Post Romantic Predicament

Author : Paul de Man
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748656233

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Post-Romantic Predicament by Paul de Man Pdf

A collection of critical texts from Paul de Man's Harvard University years, published for the first timeThese essays, brought together from the Paul de Man papers at the University of California (Irvine), make a significant contribution to the cultural history of deconstruction and the present state of literary theory. From 1955 to 1961, Paul de Man was Junior Fellow at Harvard University where he wrote a doctoral thesis entitled 'The Post-Romantic Predicament: a study in the poetry of Mallarme and Yeats'. This dissertation is presented alongside his other texts from this period, including essays on Holderlin, Keats and Stefan George. This collection reflects familiar concerns for de Man: the figurative dimension of language, the borders between philosophy and literature, the ideological obfuscations of Romanticism, and the difficulties of the North American heritage of New Criticism.

Author : Paul de Man
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748656257

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Post-Romantic Predicament by Paul de Man Pdf

The first collection of texts by Paul de Man to follow the posthumous Aesthetic Ideology (1996), the title refers to de Man's Harvard thesis of the late 1950s, from which the long section on Mallarme is reproduced. Also included are texts by de Man on Ste

Author : Paul De Man
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037112591

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Mallarmé, Yeats and the Post-romantic Predicament by Paul De Man Pdf

Author : Charles TAYLOR
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674044289

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A SECULAR AGE by Charles TAYLOR Pdf

The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Author : Geoffrey Thurley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349066698

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The Romantic Predicament by Geoffrey Thurley Pdf

Author : A. Robert Lee
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824874056

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Karen Tei Yamashita by A. Robert Lee Pdf

Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, and Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory is the first anthology given over to Yamashita’s writing. It contains newly commissioned essays by established, international scholars; a recent interview with the author; a semiautobiographical keynote address delivered at an international conference that ruminates on her Japanese American heritage; and a full bibliography. The essays offer fresh and in-depth readings of the magic realist canvas of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990); the Japanese emigrant portraiture of Brazil-Maru (1992); Los Angeles as rambunctious geopolitical and transnational fulcrum of the Americas in Tropic of Orange (1997); the fraught relationship of Japanese and Brazilian heritage and labor in Circle K Cycles (2001); Asian American history and politics of the 1960s in I Hotel (2010); and Anime Wong (2014), a gallery of performativity illustrating the contested and inextricable nature of East and West. This essay-collection explores Yamashita’s use of the fantastical, the play of emerging transnational ethnicity, and the narrative tactics of reflexivity and bricolage in storytelling located on a continuum of the unique and the communal, of the past and the present, and that are mapped in various spatial and virtual realities.

Author : Mark Canuel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192648471

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The Fate of Progress in British Romanticism by Mark Canuel Pdf

What did Romantic writers mean when they wrote about "progress" and "perfection"? This book shows how Romantic writers inventively responded to familiar ideas about political progress which they inherited from the eighteenth century. Whereas earlier writers such as Voltaire and John Millar likened improvements in political institutions to the progress of the sciences or refinement of manners, the novelists, poets, and political theorists examined in this book reimagined politically progressive thinking in multiple genres. While embracing a commitment to optimistic improvement—increasing freedom, equality, and protection from injury—they also cultivated increasingly visible and volatile energies of religious and political dissent. Earlier narratives of progress tended not only to edit and fictionalize history but also to agglomerate different modes of knowledge and practice in their quest to describe and prescribe uniform cultural improvement. But romantic writers seize on internal division and take it less as an occasion for anxiety, exclusion, or erasure, and more as an impetus to rethink the groundwork of progress itself. Political entities, from Percy Shelley's plans for political reform to Charlotte Smith's motley associations of strangers in The Banished Man, are progressive because they advance some version of collective utility or common good. But they simultaneously stake a claim to progress only insofar as they paradoxically solicit contending vantage points on the criteria for the very public benefit which they passionately pursue. The "majestic edifices" of Wordsworth's imagined university in The Prelude embrace members who are "republican or pious," not to mention the recalcitrant "enthusiast" who is the poet himself.

Author : Greg Ellermann
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503633018

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Thought’s Wilderness by Greg Ellermann Pdf

While much recent ecocriticism has questioned the value of nature as a concept, Thought's Wilderness insists that it is analytically and politically indispensable, and that romanticism shows us why. Without a concept of nature, Greg Ellermann argues, our thinking is limited to the world that capitalism has made. Defamiliarizing the tradition of romantic nature writing, Ellermann contends that the romantics tried to circumvent the domination of nature that is essential to modern capitalism. As he shows, poets and philosophers in the period such as Immanuel Kant, G. W. F. Hegel, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley were highly attuned to nature's ephemeral, ungraspable forms: clouds of vapor, a trace of ruin, deep silence, and the "world-surrounding ether." Further, he explains how nature's vanishing—its vulnerability and its flight from apprehension—became a philosophical and political problem. In response to a nascent industrial capitalism, romantic writers developed a poetics of wilderness—a poetics that is attentive to fleeting presence and that seeks to let things be. Trying to imagine what ultimately eludes capture, the romantics recognized the complicity between conceptual and economic domination, and they saw how thought itself could become a technology for control. This insight, Ellermann proposes, motivates romantic efforts to think past capitalist instrumentality and its devastation of the world. Ultimately, this new work undertakes a fundamental rethinking of the aesthetics and politics of nature.

Author : Sas Mays
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135013851

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Libraries, Literatures, and Archives by Sas Mays Pdf

Not only does the library have a long and complex history and politics, but it has an ambivalent presence in Western culture – both a site of positive knowledge and a site of error, confusion, and loss. Nevertheless, in literary studies and in the humanities, including book history, the figure of the library remains in many senses under-researched. This collection brings together established and up-and-coming researchers from a number of practices – literary and cultural studies, gender studies, book history, philosophy, visual culture, and contemporary art –with an effective historical sweep ranging from the time of Sumer to the present day. In the context of the rise of archive studies, this book attends specifically and meta-critically to the figure of the library as a particular archival form, considering the traits that constitute (or fail to constitute) the library as institution or idea, and questions its relations to other accumulative modes, such as the archive in its traditional sense, the museum, or the filmic or digital archive. Across their diversity, and in addition to their international standard of research and writing, each chapter is unified by commitment to analyzing the complex cultural politics of the library form.

Author : Ortwin de Graef
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803216955

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Titanic Light by Ortwin de Graef Pdf

Titanic Light concentrates on de Man's increased interest during the 1960s in Romantic (and post-Romantic) literature and criticism. De Graef follows in detail de Man's strong readings of the works of Holderlin, Rousseau, and Wordsworth. He connects de Man's interpretations of these and other writers with his earlier critical works and his later deconstructive writings. In addition, de Graef places de Man's essays from the 1960s (some later collected in the influential volume Blindness and Insight) in the context of the critical debates of that era - debate's about structuralism, Marxism, phenomenology, American New Criticism, and other critical schools.

Author : de Man Paul de Man
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748691616

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Paul de Man Notebooks by de Man Paul de Man Pdf

This anthology collects texts and papers from the Paul de Man archive, including essays on art, translations, critical fragments, research plans, interviews, and reports on the state of comparative literature. These texts offer a fascinating insight into the work of one of the twentieth century's most important literary theorists. The volume engages with Paul de Man's institutional life, gathering together pedagogical and critical material to investigate his profound influence on the American academy and theory today. It also contains a number of substantial, previously unpublished and untranslated texts by de Man from the span of his writing career. As a new collection of primary sources this volume further stimulates the growing reappraisal of de Man's work.

Author : Paul de Man
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231532903

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The Rhetoric of Romanticism by Paul de Man Pdf

-- Cynthia Chase, author of Decomposing Figures: Rhetorical Readings in the Romantic Tradition

Author : Ortwin de Graef
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803216947

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Serenity in Crisis by Ortwin de Graef Pdf

A polymath well versed in European literature and philosophy, one of the founders of deconstruction, and a widely respected teacher, Paul de Man brought unprecedented attention and acclaim to the so-called Yale Critics. His fame was at a zenith when he died suddenly in 1983. A few years later, Ortwin de Graef found the de Man had written for the collaborationist press during the Nazi occupation, a discovery that ignited an international reassessment of de Man's work. Serenity in Crisis is the first sustained account of the complex, intertextual tradition in which de Man wrote and of the persistent concerns expressed in his early work. It reconstructs the truth-models with which de Man justified his political choice before and during the occupation and traces them back to an ambitious intention to integrate the competing truths of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and literature. The significance of de Man's ideational framework and the decisions that followed from it have extended well beyond the disasters of World War II. De Graef clearly illuminates and critiques the abstruse paths of logic in de Man's early writings as well as in the reformulations of de Man's thought expressed in his writings of the 1950s.

Author : Robert Cheatham
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781304836083

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perforations: After the remainder: calls, comings, desiderata by Robert Cheatham Pdf

A selected perforations compilation of material from 1992 until 2014: calls, articles, and more. Theory, anti-data, communitarian, ghostly, hysterical, missed aim, infra thin (where the brain rubber hits the road)

Author : Gregory Jones-Katz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226536194

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Deconstruction by Gregory Jones-Katz Pdf

The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderstood, mischaracterized, and left for dead—even as its principles and influence transformed literary studies and a host of other fields in the humanities. ? Deconstruction begins well before Jacques Derrida’s initial American presentation of his deconstructive work in a famed lecture at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and continues through several decades of theoretic growth and tumult. While much of the subsequent story remains focused, inevitably, on Yale University and the personalities and curriculum that came to be lumped under the “Yale school” umbrella, Deconstruction makes clear how crucial feminism, queer theory, and gender studies also were to the lifeblood of this mode of thought. Ultimately, Jones-Katz shows that deconstruction in the United States—so often caricatured as a French infection—was truly an American phenomenon, rooted in our preexisting political and intellectual tensions, that eventually came to influence unexpected corners of scholarship, politics, and culture.