Author: Regina Jennings
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: madhubuti, haki, poetics, malcolm
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2006-09-28
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0786426195
ISBN-13: 9780786426195
Illustrating the power of oratory in the 1960s and its successful merging with the art of that era, this text examines the significance of Malcolm X as a literary muse for Haki Madhubuti, one of America’s premiere poets and essayists. Long after the death of Malcolm X, Haki Mudhubuti continued to expound on X’s major oratorical themes, including the effort to destroy the racial appellation “Negro” and to create new definitions for words that relate to Africa. X’s persistence in oratory during the 1960s influenced an art movement that changed the psychology and behavior of American Bl
Author: Albin J. Zak
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: making, records, tracks, cutting, rock, poetics
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2001-11-05
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0520232240
ISBN-13: 9780520232242
After a hundred years of recording, the process of making records is still mysterious to most people who listen to them. Records hold a fundamental place in the dynamics of modern musical life, but what do they represent? Are they documents? Snapshots? Artworks? Fetishes? Commodities? Conveniences? The Poetics of Rock is a fascinating exploration of recording consciousness and compositional process from the perspective of those who make records. In it, Albin Zak examines the crucial roles played by recording technologies in the construction of rock music and shows how songwriters, musicians, e
Author: Mark Richardso
Publisher: University of Illinois Pre
Keywords: poetics, poet, frost, robert, ordeal
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1997-07-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0252023382
ISBN-13: 9780252023385
Named an Outstanding Academic Book by "Choice" magazine, "The Ordeal of Robert Frost" depicts Frost as a thoroughly contemporary poet, dynamically engaged - in his own way - with the developments of literary modernism and American cultural criticism and with the social and political issues of his time. Placing Frost’s critical concerns in a broad context of literary theory, Mark Richardson explores the poet’s struggles with the vocation of poetry - spiritually, socially, aesthetically, and personally. Through close readings of Frost’s poetry and often ignored prose, Richardso
Author: Gayle Jacoba Greene
Publisher: University of Michigan Pre
Keywords: change, poetics, lessing, doris
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1997-10-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 047208433X
ISBN-13: 9780472084333
An original and compelling appraisal of this important international literary figure.
Author: Daniel Tiffany
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: substance, nightlife, riddles, poetics, infidel
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2009-10-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0226803104
ISBN-13: 9780226803104
Poetry has long been regarded as the least accessible of literary genres. But how much does the obscurity that confounds readers of a poem differ from, say, the slang that seduces listeners of hip-hop? Infidel Poetics examines not only the shared incomprensibilities of poetry and slang, but poetry’s genetic relation to the spectacle of underground culture. Charting connections between vernacular poetry, lyric obscurity, and types of social relations—networks of darkened streets in preindustrial cities, the historical underworld of taverns and clubs, the subcultures
Author: Michael Patrick Gillespie
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Keywords: ambiguity, poetics, wilde, oscar
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0813014530
ISBN-13: 9780813014531
Presenting an inclusive approach to Wilde criticism, this book highlights the diversity in Wilde’s writing, suggests strategies for reading, and leaves the reader to decide how best to apply them.
Author: Michael Mack
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Keywords: creation, imitating, poetics, sidney
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2004-12
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0813213886
ISBN-13: 9780813213880
Sir Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie (c. 1582) has often been identified as a landmark along the path from poetry understood as imitation to poetry understood as creation. Critics are, however, far from agreeing on the defining features of Sidney’s transitional theory. By attending to Sidney’s familiarity with patristic and contemporary theological works, Sidney’s Poetics shows how theological considerations shaped Sidney’s synthesis of the literary-critical traditions he inherited and led him to what is in fact the first full-fledged theory of poetic creativity. No less bold tha
