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The Art of Poetry
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 13.99Preface. 1. Word Choice. 2. Syntax and the Poetic Line. 3. Images: Simile and Metaphor. 4. Metaphor and the Sonnet. 5. The Sonnet. 6. Poetic Conventions. 7. More Verse Forms. 8. Personification. 9. Poetic Voice. 10. Gender and Poetic Voice. 11. Poetic Rhythm: Metric. 12. Poetic Rhythm: Sound and Rhyme. 13. Rhetoric: More Tropes. 14. Incomplete Figures... more...
Nobody's Nation
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 30.00Nobody's Nation offers an illuminating look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Paul Breslin argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian society since its emergence from colonial rule, its ill-fated attempt... more...
The Philosophy of Style
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 6.99Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent social theorist of the Victorian era. In his work The Philosophy of Style he argues that written language should be as easy to understand as possible, allowing for the most effective and efficient possible communication. His suggestions for sentence structure supported ideas on formalist rhetoric. more...
Asian American Poets
ABC-CLIO 2002; US$ 175.00Even though Asian American literature is enjoying an impressive critical popularity, attention has focused primarily on longer narrative forms such as the novel. And despite the proliferation of a large number of poets of Asian descent in the 20th century, Asian American poetry remains a neglected area of study. Poetry as an elite genre has not reached... more...
Professional Feature Writing
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 72.95"Professional Feature Writing" provides the basics of news media feature writing and establishes a solid foundation for students and writers making feature writing their career. This fifth edition offers a thorough and up-to-date look at newspaper, magazine, newsletter, and online publications, with emphasis on daily newspapers and consumer... more...
Schöne Lüge und verhüllte Wahrheit.
Duncker & Humblot 2010; US$ 62.55Hauptbeschreibung Komplexe Zusammenhänge bildlich auszudrücken, ist seit jeher ein menschliches Bestreben. Allegorie und Personifikation sind vor allem in der mittelalterlichen Literatur gängige Verfahren, um Wissen und abstrakte Sachverhalte zu konkretisieren und zu verkörpern. Gisela Seitschek klärt die Entwicklung allegorischer Literatur im Mittelalter... more...
Twentieth-Century Poetry
Routledge 1993; US$ 52.95This textbook, based on extensive teaching experience,makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analysing and evaluating literary texts. more...
International Who's Who in Poetry 2005
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 270.00The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming... more...
Inscription and Modernity
Indiana University Press 2006; US$ 19.95Inscription and Modernity charts the vicissitudes of inscriptive poetry produced in the midst of the great and catastrophic political, social, and intellectual upheavals of the late 18th to mid 20th centuries. Drawing on the ideas of Geoffrey Hartman, Perry Anderson, Fredric Jameson, and Jacques Rancière... more...
Poetic Creation
University of Minnesota Press 1980; US$ 67.50Myths of creativity have changed throughout Western literary history. The Romantic era cherished the idea of creativity as a spontaneous, unpremeditated act, closely related to improvisation. In the twentieth century the myth of the writer as a worker amo more...









