Nocturnal Poetics

Author : Ferial J. Ghazoul
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781617975387

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Nocturnal Poetics by Ferial J. Ghazoul Pdf

The Book of a Thousand and One Nights, better known as The Arabian Nights, is a classic of world literature and the most universally known work of Arabic narrative. Although much has been written about it, Professor Ghazoul's analysis is the first to apply modern critical methodology to the study of this intricate and much-admired literary masterpiece. The author draws on a wealth of critical tools -- medieval Arabic aesthetics and poetics, mythology and folklore, allegory and comedy, postmodern literary criticism, and formal and structural analysis -- to explain the specific genius of the The Arabian Nights. The author describes and examines the internal cohesion of the book, establishing its morphology and revealing the dialectics of the frame-story and enframed cycles of narrative. She discusses various forms of narrative -- folk epics, animal fables, Sindbad voyages, and demon stories -- and analyzes them in relation to narrative works from India, Europe, and the Americas. Covering an impressive range of writings, from ancient Indian classics to the works of Shakespeare and the modern writers Jorge Luis Borges and John Barth, she places The Arabian Nights in the context of an ongoing storytelling tradition and reveals its influence on world literature.

Author : Wilder Poetry
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781524854157

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Nocturnal by Wilder Poetry Pdf

From @wilderpoetry comes a heavily expanded revised edition of Nocturnal, a collection of poetry and beautifully illustrated black-and-white imagery inspired by darkened days and sleepless nights. Poetry meets presentation in each of the four sections ("Dusk," "Northern Lights," "Howl," "Lucid Dreams,"), which trace the author's continuing journey of self-discovery while illuminating a path for others along the way. Ink stains, landscapes, dreamlike animals, blackened pages, and textured spreads create a multifaceted reading experience. And true to the moniker, these poems are linked by a motif of "the wild." Celebrating the art of self-love poetry with both word and image, Nocturnal will leave readers comforted, curious, and inspired to explore the world around them.

Author : Saree Makdisi,Felicity Nussbaum
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191564963

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The Arabian Nights in Historical Context by Saree Makdisi,Felicity Nussbaum Pdf

Alf layla wa layla (known in English as A Thousand and One Nights or The Arabian Nights) changed the world on a scale unrivalled by any other literary text. Inspired by a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript, the appearance of Antoine Galland's twelve-volume Mille et Une Nuits in English translation (1704-1717), closely followed by the Grub Street English edition, drew the text into European circulation. Over the following three hundred years, a widely heterogeneous series of editions, compilations, translations, and variations circled the globe to reveal the absorption of The Arabian Nights into English, Continental, and global literatures, and its transformative return to modern Arabic literature, where it now enjoys a degree of prominence that it had never attained during the classical period. Beginning with a thorough introduction situating The Arabian Nights in its historical and cultural contexts-and offering a fresh examination of the text's multiple locations in the long history of modern Orientalism—this collection of essays by noted scholars from 'East', 'West', and in-between reassesses the influence of the Nights in Enlightenment and Romantic literature, as well as the text's vigorous after-life in the contemporary Arabic novel.

Author : J. Dolan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230286474

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Poetic Occasion from Milton to Wordsworth by J. Dolan Pdf

John Dolan takes a new approach to the evolution of the modern English lyric, emphasising the way in which several generations of poets, reacting to post-Reformation readers' dislike for invented poetic narratives, competed for the right to commemorate important public occasions and slowly expanded the range of acceptable occasion. This book demonstrates that many fundamental features of a typical modern lyric actually evolved as responses to the limitations of occasional poetry.

Author : Siobhan Phillips
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231149303

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The Poetics of the Everyday by Siobhan Phillips Pdf

Wallace Stevens once described the "malady of the quotidian," lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen. Yet he would later hail "that which is always beginning, over and over"--recognizing, if not celebrating, the possibility of fresh invention. Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, Siobhan Phillips positions everyday time as a vital category in modernist aesthetics, American literature, and poetic theory. She eloquently reveals how, through particular but related means, each of these poets converts the necessity of quotidian experience into an aesthetic and experiential opportunity. In Stevens, Phillips analyzes the implications of cyclic dualism. In Frost, she explains the theoretical depth of a habitual "middle way." In Bishop's work, she identifies the attempt to turn recurrent mornings into a "ceremony" rather than a sentence, and in Merrill, she shows how cosmic theories rely on daily habits. Phillips ultimately demonstrates that a poetics of everyday time contributes not only to a richer understanding of these four writers but also to descriptions of their era, estimations of their genre, and ongoing reconfigurations of the issues that literature reflects and illuminates.

Author : Gaston Bachelard
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1971-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0807064130

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The Poetics of Reverie by Gaston Bachelard Pdf

In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, The Poetics of Space, Bachelard considered several kinds of "praiseworthy space" conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In Poetics of Reverie he considers the absolute origins of that imagery: language, sexuality, childhood, the Cartesian ego, and the universe. Approaching the psychology of wonder from the phenomenological viewpoint, Bachelard demonstrates the aurgentative potential of all that awareness. Thus he distinguishes what is merely a phenomenon of relaxation from the kind of reverie which "poetry puts on the right track, the track of expanding consciousness"

Author : Joseph Childress
Publisher : Joseph Childress
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780982353363

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Nocturnal Poetry by Joseph Childress Pdf

Childress's flexible style allows him to express his opinions on various topics ranging from religion to politics in a compilation of poetry that people of any age can enjoy.

Author : Markus Schmitz
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839450482

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Transgressive Truths and Flattering Lies by Markus Schmitz Pdf

This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Tracing multiple beginnings and seminal intertexts, the comparative study of dissonant truth-making presents critical readings in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets displaced and strategic unreliability, representational opacity, or matters of act advance to essential qualities of the discussed works' aesthetic devices and ethical concerns. Questioning conventional interpretive approaches, Markus Schmitz shows what Anglophone Arab studies are and what they can become from a radically decentered relational point of view. Among the writers and artists discussed are such diverse figures as Rabih Alameddine, William Blatty, Kahlil Gibran, Ihab Hassan, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Ameen Rihani, Edward Said, Larissa Sansour, and Raja Shehadeh.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004691674

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The Abyss as a Concept for Cultural Theory by Anonim Pdf

This edited volume provides a comparative exploration of corresponding concepts of the abyss in various languages and cultures. Fourteen chapters investigate ancient cultures such as Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit and Old Norse, but also more contemporary American, African and Asian languages, such as Hawaiian, Umbundu, Chinese and Khasi, as well as European languages, such as German, Estonian, English, French, Polish and Russian. The book combines ethnolinguistics with history of ideas, literature, folklore, religion and translation, based on the conviction that language and our linguistic concepts give evidence of and shape our ideas about the world and about ourselves.

Author : Erik Martiny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444344295

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A Companion to Poetic Genre by Erik Martiny Pdf

A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE A COMPANION TO POETIC GENRE This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, among others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal, and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake. The book also approaches genres driven by theme, such as the calypso and found poetry. Each chapter begins by defining the genre in its initial stages, charting historical developments and finally assessing its latest mutations, be they structural, thematic, parodic, assimilative, or subversive.

Author : Isabel Sobral Campos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498547215

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Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape by Isabel Sobral Campos Pdf

Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the legacies of colonialism and focuses on issues of environmental justice and indigenous issues as well as on the intersection of genocide studies and environmentalism. It also examines ecologically-informed modes of relating to the world. In particular, it engages with interactions between the human and nonhuman as well as mind and matter. Finally, it broadens the scope of place to include both the absent land of exiled peoples, and the urban, built environment.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 2849 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110215588

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Handbook of Medieval Studies by Albrecht Classen Pdf

This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.

Author : Tariq Rahman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819978922

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The Handbook of Mirza Ghalib’s Poetry and Poetics by Tariq Rahman Pdf

Author : Patricia M. Montilla
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820478970

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Parody, the Avant-garde, and the Poetics of Subversion in Oliverio Girondo by Patricia M. Montilla Pdf

Oliverio Girondo is a leading figure of the Spanish American avant-garde. Parody, the Avant-Garde, and the Poetics of Subversion in Oliverio Girondo examines the presence and function of parody in Girondo's early poetry and drawings. It illustrates how, through the subversion of both conventional and vanguard poetics, these texts discredit the values imposed upon artistic production by institutionalized models and social codes. This book assesses the extent to which Girondo followed the theories outlined in his critical writings and considers how his works fit into the general trajectory of the historical avant-garde and contemporary Spanish American literature.

Author : Alison Chapman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198723578

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Networking the Nation by Alison Chapman Pdf

This volume offers a micro-history of a British and American expatriate community of women poets in Florence in the years leading up to Unification, allowing readers to trace the larger history of the shift in women's poetry to a more public, political, and transnational voice.