A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits.In this bold new study of twentieth-century …
Originally published in 1976. Representing years of critical reflection, The Theory of Criticism attempts to construct a poetics of "e;presence."e; Within a wide range of …
Attempts by writers and intellectuals in former colonies to create unique national cultures are often thwarted by a context of global modernity, which discourages particularity and …
In the mid-nineteenth century, American and British governments marched with great fanfare into the marketplace of knowledge and publishing. British royal commissions of inquiry, …
Read the Romantics from the perspective of both political theory and literary studies-and consider justice through the lens of the sublime.In the past ten years, theorists from …
The first study of modern and contemporary poetry's vibrant exchange with gossip.Can the art of gossip help us to better understand modern and contemporary poetry? Gossip's …
How did modernist poetry respond-both thematically and technically-to communism?In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned-and aesthetically …
Understanding the dynamics of British colonialism and the enormous ecological transformations that took place through the mobilization and globalized management of natures.For many …
In Framing Attention, Lutz Koepnick explores different concepts of the window-in both a literal and a figurative sense-as manifested in various visual forms in German culture from …
Originally published in 1962. The rise of "e;metaphoric"e; criticism is a reaction against a previous critical preoccupation with psychology and time. Milton spatialized …
