Poetics and Precarity

Poetics and PrecarityPoets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty first century. At a time when wars, acts of terrorism, and ecological degradation have intensified and isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic divisiveness have been given distinctively more powerful voice in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed. The poets and critics in this book argue that language has the

and offers comparative analyses uncovering how Agrippino Manteo’s scripts creatively adapt Italian Renaissance chivalric poems and nineteenth-century prose compilations

In-depth case studies on transboundary resource issues are explored as well as the implications of Chinese environmental decay for political conflict

and nursing educators

the first Ikarians had arrived in Port Pirie

It also prompted these women to engage these changes and take up their pens both privately and publicly

starting with two growing strategies that have become widely adopted for the indoor production of edible plants: hydroponics and aeroponics

geometrical optics

raising profound questions about our fundamental values

one of the most important fiction writers of the past forty years

Although often considered an esoteric figure occupying the dark fringes of twentieth-century thought

English illuminated manuscripts

they explain the everyday workings of state-level bureaucracy within the context of a simple decision model and share managers' and executives' own stories