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William Blake's Gothic imagination: Bodies of horror
by Chris Bundock Elizabeth EffingerScholars of the Gothic have long recognised Blake’s affinity with the genre. Yet, to date, no major scholarly study focused on Blake’s intersection with the Gothic exists. William Blake’s gothic imagination seeks to redress this disconnect. The papers here do not simply identify Blake’s Gothic conventions but, thanks to recent scholarship on affect, psychology, and embodiment in Gothic studies, reach deeper into the tissue of anxieties that take confused form through this notoriously nebulous historical, aesthetic, and narrative mode. The collection opens with papers touching on literary form, history, lineation, and narrative in Blake’s work, establishing contact with major topics in Gothic studies. Then refines its focus to Blake’s bloody, nervous bodies, through which he explores various kinds of Gothic horror related to reproduction, anatomy, sexuality, affect, and materiality. Rather than transcendent images, this collection attends to Blake’s ‘dark visions of torment’.
The Poems of Basil Bunting
by Basil BuntingBasil Bunting's work was published haphazardly throughout most of his life, and in many cases he did not oversee publication. This is the first critical edition of the complete poems, and offers an accurate text with variants from all printed sources. Don Share annotates Bunting's often complex and allusive verse, with much illuminating quotation from his prose writings, interviews and correspondence. He also examines Bunting's use of sources (including Persian literature and classical mythology), and explores the Northumbrian roots of Bunting's poetic vocabulary and use of dialect.
Complete Poems (PDF)
by Basil Bunting Richard CaddelBasil Bunting (1900-85) was one of the most important British poets of the 20th century. Acknowledged since the 1930s as a major figure in Modernist poetry, first by Pound and Zukofsky and later by younger writers, the Northumbrian master poet had to wait over 30 years before his genius was finally recognised in Britain - in 1966, with the publication of Briggflatts, which Cyril Connolly called 'the finest long poem to have been published in England since T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets'.
Die deutsche Alexanderdichtung des Mittelalters: Sammlung Metzler, 123 (Sammlung Metzler)
by Herwig Buntz
Einführung in die Gedichtanalyse
by Dieter BurdorfDieser Band bietet eine Einführung in alle Aspekte der Gedichtanalyse und -interpretation. Der Autor beschreibt die sprachlichen Besonderheiten von Lyrik und stellt die metrischen Grundformen sowie verschiedene Gedichtformen vor. Weitere Kapitel untersuchen die Bildlichkeit und den Wirklichkeitsbezug von Gedichten. Die 3. Auflage wurde überarbeitet und aktualisiert. Sie ist erweitert um Kapitel zur Ballade, zum Bildgedicht und zu Lyrikübersetzungen. Im zweifarbigen Layout.
Einführung in die Gedichtanalyse (Sammlung Metzler)
by Dieter BurdorfDer Autor stellt die Methoden des literaturwissenschaftlichen Umgangs mit Gedichten vor und veranschaulicht sie an zahlreichen Beispielen aus der deutschsprachigen Lyrik vom Barock bis zur Gegenwart. Schwierige Gebiete wie Metrik, Strophik und Metaphorik werden ohne komplizierten Begriffsapparat dargestellt. Es wird gezeigt, wie man mit der Vieldeutigkeit von Gedichten umgehen kann, welche Rolle Personen, Zeit und Raum in der Lyrik spielen und wie man die Entwicklungsstufen und die verschiedenen Fassungen eines Gedichts für die Analyse fruchtbar machen kann.
Geschichte der deutschen Lyrik.: Einführung und Interpretationen
by Dieter BurdorfWie lese ich Gedichte der Klassik? Was ist bei Sonetten des Barock zu beachten? Und welche Besonderheiten bestehen bei expressionistischen Gedichten? - Dieser Band bietet einen Überblick über die historische Entwicklung der deutschsprachigen Lyrik von der Reformation bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Der Autor erläutert kurz den historischen Kontext und die Hintergründe der Lyrikproduktion, die für das Verständnis der Gedichte unerlässlich sind. Zahlreiche Musterinterpretationen führen den Umgang und die Analyse der Gedichte vor. Kästen mit vertiefenden Informationen geben weitere Ausblicke. Mit umfangreichen Literaturhinweisen zu jeder Epoche und im zweifarbigen Layout.
Geschichte der deutschen Lyrik: Einführung und Interpretationen
by Dieter BurdorfWie lese ich Gedichte der Romantik? Wie kann ich Sonette des Barock entschlüsseln? Und welche Besonderheiten sind bei expressionistischen Gedichten zu beachten? Dieser Band bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der deutschsprachigen Lyrik – von der Reformation bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart. Der Autor erläutert den historischen Kontext und die Hintergründe der Lyrikproduktion, die für das Verständnis der Gedichte unerlässlich sind. Mit zahlreichen Musterinterpretationen und umfangreichen Literaturhinweisen zu jeder Epoche. – Für die zweite Auflage wurde der Band aktualisiert und erweitert.
The Song of Roland
by Glyn BurgessOn 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French. The Song of Roland, written by an unknown poet, tells of Charlemagne’s warrior nephew, Lord of the Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies in the massacre, defiant to the end. In majestic verses, the battle becomes a symbolic struggle between Christianity and paganism, while Roland’s last stand is the ultimate expression of honour and feudal values of twelfth-century France.
The Pilgrimage of Charlemagne and Aucassin and Nicolette (Routledge Revivals)
by Glyn S. Burgess Anne Elizabeth CobbyOriginally compiled and published in 1988, this volume contains the text and translation of 'The Pilgrimmage of Charlemagne' and 'Aucassin and Nicolette,' alongisde textual notes and a bibliography for both.
Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing
by E. BurleighThrough the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.
Chaucerian Fiction (PDF)
by Robert B. BurlinBy analyzing Chaucer's major poetic works, Robert Burlin succeeds in isolating thematic undercurrents with a bearing on the poet's process of composition. He is thus able to relate individual poems to Chaucer's view of himself as a writer, and to assess the internal evidence for a Chaucerian theory of fiction. Professor Burlin contends that a logic underlies Chaucer's aesthetic assumptions whose imaginative configuration appears both simple and inevitable in the context of his poetic development. The author first explores possible antecedents for the terms "experience" and auctoritee, and shows that this common antinomy provides the basis for dividing the poems into three groups.In the "poetic fictions," Chaucer speculates on the value of poetic activity, on the sources of its affect, and on its validity as a means of apprehension. The "philosophic fictions" concentrate on the epistemological aspect of literary activity. In a final group of poems, termed "psychological fictions," the poet explores the speaker's unspoken motives, as well as his pronounced intentions, in telling a tale.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Pindar
by Anne Pippin BurnettOf all the lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work has been best preserved. His odes to victorious Greek athletes were entertainments designed for performance in a hospitable atmosphere of drinking, dining and jokes. The victor has known the favour of the god whose contest he entered, and has brought back pan-Hellenic fame to his family, friends and city. To extend this glory and make it permanent, he has commissioned a song of praise, had dancers trained to sing it, and summoned an audience of kinsmen, neighbours and friends to enjoy it. Pindar's odes contain invocations and prayers, but their most characteristic effects are achieved thhrough the depiction of fragments of myth. Anne Pippin Burnett argues that these passages were meant neither as mere decoration nor as moral instruction, but served rather as a dramatic mechanism by which dancers brought an experience of another world to guests gathered in the banqueting suite of the victor.
Pindar (Ancients In Action Ser.)
by Anne Pippin BurnettOf all the lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work has been best preserved. His odes to victorious Greek athletes were entertainments designed for performance in a hospitable atmosphere of drinking, dining and jokes. The victor has known the favour of the god whose contest he entered, and has brought back pan-Hellenic fame to his family, friends and city. To extend this glory and make it permanent, he has commissioned a song of praise, had dancers trained to sing it, and summoned an audience of kinsmen, neighbours and friends to enjoy it. Pindar's odes contain invocations and prayers, but their most characteristic effects are achieved thhrough the depiction of fragments of myth. Anne Pippin Burnett argues that these passages were meant neither as mere decoration nor as moral instruction, but served rather as a dramatic mechanism by which dancers brought an experience of another world to guests gathered in the banqueting suite of the victor.
A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities: The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics)
by Elizabeth-Jane BurnettThis book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy. The text considers trans-Atlantic case studies across fields of performance and ecopoetics, small press publishing and poetry institutions, with focus on Joan Retallack, Bob Holman, Anne Waldman, Bob Cobbing, and feminist performance. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett focuses on innovative poetry that resists commodification, drawing on ethnography to show parallels with gift giving tribal societies; she also considers the ethical, philosophical and psychological motivations for such exchanges with particular reference to poethics. This book will appeal to researchers in modern poetry, poetry teachers, advanced students of modern literature, and those with an interest in poetry.
Twelve Words for Moss: Love, Loss And Moss
by Elizabeth-Jane BurnettSHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing'Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical . . . utterly unique and refreshing' Lucy JonesWhere nothing grows, moss is the spark that triggers new life. Embarking on a journey though landscape, memory and recovery, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett explores this mysterious, ancient marvel of the plant world, meditating on and renaming her favourite mosses – from Glowflake to Little Loss – and drawing inspiration from place, people and language itself. 'Fascinating, subtle and risk-taking . . . Poetry, descriptive-evocative prose, memory, memoir, natural history and more all drift and mingle in strikingly new ways' Robert Macfarlane
Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace (Palgrave Shakespeare Studies)
by M. BurnettThis exciting new title investigates the explosion of Shakespeare films during the 1990s and beyond. Linking fluctuating 'Shakespeares' with the growth of a global marketplace, the dissolution of national borders and technological advances, this book produces a fresh awareness of our contemporary cultural moment.
Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare's Drama and Early Modern Culture (Early Modern Literature in History)
by Mark Thornton BurnettConstructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. Burnett traces the metaphorical significance of 'monstrous' forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces - fairground displays, 'cabinets of curiosity' and court entertainments - to contend that the 'monster' finds its most intriguing manifestation in the investments and practices of contemporary theatre. The study's new readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson make a powerful case for the drama's contribution to debates about the 'extraordinary body'.
Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture
by Mark Thornton Burnett Ramona WrayShakespeare and Ireland examines the complex relationship between the most celebrated icon of the British establishment and Irish literary and cultural traditions. Addressing Shakespearean representations of Ireland as well as Irish writers' responses to the dramatist, it ranges widely across theatrical performances, pedagogical practices, editorial undertakings and political developments. The writings of Joyce, Heaney and Yeats are considered, in addition to recent nationalist discourses. In so doing, the collection establishes the multiple 'Shakespeares' and competing 'Irelands' that inform the Irish imagination.
Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siecle
by Mark Thornton Burnett Ramona WrayThe essays in this volume read the Shakespeare films of the 1990s as key instruments with which western culture confronts the anxieties attendant upon the transition from one century to another. Such films as Hamlet, Love's Labour's Lost, Othello, Shakespeare in Love and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , the contributors maintain, engage with some of the most pressing concerns of the present, apocalyptic condition - familial crisis, social estrangement, urban blight, cultural hybridity, literary authority, the impact of technology and the end of history. The volume includes an exclusive interview with Kenneth Branagh.
The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English (Penguin Poets Ser.)
by Paula BurnettOver the last few decades Caribbean writers - performance poets, newspaper poets, singer-songwriters - have created a genuinely popular art form, a poetry heard by audiences all over the world. At the same time, even at its most literary, Caribbean poetry shares the vigour of the oral tradition. Writers like Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott, and many other exciting new voices, are exploring ways of capturing the vitality of the spoken word on the page. Both of these traditions are represented in this lively anthology, which traces Caribbean verse from its roots to the present.
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone
by Bo BurnhamSometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from rising comedy star Bo Burnham.Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his parents' attic in Massachusetts when he started posting funny songs to YouTube. They immediately turned heads with their wise satire that belied his very young age. His videos have now been viewed over 209 million times, and he has amassed a gigantic online following that excitedly await each new video. Bo is revered in all comedy circles for being a wholly original, highly intelligent young voice. Judd Apatow was an early champion of the young comedian, and Bo taped his first Comedy Central special at age 18, the youngest in history. His comedy/song albums were huge critical and commercial successes. Written in his very distinctive comedic voice, EGGHEAD: OR, YOU CAN'T SURVIVE ON IDEAS ALONE brings Bo's award-winning brand of brainy word play to the page in the form of off-kilter writings, thoughts, and poems. Collaborating with longtime friend, artist and illustrator Chance Bone, Bo writes about everything from painful breakups to bald barbers, in a collection that makes the reader laugh, but like his stand-up and music, also displays surprisingly mature insights.With one text piece and one original black & white illustration per page, this book will appeal to Bo's already established fans as well as those new to his genius.