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  • Modernism's Metronome

    Meter and Twentieth-Century Poetics

    by Ben Glaser ...
    Series series Hopkins Studies in Modernism
    Despite meter's recasting as a rigid metronome, diverse modern poet-critics refused the formal ideologies of free verse through complex engagements with traditional versification.In the twentieth century, meter became an object of disdain, reimagined as an automated metronome to be transcended by new rhythmic practices of free verse. Yet meter remained in the archives, poems, letters, and pedagogy ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • New Perspectives on James Weldon Johnson's "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man"

    by Lawrence Oliver, Michael Nowlin, Jeff Karem, Diana Paulin, Daphne Lamothe, Bruce Barnhart, Ben Glaser, Lori Brooks, Robert Stepto, Amritjit Singh ...
    James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and first African American executive of the NAACP. Originally published anonymously in 1912, Johnson’s novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is considered one of the foundational works of twentieth-century African ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Critical Rhythm

    The Poetics of a Literary Life Form

    by Ben Glaser, Assistant Professor of English, Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Derek Attridge, Simon Jarvis, David Nowell Smith, Haun Saussy, Tom Cable, Natalie Gerber, Virginia Jackson0, Ewan Jones1, Meredith Martin2, Yopie Prins3, Erin Kappeler4 ...
    Series series Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
    This book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which it’s often assimilated—scansion, prosody, meter—rhythm makes legible a range of ways poetry affects us ... Read more

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  • The Age of the Crisis of Man

    Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973

    by Mark Greif ...
    A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. ... Read more

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  • Going to the Territory

    by Ralph Ellison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    "The work of one of the most formidable figures in American intellectual life."-- Washington Post Book WorldThe seventeen essays collected in this volume prove that Ralph Ellison was not only one of America's most dazzlingly innovative novelists but perhaps also our most perceptive and iconoclastic commentator on matters of literature, culture, and race. In Going to the Territory, Ellison provides ... Read more

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  • Literary Analysis: The Basics

    by Celena Kusch ...
    Series series The Basics
    Literary Analysis: The Basics is an insightful introduction to analysing a wide range of literary forms. Providing a clear outline of the methodologies employed in twenty-first century literary analysis, it introduces readers to the genres, canons, terms, issues, critical approaches, and contexts that affect the analysis of any text. It addresses such questions as:What counts as literature?Is ... Read more

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  • Richard Wright's Native Son

    A Routledge Study Guide

    by Andrew Warnes ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Literature
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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative

    by H. Porter Abbott ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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  • Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old

    New Directions from Old

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