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Melodies Unheard - Anthony Hecht - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

Melodies Unheard - Anthony Hecht - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

Originally published in 2003. The fruit of a lifetime's reading and thinking about literature, its delights and its responsibilities, this book by acclaimed poet and critic Anthony Hecht explores the mysteries of poetry, offering profound insight into poetic form, meter, rhyme, and meaning. Ranging from Renaissance to contemporary poets, Hecht considers the work of Shakespeare, Sidney, and Noel; Housman, Hopkins, Eliot, and Auden; Frost, Bishop, and Wilbur; Amichai, Simic, and Heaney. Stepping back from individual poets, Hecht muses on rhyme and on meter, and also discusses St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians and Melville's Moby-Dick. Uniting these diverse subjects is Hecht's preoccupation with the careful deployment of words, the richness and versatility of language and of those who use it well. Elegantly written, deeply informed, and intellectually playful, Melodies Unheard confirms Anthony Hecht's reputation as one of our most original and imaginative thinkers on the literary arts.

DKK 380.00
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Degraded Heartland - Maria Farland - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

Degraded Heartland - Maria Farland - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception?What happens when rural America—long romanticized in pastoral literature—becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US literary antipastoral, a mode that exposes the stark realities of rural poverty and ecological devastation while highlighting the jagged process of modernization in the countryside. It provides a historical account of how ideas of rural backwardness developed in US literary culture. Positioned against idealized visions of rural life, the antipastoral interrogates ideas of rural backwardness and deficiency, emphasizing the perceived need for reform through capital investment, mechanization, and education. Antipastoral literature reflects the modernizing impulse—embodied in machinery, scientific agriculture, and incipient agribusiness—while exposing the disruptions these changes provoked. It responds to the nineteenth-century panic around "wastelands" and disturbing episodes like the Eugenics Survey of Vermont and its fascination with rural "degeneracy."Degraded Heartland reveals how writers like Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and W. E. B. Du Bois grappled with the uneven transformation of the American countryside. In dialogue with agricultural and rural reform discourse, their works underscore the tension between persistent stereotypes of rural stagnation and the realities of a rapidly evolving heartland. This book challenges the dominance of metropolitan modernism and enriches our understanding of the rural modern as a vital and contested space in American culture.

DKK 1083.00
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Degraded Heartland - Maria Farland - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

Degraded Heartland - Maria Farland - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception?What happens when rural America—long romanticized in pastoral literature—becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US literary antipastoral, a mode that exposes the stark realities of rural poverty and ecological devastation while highlighting the jagged process of modernization in the countryside. It provides a historical account of how ideas of rural backwardness developed in US literary culture. Positioned against idealized visions of rural life, the antipastoral interrogates ideas of rural backwardness and deficiency, emphasizing the perceived need for reform through capital investment, mechanization, and education. Antipastoral literature reflects the modernizing impulse—embodied in machinery, scientific agriculture, and incipient agribusiness—while exposing the disruptions these changes provoked. It responds to the nineteenth-century panic around "wastelands" and disturbing episodes like the Eugenics Survey of Vermont and its fascination with rural "degeneracy."Degraded Heartland reveals how writers like Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and W. E. B. Du Bois grappled with the uneven transformation of the American countryside. In dialogue with agricultural and rural reform discourse, their works underscore the tension between persistent stereotypes of rural stagnation and the realities of a rapidly evolving heartland. This book challenges the dominance of metropolitan modernism and enriches our understanding of the rural modern as a vital and contested space in American culture.

DKK 421.00
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Future Perfect - Charles (greensboro Community College) Martin - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

Future Perfect - Charles (greensboro Community College) Martin - Bog - Johns Hopkins University Press - Plusbog.dk

The latest dazzling collection of poems from Charles Martin, a modern poet working within the possibilities of traditional measures. To be modern is to live not in a single era, but in a churn of new technologies, deep history, myth, literary traditions, and contemporary cultural memes. In Future Perfect, Charles Martin’s darkly comic new collection, the poet explores our time and the times that come before and after, which we inhabit and cultivate in memory and imagination. Through poems that play with form and challenge expectation, Martin examines the continuities that persist from time immemorial to the future perfect. Sensitive to the traces left behind by the lives of his characters, Martin follows their tracks, reflections, echoes, and shadows. In “From Certain Footprints Found at Laetoli,” an ancient impression preserved in volcanic ash conjures up a family scene three million years past. In “The Last Resort of Mr. Kees” and “Mr. Kees Goes to a Party,” Martin adopts the persona of the vanished poet Weldon Kees to reimagine his disappearance. “Letter from Komarovo, 1962” retells the tense real-life meeting between Anna Akhmatova and Robert Frost a year before their nations almost destroyed one another. And in the titular sonnet sequence that ends the book, Martin conjures a childhood in the Bronx under the shadow of the mushroom cloud of nuclear war as the perfected future supplanting the present. Introducing Buck Rogers to Randall Jarrell and combining new translations or reinterpretations of works by Ovid, G. G. Belli, Octavio Paz, and Euripides, Future Perfect further establishes Charles Martin as a master of invention.

DKK 216.00
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