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  • Protection des cultures

    De l'agrochimie à l'agroécologie

    Series series Hors collection
    Cet ouvrage retrace l'évolution des concepts et des pratiques de la protection des cultures, en s'appuyant sur l'exemple de la culture cotonnière, souvent pionnière des innovations techniques. Il fait une analyse détaillée de la situation phytosanitaire actuelle, illustre les limites de la protection agrochimique et met en avant la nécessité de gérer les peuplements à l'échelle de l'agroécosytème, ... Leer más

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  • Scenes of Madness

    A Psychiatrist at the Theatre

    Derek Russell Davis argues that mental health professionals working in a hospital or clinic setting can learn much from playwrights about the psychological processes in mental illness. Looking at such diverse characters as Orestes, Hamlet, Lear, Ophelia, Peer Gynt, Oswald Alving and Blanche Dubois, Dr Davis shows how madness in plays is put into the context of the crucial experiences in an ... Leer más

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  • Poetry

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this--such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged ... Leer más

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  • Lives of the Poets

    National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistIn this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.Schmidt reveals how each poet has transformed "a common language of poetry" into the rustic rhythms and elegiac ballads, ... Leer más

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  • Who Is Ozymandias?

    And other Puzzles in Poetry

    de John Fuller ...
    Part of the pleasure of poetry is unravelling the mysteries and difficulties it contains and solving the puzzles that lie within. Who, for instance, is Ozymandias? What is the Snark? Who is the Emperor of Ice-Cream? Or indeed, who is 'you' in a poem?In this perceptive and playful new book, acclaimed poet John Fuller looks at some of our greatest poems and considers the number of individual puzzles ... Leer más

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  • The Poetry Handbook

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Shakespeare and the Arts of Language

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

    de Claude Rawson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Leer más

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  • Elegy

    de David Kennedy ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Grief and mourning are generally considered to be private, yet universal instincts. But in a media age of televised funerals and visible bereavement, elegies are increasingly significant and open to public scrutiny. Providing an overview of the history of the term and the different ways in which it is used, David Kennedy:outlines the origins of elegy, and the characteristics of the genreexamines ... Leer más

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  • Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form

    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be both intimidating and confusing. Philip Hobsbaum provides a welcome remedy, illuminating terms ranging from the iambus to the bob-wheel stanza, and forms from the Spenserian sonnet to modern 'rap', with clarity and comprehensiveness. It is an essential ... Leer más

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  • Poetry: The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    Now in its fourth edition, Poetry: The Basics remains an engaging exploration of the exciting and diverse world of poetry. Jeffrey Wainwright’s accessible introduction demystifies poetic forms and traditions, which can at first seem bewildering.Drawing on examples ranging from Chaucer to children's rhymes, Cole Porter to Dylan Thomas, and from around the English-speaking world, it shows how any ... Leer más

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