144 results for "An Exaltation of Forms Book" between $10.00 and $100.00

Pages: 442, Hardcover, University of Michigan Press

The forms range from hendecasyllabics to prose poetry, haiku to procedural poetry, sonnets to blues, rap to fractal verse. The range of poets included is equally impressive--from Amiri Baraka to John Frederick Nims, from Maxine Kumin to Marilyn Hacker, from Agha Shahid Ali to Pat Mora, from W. D. Snodgrass to Charles Bernstein. Achieving this level of eclecticism is a remarkable feat, especially given the strong opinions held by members of the various camps (e.g., the New Formalists, LANGUAGE poets...

This paper is a personal opinion and position paper on the responses from the nation, media, and special interest groups to the terrorist attacks upon the U.S. on September 11th. It discusses the role of the NRA in promoting the internal security of the nation by helping individuals and communities to both learn how to manage arms and to protect ourselves. The paper concludes that the opinions held by all groups are valid, regardless of the extremes, but that they are tempered by each other through...

Pages: 256, Edition: 1, Paperback, Wiley

Pages: 182, Paperback, Kessinger Publishing, LLC

A Comparison of Two Articles from The Broadview Reader in Terms of Content and Form of Argument. As this comparative review will demonstrate, while Himmelfarb is both appreciative and critical of the media of the Internet Bettelheim is more "biased" in his passion for the moving picture medium. Thus, although Bettelheim's review can be considered a "critical" work in that it illuminates aspects of its subject through the author's perspective, it is lacking in the "objectivity" which allows one to...

J.P. Polidoro, Ph.D. compresses his “observations of a lifetime” into an intriguing and entertaining collection of trivia, quotations, facts, folk remedies and humorous anecdotes, which he has recorded over twenty or more years. The original manuscript was initiated as an effort to supplement his children’s education. Over five-hundred pages later, with ten or more observations per page, he decided to share his compulsive observations and notes in published form. Lavatory 101 is truly “the ultimate...

It presents project managers with a comprehensive and practical set of forms and reports that help them apply the concepts and practices described in the PMBOK Guide

A Common-Place Book of the Fifteenth Century : Containing a Religious Play and Poetry, Legal Forms, and Local Accounts

Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wraps have light handling wear, some fading at spine. Literary theory written in 1914 and 1915 and serving as a radical critique of bourgeois culture. ; 7.75" tall; 160 pages

This work advances a theory of poetic forms in the six modes of poetry: lyric, narrative, dramatic, expository, descriptive, and argumentative. The theory is based on a combination of Aristotle's four-part method of describing classical tragedy with part of Joyce's aesthetic theory expressed in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Pages: 176, Paperback, Schiffer Publishing

That public works as roads, kos-minars, bridges, sarais, wells, baolis and porters’ walls were built and maintained at Government expense testifies that the; Mughal state was fully alive to the welfare of its subjects. Four masonry bridges have been specifically studied. Jehangir was greatly interested in gardens, and garden-craft received a distinct form under his patronage. Palaces were built amidst gardens, mostly on the riverbank, with characteristic idioms of the age. A unique building complex...

This six-page undergraduate paper analyzes the classic novel, A Tale of Two Cities, by the Victorian Era English novelist Charles Dickens. The author notes that A Tale of Two Cities is quintessential Dickens, for it features timeless drama in the form of courtroom confrontations, mysterious events, romantic and familial love, intriguing espionage, high adventure, engaging humor, and profound tragedy. Dickens was a master at portraying every aspect of the human condition, and A Tale of Two Cities...

The plot and the narrative structure of The Joy Luck Club s both experimental and complex. It does not follow the Western narrative tradition of beginning with a point in the past and then following the consequences of that point through to the present but wanders across history and across narrators. And yet the overall effect is ? by the end ? a coherent one. In part this coherence arises from the fact that traditional forms of Western narratives are not in fact quite as simple as the above description...

This essay investigates the concept and meaning - or meaninglessness - of style in youth subcultures. It does so in the context of the sociology of youth, particularly with reference to themes such as control, resistance and identity. The study builds on Dick Hebdige's ideas on the post-war, music-related youth movements, which he saw as a form of resistance, if not revolution, in the young population's repudiation of adult culture. The essay examines 'style' in the sense of popular culture, and...