From snappy and urbane to passionate and divine, the writing of tomorrow's novelists dances in burnished reds and icy blues. The latgest collection from our most gifted young writers is set to define the landscape of Australian literature.
The Ancient City and Its Stories in Middle English Poetry
This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Romeone of the most important European cities in the medieval imaginationin late Middle English poetry.
Once the capital of a great pagan empire whose ruined monuments still inspired awe in the Middle Ages, Rome, the seat of the pope, became a site of ......
With its distinctive poetic forms and themes, Sylvia Plath's poetry patently epitomizes her personal and artistic struggle as a woman writer to be part of a largely male-dominated canon. In Ideology in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Ikram Hili examines the difficulties that Plath encountered while drafting her poems, as she wrestled with what to ......
The writing of H.D. is so linguistically rich and multilayered in structure that it has had almost as many interpretations as it has interpreters, from Freudians to feminists, from classicists to postmodernists. In How to Live/What to Do, however, Adalaide Morris removes the work of this iconic poet, dramatist, and novelist from compartments into ......
Meanings, techniques and effects in 100 poems from Beowulf to the Iraq W
In this annotated anthology, Robert Gullifer and Matthew Jenkinson demystify poetry while showing that there are many good reasons to pick poems apart. This book has been designed so it is useful to anyone interested in learning about or teaching poetry, as well as those revisiting poems and poets they may have already encountered.
In recent decades, the evidence for an oral epic tradition in ancient Greece has grown enormously along with our ever-increasing awareness of worldwide oral traditions. John Foley here examines the artistic implications that oral tradition holds for the understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey in order to establish a context for ......
This is a complete translation into contemporary English of the ancient Greek epic by Homer. The translation by Charles Underwood is presented in prose to emphasize the distinctive narrative qualities that illustrate Homer's mastery of stirring language and evocative storytelling.
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.
