Author: Brian Boyd
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674069196
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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In Why Lyrics Last, the internationally acclaimed critic Brian Boyd turns an evolutionary lens on the subject of lyric verse. He finds that lyric making, though it presents no advantages for the species in terms of survival and reproduction, is “universal across cultures because it fits constraints of the human mind.” An evolutionary perspective— especially when coupled with insights from aesthetics and literary history—has much to tell us about both verse and the lyrical impulse. Boyd places the writing of lyrical verse within the human disposition “to play with pattern,” and in an extended example he uncovers the many patterns to be found within Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Shakespeare’s bid for readership is unlike that of any sonneteer before him: he deliberately avoids all narrative, choosing to maximize the openness of the lyric and demonstrating the power that verse can have when liberated of story. In eschewing narrative, Shakespeare plays freely with patterns of other kinds: words, images, sounds, structures; emotions and moods; argument and analogy; and natural rhythms, in daily, seasonal, and life cycles. In the originality of his stratagems, and in their sheer number and variety, both within and between sonnets, Shakespeare outdoes all competitors. A reading of the Sonnets informed by evolution is primed to attend to these complexities and better able to appreciate Shakespeare’s remarkable gambit for immortal fame.
Author: Tara Guissin-Stubbs
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030532429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic approach, Tara Guissin-Stubbs argues for the significance of the Irish sonnet as a discrete entity within modern and contemporary poetry, and shows how the Irish sonnet has become a debating chamber for discussions concerning the relationship between Irish and British culture, poetry and gender, and revision and rebellion. The text reshapes the poetic and critical field, exploring canonical and non-canonical poems by male and female poets so as to challenge outmoded views of the thematic and formal limitations of the sonnet.
Author: Catherine Reilly
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0720123186
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 583
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These two volumes list late-and mid-Victorian poets, with brief biographical information and bibliographical details of published works. The major strength of the works is the 'discovery' of very many minor poets and their work, unrecorded elsewhere.
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Author: Samuel Halkett
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Author: Samuel Halkett
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Author: Matthew F. Hughes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Author: Fran Brearton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199561249
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry consists of 40 essays by leading scholars and new researchers in the field. Beginning with W.B.Yeats, the figure who towers over the century's poetry, it includes chapters on the major poets to have emerged in Ireland over the last 100 years.
Author: Dr. Thomas WILLIS
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Languages : en
Pages : 120
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