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The ebullient evangelist of irony Wilde preached his gospel of wit and aestheticism to a public at once outraged and enchanted This volume incorporates much of Wildes best writing The Picture of Dorian Gray essays The Soul of Man Under Socialism and The Critic as Artist his two best comedies Lady Windmeres Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest and his poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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Three Genres gives students a basic introduction to fiction literary nonfiction poetry and drama and helps them to develop their creative skills in each areanbsp Each genre section is selfcontained and includes complete works as examples along with helpful advice about how to draw on the variety of techniques they usenbsp The style is informal practical and positivenbsp Minot and Thiel encourage students to draw on their own experiences and develop skills on their own
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Introduction by Terry EagletonOscar Wilde has been acknowledged as the wittiest writer in the English language This collection proves that he was also one of the most versatile Effortlessly achieved each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance all of the plays prose writings and poems gathered here support Wildes belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification The works gathered here include Wildes oncecontroversial and now classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray the rioutously sic comic plays The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windermeres Fan and the famous poem he wrote after being released from prison The Ballad of Reading Gaol This expanded new edition now includes the complete version of Wildes moving letter from prison De Profundis and his teasing parable about Shakespeare The Portrait of Mr W H Other notable included writings are the semicomic mystery story Lord Arthurs Saviles Crime and the essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism
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Three Genres gives students a basic introduction to fiction literary nonfiction poetry and drama and helps them to develop their creative skills in each areanbsp Each genre section is selfcontained and includes complete works as examples along with helpful advice about how to draw on the variety of techniques they usenbsp The style is informal practical and positivenbsp Minot and Thiel encourage students to draw on their own experiences and develop skills on their own
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This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde It provides texts of Wildes onehundred and nineteen poems and poems in prose including twentyone never published in his lifetime together with the publishing history of each poem and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes imagery and points of biographical interest
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This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde It provides texts of Wildes onehundred and nineteen poems and poems in prose including twentyone never published in his lifetime together with the publishing history of each poem and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes imagery and points of biographical interest
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From its inception in nineteenthcentury France the prose poem has embraced an aesthetic of shock and innovation rather than tradition and convention In this suggestive study Margueritte S Murphy both explores the history of this genre in AngloAmerican literature and provides a model for reading the prose poem irrespective of language or national literature Murphy argues that the prose poem is an inherently subversive genre one that must perpetually undermine prosaic conventions in order to validate itself as authentically other At the same time each prose poem must to some degree suggest a traditional prose genre in order to subvert it successfully The prose poem is thus of special interest as a genre in which the traditional and the new are brought inevitably and continually into conflict Beginning with a discussion of the French prose poem and its adoption in England by the Decadents Murphy examines the effects of this association on later poets such as TS Eliot She also explores the perception of the prose poem as an androgynous genre Then with a sensitivity to the sociopolitical nature of language she draws on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin to illuminate the ideology of the genre and explore its subversive nature The bulk of the book is devoted to insightful readings of William Carlos Williamss Kora in Hell Gertrude Steins Tender Buttons and John Ashberys Three Poems As notable examples of the American prose poem these works demonstrate the range of this genres radical and experimental possibilities
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From its inception in nineteenthcentury France the prose poem has embraced an aesthetic of shock and innovation rather than tradition and convention In this suggestive study Margueritte S Murphy both explores the history of this genre in AngloAmerican literature and provides a model for reading the prose poem irrespective of language or national literature Murphy argues that the prose poem is an inherently subversive genre one that must perpetually undermine prosaic conventions in order to validate itself as authentically other At the same time each prose poem must to some degree suggest a traditional prose genre in order to subvert it successfully The prose poem is thus of special interest as a genre in which the traditional and the new are brought inevitably and continually into conflict Beginning with a discussion of the French prose poem and its adoption in England by the Decadents Murphy examines the effects of this association on later poets such as TS Eliot She also explores the perception of the prose poem as an androgynous genre Then with a sensitivity to the sociopolitical nature of language she draws on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin to illuminate the ideology of the genre and explore its subversive nature The bulk of the book is devoted to insightful readings of William Carlos Williamss Kora in Hell Gertrude Steins Tender Buttons and John Ashberys Three Poems As notable examples of the American prose poem these works demonstrate the range of this genres radical and experimental possibilities
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This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode It brings together a unique combination of Yeatss poetry and prose all the major poems complemented by plays critical writings and letters to give theessence of his work and thinkingW B Yeats was born in 1865 only 38 years after the death of William Blake and died in 1939 the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce His career crossed two centuries and this volume represents the full range of his achievement from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and thesymbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems Myth and folktale influence both his poems and his plays represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occultwritings and the anthology also contains political speeches autobiographical writings and a selection of his lettersThis onevolume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeatss literary output showing how his aesthetic spiritual and political development was reflected in everything he wrote
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Kurt Schwitters stated goal was to erase the boundaries between the arts This collection culled from the fivevolume German edition of Schwitters writings introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitters words Included is the complete text for the Ursonate Schwitters legendary and lengthy epic of sound poetry which as poets editors and translators Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris comment is to sound poetry what Joyces Ulysses is to the twentiethcentury novel
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Kurt Schwitters stated goal was to erase the boundaries between the arts This collection culled from the fivevolume German edition of Schwitters writings introduces the total work of art that is Merz through Schwitters words Included is the complete text for the Ursonate Schwitters legendary and lengthy epic of sound poetry which as poets editors and translators Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris comment is to sound poetry what Joyces Ulysses is to the twentiethcentury novel
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A unique onevolume anthology which includes all of Wildes stories plays and poems It also features a large portion of his essays and letters and an introduction by Wildes son Vyvyan Holland
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Exploring the Language of Poems Plays and Prose examines how readers interact with literary works how they understand and are moved by them Mick Short considers how meanings and effects are generated in the three major literary genres carying out stylistic analysis of poetry drama and prose fiction in turn He analyses a wide range of extracts from English literature adopting an accessible approach to the analysis of literary texts which can be applied easily to other texts in English and in other languages This volume provides a clear and broadranging introduction to stylistic analysis the first to cover all three literary genres in detail The introduction provides a very useful overview of stylistics as a whole and discusses the links between linguistics and literary criticism Detailed analysis of each genre follows with exercises designed to develop ideas further There is also extended discussion of the exercises and suggestions for further readings for those interested in carrying out their own stylistic analyses A particularly useful feature of the book is the series of checksheets of style features to look for when analysing texts which occur at the ends of chapters This study will be of particular interest to undergraduate students interested in stylistic analysis and the accounts of uptodate analytical methods will also be relevant to advanced students and researchers
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Although Kurt Schwitters 18871948 is increasingly recognized as one of the great visual artists of the twentieth centurya recognition reconfirmed in 1985 by a highly acclaimed retrospective at New Yorks Museum of Modern Arthis achievements as one of the major poets and theorists of Modernism have not received the same degree of attention This collection of Schwitters literary work presented by two American poets of international standing brings the vast range and unique genius of his writings to Englishlanguage audiences for the first time Coining the word Merz to identify his oneman version of Dadism Schwitters sought to erase the boundaries between the arts and to emphasize the reciprocal relationship of his visual and verbal works Schwitters worked with and developed more new forms and genres than almost any poet of his time The wide sweep and inventiveness of his literary outputessays plays fiction manifestos as well as poetryreflect or prefigure movements such as expressionism surrealism soundtexts concrete poetry performance art and language poetry To present Schwitters astounding range the poettranslators of this volume have selected poems proses performance pieces and manifestos included complete major works such as Augusta Bolte and Ur Sonata offered selections from Schwitters plays and provided a sampler of the collaged and wordfilled paintings some in full color
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When Opus Posthumous first appeared in 1957 it was an appropriate capstone to the career of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century It included many poems missing from Stevenss Collected Poems along with Stevenss characteristically inventive prose and pieces for the theater Now Milton J Bates the author of the acclaimed Wallace Stevens A Mythology of Self has edited and revised Opus Posthumous to correct the previous editions errors and to incorporate material that has come to light since original publication A third of the poems and essays in this edition are new to the volume The resulting book is an invaluable literary document whose language and insights are fresh startling and eloquentFrom the Trade Paperback edition
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A remarkably long and varied literary career is represented in this collection Witter Bynner 18811968 published more than twenty books but for various reasons his accomplishments have been overlooked and undervaluedBynner is perhaps best known for his translations of Chinese literature These are represented in Krafts anthology along with selections from Bynners influential translation of Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris his own plays and especially his varied verse including the poems that he and his friend Arthur Davison Ficke published under the names of Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish as Spectrist verse Among the prose included here are essays on subjects ranging from Henry James to Pueblo Indian ceremonial life Bynner numbered among his broad range of friends and acquaintances individuals as diverse as Igor Stravinsky and Cecil B DeMille D H Lawrence and Khalil Gibran and his witty letters to and about these people make delightful reading
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