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Heyam, Kit. The Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729338.

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During his lifetime and the four centuries following his death, King Edward II (1307-1327) acquired a reputation for having engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with his male favourites, and having been murdered by penetration with a red-hot spit. This book provides the first account of how this reputation developed, providing new insights into the processes and priorities that shaped narratives of sexual transgression in medieval and early modern England. In doing so, it analyses the changing vocabulary of sexual transgression in English, Latin and French; the conditions that created

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Fearn, David. Materialities of Political Commitment? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805823.003.0004.

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Eschewing historicist certainties, this chapter reassesses the political salience of Alcaeus’ lyric poetry by investigating his literary contribution to sympotic culture. Placing Alcaeus’ politically engaged voices within recent theoretical perspectives on deixis, ecphrasis, and the distinctiveness of lyric as a literary mode, the chapter argues that Alcaeus makes a systematic issue of the question of the accessibility of the contexts gestured towards, and in so doing opens up as an alluring prospect the idea of political engagement through literature. The literary and cultural significance of

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Kahn, Andrew. Mandelstam's Worlds. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857938.001.0001.

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Rightly appreciated as a ‘poet’s poet’, Mandelstam has been habitually read as a repository of learned allusion. Yet as Seamus Heaney observed, his work is ‘as firmly rooted in both an historical and cultural context as real as Joyce’s Ulysses or Eliot’s Waste Land’. Great lyric poets offer a cross-section of their times, and Mandelstam’s poems represent the worlds of politics, history, art, and ideas about intimacy and creativity. The interconnections between these domains and Mandelstam’s writings are the subject of this book, showing how engaged the poet was with the history, social movemen

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Karshan, Thomas, and Kathryn Murphy, eds. On Essays. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198707868.001.0001.

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What is an essay, and how did the essay emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and surprising emergences across its history, from Montaigne’s 1580 Essais to the present? This volume assembles seventeen essays which address patterns and oddities in the history of the genre, paying attention both to the transformed legacies of the earliest essayists across the centuries, and to the form’s contemporary vibrancy. Contributors, both scholars and essayists, draw out paradoxes of what is considered the fourth genre, often overshadowed in literary history and criticism by fiction, poetry

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Tian, Xiaofei, ed. Reading Du Fu. Hong Kong University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888528448.001.0001.

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This is the first collection of English essays on Du Fu, commonly regarded the greatest Chinese poet. Contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, these essays are engaged in historically nuanced close reading of Du Fu’s poems, both canonical and less known, from new angles and in various contexts. They discuss a series of critical issues, including the local and the imperial; the body politic and the individual body; poetry and geography; perspectives on the complicated relation of religion and literature; materiality and contemporary re

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Bugan, Carmen. Poetry and the Language of Oppression. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198868323.001.0001.

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Poetry and the Language of Oppression is an incursion into the creative process that engages with the experience of oppression and the reclamation of freedom in the context of the Cold War. What is freedom in language and how does the poet who has endured political oppression write himself or herself free? What is literary testimony and how does it reflect one’s artistic values? How do we govern ourselves with language? Oppression, repression, expression, as well as their tools (incarceration, surveillance, exile, gestures in language) have been with us in various forms throughout history; the

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Boncardo, Robert. Julia Kristeva’s Mallarmé: From Fetishism to the Theatre-Book. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429528.003.0003.

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This second chapter engages with Julia Kristeva’s reading of Mallarmé in her 1974 work Revolution in Poetic Language. This chapter offers the first extended analysis of this work’s long and detailed study of Mallarmé, and introduces Kristeva’s unique interpretation of such key works as Prose (Pour des Esseintes) and Un Coup de dés. It also presents the first English-language engagement of any length with the third — and longest — chapter of Revolution in Poetic Language, ‘The State and Mystery’. The chapter argues that Kristeva’s reading culminates in a critique of Mallarmé’s poetry’s content,

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Crowley, Lara M. Manuscript Matters. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821861.001.0001.

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Manuscript Matters illuminates responses to some of John Donne’s most elusive texts by his contemporary audiences. Since examples of seventeenth-century literary criticism prove somewhat rare and frequently ambiguous, this book emphasizes a critical framework rarely used for exhibiting early readers’ exegeses of literary texts: the complete manuscripts containing them. Many literary manuscripts that include poems by Donne and his contemporaries were compiled during their lifetimes, often by members of their circles. For this reason, and because various early modern poems and prose works satiri

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Barnard, John Levi. Phillis Wheatley and the Affairs of State. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190663599.003.0002.

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This chapter considers Phillis Wheatley as a political actor within the context of revolutionary-era Boston, and her political poetry as representative of the genre eighteenth-century readers would have known as the poem on the affairs of state. Within this larger category the chapter identifies two distinct yet related literary modes in Wheatley’s work. The first, her neoclassical poetics of political identification, engages with the revolutionary rhetoric of freedom as a means of linking the struggle of American revolutionaries with that of enslaved people in America. While this poetics of i

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Boncardo, Robert. Jacques Rancière’s Mallarmé: Deferring Equality. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429528.003.0006.

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This fifth chapter presents Jacques Rancière’s reading of Mallarmé through a critical exegesis of his 1996 book Mallarmé: The Politics of the Siren. By exploring Rancière’s studied opposition to the critical tradition that has framed Mallarmé as a hermetic recluse concerned exclusively with literature’s relation to itself, this chapter shows how Rancière presents Mallarmé as a thinker deeply engaged with the political crises of his times and committed to equality. The chapter explains how Rancière reformulates Mallarmé’s proposal for a poetic religion in terms of his famous account of the aest

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Cox, Fiona. Jo Shapcott. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779889.003.0008.

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Jo Shapcott has engaged extensively with Ovid in her poetry (her volume My Book draws extensively upon both the Metamorphoses and the Tristia), but it was especially through her volume Of Mutability that she meditated upon the unexpected pleasures and perils of metamorphosis, since she invoked Ovid in her response to her diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. As well as using Ovid to comment upon a contemporary experience of illness, she also employs Ovidian imagery to address issues such as the financial crisis, the Iraq war, and global warming. In doing so she responds to the tenets of th

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Bartoloni, Paolo. Dante Alighieri. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423632.003.0012.

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The Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is invoked several times in the work of Giorgio Agamben, often in passing to stress a point, as when discussing the political relevance of désoeuvrement (KG 246); to develop a thought, as in the articulation of the medieval idea of imagination as the medium between body and soul (S, especially 127–9); or to explain an idea, as in the case of the artistic process understood as the meeting of contradictory forces such as inspiration and critical control (FR, especially 48–50). So while Agamben does not engage with Dante systematically, he refers to hi

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Kahn, Andrew, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler. Intelligentsia narratives. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199663941.003.0038.

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The chapter explores how narratives about the intelligentsia and its cultural identity unfold the experience and ideology of this significant group in parallel with catastrophic narratives about revolution, terror and war. Central texts include major Russian novels of the twentieth century, such as Gorky’s Life of Klim Samgin, Olesha’s Envy, Bulgakov’s The White Guard and The Master and Margarita, and Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Also important are the genres of autobiography, memoir, and oral history, and a case study of a single lyric poem, by Osip Mandelstam, further demonstrate the capacity

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Barnard, Philip, Hilary Emmett, and Stephen Shapiro, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199860067.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown provides an up-to-date survey of the life of and full range of writings by Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), a key writer of the Atlantic revolutionary age and U.S. Early Republic. Through the late twentieth century, Brockden Brown was best known as an important author of political romances in the gothic mode that were widely influential in romantic era, and has generated large amounts of scholarship as a crucial figure in the history of the American novel. More recent work recognizes him likewise an influential editor, historian, and writer in o

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Patterson, Robert J., ed. Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042775.001.0001.

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Through its analysis of film, drama, fiction, visual culture, poetry, and other cultural -artifacts, Black Cultural Production after Civil Rights offers a fresh examination of how the historical paradox by which unprecedented civil rights gains coexist with novel impediments to collectivist black liberation projects. At the beginning of the 1970s, the ethos animating the juridical achievements of the civil rights movement began to wane, and the rise of neoliberalism, a powerful conservative backlash, the co-optation of “race-blind” rhetoric, and the pathologization and criminalization of pover

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Boncardo, Robert. Introduction: Comrade Mallarmé. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474429528.003.0001.

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Why has Stéphane Mallarmé — the notoriously difficult and seemingly aristocratic leader of the late-19th century French Symbolists — been so important for the some of France’s greatest 20th century thinkers? Why, in particular, has his work been invested with political significance by philosophers and theorists of the French Left, from Jean-Paul Sartre to Alain Badiou, Julia Kristeva to Jacques Rancière? Comrade Mallarmé? introduces the series of political readings of the poet that have been proposed since Paul Valéry’s seminal interpretation. It also engages with contemporary scholarship on M

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McMullen, James, ed. Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190654979.001.0001.

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Abstract The Tale of Genji, written by a Murasaki Shikibu, a female courtier commonly celebrated as a genius, is the greatest work of Japanese literature and has fascinated readers for more than a millennium. It depicts a court life of great sophistication over four generations, concentrating on the ascendancy of a gifted son of an emperor and his relationships with numerous women. Its psychological depth and brilliant narrative technique have astounded critics and general readers alike. Outside Japan, however, little attention has been paid to the philosophical assumptions underpinning this c

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Martin, Joanna, and Emily Wingfield, eds. Premodern Scotland. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198787525.001.0001.

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This book brings together original essays by a group of international scholars to offer ground-breaking research into the ‘Advice to Princes’ tradition and related themes of good self- and public governance in Older Scots literature, and in Latin literature composed in Scotland in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. The essays honour Professor Sally Mapstone and bring to the fore texts both from and about the royal court in a variety of genres, and for a range of audiences. The writers and texts studied include Bower’s Scotichronicon, Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid, an

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