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Modernist Women Poets : Generations, Geographies and Genders
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This Special Issue showcases poets who enhance the breadth of modernist literary practices. The cohering concept is a complex relationship to both gender and modernity through original experiments with language. Leading scholars explore writers who both fit and extend orthodox modernist histories: Marianne Moore, H.D., Edna St Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, and Charlotte Mew were born around the cusp of the twentieth century and flourished during the 1920s and 1930s; Lynette Roberts, Helen Adam and Hope Mirrlees were contemporaries but publishing or recognition came later; the next generation can include Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith and Muriel Spark; Veronica Forrest-Thomson represents a third generation who published into the 1980s, while Frances Presley and M. NourbeSe Philip hinge this group with the contemporary poets Carol Watts and Natasha Trethewey, whose works continue and rejuvenate progressive stylistics. The essays offer new readings of both well-known and unfamiliar poets. They are truly groundbreaking in plundering diverse theoretical fields in ways that disturb any lingering notions of a homogenized women’s poetry. The authors supplant into literary poetic analysis notions of geometry and mathematics, maritime materialities, tourism and taxonomy, architecture, classicism, folk art, Christianity and death, whimsy and empathy.


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Modernist Women Poets : Generations, Geographies and Genders
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This Special Issue showcases poets who enhance the breadth of modernist literary practices. The cohering concept is a complex relationship to both gender and modernity through original experiments with language. Leading scholars explore writers who both fit and extend orthodox modernist histories: Marianne Moore, H.D., Edna St Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, and Charlotte Mew were born around the cusp of the twentieth century and flourished during the 1920s and 1930s; Lynette Roberts, Helen Adam and Hope Mirrlees were contemporaries but publishing or recognition came later; the next generation can include Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith and Muriel Spark; Veronica Forrest-Thomson represents a third generation who published into the 1980s, while Frances Presley and M. NourbeSe Philip hinge this group with the contemporary poets Carol Watts and Natasha Trethewey, whose works continue and rejuvenate progressive stylistics. The essays offer new readings of both well-known and unfamiliar poets. They are truly groundbreaking in plundering diverse theoretical fields in ways that disturb any lingering notions of a homogenized women’s poetry. The authors supplant into literary poetic analysis notions of geometry and mathematics, maritime materialities, tourism and taxonomy, architecture, classicism, folk art, Christianity and death, whimsy and empathy.


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Hamlet's Arab journey : Shakespeare's prince and Nasser's ghost
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ISBN: 128328068X 9786613280688 1400840104 9781400840106 6613280682 9781283280686 9780691137803 0691137803 Year: 2011 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively "ed literary work in Arab politics today. Explaining the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the essential Arab political text, cited by Arab liberals, nationalists, and Islamists alike. On the Arab stage, Hamlet has been an operetta hero, a firebrand revolutionary, and a muzzled dissident. Analyzing productions from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Kuwait, Litvin follows the distinct phases of Hamlet's naturalization as an Arab. Her fine-grained theatre history uses personal interviews as well as scripts and videos, reviews, and detailed comparisons with French and Russian Hamlets. The result shows Arab theatre in a new light. Litvin identifies the French source of the earliest Arabic Hamlet, shows the outsize influence of Soviet and East European Shakespeare, and explores the deep cultural link between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and the ghost of Hamlet's father. Documenting how global sources and models helped nurture a distinct Arab Hamlet tradition, Hamlet's Arab Journey represents a new approach to the study of international Shakespeare appropriation.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

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Arabic drama --- Politics in literature. --- Heroes in literature. --- Political science in literature --- History and criticism. --- Hamlet --- Shakespeare, William, --- Amleth --- Translations into Arabic --- Appreciation --- Egypt --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Civilization --- English influences. --- 1970s. --- Alfred Farag. --- Arab Hamlet tradition. --- Arab Hamlet. --- Arab Shakespeare. --- Arab politics. --- Arabic theatre. --- Egypt. --- Egyptian audiences. --- Egyptian theatre. --- English translations. --- Gamal Abdel Nasser. --- Hamlet adaptations. --- Hamlet rewriting. --- Hamlet. --- Hamletization. --- Iraq. --- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra. --- Jordan. --- June War. --- Kuwait. --- Salah Abdel Sabur. --- Shakespeare adaptations. --- Shakespeare. --- Sulayman of Aleppo. --- Syria. --- The Tragedy of Al-Hallaj. --- allegorical political theatre. --- authenticity. --- collective political identity. --- death. --- dramatic irony. --- global kaleidoscope theory. --- historical agency. --- interiorized subjectivity. --- ironic laughter. --- legacy. --- literary studies. --- modern Arab identity. --- modern Arab politics. --- modern political agents. --- moral personhood. --- moral subjects. --- offshoot plays. --- polemical writings. --- political agency. --- political crises. --- political participation. --- political theatre. --- postcolonial period. --- postcolonial rewriting. --- psychological interiority. --- self-determination. --- twenty-first-century politics. --- world classics. --- Arabic languages --- Drama --- Theory of literary translation --- English literature --- Shakespeare, William --- Hamlet (Legendary character)

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