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Irresistible Dictation

Author : Steven Meyer
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804749302

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Before Gertrude Stein became the twentieth century’s preeminent experimental writer, she spent a decade conducting research at Harvard’s psychological laboratory and the Johns Hopkins Medical School. This book shows how her extensive scientific training continued to exert a profound influence on the development of her extraordinary literary practices.

Literary Neurophysiology

Author : Randall Knoper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780192845504

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Literary Neurophysiology by Randall Knoper Pdf

Investigating the relations between American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the sciences of the brain and the nervous system, this volume shows how literary authors investigated, used and challenged this emerging neurophysiology.

The Lyric in the Age of the Brain

Author : Nikki Skillman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674545120

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The Lyric in the Age of the Brain by Nikki Skillman Pdf

Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets—caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors—struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.

Experimental

Author : Natalia Cecire
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421433783

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Experimental by Natalia Cecire Pdf

A compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits. In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental writing should be understood as a historical phenomenon before it is understood as a set of formal phenomena. This seems counterintuitive because, at its most basic level, experimental writing can be thought of as writing which breaks from established forms. Touching on figures who are not typically considered experimental, such as Stephen Crane, Jacob Riis, Busby Berkeley, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Gottlob Frege, Experimental offers a fresh look at authors who are often treated as constituting a center or an origin point of an experimental literary tradition in the United States, including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore. In responding to a crisis of legitimization in the production of knowledge, this tradition borrows and transforms the language of the sciences. Drawing upon terminology from the history of science, Cecire invokes the epistemic virtue, which tethers ethical values to the production of knowledge in order to organize diverse turn-of-the-century knowledge practices feeding into "experimental writing." Using these epistemic virtues as a structuring concept for the book's argument, Cecire demonstrates that experimental writing as we now understand it does not do experiments (as in follow a method) but rather performs epistemic virtues. Experimental texts embody the epistemic virtues of flash, objectivity, precision, and contact, associated respectively with population sciences, neuroanatomy, natural history and toolmaking, and anthropology. Yet which virtues take precedence may vary widely, as may the literary forms through which they manifest. Bringing it up to the 1980s, Cecire reveals the American experimental literary tradition as a concerted and largely successful rewriting of twentieth-century literary history. She shows how the Language poets, a group of primarily white experimental writers, restored to the canon what they saw as modernism's true legacy, whose stakes were simultaneously political and epistemological: it produced a poet who was an intellectual and a text that was experimental.

Gertrude Stein

Author : Lucy Daniel
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861897077

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Gertrude Stein by Lucy Daniel Pdf

“You are, of course, never yourself,” wrote Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) in Everybody’s Autobiography. Modernist icon Stein wrote many pseudo-autobiographies, including the well-known story of her lover, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas;but in Lucy Daniel’s Gertrude Stein the pen is turned directly on Stein, revealing the many selves that composed her inspiring and captivating life. Though American-born, Stein has been celebrated in many incarnations as the embodiment of French bohemia; she was a patron of modern art and writing, a gay icon, the coiner of the term “Lost Generation,” and the hostess of one of the most famous artistic salons. Welcomed into Stein’s art-covered living room were the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, and Pound. But—perhaps because of the celebrated names who made up her social circle—Stein has remained one of the most recognizable and yet least-known of the twentieth-century’s major literary figures, despite her immense and varied body of work. With detailed reference to her writings, Stein’s own collected anecdotes, and even the many portraits painted of her, Lucy Daniel discusses how the legend of Gertrude Stein was created, both by herself and her admirers, and gives much-needed attention to the continuing significance and influence of Stein’s literary works. A fresh and readable biography of one of the major Modernist writers, Gertrude Stein will appeal to a wide audience interested in Stein’s contributions to avant-garde writing, and twentieth century art and literature in general.

Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes

Author : Stanley Cavell,David Justin Hodge
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804745439

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Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes by Stanley Cavell,David Justin Hodge Pdf

This book is Stanley Cavell’s definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that labor is drawn together here for the first time into a single volume, which also contains two previously unpublished essays and an introduction by Cavell that reflects on this book and the history of its emergence. Students and scholars working in philosophy, literature, American studies, history, film studies, and political theory can now more easily access Cavell’s luminous and enduring work on Emerson. Such engagement should be further complemented by extensive indices and annotations. If we are still in doubt whether America has expressed itself philosophically, there is perhaps no better space for inquiry than reading Cavell reading Emerson.

Philosophy and the Patience of Film in Cavell and Nancy

Author : Daniele Rugo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137580603

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Philosophy and the Patience of Film in Cavell and Nancy by Daniele Rugo Pdf

Philosophy and the Patience of Film presents a comparative study of the work of Jean-Luc Nancy and Stanley Cavell. It discusses the effect of their philosophical engagement with film, and proposes that the interaction between philosophy and film produces a power of patience capable of turning our negation of the world into a relation with it. Through detailed readings of cinematic works ranging from Hollywood classics to contemporary Iranian cinema, this book describes the interaction between film and philosophy as a productive friction from which the concept of patience emerges as a demand for thinking. Daniele Rugo explains how Nancy and Cavell's relationship with film demands the surrendering of philosophical mastery, and that it is precisely this act in view of the world that brings Cavell and Nancy to the study of film. While clarifying the nature of their engagement with film this book suggests that film does not represent the world, but 'realizes' it. This realization provides a scene of instruction for philosophy.

In Quest of the Ordinary

Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226417288

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In Quest of the Ordinary by Stanley Cavell Pdf

These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors as Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Stanley Cavell shows that romanticism and American transcendentalism represent a serious philosophical response to the challenge of skepticism that underlies the writings of Wittgenstein and Austin on ordinary language.

Irresistible Dictation

Author : Steven J. Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313264213

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Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol

Author : Adam Frank
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823262489

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Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol by Adam Frank Pdf

Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Andy Warhol. The author emphasizes the close, reflexive attention each of these artists pays to the transfer of feeling between text and reader, or composition and audience— their transferential poetics. The book’s historical route from Poe to Warhol culminates in television, a technology and cultural form that makes affect distinctly available to perception. The peculiar theatricality of these four artists, Frank argues, can best be understood as a reciprocal framing relation between the bodily means of communicating affect (by face and voice) and technologies of graphic reproduction.

Gertrude Stein in Europe

Author : Sarah Posman,Laura Luise Schultz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474242295

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Gertrude Stein in Europe by Sarah Posman,Laura Luise Schultz Pdf

Although often hailed as a 'quintessentially American' writer, the modernist poet, novelist and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) spent most of her life in France. With chapters written by leading international scholars, Gertrude Stein in Europe is the first sustained exploration of the European artistic and intellectual networks in which Stein's work was first developed and circulated. Along the way, the book investigates the European contexts of Stein's writing, how her own work intersected with European thought, including phenomenology and the vitalist work of Henri Bergson, and ultimately how it was received by scholars and artists across the continent. Gertrude Stein in Europe opens up new perspectives on Stein as a writer and on the centrality of artistic and intellectual networks to European modernism.

Practices of Surprise in American Literature after Emerson

Author : Kate Stanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426879

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Practices of Surprise in American Literature after Emerson by Kate Stanley Pdf

This book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.

The Patience of Pearl

Author : Daniel B. Shea
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826272973

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The Patience of Pearl by Daniel B. Shea Pdf

When St. Louis homemaker Pearl Curran began writing fiction and poetry at a Ouija board in 1913, she attributed the work to the “discarnate entity” Patience Worth, a seventeenth-century Puritan. Though now virtually forgotten, her writing garnered both critical praise and public popularity at the time. The Patience of Pearl uncovers more of Curran’s (and thus Patience Worth’s) biography than has been known before; Daniel B. Shea provides close readings of the Patience-dictated writings and explores the historical and local context, applying current cognitive and neuro-psychology research. Though Pearl Curran had only a ninth-grade education, Patience Worth was able to dictate a biblical novel and a Victorian novel. Echoes of Dickens and the Potters, a circle of St. Louis women writers, make clear that Patience Worth reflects literary debts that go as far back as Curran being read to as a child. Shea argues that the workings of implicit memory suggest the medium’s creative achievements were her own body’s property. Curran also had musical training, and recent developments in the field of psychology regarding the overlap between musical and linguistic rhythms of regularity, anticipation, and surprise supply a firm foundation for attributing skills both automatic and creative to Curran. Her reflections on her doubleness in her self-study anticipate the many-personed Ouija board writing of poet James Merrill. Shea approaches Curran/Worth as a summary figure for the Victorian-era woman writer’s buried voice at the point of its transition into modernism. He investigates many lingering questions about Curran’s fluent productivity at the Ouija board, including the “smart” versus “dumb” unconscious. Shea links unconscious memory, dissociation, and automatic writing and reconsiders problematic assumptions about individual identity and claims of personal agency. The Curran/Worth Puritan/writer figure also allows scrutiny of gendered assumptions about the dangers of female speech and the idealization of women’s passive reception of divine, or husbandly, revelation. Novelistic in its own way, Curran’s life included three husbands and a child adopted on command from Patience Worth. Pearl Curran enjoyed a brief period of celebrity in Los Angeles before her death in 1937. The Patience of Pearl once again brings her the attention she deserves—for her life, her writing, and her place in women’s literary history.

Listening on All Sides

Author : Richard Deming
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804757380

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Bringing together Continental literary theory and Anglo-American philosophy, Listening on All Sides reads the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathanial Hawthorne, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams to uncover the role literary texts play in the way that language use creates and defines culture and ethics.

Post-analytic Philosophy

Author : John Rajchman,Cornel West
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 023106067X

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Post-analytic Philosophy by John Rajchman,Cornel West Pdf

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