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| 21. |  | Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient Greece Author: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation | Poetry Publisher's Description: Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this un . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 22. |  | Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz  Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Latin American Studies | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 23. |  | Title: ABC of influence: Ezra Pound and the remaking of American poetic tradition Author: Beach, Christopher Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry | American Studies | American Literature Publisher's Description: In this first full-length study of Pound's influence on American poetry after World War II, Beach argues that Pound's experimental mode created a new tradition of poetic writing in America. Often neglected by academic critics and excluded from the "canon" of American poetic writing, Charles Olson, R . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 24. |  | Title: Learned girls and male persuasion: gender and reading in Roman love elegy Author: James, Sharon L Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature | Poetry | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom they are addressed - . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 25. |  | Title: Transpacific displacement: ethnography, translation, and intertextual travel in twentieth-century American literature Author: Huang, Yunte Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Comparative Literature | Poetry | Anthropology | Asian Studies | China Publisher's Description: Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropri . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 26. |  | Title: When God is a customer: Telugu courtesan songs Author: Kṣētrayya 17th cent Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Poetry | Hinduism | South Asia Publisher's Description: How is it that this woman's breastsglimmer so clearly through her saree?Can't you guess, my friends?What are they but rays from the crescentsleft by the nails of her loverpressing her in his passion,rays now luminous as the moonlightof a summer night?These South Indian devotional poems show the dram . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 27. |  | Title: Toward a new poetics: contemporary writing in France: interviews, with an introduction and translated texts Author: Gavronsky, Serge Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | European Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Writing | French Studies Publisher's Description: A quiet revolution is taking place in avant-garde French poetry and prose. In this collection of twelve interviews with some of France's most important poets and writers, Serge Gavronsky introduces American readers to these exciting new developments.As Gavronsky explains, a neolyricism is now replac . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 28. |  | Title: Selected letters Author: Olson, Charles 1910-1970 Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Literature | American Studies | Letters Publisher's Description: For Charles Olson, letters were not only a daily means of communication with friends but were at the same time a vehicle for exploratory thought. In fact, many of Olson's finest works, including Projective Verse and the Maximus Poems, were formulated as letters. Olson's letters are important to an u . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 29. |  | Title: Wordsworth and the cultivation of women Author: Page, Judith W 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | English Literature | Poetry | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the poems of Wordsworth's "Great Decade," feminist critics have tended to see Wordsworth as an exploiter of women and "feminine" perspectives. In this original and provocative book, Judith Page examines works from throughout Wordsworth's long career to offer a more nuanced feminist accou . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 30. |  | Title: Propertius in love: the elegies Author: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation | Poetry | Literature in Translation Publisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 31. |  | Title: Death before dying: the Sufi poems of Sultan Bahu Author: Sult̤ān Bāhū 1630-1691 Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Poetry | Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Islam | South Asia Publisher's Description: These 115 poems introduce readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d. 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi. Bahu, whose name translates as "With God," remains highly popular in Pakistan and India today - even illiterate Punjabis can recite his poetry b . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 32. |  | Title: The honeysuckle and the hazel tree: medieval stories of men and women Author: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | European Literature | Poetry | Literary Theory and Criticism | French Studies | Medieval Studies | Gender Studies Publisher's Description: Known for her fine translations of octosyllabic narrative verse, Patricia Terry presents translations of four major practitioners of this dominant literary form of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. Her introduction discusses the varying views of women and love in the texts and their place in t . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 33. |  | Title: Classical Telugu poetry: an anthology Author: Nārāyaṇarāvu, Vēlcēru 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Asian Studies | Hinduism | Poetry | Folklore and Mythology | South Asia | Social Theory | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the firs . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 34. |  | Title: Tran sforming desire: erotic knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie queene Author: Silberman, Lauren Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Men and Masculinity | Women's Studies | Poetry | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century.In these books, Spenser exposes fict . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 35. |  | Title: Elizabeth Bishop: life and the memory of it Author: Millier, Brett Candlish Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Literature | American Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | United States History | Women's Studies | Poetry Similar Items |