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  • Monogamy

    Its Songs and Poems

    by Robert Von Hallberg ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Scholarly
    Monogamy elaborates an ideology of romance from extraordinary poems and songs, one by one. Poems and popular songs are still the main medium for preserving the rules of romance. Each chapter is a meditation on one of eight commonplaces about love: that it makes one monogamous, sentimental, vulnerable; that its force is immediate and transformative; or that it is a fickle force, but cannot be ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lyric Powers

    by Robert von Hallberg ...
    The authority of poetry varies from one period to another, from one culture to another. For Robert von Hallberg, the authority of lyric poetry has three sources: religious affirmation, the social institutions of those who speak the idioms from which particular poems are made, and the extraordinary cognition generated by the formal and musical resources of poems. Lyric Powers helps students, poets, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies

    Spies, Noirs, and Trust

    by Robert von Hallberg ...
    Series series Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
    Film noir is by definition dark, but not, this book argues, desperate. Examining twenty-eight great noir films from the earliest examples of the genre, including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and Out of the Past, to such twenty-first-century spy films as The Good Shepherd, Syriana, and The Bourne Ultimatum, this study explores the representations of trust and commitment that noir and spy ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 2

    Mind, Nation, and Power

    Edited by Robert von Hallberg, Robert Faggen ...
    Series series Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
    Horace speaks of poetry delighting and instructing. While Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1 explores the pleasures of poetry—its language, forms, and musicality—volume 2 focuses on the public dimensions. In this volume, von Hallberg and Faggen have gathered a diverse selection of poets to explore questions such as: How does poetry instruct a society with a highly evolved knowledge ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950, Volume 1

    Language, Form, and Music

    Edited by Robert von Hallberg, Robert Faggen ...
    Series series Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics
    Over the last sixty years scholars and critics have focused on literary history and interpretation rather than literary value. When value is addressed, the standards are usually political and identitarian. The essays collected in both volumes of Evaluations of US Poetry since 1950 move away from esoteric literary criticism toward a more evaluative and speculative inquiry that will serve as the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    A Guide to Modern Poetry

    by David Orr ...
    "David Orr is no starry-eyed cheerleader for contemporary poetry; Orr's a critic, and a good one. . . . Beautiful & Pointless is a clear-eyed, opinionated, and idiosyncratic guide to a vibrant but endangered art form, essential reading for anyone who loves poetry, and also for those of us who mostly just admire it from afar." —Tom PerrottaAward-winning New York Times Book Review poetry columnist ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Are What You Read

    A Practical Guide to Reading Well

    by Robert DiYanni ...
    Series series Skills for Scholars
    How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literatureWe are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain access to the lives of others, explore the limitless possibilities of human existence, develop our understanding of the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Windows and Doors

    A Poet Reads Literary Theory

    by Natasha Saje ...
    Series series Poets On Poetry
    Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Sajé’s nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology. Foundational topics—diction, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost

    Edited by Robert Faggen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. Writing in the tradition of Virgil, Milton, and Wordsworth, he transformed pastoral and georgic poetry both in subject matter and form. Mastering the rhythms of ordinary speech, Frost made country ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Orpheus in the Bronx

    Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry

    by Reginald Shepherd ...
    Series series Poets On Poetry
    "Orpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift---the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings."---James LongenbachA highly acute writer, scholar, editor, and critic, Reginald Shepherd brings to his work the sensibilities of a classicist ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Educated Imagination

    by Northrop Frye ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    "What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop Frye's many books, perhaps the easiest introduction to his theories of literature and literary education. ... Read more

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  • Why Poetry

    by Matthew Zapruder ...
    "Zapruder is the ideal narrator to debunk mistaken ideas about the art and claim that the ways we teach poetry are what prevent us from enjoying it." — San Francisco ChronicleIn Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. ... Read more

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