A Defense Of Ardor

Author : Adam Zagajewski
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781466884236

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A Defense of Ardor by Adam Zagajewski Pdf

Ardor, inspiration, the soul, the sublime: Such terms have long since fallen from favor among critics and artists alike. In his new collection of essays, Adam Zagajewski continues his efforts to reclaim for art not just the terms but the scanted spiritual dimension of modern human existence that they stake out. Bringing gravity and grace to his meditations on art, society, and history, Zagajewski wears his erudition lightly, with a disarming blend of modesty and humor. His topics range from autobiography (his first visit to a post-Soviet Lvov after childhood exile; his illicit readings of Nietzsche in Communist Poland); to considerations of artist friends past and present (Zbigniew Herbert, Czeslaw Milosz); to intellectual and psychological portraits of cities he has known, east and west; to a dazzling thumbnail sketch of postwar Polish poetry. Zagajewski gives an account of the place of art in the modern age that distinguishes his self-proclaimed liberal vision from the "right-wing radicalism" of such modernist precursors as Eliot or Yeats. The same mixture of ardor and compassion that marks Zagajewski's distinctive contribution to modern poetry runs throughout this eloquent, engaging collection.

Author : Kinga Olszewska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351195379

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Wanderers Across Language by Kinga Olszewska Pdf

"Exile has become a potent symbol of Polish and Irish cultures. Historical, political and cultural predicaments of both countries have branded them as diasporic nations: but, in Adorno's dictum, for an exile writing becomes home. Olszewska offers a multifaceted picture of the figure of exile in postwar Poland and Ireland, juxtaposing politics and culture: whereas Irish exile appears more in an economic and cultural context, the essence of Polish exile is political. This comparative study of works by Polish and Irish authors - Stanislaw Baranczak, Adam Zagajewski, Marek Hlasko, Kazimierz Brandys, Brian Moore, Desmond Hogan and Paul Muldoon - shows a literature which not only depicts the experience of exile, but which uses exile as a literary device."

Author : Jaroslaw Anders
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300155310

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Between Fire and Sleep by Jaroslaw Anders Pdf

A collection of essays representing Anders's thinking over several decades, 'Between Fire and Sleep' offers a fresh understanding of modern Polish cultural identity.

Author : Eric Karpeles
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681372853

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Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski by Eric Karpeles Pdf

A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world. Józef Czapski (1896–1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis in the opening weeks of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. For reasons unknown to this day, he was one of the very few excluded from Stalin’s sanctioned massacres of Polish officers. He never returned to Poland after the war, but worked tirelessly in Paris to keep alive awareness of the plight of his homeland, overrun by totalitarian powers. Czapski was a towering public figure, but painting gave meaning to his life. Eric Karpeles, also a painter, reveals Czapski’s full complexity, pulling together all the threads of this remarkable life.

Author : James Kuzner
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823294534

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The Form of Love by James Kuzner Pdf

Can poetry articulate something about love that philosophy cannot? The Form of Love argues that it can. In close readings of seven “metaphysical” poems, the book shows how poets of the early modern period and beyond use poetic form to turn philosophy to other ends, in order not to represent the truth about love but to create a virtual experience of love, in all its guises. The Form of Love shows how verse creates love that can’t exist without poetry’s specific affordances, and how poems can, in their impossibility, prompt love’s radical re-imagining. Like the philosophies on which they draw, metaphysical poems imagine love as an intense form of non-sovereignty, of giving up control. They even imagine love as a liberating bondage—to a friend, a beloved, a saint, a God, or a garden. Yet these poems create strange, striking versions of such love, made in, rather than through, the devices, structures, and forces where love appears. Tracing how poems think, Kuzner argues, requires an intimate form of reading: close—even too close—attention to and thinking with the text. Showing how poetry thinks of love otherwise than other fields, the book reveals how poetry and philosophy can nevertheless enter into a relation that is itself like love.

Author : Adam Zagajewski
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374709631

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Slight Exaggeration by Adam Zagajewski Pdf

A new essay collection by the noted Polish poet For Adam Zagajewski—one of Poland’s great poets—the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has characterized as his “restless and quizzical quest for self-knowledge.” Slight Exaggeration is an autobiographical portrait of the poet, arranged not chronologically but with that same luminous quality that distinguishes Zagajewski’s spellbinding poetry—an affinity for the invisible. In a mosaic-like blend of criticism, reflections, European history, and aphoristic musings, Zagajewski tells the stories of his life in glimpses and reveries—from the Second World War and the occupation of Poland that left his family dispossessed to Joseph Brodsky’s funeral on the Venetian island of San Michele—interspersed with intellectual interrogations of the writers and poets (D. H. Lawrence, Giorgos Seferis, Zbigniew Herbert, Paul Valéry), composers and painters (Brahms, Rembrandt), and modern heroes (Helmuth James Graf von Moltke) who have influenced his work. A wry and philosophical defense of mystery, Slight Exaggeration recalls Zagajewski’s poetry in its delicate negotiation between the earthbound and the ethereal, “between brief explosions of meaning and patient wandering through the plains of ordinary days.” With an enduring inclination to marvel, Zagajewski restores the world to us—necessarily incomplete and utterly astonishing.

Author : Magdalena Kay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441198280

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Knowing One's Place in Contemporary Irish and Polish Poetry by Magdalena Kay Pdf

Are we allowed to choose where we belong? What pressures make us feel that we should belong somewhere? This book brings together four major poets-Heaney, Mahon, Zagajewski, and Hartwig-who ask themselves these questions throughout their lives. They start by assuming that we can choose not to belong, but know this is easier said than done. Something in them is awry, leading them to travel, emigrate, and return dissatisfied with all forms of belonging. Writer after writer has suggested that Polish and Irish literature bear some uncanny similarities, particularly in the 20th century, but few have explored these similarities in depth. Ireland and Poland, with their tangled histories of colonization, place a large premium upon knowing one's place. What happens, though, when a poet makes a career out of refusing to know her place in the way her culture expects? This book explores the consequences of this refusal, allowing these poets to answer such questions through their own poems, leading to surprising conclusions about the connection of knowledge and belonging, roots and identity.

Author : Aurelian Craiutu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108494953

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Why Not Moderation? by Aurelian Craiutu Pdf

Moderation can be a winning card. It can cure us of hubris and arrogance and helps combat extremism and fanaticism.

Author : Bonnie Costello
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801446139

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Planets on Tables by Bonnie Costello Pdf

Introduction : crude foyers -- Wallace Stevens : local objects and distant wars -- William Carlos Williams : contending in still life -- Elizabeth Bishop's ethnographic eye -- Joseph Cornell : soap bubbles and shooting galleries -- Richard Wilbur : Xenia -- Conclusion : domestic disturbance.

Author : Daniel Simon
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781646050345

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Dispatches from the Republic of Letters by Daniel Simon Pdf

“The centrifugal pull of great literature, as embodied by the work of these twenty-five writers, draws us into a fuller realization of our humanity.” ¬– Daniel Simon, editor-in-chief of World Literature Today For the last fifty years, The Neustadt Prize has been one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world, second only to the Nobel. Poets, novelists, and playwrights from Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Orhan Pamuk to Czeslaw Milosz and Dubravka Ugresic are listed among the ranks of laureate. Now, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary, Dispatches from the Republic of Letters gathers the acceptance speeches of these twenty-five pioneering writers into one volume, edited and with an introduction by World Literature Today editor-in-chief Daniel Simon.

Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781838855758

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The Last Days of Roger Federer by Geoff Dyer Pdf

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK In this endlessly stimulating investigation into ‘things coming to an end, artists’ last works, time running out’, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who’ve mattered to him throughout his life. He examines Friedrich Nietzsche’s breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan’s reinventions of old songs, Beethoven’s final quartets, Jean Rhys’s return from the dead (while still alive) and much more.

Author : Adam Zagajewski
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820324104

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Another Beauty by Adam Zagajewski Pdf

This brilliant memoir is Adam Zagajewski's recollection of 1960s and 1970s communist Poland, where he was a fledgling writer, student of philosophy, and vocal dissident at the university in Krakow, Poland's most beautiful and ancient city.

Author : Adam Zagajewski
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781466884243

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Eternal Enemies by Adam Zagajewski Pdf

The highway became the Red Sea. We moved through the storm like a sheer valley. You drove; I looked at you with love. —from "Storm" One of the most gifted and readable poets of his time, Adam Zagajewski is proving to be a contemporary classic. Few writers in either poetry or prose can be said to have attained the lucid intelligence and limpid economy of style that have become a matter of course with Zagajewski. It is these qualities, combined with his wry humor, gentle skepticism, and perpetual sense of history's dark possibilities, that have earned him a devoted international following. This collection, gracefully translated by Clare Cavanagh, finds the poet reflecting on place, language, and history. Especially moving here are his tributes to writers, friends known in person or in books—people such as Milosz and Sebald, Brodsky and Blake—which intermingle naturally with portraits of family members and loved ones. Eternal Enemies is a luminous meeting of art and everyday life.

Author : Ayla Asher
Publisher : Reading Goddess Press, LLC
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781953471482

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Futures Entwined by Ayla Asher Pdf

Does a former mean girl deserve a happy ever after? Heather Combs grew up in Ardor Creek, stuck in a home with zero love or emotional support. In response, she lashed out, becoming a popular but cold ice-queen. Hoping to escape her unstable home, she married her high school boyfriend only to realize she’d entered another emotionally unfulfilling relationship. Convinced she didn’t possess the capacity to love, she divorced her ex and left Ardor Creek. Years later, Jeremy Kramer, a successful author and single dad to twin girls, moves to Ardor Creek and instantly falls for the small-town charm. His busy life leaves little room for love, even if newly-returned former bad girl Heather Combs continually catches his eye. When Heather and Jeremy become neighbors, they quickly realize their chemistry is off the charts. But he’s a dad who prefers serious relationships and she detests feelings. After all, love has never been her forte, but in the hidden corners of her soul, she can’t deny her yearning for her handsome neighbor and his sweet, precocious girls… Welcome back to Ardor Creek! In this series finale, we see a middle-aged, childfree by choice heroine finally get her happy ever after. There are discussions of mental illness, including animal cruelty and childhood hardships, so please consider that before reading. Love is in the air in Ardor Creek for our sexy-geeky author and reformed mean girl. Enjoy! The Ardor Creek Series (also available as audiobooks) #1: Hearts Reclaimed #2: Illusions Unveiled #3: Desires Uncovered #4: Resolutions Embraced #5: Passions Fulfilled #6: Futures Entwined Search terms: later in life romance, childfree by choice heroine, single dad romance, small town romance, later in life romance, complete series, hot romance, steamy romance * * * * If you’re a fan of Lucy Score, Melanie Harlow, Amy Daws, Kayley Loring, Adriana Locke, Claire Kingsley, & Nicole Snow, the Ardor Creek series is perfect for you!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106018409505

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