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Joel Childers
The Historical Poem

The Historical Poem takes up Georg Lukács's classic account of the historical novel to tell the forgotten story of its precursors. For eighteenth-century and Romantic thinkers, these were poems from dista…

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William Shakespeare,
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Oxford World's Classics

'I have had a most rare vision.'A Midsummer Night's Dream evokes images of fairies, dreams, changeling children, and actors being transformed into asses. But is the play as ethereal as these associations …

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Susan Cheever
When All the Men Wore Hats

A sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of the legendary writer John Cheever, as told by his eldest daughter.The Stories of John Cheever ,…

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Kir Kuiken
Adrift on the Earth

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and contem…

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Ishion Hutchinson
Fugitive Tilts

Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut.InFugitive Tilts , the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns to pr…

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Jeremy Rosen
Genre Bending

Post*45

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular…

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Northrop Frye
Fearful Symmetry

Princeton Classics

The landmark book that situates Blake's poetry within the intellectual movements of his day and unlocks his symbolism for modern readersSince it was first published, Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry has e…

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Penny Bradshaw
An A-Z of Beatrix Potter

From Peter Rabbit to Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, The Tailor of Gloucester to The Fairy Caravan, the works and characters of Beatrix Potter have bewitched children the world over for more than a century - and have …

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Mary I. Unger
Reading the Renaissance

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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Stephen Harrigan
An Anchor in the Sea of Time

A new collection of essays grappling with identity and memory, from a master of the form.

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Jeremy Rosen
Genre Bending

Post*45

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular…

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Ailbhe Darcy
Virtuosity

Elements in Poetry and Poetics

This Element examines how contemporary poets reimagine virtuosity as a mode of poetic performance. It sees virtuosity not as a fixed attribute but a strategic choice - one a poet may enter at specific mom…

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Robert Francis

Rediscovering the quietly radical writing of a poet who chose simplicity, solitude, and contemplation over modern hasteAmerican author Robert Francis, whom Robert Frost called "the best neglected poe…

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Paul Valery,
Aesthetics

Bollingen Recollections

A collection of Valéry's writings on the making of "works of the mind"---in art, philosophy, history, and scienceFor Paul Valéry, art consisted of all that the mind makes for its own pleasure an…

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Maggie Nelson
Slicks

A keen, ardent celebration of unbridled female ambition in the work of Taylor Swift and Sylvia PlathIn The Slicks , Maggie Nelson positions culture-dominating pop superstar Taylor Swift and feminist cult …

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Denne Michele Norris, Electric Literature
Both/And

From Denne Michele Norris and Electric Literature, a vital anthology of essays by trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery.Featuring se…

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John Ashbery
Other Traditions

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

"An entertaining and shrewd little book ... Ashbery is an accomplished raconteur." -Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksThe most influential American poet of his generation appraises the less…

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A Practical Companion to Children's Literature Studies

Children's literature is a rapidly expanding and ever-evolving field, so this research guide is devoted to the specialist skills and complexities of studying and working with children's literature, alongs…

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John Plotz
Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea

My Reading

A book on the experience of reading Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea novels.What makes readers fall in love? You might want to start your answer by explaining Ursula Le Guin. She owned John Plotz at age eight, o…

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Teaching Post-1945 American Short Fiction

Options for Teaching

New frontiers in American fictionAfter 1945, women, people of color, and queer writers remade American short fiction, rejecting the modernist dogmas of impersonality and universalism that had long exclude…

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