In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet, the author argues that Phillis Wheatley is the mother of liberation theology. The author uses Wheatley's poetry and life experiences to create a portrait of Wheatley beyond that of a poet. Wheatley is described as both poet and visionary who wrestles with God during the creative ......
This book explores Larkin's engagement with popular culture both as a threat to poetic authority and as a necessary form of cultural capital. It reveals the processes by which the social, contemporary, and politically charged practices of everyday life become the property of the cultured individual.
This work explores the troubledrelationship and unfinishedintellectual dialoguebetween Paul Celan, regardedby many as the most importantEuropean poet after1945, and Martin Heidegger,perhaps the most influentialfigure in twentieth-centuryphilosophy. It centers onthe persistent ambivalenceCelan, a Holocaust survivor,felt toward a thinker ......
Death, Eros, and Literary Enterprise in the Opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini
This collection examines the multifaceted opus of Pier Paolo Pasolini through a contemporary critical lens. It offers new interpretations to some classic works such as Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom and Decameron while considering some lesser studied pieces, for example Orestiade and his Friulian verse.
As a naive and innocent young man, Parzival encounters a group of noble knights in the forest. Overcome by the leading knight's shining armour, he assumes that the man must be a God. This key turning point in Parzival's life inspires him to seek to become a knight himself, and immediately he embarks upon a quest to find King Arthur's court and ......
On Dwelling explores the meaning of dwelling in places where we humans live and work-from our homes to the very planet we co-inhabit. Crossing boundaries and disciplines, it lays the groundwork for addressing place-based issues like migration, ethnic division, resource use, and human-caused peril to the earth itself.
The doll in Julie Cevalier's story leads a new brigade of commentators - arbiters of the writing that estabished authors are turning to, and new writers keep inventing. Their wry acquiescence in the quaint ways of the 3rd Millennium makes for a collection which is hard to put down.
