Gerard Brault's 1984 student edition of La Chanson de Roland has become a standard text in classrooms. It contains the text and translation from his 1978 analytical edition along with an introduction illuminating the poem's historical and literary background and significance. This new revised edition contains a new preface and makes significant ......
The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes's work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry. Comparing Hughes's poems to blues texts, Tracy reveals how Hughes's experimental forms reflect the ......
Lawrence Durrell's Poetry offers an in-depth analysis of Lawrence Durrell's entire poetic opus, from his early collections in the 1940s up to his last one published in 1973. Thirty years of Durrellian poetry are brought together in order to unveil the genesis of Durrell's writing, both poetic and fictional.
Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. The author argues that Moore's engagement with haiku and his prolific publication history solidify haiku as an established form in African American poetry.
When writers speak out on divisive issues, they may influence what we believe, and can affect the way we think. This volume is full of writing chosen to draw you in to positions of involvement - on issues like war, race, asylum seekers, deviant behaviour and the many forms of exploitation.
Longfellow's Imaginative Engagement is a literary biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from 1861 until 1882. Using archival materials from Harvard's Houghton Library and Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, the book presents Longfellow's final two decades as a vibrant artistic period.
The prestigious writing program at UTS produces this year's voices that echo the difficulty and frailty of human relations. There are short stories, plays and poems about the world of tattoo artists, abour fiery love and chillies, about the dark comforting numbness of the deep sea and much more.
How did Byron become ''Byron''? In Lord Byron at Harrow School: Speaking Out, Talking Back, Acting Up, Bowing Out, Paul Elledge locates one origin of the poet's personae in the dramatic recitations young Byron performed at Harrow School. This is the first book-length scholarly examination of the four critically formative years of Byron's public ......
