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What happens when we read novels and how do we make sense of them Inge Wimmers explores these questions by developing a flexible poetics of reading that generously opens up the interpretive space between reader and text, while drawing on current theories of reading and combining rhetorical, pragmatic, and phenomenological approaches. "Poetics," he

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Model court conduct in the Renaissance shared many rhetorical features with poetry. Analyzing these stylistic affinities, Professor Javitch shows that the rise of the courtly ideal enhanced the status of poetic art. He suggests a new explanation for the fostering of poetic talents by courtly establishments and proposes that the court stimulated the

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This book shows a groundbreaking exploration of aesthetics of poetic freedom, from antiquity to the present and from Europe and the Middle East into the poetry of the English-speaking world

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This book demonstrates the variety of ways in which the materiality of islands is intertwined in a symbiotic relationship with the capacity of the imagination to make islands the site and embodiment of a host of recurrent human desires, anxieties, and hopes.

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This book demonstrates the variety of ways in which the materiality of islands is intertwined in a symbiotic relationship with the capacity of the imagination to make islands the site and embodiment of a host of recurrent human desires, anxieties, and hopes.

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Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things.

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Professor Alpers argues that Spenser's purpose in The Faerie Queene was not to create a fictional world or to imitate action, but to create and manipulate the reader's response. Individual episodes in the poem are considered by the author as developing psychological experience within the reader rather than as actions to be observed. Part I is an ex

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This book "shows, through an examination of French poetry, how it is [a] dialogue in response to a constant questioning, to an answer-turned-question ... continues to blur the boundary between poetry and writing about poetry, between poetry and criticism, and between poetry and other kinds of experience"--

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In the first full-length study of Wallace Stevens's word-play, Eleanor Cook focuses on Stevens's skillful play with grammar, etymology, allusion, and other elements of poetry, and suggests ways in which this play offers a method of approaching his work. At the same time, this book is a general study of Stevens's poetry, moving from his earliest to

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An updated edition of the provocative and practical guide to poetry written for students of creative writing and literary studies, with a new emphasis on poetry's role in a time of great change.

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This book explores some of the many instances of poisoning in early modern plays. It considers the practical, legal and epistemological issues aspects of poison plays and analyses the cultural work they perform, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender, and humans relationship to the environment.

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"Provides an overview of Polish authors and works from the 16th century to today, highlighting their contributions to and interactions with world literature and cultures"--

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Examines the triple compact made by displaced authors with language, their host country, and the homeland left behind. This title considers the entwined phenomena of expatriation and homelessness, and the artistic responses to these conditions, including reconstructions of identity and the creation of idealized new homelands.

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This work provides the first full-scale examination of the eighteenth century periodical Political Controversy and of the essay-sheets reprinted therein, Briton, Auditor, North Briton, and Monitor.