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Shakespeare´s Sonnets
William Shakespeare
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Description for Shakespeare´s Sonnets
Paperback. Philip Terry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Num Pages: 151 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 210.
Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, by the language of journalism and spam emails, Philip Terry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Shakespeare's themes of fading beauty, posterity, immortality and death find their contemporary responses in the world of celebrity gossip, consumer products and the credit crunch. The results spark with energy, as disrespectful and anarchic as a cartoon - and as assured in their control of line. Philip Terry, an acclaimed translator of the poetry of Raymond Queneau, plays language games by the rules of Oulipo in his creation of a ... Read more
Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, by the language of journalism and spam emails, Philip Terry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Shakespeare's themes of fading beauty, posterity, immortality and death find their contemporary responses in the world of celebrity gossip, consumer products and the credit crunch. The results spark with energy, as disrespectful and anarchic as a cartoon - and as assured in their control of line. Philip Terry, an acclaimed translator of the poetry of Raymond Queneau, plays language games by the rules of Oulipo in his creation of a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
151
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
151
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770721
SKU
V9781847770721
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Ref
99-1
About William Shakespeare
Philip Terry was born in Belfast in 1962. He has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing. His fiction, poetry and translations have been widely published in journals in Britain and America. His books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (2000), Fables of Aesop (2006) and the ... Read more
Reviews for Shakespeare´s Sonnets
'I am admiring, diverted, baffled, and moved by this original, contemporary re-engagement with the Sonnets.'
Philip Terry
Philip Terry