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Pound's Epic Ambition

Stephen Sicari
Pound s Epic Ambition Book PDF

Author : Stephen Sicari
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0791406997

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This book is both an introductory overview of The Cantos and a detailed analysis advancing the knowledge of even the most sophisticated specialist. Sicari's analysis gives a clear orientation to the often bewildering but ultimately rewarding world of this difficult epic poem and shows that beneath the surface of the poem is the classical figure of the epic wanderer whose journey provides the "plot" of the poem. Non-specialists will appreciate Sicari's synthesis of a wide range of material. Sicari explores how Dante and the epic tradition informs The Cantos; those interested in the epic should find Sicari's study an important contribution to the field. Those studying modernism in general will see in Sicari's definition of the modern epic useful ways to study the other great achievements of high modernism, especially those of Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce. Those interested in the relation between literature and politics will find this book especially informative, for Sicari is one of the few critics on Pound who does not ignore Pound's politics, or simply castigate him for the unfortunate views he adopts and advocates. The analysis of Pound's fascism is a sub-theme that sheds new light on how politics enters a great modernist poem and affects its shape and intention.

Epic Ambition

Jessica Blum-Sorensen
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Author : Jessica Blum-Sorensen
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299344603

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Epic Ambition by Jessica Blum-Sorensen Pdf

By the time the Roman poet Valerius Flaccus wrote in the first century CE, the tale of Jason and his famous ship the Argo had been retold so often it was a byword for poetic banality. Why, then, did Valerius construct his epic Argonautica? In this innovative analysis, Jessica Blum-Sorensen argues that it was precisely the myth's overplayed nature that appealed to Valerius, operating in and responding to a period of social and political upheaval. Seeking to comment obliquely on Roman reliance on mythic exempla to guide action and expected outcomes, there was no better vessel for his social and political message than the familiar Argo. Focusing especially on Hercules, Blum-Sorensen explores how Valerius' characters--and, by extension, their Roman audience--misinterpret exemplars of past achievement, or apply them to sad effect in changed circumstances. By reading such models as normative guides to epic triumph, Valerius' Argonauts find themselves enacting tragic outcomes: effectively, the characters impose their nostalgic longing for epic triumph on the events before them, even as Valerius and his audience anticipate the tragedy awaiting his heroes. Valerius thus questions Rome's reliance on the past as a guide to the present, allowing for doubt about the empire's success under the new Flavian regime. It is the literary tradition's exchange between triumphant epic and tragedy that makes the Argo's voyage a perfect vehicle for Valerius' exploration: the tensions between genres both raise and prohibit resolution of anxieties about how the new age--mythological or real--will turn out.

Ambition and Anxiety

Line Henriksen
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Author : Line Henriksen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042021495

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"This comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott's Omeros and Ezra Pound's Cantos through Dante's Divina Commedia to the epic poems of Virgil and Homer, and identifies and discusses in detail a number of recurrent key topoi. A fresh definition of the concept of genre is worked out and presented, based on readings of Homer. The study reads Pound's and Walcott's poetics in the light of Roman Jakobson's notions of metonymy and metaphor, placing their long poems at the respective opposite ends of their language poles." "Although there has already been an intermittent critical focus on the 'classical' (and 'Dantean') antecedents of Walcott's poetry, the present study is the first to bring together the whole range of epic intertextualities underlying Omeros, and the first to read this Caribbean masterpiece in the context of Pound's achievement." --Book Jacket.

E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics

J. Alison Rosenblitt
E E Cummings Modernism and the Classics Book PDF

Author : J. Alison Rosenblitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191079887

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E. E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics by J. Alison Rosenblitt Pdf

This volume is a major, ground-breaking study of the modernist E. E. Cummings' engagement with the classics. With his experimental form and syntax, his irreverence, and his rejection of the highbrow, there are probably few current readers who would name Cummings if asked to identify 20th-century Anglophone poets in the Classical tradition. But for most of his life, and even for ten or twenty years after his death, this is how many readers and critics did see Cummings. He specialised in the study of classical literature as an undergraduate at Harvard, and his contemporaries saw him as a 'pagan' poet or a 'Juvenalian' satirist, with an Aristophanic sense of humour. In E.E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics, Alison Rosenblitt aims to recover for the contemporary reader this lost understanding of Cummings as a classicizing poet. The book also includes an edition of previously unpublished work by Cummings himself, unearthed from archival research. For the first time, the reader has access to the full scope of Cummings' translations from Horace, Homer, and Greek drama, as well as two short pieces of classically-related prose, a short 'Alcaics' and a previously unknown and classicizing parody of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. This new work is exciting in its own right and essential to understanding Cummings' development as a poet.

The Cambridge History of English Poetry

Michael O'Neill
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Author : Michael O'Neill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1117 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521883061

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The Cambridge History of English Poetry by Michael O'Neill Pdf

A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.

Intern Ambition

Margaret Gurevich
Intern Ambition Book PDF

Author : Margaret Gurevich
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781496539540

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Intern Ambition by Margaret Gurevich Pdf

Chloe is beyond excited to be back in New York City after winning Teen Design Diva and can't wait to start her dream internship with famed designer, Stefan Meyers. But the rivalry and drama she thought she left behind in the competition is back when the other interns begin to question her abilities. Can Chloe prove to everyone, including herself, that she truly belongs?

American and European Literary Imagination

John McCormick
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Author : John McCormick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351320665

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American and European Literary Imagination by John McCormick Pdf

Western culture is composed of a subtle and complex mixture of influences: religious, philosophical, linguistic, political, social, and sociological. American culture is a particular strain, but unless European antecedents and contemporary leanings are duly noted, any resulting history is predestined to provincialism and distortion. In his account of American literature during the period 1919 to 1932, McCormick deals with the extraordinary work of artists who wrested imaginative order from a world in which the abyss was never out of sight.McCormick's volume is intended as a critical, rather than encyclopedic history of literature on both sides of the Atlantic between the end of World War I and the political and social crises that arose in the 1930s. Although he emphasizes American writers, the emergence of a vital and distinctly modern American literature is located in the cultural encounter with Europe and the rejection of national bias by the major figures of the period.McCormick deals with Gertrude Stein and the mythology of the "lost generation," the tensions and ambivalences of traditionalism and modernity in the work of Sherwood Anderson and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the effect and qualities of Hemingway's style as compared to that of Henry de Montherlant, and the provincial iconoclasm of Sinclair Lewis juxtaposed with the more telling satire of Italo Svevo. The formal innovations in the work of John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, and William Faulkner, the poetic revolution against cultural parochialism and genteel romanticism is given extensive consideration with regard to the work of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore are also discussed. The concluding chapters discuss literary and social criticism and assess the influence of psychoanalysis, philosophical pragmatism, and radical historiography on the intellectual climate of the period.Teachers and students in English and American Literature, American History, and Comparative Literature, and the general reader interested in the writing of the period, may gain new insights from these valuations, devaluations, and re-evaluations.

Swift and Others

Claude Rawson
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Author : Claude Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107034785

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Swift and Others by Claude Rawson Pdf

Explores the impact of the great satirist Jonathan Swift on other writers of the English Augustan tradition.

Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature

Christopher D'Addario
Exile and Journey in Seventeenth Century Literature Book PDF

Author : Christopher D'Addario
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139463096

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Exile and Journey in Seventeenth-Century Literature by Christopher D'Addario Pdf

The political and religious upheavals of the seventeenth century caused an unprecedented number of people to emigrate, voluntarily or not, from England. Among these exiles were some of the most important authors in the Anglo-American canon. In this 2007 book, Christopher D'Addario explores how early modern authors thought and wrote about the experience of exile in relation both to their lost homeland and to the new communities they created for themselves abroad. He analyses the writings of first-generation New England Puritans, the Royalists in France during the English Civil War, and the 'interior exiles' of John Milton and John Dryden. D'Addario explores the nature of artistic creation from the religious and political margins of early modern England, and in doing so, provides detailed insight into the psychological and material pressures of displacement and a much overdue study of the importance of exile to the development of early modern literature.

The Cambridge Companion to Modernism

Michael Levenson
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism Book PDF

Author : Michael Levenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107010635

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The Cambridge Companion to Modernism by Michael Levenson Pdf

Including chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, this text provides both close analyses of individual works of modernism and a broader set of interpretive narratives.

Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature

Philip Major
Royalists and Royalism in 17th Century Literature Book PDF

Author : Philip Major
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000712131

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Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature by Philip Major Pdf

Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist Oxford before seeing long service as secretary to Queen Henrietta Maria, and as a Crown agent, on the continent. In the mid-1650s he returned to England, was imprisoned and made an accommodation with the Cromwellian regime. This volume of essays provides the modern critical attention Cowley’s life and writings merit.

Remaking the Classics

Christopher Stray,Lorna Hardwick,Amanda Wrigley,Deborah Roberts,Elizabeth Vandiver,Leanne Hunnings,Ruth Hazel,Sheila Murnaghan,Stephen Harrison
Remaking the Classics Book PDF

Author : Christopher Stray,Lorna Hardwick,Amanda Wrigley,Deborah Roberts,Elizabeth Vandiver,Leanne Hunnings,Ruth Hazel,Sheila Murnaghan,Stephen Harrison
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472538604

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Remaking the Classics by Christopher Stray,Lorna Hardwick,Amanda Wrigley,Deborah Roberts,Elizabeth Vandiver,Leanne Hunnings,Ruth Hazel,Sheila Murnaghan,Stephen Harrison Pdf

This important collection of essays both contributes to the expanding field of classical reception studies and seeks to extend it. Focusing on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain, it looks at a range of different genres (epic, novel, lyric, tragedy, political pamphlet). Within the published texts considered, the usual range of genres dealt with elsewhere is extended by chapters on books for children, and those in which childhood and memories of childhood are informed by antiquity; and also by a multi-genre case study of a highly unusual subject, Spartacus. "Remaking the Classics" also goes beyond books to dramatic performance, and beyond the theatre to radio - a medium of enormous power and influence from the 1920s to the 1960s, whose role in the reception of classics is largely unexplored. The variety of genres and of media considered in the book is balanced both by the focus on Britain in a specific time period, and by an overlap of subject-matter between chapters: the three chapters on twentieth-century drama, for example, range from performance strategies to post-colonial contexts.The book thus combines the consolidation of a field with an attempt to push it in new and exciting directions.

Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper

Heidi Thomson
Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper Book PDF

Author : Heidi Thomson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319319780

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Coleridge and the Romantic Newspaper by Heidi Thomson Pdf

This book examines how Coleridge staged his private woes in the public space of the newspaper. It looks at his publications in the Morning Post, which first published one of his most famous poems, Dejection. An Ode. It reveals how he found a socially sanctioned public outlet for poetic disappointments and personal frustrations which he could not possibly articulate in any other way. Featuring fresh, contextual readings of established major poems; original readings of epigrams, sentimental ballads, and translations; analyses of political and human-interest stories, this book reveals the remarkable extent to which Coleridge used the public medium of the newspaper to divulge his complex and ambivalent private emotions about his marriage, his relationship with the Wordsworths and the Hutchinsons, and the effect of these dynamics on his own poetry and poetics.

Reproducing Rome

Mairéad McAuley
Reproducing Rome Book PDF

Author : Mairéad McAuley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199659364

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Reproducing Rome by Mairéad McAuley Pdf

Year of publication in resource is 2016, year publication received is 2015.

The Patriot Poets

Stephen J. Adams
The Patriot Poets Book PDF

Author : Stephen J. Adams
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773555952

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The Patriot Poets by Stephen J. Adams Pdf

Since before the Declaration of Independence, poets have shaped a collective imagination of nationhood at critical points in American history. In The Patriot Poets Stephen Adams considers major odes and "progress poems" that address America's destiny in the face of slavery, the Civil War, imperialist expansion, immigration, repeated financial boom and bust, gross social inequality, racial and gendered oppression, and the rise of the present-day corporate oligarchy. Adams elucidates how poets in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries addressed political crises from a position of patriotic idealism and how military interventions overseas in Cuba and in the Philippines increasingly caused poets to question the actions of those in power. He traces competing loyalties through major works of writers at both extremes of the political spectrum, from the radical Republican versus Confederate voices of the Civil War, through New Deal liberalism versus the lost-cause propaganda of the defeated South and the conservative isolationism of the 1930s, and after the Second World War, the renewed hope of Black leaders and the existential alienation of Allen Ginsberg's counter-culture. Blazing a new path of critical discourse, Adams questions why America, of all nations, has appeared to rule out politics as a subject fit for poetry. His answer draws connections between familiar touchstones of American poetry and significant yet neglected writing by Philip Freneau, Sidney Lanier, Archibald MacLeish, William Vaughn Moody, Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, Allen Tate, Henry Timrod, Melvin B. Tolson, and others. An illuminating and pioneering work, The Patriot Poets provides a rich understanding of the ambivalent relationship American poets and poems have had with nation, genre, and the public.