Politics And The Rhetoric Of Poetry

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004484962

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Politics and the Rhetoric of Poetry by Anonim Pdf

The rich and varied nature of twentieth-century Anglo-Irish and Irish poetry is reflected in the essays presented in Politics and the Rhetoric of Poetry: Perspectives on Modern Anglo-Irish Poetry. The linguistic and theoretical observations formulated in close readings of apparently non-political texts disclose implied political positions and suggest to what extent rhetoric and the nature of language are at the root of such questions as how should we read contemporary poetry. How can poems play a part in the resolution of the political and historic conflict? Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's versions of The Táin, Brendan Kennelly's Cromwell, Paul Muldoon's Madoc and Ciaran Carson's Belfast Confetti are analysed in detail, as is the relationship between rhetoric and politics in Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon. Earlier twentieth-century poets such as Thomas Kinsella, John Hewitt, Patrick Kavanagh, John Montague, Louis MacNeice and Padraic Colum are also examined. The contingent nature of language is recognized by many of these poets, and the seventeen essays bring out the political charge hidden in the poetry. This includes the deliberate choice of the poetic form, the internal dialogue or the complexity of voices in the poem and a particular preoccupation with endings. These essays demonstrate Yeats's contention that Deliberation can be so intensified that it becomes synonymous with inspiration.

Author : David Norbrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521785693

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Writing the English Republic by David Norbrook Pdf

'[A] marvellously original, densely researched study of the English republican imagination.' Tom Paulin, The Independent

Author : Jean Paulhan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : 9780252032806

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On Poetry and Politics by Jean Paulhan Pdf

The first English translation of Jean Paulhan's major essays

Author : Irene Peirano,Irene Peirano Garrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107104242

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Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry by Irene Peirano,Irene Peirano Garrison Pdf

Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric's relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

Author : International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature. International Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:33382350

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The Literature of Politics, the Politics of Literature by International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature. International Congress Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004502215

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The Politics of Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roderick Beaton,Christine Kenyon Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317170297

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Byron: The Poetry of Politics and the Politics of Poetry by Roderick Beaton,Christine Kenyon Jones Pdf

'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.' So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only days before the outbreak of revolution in Greece, where three years later he would die in the service of the revolutionary cause. For a poet whose life and work are interlaced with action of multiple sorts, surprisingly little attention has been devoted to Byron's engagement with issues of politics. This volume brings together the work of eminent Byronists from seven European countries and the USA to re-assess the evidence. What did Byron mean by the 'poetry of politics'? Was he, in any sense, a 'political animal'? Can his final, fateful involvement in Greece be understood as the culmination of earlier, more deeply rooted quests? The first part of the book examines the implications of reading and writing as themselves political acts; the second interrogates the politics inherent or implied in Byron's poems and plays; the third follows the trajectory of his political engagement (or non-engagement), from his abortive early career in the British House of Lords, via the Peninsular War in Spain to his involvement in revolutionary politics abroad.

Author : Dale Smith
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780817317492

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Poets Beyond the Barricade by Dale Smith Pdf

Since the cultural conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil rights protests, poets and poetry have consistently raised questions surrounding public address, social relations, friction between global policies and democratic institutions, and the interpretation of political events and ideas. In Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960, Dale Smith makes meaningful links among rhetoric, literature, and cultural studies, illustrating how poetry and discussions of it shaped public consciousness from the socially volatile era of the 1960s to the War on Terror of today. The book begins by inspecting the correspondence and poetry of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov, which embodies competing perspectives on the role of writers in the Vietnam War and in the peace movement. The work addresses the rational-critical mode of public discourse initiated by Jürgen Habermas and the relevance of rhetorical studies to literary practice. Smith also analyses letters and poetry by Charles Olson that appeared in a New England newspaper in the 1960sand drew attention to city management conflicts, land-use issues, and architectural preservation. Public identity and U.S. social practice are explored in the 1970s and ‘80s poetry of Lorenzo Thomas and Edward Dorn, whose poems articulate tensions between private and public life. The book concludes by examining more recent attempts by poets to influence public reflection on crucial events that led to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. By using digital media, public performance, and civic encounters mediated by texts, these poetic initiatives play a critical role in the formation of cultural identity today.

Author : Angus J. Cleghorn
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312231016

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Wallace Stevens' Poetics by Angus J. Cleghorn Pdf

Stevens’ poetry undermines the safeguarded classifications people use to contain knowledge. Political labels were prominent in 1930s America, when Marxism led many writers to prioritize politics over aesthetics. Stevens’ poetry employs rhetoric to show that art and state function through similar appeals, and that these forms of persuasion govern history. The long poem, “Owl’s Clover,” responds to Depression ideologies by dramatizing the nominal barriers people construct to stem their fears. This study also responds to critical misapprehension about “Owl’s Clover,” and argues that the poem’s rhetorical poetics are crucial to understanding Stevens’ complete poetry as an ethical challenge to the destructive and rigidly repetitive routes of history.

Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0809314967

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Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry by Brian Vickers Pdf

Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism from Ancient Greece to the end of the 18th century. The core of the book is a quite original argument that the figures of rhetoric were not mere mechanical devices, were not, as many believed, a "nuisance, a quite sterile appendage to rhetoric to which (unaccountably) teachers, pupils, and writers all over the world devoted much labor for over 2,000 years." Rather, Vickers demonstrates, rhetoric was a stylized representation of language and human feelings. Vickers supplements his argument through analyses of the rhetorical and emotional structure of four Renaissance poems. He also defines 16 of the most common figures of rhetoric, citing examples from the classics, the Bible, and major English poets from Chaucer to Pope.

Author : Helen Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317095958

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Milton and the Politics of Public Speech by Helen Lynch Pdf

Using Hannah Arendt’s account of the Greek polis to explain Milton’s fascination with the idea of public speech, this study reveals what is distinctive about his conception of a godly, republican oratory and poetics. The book shows how Milton uses rhetorical theory - its ideas, techniques and image patterns - to dramatise the struggle between ’good’ and ’bad’ oratory, and to fashion his own model of divinely inspired public utterance. Connecting his polemical and imaginative writing in new ways, the book discusses the subliminal rhetoric at work in Milton’s political prose and the systematic scrutiny of the power of oratory in his major poetry. By setting Milton in the context of other Civil War polemicists, of classical political theory and its early modern reinterpretations, and of Renaissance writing on rhetoric and poetic language, the book sheds new light on his work across several genres, culminating in an extended Arendtian reading of his ’Greek’ drama Samson Agonistes.

Author : Whitney Cox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107172371

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Politics, Kingship and Poetry in Medieval South India by Whitney Cox Pdf

Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through a revisionist reading of the Chola dynasty, a medieval South Asian superpower. Utilizing a series of textual sources, this innovative study poses comparative and conceptual questions about politics, history, agency and representation in the pre-modern world.

Author : Milan Babík
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429794148

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The Poetics of International Politics by Milan Babík Pdf

A cutting-edge contribution to the aesthetic turn in international relations scholarship, this book exposes the role of poetic techniques in constituting the reality of international politics. It has two symmetrical goals: to illuminate the nonempirical fictions of factual international relations literature, and to highlight the real factual inspirations and implications of contemporary international relations fiction. Employing narrative theory developed by Hayden White, the author examines factual and fictional accounts of world affairs ranging from the anarchy narrative, central to mainstream international relations research, to novels by Don DeLillo and Milan Kundera. Chapters analyzing factual literature flesh out its unacknowledged inventions, while those dedicated to fiction explain its political roots and agenda. Throughout, the distinction between factual and fictional representations of international relations breaks down. Social-scientific narratives emerge as exercises in rhetoric: the art and politics of persuasion through language. Artistic narratives surface as real pedagogical lessons and exercises in political activism. The volume challenges the autonomy of academic international relations as an exclusive purveyor of serious knowledge about world affairs and calls for active engagement with literary art. It will be of interest to scholars of International Relations, Political Theory, Historiography, Cultural Theory, and Literary Studies and Criticism.

Author : Bradford Vivian
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271075006

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Public Forgetting by Bradford Vivian Pdf

Forgetting is usually juxtaposed with memory as its opposite in a negative way: it is seen as the loss of the ability to remember, or, ironically, as the inevitable process of distortion or dissolution that accompanies attempts to commemorate the past. The civic emphasis on the crucial importance of preserving lessons from the past to prevent us from repeating mistakes that led to violence and injustice, invoked most poignantly in the call of “Never again” from Holocaust survivors, tends to promote a view of forgetting as verging on sin or irresponsibility. In this book, Bradford Vivian hopes to put a much more positive spin on forgetting by elucidating its constitutive role in the formation and transformation of public memory. Using examples ranging from classical rhetoric to contemporary crises like 9/11, Public Forgetting demonstrates how, contrary to conventional wisdom, communities may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment concerning the lessons and responsibilities of their shared past.

Author : Amanda E. Hayes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : 1946684465

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The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric by Amanda E. Hayes Pdf

"In exploring the ways that Appalachian people speak and write, Amanda E. Hayes raises the importance of knowing and respecting communication styles within a marginalized culture. Diving deep into the region's historical roots--especially those of the Scotch-Irish and their influence on her own Appalachian Ohio--Hayes reveals a rhetoric with its own unique logic, utility, and poetry. Hayes also considers the headwinds against Appalachian rhetoric, notably the resistance from ideologies about poverty and the biases of the school system. She connects these to challenges that Appalachian students face in the classroom and pinpoints pedagogical and structural approaches for change. Throughout, Hayes blends conventional scholarship with autobiography, storytelling, and language, illustrating Appalachian rhetoric's validity as a means of creating and sharing knowledge"--