Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

Despite its small size, epigram attracted some of the best poetic talents of antiquity, exerting a strong influence on Latin literature and continu...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ist neben Schiller und Goethe der meistgelesene und -unterrichtete deutsche Dichter des 18. Jahrhunderts. Sein Werk, das v...

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Ara...

At the end of Ode to a Nightingale, Keatss speaker famously asks of the foregoing reverie: Was it a vision, or a waking dream? This book is concern...

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquenceIn ancient Greek mythology, the l...

Gestures: A body of work is a cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture that considers the terms complex registers across emb...

This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of inconsistency in the three major Latin epics of the Flavian Age (69-96 CE), Valerius Flaccus' ...

This handbook offers scholars an overview of the state of research and students a sense of how American poetry from its first forms evolving in th...

This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of...

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the ...

Environmental writing is an increasingly popular literary genre, and a multifaceted genre at that. Recently dominated by works of new nature writin...

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the gutter in graphic narratives the gap between panels that a reader has to imagin...

Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book PrizeA wealth of scholarship has highlighted how commercial, political and religiou...

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relati...

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist wri...

Claudia Brodsky marshals her equal expertise in literature and philosophy to redefine the terms and trajectory of the theory and interpretation of ...

Reading Poetry with College and University Students aims to help faculty foster students intellectual and aesthetic engagement with poems while ena...

Rainer Maria Rilke developed one of the most singular poetic styles of the twentieth century. Visionary yet always anchored in the real world, his ...