Prose In The Age Of Poets

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781685693

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The Age of the Poets by Alain Badiou Pdf

The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it must declare the end of what Badiou names the “age of the poets,” which stretches from Hölderlin to Celan. Drawing on ideas from his first publication on the subject, “The Autonomy of the Aesthetic Process,” Badiou offers an illuminating set of readings of contemporary French prose writers, giving us fascinating insights into the theory of the novel while also accounting for the specific position of literature between science and ideology.

Author : Annette Wheeler Cafarelli
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512801262

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Prose in the Age of Poets by Annette Wheeler Cafarelli Pdf

In Prose in the Age of Poets, Annette Wheeler Cafarelli demonstrates that nonfictional narrative of the time was a central expression of British Romanticism. The rise of interest in the individual traditionally associated with Romantic autobiography was actually part of a wider cultural interest in biography—especially literary biography. Following Johnson's lead in the Lives of the Poets, virtually every major writer of the period experimented with sequences of short, anecdotal lives that became a characteristic Romantic vehicle for discussing theories of creativity, canon, and the place of the poet in society. The Romantics took in new directions the examination of the relation of artists' lives and works, biographers and their subjects, and texts and their readers. Romantic biography, Cafarelli contends, offers a perspective from which to reconsider conventional boundaries of genre, periodization, and the movement from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In examining the Romantics as prose writers and biographers, Cafarelli explores the affiliations between Romantic theories of reading and writing and twentieth-century critical methodologies. She situates the biographical writings of the major poets, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron, in the context of detailed analyses of biographies by Johnson, Hazlitt, De Quincey, Scott, Southey, and other lesser-known contemporaries. Prose in the Age of Poets will interest scholars and students of Romanticism, Johnson, biography and autobiography, and narrative theory.

Author : Erich Heller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521254930

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In the Age of Prose by Erich Heller Pdf

The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological self-questioning and compromised by political disaster. Erich Heller traces this predicament with subtlety and profundity, from Hegel's and Nietzsche's diagnoses to the various truces and manoeuvres through which remarkable victories have nonetheless been achieved - such as the comic triumphs of Wilhelm Busch. As elsewhere in Professor Heller's work, Thomas Mann's attempt to outwit and redeem his circumstances through art - 'despite' them, as he said himself - occupies a central place. Three of the present essays are devoted to him. Others consider Kleist, Fontane, Hamsun, Karl Kraus and the crucial figures of Hölderlin (who plays such a central role in Heidegger's later philosophical writings) and Rilke. Written with feeling, and the distinctive elegance and wit that have characterized all of Professor Heller's work, the essays here reaffirm the vital interdependence of literature and human values.

Author : Mary Kinzie
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226437353

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The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose by Mary Kinzie Pdf

The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs. How this mutual purpose is served, ideally and practically, is the subject of this bracingly polemical collection of essays. A distinguished poet and critic, Kinzie assesses poetry's situation during the past twenty-five years. Ours, she contends, is literally a prosaic age, not only in the popularity of prose genres but in the resultant compromises with truth and elegance in literature. In essays on "the rhapsodic fallacy," confessionalism, and the romance of perceptual response, Kinzie diagnoses some of the trends that diminish the poet's flexibility. Conversely, she also considers individual poets—Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Seamus Heaney, and John Ashbery—who have found ingenious ways of averting the risks of prosaism and preserving the special character of poetry. Focusing on poet Louise Bogan and novelist J. M. Coetzee, Kinzie identifies a crucial and curative overlap between the practices of great prose-writing and great poetry. In conclusion, she suggests a new approach for teaching writers of poetry and fiction. Forcefully argued, these essays will be widely read and debated among critics and poets alike.

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Penguin Books Limited
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003936460

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Selected Prose by William Wordsworth Pdf

An original thinker in prose as well as verse, Wordsworth wrote extensively about the social, political and literary issues of his time.

Author : Rakesh Rathod (MA English)
Publisher : Nitya Publications
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788194343257

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i A Brief History of an English Literature: An Augustan Age by Rakesh Rathod (MA English) Pdf

The eighteenth century in English literature has been called the Augustan Age the Neoclassical Age, and the Age of Reason. The term 'the Augustan Age' comes from the self-conscious imitation of the original Augustan writers, Virgil and Horace, by many of the writers of the period. Specifically, the Augustan Age was the period after the Restoration era to the death of Alexander Pope (~1690 - 1744). The major writers of the age were Pope and John Dryden in poetry, and Jonathan Swift and Joseph Addison in prose. Dryden forms the link between Restoration and Augustan literature; although he wrote ribald comedies in the Restoration vein, his verse satires were highly admired by the generation of poets who followed him, and his writings on literature were very much in a neoclassical spirit. I particularly aimed at interpretation of sociopolitical milieu of Augustan Age, of social change, of literary tendencies of the age, and of prose, novel, poetry and drama of the Augustan Age.

Author : John Wilson Bowyer,John Lee Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:1026923980

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The Victorian Age by John Wilson Bowyer,John Lee Brooks Pdf

Author : Alexander Maclaren Witherspoon,Frank J. Warnke
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UVA:X000121049

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Seventeenth-century Prose and Poetry by Alexander Maclaren Witherspoon,Frank J. Warnke Pdf

A collection of seventeenth-century English prose and poetry.

Author : Jane Monson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319778631

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British Prose Poetry by Jane Monson Pdf

This book is the first collection of essays on the British prose poem. With essays by leading academics, critics and practitioners, the book traces the British prose poem’s unsettled history and reception in the UK as well as its recent popularity. The essays cover the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries exploring why this form is particularly suited to the modern age and yet can still be problematic for publishers, booksellers and scholars. Refreshing perspectives are given on the Romantics, Modernists and Post-Modernists, among them Woolf, Beckett and Eliot as well as more recent poets like Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Claudia Rankine, Jeremy Over and Vahni Capildeo. British Prose Poetry moves from a contextual overview of the genre’s early volatile and fluctuating status, through to crucial examples of prose poetry written by established Modernist, surrealist and contemporary writers. Key questions around boundaries are discussed more generally in terms of race, class and gender. The British prose poem’s international heritage, influences and influence are explored throughout as an intrinsic part of its current renaissance.

Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317871552

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English Literature in the Age of Chaucer by Dieter Mehl Pdf

Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing, and as a stimulating examination of the themes, traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works, the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries, such as John Gower, William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated contribution to the English literary tradition of his successors John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, as well as the interesting and original work of the Scottish poets, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, who also claim Chaucer as their model. Apart from the narrative poetry of Chaucer and his followers, the book also contains chapters on the Middle English lyric; Middle English prose, including Mandeville's travels; the most original and imaginative writings of the Middle English mystics, in particular Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe; and Thomas Malory's impressive prose compilation of Arthurian stories.

Author : Antonio Bravo
Publisher : Universidad de Oviedo
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8483171074

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Prose and poetry of the age of Chaucer, s. XIV by Antonio Bravo Pdf

The task of the historian of language is to recreate texts as they were at a given stage of their linguistic life. The texts which follow have been selected and edited in the hope of providing means for understanding the English language of the age of Chaucer. The selection in this volume have been chosen to illustrate the history of the English language in the XIVth. Century. This anthology was conceived, at least in part, because I agree with the idea that it is in literature and in the works written by the most outstanding writers that a language displays its full power. Each selection is supplied with a brief introduction, which gives information as to the source and background necessary for understanding the text, and brief bibliography on MSS, modern editions, and language and literature criticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015030089273

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Littell's Living Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nader R. Shabahangi
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781462018086

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Gems of Wisdom by Nader R. Shabahangi Pdf

I think creativity is the key to the fountain of youth. Gems of Wisdom reflects the creative genius, and wisdom that comes with age. This anthology is a marvelous, brave book, a testimonial to the power of age, and to the spirit. The prose pieces in this book bring the reader into the dreams, hopes and insights of those who embrace age. As we live in an anti-age society, this anthology is important, as it represents the age pride and the importance of the creative process. This is a masterpiece! And everyone at every age should read this book. ---San Francisco Author of The Viagra Diaries and Founder/Age March We would like to acknowledge all of the offerings submitted for this publication. Though we could not include all pieces submitted, we the judges and editors were enchanted by the many memories and stories that we were privileged to share.. ---Kimberly Kinser - Poet, Writer, Amherst Artist and Writers Workshop Leader The anthology by AgeSong abounds with playful poems of times well lived! It's a fine thing to read the poem stories that sing of love songs, along with hardship from people who are now in their seventies and eighties, even nineties. The humor will delight you. You may wonder what you'll be saying at that age! ---Janell Moon, Poet Laureate of Emeryville for 2011-2012, Author of Salt and Paper: 65 Candles

Author : Paul Rouzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501516023

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The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei by Paul Rouzer Pdf

Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his prose writings. For the first time, readers encountering his work in English translation will get a comprehensive understanding of Wang Wei‘s range as a poet and prose writer. In spite of the importance of Wang Wei's poetry in the history of Chinese literature, no one has attempted a complete translation of all of his surviving poems; moreover, even though he was known for his skill in composing prose pieces in the recognized genres of his day (especially as a writer of commissioned compositions), very little of his prose has been translated. This translation will enable students with limited or no knowledge of Chinese to get a full sense of Wang Wei's compositional range. Moreover, since Wang Wei was known for being a devout Buddhist, having the complete poetry available in reliable translation as well as all of the prose that is connected to the Buddhist faith will be useful to students of Chinese religion.

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Carcanet Press Limited
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1857547578

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Selected Prose by John Ashbery Pdf

Selected Prose 1953-2003 presents for the first time in one volume many essays on authors who have influenced John Ashbery's development as a major voice in poetry. They are arranged chronologically to assist the reader in following the development of Ashbery as a poet. These critical works are as essential to the cultural and literary history of twentieth-century poetry as are the critical prose of T.S. Eliot and W. H. Auden. They vividly portray a literary sensibility which is one of the most important in the development of poetry in English over the last century and equally influential on poetry and art in the twenty-first century.