"Since the earliest days, " writes Richard Chase in this classic study, "the American novel, in its most original and characteristic form, has worked out its destiny and defined itself by incorporating an element of romance." In his detailed study of works by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark ...
Critics have said that Emily Dickinson has no heirs, that her poetry represents the zenith of the experimental method she developed in the mid-nineteenth century. Thomas Gardner disagrees. In this original study, he takes up conversation with four contemporary writers in whose work he finds an extension or expansion of Dickinson's literary legacy. ...
"Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. " Many of the illustrious contributors to "The New York Review of Books" have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. "The Company They Kept" is a collection of ...
Twenty-eight contemporary American poets reflect on the poems that have most influenced their own creative vision and offer their best new works in this examination of poetic expression. Each entry includes a new poem from the author, the text of a poem or poems that particularly influenced the development of the new poem, and an essay about that ...
The Greek poetry of the Hellenistic period is among the most important and influential literature of antiquity. This book examines how the three most significant Hellenistic poets (Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius) deal with their own poetic inheritance from earlier Greek poetry.
Drawing multiple comparisons between the works of the western canon and the products of contemporary consumer culture, this book argues that Jane Austen and Shakespeare bore the same relation to their contemporary audiences that SEINFELD and Cosmopolitan do to 20th-century audiences, and that great works of classic literature are best taught by ...
Interdisciplinary cooperations between art and architecture are extremely important in order to maintain the highest level of interaction and progression of design. This volume explores the collaborations that have achieved the maximum level of success, through presenting extracts from previous issues of "Architectural Design".
The influence of contemporary literary theory on art history is increasingly evident, but there is little or no agreement about the nature and consequence of this new intersection of the visual and the textual. "Vision and Textuality" brings together essays by many of the most influential scholars in the field--both young and more established ...
An examination of English poetry from Donne to Keats, showing "the main lines of development in the English tradition...the essential structure." In this overview, Leavis first put forth new critical judgements that have since become part of the current wisdom.
Marjorie Garber's collection of 14 essays considers aspects of language that include forays into topics such Monica Lewinsky, the novels of Jane Austen, and the way paintings of vegetables are related to sexuality.
Willa Cather is primarily known for her creation of strong female characters, yet her fiction often centers on male friendships. In this first full-length study of male homosexuality in Cather's short stories and novels, John P. Anders examines patterns of male friendship ranging on a continuum from the social to the sexual. He argues that Cather ...
A critical and literary-religious study. The author offers novel readings of some of Hopkins' most celebrated poems in the light of historical and structuralist understanding of the poetic tradition and the Western religious and liturgical tradition in which Hopkins was steeped.
The essays collected here regard how various poets with different aesthetic backgrounds--Adrienne Rich, Anne Stevenson, Marilyn Nelson, Molly Peacock, Charles Olsen , and others-- have expressed themselves in form and free verse. The volume identifies the tenets of New Formalism, and investigates the formal concerns inherent to feminist poetics.
Lucia Boldrini's study examines how the literary and linguistic theories of Dante's Divine Comedy helped shape the radical narrative techniques of Joyce's last novel, Finnegans Wake. Through detailed parallel readings, she explores a range of connections: issues such as the question of Babel, literary creation as excrement, the complex relations ...
Shakespeare and Dickens traces Dickens' own interest in Shakespeare from childhood, not only through his own reading and performance but also through numerous theatrical, literary and artistic sources. The book proceeds to examine theoretical ideas about influence and allusion as aspects of style and analyses ways in which Dickens typically ...
Stephen Fredman asserts in his work that American poetry is groundless - that each generation of American poets faces the problem of identity anew and has to discover fresh meaning for itself. His argument focuses on four pairs of poets - Eliot/Williams, Thoreau/Olson, Emerson/Duncan and Whitman/Creeley - and points out that although the later ...
Allusion to the words and phrases of ancestral voices is one of the hiding-places of poetry's power. Poets appreciate the great debts that they owe to previous poets, and are often duly and newly grateful. Allusion to the Poets consists of twelve essays - four published here for the first time - on allusion and its relations, in particular on the ...
Classicism = cultural embezziement? History is a love story: a tale of desire and jealousy, abandonment and fidelity, abduction and theft, rupture and reconciliation. This contention is central is central to Grafting Helen, Matthew Gumpert's original and dazzling meditation on Helen of Troy as a crucial emblem for much of Western thought and ...
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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
