Die gläserne Stirn der Gegenwart: amerikanisch und deutsch = The glassy stars of the present: American and German
By Rita Dove (NHC Fellow, 1988–89)
Poetry
John Gower, Recent Readings: Papers Presented at the Meetings of the John Gower Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 1983-1988
Edited by Robert F. Yeager (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) In recent years, Gower's reputation has begun to evolve. Scholars and critics have opened his books once more to discover there a talent worthy of respect, rather than something to be viewed as tedious or dull. Recently it has seemed easier to understand Chaucer's good will toward … Continued
Perplexities: Rational Choice, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, Metaphor, Poetic Ambiguity, and Other Puzzles
By Max Black (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) Shortly before his death in 1988, Max Black brought together for this collection previously published major essays on ten intriguing questions concerning ordinary language, rational choice, and literature. Individual chapters explore such fundamental problems as the puzzles posed by meaning and verification; what metaphor is and how metaphors work; … Continued
Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy: Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry
By Blake Wilson (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) A primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument. Singing to the Lyre is the first comprehensive study of this ubiquitous practice, which was cultivated by performers ranging from … Continued
The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic
By Linda Gregerson (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) The Reformation of the Subject is a study of the cultural contradictions that gave birth to the English Protestant epic. In lucid and theoretically sophisticated language, Linda Gregerson examines the fraught ideological, political and gender conflicts that are woven into the texture of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost. … Continued
Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War
By Eliza Richards (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately relevant to current events. … Continued
Down to Earth: A Poetry Book
By John Wilkinson (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) John Wilkinson’s Down to Earth is his darkest work to date: a disturbing road poem of the American mid-West, an epic of migration, an examination of now-ubiquitous borders, and a meteorological tour of our growing energy crises. Global and internal flows of capital, consumer products, waste, labour and body parts all … Continued
John Gower’s Poetic: The Search for a New Arion
By Robert F. Yeager (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) John Gower's Poetic is a new study of Gower's complete poetry. Considered are Vox Clamantis, Mirour de l'Omme, Traitié pour les Amantz marietz, Cinkante Balades, Confessio Amantis, and `To King Henry IV, In Praise ofPeace'. In fiveintegrative chapters, Yeger demonstrates that Gower – far from being the lugubrious … Continued
Pitch: Drafts 77-95
By Rachel Blau DuPlessis (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) Pitch: Drafts 77-95 is a skeptical monument built and reassembled by a continuous folding over itself—tracking an encounter with an edge we might pitch over, with the pitch dark of our time, with our lurching desires to do the necessary work of seeing and understanding. Anchored by two major … Continued
Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond
By Andrew P. Debicki (NHC Fellow, 1979–80; 1992–93) Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context … Continued