Author: Wallace StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Author: Wallace StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
British Book News
Author: Ekphrasis in American Poetry
Author: Sandra Lee KleppePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443885061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Ekphrasis in American Poetry: The Colonial Period to the 21st Century provides a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of ekphrastic poetry, or poetry that engages in various ways with different types of visual art, including pictographs, paintings, moving panoramas, daguerreotypes, photographs, landscape, and more. The volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and that as many American men as women have produced work in this genre. The book opens with an overview chapter followed by an examination of American ekphrastic poems during the formative Colonial period where Europe, Africa, and Indigenous America met in encounters that are depicted in art and literature. It closes with two chapters on Native American poetry that consider how American landscapes serve as ekphrastic prompts for personal and collective experiences. In between are contributions on men and women poets and artists who have engaged with ekphrasis in a variety of ways from different periods. As such, American ekphrasis emerges as a genre that has implications far beyond the Eurocentric versions of the canon that have hitherto been discussed in the critical literature on the topic.
Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Antoinina Bevan ZlatarPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027258449
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The essays collected in this volume engage in a conversation among lexicography, the culture of the book, and the canonization and commemoration of English literary figures and their works in the long eighteenth century. The source of inspiration for each piece is Allen Reddick’s scholarship on Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great English lexicographer whose Dictionary (1755) included thousands upon thousands of illustrative quotations from the “best” authors, and, more recently, on Thomas Hollis (1720-1774), the much less well-known bibliophile who sent gifts of books by a pantheon of Whig authors to individuals and libraries in Britain, Protestant bastions in continental Europe, and America. Between the covers of Words, Books, Images readers will encounter canonical English authors of prose and poetry—Bacon, Milton, Defoe, Dryden, Pope, Richardson, Swift, Byron, Mary Shelley, and Edward Lear. But they will also become acquainted with the agents of their canonization and commemoration—the printers and publishers of Grub Street, the biographer John Aubrey, the lexicographer and biographer Johnson, the bibliophile Hollis, and the portrait painter Reynolds. No less crucially, they will meet fellow readers of then and now—women and men who peruse, poach, snip, and savour a book’s every word and image.
Retrospection and Revision in Modern and Contemporary Art, Literature and Music
Author: Mette GieskesPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031395980
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own, engaging in inventive revivals and transformations of the past in the present. The book is distinctive in its focus on such revisits, as well as in the diversity of art forms under review: in addition to visual art, the book explores fiction, poetry, literary criticism, film, rock music, and philosophy. This scope, together with the time-span covered in the book, from the 1850s to the twenty-first century, allows for a broad view on retrospection and revision. The case studies presented here offer a multifaceted exploration of the widely different goals to which practitioners of the arts have made retrospection and revision functional against the background of cultural, social, political, and personal forces.
The Poem of the Mind
Author: Louis Lohr MartzPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
the Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
Author: Wallace Stevens Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux
Author: Ann MoseleyPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496200640
Category : Modernism (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Neon Vernacular
Author: Yusef KomunyakaaPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819574538
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This Pulitzer Prize–winning collection pairs twelve new poems with work from seven previous volumes by “one of the most extraordinary poets writing today” (Kenyon Review). The poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa traverses psychological and physical landscapes, mining personal memory to understand the historical and social contexts that shape experience. Neon Vernacular charts the development of his characteristic themes and concerns by gathering work from seven of his previous collections, along with a dozen new poems that continue the autobiographical trajectory of his previous collection, Magic City. Here, Komunyakaa shares an intimate and evocative life journey, from his childhood in Bogalusa, Louisiana—once a center of Klan activity and later a focus of Civil Rights efforts—to his stormy relationship with his father, his high school football days, and his experience of the Vietnam War and his difficult return home. Many of the poems collected here are drawn from limited editions and are no longer available.
The Palm at the End of the Mind
Author: Wallace StevensPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307791858
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This selection of works by Wallace Stevens--the man Harold Bloom has called “the best and most representative American poet”--was first published in 1967. Edited by the poet's daughter Holly Stevens, it contains all the major long poems and sequences, and every shorter poem of lasting value in Stevens' career, including some not printed in his earlier Collected Works. Included also is a short play by Stevens, "Bowl, Cat and Broomstick."