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Author : Cheryl Walker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Masks Outrageous and Austere written by Cheryl Walker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl Walker, an ETHS graduate of 1965 has produced a study of early 20th century female American poets.
Author : William Prosser
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810863613
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (636 download)
Download or read book The Late Plays of Tennessee Williams written by William Prosser and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Praised as one of the finest American playwrights of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) left a legacy of theater classics, including The Glass Menagerie, Sweet Bird of Youth. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Although he won two Pulitzer prizes for drama, Williams fell out of favor in the early 1960s, and after The Night of the Iguana his subsequent works suffered both critical and commercial failure. Even worse, several of his plays failed to get produced in his lifetime." "William Prosser directed six productions of Williams' plays, five of which the playwright saw, criticized, and often praised. Determined to liberate the playwright's later works from the literary purgatory to which they had been condemned by critics, Prosser examines the plays Williams produced from the early 1960s until his death. In several thoughtful essays. Prosser discusses such works as The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Slapstick Tragedy, Kingdom of Earth, The Red Devil Battery Sign, and Clothes for a Summer Hotel a portrait of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Besides offering reevaluations of these plays, each chapter may be seen as research and analysis for potential productions, Throughout the book, Prosser contends that Williams' talent was not destroyed but rather went on in different directions to create extraordinary, if misunderstood, works."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Annette J. Saddik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107076684
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess written by Annette J. Saddik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Williams' late plays in terms of a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter.
Author : Liz Rosenberg
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618564521
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (645 download)
Download or read book I Just Hope It's Lethal written by Liz Rosenberg and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The teenage years are filled with sadness, madness, joy, and all the messy stuff in between. This collection includes poems by Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allen Poe, W.B. Yeats, Dorothy Parker, and many more, including teenage writers.
Author : Douglas B. Chambers
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800117
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Personal Souths written by Douglas B. Chambers and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Souths, a collection of twenty interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies. The figures interviewed range from Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams (all from the 1970s), to a virtual Who's Who of southern literature in the second half of the twentieth century. All of these interviews were originally published in the journal in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s and are collected here for the first time. The South is represented broadly, with writers from eight states; at least four represent the “mountain South” (Donald Harrington, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith), while another four typify a “cosmopolitan South” (Reynolds Price, Mary Lee Settle, Elizabeth Spencer, Tennessee Williams). The greatest number of voices, at least eight of the authors, speak for or from the “poor white South” (Larry Brown, Erskine Caldwell, Harry Crews, Donald Harrington, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Morgan, Del Shores, Lee Smith). Though there is only one African American writer, Ernest J. Gaines, another interview (William Styron, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Confessions of Nat Turner) also focuses on a conversation about African American literature. The interviews are all fascinating. Not only do they reveal the personalities of these southern literary stars, but they also represent a self-conscious community of writers. It is a testament to the quality of The Southern Quarterly that many of these writers, when discussing their most important contemporaries, often refer to other writers whose interviews are also in this collection. These firsthand discussions will continue to illuminate and inform our understanding of their creative work.
Author : Catherine Keyser
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813551110
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Playing Smart written by Catherine Keyser and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart women, sophisticated ladies, savvy writers . . . Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Lois Long, Jessie Fauset, Dawn Powell, Mary McCarthy, and others imagined New York as a place where they could claim professional status, define urban independence, and shrug off confining feminine roles. It might be said that during the 1920s and 1930s these literary artists painted the town red on the pages of magazines like Vanity Fair and the New Yorker. Playing Smart, Catherine Keyser's homage to their literary genius, is a captivating celebration of their causes and careers. Through humor writing, this "smart set" expressed both sides of the story-promoting their urbanity and wit while using irony and caricature to challenge feminine stereotypes. Their fiction raised questions about what it meant to be a woman in the public eye, how gender roles would change because men and women were working together, and how the growth of the magazine industry would affect women's relationships to their bodies and minds. Keyser provides a refreshing and informative chronicle, saluting the value of being "smart" as incisive and innovative humor showed off the wit and talent of women writers and satirized the fantasy world created by magazines.
Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195398777
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry written by Cary Nelson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse, the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar and dissent poetry; the AIDS epidemic; digital innovations; transnationalism; hip hop; and more. Alongside these topics, major interpretive perspectives such as Marxist, psychoanalytic, disability, queer, and ecocritcal are incorporated. Throughout, the names that have shaped American poetry in the period--Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Sterling Brown, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Posey, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Larry Eigner, and others--serve as touchstones along the tour of the poetic landscape.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book English Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shira Wolosky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136668535
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Feminist Theory Across Disciplines written by Shira Wolosky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, psychology, history, political theory, religious culture, cultural studies, and poetics, this study provides entry into some of the founding feminist discussions across disciplines, moving beyond current scholarship to pursue an interpretation of feminism’s defining interests and assumptions in the context of women’s writing. The author emphasizes and explores how women’s writing expresses their active participation in community and civic life, emerging from and shaping a woman’s selfhood as constituted through relationships, not only on the personal level, but as forming community commitments. This distinctive formation of the self finds expression in women’s voices and other poetic forms of expression, with the aesthetic power of poetry itself bringing different arenas of human experience to bear on each other in mutual interrogation and reflection. Women poets have addressed the public world, directly or through a variety of poetic structures and figures, and in doing so they have defined and expressed specific forms of selfhood engaged in and committed to communal life.
Author : Chaim Stern
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807028056
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Day by Day written by Chaim Stern and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spiritual source for daily reflections; the poems, proverbs, quotations and excerpts from various spiritual and philosophical texts in this book have been selected to inspire and comfort. They include writings from such diverse sources as the Talmud, the psalms, Einstein, and Susan Sontag.
Author : Hayden Carruth
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553262637
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Voice That Is Great Within Us written by Hayden Carruth and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1983-09-01 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “What an achievement, these sixty years of poetry! In whatever terms we Americans regard the rest of our recent history, the score of things done well and done ill, this much at least we have done superlatively.”—Hayden Carruth This famous anthology includes the works of more than 130 major American poets of the modern period—Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, Carl Sandburg, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Gwendolyn Brooks among them—along with short biographies of each. “Not only the best on its period, I think, but is even perhaps safe from the competition of rivals.”—Robert Lowell
Author : Jane McIntosh Snyder
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231099943
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho written by Jane McIntosh Snyder and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine Sappho's poetry through the lens of lesbian desire. Snyder provides close readings of the surviving examples of Sappho's poetry, occasionally presenting comparative material from other ancient Greek poets. The original Greek text is included in an appendix.
Author : William H. Epstein
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557530189
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Contesting the Subject written by William H. Epstein and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanley Fish opens the collection with a persuasive argument for the role of intention and biography. Michael McKeon, Gordon Turnbull, and Jerome Christensen are concerned with the late eighteenth--and early nineteenth-century English cultural discourse that gave rise to the nearly simultaneous emergence of literary biography, Romantic sensibility, and reflexive human consciousness. The essays by Alison Booth, Cheryl Walker, and Sharon O'Brien reveal that the recognition or lack thereof the biographical subject has received and remains both a problem and an opportunity for women writers and readers. The essays by Valerie Ross, Rob Wilson, Steven Weiland, and William Epstein pursue the question of difference and cultural reification in the theory and practice of a specifically American biography and biographical criticism.
Author : Georgina Taylor
Publisher : Oxford English Monographs
ISBN 13 : 9780198187134
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (871 download)
Download or read book H.D. and the Public Sphere of Modernist Women Writers, 1913-1946 written by Georgina Taylor and published by Oxford English Monographs. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book locates H.D. within an Anglo-American 'public sphere' of women writers, a discursive arena in which individuals come together in debate and discussion. The theoretical framework used is that outlined in Jurgen Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, modified inorder to consider this group as a 'counter-public sphere', a non-dominant group whose interests were non-identical to those of the dominant public sphere.From 1913 a network of little magazines enabled women writers to come together in unprecedented numbers in public exchange. The ethos of this public sphere was a challenge to all convention, including challenges to the perceived sentimentality of earlier women's writing; H.D.'s Imagism was crucialin this. Initially this public sphere avoided engagement with the wider socio-political world, focusing instead on psychic reality. Writing became increasingly experimental in a new wave of avant-garde activity, fuelling heated debate in the magazines around the nature of 'literature'.By the mid 1920s this particular literary sphere had lost direction, but continued to experiment and seek new ways forward. New discussions around cinematic forms (in which H.D. participated) kept critical discussion very much alive. In the 1930s the work emerging from this network was increasinglypolitically aware. This was a period of highly disturbed writing such as H.D.'s Nights and Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, internalizations of the sadomasochism enacted on the world stage.After the war, this public sphere declined into personal exchanges in letters and private circulation of manuscripts.
Author : John Timberman Newcomb
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814209580
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Would Poetry Disappear? written by John Timberman Newcomb and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda A. Kinnahan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316495558
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry written by Linda A. Kinnahan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging essays that illuminate the legacy of American women poets. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse of such diverse poets as Edna St Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History also devotes special attention to the lasting significance of feminist literary criticism. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of women's poetry in America and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.
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Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book University of Virginia Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
