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  • The Turn of Rhythm

    How Victorian Poetry Shaped a New Concept

    by Professor Ewan J. Jones, PhD ...
    Series series Victorian Literature and Culture Series
    Incredibly, until the cusp of the nineteenth century, the word rhythm was not widely used. It likewise had no cultural connotations. This book traces the complex and overlooked way in which anglophone culture "got rhythm," concentrating on the pivotal role that poetry played in that narrative.The Turn of Rhythm offers the first book-length study of this distinctively nineteenth-century phenomenon. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form

    by Ewan James Jones ...
    Series Book 106 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Ewan James Jones argues that Coleridge engaged most significantly with philosophy not through systematic argument, but in verse. Jones carries this argument through a series of sustained close readings, both of canonical texts such as Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and also of less familiar verse, such as Limbo. Such work shows that the essential elements of poetic expression - a ... Read more

    $38.59 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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  • Must We Mean What We Say?

    A Book of Essays

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Series series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of 'analytic' and 'Continental' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry

    by Geoffrey N. Leech ...
    Seeks to demonstrate that the study of English poetry is enriched by the insights of modern linguistic analysis, and that linguistic and critical disciplines are not separate but complementary. Examining a wide range of poetry, Professor Leech considers many aspects of poetic style, including the language of past and present, creative language, poetic licence, repetition, sound, metre, context and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Stylistics

    by Richard Bradford ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis. This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines: * the terminology of literary form * how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century * the role of stylistics in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Poetry Handbook

    by John Lennard ...
    The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry from metre to gender offer a wide-ranging general account and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne Elizabeth Bishop Geoffrey Hill and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott) to build up ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Arts of Language

    by Russ McDonald ...
    Series series Oxford Shakespeare Topics
    Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Fourth Dimension of a Poem

    and Other Essays

    by M. H. Abrams ...
    A new collection of essays by the legendary literary scholar and critic.In the year of his one-hundredth birthday, preeminent literary critic, scholar, and teacher M. H. Abrams brings us a collection of nine new and recent essays that challenge the reader to think about poetry in new ways. In these essays, three of them never before published, Abrams engages afresh with pivotal figures in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Great Philosophers:Berkeley

    by David Berman ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.George Berkeley 1685-1753A scientist, theologian and writer on medicine and economics, George Berkeley was in his way a most improbable philosopher. A master of English prose, he was suspicious of language; scornful of abstractions, he looked instead to immediate experience for the basis of his thought.David Berman's readable guide traces Berkeley's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Metaphor

    by Terence Hawkes ...
    Series series The Critical Idiom Reissued
    First published in 1972, this work examines the complex concept of metaphor. It defines the term by placing the various key ideas about the nature of metaphor in their literary and social context, and in doing so, it traces the developing history of the concept. This account has considerable range, beginning with Aristotle and ending with the work of modern linguist and anthropologists. From this ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Sublime

    by Philip Shaw ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists and has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines.In this thoroughly updated edition, Philip Shaw looks at:Early modern and post-Romantic conceptions of the sublime in two brand new chaptersThe legacy of the earliest ... Read more

    $39.99 USD