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Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine: Poems
by Jesse GravesFirst released in 2011, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine was the debut poetry collection from Tennessee poet Jesse Graves and was awarded the 2011 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, the Book of the Year in Poetry Award from the Appalachian Writers' Association, and the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing.
Tennessee Performance Coach, English Language Arts, [Grade] 4
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Tennessee Williams
by John S. BakPerfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams' dramatic work by one of America's leading scholars. With the centennial of his birth celebrated amid a flurry of conferences devoted to his work in 2011, and his plays a central part of any literature and drama curriculum and uibiquitous in theatre repertoires, he remains a giant of twentieth century literature and drama. In Brenda Murphy's major study of his work she examines his life and career and provides an analysis of more than a score of his key plays, including in-depth studies of major works such as A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and others. She traces the artist figure who features in many of Williams' plays to broaden the discussion beyond the normal reference points. As with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series, this book features too essays by Bruce McConachie, John S. Bak, Felicia Hardison Londr#65533; and Annette Saddik, offering perspectives on different aspects of Williams' work that will assist students in their own critical thinking.
Tennessee Williams and Italy
by Alessandro ClericuzioThis book reveals for the first time the import of a hugenetwork of connections between Tennessee Williams and the country closest to his heart, Italy. America's most thought-provoking playwright loved Italy morethan any other country outside the U. S. and was deeply influenced by itsculture for most of his life. Anna Magnani's film roles in the 1940s, ItalianNeo-realist cinema, the theatre of Eduardo De Filippo, as well as the actualexperience of Italian life and culture during his long stays in the countrywere some of the elements shaping his literary output. Through his lover FrankMerlo, he also had first-hand knowledge of Italian-American life in Brooklyn. Tracing the establishment of his reputation with theItalian intelligentsia, as well as with theatre practitioners and withgenerations of audiences, the book also tells the story of a momentouscollaboration in the theatre, between Williams and Luchino Visconti, who had todefy the unceasing control Italian censorship exerted on Williams for decades.
Tennessee Williams and the Theatre of Excess
by Annette J. SaddikThe plays of Tennessee Williams' post-1961 period have often been misunderstood and dismissed. In light of Williams' centennial in 2011, which was marked internationally by productions and world premieres of his late plays, Annette J. Saddik's new reading of these works illuminates them in the context of what she terms a 'theatre of excess', which seeks liberation through exaggeration, chaos, ambiguity, and laughter. Saddik explains why they are now gaining increasing acclaim, and analyzes recent productions that successfully captured elements central to Williams' late aesthetic, particularly a delicate balance of laughter and horror with a self-consciously ironic acting style. Grounding the plays through the work of Bakhtin, Artaud, and Kristeva, as well as through the carnivalesque, the grotesque, and psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory, Saddik demonstrates how Williams engaged the freedom of exaggeration and excess in celebration of what he called 'the strange, the crazed, the queer'.
Tennessee Williams: A Casebook
by Robert F. GrossTennessee Williams' plays are performed around the world, and are staples of the standard American repertory. His famous portrayals of women engage feminist critics, and as America's leading gay playwright from the repressive postwar period, through Stonewall, to the growth of gay liberation, he represents an important and controversial figure for queer theorists. Gross and his contributors have included all of his plays, a chronology, introduction and bibliography.
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
by John LahrJohn Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate. With vivid cameos of the formative influences in Williams's life--his fierce, belittling father Cornelius; his puritanical, domineering mother Edwina; his demented sister Rose, who was lobotomized at the age of thirty-three; his beloved grandfather, the Reverend Walter Dakin--this book is as much a biography of the man who created A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as it is a trenchant exploration of Williams's plays and the tortured process of bringing them to stage and screen. The portrait of Williams himself is unforgettable: a virgin until he was twenty-six, he had serial homosexual affairs thereafter as well as long-time, bruising relationships with Pancho Gonzalez and Frank Merlo. With compassion and verve, Lahr explores how Williams's relationships informed his work and how the resulting success brought turmoil to his personal life. Lahr captures not just Williams's tempestuous public persona but also his backstage life, where his agent Audrey Wood and the director Elia Kazan play major roles, and Marlon Brando, Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Maureen Stapleton, Diana Barrymore, and Tallulah Bankhead have scintillating walk-on parts. This is a biography of the highest order: a book about the major American playwright of his time written by the major American drama critic of his time.
Tennessee Williams’s America: Homes, Families, Exiles (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
by Ahmed HoneiniTennessee Williams’s America is the first full-length study of homes, families, and familial exile in the plays of Tennessee Williams. The central argument of this book is that Williams’s vision of American life in his plays is predicated upon challenging the traditional idea of the home and family. Throughout his plays, the patriarchal space of the American home and family is shown to victimize and oppress two of society’s most marginalized groups: women and queer people; in Williams's plays, the experiences of one group often mirror and intersect with those of the other. From his earliest plays, such as Candles to the Sun and Fugitive Kind, to the masterpieces of his major phase, including Battle of Angels/Orpheus Descending, The Rose Tattoo, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Period of Adjustment, Suddenly Last Summer, and Sweet Bird of Youth, through to the much maligned but equally rich works of his late period, such as Vieux Carré and Something Cloudy, Something Clear, Williams depicts the home as a place which restricts and suffocates those who fail to perform their expected gender role in the wider patriarchal framework of American life. In its extended, full-length treatment of homes, families, and familial exiles in his theatrical output, this book adds a new perspective to Williams scholarship by examining the desperate and, at times, futile search for love, relationality, and belonging that his marginalized and alienated characters frequently pursue in alternative avenues of existence.
Tennyson (Longman Critical Readers)
by Rebecca StottAlternative approaches have emerged which have radically altered our understanding of Tennyson's poetry and his relationship to the Victorian age. This text covers the most significant areas of new work on Tennyson, effectively linking feminist and gender studies with deconstructive, psychoanalytic and linguistic attention. The Introduction discusses ways in which orthodox critical approaches have dominated readings of Tennyson's poetry and provides a critical overview of the radical reappraisal of his work. It also provides a guide to the varied ways in which these new debates have shaped and are shaping themselves, with a final discussion of the future directions which Tennyson criticism is likely to take. The essays chosen cover and reflect a range of modes of critical enquiry compelling in themselves.
Tennyson and Geology: Poetry and Poetics (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
by Michelle GericThis book offers new interpretations of Tennyson's major poems along-side contemporary geology, and specifically Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology (1830-3). Employing various approaches - from close readings of both the poetic and geological texts, historical contextualisation and the application of Bakhtin's concept of dialogism - the book demonstrates not only the significance of geology for Tennyson's poetry, but the vital import of Tennyson's poetics in explicating the implications of geology for the nineteenth century and beyond. Gender ideologies in The Princess (1847) are read via High Miller's geology, while the writings of Lyell and other contemporary geologist, comparative anatomists and language theorists are examined along-side In Memoriam (1851) and Maud (1855). The book argues that Tennyson's experimentation with Lyell's geology produced a remarkable 'uniformitarian' poetics that is best understood via Bakhtinian theory; a poetics that reveals the seminal role methodologies in geology played in the development of divisions between science and culture, and that also, quite profoundly, anticipates the crisis in language later associated with the linguistic turn of the twentieth century.
Tennyson and Mid-Victorian Publishing
by Jim CheshireThis book examines how Tennyson's career was mediated, organised and directed by the publishing industry. Founded on neglected archival material, it examines the scale and distribution of Tennyson's book sales in Britain and America, the commercial logic of publishing poetry, and how illustrated gift books and visual culture both promoted and interrogated the Poet Laureate and his life. Major publishers had become disillusioned with poetry by the time that Edward Moxon founded his business in 1830 but by the mid-1860s, his firm presided over a resurgence in poetry based on Tennyson's work. Moxon not only orchestrated Tennyson's rise to fame but was a major influence on how the Victorian public experienced the poetry of the Romantic period. This study reevaluates his crucial role, and examines how he repackaged poetry for the Victorian public.
Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (The Nineteenth Century Series)
by Kathryn LedbetterThis is the first book-length study of Tennyson's record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson's supposed hostility to periodicals, Ledbetter shows that he made a career-long habit of contributing to them and in the process revealed not only his willingness to promote his career but also his status as a highly valued commodity. Tennyson published more than sixty poems in serial publications, from his debut as a Cambridge prize-winning poet with "Timbuctoo" in the Cambridge Chronicle and Journal to his last public composition as Poet Laureate with "The Death of the Duke of Clarence and Avondale" in The Nineteenth Century. In addition, poems such as "The Charge of the Light Brigade" were shaped by his reading of newspapers. Ledbetter explores the ironies and tensions created by Tennyson's attitudes toward publishing in Victorian periodicals and the undeniable benefits to his career. She situates the poet in an interdependent commodity relationship with periodicals, viewing his individual poems as textual modules embedded in a page of meaning inscribed by the periodical's history, the poet's relationship with the periodical's readers, an image sharing the page whether or not related to the poem, and cultural contexts that create new meanings for Tennyson's work. Her book enriches not only our understanding of Tennyson's relationship to periodical culture but the textual implications of a poem's relationship with other texts on a periodical page and the meanings available to specific groups of readers targeted by individual periodicals.
Tennyson and the Fabrication of Englishness
by Marion SherwoodThrough an examination of Tennyson's 'domestic poetry' - his portrayals of England and the English - in their changing nineteenth-century context, this book demonstrates that many of his representations were 'fabrications', more idealized than real, which played a vital part in the country's developing identity and sense of its place in the world.
Tennyson's Language
by Donald S. HairThe study of language was central to the thinking of Tennyson and his circle of friends. The period of his education was a time of interest in the subject, as a new form of philology became widely known and accepted in Britain. In this study, Donald S. Hair discusses Tennyson's own view of language, and sets them in the context of the language theories of his day.The scope of the book is broad. Hair draws upon a wide range of Tennyson's poetry, from a quatrain he wrote at the age of eight to an 'anthem-speech' he wrote at the age of eighty-two, and pays particular attention to two major works: In Memoriam and Idylls of the King.He explores these in relation to the two theoretical traditions Tennyson inherited. One is derived from Locke and the language theory set out in Book III of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the other from Coleridge and the language theory of what Mill called the 'Germano-Coleridgian' tradition. He goes back to Plato's Cratylus and Aristotle's On Interpretation, and forward to the continental philology introduced into England by Tennyson's friends, Kemble and Trench, among others. Finally, he links Tennyson's language to thinkers such as Whewell, Hallam, and Maurice, who are not in themselves philologists but who make language part of their concerns--and Whewell was Tennyson's tutor, Hallam and Maurice his friends.Hair offers a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory in Britain while also providing some close readings of key passages of Tennyson's work and examinations of the poet's faith and views of society.
Tennyson's Maud: The Biographical Genesis
by Ralph W. Rader"This book was born out of the curiosity aroused in me by Tennyson's Maud and "Locksley Hall," ostensibly dramatic poems which were strangely flawed, I always felt, by some hidden emotional connection with the poet's own life. What was it? . . . The final result of my inquiry is this book." --From the Preface by the Author This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
Tennyson's Name: Identity and Responsibility in the Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson (The Nineteenth Century Series)
by Anna BartonSeeking to understand Tennyson's poetry as the work of a man concerned with making and then living up to one of the most famous names in Victorian literature, Anna Barton offers close readings of Tennyson's major works. From his obscure beginning as 'A.T.', one of two anonymous brothers, to the height of his success, when he held the impressive title 'Alfred Lord Tennyson, DCL, Poet Laureate', the development of Tennyson's career took place in a period increasingly aware that a name could command considerable cultural capital. In the marketplace goods were sold on the strength of their brand name; in the press the battle for signed articles was fought and won; and in Victorian drawing rooms young ladies collected the autographs of family and friends and pasted them into scrap books. From his early lyrics to his Arthurian Idylls, Barton argues, the laureate's keen sense of professional identity forced him to grapple with modern concerns about the ethics of print in order to establish his own responsible poetic.
Tennyson's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesTennyson's Poetry (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Alfred Lord Tennyson Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers
Tennyson: A Selected Edition (Longman Annotated English Poets)
by Christopher RicksThis is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson’s poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of Tennyson. The collection contains in full all four of Tennyson's long poems: The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Other key works are included from Mariana, The Lady of Shallott, Morte d'Arthur, Ulysses, and Tithonus through Tennyson's middle life and the Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington, to his last years and Crossing the Bar.
Tennyson: Selected Poetry (Routledge English Texts)
by Lord Tennyson Alfred Norman Page Professor Norman PageRepresents Tennyson's work in many poetic forms over more than sixty years. The collection includes a substantial introduction, explanatory notes and bibliographical information.
Tense in English: Its Structure and Use in Discourse (Routledge Library Editions: The English Language #9)
by Renaat DeclerckFirst published in 1991, this book looks at tense in English, one of the most controversial areas of grammar. Prior to the book’s original publication, the problems and interest in the subject had led to an impressive number of books and articles. Yet, despite the amount of work produced, nothing approaching a consensus had emerged, merely a series of conflicting theories and analyses. Here, Renaat Declerck provides a framework for a theoretical instrument which will enable the linguist to interpret the data correctly. The book is primarily theoretical in nature, but offers descriptive theory and a discussion of the various tenses which will make it a valuable tool for those teaching English. Theoretical and applied linguists will find this an important contribution to the debate on tense and a worthy starting point for future research. The book is not written from the viewpoint of any particular linguistic theory and does not presuppose any knowledge of tense theory, it is a readable and reliable guide to the area.
Tension and Contention in Language Education for Latinxs in the United States: Experience and Ethics in Teaching and Learning (Language Education Tensions in Global and Local Contexts)
by Glenn A. Martínez Robert W. TrainApplying a critical lens to language education, this book explores the tensions that Latinx students face in relation to their identities, social and institutional settings, and other external factors. Across diverse contexts, these students confront complex debates and contestable affirmations that intersect with their lived experiences and social histories. Martinez and Train highlight the pedagogic and ethical urgency of teacher responsibility, learner agency and social justice in critically addressing the consequences, constraints, and affordances of the language education that Latinx students experience in historically-situated and institutionally defined spaces of practice, ideology and policy. Reframing language studies to take into account the roles of power, inequality, and social settings, this book provokes dialogue between areas of language education that rarely interface. Through privileging the learner experience, the book provides a window to the contested spaces across language education and generates new opportunities for engagement and action. Offering nuanced and insightful analyses, this book is ideal for scholars, language researchers, language teacher educators and graduate students in all areas of language education.
Tensions in World Literature: Between the Local and the Universal
by Weigui FangThis collection gives a diversified account of world literature, examining not only the rise of the concept, but also problems such as the relation between the local and the universal, and the tensions between national culture and global ethics. In this context, it focuses on the complex relationship between Chinese literature and world literature, not only in the sense of providing an exemplary case study, but also as an introspection and re-location of Chinese literature itself. The book activates the concept of world literature at a time when it is facing the rising modern day challenges of race, class and culture.
Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory)
by Daniel R. BrunstetterPolitics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of equality in a world in which certain peoples are perceived to reject and/or violently resist democratic principles. This book revisits Europe’s initial encounter with the Native Americans of the New World to shed light on how the West’s initial defense of so-called ‘barbarians’ has influenced the way we think about diversity today, and elucidate the arguments of exclusion that unconsciously permeate the moral world we live in. In doing so, Daniel R. Brunstetter traces Bartolomé de Las Casas’s oft heralded defense of the Native Americans in the sixteenth century through the French Enlightenment. While this defense has been rightly lauded as an early example of human rights discourse, tracing Las Casas’s arguments into the eighteenth century shows how his view of equality enabled arguments legitimizing the annihilation by ‘just’ war of those perceived to be ‘barbarians’. This philosophical narrative can be useful when thinking about concepts such as just war, multiculturalism, and immigration, or any area in which politics confronts radical difference.
Tensión y sentido
by Mariano Peyrou Tubert«Siempre que leemos un buen poema, por muy acostumbrados que estemos a leer poesía, sentimos esa tensión; podemos aprender a disfrutarla.» Este libro no es un manual, pero logra que el lector, de un modo natural, sutil y un tanto inesperado, descubra y aprenda a emplear sus propios recursos para abordar un poema (y se libere de ciertas trabas). Tampoco es una historia de la poesía, pero en él lo contemporáneo se conecta con una larga tradición que abarca diversas disciplinas artísticas, de modo que vemos con nuevos ojos tanto lo antiguo como lo moderno. ¿Qué ocurre cuando el sentido se abre, cuando conviven la precisión y la imprecisión, cuando irrumpe lo prosaico? ¿Cómo participan la ironía, la debilidad temática, las repeticiones, las imágenes o los símbolos en la construcción del sentido? Mariano Peyrou nos invita a disfrutar de la tensión de explorar un territorio extraño, a entregarnos a la fascinación que genera esa extrañeza y a encontrar un espacio desde el que leer, mirar y pensar de forma diferente. En el camino, una cuidada selección de poemas (de Baudelaire, Dickinson, Eliot, Stevens, Parra, Szymborska o Ullán, pero también de Shakespeare, Góngora o Blake) ilustra las distintas dimensiones exploradas. Pero los poemas, conectados con numerosos ejemplos provenientes de otras disciplinas (Duchamp, El Veronés, Beethoven, Stravinski, Darwin o Freud también están en estas páginas), son sobre todo el terreno ideal para que el lector se deleite estrenando su nueva mirada. Reseñas:«Libro a libro, ha renovado los modos del lenguaje y los enfoques de la mirada de una obra poética y narrativa tan personal como extrañamente prodigiosa.»Antonio Ortega, Babelia «Esas raras veces en que el ingenio se acompaña de sustancia, el resultado puede ser fascinante. En ese momento es cuando yo dejo de llamarlo "ingenio" y lo llamo "talento".»Sara Mesa, Estado Crítico «Su sentido del humor y su controlado gusto por la broma lingüística adquieren un feliz tono propio.»Nadal Suau, El Cultural «Innovador, ácido, lúdico, lúcido.»Ángeles López, La Razón «Uno de nuestros grandes poetas del lenguaje.»Vicente Luis Mora, Diario de Lecturas «Mariano Peyrou me parece un excelente escritor.»José María Guelbenzu «Una de las escrituras más personales y sorprendentes del panorama actual.»Luis Bagué Quílez, Babelia «Uno de los narradores españoles más inteligentes en el juego con el lenguaje.»Eugenio Fuentes, La Nueva España «Dan ganas de anunciarle al lector que esto no es una novela. ¿Y esto es bueno o malo? En el caso del autor madrileño, es bueno. Muy bueno. Endiabladamente inteligente.»J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, Babelia, sobre Los nombres de las cosas «Son muchas las cuestiones existenciales y artísticas que plantea De los otros. Impulsada por un estilo introspectivo, con derivas en el flujo de la conciencia y diálogos con frases inconclusas. Peyrou sobrecoge al lector.»Francisco Solano, Babelia «Peyrou da rienda suelta a su aventura lingüística sin que la vanguardia desemboque jamás en gratuidad.»Juan Andrés García Román, Babab «No es una novela de humor, y sin embargo es divertida como pocas que haya leído en los últimos años.»Juan Marqués, La Esfera de Papel, sobre Los nombres de las cosas