Gioia, Dana

Why Shakespeare( visu )
1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 1,477 libraries worldwide
Various famous and not so famous individuals state the effect that Shakespeare's works have had in their lives. A main video presentation accompanied by seventeen vignettes.

Can poetry matter? : essays on poetry and American culture by Dana Gioia( Book )
9 editions published between 1992 and 2002 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,222 libraries worldwide
When Dana Gioia's essay "Can Poetry Matter?" appeared in the Atlantic in 1991, it sparked a firestorm of debate and discussion over the role of the poet in today's world - a dialogue in which Gioia participated on radio, television, and in print. One of the more stimulating and provocative figures on our literary horizon, and the author of two widely praised books of poems, Gioia is also an essayist of wide renown. This collection of essays demonstrates that Gioia's talents do not lie in the area of controversy alone. Can Poetry Matter? is an old-fashioned sort of literary book, part literary criticism, part social commentary, and part plain good reading. Addressing such subjects as the poet as businessman and New Formalism as the real avant-garde, it also includes pieces on the life and work of such diverse figures as Robinson Jeffers, Weldon Kees, Robert Bly, and Wallace Stevens. In an age when literary discourse often seems either bleached of any real content or academic to the point of inaccessibility, the essays in Can Poetry Matter? are certain to educate, provoke, and, perhaps most of all, delight readers. They also establish Dana Gioia as one of the foremost cultural observers of his generation.

Disappearing ink : poetry at the end of print culture by Dana Gioia( Book )
5 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 788 libraries worldwide

An introduction to The death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy by Dan Stone( Sound Recording )
2 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 766 libraries worldwide
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Leo Tolstoy's The death of Ivan Ilyich, a novel about Christian faith and the nature of life and death.

An introduction to The call of the wild by Jack London by Dan Stone( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 766 libraries worldwide
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Jack London's tale of an unusual dog--part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd--that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

An introduction to Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury audio guide by Dan Stone( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 765 libraries worldwide
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, a novel about a future American society that embraces hedonism and bans critical thought through reading.

An introduction to The heart is a lonely hunter by Carson McCullers audio guide by Dan Stone( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 758 libraries worldwide
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of the novel by Carson McCullers about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in Georgia.

An introduction to Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya audio guide by Dan Stone( Sound Recording )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 754 libraries worldwide
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Rudolfo Anaya's novel about a young boy in New Mexico in the 1940s who must reconcile the many conflicting influences of his family, religion, and community.

Twentieth-century American poetry( Book )
4 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 753 libraries worldwide
This anthology ... presents American poetry from across the twentieth century and includes the work of familiar greats, from Robert Frost and Langston Hughes to W.S. Merwin and Adrienne Rich, as well as neglected figures, such as Amy Lowell and Sterling A. Brown, and a range of contemporary artists, from Kin Addonizio to Shirley Geok-lin Lim to Benjamin Alire Saenz. Organized largely by movement, the volume's historical and cultural introductions explore how poetry informed and was informed by the issues of the day.-Back cover.

The Longman dictionary of literary terms : vocabulary for the informed reader by X. J Kennedy( Book )
10 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in English and held by 742 libraries worldwide