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Up Close and Personal
It is hard to define what poetry is but one thing is certain: the experience of reading a poem should not leave you cold. A poem may be the artful arrangement of words on a blank page but some emotion must be aroused in the reader. Up Close and Personal by Arnold Richards suggests that spontaneity and intimacy are the poet's goal: the poems must appear to be casual when in fact they have been carefully constructed. "Art abhors the confessional" Richards says: he knows that out of contrivance emotional truth must be dragged "kicking and screaming" if necessary, as poetry "cuts up life/ into pieces/and pastes them / on a page" (from the poem Scissors and Paste). Richards manages to cut up life...
Psychoanalysis
Over the course of three decades, in works spanning questions of theory, technique, and clinical practice, Charles Brenner has emerged as one of the preeminent analysts of his generation, a thinker whose probing estimation of mental conflict has promoted the evolutionary growth of analysis as theory even as it has clarified the clinical import of analysis as therapy. In Psychoanalysis: The Science of Mental Conflict, distinguished theorists and clinicians pay homage to Brenner by presenting original essays that converge in their estimation of analysis as "the science of mental conflict." In sections that encompass "The Theory of Psychoanalysis," "The Concepts of Psychoanalysis," "The Techniq...
The Peripatetic Psychoanalyst
The Peripatetic Psychoanalyst conveys the author's encyclopedic knowledge of psychoanalysis as both theory and a clinical praxis. The text is a personal and professional walk through the recent history of training from the nineteen sixties through the description of the different schools of psychoanalytic thought that characterizes the current state of the field.
Air-bird in the Water
In this book, author Mildred Davis Harding rescues from undeserved neglect Pearl Craigie, the American-born English author "John Oliver Hobbes" (1867-1906) and her works.
The Power of Witnessing
Witnessing comes in as many forms as the trauma that gives birth to it. The Holocaust, undeniably one of the greatest traumatic events in recent human history, still resonates into the twenty-first century. The echoes that haunt those who survived continue to reach their children and others who did not share the experience directly. In what ways is this massive trauma processed and understood, both for survivors and future generations? The answer, as deftly illustrated by Nancy Goodman and Marilyn Meyers, lies in the power of witnessing: the act of acknowledging that trauma took place, coupled with the desire to share that knowledge with others to build a space in which to reveal, confront, ...
The Literary Criticism of T.S. Eliot
In his time T.S. Eliot established a new critical orthodoxy by which no major modern critic in England or America remained unaffected, but a decade has passed since his death and a generation or more since his extraordinary influence was at its height. It has therefore seemed worth attempting a fresh historical revaluation of Eliot's critical achievement and the nine distinguished scholars whom Dr Newton-De Molina approached responded readily to his invitation that they undertake such a project. Their essays range widely over the various aspects of Eliot's critical activity and place it in the context not only of his endeavours as poet and dramatist but also of his formal training as a philosopher and of his conversion to Christianity. They contrast the early and later work (not forgetting Eliot's own retrospective comments on the former), consider its relation to the English critical and poetic tradition, and seek to show in what ways criticism may derive new impetus from the example both of Eliot's strengths and of his limitations.
The English Department
To understand the history of "English", W. Ross Winterowd insists, one must understand how literary studies, composition-rhetoric studies, and influential textbooks interrelate. Stressing the interrelationship among these three forces, Winterowd presents a history of English studies in the university since the Enlightenment. Winterowd's history is unique in three ways. First, it tells the whole story of English studies: it does not separate the history of literary studies from that of composition-rhetoric studies, nor can it if it is going to be an authentic history. Second, it traces the massive influence on English studies exerted by textbooks such as Adventures in Literature, Understandin...
