Poetics, Paperback

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Patrick CampbellIllustration(s): 7 Halftones, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of ...

This book shares the life story of Anishinaabe artist Rene Meshake in stories, poetry, and Anishinaabemowin "word bundles" that serve as a dictiona...

Bernard continually returns to the classical idea that the quality of desire shapes theological imagination. By attending to the multiple ways he d...

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...

Publisher: Columbia University PressAuthor(s): Anat PickNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 208 x 138 x 13Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. This monograph is an interdisciplinary study of the concept of 'fragment' in literature and in critical and literary theory. It discusses the fragm...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Michael DavidsonIllustration(s): 24 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 256Collection: CripPublication...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

Reducere. The Poetics of American Song Lyrics is the first collection of academic essays that regards songs as literature and that identifies intersections b...

Drawing on range of text genres including novels, poems, health forums, holiday guestbooks, prayers, political songs and news stories, each chapter...

Prison literature has played an essential role in generating the "experimental shift" in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani's groundbreak...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Rebecca SanchezIllustration(s): 2 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 240Collection: Cultu...

Reducere. This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of schola...

In 1996, Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb to post hard-to-find works of concrete poetry. It grew into an essential archive of twentieth- and twenty...

A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stonePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Fabio BarryIllustration(s...

Reducere. Reveals the presence of God in the creative works of human life and culture What are the "poetics of everyday life"? What can they teach us about G...

Reducere. It would be difficult to imagine what human life would be like without stories--from myths recited by Pueblo Indian healers in the kiva, ballads su...

Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. Queering...

This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which ...

DescriptionPoetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness, focusing on a...

Offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker ...

This book locates Polwhele's work within key preoccupations of the age and will be of interest to those working in the field of late eighteenth and...

The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other "Masters" of the Warring States ...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from Sout...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Sidra DeKoven EzrahiIllustration(s): 11 halftonesNumber of pages: 352Publication dat...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Mecca Jamilah SullivanNumber of pages: 288Collection: New Black Studies SeriesPublication date: 2...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Tobias WilkeIllustration(s): 5 color plates, 39 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date:...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe law has traditionally been regarded as a set of rules and institutions. In this thoughtful series of essays, James Boyd White urges ...

Returning to print for the first time since the 1980s, Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical...

Reducere. In Sounds of Crossing Alex E. Ch vez explores the contemporary politics of Mexican migrant cultural expression manifest in the sounds and poetics o...

Reducere. An insightful how-to guide for writing screenplays that uses Aristotle's great work as a guide. Long considered the bible for storytellers, Aristot...

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 ye...

This... is a brilliant work." --Choice Sternberg] has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed fait...

Reducere. Demanding liberation, advocating for the oppressed, and organizing for justice, siblings Mitsuye Yamada (1923-) and Michael Yasutake (1920-2001) re...

Reducere. Description: What is God doing about a world marked by conflict and division? What about a world in which our technologies promise great good but a...

The first literary and cultural reading of Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, a major Greek epic from the height of the Roman Empire which tells the ...