1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464651503321

Autore

Hicok Bob <1960->

Titolo

Insomnia diary / / Bob Hicok

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

0-8229-9092-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (97 p.)

Collana

Pitt poetry series

Disciplina

811/.54

Soggetti

American poetry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Bottom of the ocean""; ""Small purchase""; ""The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day""; ""Dropping the euphemism""; ""Calling him back from layoff""; ""My life with a gardener""; ""An old story""; ""The documentary art""; ""Becoming bird""; ""Another awkward stage of convalescence""; ""The bald truth""; ""After working sixty hours again for what reason""; ""Oath to my former life""; ""Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone""; ""Insomnia diary""; ""Go Greyhound""; ""Finally opening the anthology to Kunitz""; ""Free-floating anxiety sounds like a pretty balloon""

""Tuesday's walk""""1935""; ""American Studies""; ""Sur Coast diary""; ""Capital crime""; ""Now and then I am direct""; ""Growing at the speed of fashion""; ""Bars poetica""; ""Translator's note""; ""Echo""; ""Mortal shower""; ""Meteor shower""; ""Building a painting a home""; ""Commission by attrition""; ""Goodbye in the shape of a knot""; ""The edge""; ""Radical neck""; ""It's not so much the heat as the stupidity""; ""Cure for the common cold""; ""Cutting edge""; ""Truth about love""; ""Shopping at the ocean""; ""Acknowledgments""

Sommario/riassunto

"The most potent ingredient in virtually every one of Bob Hicok's compact, well-turned poems is a laughter as old as humanity itself, a sweet waggery that suggests there's almost no problem that can't be solved by this poet's gentle humor."New York Times Book Review



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972810403321

Autore

Hackett Jon

Titolo

Beasts of the Forest : Denizens of the Dark Woods / / Edited by John Hackett and Seán Harrington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

9780861969579

086196957X

9780861969586

0861969588

9780861969593

0861969596

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

HarringtonSean

Disciplina

704.9434

809.93375

Soggetti

Supernatural in motion pictures

Supernatural in literature

Supernatural

Forests in literature

Forests in art

Forests and forestry

Supernatural - Folklore

Forests and forestry - Folklore

Folklore

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Beasts of the forest -- ; Part 1 : Ferocious forests -- "You're already in hell" : Representations of the forest in Wolf People's video Night Witch (2016) / Richard Mills -- EcoGothic secrets : Venturing beneath the deep dark forest / Elizabeth Parker -- Holy monstrosity of arborescence in Brian Catling's The Vorrh / András Fodor -- ; Part 2 : Denizens of the woods -- Long in the tooth?



Werewolves of a certain age / Jon Hackett -- Cruising the queer forest with Alain Guiraudie : Woods, plastics, plasticities / Bejamin Dalton -- The "good" and "bad" forests of modern fantasy cinema : A Kleinian topology / Alexander Sergeant -- ; Part 3 : Tolkien's forests -- Trees and Tolkien : Reflections between medieval and modern reverence / Brad Eden -- Shadow shrouds and moonlight veils : The forest as an existential scene in Tolkien's legendarium -- The fiendish forests of Middle-earth : Tolkien's trees as ominous adversaries.

Sommario/riassunto

An interdisciplinary engagement with the forest and its monsters through critical readings of folklore, fiction, film, music video, and animation. Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the forest in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspectives: film and media studies, cultural studies, queer theory, Tolkien studies, mythology and popular music are featured. Under examination are a wide range of narratives and media forms that represent, reimagine and create the werewolves, witches and weird apparitions that inhabit the forest, along with the forest as a monstrous entity in itself. Whether they be our shelter and safe-haven or the domain of malevolent spirits and sprites, forests have the capacity to horrify and threaten those that venture into them without permission. Human interference has continually threatened forests across the world, yet this threat is revered in myth, folklore and more recent cultural forms. This collection ranges widely to analyze how forests figure in contemporary culture, as well as the wider contexts in which such representations are inserted.