Changing States

Changing States PDF Author: Robert Welch Nfa
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134870639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Changing States

Changing States PDF Author: Robert Welch Nfa
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134870639
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Critical Poem

The Critical Poem PDF Author: Thorpe Running
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838753194
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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"In this book, scholar Thorpe Running shows that a skeptical approach to both language and poetry places eight poets from three countries in Latin America within a strain of poetry prefigured by Stephane Mallarme." "Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Roberto Juarroz, Alejandra Pizarnik, Alberto Girri, Juan Luis Martinez, Gonzalo Millan, and David Huerta span three different generations. In addition to their age and geographical differences, their poetry bears no obvious similarities. All eight, however, are poetas pensantes, or thinking poets, and underlying the work of these probing writers is the disturbing question: Does language do what it is supposed to do? The answer is negative for all these poets who see their poems as being made up of words that don't work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Irish Writers and Religion

Irish Writers and Religion PDF Author: Robert Welch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389209638
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Irish writing has been influenced by religion from the beginning; indeed it was the arrival of Christianity which brought Latin orthography, which men of learning adopted. Pagan beliefs were assimilated into Christianity, but not entirely so: a theme which is dealt with in the essay on writing in early Ireland. The relationship between the various Irish Churches and writers in the 18th and 19th centuries is examined as is the influence of folk religion in modern Irish literature. There follow essays on: ghosts, Yeats, Synge, Joyce and Beckett; and on the poets Macneice, Kavanagh and Desmond Egan. Contributors: Lance St. John Butler; Peter Denman; Desmond Egan; Ruth Fleischmann; A. M. Gibbs; Barbara Hayley; Eamonn Hughes; Anne McCartney; Seamus MacMathuna; Joseph McMinn; Nuala ni Dhomhnaill; Mitsuko Ohno; Daithi O Hogain; Alan Peacock; Patricia Rafroidi and Robert Welch. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 37.

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

A Dictionary of Writers and their Works PDF Author: Christopher Riches
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019251850X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 1431

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Over 3,200 entries An essential guide to authors and their works that focuses on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as inclusion of major American and Commonwealth writers. This online-exclusive new edition adds 60,000 new words, including over 50 new entries dealing with authors who have risen to prominence in the last five years, as well as fully updating the entries that currently exist. Each entry provides details of a writer's nationality and birth/death dates, followed by a listing of their titles arranged chronologically by date of publication.

The Utopian Fantastic

The Utopian Fantastic PDF Author: Martha A. Bartter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313072612
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Utopia forms a major aspect of human desire, one that is as important as religion. Understanding utopia and the ways in which it can collapse into dystopia is crucial in many disciplines. Fantastic literature (including science fiction and fantasy) is the only form of literature that takes utopia/dystopia seriously. Therefore, analysis of these works provides a basis for serious experimentation in social science. In this volume, critics analyze contemporary literary thought experiments such as 1984 and We. They show how utopian experiments can easily slide into dystopia. Exploring these fictional sociocultural, political experiments gives us new ways to think about our lives and culture. While literature, history, and political science professors may find this book useful, it can also serve as a call to arms to anyone dedicated to maintaining freedom and humane living in the world today.

The Mourner's Bestiary

The Mourner's Bestiary PDF Author: Eiren Caffall
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1955905592
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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A critically-acclaimed literary memoir braiding together environmental research and the personal journey of generational healing, grief, and chronic illness. Author Eiren Caffall is the inheritor of a family legacy of two hundred years of genetic kidney disease and the mother of a child who may inherit that legacy. A literary memoir on loss, chronic illness, and generational healing, Caffall’s The Mourner’s Bestiary is also a meditation on grief and survival told through the stories of animals in two collapsing marine ecosystems—the Gulf of Maine and the Long Island Sound—and the lives of a family facing a life-threatening illness on their shores. The Gulf of Maine is the world’s fastest-warming marine ecosystem, and the Long Island Sound has been the site of conservation battles that predict the fights ahead for the Gulf. "Beguiling, idiosyncratic [...] Caffall writes with plangent intensity about our responsibility toward the planet, and her eye for the wonder and beauty of ocean life pierces the illusion of disconnected existence." ? Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant judges citation "Eiren Caffall has produced some of the most powerful writing on the ecological crisis I have read anywhere. Caffall is a gifted writer, and this book is strong medicine." ? Naomi Klein, author, social activist, and filmmaker

Popular Science Monthly and World Advance

Popular Science Monthly and World Advance PDF Author:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 896

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Appletons' Popular Science Monthly

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly PDF Author: William Jay Youmans
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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The Popular Science Monthly

The Popular Science Monthly PDF Author:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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Popular Science

Popular Science PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.