Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets

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 ...

Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen ...

Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work, one that stands in the company of other ...

Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in bo...

Der Band 43 der Schiller Nationalausgabe bringt Korrekturen und Ergänzungen, darunter viele Briefe sowie Schillers Fieberschrift (seine erste Disse...

A perceptive exploration of poetry, race, and otherness from one of our most promising voices in criticism.Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north...

Although the Bible is the foundation of American poetic tradition, there is no study of the Bible as an ongoing force in American poetry. Not only ...

Grief faces all of us in the end. This collection explores how poets have expressed and attempted to come to some kind of understanding of this uni...

Winner of the 2023 Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry PrizeThis Is My Body readily and unapologetically examines issues of race and ethnicity, ancestry...

Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir,...

Hugh MacDiarmid is widely considered the most significant Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the major literary force in twentieth-century Scotti...

John Gower's works examined as part of a tradition of official writings on behalf of the Crown. WINNER: 2013 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Awa...

Assessing the cultural history of the dandy as a figure traditionally gendered masculine, this wide-ranging study advances a critical space for the...