Poetic Art of A.E. Housman: Theory and Practice

Literature & Fiction

Leggett, B. J.

History & Criticism

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Larkin's Blues: Jazz, Popular Music, and Poetry

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Leggett traces the effect of several important theoretical works on the poetry and prose of Stevens during a period in which he was formulating an aesthetic between 1942 and 1954. The author offers new readings of a number of poems and passages and clarifies certain controversial conceptions developed by Stevens, such as the supreme fiction, the relation of the new poet to tradition, and the psychologies of creativity. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Wallace Stevens and Poetic Theory: Conceiving the Supreme Fiction

The University of North Carolina Press

Housman's land of lost content;: A critical study of A Shropshire Lad,

University of Tennessee Press

Prosperity

Police Lieutenant Robert O'Brian takes early retirement after being shot in a drug raid. His plans to return to his home town Prosperity in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee to work on a second novel are disrupted when he becomes involved in the investigation of the death of a high school friend.

Literary

Livingston Pr

Women in Cars

Fiction. When the battered body of a university administrator is discovered in his office, the Chancellor, fearing scandal, appoints Robert Dory, a wealthy donor, to conduct an internal investigation. Cory, who is at work on a study of the mystery novel,

If Alfred Hitchcock had lived to direct a movie about the abuse of political correctness, it would have been Playing Out the String. This is a frightening novel of rabid political correctness, mistaken identity, mounting circumstances, and the will to destroy a man. Robert McCabe is a professor of film at a Tennessee University. Until this semester he's passed his time trading film quotes with another professor to make a game of current events. Then a woman accuses him of exposing himself over the summer in the university library, and the quotes take on a new seriousness, starting with Ernest Borgnine's "playing out the string" from his movie The Wild Bunch. Borgnine says this directly to indicate a fatalistic will to continue despite overwhelming odds. And sure enough, he and his friends are killed by gunfire. Amid mounting accusations will McCabe end in a similar spiral? Especially after he refuses to hire a lawyer and contacts a local journalist to give his side of the story.

Playing Out the String

Contemporary

Fiction. Robert McCabe is a professor of film at a Tennessee university. Until this semester he's passed his time trading film quotes with another professor to make a game of current events. Then a woman accuses him of exposing himself in the university library over the summer, and the quotes take on a new seriousness, starting with Ernest Borgnine's "playing out the string" from his movie The Wild Bunch. Borgnine says this directly to indicate a fatalistic will to continue despite overwhelming odds. And sure enough, he and his friends are killed by gunfire. Amid mounting accusations will McCabe end in a similar spiral?

Livingston Press

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