted oeuvre. One chapter examines his excursion into the mock-heroic mode (Odes and Addresses to Great People), and another his reliance on that airiest of forms, the capriccio (Whims and Oddities). The study concludes with an extensive examination of "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg," showing how Hood was here able to inflect a jeu d'esprit with a fine Juvenalian passion.
Author: John Medeiros Publisher: ISBN: 9780996195270 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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"Self, Divided is an immersive journey to the self's 'true north' against the backdrop of identical twinship, growing up working class, coming out, and living with HIV/AIDS. Captivating not only for Medeiros's evocative lyricism, but also for his original and imaginative use of narrative space, his quest to create an identity all his own is a sad, funny, and memorable story of growth against the odds, written in the language of hard-won victory."-Brian Malloy, author of The Year of Ice and After FrancescoSelf, Divided is an amazing memoir that speaks to an ongoing, significant, international public health concern-the AIDS pandemic-through a lens that is both personal and universal. The author, a gay man living with AIDS who has an identical twin brother who is both heterosexual and HIV negative, participates in an experimental gene therapy treatment in which he is infused with ten billion of his brother's genes. Happening as it does thirty years into Medeiros's life, it punctuates a moment of self-discovery even as it forever melds the two brothers. Lyrical and impressionistic, the memoir portrays life in the urban, working class, Portuguese immigrant neighborhoods of Providence, and includes an indelible cast of family members, teachers, friends, and lovers. Self, Divided speaks to the paradox of being both an individual and a part of someone else's identity-an identical twin-brilliantly capturing how we are always connected, in one way or another, to others around us
Author: S. Haines Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230376851 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 287
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Shelley's detractors since Hazlitt have noticed a division in the 'self' of his poems. A central reasoning core fears the passions surrounding it and distrusts the language expressing it. A few of his admirers offer an alternative view of the poems as symbolical pointers to a non-linguistic reality transcending passion; most miss the point, justifying their admiration by referring to the poems' systems of thought. This reading of Shelley's major poems and critical prose finds the adverse case more convincing.
Author: Carla Lonzi Publisher: SCB Distributors ISBN: 1739843193 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 430
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Recorded and transcribed throughout the 1960s, Carla Lonzi's Self-portrait ruptures the linear tradition of art-historical writing. Lonzi first abolishes the role of the critic, her own, seeking change over self-preservation by theorising against the act of theorising. This is the voice of feminist experimentalism in Italian art and literature, and here Lonzi speaks for herself in English. Self-portrait montages her verbatim conversations with fourteen prominent artists working at the time, all men except one. Lonzi's vital feeling that it was impossible to respond professionally to the political and existential problems embedded in the production and distribution of artworks drives the book's contingent structure. Artmaking struck Lonzi as the invitation to be together in a humanly satisfying way. This first English translation brings Lonzi's final work of criticism before her break with 'art' to an international audience. Her uncompromising enactment and pragmatic drop-out discontinues the narration of postwar modern art in Italy and beyond.
Author: Lara Vapnyar Publisher: Tin House Books ISBN: 1947793519 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 300
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A New York Times Editor’s Choice As a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just found out that her mother is dying. Nothing is adding up. With humor, intelligence, and unfailing honesty, Katya traces back her life’s journey: her childhood in Soviet Russia, her parents’ great love, the death of her father, her mother’s career as a renowned mathematician, and their immigration to the United States. She is, by turns, an adrift newlywed, an ESL teacher in an office occupied by witches and mediums, a restless wife, an accomplished writer, a flailing mother of two, a grieving daughter, and, all the while, a woman caught up in the most common misfortune of all—falling in love. Award-winning author Lara Vapnyar delivers an unabashedly frank and darkly comic tale of coming of age in middle age. Divide Me by Zerois almost unclassifiable—a stylistically original, genre-defying mix of classic Russian novel, American self-help book, Soviet math textbook, sly writing manual, and, at its center, a universal story with unforgettable lessons for us all.
Author: Gary William Crawford Publisher: ISBN: 9780910151047 Category : Languages : en Pages : 11
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A book of truly bizarre and fascinating horror poems. . . Highly recommended. --Dumars Reviews. A succession of nightmares and ruminations ... stemming from a soul tortured beyond human imagination. --Star*Line150 copies of this book have been printed, of which this is number 124.
Author: Rodney Stenning Edgecombe
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