Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet

Informationen zum Autor A. D. Cousins is Professor of English at Macquarie University. Peter Howarth teaches in the English Department at Queen Mary, University of London. Klappentext A team of distinguished poets and scholars provides an authoritative guide to the history and development of the sonnet. Zusammenfassung Covering sonnets as diverse as those by Dante! Shakespeare and e. e. cummings! distinguished scholars and poets discuss this major poetic form as a global and multimedia phenomenon. A fresh and authoritative overview! the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction A. D. Cousins and Peter Howarth; 1. Contemporary poets and the sonnet: a trialogue Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler; 2. The sonnet and the lyric mode Heather Dubrow; 3. The sonnet, subjectivity, and gender Diana Henderson; 4. The English sonnet in manuscript, print and mass media Arthur F. Marotti and Marcelle Freiman; 5. European beginnings and transmissions: Dante, Petrarch, and the sonnet sequence William J. Kennedy; 6. Desire, discontent, parody: the love sonnet in early modern England Catherine Bates; 7. Shakespeare's sonnets A. D. Cousins; 8. Sacred desire, forms of belief: the religious sonnet in early modern Britain Helen Wilcox; 9. Survival and change: the sonnet from Milton to the Romantics R. S. White; 10. The Romantic sonnet Michael O'Neill; 11. The Victorian sonnet Matthew Campbell; 12. The modern sonnet Peter Howarth; 13. The contemporary sonnet Stephen Burt; Bibliography Marea Mitchell.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: A. D. Cousins, A. D. (Macquarie University Cousins, A. D. Howarth Cousins
• Mitarbeit: A D Cousins (Herausgeber), A. D. Cousins (Herausgeber), A. D. (Macquarie University Cousins (Herausgeber), Peter Howarth (Herausgeber), Peter (Queen Mary University of London) Howarth (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521514675
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51467-5
• Seiten: 296
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft