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This book, authored by Karin Schwerdtner, explores the concept of writing as an address, particularly focusing on the epistolary genre. Through a series of interviews conducted between 2016 and 2019 with fifteen female authors, it delves into their relationship with writing, the influence of historical letters, and their contemporary significance. The work examines how these writers perceive the act of addressing an audience and how letters serve as a medium for personal expression and historical documentation. It also considers the role of letters in the digital age and the unique connections women writers have with this form of communication.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

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Este nuevo volumen ofrece ensayos de especialistas angl©đfonos sobre el Libro de Buen Amor, obra monumental del siglo XIV. El volumen responde a la necesidad de un enfoque actualizado que examina el estado de las cuestiones principales (como son la de la autor©Ưa y su contexto, la m©♭trica, las tradiciones manuscrita e impresa, el uso de exempla y proverbios, y las aproximaciones te©đricas al Libro) y sus implicaciones para una lectura del Libro. Adem©Łs aporta dos estudios de uno de los episodios principales (el encuentro del arcipreste con Don Amor hasta la muerte de Do©ła Endrina). Se explora tambi©♭n la estructura de la obra juanruizana como un texto pre-novel©Ưstico en el sentido bajtiniano y desde la teor©Ưa del caos.Contribuyen: Laurence de Looze, Alan Deyermond, Mart©Ưn Duffell, Elizabeth Drayson, Jeremy Lawrance, Dorothy S. Severin, Barry Taylor, y los editores. This volume of essays on the fourteenth-century Libro de Buen Amor by Anglophone Hispanists comprises survey articles (author and milieu, print and manuscript traditions, metrics, exempla and proverbs, modern theoretical treatments of the Libro), fresh readings of a key passage (the encounter between Don Amor and the Archpriest, and don Mel©đn and do©ła Endrina), and appraisals of the Libro's meanings and structure as pre-novelistic discourse, and through chaos theory.Contributors are Alan Deyermond, Elizabeth Drayson, Martin Duffell, Jeremy Lawrance, Laurence de Looze, Dorothy S. Severin, Barry Taylor, and the editors.

Ruiz, Juan, --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

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Mit einer Gattungsgeschichte der Ballade fragt diese Untersuchung nach einem Spezifischen der DDR-Literatur, jenseits von kulturpolitischen Richtlinien und Eckdaten. Dafür werden Textbeispiele aus dem Zeitraum 1945 bis 1989 mit narratologischen Kriterien analysiert. Die Ergebnisse belegen eine immanente Evolution der Poetik, in der sich schon früh die Konventionen des sozialistischen Realismus relativiert zeigen. Denn in den fünfziger Jahren entwickelt sich eine poetische Alternative, für die die Ballade als ein Prototyp gelten kann: das lyrische Erzählen. Von Seiten der Ästhetik in der DDR dank der Zuordnung der Ballade zur Lyrik und der daran gebundenen Verpflichtung auf Subjektivität autorisiert, ist die Gattung als subjektive Domäne prädestiniert und narrativ für autofiktionale Verfahren bis hin zur „Rückkehr des Autors“ offen. Vielfach nehmen die Gedichte schon eine postmoderne Poetik vorweg, in der jedoch immer ein Typisches der Literatur und ihrer Geschichte in der DDR eingeschrieben bleibt – Authentizität. Much of the attention paid to the poetry of the GDR was closely tied to one genre and narrative mode – the lyrical narration of the ballad. With a genre history spanning the period 1945 to 1989, this volume presents this distinctive feature of GDR literature using narratological analyses, tracing it to the poetology and aesthetics of the GDR.

Fiction --- German literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry

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Treasuring the past, savouring the present, and wanting to do right by the future, Archibald Lampman was a poet keenly focused on the workings of time. He was also a thinker of mystical predisposition. His goal was not to transcend time, but to find redemptive meaning within it. Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress explores the ways in which Lampman pursued this goal in relation to the three faces of time. Memory fascinated Lampman. He relished the “alchemy” by which the dross of past experience could be left behind and the gold preserved. Nature compelled his mind and emotions, and his clear-eyed observations of both countryside and wilderness settings gave rise to a self-evolved poetics of inclusiveness. In his celebrations of nature in all its manifestations, mild or bleak, he anticipated the work of iconic Canadian painter Tom Thomson and he forecasted the environmentalism of our own time. Progress for Lampman spelled societal rectification. By forwarding the cause of social betterment, one was part of a movement larger than oneself, and this expansion, too, was redemptive. Archibald Lampman: Memory, Nature, Progress is the first book on this foundational figure in Canadian literature to appear in over twenty-five years and the first thematically focused study. Combining close analysis with biographical context, it shows how Lampman’s oeuvre was shaped by his responses to his physical surroundings and to his social-intellectual milieu, as filtered through his stubbornly independent outlook.

Lampman, Archibald, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

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"Understanding Sharon Olds explores this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's major themes, characters, life, and career, including her often-controversial portrayals of family dysfunction, sexuality, and violence against women. In this first book dedicated entirely to the poetry of Sharon Olds, Russell Brickey examines how Olds approaches these difficult and complex topics with pathos and intimate, sometimes provocatively private, details through poetry that not all her critics appreciate. Olds has never shied away from difficult subject matter. Her first award-winning book, Satan Says, is a feminist exploration of gender politics and adolescent discovery. The Father comprises a book-length elegy about cancer. Stag's Leap, Olds's Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, is a surprisingly tender look at divorce in modern American culture. Extremely personal, her poems often deal with the victories and contradictions of being a woman in the United States during a time when the country is often involved in racial upheavals and military conflicts overseas. She investigates the victories and contradictions of being a wife and mother during the era of feminism, as one of our most honest, most overt poets of female sexuality and its relationship to family life and its place within the history of humanity. Brickey organizes each chapter around a theme or a persona within Olds's cast of characters. These include poems dedicated to mothers, fathers, children, and the arc of history. Through his close readings, Brickey shows how and where Olds has expanded the tradition of confessional poetry (literature that deals with psychology, family, love, and sexuality), a term Olds disdains but nevertheless expanded into commentary about the human condition in all its paradoxes."--

LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry. --- Olds, Sharon --- Criticism and interpretation.