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This cluster of papers explores the themes of modernist poetry, literary criticism, and the works of poets such as Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop. It delves into topics related to American literature, poetic tradition, cultural identity, gender studies, postmodernism, and ecological aesthetics.

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Modernist Poetry; Literary Criticism; Sylvia Plath; Elizabeth Bishop; American Literature; Poetic Tradition; Cultural Identity; Gender Studies; Postmodernism; Ecological Aesthetic

Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End

1970-01-01

John Bender , Barbara Herrnstein Smith

In Poetic Closure, distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic … In Poetic Closure, distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end? To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and integrity of a poem. First published in 1968, Smith's book remains essential reading in poetic theory.

Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism

1986-01-01

Edward A. Geary , Chaviva Hosek , Patricia A. Parker

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Collected poems of Wallace Stevens

1955-01-01

Wallace Stevens

Surprised by Sin: the Reader in Paradise Lost

1967-01-01

Stanley Fish

Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature

1977-01-01

Edward Wasiolek , Jonathan Culler

A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the … A work of technical skill as well as outstanding literary merit, Structuralist Poetics was awarded the 1975 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association. It was during the writing of this book that Culler developed his now famous and remarkably complex theory of poetics and narrative, and while never a populariser he nonetheless makes it crystal clear within these pages.

Sentimental modernism: women writers and the revolution of the word

1992-01-01

Suzanne Clark

Access to these files is restricted to students in Professor Clark's classes. A print copy is available for check-out and interlibrary loan through the UO Library under the call number: … Access to these files is restricted to students in Professor Clark's classes. A print copy is available for check-out and interlibrary loan through the UO Library under the call number: PN56.M54 C55 1991

Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics In the Nation‐State

1998-02-01

Anthony P. Cohen

Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics In the Nation‐State. Michael Herzfeld. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. xiv. 226 pp., notes, references cited, index. Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics In the Nation‐State. Michael Herzfeld. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. xiv. 226 pp., notes, references cited, index.

Poetic justice: the literary imagination and public life

1996-09-01

Martha C. Nussbaum

Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism

1981-01-01

Teresa de Lauretis , Jane Tompkins

With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre. With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre.

Literary Impressionism and Modernist Aesthetics

2004-01-01

Keith Carabine , Jesse Matz

Acknowledgments Introduction: Proust's deathless analogy 1. Impressions of modernity 2. Pater's homoerotic impression 3. The woman of genius 4. The distant labourer 5. Woolf's phenomenological impression 6. Three Impressionist allegories … Acknowledgments Introduction: Proust's deathless analogy 1. Impressions of modernity 2. Pater's homoerotic impression 3. The woman of genius 4. The distant labourer 5. Woolf's phenomenological impression 6. Three Impressionist allegories Conclusion: Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Bell Notes Index.

The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage

1982-01-01

Willard Bohn , Marjorie Perloff

This study, first published in 1981, argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within … This study, first published in 1981, argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early-20th century. Marjorie Perloff traces this tradition from its early French connection in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada and early Surrealist painting; through its various manifestations in the work of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound; to such postmodern landscapes without depth as the French/English language constructions of Samuel Beckett, the elusive dreamscapes of John Ashbery, and the performance works of David Antin and John Cage.

The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition.

1955-05-01

A. S. P. Woodhouse , M. H. Abrams

The New Modernist Studies

2008-05-01

Douglas Mao , Rebecca L. Walkowitz

In our introduction to bad modernisms , we traced the emergence of the new modernist studies, which was born on or about 1999 with the invention of the Modernist Studies … In our introduction to bad modernisms , we traced the emergence of the new modernist studies, which was born on or about 1999 with the invention of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) and its annual conferences; with the provision of exciting new forums for exchange in the journals Modernism/Modernity and (later) Modernist Cultures ; and with the publication of books, anthologies, and articles that took modernist scholarship in new methodological directions. When we offered that survey, one of our principal interests was to situate these events in a longer critical history of modernism in the arts. In the present report, we want to attend more closely to one or two recent developments that may be suggestive about the present and the immediate future of the study of modernist literature. Part of the empirical, though certainly far from scientific, basis of our considerations lies in our recent service on the MSA Book Prize committee (Walkowitz in 2005, Mao in 2006), through which we became acquainted with dozens of recent contributions to the field.

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

1994-07-01

E. G. , Alex Preminger , T. V. F. Brogan

The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized … The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough lucidity to satisfy the scholar and the general reader alike. Entries vary in length from relatively brief notices to substantial articles of about 20,000 words.The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, published in 1965, established itself book as a standard in the field. Among the 215 contributors were Northrop Frye writing on allegory, Murray Krieger on belief in poetry, Philip Wheelwright on myth, John Hollander on music, and William Carlos Williams on free verse. In 1974, the Enlarged Edition increased the entries with dozens of new subjects, including rock lyric, computer poetry, and black poetry, to name just a few.The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics accounts for the extraordinary change and explosion of knowledge within literary and cultural studies since the 1970s. This edition, completely revised, preserves what was most valuable from previous editions, while subjecting each existing entry to revision. Over 90 percent of the entries have been extensively revised and most major ones entirely rewritten. Completely new entries number 162, including those by new contributors Camille Paglia, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Elaine Showalter, Houston Baker, Andrew Ross, and many more. New entries include those on cultural criticism, discourse, feminist poetics, and Chicano poetry.Improvements cover several areas: All the recent developments in theory that bear on poetry areincluded; bibliographies of secondary sources are ex-tended; cross- references among entries and through blind entries have been expanded for greater ease of use; and coverage of emergent and non-Western poetries is dramatically increased. Indeed, a hallmark of the encyclopedia is its world-wide orientation on the poetry of national and cultural groups.The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements, prosody, and critical terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles treat their topics in sufficient depth and with enough lucidity to satisfy the scholar and the general reader alike. Entries vary in length from relatively brief notices to substantial articles of about 20,000 words.The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, published in 1965, established itself book as a standard in the field. Among the 215 contributors were Northrop Frye writing on allegory, Murray Krieger on belief in poetry, Philip Wheelwright on myth, John Hollander on music, and William Carlos Williams on free verse. In 1974, the Enlarged Edition increased the entries with dozens of new subjects, including rock lyric, computer poetry, and black poetry, to name just a few.The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics accounts for the extraordinary change and explosion of knowledge within literary and cultural studies since the 1970s. This edition, completely revised, preserves what was most valuable from previous editions, while subjecting each existing entry to revision. Over 90 percent of the entries have been extensively revised and most major ones entirely rewritten. Completely newentries number 162, including those by new contributors Camille Paglia, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Elaine Showalter, Houston Baker, Andrew Ross, and many more. New entries include those on cultural criticism, discourse, feminist poetics, and Chicano poetry.Improvements cover several areas: All the recent developments in theory that bear on poetry are included; bibliographies of secondary sources are ex-tended; cross- references among entries and through blind entries have been expanded for greater ease of use; and coverage of emergent and non-Western poetries is dramatically increased. Indeed, a hallmark of the encyclopedia is its world-wide orientation on the poetry of national and cultural groups.

THEORIZING QUEER TEMPORALITIES

2007-04-09

Carolyn Dinshaw , Lee Edelman , Roderick A. Ferguson +6 more

Research Article| June 01 2007 THEORIZING QUEER TEMPORALITIES: A Roundtable Discussion Carolyn Dinshaw; Carolyn Dinshaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lee Edelman; Lee Edelman … Research Article| June 01 2007 THEORIZING QUEER TEMPORALITIES: A Roundtable Discussion Carolyn Dinshaw; Carolyn Dinshaw Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lee Edelman; Lee Edelman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roderick A. Ferguson; Roderick A. Ferguson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Carla Freccero; Carla Freccero Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Elizabeth Freeman; Elizabeth Freeman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Judith Halberstam; Judith Halberstam Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Annamarie Jagose; Annamarie Jagose Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Christopher Nealon; Christopher Nealon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Nguyen Tan Hoang Nguyen Tan Hoang Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (2-3): 177–195. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-030 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Carolyn Dinshaw, Lee Edelman, Roderick A. Ferguson, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, Judith Halberstam, Annamarie Jagose, Christopher Nealon, Nguyen Tan Hoang; THEORIZING QUEER TEMPORALITIES: A Roundtable Discussion. GLQ 1 June 2007; 13 (2-3): 177–195. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-030 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsGLQ Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Duke University Press2007 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Articles You do not currently have access to this content.

No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture

1990-09-01

Andrew C. Ross

The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, … The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history and critique of modern American culture. Andrew Ross examines how and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is bound up with the changing face of popular in America. He argues that the making of taste is hardly an aesthetic activity, but rather an exercise in cultural power, policing and carefully redefining social relations between classes.

American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman

1941-09-01

Granville Hicks , F. O. Matthiessen

Poetry of mourning: the modern elegy from Hardy to Heaney

1994-12-01

From Langston Hughes's lynch poems to Sylvia Plath's father elegies, modern poetry has tried to find a language of mourning in an age of mass death, religious doubt and forgotten … From Langston Hughes's lynch poems to Sylvia Plath's father elegies, modern poetry has tried to find a language of mourning in an age of mass death, religious doubt and forgotten ritual. For this reason, Jahan Ramazani argues, the elegy, one of the most ancient of poetic genres, has remained one of the most vital to modern poets. Through readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems and the blues, Ramazani aims to enrich our critical understanding of a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney. He also interprets the signal contributions to the American family elegy of Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, John Berryman, Adrienne Rich, Michael Harper and Amy Clampitt. Finally, he suggests analogies between the elegy and other kinds of contemporary mourning art - in particular, the AIDS Memorial Quilt and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Grounded in genre theory and in the psychoanalysis of mourning, Ramazani's readings also draw on various historical, formal and feminist critical approaches. This book is intended for anyone concerned with the psychology of mourning or the history of modern poetry.

Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature.

1972-12-01

Henry Sussman , Fredric Jameson

Introduction: Inventing Traditions

1991-01-01

Piers Gray

Modernisms: a literary guide

1996-01-01

The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics

2013-02-01

The Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

1954-01-01

Cid Corman , Ezra Pound , T. S. Eliot

American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman.

1942-01-01

Robert E. Spiller , F. O. Matthiessen

Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life

1996-01-01

Maureen N. McLane , Martha C. Nussbaum

Lyrical ballads, and other poems, 1797-1800

1993-10-01

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

1974-01-01

Kerry McSweeney , Harold Bloom

Poetry, Language, Thought

1972-01-01

Herbert W. Reichert , Martín Heidegger , Albert Hofstadter

Structuralist Poetics

1975-03-13

Jonathan Culler

Culture and Anarchy and other writings

1993-02-18

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the … Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture, and it has exercised a profound influence both on conceptions of the distinctive nature of British society, and on ideas about education and the teaching of literature more generally. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects - Democracy, Equality, and The Function of Criticism at the Present Time. The editor's substantial introduction situates these works in the context both of Arnold's life and other writings, and of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. This edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide and full notes on the names, books, and historical events mentioned in the texts.

The Pound Era

1971-12-31

Hugh Kenner

The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

2012-12-31

Roland Greene , Stephen Cushman , Clare Cavanagh +5 more

Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Topical List of Entries xv Bibliographical Abbreviations xxiii General Abbreviations xxvii Contributors xxviii Entries A to Z 1 Index 1555 Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Topical List of Entries xv Bibliographical Abbreviations xxiii General Abbreviations xxvii Contributors xxviii Entries A to Z 1 Index 1555

21st-century modernism: the "new" poetics

2002-09-01

Marjorie Perloff

List of Plates.Acknowledgments.Introduction.1 Avant-Garde Eliot.2 Gertrude Stein's Differential Syntx.3 The Conceptual Poetics of Marcel Duchamp.4 Khlebnikov's Soundscapes: Letter, Number, and the Poetics of Zaum.5 Modernism at the Millennium.Notes.Bibliography.Index. List of Plates.Acknowledgments.Introduction.1 Avant-Garde Eliot.2 Gertrude Stein's Differential Syntx.3 The Conceptual Poetics of Marcel Duchamp.4 Khlebnikov's Soundscapes: Letter, Number, and the Poetics of Zaum.5 Modernism at the Millennium.Notes.Bibliography.Index.

Travelling and Cycling: Borders and Borderscapes in Thomas Stevens’s Around the World on a Bicycle

2025-06-19

Ömer Öğünç | Litera:dil,edebiyat ve kültür araştırmaları dergisi

Robert Frost

2025-06-19

Philip Edward Phillips | American Literature

Associated the world over with New England, Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on 26 March 1874, to Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. and spent … Associated the world over with New England, Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, California, on 26 March 1874, to Isabelle Moodie and William Prescott Frost Jr. and spent his boyhood there until his father’s death in 1885. The family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where Frost entered the third grade. A talented student, Frost edited the Lawrence High School Bulletin, where he published his first poem, “La Noche Triste.” In 1892, he shared valedictory honors with Elinor White. He attended Dartmouth but withdrew in December. Frost pressed Elinor to marry him, but she insisted on remaining at St. Lawrence until graduation. In 1894, Frost published “My Butterfly: An Elegy” in The Independent. In 1895, he and Elinor were married, and their first child, Elliott, was born in 1896. Frost entered Harvard in 1897 but withdrew in 1899. Later that year, daughter Lesley was born. In 1900, Elliott died, and the Frosts moved to a farm in Derry, New Hampshire. That same year Frost’s mother died. Between 1902 and 1905, son Carol and daughters Irma and Marjorie were born as Frost raised chickens, contributed articles to poultry magazines, and wrote poetry. Daughter Elinor was born but died in 1907. The family later moved to Derry Village, where Frost taught at Pinkerton Academy. In 1912, the Frosts moved to England, where Frost devoted himself to writing and seeking a publisher. He also met leading literary figures, including W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. David Nutt published A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914). Both received favorable reviews by Pound and Edward Thomas, who became Frost’s closest friend until Thomas’s untimely death. Frost returned to the United States a recognized poet, and his volumes were republished by Henry Holt in New York. After his return to the United States, Frost taught at various institutions, including Amherst College and the University of Michigan, and began his association with Middlebury’s Bread Loaf School of English and Writers’ Conference. Frost received his first Pulitzer Prize for New Hampshire (1923). After publishing West-Running Brook (1928), he won Pulitzers for Collected Poems (1930) and A Further Range (1936). During that time, Frost’s sister died, followed by his wife in 1938. The next two decades brought acclaim and more tragedy. Frost continued “barding around,” Kathleen Morrison continued serving as his secretary, he won an unprecedented fourth Pulitzer for A Witness Tree (1942), and he published Steeple Bush (1947) and Complete Poems (1949). However, Carol committed suicide, and Irma was committed to a mental hospital. In the 1950s, the poet received honorary doctorates from Oxford and Cambridge, became Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, received a Congressional gold medal, and delivered “The Gift Outright” at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. He published In the Clearing in 1962 and received the Bollingen Prize in 1963, shortly before his death in Boston on 29 January.

The Way Poets Read Now

2025-06-19

Elizabeth Sarah Coles | Humanities

The way literature scholars read now has been under scrutiny for over a decade. The same long decade has seen an explosion in experimental literatures that make reading in the … The way literature scholars read now has been under scrutiny for over a decade. The same long decade has seen an explosion in experimental literatures that make reading in the literary-critical sense a matter for poets: a poet’s hybrid, whose disturbance of genre is claimed by publishers as the writing’s main attraction. This paper explores the disturbance of literary criticism in the work of contemporary North American poets, Maureen N. McLane and Lisa Robertson. Asking how these poets read now, the paper argues that an exchange of powers between analysis and performance reorients criticism toward a hybrid ‘dramatic’ mode, activist in its sensibilities and committed to a redistribution of agencies by style and form. Far from deepening the divide between creative and academic criticism, these poets model the significance of composition, prosody, and voice for critical writing of all kinds.

Women Creators: Representations of Space and Place in Women's Writing

2025-06-16

Alinne Balduino Pires Fernandes , Melissa Sihra | Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies

Introduction to the dossier "Women Creators: Representations of Space and Place in Women’s Writing," guest edited by Dr. Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes (Modern Languages, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), … Introduction to the dossier "Women Creators: Representations of Space and Place in Women’s Writing," guest edited by Dr. Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes (Modern Languages, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil), and Dr. Melissa Sihr (Drama Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), in celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the first issue of Ilha do Desterro exclusively dedicated to women writers. The 1985 issue, Women Writers/Mulheres Escritoras, was edited by Professor Susana Bornéo Funck, one of the pioneers in women studies at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and the pioneer lecturer in women’s writing UFSC’s Modern Languages department (Departamento de Língua e Literatura Estrangeiras).

A casa ou o túmulo: (des)encontros com as “mães literárias” em Patti Smith e Sylvia Plath

2025-06-16

Vanessa Cezarin Bertacini , Erica Martinelli Munhoz | Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies

A crítica literária feminista anglófona dos anos 1970 propõe a ideia da matrilinhagem, segundo a qual o encontro de mulheres escritoras com suas mães literárias representaria uma fonte de acolhimento … A crítica literária feminista anglófona dos anos 1970 propõe a ideia da matrilinhagem, segundo a qual o encontro de mulheres escritoras com suas mães literárias representaria uma fonte de acolhimento que as permitiria escrever. As gerações seguintes, no entanto, questionam tal idealização das relações femininas, desvelando seus aspectos ambivalentes e menos acolhedores. Se Bachelard (2000) propõe a associação entre as figuras da mãe e da casa delineando os seus valores positivos, Massey (1994) afirma que a casa pode ser também um lugar de conflito. Neste artigo, propomos uma leitura de “Tempest Air Demons”, em M train (2015), de Patti Smith, e do poema “Wuthering Heights”([1961] 2018), de Sylvia Plath, com o objetivo de verificar como as autoras trabalham de forma não idealizada com as figuras de suas mães literárias através da figuração dos lugares (Lawrence-Zuniga, 2017) do túmulo e da casa.

A psychological approach to melancholia in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar

2025-06-15

Estabraq Yahya Mohammed | Journal of Poetry Therapy

The Death and Afterlife of Literary Genres

2025-06-14

Sari Kivistö , Erika Pihl , Katariina Kärkelä +1 more | Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae

This paper explores the death and afterlife of literary genres. We ask what steps the final phase of the literary life cycle of genres, after the assumed stages of rise … This paper explores the death and afterlife of literary genres. We ask what steps the final phase of the literary life cycle of genres, after the assumed stages of rise and peak, might include and whether that process is irreversible. The traditional biological and evolutionary models of literary history are challenged by the metaphorical understanding of generic death. We consider the differences between natural and literary forms of death, and then explore the literary transience of one specific genre, Arthurian romance, by bearing in mind that literature is a tradition-sustaining form that can return like a ghost to life again.

J. D. Salinger’s army prose: the beginnings of a classic (1940–1943)

2025-06-12

Aleksandra S. Fisenko | Voprosy literatury

The article considers Jerome David Salinger’s short stories written and published in the years from 1940 to 1943, during his time in army training camps ahead of combat deployment. Using … The article considers Jerome David Salinger’s short stories written and published in the years from 1940 to 1943, during his time in army training camps ahead of combat deployment. Using archived materials, the author cites letters and reminiscences of Salinger’s contemporaries, reconstructs the history of his early publications, and seeks to define their place in the writer’s oeuvre. In the early 1940s, Salinger was honing his writing style in the early works that channelled his personal preoccupations and anxiety, often related to his army experience (‘The Last and Best of the Peter Pans,’ ‘Personal Notes of an Infantryman,’ ‘The Hang of It,’ and ‘Soft-Boiled Sergeant’). The early short stories talk about the dashed ideals of youth, attempts to resist corruption in the face of unspeakable hardship, and the fear of the looming war. The article examines the genesis of Salinger’s early prose, which, despite its commercial expectations, provided a foundation for the characters of Holden Caulfield and Seymour Glass in the writer’s mature works.

Remediation Qualms & A Transmission History of Robert Frost’s Public Talks

2025-06-10

Setsuko Yokoyama | Textual Cultures

In anticipation of an online audio edition that I am in the final stages of preparing, this article offers a transmission history of Robert Frost’s public talks, analyzing possible reasons … In anticipation of an online audio edition that I am in the final stages of preparing, this article offers a transmission history of Robert Frost’s public talks, analyzing possible reasons why these talks the poet delivered between 1915 and 1962 have largely receded from public memory in the last sixty years. Specifically, the article examines how Frost’s conflated definition of ‘written prose’ has stifled both Frost and his editors, and how it subsequently rendered talk transcripts, or ‘written records of spoken prose’, as a subpar form of expression that calls for an extensive revision to be read as more formal essays, i.e., ‘prose composed directly in writing’. Instead of being stifled by what I call ‘remediation qualms’ — misgivings about a shift in media formats from aural to written text, as well as misplaced desires to uphold a particular image of the poet through remedial editorial interventions — this article calls for recognizing and citing Frost’s public talks as a genre of their own.

“‘Downtown Lowell is a Fun Place to Be’: Postindustrial Regeneration and the Making of the ‘New Liberals,’ 1974–1992”

2025-06-09

Henry M. J. Tonks | Modern American History

Abstract In the 1970s, deindustrialization and urban decay forced national, state, and local policymakers to focus more intensely on public-private partnerships as mechanisms of economic regeneration. This approach to postindustrial … Abstract In the 1970s, deindustrialization and urban decay forced national, state, and local policymakers to focus more intensely on public-private partnerships as mechanisms of economic regeneration. This approach to postindustrial regeneration intersected with a rising generation of liberal politicians: labeled variously “Atari Democrats,” “neoliberals,” or “New Democrats,” they sought to orient the Democratic Party towards market-friendly politics. This intersection was evinced in the regeneration of Lowell, Massachusetts, a city dealing with decades-long industrial decline. Contrary to narratives that emphasize public-private partnerships only as instruments of privatization, however, Lowell’s experience exemplified how successful regeneration required an expanded role for the state: this article reinserts the “public” into “public-private partnership.” Excavating this reality in Lowell’s heretofore understudied history also demonstrates that New Liberals’ market-friendly political posture obscured deeper policy continuity with twentieth-century liberalism. Far from emerging locked into an ideological embrace of “neoliberalism,” the New Liberals sought to reimagine liberalism’s commitment to developmentalism.

The Poet

2025-06-03

| Princeton University Press eBooks

Knut Hamsun, America and Walt Whitman: On the Use of Literary Criticism as Self-Optimization

2025-06-03

Eirik Vassenden | BRILL eBooks

:New Critical Nostalgia: Romantic Lyric and the Crisis of Academic Life

2025-06-01

Yohei Igarashi | Critical Inquiry

:The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies

2025-06-01

Jerome McGann | Critical Inquiry

The Mystery and Intensity of Artistic Creation in the poem The Thought Fox

2025-05-31

B Shashikumar | Shanlax International Journal of Arts Science and Humanities

The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes first appeared in The Hawk in the Rain and remains one of his most celebrated poems. The poem is a poem about writing a poem. … The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes first appeared in The Hawk in the Rain and remains one of his most celebrated poems. The poem is a poem about writing a poem. The poem metaphorically represents the act of poetic inspiration through the imagery of a fox. Hughes masterfully crafts a parallel between the external world and the internal imagination. This poem is a powerful reflection on the mystery and intensity of artistic creation. In other words the poem discusses the elusive and mysterious nature of creativity. The way the fox moves through the poem mirrors the way thoughts form in the poet’s mind, reinforcing the connection between nature and intellect. Hughes suggests that the creative process is not purely rational but deeply instinctual, much like the movements of a wild animal. The Thought-Fox touches on the mystery of creation and brings to the reader the idea that the act of creating, in this case the writing of a poem, is sparked by something beyond time and space.

Justice and Humanity: W. H. Auden’s War Writing

2025-05-30

MENG Ziyu , Yongyi Li | Studies in Linguistics and Literature

As one of the outstanding representatives of English poetry in the 20th century, W.H. Auden is famous for his profound war poems and his reflection of the context of The … As one of the outstanding representatives of English poetry in the 20th century, W.H. Auden is famous for his profound war poems and his reflection of the context of The Times. This deeply discusses Auden’s literary creation during the Spanish Civil War and the Chinese War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and analyzes how his poems reveal the cruelty of war, the complexity of human nature, and the course of history. Through a textual analysis of Auden’s masterpieces Spain1937 and Journey to a War, this paper reveals how Auden reflected the far-reaching impact of war on individuals and society through literature.This article synthesizes the research of domestic and foreign scholars on W.H. Auden’s poetry. It deeply analyzes the commonalities between war and human nature in Auden’s war poems and the impact of war on human nature, revealing the shared vulnerability of war and human nature. Through the portrayal of soldiers’ images, it showcases the fear and suffering of ordinary people, expressing sympathy for those affected by war. Auden emphasizes the radiance in human nature. For example, in the In Time of War poem cycle, he depicts the images of Chinese soldiers, and in Spain 1937, his attitude of supporting the anti-fascist war is evident. He pays attention to the sacrifices in war and calls for the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, reflecting on the cruelty of war. The section on Auden’s personality display, especially the influence of his trip to China and Journey to a War on his poetic style, is reflected in the stylistic transformation of the In Time of War poem cycle. In Journey to a War, Auden’s personal ideology shifted from Marxism to Christian belief, and this transformation is the result of multiple factors. In addition, Auden’s unique portrayal of the Spanish Civil War demonstrates the combination of his political stance and detached attitude. Spain 1937 manifests the influence of his early Marxism and the transformation of his ideology and writing style toward a detached attitude.

Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction

2025-05-30

Sofie Behluli | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old literary subgenre, which … Abstract This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old literary subgenre, which is here termed the ‘ekphrastic novel’. These novels are characterized by their systematic use of ekphrases— verbal responses to images that creatively and critically negotiate the intertwined aesthetics of literature and visual art. By representing paintings, photographs, and art installations with words, ekphrastic novels such as Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch and Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life position themselves as both practitioners and critics of contemporary image-making. This book focuses on four key aspects—value, form, affect, and scale—to explore the critical questions posed by contemporary ekphrastic novels: who assigns cultural value today, and at what cost? Which social, political, historical, and ethical dimensions are obscured by aesthetic forms? What ambiguous affects do images provoke, and how do they reinforce or challenge existing value systems? How does narrative scale expose injustices at the intersection of life and art? And what insights do ekphrastic novels offer into contemporary reading habits and strategies more broadly? By tracing a literary tradition from nineteenth-century to contemporary fiction and offering detailed close readings of acclaimed ekphrastic novels, this book offers a compelling exploration of one of the most dynamic literary subgenres of our time.

Describing Form

2025-05-30

Sofie Behluli | Oxford University Press eBooks

Abstract Chapter 2, titled ‘Describing Form’, explores how ekphrastic novels carve out aesthetic forms and tie them to notions of power. This is particularly compelling in ekphrastic novels that use … Abstract Chapter 2, titled ‘Describing Form’, explores how ekphrastic novels carve out aesthetic forms and tie them to notions of power. This is particularly compelling in ekphrastic novels that use the art museum as a central trope. By condensing the monumental scale of history into the confined space of the art museum, the ekphrastic novel critically examines the interplay between literary and visual forms and how they impact canon formations and political power relations. This chapter uses Amy Sackville’s historical novel Painter to the King as a case study, analysing how its focus on museum and framing tropes is employed to negotiate the creation, access, and reception of ‘canonical art’. The gaps highlighted in Painter to the King reveal the potential of ekphrastic novels to make visible previously overlooked elements of historiography, art history, and aesthetic theory.

Crisis of Personal Identity in Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen”

2025-05-30

Prabhu Ray Yadav | Pursuits A Journal of English Studies

This study reflects the value that citizens place on their own nation. It depicts the way citizens live, where government bureaucrats and industrial employers enforce their authority. Their actions often … This study reflects the value that citizens place on their own nation. It depicts the way citizens live, where government bureaucrats and industrial employers enforce their authority. Their actions often place them in opposition to a citizen. W. H. Auden, in his poem “The Unknown Citizen,” critiques the degrading effects of bureaucratic domination and misunderstanding. The individual’s rights as a citizen is reduced to an anonymous figure defined more by the Bureau of Statistics than by personal identity. Through subtle satire and irony, Auden exposes how societal norms prioritize efficiency and tradition over citizen’s individuality, autonomy, and freedom. This study employs a qualitative approach to explore how government bureaucracy and industrial owners shape and control a citizen’s personal identity, freedom, and emotions. It adopts an interpretative method to evaluate the value of a citizen’s life. It examines the cost and sacrifice required to maintain the idealized perfect citizen in an objective, system-driven world. This is Auden’s clear awareness arising from his knowledge of Marxist liberty theory; its analysis investigates how bureaucratic and capitalist structures diminish citizen’s capacity for independent thought and action, making him victim of their agency. This research takes account of the citizen's career covering present, past, and future. Auden’s poem serves as both a critique of modern society’s dehumanizing mechanisms and a reflection on the commodification of human life. Briefly, the research throws light on citizen’s crisis of personal autonomy versus the tyranny of the national mafias.

'The new poet'

2025-05-29

Peter Bayley | Routledge eBooks

The Lyricism of Life

2025-05-28

Lamont Pretrell Muhammad | Routledge eBooks

William Carlos Williams and the Poetry Archive at Buffalo (1983)

2025-05-28

Ezra Pound, Sappho, and My Assault on Mount Helicon (1983)

2025-05-28

Philip Larkin and the place of writing

2025-05-24

Muhsina Najeeb

Maurice Rupert Bishop: A Biographical Essay

2025-05-24

Curtis Jacobs

Scion of one of Grenada’s oldest, best-known, most distinguished families, Maurice Rupert Bishop (1944-1983) has been, since his death, inextricably linked with the origins, course and conclusion of the Grenada … Scion of one of Grenada’s oldest, best-known, most distinguished families, Maurice Rupert Bishop (1944-1983) has been, since his death, inextricably linked with the origins, course and conclusion of the Grenada Revolution (1979-83). This biographical essay attempts to recreate the major events of his personal history, as well as the historical background that shaped his personality. Descendiente de una de las familias más antiguas, conocidas y distinguidas de Granada, Maurice Rupert Bishop (1944-1983) ha estado, desde su muerte, inextricablemente vinculado con los orígenes, el desarrollo y el desenlace de la Revolución de Granada (1979-1983). Este ensayo biográfico intenta reconstruir los principales acontecimientos de su historia personal, así como el contexto histórico que moldeó su personalidad.

Lacking the Strength of Samson

2025-05-22

Peter K. Andersson

Abstract This chapter examines the rise of popular dandyism in Paris during the early nineteenth century, tracing its roots to the cultural upheavals following the Napoleonic Wars. It highlights the … Abstract This chapter examines the rise of popular dandyism in Paris during the early nineteenth century, tracing its roots to the cultural upheavals following the Napoleonic Wars. It highlights the calicots, socially ambitious draper’s assistants who adopted military-inspired fashion, provoking both admiration and ridicule. The chapter contextualizes dandyism as a product of modernization, consumption, and shifting societal norms, contrasting it with aristocratic fads and earlier forms of flamboyance like the muscadins and incroyables. Through incidents such as the calicots’ theatrical riot, the chapter reveals the tensions between traditional values and emerging subcultures as they reflect broader changes in post-Revolutionary France. Ultimately, it challenges the notion that dandyism is exclusively English, illustrating its parallel evolution in urban centres like Paris and its role in shaping modern identities.

The Fool’s Serenade

2025-05-21

William Carlos Williams and the Poetry Archive at Buffalo (1983)

2025-05-21

Ezra Pound, Sappho, and My Assault on Mount Helicon (1983)

2025-05-21

From Beuys to O'Sullivan: a feminist approach to contemporary sculptural poetry

2025-05-20

Astra Papachristodoulou

Using one of my experimental poems as an example, this essay demonstrates how sculptural poetry can stand as a form of resistance as well as a feminist gesture with the … Using one of my experimental poems as an example, this essay demonstrates how sculptural poetry can stand as a form of resistance as well as a feminist gesture with the potential to shape and heal society and the environment surrounding it. The essay starts with considering the possibility of social and ecological configuration through creative practice as a starting point in understanding Joseph Beuys’ concept of social sculpture. The essay then pursues the complexities of understanding Beuys’ theory of social sculpture by examining ‘Fat Chair’ as an effective specimen of this idea – a creative piece with a political message speaking to humans and their relationship with nature. Throughout this exploration, Beuys’ work is also approached from the scope of various new materialist theories by women thinkers such as Karen Barad, Jane Bennett and Stacey Alaimo. In the context of Beuys’ and my own sculptural poem ‘human-hive’, as well as in the context of ecopoetic work by Maggie O’Sullivan, I discuss the relevance of anti-anthropocentrism and the figure of the shaman as means to resist the damaging capitalist and consumerist structures that contribute towards social and ecological injustice and instead help to form a more balanced and engaged world.

Poéticas do nihil: traços niilistas em torno do vazio existencial através dos versos de Wallace Stevens

2025-05-19

Pedro Carneiro , Manoel Barreto Júnior | Revista Investigações

Este estudo consiste em refletir sobre a presença do niilismo na lírica moderna do poeta estadunidense Wallace Stevens (1879–1955). Para tanto, tomou-se como ponto de partida suas experimentações poéticas, de … Este estudo consiste em refletir sobre a presença do niilismo na lírica moderna do poeta estadunidense Wallace Stevens (1879–1955). Para tanto, tomou-se como ponto de partida suas experimentações poéticas, de maneira a examinar como os traços e apontamentos desse fenômeno se manifestam na lírica stevenseana. Desse modo, o desenvolvimento deste estudo se fez por meio da metodologia de pesquisa bibliográfica, em articulação com a crítica filosófica. Assim, acolheram-se os pressupostos de Pecoraro (2007), Pál Pelbart (2013), Deleuze (1976) e Nietzsche (2005, 2016, 2018), entre outros, de modo a adentrar tais perspectivas que, por si, caracterizam o nosso escopo.

Tell Me/‘I Am Listening’: Ocean Stirrings and the Creole Vocalization of Nelson’s Royal Readers

2025-05-19

Antonia MacDonald

In this article, I explore Merle Collins’ reworking of poems from the Nelson’s Royal Readers. Focusing on Part V of Ocean Stirrings, I explore Collins’ use of poetic form to … In this article, I explore Merle Collins’ reworking of poems from the Nelson’s Royal Readers. Focusing on Part V of Ocean Stirrings, I explore Collins’ use of poetic form to represent the mental unravelling and restitching of Louise Langdon Norton Little, the mother of Malcolm X. Louise Litte—a Grenadian migrant woman—is depicted as unmoored by the travails of racism in early twentieth century USA. Louise’s ensuing psychological cataclysm is refracted through the prism of the memories of her grandmother’s Creole voice—an oral text which discursively radicalizes the colonial agenda that was core to the Royal Readers. I argue that Collins is intentional in her use of a decolonized poetic versification to represent Louise Little’s imaginative maneuvering into self-reclamation. Transposing her grief and loss onto the poems learnt when she was a child, Louise is depicted as poetically and creatively harnessing her grandmother’s grassroot wisdom on the value of strategic resilience. This retelling allows Louise to survive the trauma of her incarceration in a U.S. mental hospital and returns her to her Caribbean self: Oseyan.