Poetics Of Breathing

Author : Stefanie Heine
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438483597

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Poetics of Breathing by Stefanie Heine Pdf

Breathing and its rhythms—liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous—have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality, production, and reception in alluding to and incorporating pneumatic rhythms, respiratory sound, and silent pauses. Through close readings of works by a series of pairs—Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; Robert Musil and Virginia Woolf; Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Plath; and Paul Celan and Herta Müller—Poetics of Breathing suggests that each offers a different conception of literary or poetic breath as a precondition of writing. Presenting a challenge to historical and contemporary discourses that tie breath to the transcendent and the natural, Heine traces a decoupling of breath from its traditional association with life, and asks what literature might lie beyond.

Author : Arthur Rose,Stefanie Heine,Naya Tsentourou,Corinne Saunders,Peter Garratt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783319999487

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Reading Breath in Literature by Arthur Rose,Stefanie Heine,Naya Tsentourou,Corinne Saunders,Peter Garratt Pdf

This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, American Poetics and the Postcolonial Novel, this book offers the first transhistorical study of breath in literature. At the same time, it shows how the study of breath in literature can contribute to recent developments in the Medical Humanities.

Author : Amy Marschak
Publisher : Amy Marschak
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0965329801

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Poetry for All Those Breathing by Amy Marschak Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Mackey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990945391

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Breath and Precarity by Nathaniel Mackey Pdf

Poetry. African & African American Studies. "If 'I can't breathe' seems to have become the awful refrain of the age, a repeated corroboration of expendability and helplessness, Mackey reminds us that black culture has long been imbued with a profound sense of the fragility of life. The 'radical pneumaticism' of black music--in which saxophonists such as Ben Webster and Sonny Rollins extravagantly foreground the mechanics of their breathing as they play, as though to 'insist upon and belabor' the indispensability of respiration--is not only an aesthetics but also a political commentary on social precarity. Compact and muted as it may be, how can Mackey's lecture be described as anything other than breathtaking, when it forces us to 'hover,' to pause, to wonder at the 'transient boon' of the next breath we're about to take?"--Brent Hayes Edwards

Author : Myung Mi Kim,Cristanne Miller
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438469997

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Poetics and Precarity by Myung Mi Kim,Cristanne Miller Pdf

Poets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty-first century. At a time when wars, acts of terrorism, and ecological degradation have intensified and isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic divisiveness have been given distinctively more powerful voice in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed. The poets and critics in this book argue that language has the potential to address this increasing level of discord and precarity, and they negotiate ways to understand poetics, or the role of the poetic, in relation to language, the body politic, the human body, breath, the bodies of the natural environment, and the body of form. Poetry makes urgent issues audible and poetics helps to theorize those issues into critical consciousness. Poetry also functions as a cry to protest late capitalist imperialism, misogyny, racism, climate change, and all the debilitating conditions of everyday life. Hubs of concern merge and diverge; precarity takes differently gendered, historied, embodied, geopolitical manifestations. The contributors articulate a poetics that renders what has not yet been crystallized as discourse into fields of force. They also acknowledge the beauties of sound, poetry, and music, and celebrate the power of community, marking the surge of energy that can occur at a particular place at a particular moment. Ultimately, Poetics and Precarity fosters further conversations that will imagine the concerns of poetics as a continuously emerging field.

Author : Myung Mi Kim,Cristanne Miller
Publisher : The University at Buffalo Robert Creeley Lectures in Poetry and Poetics
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438470009

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Poetics and Precarity by Myung Mi Kim,Cristanne Miller Pdf

Poets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty-first century. At a time when wars, acts of terrorism, and ecological degradation have intensified and isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic divisiveness have been given distinctively more powerful voice in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed. The poets and critics in this book argue that language has the potential to address this increasing level of discord and precarity, and they negotiate ways to understand poetics, or the role of the poetic, in relation to language, the body politic, the human body, breath, the bodies of the natural environment, and the body of form. Poetry makes urgent issues audible and poetics helps to theorize those issues into critical consciousness. Poetry also functions as a cry to protest late capitalist imperialism, misogyny, racism, climate change, and all the debilitating conditions of everyday life. Hubs of concern merge and diverge; precarity takes differently gendered, historied, embodied, geopolitical manifestations. The contributors articulate a poetics that renders what has not yet been crystallized as discourse into fields of force. They also acknowledge the beauties of sound, poetry, and music, and celebrate the power of community, marking the surge of energy that can occur at a particular place at a particular moment. Ultimately, Poetics and Precarity fosters further conversations that will imagine the concerns of poetics as a continuously emerging field.

Author : Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781635900385

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Breathing by Franco "Bifo" Berardi Pdf

The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy. Since the hopeful days of the Occupy movement, many things have changed in the respiration of the world, and we have entered a cycle of spasm, despair, and chaos. Breathing is a book about the increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, about the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere. “I can't breathe.” These words panted by Eric Garner before dying, strangled by a police officer on the streets of Staten Island, capture perfectly catching the overall sentiment of our time. In Breathing, Franco "Bifo" Berardi comes back to the subject that was the core of his 2011 book, The Uprising: the place of poetry in the relations between language, capital, and possibility. In The Uprising, he focuses on poetry as an anticipation of the trend toward abstraction that led to the present form of financial capitalism. In Breathing, he tries to envision poetry as the excess of the field of signification, as the premonition of a possible harmony inscribed in the present chaos. The Uprising was a genealogical diagnosis. Breathing is an essay on poetical therapy. How we deal with chaos, as we know that those who fight against chaos will be defeated, because chaos feeds upon war? How do we deal with suffocation? Is there a way out from the corpse of financial capitalism?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0989386309

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Breaking the Surface and the Importance of Breathing by Anonim Pdf

In these poems Nancy sounds far braver than she is. She declares she has relationships figured out, which, of course, is nonsense.

Author : Asha Bandele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015063349214

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The Subtle Art of Breathing by Asha Bandele Pdf

Asha bandele is simply one of the finest and most emotionally honest American poets at work today, with few peers in terms of the open, unfiltered narrative style. Moreover, elements of William Shakespeare's tragedies, Sylvia Plath's melancholy and despair, and Ntozake Shange's triumphs in the face of horrible tribulations all season bandele's polyrhythmic stew. Read asha bandele's work and be prepared to be uplifted, teased, mocked, confronted, saddened, angered, and, most assuredly, transformed. --Kevin Powell.

Author : Luis I. Prádanos
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781855663695

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A Companion to Spanish Environmental Cultural Studies by Luis I. Prádanos Pdf

An exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers expose the costs and contest the assumptions of the Capitalocene era that guides readers through the rapidly developing field of Spanish environmental cultural studies. From the scars left by Franco's dams and mines to the toxic waste dumped in Equatorial Guinea, from the cruelty of the modern pork industry to the ravages of mass tourism in the Balearic Islands, this book delves into the power relations, material practices and social imaginaries underpinning the global economic system to uncover its unaffordable human and non-human costs. Guiding the reader through the rapidly emerging field of Spanish environmental cultural studies, with chapters on such topics as extractivism, animal studies, food studies, ecofeminism, decoloniality, critical race studies, tourism, and waste studies, an international team of US and European scholars show how Spanish writers, artists, and filmmakers have illuminated and contested the growth-oriented and neo-colonialist assumptions of the current Capitalocene era. Focussed on Spain, the volume also provides models for exploring the socioecological implications of cultural manifestations in other parts of the world.

Author : Ashon T. Crawley
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823274567

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Blackpentecostal Breath by Ashon T. Crawley Pdf

In this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in which alternative or “otherwise” modes of existence can serve as disruptions against the marginalization of and violence against minoritarian lifeworlds and possibilities for flourishing. Examining the whooping, shouting, noise-making, and speaking in tongues of Black Pentecostalism—a multi-racial, multi-class, multi-national Christian sect with one strand of its modern genesis in 1906 Los Angeles—Blackpentecostal Breath reveals how these aesthetic practices allow for the emergence of alternative modes of social organization. As Crawley deftly reveals, these choreographic, sonic, and visual practices and the sensual experiences they create are not only important for imagining what Crawley identifies as “otherwise worlds of possibility,” they also yield a general hermeneutics, a methodology for reading culture in an era when such expressions are increasingly under siege.

Author : Lenart Škof,Petri Berndtson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438469751

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Atmospheres of Breathing by Lenart Škof,Petri Berndtson Pdf

Attempts to think anew about philosophical questions from the perspective of breath and breathing. As a physiological or biological matter, breath is mostly considered to be mechanical and thoughtless. By expanding on the insights of many religions and therapeutic practices, which emphasize the cultivation of breath, the contributors argue that breath should be understood as fundamentally and comprehensively intertwined with human life and experience. Various dimensions of the respiratory world are referred to as “atmospheres” that encircle and connect human existence, coexistence, and the world. Drawing from a number of traditions of breathing, including from Indian and East Asian religion and philosophy, the book considers breath in relation to ontological, hermeneutical, phenomenological, ethical, and aesthetic concerns in philosophy. The wide-ranging topics include poetry, theater, environmental issues and health, feminism, and media studies. Lenart Škof is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the Science and Research Center of Koper, Slovenia, and the coeditor (with Emily A. Holmes) of Breathing with Luce Irigaray. Petri Berndtson is a doctoral candidate of philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Author : Ranjan Ghosh
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231547246

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Philosophy and Poetry by Ranjan Ghosh Pdf

Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and contemporary continental thinkers have engaged with poetry and its contribution to philosophical meaning making, challenging us to rethink how philosophy has been changed through its encounters with poetry. In wide-ranging reflections on thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer, Arendt, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Irigaray, Badiou, Kristeva, and Agamben, among others, distinguished contributors consider how different philosophers encountered the force and intensity of poetry and the negotiations that took place as they sought resolutions of the quarrel. Instead of a clash between competing worldviews, they figured the relationship between philosophy and poetry as one of productive mutuality, leading toward new modes of thinking and understanding. Spanning a range of issues with nuance and rigor, this compelling and comprehensive book opens new possibilities for philosophical poetry and the poetics of philosophy.

Author : Thomas H. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108424950

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Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air by Thomas H. Ford Pdf

Presents an ecocritical study of poetic atmosphere, a concept first developed through Romanticism, particularly in the poetry of William Wordsworth.

Author : Gary Barwin
Publisher : Buckrider Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1928088953

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For it is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe by Gary Barwin Pdf

"For thirty-five years Gary Barwin has been opening up new ways of being in poetry. In this long-awaited new and selected collection, For It Is a Pleasure and a Surprise to Breathe, Barwin and his editor, Alessandro Porco, have drawn from his extensive writings in previously published books, chapbooks, small press works, magazine and journal publications, including unpublishing and uncollected works to create this category-defying book. Over the course of the collection Barwin uses a variety of forms and styles to explore themes from aesthetic investigations to questions of identity and culture, from ecopoetics to questions of language. Throughout Barwin stretches language to its fullest extent, whether he's exploring alternative translations or working with images as poems; he continually moves readers from surprise to delight."--