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  • Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother

    Contexts in Confessional and Postconfessional Poetry

    by Hannah Baker Saltmarsh ...
    A thoughtful exploration of male poets' contributions to the literature of motherhoodIn the late 1950s the notion of a "mother poem" emerged during a confessional literary movement that freed poets to use personal, psychosexual material about intimate topics such as parents, childhood, failed marriages, children, infidelity, and mental illness. In Male Poets and the Agon of the Mother, Hannah ... Read more

    $43.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I AM HAPPY

    by Jo Gill ...
    "I Am Happy" takes children on a journey through different seasons, highlighting small moments that bring happiness-from jumping in autumn leaves to sipping hot chocolate in winter. Each page is a simple yet profound reminder that joy can be found in everyday experiences, culminating in the heartwarming conclusion that true happiness comes from spending time with loved ones. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination

    The Harmony of Forms

    by Jo Gill ...
    Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms assesses the relationship between architectural and poetic innovation in the United States across the twentieth century. Taking the work of five key poets as case studies and drawing on the work of a rich range of other writers, architects, artists, and commentators, this study proposes that by examining the sustained ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath

    Edited by Jo Gill ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The controversies that surround Sylvia Plath's life and work mean that her poems are more read and studied now than ever before. This Companion provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of Sylvia Plath's poetry, prose, letters and journals and of their place in twentieth-century culture. These essays by leading international scholars represent a spectrum of critical perspectives. They ... Read more

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  • Updike and Politics

    New Considerations

    by Matthew Shipe, Scott Dill, Marshall Boswell, Michial Farmer, Ethan Fishman, Yoav Fromer, Louis Gordon, Jo Gill, Sylvie Mathé0, Takashi Nakatani1, Judith Newman2, Pradipta Sengupta3, Biljana Dojcinovic4, Aleksandra Vukotic5, Kirk Curnutt6, James Schiff7 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    Presenting the first interdisciplinary consideration of his political thought, Updike and Politics: New Considerations establishes a new scholarly foundation for assessing one of the most recognized and significant American writers of the post-1945 period. This book brings together a diverse group of American and international scholars, including contributors from Japan, India, Israel, and Europe. ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • The Poetics of the American Suburbs

    by Jo Gill ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of twentieth-century American literature. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Poetry and Autobiography

    Edited by Jo Gill, Melanie Waters ...
    Series series Life Writing
    This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry and autobiography. Drawing on recent theories of life writing, the essays in the first part of this volume provide new analyses of works by a range of poets, dating from the early modern period to the present day. Exploring the autobiographical resonances of poems by Martha ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Modern Confessional Writing

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by Jo Gill ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, and include the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding.Drawing on a wide range of examples, the contributors to this volume evaluate and critique conventional readings of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Metafiction

    The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction

    by Patricia Waugh ...
    Series series New Accents
    Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to retain and regain a wide readership by drawing on the themes and preoccupations of these forms. Making ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Close Listening

    Poetry and the Performed Word

    Edited by Charles Bernstein ...
    Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been surprisingly slight. This volume, featuring work by critics and poets such as ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Event of Literature

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different literary theories tell us about what texts mean and do? In throwing new light on these and other questions he has raised in previous best-sellers, Eagleton offers ... Read more

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  • The Use and Abuse of Literature

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    As defining as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times.Even as the decline of the reading of literature, as argued by the National Endowment for the Arts, proceeds in our culture, Garber ... Read more

    $4.99 USD