[PDF] The Cambridge Companion To John Donne eBook

Author : Achsah Guibbory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494869

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The Cambridge Companion to John Donne introduces students (undergraduate and graduate) to the range, brilliance, and complexity of John Donne. Sixteen essays, written by an international array of leading scholars and critics, cover Donne's poetry (erotic, satirical, devotional) and his prose (including his Sermons and occasional letters). Providing readings of his texts and also fully situating them in the historical and cultural context of early modern England, these essays offer the most up-to-date scholarship and introduce students to the current thinking and debates about Donne, while providing tools for students to read Donne with greater understanding and enjoyment. Special features include a chronology; a short biography; essays on political and religious contexts; an essay on the experience of reading his lyrics; a meditation on Donne by the contemporary novelist A. S. Byatt; and an extensive bibliography of editions and criticism.

Author : Achsah Guibbory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521540032

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Author : Thomas N. Corns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1993-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521423090

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English poetry in the first half of the seventeenth century is an outstandingly rich and varied body of verse, which can be understood and appreciated more fully when set in its cultural and ideological context. This student Companion, consisting of fourteen new introductory essays by scholars of international standing, informs and illuminates the poetry by providing close reading of texts and an exploration of their background. There are individual studies of Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Herbert, Carew, Suckling, Lovelace, Milton, Crashaw, Vaughan and Marvell. More general essays describe the political and religious context of the poetry, explore its gender politics, explain the material circumstances of its production and circulation, trace its larger role in the development of genre and tradition, and relate it to contemporary rhetorical expectation. Overall the Companion provides an indispensable guide to the texts and contexts of early-seventeenth-century English poetry.

Author : Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521874343

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This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

Author : Kenneth Gloag
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107021979

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This Companion provides a wide ranging and accessible study of one of the most individual composers of the twentieth century. A team of international scholars shed new light on Tippett's major works and draw attention to those that have not yet received the attention they deserve.

Author : Richard Harp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521646789

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An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.

Author : Tadahisa Kuroda
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1994-08-30
Category : History
ISBN :

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"Kuroda, in a concise format and readable text, offers a complete assessment of the college from its 1787 inception to its 1804 revision that has long been needed and is well worth reading." New York State Historical Association

Author : Elizabeth Prettejohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107495512

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The group of young painters and writers who coalesced into the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the middle years of the nineteenth century became hugely influential in the development not only of literature and painting, but also more generally of art and design. Though their reputation has fluctuated over the years, their achievements are now recognised and their style enjoyed and studied widely. This volume explores the lives and works of the central figures in the group: among others, the Rossettis, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Ford Madox Brown, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. This is the first book to provide a general introduction to the Pre-Raphaelite movement that integrates its literary and visual art forms. The Companion explains what made the Pre-Raphaelite style unique in painting, poetry, drawing and prose.

Author : Lawrence Manley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107495555

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London has provided the setting and inspiration for a host of literary works in English, from canonical masterpieces to the popular and ephemeral. Drawing upon a variety of methods and materials, the essays in this volume explore the London of Langland and the Peasants' Rebellion, of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan stage, of Pepys and the Restoration coffee house, of Dickens and Victorian wealth and poverty, of Conrad and the Empire, of Woolf and the wartime Blitz, of Naipaul and postcolonial immigration, and of contemporary globalism. Contributions from historians, art historians, theorists and media specialists as well as leading literary scholars exemplify current approaches to genre, gender studies, book history, performance studies and urban studies. In showing how the tradition of English literature is shaped by representations of London, this volume also illuminates the relationship between the literary imagination and the society of one of the world's greatest cities.

Author : A. David Moody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 23,44 MB
Release : 1994-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107493706

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In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays from several distinct points of view. The major aspects and issues of his life and thought are assessed: his American origins and his becoming English; his position as a philosopher; his literary, social, and political criticism; and the evolution of his religious sense. Later chapters place his work in a number of historical perspectives; and the final chapter provides an expert review of the whole field of Eliot studies and is supplemented by a listing of the most significant publications. There is a useful chronological outline. Taken as a whole, the Companion comprises an essential handbook for students and other readers of Eliot.