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Unbecoming
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ISBN: 0228010241 022801025X 9780228010241 9780228010258 Year: 2021 Publisher: Montreal Kingston London Chicago

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Unbecoming, Neil Surkan's sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from moment to moment. Interplaying tenderness with dogged perseverance, these poems tumble through vignettes of degraded landscapes, ebbing spiritual communities, faltering men, and precarious friendships.


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Tales of darkness and light : Soso Tham's The old days of the Khasis
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ISBN: 9791036516603 1783744685 Year: 2018 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

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Soso Tham (1873-1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of his people. Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece The Old Days of the Khasis. Janet Hujon's vibrant new translation presents the English reader with Tham's long poem, which keeps a rich cultural tradition of the Khasi people alive through its retelling of old narratives and acts as a cultural signpost for their literary identity. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Indian literature and culture and in the interplay between oral traditions and written literary forms.

The holy forest : collected poems of Robin Blaser
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ISBN: 1282358855 9786612358852 0520932250 9780520932258 9781282358850 0520245938 0520258258 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Robin Blaser, one of the key North American poets of the postwar period, emerged from the "Berkeley Renaissance" of the 1940's and 1950's as a central figure in that burgeoning literary scene. The Holy Forest, now spanning five decades, is Blaser's highly acclaimed lifelong serial poem. This long-awaited revised and expanded edition includes numerous published volumes of verse, the ongoing "Image-Nation" and "Truth Is Laughter" series, and new work from 1994 to 2004. Blaser's passion for world making draws inspiration from the major poets and philosophers of our time-from friends and peers such as Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, Charles Olson, Charles Bernstein, and Steve McCaffery to virtual companions in thought such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, among others. This comprehensive compilation of Blaser's prophetic meditations on the histories, theories, emotions, experiments, and counter memories of the late twentieth century will stand as the definitive collection of his unique and luminous poetic oeuvre.


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What the Victorians Made of Romanticism : Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History
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ISBN: 1400887895 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth-one that moves beyond the punctual historicism of much recent criticism and the narrow horizons of previous reception histories. He attends instead to the material artifacts and cultural practices that remediated Romantic writers and their works amid shifting understandings of history, memory, and media.Mole scrutinizes Victorian efforts to canonize and commodify Romantic writers in a changed media ecology. He shows how illustrated books renovated Romantic writing, how preachers incorporated irreligious Romantics into their sermons, how new statues and memorials integrated Romantic writers into an emerging national pantheon, and how anthologies mediated their works to new generations. This ambitious study investigates a wide range of material objects Victorians made in response to Romantic writing-such as photographs, postcards, books, and collectibles-that in turn remade the public's understanding of Romantic writers.Shedding new light on how Romantic authors were posthumously recruited to address later cultural concerns, What the Victorians Made of Romanticism reveals new histories of appropriation, remediation, and renewal that resonate in our own moment of media change, when once again the cultural products of the past seem in danger of being forgotten if they are not reimagined for new audiences.

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Romanticism --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Algernon Charles Swinburne. --- Anecdote. --- Anthology. --- Atheism. --- Author. --- Benjamin Disraeli. --- Biography. --- Book design. --- Calton Hill. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Charles Dickens. --- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. --- Christianity. --- Clergy. --- Edition (book). --- Embellishment. --- English literature. --- English poetry. --- Engraving. --- Felicia Hemans. --- First appearance. --- Franco Moretti. --- Frank Kermode. --- George Eliot. --- God. --- Guide to the Lakes. --- Handbook. --- Harriet Beecher Stowe. --- Hebrew Melodies. --- Henry Chorley. --- Illustration. --- Illustrator. --- Jerome McGann. --- John Ruskin. --- Lecture. --- Literary criticism. --- Literature. --- Long poem. --- Lord Byron. --- Mary Shelley. --- Matthew Arnold. --- Modernity. --- Narrative. --- National Library of Scotland. --- New Generation (Malayalam film movement). --- New Historicism. --- New media. --- Newspaper. --- Novel. --- Paratext. --- Percy Bysshe Shelley. --- Photography. --- Poet. --- Poetry. --- Poets' Corner. --- Postcard. --- Preface. --- Princes Street Gardens. --- Princeton University Press. --- Print culture. --- Printing. --- Printmaking. --- Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus). --- Prose. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Queen Mab. --- Religion. --- Reprint. --- Romantic poetry. --- Romanticism. --- Scott Monument. --- Scott's (restaurant). --- Secularization. --- Sensibility. --- Sermon. --- She Walks in Beauty. --- Special collections. --- Stanza. --- Stephen Greenblatt. --- Subjectivity. --- Supporter. --- T. S. Eliot. --- The Anthologist. --- The Aspern Papers. --- The Destruction of Sennacherib. --- The Giaour. --- The Lay of the Last Minstrel. --- The Other Hand. --- The Pencil of Nature. --- Theology. --- Troilus and Criseyde. --- Victorian era. --- Wai Chee Dimock. --- Walter Benjamin. --- William Michael Rossetti. --- William Shakespeare. --- William Wordsworth. --- Writer. --- Writing.

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