The Dancers Inherit the Party

The Dancers Inherit the Party

Author: Ian Hamilton Finlay

Publisher: Birlinn

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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Ian Hamilton Finlay's early literary work has been overshadowed by his later achievements in the visual arts, particularly the garden at Little Sparta. This anthology is therefore a welcome volume, to which Ken Cockburn provides an introduction. The mordant wit of a story like "The Money" about an artist's financial situation, still has contemporary relevance; and the poems - particularly the Orkney lyrics and the "Glasgow Beasts" - shimmer with elegy, bright humour and intelligence.


Ian Hamilton Finlay

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Author: Ian Hamilton Finlay

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-04-02

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0520270592

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This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden, Little Sparta, a unique “poem of place” in which poetry, sculpture, and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in the international avant-garde of the 1960s.


Clip, Stamp, Fold

Clip, Stamp, Fold

Author: Beatriz Colomina

Publisher: ACTAR Publishers

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 8496954528

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Items produced on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Centre canadien d'architecture, Montréal, Apr. 12-Sept. 9, 2007.


Contemporary British Poetry

Contemporary British Poetry

Author: James Acheson

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1996-09-12

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0791494217

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Devoted to close readings of poets and their contexts from various postmodern perspectives, this book offers a wide-ranging look at the work of feminists and "post feminist" poets, working class poets, and poets of diverse cultural backgrounds, as well as provocative re-readings of such well-established and influential figures as Donald Davie, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Craig Raine. Contributors include many respected theorists and critics, such as Antony Easthope, C.L. Innes, John Matthias, Edward Larrissy, Linda Anderson, Eric Homberger, Alastair Niven, R.K. Meiners, and Cairns Craig, in addition to new writers working from new theoretical perspectives. Their approaches range from cultural theory to poststructuralism; each essayist addresses a general audience while engaging in debates of interest to postgraduates and specialists in the fields of twentieth-century poetry and cultural studies. The book's strength lies in its diversity at every level.


Avant-folk

Avant-folk

Author: Ross Hair

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1781383294

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A critical study of the intersection of folk and avant-garde poetics in transatlantic small press poetry networks from the 1950s up to the present.


English Language and Literature for AQA B

English Language and Literature for AQA B

Author: Alison Ross

Publisher: Heinemann

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780435109851

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Revised and updated to cover the set texts in the AQA B specification, this second edition focuses on the assessment objectives - showing students how to achieve maximum marks - and offers exam and coursework tips throughout to help students get good grades.


A Concise Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

A Concise Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

Author: Richard Kostelanetz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-04

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 1351266861

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For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third edition. Typically he provides intelligence unavailable anywhere else, no less in print than online, about a wealth of subjects and individuals. Focused upon what is truly innovative and excellent, Kostelanetz also ranges widely with insight and surprise, including appreciations of artistic athletes such as Muhammad Ali and the Harlem Globetrotters and such collective creations as Las Vegas and his native New York City. Continuing the traditions of cheeky high-style Dictionarysts, honoring Ambrose Bierce and Samuel Johnson (both with individual entries), Kostelanetz offers a "reference book" to be enjoyed, not only in bits and chunks but continuously as one of the ten books someone would take if he or she planned to be stranded on a desert isle.