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Author | : Stephen Adams |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997-04-07 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781551111292 |
There are numerous introductions to poetry and prosody available, but none at once so comprehensive and so accessible as this. With the increasing emphasis on free verse, the past generation has developed a widespread impression that the study of poetic meter is old fashioned—or even that form ‘doesn’t matter’ in poetry. It is an impression that has not been dispelled by the emphasis of some of the existing texts in the area on forms that are now rare or outmoded. The irony is that simultaneously in the past decade interest in formal matters among many poets and literary scholars has been on the increase; the reality is that prosody is today on the cutting edge of literary studies. Stephen Adams’ text provides a full treatment of traditional topics, from the iambic pentameter through other accentual-syllabic rhythms (trochaic, dactylic and so on) and covering as well other metrical types, stanza structure, the sonnet and other standard forms. Adams also includes a variety of topics not covered in most other introductions to the topic; perhaps most significantly, he provides a full chapter on form in free verse. Moreover, he treats rhyme extensively and includes a comprehensive chapter on literary figures. Poetic Designs is thus much more that an introduction to prosody; it is a concise but comprehensive introduction to the nature of poetry in English. It is a book for the general reader and the aspiring writer as well as for the student, a book intended (in the words of the author) to help ‘heighten the experience of poetry.’
Author | : Khadijah Queen |
Publisher | : Tin House Books |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 194779390X |
Colorado Book Awards Finalist for Poetry Shortlisted for the Reading the West Poetry Book Award The poems that make up Anodyne consider the small moments that enrapture us alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us to recognize the echoes of history that litter the landscape of our bodies as we navigate a complex terrain of survival and longing. With an intimate and multivocal dexterity, these poems acknowledge the simultaneous existence of joy and devastation, knowledge and ignorance, grief and love, endurance and failure—all of the contrast and serendipity that comes with the experience of being human. If the body is a world, or a metaphor for the world, for what disappears and what remains, for what we feel and what we cover up, then how do we balance fate and choice, pleasure and pain? Through a combination of formal lyrics, delicate experiments, sharp rants, musical litany, and moments of wit that uplift and unsettle, Queen’s poems show us the terrible consequences and stunning miracles of how we choose to live.
Author | : Moskalew |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004327932 |
Preliminary Material /Walter Moskalew -- Introduction /Walter Moskalew -- Repetition, Genre, and Style /Walter Moskalew -- Design and Texture /Walter Moskalew -- Patterns of Association /Walter Moskalew -- List of Repetitions /Walter Moskalew -- Bibliography /Walter Moskalew -- Index Locorum /Walter Moskalew.
Author | : Isabel Rivers |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134844174 |
Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.
Author | : Steve Twelvetree |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2004-05-01 |
Genre | : English poetry |
ISBN | : 9781844608119 |
Author | : Anne Ferry |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804757992 |
By Design is a study of instances of poets enacting literary history by the ways they use and alter key elements of earlier poems, sometimes the work of predecessors, sometimes their own poems, in order to create new designs.
Author | : Diana von Finck |
Publisher | : Königshausen & Neumann |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 9783826036521 |
Author | : Don Rubin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1136359214 |
This new in paperback edition of World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. Entries on twenty six countries are preceded by specialist introductions on Theatre in Post-Colonial Latin America, Theatres of North America, Puppet Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Music Theatre and Dance Theatre. The essays follow the series format, allowing for cross-referring across subjects, both within the volume and between volumes. Each country entry is written by specialists in the particular country and the volume has its own teams of regional editors, overseen by the main editorial team based at the University of York in Canada headed by Don Rubin. Each entry covers all aspects of theatre genres, practitioners, writers, critics and styles, with bibliographies, over 200 black & white photographs and a substantial index. This Encyclopedia is indispensable for anyone interested in the cultures of the Americas or in modern theatre. It is also an invaluable reference tool for students and scholars of a wide range of disciplines including history, performance studies, anthropology and cultural studies.
Author | : George Wharton James |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Basket making |
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Author | : Pierre Berloquin |
Publisher | : Union Square + ORM |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2010-11-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1402783779 |
An exploration of how codes—both cipher and aesthetic—have come to exist in history from Pythagoras through the Knights Templar to Turing and more. Did the Masons encode messages in walls—and even in the street plan of Washington, D.C.? Does the Hebrew Bible conceal hidden mysteries? Ingenious methods for encoding secrets have taken many amazing turns through the ages, from the military signals the Romans flashed from hilltop to hilltop, to the computer codes that guard your cash at the ATM. Pierre Berloquin, one of France’s leading puzzle book authors, takes you on a tour of them all in a book full of astonishing historical insights. With more than 150 brain-teasing problems for readers to solve for themselves, this is a journey beyond the gee-whiz and deep into the how-to of codes, ciphers, and other secret communication systems.