Politics And The Rhetoric Of Poetry

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : 44,8 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 : International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature. International Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004502215

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The Politics of Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jean Paulhan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Roderick Beaton,Christine Kenyon Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : 46,9 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 : 46,6 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 : Helen Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317095941

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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 : Andreas Markantonatos,Eleni Volonaki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110629729

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Poet and Orator by Andreas Markantonatos,Eleni Volonaki Pdf

This multiauthored volume, as well as bringing into clearer focus the notion of drama and oratory as important media of public inquiry and critique, aims to generate significant attention to the unified intentions of the dramatist and the orator to establish favourable conditions of internal stability in democratic Athens. We hope that readers both enjoy and find valuable their engagement with these ideas and beliefs regarding the indissoluble bond between oratorical expertise and dramatic artistry. This exciting collection of studies by worldwide acclaimed classicists and acute younger Hellenists is envisaged as part of the general effort, almost unanimously acknowledged as valid and productive, to explore the impact of formalized speech in particular and craftsmanship rhetoric in general upon Attic drama as a moral and educational force in the Athenian city-state. Both poet and orator seek to deepen the central tensions of their work and to enlarge the main themes of their texts to even broader terms by investing in the art of rhetoric, whilst at the same time, through a skillful handling of events, evaluating the past and establishing standards or ideology.

Author : M. Dowdy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230604308

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American Political Poetry in the 21st Century by M. Dowdy Pdf

Dowdy uncovers and analyzes the primary rhetorical strategies, particularly figures of voice, in American political poetry from the Vietnam War-era to the present. He brings together a unique and diverse collection of poets, including an innovative section on hip hop performance.

Author : Robin Peel
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838638686

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Writing Back by Robin Peel Pdf

Writing Back: Sylvia Plath and Cold War Politics explores the relationship between Plath's writing and Cold War discourses and argues that the time (1960-1963), the place (England), and the global politics are important factors for us to consider when we consider the rhetoric of Plath's later poetry and fiction. Based on fresh readings arising from new research, this study argues that Plath should not be depoliticized, and examines her writing alongside the discourses of the period as expressed in newspaper reporting, magazines, and BBC radio. In contrasting her relationship with institutions in America in the 1950s with her responses in England to church, the American arms industry, the National Health Service, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament it becomes clear that the process of cultural defamiliarization causes Plath to question the model of the individual artist divorced from society, a model of the writer that had previously seemed so attractive.

Author : Ronald Speirs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521782155

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Brecht's Poetry of Political Exile by Ronald Speirs Pdf

Bertolt Brecht, one of the most influential European playwrights of the twentieth century, was also a poet of distinction. This volume is the first comprehensive study devoted to his most important collection of political poetry, the Svendborg Poems. The contributors analyse Brecht's work critically and historically, discussing it in relation to questions of poetics, political commitment, exile, propaganda, rhetoric, and the scope and limitations of political poetry. Links are also drawn with the work of German, Soviet and English poets of the period, and with later Germany poets.

Author : Tyler Hoffman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1584651504

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Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry by Tyler Hoffman Pdf

A powerful and persuasive new reading of Frost as a poet deeply engaged with both the literary and public politics of his day.

Author : David Norbrook
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0199247188

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Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance by David Norbrook Pdf

This title establishes the radical currents of thought shaping Renaissance poetry: civic humanism and apocalyptic Protestantism. The author shows how Elizabethan poets like Sidney and Spenser, often seen as conservative monarchists, responded powerfully if sometimes ambivalently to radical ideas.