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  • How to Read a Poem

    Seven Steps

    by Thomas H. Ford ...
    How to Read a Poemis an introduction to creative reading, the art of coming up with something to say about a text. It presents a new method for learning and teaching the skills of poetic interpretation, providing its readers with practical steps they can use to construct perceptive, inventive readings of any poem they might read.The Introduction sets out the aims of the book and provides some ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Barron Field in New South Wales

    The Poetics of Terra Nullius

    by Thomas H Ford, Justin Clemens ...
    On 24 February 1817, Barron Field sailed into Sydney Harbour on the convict transport Lord Melville to a ceremonial thirteen-gun salute. He was there as the new Judge of the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature in New South Wales - the highest legal authority in the turbulent colony. Energetic and gregarious, Field immediately set about impressing his vision of a future Australia as a liberal and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Kafka's Creatures

    Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings

    by Andrea Baer, Esther K. Bauer, Melissa De Bruyker, Hadea Nell Kriesberg, Naama Harel, Eleanor Helms, Burkhard Müller, Margot Norris, Tahia Thaddeus Reynaga, Henry Sussman, Dean Swinford, Tom Tyler, Dr Thomas H. Ford ...
    There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating this important and ubiquitous dimension of his work. The chapters here are written by an array of ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Philosophy and Poetry

    Continental Perspectives

    by Ranjan Ghosh, Ranjan Ghosh, Lutz Koepnick, Cecilia Sjöholm, Jean-Michel Rabaté, François Noudelmann, Daniel O'Hara, Raoul Moati, Claire Colebrook, Bruno Bosteels, Jean-Philippe Deranty0, Dean of School of Humanities Georges Van Den Abbeele1, Professor of English Roland Vegso2, Professor of Philosophy James Risser3, Lecturer Thomas H. Ford4, Ph.D. Daniel Rosenberg Nutters5, Professor of Philosophy Galen Johnson6, Professor of French & Gender Studies Anne Emmanuelle Berger7, Professor Emeritus of Literature Leslie Hill8, Head of French Department Ian James9, Senior Lecturer in English Carol M. Bove0, Justin Clemens1 ...
    Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Philosophy and Poetry

    Continental Perspectives

    by Ranjan Ghosh, Lutz Koepnick, Cecilia Sjöholm, Jean-Michel Rabaté, François Noudelmann, Daniel O'Hara, Raoul Moati, Claire Colebrook, Bruno Bosteels, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Dean of School of Humanities Georges Van Den Abbeele, Professor of English Roland Vegso, Professor of Philosophy James Risser, Lecturer Thomas H. Ford, Ph.D. Daniel Rosenberg Nutters, Professor of Philosophy Galen Johnson, Professor of French & Gender Studies Anne Emmanuelle Berger, Professor Emeritus of Literature Leslie Hill, Head of French Department Ian James, Senior Lecturer in English Carol M. Bove, Justin Clemens ...
    Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air

    by Thomas H. Ford ...
    Series Book 121 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word 'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift of meaning, which he sees as first occurring in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Gradually 'air' and 'atmosphere' took on the new ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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  • Stylistics

    by Richard Bradford ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Richard Bradford provides a definitive introductory guide to modern critical ideas on literary style and stylistics. It will provide students with a basic grasp of stylistics and literary analysis. This comprehensive and accessible guidebook for undergraduates examines: * the terminology of literary form * how literary style has evolved since the sixteenth century * the role of stylistics in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Great Philosophers:Berkeley

    by David Berman ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.George Berkeley 1685-1753A scientist, theologian and writer on medicine and economics, George Berkeley was in his way a most improbable philosopher. A master of English prose, he was suspicious of language; scornful of abstractions, he looked instead to immediate experience for the basis of his thought.David Berman's readable guide traces Berkeley's ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Coleridge and the Philosophy of Poetic Form

    by Ewan James Jones ...
    Series Book 106 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    Ewan James Jones argues that Coleridge engaged most significantly with philosophy not through systematic argument, but in verse. Jones carries this argument through a series of sustained close readings, both of canonical texts such as Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and also of less familiar verse, such as Limbo. Such work shows that the essential elements of poetic expression - a ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Beyond Cognitive Metaphor Theory

    Perspectives on Literary Metaphor

    Edited by Monika Fludernik ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
    In this innovative collection, an international group of scholars come together to discuss literary metaphors and cognitive metaphor theory. The volume's goals are three-fold. The first aim of the book is to present some recent approaches to metaphor which have no immediate connection with cognitive metaphor theory and have developed independently of it. While the cognitive approach has become the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms

    Revised and Enlarged Edition

    Edited by Roger Fowler ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory
    This book, first published in 1987, differs from many other ‘dictionaries of criticism’ in concentrating less on time-honoured rhetorical terms and more on conceptually flexible, powerful terms. Each entry consists of not simply a dictionary definition but an essay exploring the history and full significance of the term, and its possibilities in critical discourse. This title is an ideal basic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Possible Worlds

    by Simon Palfrey ...
    New methods are needed to do justice to Shakespeare. His work exceeds conventional models, past and present, for understanding playworlds. In this book, Simon Palfrey goes right to the heart of early modern popular drama, revealing both how it works and why it matters. Unlike his contemporaries, Shakespeare gives independent life to all his instruments, and to every fraction and fragment of the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD