Language & Literature

ISBN: 9781789250923
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
Volume: Volume 1
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Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788869771811
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
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Writing a biography about Pessoa is a seemingly impossible task. The great Portuguese poet did not have just one life, but his existence virtually exploded in over a hundred different personalities. Only by placing oneself close to Pessoa, only by... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819578235
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series
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Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Rae Armantrout is at once a most intimate and coolly calculating poet. If anyone could produce a hybrid of Charlie Chaplin’s playful “Little Tramp” and Charlize Theron’s fierce “Imperator Furiosa,” it would be Armantrou... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819578297
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
Series: American Poets in the 21st Century
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Poetics of Social Engagement emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and social awareness, focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic, racial, gender, and class subjectivities. Rather than consid... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780819578563
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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In this fourth book in a series of award-winning survival narratives, Dungy writes positioned at a fulcrum, bringing a new life into the world even as her elders are passing on. In a time of massive environmental degradation, violence and abuse of... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780996748056
Published by : International Polar Institute
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"The people of Greenland possess a robust spirit, born of the land, which speaks to me. At this time of the Age of Man, the Anthropocene, of human-induced climate change, I recognize that a tradition of respect for the land prevails in Greenland. ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780996748049
Published by : International Polar Institute
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Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Award, 2014. Paul Erik returns to Nuuk after spending the summer in his hometown of Uummannaq, Greenland. In Nuuk he attends high school where people from all over the country are housed in dormitories... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780996748063
Published by : International Polar Institute
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In this new collection the poet asks: How do poems enter essence? Through poetics, or the absence of poetics? Through language or vapor? Through revelation or fear of heart? And how does writing inform? Through biography, place, the body, and lang... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781912168071
Published by : Ad Ilissum
This handsomely produced publication is the first of a two volume set exploring an outstanding collection of leaves and miniatures from medieval manuscripts. Brimming with beautiful illustrations, this welcome contribution to medieval scholarship ... .... Learn More