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Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides
by Helene P. FoleyRitual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae.Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the background of late fifth-century Athens, Helene P. Foley shows that each of these plays confronts directly the difficulty of making an archaic poetic tradition relevant to a democratic society. She explores the important mediating role played by choral poetry and ritual in the plays, asserting that Euripides' sacrificial metaphors and ritual performances link an anachronistic mythic ideal with a world dominated by "chance" or an incomprehensible divinity.Foley utilizes the ideas and methodology of contemporary literary theory and symbolic anthropology, addressing issues central to the emerging dialogue between the two fields. Her conclusions have important implications for the study of Greek tragedy as a whole and for our understanding of Euripides' tragic irony, his conception of religion, and the role of his choral odes.Assuming no specialized knowledge, Ritual Irony is aimed at all readers of Euripidean tragedy. It will prove particularly valuable to students and scholars of classics, comparative literature, and symbolic anthropology.
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath (Poet To Poet Ser.)
by Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and includes many of her most-celebrated works, such as 'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Wuthering Heights'.
The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems By Qu Yuan And Other Poets (Penguin Classics)
by Qu YuanThe Songs of the South is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century B.C. and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan.
Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems (PDF)
by Sylvia Plath W. H. Auden Ted HughesSylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath's four collections Ariel , The Colossus , Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and include many of her most celebrated works, such as 'Daddy', 'Lady Lazarus' and 'Wuthering Heights'.
Text, Geschichte und Subjektivität in Hölderlins Dichtung: Studien zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Band 27
by Rainer Nägele
Andreas Gryphius (Sammlung Metzler)
by Eberhard MannackGryphius kompakt. Der auf höchste Kunstfertigkeit bedachte Gryphius ist einer der bekanntesten Dichter des deutschen Barock. Er gehört zu den Wenigen, denen über die Jahrhunderte hinweg ein hohes Maß an Anerkennung zuteil geworden ist. Eberhard Mannack analysiert und interpretiert das gesamte Werk Gryphius und berücksichtigt dabei seine besondere Stellung.
Barocklyrik (Sammlung Metzler)
by Volker MeidVon Opitz bis Lohenstein. Die verständlich geschriebene Einführung in die deutsche Lyrik des 17. Jahrhunderts liefert einen Abriss der sozial- und literaturgeschichtlichen Voraussetzungen der deutschen Barocklyrik. Volker Meid stellt das barocke Regelsystem vor, beschreibt die Formenvielfalt und skizziert die Wirkungsgeschichte. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein Überblick über die geschichtliche Entwicklung der deutschen Lyrik von Opitz bis zu den schlesischen Poeten um Hoffmannswaldau und Lohenstein.
English Romantic Verse
by David WrightEnglish Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. Nearly all the famous piéces de résistance will be found here - 'Intimations of Immortality', 'The Ancient Mariner', 'The Tyger', excerpts from 'Don Juan' - as well as some less familiar poems. As far as possible the poets are arranged in chronological order, and their poems in order of composition, beginning with eighteenth-century precursors such as Gray, Cowper, Burns and Chatterton. Naturally most space has been given over to the major Romantics - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Clare and Keats - although their successors, poets such as Beddoes and Poe, are included too, as well as early poems by Tennyson and Browning. In an excellent introduction David Wright discusses the Romantics as a historical phenomenon, and points out their central ideals and themes.
Erasmus Darwin and the Romantic Poets
by D. King-HeleErasmus Darwin (1731-1802) had the highest reputation among living English poets during much of the 1790s, through the great success of his long poem in rhyming couplets, The Botanic Garden, published complete in 1792. In this new book Desmond King-Hele shows in convincing detail how Darwin greatly influenced five major English Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats, and many other poets of the time, such as Crabbe and Campbell (but not Byron).
Hairy Maclary's Bone (PDF)
by Lynley DoddHairy Maclary's Bone is a hilarious rhyming story. This favorite chronicles the escapades of our hero Hairy and his crew of five kooky canines. Here every dog-from big-as-a-horse Hercules Morse to Schnitzel von Krumm with the very low tum-tries to have his day with HAIRY MACLARY'S BONE, but guess who triumphs!
Hairy Maclary's Bone (PDF)
by Lynley DoddHairy Maclary's Bone is a hilarious rhyming story. This favorite chronicles the escapades of our hero Hairy and his crew of five kooky canines. Here every dog-from big-as-a-horse Hercules Morse to Schnitzel von Krumm with the very low tum-tries to have his day with HAIRY MACLARY'S BONE, but guess who triumphs!
How Poetry Works: The Elements Of English Poetry (PDF)
by Philip Davies RobertsIn this refreshing and inspiring book, Phil Roberts asserts that poetry, like music, is based on sound and so close attention should be paid to its rhythms and metrical patterns. He illustrates his points with lively examples ranging from nursery rhymes and limericks to recent experimental forms as well as familiar pieces from over the centuries. The book concludes with a Millennium Anthology, a salute to the poetry of the past thousand years, including pieces from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USA.
Language, Sexuality and Ideology in Ezra Pound’s Cantos (Language, Discourse, Society)
by Jean-Michel Rabate
Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings and The Less Deceived (Bloomsbury Master Guides)
by Andrew SwarbrickThis ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses across a broad range of subjects including Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Politics & International Relations, Religious Studies, Social Work & Social Welfare, Study Skills and Theology. Visit bloomsbury.com for more information.
Lessings Trauerspiele: Der Ursprung des modernen Dramas aus dem Geist der Kritik. Germanistische Abhandlungen, Band 57
by Gisbert Ter-Nedden
The Metaphysical Poets (Bloomsbury Master Guides)
by Joan van EmdenThis ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses across a broad range of subjects including Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Politics & International Relations, Religious Studies, Social Work & Social Welfare, Study Skills and Theology. Visit bloomsbury.com for more information.
