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A study of Pierre Duhem's work, this work pays particular attention to the political and intellectual context of French Catholicism. It shows that he was a Pascalian, arguing that both logic and intuition were indispensible in approaching his truth.

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William Heyen was the first poet in residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace on Long Island.

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Plants in Science Fiction, the first-ever volume on plants (and fungi) in science fiction, allows us to speculate further on what or who plant life may be while exploring how we understand ourselves in relation to the complex world of flora

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The repression of desire uncovered in the production of scatological comedy.

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Playing for time explores connections between theatre time, the historical moment and fictional time. Geraldine Cousin persuasively argues that a crucial characteristic of contemporary British theatre is its preoccupation with instability and danger, and traces images of catastrophe and loss in a wide range of recent plays and productions.

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"Playing with the Book analyzes novelty and movable publications for young children published from 1835 to 1914, specifically the panorama fold-out, the pop-up book, the dissolving-view book, and the mechanical book. Through the analysis of these unusual texts, Field encourages a reexamination of the relationship between pictures, words, and material format."-- Provided by publisher.

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Presents a Sappho by a poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...'

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Presents a Sappho by a master poet and translator that treats the fragments as aesthetic wholes, complete in their fragmentariness, and which is also, as the translator puts it: 'ever mindful of performative qualities, quality of voice, changes of voice...

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Owing to the rich storehouse of information it contains, the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus (c 535-600) has long been mined as a historical source for Merovingian society, a focus that overshadows an appreciation of the poems' literary value. This title offers free-verse translations of Fortunatus' personal poetry.

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A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "Homelandic," is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a "language plague" that infects young Hebrew speakers with old world accents, and sends the narrator in search of his Arabic heritage. In Poetic Trespass, Lital Levy brings together such startling vi

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Comprises of a study of poetry produced in Austria between the demise of the Third Reich and Austria's re-attainment of sovereignty in 1955. This book demonstrates the problems for modern poetry in the handing of historical events. It offers the understanding of Austrian poetry and the reworking of an Austrian literary identity.

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This text provides a discussion of poetry's relation to place, and its role in the self-definition of communities as the monolithic ideologies of the nation-states fragment into a mosaic of peoples, languages, cultures and between-cultures. The text ranges from the Elizabethan period to the 1990s.

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The abstractions of modernism reimagined as figurations of collective self-organization

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Poetry slams--the "Olympics" of poetry--have become a cultural phenomenon. This anthology documents ten years of these literary events, highlighting 200 of the best slam-winning poems from throughout the U.S. Included are tips on winning and planning a national tour.

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Post of Modern Ireland discusses the work of Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Austin Clarke, Padraic Fallon, Louis MacNeice, and Ciaran Carson . The author constructs a critical account of the poets work, putting it in context to the contemporary debate surrounding their work.

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In this text, works from the Spanish canon, such as the Spanish "Comedia" and Garcilaso's poetry, and literary areas that have been marginalized, like texts written by 19th-century Spanish women, are considered within the political context of textual editing.