New Perspectives on Robert Graves

New Perspectives on Robert Graves
Author: Patrick J. Quinn
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781575910208

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"The book is organized around five distinct themes that include studies on Graves's own literary criticism, offer new insights into his poetry, produce commentary on his often overlooked fictional output, make some reflections on the origins and importance of his White Goddess, and examine some literary crosscurrents that have pollinated Graves's work."--BOOK JACKET.

Robert Graves

Robert Graves
Author: Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1472929152

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The writer and poet Robert Graves suppressed virtually all of the poems he had published during and just after the First World War. Until his son, William Graves, reprinted almost all the Poems About War in 1988, Graves's status as a 'war poet' seems to have depended mainly on his prose memoir (and bestseller), Good-bye to All That. None of the previous biographies written on Graves, however excellent, attempt to deal with this paradox in any depth. Robert Graves the war poet and the suppressed poems themselves have been largely neglected – until now. Jean Moorcroft Wilson, celebrated biographer of poets Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg and Edward Thomas, relates Graves's fascinating life during this period, his experiences in the war, his being left for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his leap from a third-storey window after his lover Laura Riding's even more dramatic jump from the fourth storey, his move to Spain and his final 'goodbye' to 'all that'. In this deeply-researched new book, containing startling material never before brought to light, Dr Moorcroft Wilson traces not only Graves's compelling life, but also the development of his poetry during the First World War, his thinking about the conflict and his shifting attitude towards it. Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That casts new light on the life, prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War poetry is incomplete.

A Study Guide for Robert Graves's "Goodbye to All That"

A Study Guide for Robert Graves's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2016
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410347109

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A Study Guide for Robert Graves's "Goodbye to All That," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Nonfiction Classics for Students for all of your research needs.

Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition

Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition
Author: Alisdair G. G. Gibson
Publisher: Classical Presences
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198738056

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The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value. This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The essays explore Graves' unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.

Essay and General Literature Index

Essay and General Literature Index
Author: Minnie Earl Sears
Publisher:
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2004
Genre: Electronic reference sources
ISBN:

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Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately).

A Study Guide for Robert Graves's "I, Claudius"

A Study Guide for Robert Graves's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-06-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410349047

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A Study Guide for Robert Graves's "I, Claudius," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

The White Goddess

The White Goddess
Author: Robert Graves
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1966-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780374504939

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The White Goddess is perhaps the finest of Robert Graves's works on the psychological and mythological sources of poetry. In this tapestry of poetic and religious scholarship, Graves explores the stories behind the earliest of European deities—the White Goddess of Birth, Love, and Death—who was worshipped under countless titles. He also uncovers the obscure and mysterious power of "pure poetry" and its peculiar and mythic language.

Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition

Robert Graves and the Classical Tradition
Author: A. G. G. Gibson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2015-07-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191057975

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The poet Robert Graves' use of material from classical sources has been contentious to scholars for many years, with a number of classicists baulking at his interpretation of myth and his novelization of history, and questioning its academic value. This collection of essays provides the latest scholarship on Graves' historical fiction (for example in I, Claudius and Count Belisarius) and his use of mythical figures in his poetry, as well as an examination of his controversial retelling of the Greek Myths. The essays explore Graves' unique perspective and expand our understanding of his works within their original context, while at the same time considering their relevance in how we comprehend the ancient world.

Transgressing Frontiers

Transgressing Frontiers
Author: Ngong Toh
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2021-04-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9956551937

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The focus of this book is to assess, through language and literary studies in interpretation, the epistemic representation of frontiers in its shifting and fixing categories. The contributing researchers stress on the fact that crisscrossing has taken its toll on communities and disciplines and that hegemonic positions are becoming increasingly redundant and provocative. Frontier discourse is therefore, a socio-political and culturally oriented discourse. Importing it to language and literary studies also shows that literary circles like language are equally shifting and erasing borderlines. The chapters discuss crisscrossing of frontiers both as geography and epistemology. This is in line with the new cultural ontology that opens up new interpretations and shifts from previous ones in the disciplines of Language, Linguistics, Arts and Literature. The book pulls together a wide range of issues based on a plurality of theoretical assumptions. The issues presented are grouped into three broad sections. Section one looks at the creation of the self as a way to dismantle the other. In section two, the focus is on linguistic shifts and the fact that all languages need space in multilingual societies. And section three shows how people travel out of their homelands to seek comfort. Resourceful, insightful and incisive, the book offers depth and breadth in refined scholarship. The contributors are masterly in their handling of borderlines between ideology and iconoclasm, globalisation and nationalism, memory and nation, gender and identity, official and indigenous languages, self /other dialectics, migration and identity. The book is an invaluable asset to researchers and students with a penchant for interdisciplinarity, intertextuality, multiculturalism and globalisation.

The Scientification of Religion

The Scientification of Religion
Author: Kocku von Stuckrad
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-05-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 161451349X

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The enigmatic relation between religion and science still presents a challenge to European societies and to ideas about what it means to be ‘modern.’ This book argues that European secularism, rather than pushing back religious truth claims, in fact has been religiously productive itself. The institutional establishment of new disciplines in the nineteenth century, such as religious studies, anthropology, psychology, classical studies, and the study of various religious traditions, led to a professionalization of knowledge about religion that in turn attributed new meanings to religion. This attribution of meaning resulted in the emergence of new religious identities and practices. In a dynamic that is closely linked to this discursive change, the natural sciences adopted religious and metaphysical claims and integrated them in their framework of meaning, resulting in a special form of scientific religiosity that has gained much influence in the twentieth century. Applying methods that come from historical discourse analysis, the book demonstrates that religious semantics have been reconfigured in the secular sciences. Ultimately, the scientification of religion perpetuated religious truth claims under conditions of secularism.