Imagination Metaphor And Mythopeiea In Wordsworth Shelley And Keats

Author : Firat Karadas
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Imagination in literature
ISBN : 3631582366

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Imagination, Metaphor and Mythopeiea in Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats by Firat Karadas Pdf

The book studies metaphor, myth and their imaginative aspects in the poetry of William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. Relying on Kantian, Romantic, Neo-Kantian and modern ideas of imagination, metaphor and myth, the book proposes that imagination is an inherently metaphorizing and mythologizing faculty because the act of perception is an act of giving form to natural phenomena and seeing similitude in dissimilitude, which are basically metaphorical and mythological acts. Studying selected poems, the author explores how in its form-giving activity the imagination of the speaking subject 'mythologizes' and 'metaphorizes' by seeing objects of nature as spiritual, animate or divine beings and thus transforming them into the alien territory of myth. Myth and metaphor are analyzed in these poems mainly in two regards: first, myth and metaphor are handled as inborn aspects of imagination and perception, and the interaction between nature and imagination is presented as the origin of all mythology; second, to show how myth is re-created time and again by poetic imagination, Romantic mythography and re-creation of precursor mythologies are analyzed.

Author : Emily Clifford,Xavier Buxton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000912678

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The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens by Emily Clifford,Xavier Buxton Pdf

This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp ‘justice’ or ‘war’ or ‘death’, when they dreamt or deliberated, how did they do it? Did they think about what they were doing? Did they imagine an imagining mind? European histories of the imagination have often begun with thinkers like Plato and Aristotle. By contrast, this volume is premised upon the idea that imaginative activity, and especially efforts to articulate it, can take place in the absence of technical terminology. In exploring an ancient culture of imagination mediated by art and literature, the book scopes out the roots of later, more explicit, theoretical enquiry. Chapters hone in on a range of visual and verbal artefacts from the Classical period. Approaching the topic from different angles – philosophical, historical, philological, literary, and art historical – they also investigate how these artefacts stimulate affective, sensory, meditative – in short, ‘imaginative’ – encounters between imagining bodies and their world. The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens offers a ground-breaking reassessment of ‘imagination’ in ancient Greek culture and thought: it will be essential reading for those interested in not only philosophies of mind, but also ancient Greek image, text, and culture more broadly.

Author : María J. López,Pilar Villar-Argáiz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501365553

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Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction by María J. López,Pilar Villar-Argáiz Pdf

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English. In its concern with what is called 'communities of secrecy', it is fundamentally indebted to the thought of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot, who have pointed to the fallacies and dangers of identitarian and exclusionary communities, arguing for forms of being-in-common characterized by non-belonging, singularity and otherness. Also drawing on the work of J. Hillis Miller, Derek Attridge, Nicholas Royle, Matei Calinescu, Frank Kermode and George Simmel, among others, this volume analyses the centrality of secrets in the construction of literary form, narrative sequence and meaning, together with their foundational role in our private and interpersonal lives and the public and political realms. In doing so, it engages with the Derridean ethico-political value of secrecy and Derrida's conception of literature as the exemplary site for the operation of the unconditional secret.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442273535

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The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt by Anonim Pdf

The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt: Dramaturgical Leaves: Richard Wagner completes the second half of Liszt’s writings about stage works, its composers, and music drama. In this volume, Liszt focuses on the works of his most controversial devotee and son-in-law, Richard Wagner, whose music dramas Liszt championed as conductor during his tenure in Weimar. Here, we see Liszt prove his skill and expertise as a music critic, as well. He offers a critical analysis of the aesthetic and musical principles that underlie Wagner’s operas, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, and The Flying Dutchman, including a thorough discussion of Wagner’s Leitmotif system of composition. Additionally, his findings are substantiated with a plethora of music examples, which will satisfy those who wanted greater musical substance from his writings. He also foretells the magnitude of Wagner’s influence on prosperity in his pamphlet-length essay, The Rhine’s Gold. Finally, the editor and translator of this volume, Janita Hall-Swadley, provides a unique perspective on these same principles, which is based on Wagner’s own mysterious diagram of “The Philosopher’s Stone,” which was supposed to be included in the original 1863 edition of the composer’s important writing, Opera and Drama, but never made it to publication.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1922 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722678

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Diane Brotemarkle
Publisher : San Francisco : Mellen Research University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000036556284

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Imagination and Myths in John Keats's Poetry by Diane Brotemarkle Pdf

This study seeks elements of self-definition in Keats's work, the quest for the poetical character. From both his poems and letters, an aesthetic emerges which locates the poetical character in terms of a responsible role in a creative process: a transcendent imagination infuses beauty into the material world; these particulars become a source of inspiration for the artist, the foundation of the simple imaginative mind. The readings of Keats's poems depend on these stages, on the two kinds of imagination and the mediation between them. This study is the one of the first to yield this particular synthesis, and the importance of historicism to Keats's aesthetic has before not always been weighted.

Author : R J Z WERBLOWSKY
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136303234

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Lucifer and Prometheus by R J Z WERBLOWSKY Pdf

Routledge is now re-issuing this prestigious series of 204 volumes originally published between 1910 and 1965. The titles include works by key figures such asC.G. Jung, Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Otto Rank, James Hillman, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney and Susan Isaacs. Each volume is available on its own, as part of a themed mini-set, or as part of a specially-priced 204-volume set. A brochure listing each title in the "International Library of Psychology" series is available upon request.

Author : Tim Winton
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330527194

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In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton Pdf

Tim Winton delivers a truly spine-tingling thriller with In the Winter Dark. When a man dreams things from the past, you’d think he’d be able to rearrange them in new sequences to please himself. But no. In my dreams, it all happens as it happened, and I see it and be it again and again and the confusion never wears off. People drift to the valley called the Sink out of loneliness, hardship or an affinity with the land. It is an isolated place, with a swamp and an old white bridge and the forest encroaching from all sides. The solitude is tangible. But when a mysterious creature is suddenly on the loose, killing livestock and preying on everyone’s deepest fears, four inhabitants find themselves unexpectedly in one another’s company – with chilling results. ‘Tim Winton’s raw and vibrant language makes the senses jump . . . concentrated, passionate, invigorating writing’ Independent on Sunday ‘A major work by anyone’s standards . . . mysterious, painful and beautiful’ Washington Post

Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 2320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804180580

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The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle by Dan Simmons Pdf

Hailed as “one of the finest achievements of modern science fiction” by The New York Times Book Review, The Hyperion Cantos is a triumphant odyssey into the heart of space and time. Through four riveting novels, Dan Simmons masterfully weaves such influences as classical mythology, romantic poetry, and far-future philosophy into an ambitiously conceived and unfailingly entertaining epic. Now, for the first time, this entire masterpiece of the imagination is available in one extraordinary eBook bundle: HYPERION THE FALL OF HYPERION ENDYMION THE RISE OF ENDYMION On the planet Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. On the eve of Armageddon, with the known universe at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of existence. As the Shrike anticipates their mission, each traveler nurtures a desperate hope—and harbors a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his or her hands. Praise for The Hyperion Cantos “For vastness of scope, clarity of detail and seriousness of purpose, Simmons’s epic narrative is on a par with Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series, Frank Herbert’s Dune books, Gene Wolfe’s multipart Book of the New Sun and Brian Aldiss’s Helliconia trilogy.”—The New York Times Book Review “Dan Simmons has brilliantly conceptualized a future 700 years distant. In sheer scope and complexity it matches, and perhaps even surpasses, those of Isaac Asimov and James Blish.”—The Washington Post Book World “State of the art science fiction . . . This work will be that against which all future works will have to be measured, in the same way, in their time, that Asimov’s Foundation series and Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness set new standards.”—Asimov’s “Simmons’ own genius transforms space opera into a new kind of poetry.”—The Denver Post “A major work . . . Simmons doesn’t just promise; he delivers.”—Science Fiction Chronicle

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387034585

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The Witch of Atlas by Percy Bysshe Shelley Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:400208996

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The Daemon of the World by Percy Bysshe Shelley Pdf

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015002616780

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Complete Poems and Selected Letters by John Keats Pdf

Author : Ronald Carter,John McRae
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 0415243173

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The Routledge History of Literature in English by Ronald Carter,John McRae Pdf

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Author : M. H. Abrams
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1986-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0393303403

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The Correspondent Breeze by M. H. Abrams Pdf

“[Abrams] can sum up whole epochs and genres with a telling phrase. . . .Admirably cogent and erudite throughout.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : John Keats
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763650902

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A Song About Myself by John Keats Pdf

This little-known poem by the beloved poet is filled with playful rhymes that are complemented by vibrant watercolors.