Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. Poetry has a long history – dating back to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa, and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 25 October 2024 English
Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic …
ning, garden of Eden, Eve and all that! It has poetry – Adam back to feed the world as penance. God’s …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 22 October 2024 English
A guide from bestselling author Alice Kuipers on how to write for children and young adults—from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft In Spark, acclaimed children’s and …
picture books and ya novels, read self-help and poetry. Try science fiction (please pick up a book by … loud is essential. Also, I suggest that you read poetry and plays to get a sense of how other great writers …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. …
certain charm, even “une certaine poésie” (a certain poetry), but if they retain any interest for recent readers …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention generates the context in which they flourish. Breaking new ground by …
Canada Sara Z. MacDonald 258 Canada to Ireland Poetry, Politics, and the Shaping of Canadian Nationalism …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Critic, translator, essayist, and gay man, Édouard Roditi (1910–1992) was a singular witness to the twentieth century. His writings over six decades are a unique account of a life lived …
Western and Eastern Themes in the Poetry of Yunus Emre | 73 6 The Poetry of Constantine Cavafy | 92 … accomplishments are translations into French of poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins and prose by Ronald Firbank; …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Slings & Arrows, starring Susan Coyne, Paul Gross, Don McKellar, and Mark McKinney as members of the New Burbage Theatre Festival, was heralded by television critics as one of the …
variation of Schlegel’s romantic con- viction that “the poetry of the ancients was that of possession; [whereas] … seriousness use big hazy words like nobility, beauty, poetry … The theatre is the last forum where idealism …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …
This iconography was incorporated into gothic poetry and broadside ballads as a recognizable convention … reality is untrue to the heightened awareness of poetry.”23 By slowing down or speeding up the flow of … a Sculpture developing in Time, as in music and poetry, whichTHE DIAbOLICAL IMAGE | 41 realise themselves …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.
writes Carpenter:17 “Marshall ... quoted Symbolist poetry. Jackie mentioned the Indian city of Fatehpur … “alarmed” over “the ‘surrender’ of some modern poetry to the harsh realities of ‘the modern distemper … distemper,’” and Voices sought to “preserve poetry or to rescue it from the danger of modern attacks upon its … [cummings writes] that America’s bad, anaemic poetry had much in common with the cloying appeals of … goals … Cummings’ underlying comparison of bad poetry with the tired commercial phrases of his time is …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2024 English
With a shock, these frankenlines come alive. In Recombinant Theory a monster surges forth, a new freedom is sung.
| ISBN 9781773855813 (EPUB) Subjects: LCSH: Poetry—History and criticism—Theory, etc. | LCGFT: Essays … a mountain dispersed in a scatter. To write in poetry is to move among the spruce, foregrounding the … roads of syntactic disruption. To move into a poetry beyond sensation and memory, bluff your way through … white page, the eye, and the heart. To write in poetry is to move past your own language. Your own language … language cannot be a closure. To move into a poetry beyond property, your own language must be disturbed …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 8 October 2024 English
101 lesser-known stories to delight Canadian cinema and television fans. Do you know who was in the first on-screen nude scene in a Canadian feature film? Or which David Cronenberg …
FASCINATING CANADIAN FILM AND TV FACTS 6318 18 POETRY IN MOTION Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a nineteenth- …