Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study—a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics, cultural theo

"This book examines individually and collectively poets widely recognized as formal and linguistic innovators. Why do their words appear in unconventional order

Fourteen essays on epic, oral and literary, from ancient to modern, from the Americas to India.

Addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry and examines silence as an aesthetic strategy in itself. The result is an extended meditati

What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now wide