This book introduces the evocative but largely unknown tradition of Samaritan religious poetry from late antiquity to a new audience. These verses provide a unique window into the Samaritan religious world during a formative period. Prepared by Laura Suzanne Lieber, this anthology presents annotated English translations of fifty-five Classical ......
Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines investigates the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and determines the relationships of haiku with other arts, such as essay, painting, and music, as well as the backgrounds of haiku, such as literary movements, philosophies, and religions that underlie haiku composition.
Fernando Pessoa and the Lyric studies Pessoa's poetic theory and practice, emphasizing Livro do desassossego and the heteronymic drama, and discovers new approaches to reading and appreciating the lyric. A number of Pessoan concepts are examined in relation to different poets, yielding unprecedented results in comparative studies of poetry.
Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply
A revaluation of Frost's major lyrics, Robert Frost's Visionary Gift: Mining and Minding the Wonder of Unexpected Supply makes a case for Frost as America's preeminent philosophical poet. William F. Zak provides groundbreaking analysis to well over one hundred of Frost's lyrics.
Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Other Similars explores the work of prominent poets including Aristotle's epistemology enabling a depiction of sonnets and their similars and how temporality is key, by way of Augustine, to a comparative procedure that explores the closing features in sonnet-writing and in poems by American poets.
The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives places the suburbs firmly at the center of attention by focusing on those "places that thrive on disregard." By examining the suburbs across continental and cultural differences, this study shows how this liminal space also ushers in, albeit fleetingly, humane urbanity, or urban humanity.
Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives brings together creative literary works and scholarly articles. Both address the changes and challenges to identity formation in an Italy marked by the migrations, populism, nationalism, and xenophobia, and analyze diversity and the affirmation of belonging.
Drawing on the methods of textual and reception studies, book history, print culture research, and visual culture, this interdisciplinary study of James Thomson's The Seasons (1730) understands the text as marketable commodity and symbolic capital which throughout its extended affective presence in the marketplace for printed literary editions ......
The bilingual InVerse anthology collects the work of seventeen contemporary Italian poets. This is the eighth edition of the anthology, which provides a comprehensive and independent overview of the Italian poetic milieu.
