Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963) was one of Spain's most gifted avant-gardists. Oftentimes remembered as the inventor of the greguería--a type of witty and humorous epigram that recasts the commonplace and absurdities of everyday reality--he was a prolific writer and published dozens of novels, essays, short stories, articles, editorials, and biographies throughout his life. Two of his major works--the autobiography Morbidities (1908), and the manifesto The Concept of the New Literature (1909)--belong to his earliest period of experimentation. These two early works are of singular importance not only in understanding his development as an avant-gardist, but also in analyzing Spanish literature within the broader framework of European avant-garde culture. With prescient clarity, they highlight many of the aesthetic notions that would revolutionize experimental literature throughout the modernist period. This book offers the first complete English translation of Morbidities and The Concept of the New Literature, and it introduces anglophone readers to some of Gómez de la Serna's most passionate ideas about modernity and new literature.
This critical biography is a posthumous publication by a Pope scholar of international reputation. It gathers the scholarship and insights of the author's earlier books and essays on Pope into a final work of new research and a lifetime's reflection on its subject, aimed at the informed general reader as well as students and professional scholars.
The book places Pope's life, friendships, and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688, the year of the poet's birth. It is sympathetic to the revisionist history which argues that Jacobitism was a serious and persistent phenomenon, and brings out more fully than previously the extent of Pope's contact with Catholic and Jacobite circles in England and abroad, giving this biography a distinctive approach and emphasis. Pope's friendships, with both Whigs and Tories, with men and women, are brought into relation to the poetry.
Professor Erskine-Hill gives sensitive close readings of all Pope's major poems, but also of the less commonly explored, notably the translations of Homer and especially of the Iliad. Frequent resort is made to Pope's letters, among the finest of the age, including new items. A final chapter discusses Pope's literary reputation in the later eighteenth-century subsequent to his death.
Includes poetry by Claire Bateman, Suzanne Cleary, David Colodney, Sarah Cooper, Tyree Daye, Denise Duhamel, Gabrielle Brant Freeman, Albert Goldbarth, Lisa M. Hase-Jackson, Gary Jackson, Melissa Dickson Jackson, Ashley M. Jones, Dorianne Laux, Lilith Mae McFarlin, Juan J. Morales, Rick Mulkey, Kathleen Nalley, Zoraida Ziggy Pastor, Richard Tillinghast, and Julie Marie Wade.
The Robert Frost Review is a peer-reviewed annual publication of the Robert Frost Society, which was founded in 1978 to promote scholarly discussion of the poet's life and work. The Review is committed to publishing high quality scholarship in all areas of study related to Frost, including pedagogical approaches for all educational settings. It is also interested in international perspectives on Frost and articles related to translations of his work. In addition to scholarly articles, the Review also features short notes, book reviews, descriptions of encounters with the poet, historical and biographical features, and commissioned work on special topics. Each issue includes a bibliography of recent Frost-related publications and dissertations.
From the opening poem of Lisa Hase-Jackson's impactful collection, Insomnia in Another Town, we learn that There is no small grief...all are interconnected. These poems, cloaked in memory and the unmaking and re-making of family, travel us through the harvest of a poet's life. Like the farms she made grow, this book tills the soil of a human soul and all the many experiences that make it. In pantoums, free verse, and prose poems, Hase-Jackson demonstrates the way that every lived experience weaves into a root system that bears unique fruit, singular as our heartbeats, our winding fingerprints.
-Ashley M. Jones, poet laureate of Alabama
Travelers' Rest is a family epic, but it is also an American epic, carrying a message that can also be found in Ben Robertson's other, more famous works, Red Hills and Cotton and I Saw England (his first-hand account of the Battle of Britain). Thoughts of the Republic's founding and American values were very much on Robertson's mind as a journalist covering Washington and Europe as he anticipated the coming of the Second World War.
Since its 1925 publication, Manhattan Transfer has been widely recognized as a landmark in American modernism both for its jaundiced portrayal of the American Dream and for its experimentation with the novel form. Clear, factual annotations by the world's leading expert on Dos Passos's fi ction guides readers through the novel's dense representation of life in New York City during the turbulent early decades of the new century.
Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr is a polyphonic, docupoetic project exploring Belle Starr, a notorious Wild West outlaw, and her unsolved murder in 1889. Belle Starr traded a privileged upbringing for a life on the lam-marrying outlaws, thieving, and providing shelter for criminal gangs, all with her signature brocade and purple hats. After the media locked into her story, Belle Starr rocketed to fame. She became a compelling anti-hero, icon, and criminal mastermind-The Female Jesse James. Newspapers and books fabricated details about Belle, and a mass delusion seemingly took hold. But who was Belle Starr? Where do fiction and fact overlap? Today's evolving media ecosystem-fake news, deep fakes, carefully controlled social media profiles-underscore the enduring appeal of the person vs persona tension. A feminist analog to Michael Ondaatje's Collected Works of Billy the Kid, this archive-driven book merges documentary poetry by Margot Douaihy with scratchboard illustrations by Bri Hermanson to examine identity, desire, rule breaking, and (in)authenticity.
Since 1968, The South Carolina Review (SCR) has published fiction, poetry, interviews, unpublished letters and manuscripts, essays, and reviews from literary giants such as Joyce Carol Oates and Kurt Vonnegut as well as eminent critics such as Cleanth Brooks and Marjorie Perloff.
Since 1968, The South Carolina Review (SCR) has published fiction, poetry, interviews, unpublished letters and manuscripts, essays, and reviews from literary giants such as Joyce Carol Oates and Kurt Vonnegut as well as eminent critics such as Cleanth Brooks and Marjorie Perloff.