Stan Smith (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden

Herausgeber: Smith, Stan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Short description/annotation
A comprehensive and authoritative guide to Auden's work.

Main description
This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from new and established Auden critics, alongside specialists from such diverse fields as drama, ecological and travel studies. It provides scholars, students and general readers with a comprehensive and authoritative account of Auden's life and works in clear and accessible English. Besides providing authoritative accounts of the key moments and dominant themes of his poetic development, the Companion examines his language, style and formal innovation, his prose and critical writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion, psychoanalysis, politics, landscape, ecology, and globalisation. It also contains a comprehensive bibliography of writings about Auden.

Table of contents:
Chronology; 1. Introduction Stan Smith; 2. Auden's life and character Richard Davenport-Hines; 3. Auden's England Patrick Deane; 4. Auden in America Nicholas Jenkins; 5. The European Auden Edward Mendelson; 6. Auden's travel writings Tim Youngs; 7. Auden's plays and dramatic writings: theatre, film and opera Christopher Innes; 8. Auden's light and serio-comic verse Stan Smith; 9. Auden's prose A. E. Sharpe; 10. Auden's English: language and style Peter Porter; 11. Auden and modern theory John R. Boly; 12. Auden's politics: power, authority and the individual John Lucas; 13. Auden, psychology and society Rod Mengham; 14. Auden: love, sexuality, desire Richard R. Bozorth; 15. Auden and religion Gareth Reeves; 16. Auden's landscapes Paola Marchetti; 17. Auden and ecology Rainer Emig; 18. Auden and influence Ian Sansom; 19. Bibliographic essay and review of Auden studies Nadia Herman Colburn.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521829625
• ISBN-10: 0521829623
• Artikelnr.: 22035515

Autorenporträt

Stan Smith is Research Professor in Literary Studies at the Nottingham Trent University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
List of abbreviations and textual note
Chronology of Auden's life and works Stan Smith
1. Introduction Stan Smith
2. Auden's life and character Richard Davenport-Hines
3. Auden's England Patrick Deane
4. Auden in America Nicholas Jenkins
5. The European Auden Edward Mendelson
6. Auden's travel writings Tim Youngs
7. Auden's plays and dramatic writings: theatre, film and opera Christopher Innes
8. Auden's light and serio-comic verse Stan Smith
9. Auden's prose Tony Sharpe
10. Auden's English: language and style Peter Porter
11. Auden and modern theory John R. Boly
12. Auden's politics: power, authority and the individual John Lucas
13. Auden, psychology and society Rod Mengham
14. Auden: love, sexuality, desire Richard R. Bozorth
15. Auden and religion Gareth Reeves
16. Auden's landscapes Paola Marchetti
17. Auden and ecology Rainer Emig
18. Auden and influence Ian Sansom
19. Bibliographic essay and review of Auden studies Nadia Herman Colburn
Index.

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List of contributors; List of abbreviations and textual note; Chronology of Auden's life and works Stan Smith; 1. Introduction Stan Smith; 2. Auden's life and character Richard Davenport-Hines; 3. Auden's England Patrick Deane; 4. Auden in America Nicholas Jenkins; 5. The European Auden Edward Mendelson; 6. Auden's travel writings Tim Youngs; 7. Auden's plays and dramatic writings: theatre, film and opera Christopher Innes; 8. Auden's light and serio-comic verse Stan Smith; 9. Auden's prose Tony Sharpe; 10. Auden's English: language and style Peter Porter; 11. Auden and modern theory John R. Boly; 12. Auden's politics: power, authority and the individual John Lucas; 13. Auden, psychology and society Rod Mengham; 14. Auden: love, sexuality, desire Richard R. Bozorth; 15. Auden and religion Gareth Reeves; 16. Auden's landscapes Paola Marchetti; 17. Auden and ecology Rainer Emig; 18. Auden and influence Ian Sansom; 19. Bibliographic essay and review of Auden studies Nadia Herman Colburn; Index.

Rezensionen

'For any student of Auden's writings or anyone interested in him as a man, this collection will prove essential reading.' Contemporary Review