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Sordid Imagesby Steve Clark
Routledge 1994; US$ 150.00Examining a wide range of English poetry by men for evidence of the articulation of heterosexual masculine desire, Sordid Images will inspire its readers to look again at some of the cornerstone works of English literature. more...
Postcolonial Exoticby Graham Huggan
Routledge 2001; US$ 34.95Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis. more...
Intercultural Voices in Contemporary British Literatureby Lars Ole Sauerberg
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 130.00During the last decades of the twentieth century it has become increasingly difficult to consider British literature as 'national' or 'mainstream'. The book investigates contemporary fiction and poetry written in, or relating to, Britain and uncovers a distinct sense of a new and different national and social reality. Tracing literary effects of migration, globalization, and regionalization the book focuses on literary tradition as an inspiration or object of hate and frustration for the exploration and expression of post-Imperial experiences. more...
The Temple of Cultureby Jonathan Freedman
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 50.00Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was one of the most eminent and prolific psychologists of the 20th century. Over his long career he published a dozen books, including classics such as Childhood and Society; Identity, Youth, and Crisis; and Young Man Luther . He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1970 for his biography Gandhi's Truth. It was also in 1970, when he retired from Harvard University, that Erikson began to rethink his earlier theories of development. He became increasingly occupied with the conflicts and challenges of adulthood--a shift from his earlier writings on the "identity crises" of adolescence. For the past twenty years, Carol Hoare has written extensively on various aspects of Erikson's work. She has been... more...
The Routledge Anthology of Cross-gendered Verseby Alan Michael Parker; Mark Willhardt
Routledge 1996; US$ 39.95Poetry lovers will delight in this hugely enjoyable and enlightening collection of poems beginning in the age of Chaucer and ending in the present day. A valuable contribution to literary, gender and performance studies. more...
Chapters into Verse, Volume IIby Robert Atwan; Laurance Wieder
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 50.00From John Milton to D.H. Lawrence, poets have found creative inspiration in the Bible. This is part of a two-volume work which surveys poetic works inspired by religion in varied forms. It offers an unusual format which presents the original biblical passage alongside each poem. more...
A Century of Sonnetsby Paula R. Feldman; Daniel Robinson
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 30.00A striking reminder that some of the best-known and most well-respected poems of the Romantic era were sonnets, this work traces the sonnet revival in England from its beginning in the hands of Thomas Edwards to its culmination in the poetry of Elizabeth Barret Browning and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. more...
Middle English Poetry in Modern Verseby Joseph Glaser
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2007; US$ 9.95This rich and lively anthology offers a broad selection of Middle English poetry from about 1200 to 1500 C.E., including more than 150 secular and religious lyrics and nine complete or extracted longer works, all translated into Modern English verse that closely resembles the original forms. more...
The Poets' Cornerby John Lithgow
Grand Central Publishing 2007; US$ 9.99From listening to his grandmother recite epic poems from memory to curling up in bed while his father read funny verses, award-winning actor John Lithgow grew up with poetry. Ever since, John has been an enthusiastic seeker of poetic experience, whether reading, reciting, or listening to great poems. The wide variety of carefully selected poems in this book provides the perfect introduction to appeal to readers new to poetry, and for poetry lovers to experience beloved verses in a fresh, vivid way. William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Dylan Thomas are just a few names among Lithgow's comprehensive list of poetry masters. His essential criterion is that "each poem's light shines more brightly when read aloud." This unique... more...
Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishnessby Maren Tova Linett
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00An analysis of the cultural meanings of Jewishness in the work of Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and others. more...









