Phillis Wheatley As Prophetic Poet

Author : Wallis C. Baxter III
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793641212

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Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet by Wallis C. Baxter III Pdf

In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet, the author argues that Phillis Wheatley is the mother of liberation theology. The author uses Wheatley’s poetry and life experiences to create a portrait of Wheatley beyond that of a poet. Wheatley is described as both poet and visionary who wrestles with God during the creative process. The lyrical expressions of Wheatley’s poetry unlock the spiritual impressions on her heart. The author sets up the racial dynamics of Wheatley’s time and her engagement with those politics. As a preacher, Wheatley combats the immoral undercurrent that erodes the community’s social, economic, and spiritual foundation as well as its political systems. The author positions Wheatley as one uniquely qualified to address the hypocrisy within her world and, by implication, present-day society by calling for immersion into a radical understanding of love and justice, resulting in a renewed hope for equality and a pathway toward equity.

Author : Armondo Collins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781666921571

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The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance by Armondo Collins Pdf

In The Black God Trope and Rhetorical Resistance: A Tradition of Race and Religion, Armondo R. Collins theorizes Black Nationalist rhetorical strategies as an avenue to better understanding African American communication practices. The author demonstrates how Black rhetors use writing about God to create a language that reflects African Americans’ shifting subjectivity within the American experience. This book highlights how the Black God trope and Black Nationalist religious rhetoric function as an embodied rhetoric. Collins also addresses how the Black God trope functions as a gendered critique of white western patriarchy, to demonstrate how an ideological position like womanism is voiced by authors using the Black God trope as a means of public address. Scholars of rhetoric, African American literature, and religious studies will find this book of particular interest.

Author : N. Kershaw Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107689510

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Poetry and Prophecy by N. Kershaw Chadwick Pdf

This 1952 book is an inquiry into the relations in origin between literature and inspiration, based on a study of the practices of seers in modern communities where oral literature sill survives, and of the records of primitive poetry in the West and North. Mrs Chadwick discusses the universal reverence accorded to poets, musicians, seers, or prophets, the training they underwent, the methods of ecstasy, and the remarkable similarities of their messages in remote and different parts of the world.

Author : Natasha Duquette
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532600197

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Veiled Intent by Natasha Duquette Pdf

How were eighteenth-century dissenting women writers able to ensure their unique biblical interpretation was preserved for posterity? And how did their careful yet shrewd tactics spur early nineteenth-century women writers into vigorous theological debate? Why did the biblical engagement of such women prompt their commitment to causes such as the antislavery movement? Veiled Intent traces the pattern of tactical moves and counter-moves deployed by Anna Barbauld, Phillis Wheatley, Helen Maria Williams, Joanna Baillie, and Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. These female poets and philosophers veiled provocative hermeneutical claims and calls for social action within aesthetic forms of discourse viewed as more acceptably feminine forms of expression. In between the lines of their published hymns, sonnets, devotional texts for children, and works of aesthetic theory, the perceptive reader finds striking theological insights shared from a particularly female perspective. These women were not only courageously interjecting their individual viewpoints into a predominantly male domain of formal study--biblical hermeneutics--but also intentionally supporting each other in doing so. Their publications reveal they were drawn to biblical imagery of embodiment and birth, to stories of the apparently weak vanquishing the tyrannical on behalf of the oppressed, and to the metaphor of Christ as strengthening rock.

Author : Herbert J. C. Grierson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107658523

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Milton and Wordsworth, Poets and Prophets by Herbert J. C. Grierson Pdf

Originally published in 1937, this book was formed from a series of lectures by renowned John Clifford Grierson on Milton and Wordsworth.

Author : Charles Haven Logan, Sr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1649901747

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Poems From A Prophetic Poet II by Charles Haven Logan, Sr. Pdf

Charles Haven Logan Sr. is a native of Spartanburg, S.C. He is the son of the late Ernest (Dickie) and Margaret K. Logan. While growing up, he was faced with many challenges. At the age of seven years old, he witnessed the shooting death of his father. This caused a spiritual scar and deep hurt which left him searching for something to heal and relieve him of the pain. He found this in a life of substance abuse and other crimes which landed him in prison numerous times. This is where he received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. God showed him his purpose and placed a calling on his life to teach, preach, intercede and win souls for the Lord. God also placed an anointing on his life to write poems. He currently resides in Aiken County, S.C. with his wife Wanda. They have six children, fifteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He is the founder and over-seer of Flaming Fire Ministries Inc. He is also a full-time volunteer minister and instructor in the S. C. Dept. of Corrections.

Author : Traian Morovan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781543408768

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Prophetic Poetry Revelations by Traian Morovan Pdf

Several of my poems have been inspired by God and Jesus, and I have compiled a selection of my favorites that I have written over the years. I am here to give a message for all that have eyes and ears that you may see and hear this warning. I hope this book finds you well and healthy. I hope it brings upon you blessings of love, health, and wisdom from God, our Creator. Amen!

Author : Aaron Kramer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Abortion, Therapeutic
ISBN : UCAL:B4354784

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The Prophetic Tradition in American Poetry, 1835-1900 by Aaron Kramer Pdf

Author : Phillis Wheatley
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1499220723

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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley Pdf

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

Author : R Miller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813183039

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The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes by R Miller Pdf

Langston Hughes was one of the most important American writers of his generation, and one of the most versatile, producing poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. In this innovative study, R. Baxter Miller explores Hughes's life and art to enlarge our appreciation of his contribution to American letters. Arguing that readers often miss the complexity of Hughes's work because of its seeming accessibility, Miller begins with a discussion of the writer's auto-biography, an important yet hitherto neglected key to his imagination. Moving on to consider the subtle resonances of his life in the varied genres over which his imagination "wandered," Miller finds a constant symbiotic bond between the historical and the lyrical. The range of Hughes's artistic vision is revealed in his depiction of Black women, his political stance, his lyric and tragi-comic modes. This is one of the first studies to apply recent methods of literary analysis, including formalist, structuralist, and semiotic criticism, to the work of a Black American writer. Miller not only affirms in Hughes's work the peculiar qualities of Black American culture but provides a unifying conception of his art and identifies the primary metaphors lying at its heart. Here is a fresh and coherent reading of the work of one of the twentieth century's greatest voices, a reinterpretation that renews our appreciation not only of Black American text and heritage but of the literary imagination itself.

Author : Jan Wojcik,Raymond-Jean Frontain
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838631916

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Poetic Prophecy in Western Literature by Jan Wojcik,Raymond-Jean Frontain Pdf

In this collection of twelve essays, the editors attempt to define the poet as prophet in Western literature and to select the general attributes of prophetic writing. The essays focus, in the main, on the prophetic tradition in the English-speaking world, as well as on a sufficient number of writers outside that tradition, to prove that all prophetic writing shares common features.

Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429969451

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The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by David Waldstreicher Pdf

A New York Times notable book of 2023 | A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography “[An] erudite, enlightening new biography . . . [Waldstreicher’s] interpretations equal Wheatley’s own intentional verse, making it a joy to follow along as he unpacks her words and their arrangement.” —Tiya Miles, The Atlantic “Thoroughly researched, beautifully rendered and cogently argued . . . The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is [. . .] historical biography at its best.” —Kerri Greenidge, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) A paradigm-shattering biography of Phillis Wheatley, whose extraordinary poetry set African American literature at the heart of the American Revolution. Admired by George Washington, ridiculed by Thomas Jefferson, published in London, and read far and wide, Phillis Wheatley led one of the most extraordinary American lives. Seized in West Africa and forced into slavery as a child, she was sold to a merchant family in Boston, where she became a noted poet at a young age. Mastering the Bible, Greek and Latin translations, and the works of Pope and Milton, she composed elegies for local elites, celebrated political events, praised warriors, and used her verse to variously lampoon, question, and assert the injustice of her enslaved condition. “Can I then but pray / Others may never feel tyrannic sway?” By doing so, she added her voice to a vibrant, multisided conversation about race, slavery, and discontent with British rule; before and after her emancipation, her verses shook up racial etiquette and used familiar forms to create bold new meanings. She demonstrated a complex but crucial fact of the times: that the American Revolution both strengthened and limited Black slavery. In this new biography, the historian David Waldstreicher offers the fullest account to date of Wheatley’s life and works, correcting myths, reconstructing intimate friendships, and deepening our understanding of her verse and the revolutionary era. Throughout The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, he demonstrates the continued vitality and resonance of a woman who wrote, in a founding gesture of American literature, “Thy Power, O Liberty, makes strong the weak / And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak.”

Author : Melinda McGarrah Sharp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004412057

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Creating Resistances: Pastoral Care in a Postcolonial World by Melinda McGarrah Sharp Pdf

In Creating Resistances: Pastoral Care in a Postcolonial World, Melinda McGarrah Sharp studies the concept of resistance to outline what postcolonial pastoral care can look like in practice, particularly for people who feel more removed from the urgency of today’s postcolonial realities.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438112718

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African-American Poets by Harold Bloom Pdf

This volume focuses on the principal African-American poets from colonial times through the Harlem Renaissance, paying tribute to a heritage that has long been overlooked. Works covered in this text include poems by Phillis Wheatley, widely recognized as

Author : William W. Cook,James Tatum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226789989

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African American Writers & Classical Tradition by William W. Cook,James Tatum Pdf

Constraints on freedom, education, and individual dignity have always been fundamental in determining who is able to write, when, and where. Considering the singular experience of the African American writer, William W. Cook and James Tatum here argue that African American literature did not develop apart from canonical Western literary traditions but instead grew out of those literatures, even as it adapted and transformed the cultural traditions and religions of Africa and the African diaspora along the way.Tracing the interaction between African American writers and the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome, from the time of slavery and its aftermath to the civil rights era and on into the present, the authors offer a sustained and lively discussion of the life and work of Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Rita Dove, among other highly acclaimed poets, novelists, and scholars. Assembling this brilliant and diverse group of African American writers at a moment when our understanding of classical literature is ripe for change, the authors paint an unforgettable portrait of our own reception of “classic” writing, especially as it was inflected by American racial politics.