Contains 17 original essays, commissioned for this volume, on the reading of poetry, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. Opens new avenues for the critical discussion…

The songs of the beloved Irish poet Maire Bhui Ni Laeire (Yellow Mary O'Leary) explore themes of colonial subjection, oppression and injustice, representing an integral contribution to the development of…

Pindar’s Library is the first volume to analyse the role played by Pindar’s literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers’ engagement with his poetry, considering the continuities between reading…

Distant Reading considers poetry as performance, offers new insights into its popularity, and proposes a new history of its origins. Its themes are connected by a historically contextualized and theoretically…

Like love, Greek poetry was not for hereafter, writes Eva Stehle, but shared in the present mirth and laughter of festival, ceremony, and party. Describing how men and women, young…

Stage a Poetry Slam is a comprehensive guide for both budding and seasoned Slammasters - people in charge of organizing and promoting poetry slams and spoken word events.

In recent cultural studies, poetry has become something of a neglected genre. Warwick Slinn seeks to reverse that trend and argues that a fundamental continuity between the meaning of a…

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Technische Universitat Dresden (Germanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der Bachelorarbeit konzentriere ich mich auf die nationale…