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ISBN10: 0198792352, ISBN13: 9780198792352, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Hardcover 195 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0198792352, ISBN13: 9780198792352, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. This book, based on the Clarendon Lectures for 2016, is about the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries. Karlin begins with the London street-vendor's cry of 'Cherry-ripe!', as it occurs in poems from the sixteenth to the twentieth century: the 'Cries of London' (and Paris) exemplify the fascination of this urban art to writers of every period. Focusing on nineteenth and early twentieth century writers, the book traces the theme in works byWilliam Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, George Gissing, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. As well as street-cries, these writers incorporate ballads,folk songs, religious and political songs, and songs of their own invention into crucial scenes, and the singers themselves range from a one-legged beggar in Dublin to a famous painter in fifteenth-century Florence. The book concludes with the beautiful and unlikely 'song' of a knife-grinder's wheel. Throughout the book Karlin emphasizes the rich complexity of his subject. The street singer may be figured as an urban Orpheus, enchanting the crowd and possessed of magicalpowers of healing and redemption; but the barbaric din of the modern city is never far away, and the poet who identifies with Orpheus may also dread his fate. And the fugitive, transient nature of ...
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[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]

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[Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]

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ISBN10: 0198792352, ISBN13: 9780198792352, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0198792352, ISBN13: 9780198792352, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Explores the use made by poets and novelists of street songs and cries with a particular focus on nineteenth and early twentieth century writers including William Wordsworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, George Gissing, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust.
[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]

ISBN10: 0198792352, ISBN13: 9780198792352, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Hardcover 195 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]

Oxford Oxford University Press 2018 Hard cover New. Contains: Unspecified. Clarendon Lectures in English . Includes unspecified. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.

ISBN10: 0198792352, ISBN13: 9780198792352, [publisher: OUP OXFORD 2018-11-29, Oxford] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2018]

ISBN10: 0198792352, ISBN13: 9780198792352, [publisher: OUP OXFORD 2018-11-29, Oxford] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2018]