Reginald Gibbons
Biographic Data
| ID | 296355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reginald Gibbons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reginald |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbons |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBONS R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Selected Poems
Sophocles' tragedies--from Antigone to Oedipus Tyrannus--are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense of the lines as dramatic speech. This is the first book in English to present Sophocles exclusively as a poet, and the only volume to reveal the full force and beauty of his verse. With a fresh and consistent attention to structure, language, and rhythm…
To Write with the Use of Cixous
Cixous has written extensively about the act of writing. Far from being limited to theoretical formulations, Cixous's writing on writing is of a kind that is of great use in the practice of writing-especially her ideas about the play of language; the unconscious; how writing produces a sense of the self as other; writing as a departure and as death. It is also useful for an American writing in English to consider the contrast of English-language …
Sophocles Antigone
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky. Echoing through western cu…
Thomas McGrath
Colter's Novelistic Contradictions
From first novel to fourth there is an increasing openness and open-endedness to Cyrus Colter's novels. It may be that many readers of his work regard him primarily as the author of a celebrated collection of short stories, but in his novels Colter's ambitions are greater and his achievement lies not only in his success in presenting character-the forte of his stories-but also in his structural, thematic, and stylistic explorations of the open-en…
Political Poetry and the Example of Ernesto Cardenal
Poetic Form and the Translator
Poems
Sophocles Antigone
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky. Echoing through western cu…
Thomas McGrath
Poems
Poetic Form and the Translator
Political Poetry and the Example of Ernesto Cardenal
Colter's Novelistic Contradictions
From first novel to fourth there is an increasing openness and open-endedness to Cyrus Colter's novels. It may be that many readers of his work regard him primarily as the author of a celebrated collection of short stories, but in his novels Colter's ambitions are greater and his achievement lies not only in his success in presenting character-the forte of his stories-but also in his structural, thematic, and stylistic explorations of the open-en…
Thomas McGrath
Sophocles Antigone
Oedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact a primal conflict between young and old, woman and man, individual and ruler, family and state, courageous and self-sacrificing reverence for the gods of the earth and perhaps self-serving allegiance to the gods of the sky. Echoing through western cu…
To Write with the Use of Cixous
Cixous has written extensively about the act of writing. Far from being limited to theoretical formulations, Cixous's writing on writing is of a kind that is of great use in the practice of writing-especially her ideas about the play of language; the unconscious; how writing produces a sense of the self as other; writing as a departure and as death. It is also useful for an American writing in English to consider the contrast of English-language …
Selected Poems
Sophocles' tragedies--from Antigone to Oedipus Tyrannus--are filled with highly wrought, vivid, and emotionally powerful poetry. Yet most translations sacrifice the poetry to convey only the sense of the lines as dramatic speech. This is the first book in English to present Sophocles exclusively as a poet, and the only volume to reveal the full force and beauty of his verse. With a fresh and consistent attention to structure, language, and rhythm…
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