Futures Of Enlightenment Poetry

Author : Dustin D. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599643

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This book offers a revisionist account of poetry and embodiment from Milton to Romanticism. Scholars have made much of the period's theories of matter, with some studies equating the eighteenth century's modernity with its materialism. Yet the Enlightenment in Britain also brought bold new arguments for the immateriality of spirit and evocative claims about an imminent spirit realm. Protestant religious writing was of two minds about futurity, swinging back and forth between patience for the resurrected body and desire for the released soul. This ancient pattern carried over, the book argues, into understandings of poetry as a modern devotional practice. A range of authors agreed that poems can provide a foretaste of the afterlife, but they disagreed about what kind of future state the imagination should seek. The mortalist impulse—exemplified by John Milton and by Romantic poets Anna Letitia Barbauld and William Wordsworth—is to overcome the temptation of disembodiment and to restore spirit to its rightful home in matter. The spiritualist impulse—driving eighteenth-century verse by Mark Akenside, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Edward Young—is to break out of bodily repetition and enjoy the detached soul's freedom in advance. Although the study isolates these two tendencies, each needed the other as a source in the Enlightenment, and their productive opposition didn't end with Romanticism. The final chapter identifies an alternative Romantic vision that keeps open the possibility of a disembodied poetics, and the introduction considers present-day Anglophone writers who put it into practice.

Author : Dustin D. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198857792

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Explores the creative work of writers and theologians who used their poetic writings as a means to explore and envisage scenarios of embodiment and existence that extended to life after bodily death.

Author : Rowan Boyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317319665

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The Poetic Enlightenment by Rowan Boyson Pdf

The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.

Author : Porscha Fermanis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748637812

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John Keats and the Ideas of the Enlightenment by Porscha Fermanis Pdf

John Keats is generally considered to be the least intellectually sophisticated of all the major Romantic poets, but he was a more serious thinker than either his contemporaries or later scholars have acknowledged. This book provides a major reassessment of Keats's intellectual life by considering his engagement with a formidable body of eighteenth-century thought from the work of Voltaire, Robertson, and Gibbon to Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith.The book re-examines some of Keats's most important poems, including The Eve of St Agnes, Hyperion, Lamia, and Ode to Psyche, in the light of a range of Enlightenment ideas and contexts from literary history and cultural progress to anthropology, political economy, and moral philosophy. By demonstrating that the language and ideas of the Enlightenment played a key role in establishing his poetic agenda, Keats's poetry is shown to be less the expression of an intuitive young genius than the product of the cultural and intellectual contexts of his time.

Author : Julie J. Morley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781620557693

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Future Sacred by Julie J. Morley Pdf

Reveals how our survival depends on embracing complexity consciousness and relating to nature and all life as sacred • Rejects the “survival of the fittest” narrative in favor of sacred symbiosis, creative cooperation, interdependence and complex thinking • Provides examples from complexity studies, cultural history, philosophy, indigenous spirituality, biomimicry, and ecology to show how nature’s intelligence and creativity abound everywhere • Documents how indigenous cultures lived in relative harmony with nature because they perceived themselves as part of the “ordered whole” of all life In Future Sacred, Julie J. Morley offers a new perspective on the human connection to the cosmos by unveiling the connected creativity and sacred intelligence of nature. She rejects the “survival of the fittest” narrative--the idea that survival requires strife--and offers symbiosis and cooperation as nature’s path forward. She shows how an increasingly complex world demands increasingly complex consciousness. Our survival depends upon embracing “complexity consciousness,” understanding ourselves as part of nature, as well as relating to nature as sacred. Morley begins by documenting how indigenous cultures lived in relative harmony with nature because they perceived themselves as part of the “ordered whole” of all life--until modernity introduced dualistic thinking, thus separating mind from matter, and humans from nature. The author deconstructs the fallacy behind social and neo-Darwinism and the materialist theories of “dead matter” versus those that offer a connection with the sentient mind of nature. She presents evidence from complexity studies, cultural history, philosophy, indigenous spirituality, biomimicry, and ecology, highlighting the idea that nature’s intelligence and creativity abound everywhere--from cells to cetaceans, from hydrogen to humans, from sunflowers to solar panels--and that all sentient beings contribute to the evolution of life as a whole, working together in sacred symbiosis. Morley concludes that our sacred future depends on compassionately understanding and integrating multiple intelligences, seeing relationships and interdependence as fundamental and sacred, as well as honoring the experiences of all sentient beings. Instead of “mastery over nature,” we must shift toward synergy with nature--and with each other as diverse expressions of nature’s creativity.

Author : Colin Drake
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780359222483

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Poetry From Enlightenment Is For All by Colin Drake Pdf

This book is a stand-alone guide to, and practices for, Awakening and is composed of poems based on articles in 'Enlightenment Is For All', which are themselves based on new discoveries, replies to questions and internet discussions on Awakening. The thrust of the book is that the initial awakening which reveals that, in essence, we are Pure Awareness is very simple to obtain. Then this needs to be established by repeated awakenings due to the natural tendency to 'nod off' and re-identify oneself as a separate object in a universe of separate objects. When one is awake then anxiety and unnecessary mental suffering disappear, for these are caused by this misidentification which causes us to see each other, and the world, through a murky filter of self-interest, self-concern, self-promotion, self-aggrandizement, self-loathing, the list is almost endless. It is this world-view that causes the anxiety and mental suffering based on concern for the future and feeling we are bound by the past

Author : William Max Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1124370994

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The Enlightenment Engine by William Max Hall Pdf

One of the most durable aspects of our Romantic legacy is the notion that poetry represents a creative and personal expression of a "glowing imagination." However, I argue that this Romantic and expressivist ideal obscures poetry's dependence on technical craft and smoothes over its modern origins in a logic of machinery. The Enlightenment Engine, as a historical and theoretical study, attempts to revive the notion of the poem as techne --a tool, device, or craftwork episteme--by reading the eighteenth-century concept of "pure poetry" against the "Romanticizing" tendency of its interpreters to conscript it into a poiesis model of poetry--a transcendentally oriented episteme. I argue that to think through the newly reenergized dialectic of poetry/technology we return to the conceptual dialectic poiesis/techne and trace it back through twentieth-century literary criticism and aesthetic debates to the Enlightenment's ambivalent theory of "pure poetry." I principally study the clash of epistemological values that underwrite this conceptual divide through four permutations: literary studies after the advent of New Media studies and digitally born literary objects; the legacy of Joseph Warton's "pure poetry" in twentieth-century criticism; "pure poetry" and the limits of the human-machine in their eighteenth-century intellectual context; the experimental work of William Collins's Odes; and the epistemological intersection of Christopher Smart's poetry and the cabinet of curiosity. Thus the twenty-first century demand that the humanities account for the implications of technology in the human life-world echoes the Enlightenment's preoccupation with the epistemological value of poetry configured as an aesthetic technology.

Author : Cindy H. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 152458276X

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Poetry of Enlightenment by Cindy H. Clark Pdf

Author : Harold Orel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015010754375

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English Romantic Poets and the Enlightenment by Harold Orel Pdf

Author : Cyril Smith
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0739110276

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Karl Marx and the Future of the Human by Cyril Smith Pdf

In this excellent study of Karl Marx's thought, Cyril Smith takes a long and winding route that starts with classical world thought. When he arrives at the door to Marx's pantheon we see that, with the significant yet largely overlooked example of Spinoza, most thinkers--and especially Western ones--are opposed to essential aspects of democracy. In Marx and the Future of the Human Cyril Smith explains that Karl Marx, more than any other thinker, is misrepresented by what has come to be understood as 'Marxism.' Marxism has developed into, among other things, a method for analyzing capitalism, a way of looking at history, and a way to theorize the role of the working class in a future society. Marx, however, speaks about a conception of human life that was absent during his lifetime and remains absent today. Marx sought 'the alteration of humans on a mass scale: ' economics, politics, daily lived-life, and spiritual life. In discussing Marx and spirituality, Cyril Smith relates Marx to the thought of William Blake. Someone coming to Marx for the first time as well as the seasoned scholar can read this book. Marx and the Future of the Human is a book rife with thoughtful and creative connections written by someone who has spent most of his life close to the spirit of Karl Marx's thought.

Author : John Evan Seery
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813126548

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A Political Companion to Walt Whitman by John Evan Seery Pdf

A Political Companion to Walt Whitman is the first full-length exploration of Whitman's works through the lens of political theory. Editor John E. Seery and a collection of prominent theorists and philosophers uncover the political awareness of Whitman'spoetry and prose, analyzing his faith in the potential of individuals, his call for a revolution in literature and political culture, and his belief in the possibility of combining heroic individualism with democratic justice. --from publisher description

Author : Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520394452

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Almost Futures by Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Almost Futures looks to the people who pay the heaviest price exacted by war and capitalist globalization--particularly Vietnamese citizens and refugees--for glimpses of ways to exist at the end of our future's promise. In order to learn from the lives destroyed (and lived) amid our inheritance of modern humanism and its uses of time, Almost Futures asks us to recognize new spectrums of feeling: the poetic, in the grief of protesters dispossessed by land speculation; the allegorical, in assembly line workers' laughter and sorrow; the iterant and intimate, in the visual witnessing of revolutionary and state killing; the haunting, in refugees' writing on the death of their nation; and the irreconcilable, in refugees' inhabitation of history.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9783038420545

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The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "The Challenges of the Humanities, Past, Present, and Future - Volume 1" that was published in Humanities

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099668414X

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Futures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edmund Gosse
Publisher : Litres
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040826346

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The Future of English Poetry by Edmund Gosse Pdf