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...Luke Carson; Heather Cass White Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Marianne Moore’s “Walking-Sticks and Paperweights and Watermarks” Difficult Ground: Poetic Renunciation in Marianne Moore’s “Walking-Sticks and Paperweights and Watermarks” Luke Carson and Heather Cass White...

...Reena Sastri Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Reena Sastri Rita Dove’s Poetic Expeditions Reena Sastri Rita Dove has consistently refused what she sees as the limitations of a primarily identitarian practice with respect to theme, idiom, or stance: as she puts it in one...

... her at the forefront of the understanding of heredity for her time, among those who knew that embryos inherited chromosomes equally from each parent. As her early poetry placed embryonic origins in tension with religious, national, and poetic origins, she posed the embryo both as disruptive to Western...

...Kathryn Van Wert This essay explores Elizabeth Bishop’s use of war and imperialism to demonstrate the power—and inherently political nature—of poetic discourse. In her rarely discussed “Little Exercise” (1946), a poem Bishop wrote while living near a military base in Key West, Florida...

... such theses, the essay argues that Stevens’s speakers seek in blackness a figure for their own nonbeing and thus speak of blackness in language in which its own fullness of being is denied. This reading, then, interrogates how Stevens’s poetics rely not just on racial difference but on the dehumanization...

...Aaron S. Rosenfeld Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 E4I The “ Scanty Plot” : Orwell, Pynchon, and the Poetics o f Paranoia Aaron S. Rosenfeld In truth the prison, into which we doom Ourselves, no prison is; and hence for me, In sundry moods, ’twas pastime...

...Jane Hedley Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry , by Costello Bonnie , Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2003 . 225 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 Re-engaging the Poetics of Landscape Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape...

...Peggy Samuels Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 w Verse as Deep Surface: Elizabeth Bishop’s New Poetics, 1938—39 Peggy Samuels I n the years that I have been reading Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and the scholarship that has grown up around it, two remarks stand out as almost...

...Timothy Yu Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics , by Wilson Rob , Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2010 . 325 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review Reviews Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics...

...Nick Halpern Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetics of Description , by Pickard Zachariah , McGill-Queen’s University Press , 2009 . 212 pages. A Poet’s High Argument: Elizabeth Bishop and Christianity , by Corelle Laurel Snow , University of South Carolina Press , 2008 . 139 pages...

...Eric Strand Although our recovery of Elizabeth Bishop’s politics has involved seeing her as a resistant “outsider,” this essay argues that she was at her most challenging as an inhabitant of poetic institutions. Exemplifying the vexed status of the Depression-era writer after the crash...

... writings and in the development of what I term a poetics of embeddedness. Coetzee’s early work as a forerunner in the digital humanities, and his writings on form, style, and linguistic skepticism, also shed light on contemporary debates about postcritique and the possibility of politically committed...

... .” Little Review 6 , no. 6 : 35 . Winters Yvor . 1924 . “ The Testament of a Stone: Notes on the Mechanics of the Poetic Image .” Secession , no. 8 : 1 – 20 . Woolf Virginia . ( 1934 ) 1966 . “ Walter Sickert .” In Collected Essays , vol. 2 , edited by Woolf Leonard , 233...

... fundamental questions about categorization. What is poetry? What is experimentation? What is a doubly hyphenated poetics? How do black poets balance the particular and the universal? What is the expectation that works by black writers will be both singular and exemplary? Why are there different expectations...

...Thom Robinson The Cambridge Companion to the Beats , edited by Belletto Steven . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . 297 pages. Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory , by Melehy Hassan . London : Bloomsbury , 2016 . 255 pages. Beat Drama: Playwrights...

...William Q. Malcuit This article argues for a reconsideration of T. S. Eliot’s early poetry—in particular “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”—as developing out of a particular American poetic tradition, one that replayed and reinforced important tenets of American liberalism and nationalism...

... poetics register the experience of modern ecosystems but are ambiguous about taking a stance on environmental topics that are ethically and politically fraught. In the final chapter, Schuster evaluates the modernist aesthetics he finds in the writings of Rachel Carson. Central to Schuster’s effort...

... Hofstra University 2010 Review What Is Beckett’s Poetics of Ignorance? Accommodating New Archival Evidence Notes Divers Holo. Catalogues of Beckett’s Reading Notes and Other Manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin, with Supporting Essays edited by Matthijs Engelberts and Everett Frost...

...Kayvan Tahmasebian; Rebecca Ruth Gould This article explores how the Iranian poet and translator Ahmad Shamlu (1925–2000) reconceives the configuration of world poetics. Working at the intersection of global modernism and translation studies, it traces the formation of a Persian modernist poetics...

... to those of his New Critical mentors, such as John Crowe Ransom, for whom the individual of the liberal political order is entwined with the history of Puritan iconoclasm and Romantic views of the poetic subject. It argues that Ransom’s critique parallels those of later critics, such as Marjorie Perloff...