Romanticism Against The Tide Of Modernity

Author : Michael Löwy,Robert Sayre
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822381297

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Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity by Michael Löwy,Robert Sayre Pdf

Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its first European manifestations, Löwy and Sayre propose a typology of the sociopolitical positions held by romantic writers-from “restitutionist” to various revolutionary/utopian forms. In subsequent chapters, they give extended treatment to writers as diverse as Coleridge and Ruskin, Charles Peguy, Ernst Bloch and Christa Wolf. Among other topics, they discuss the complex relationship between Marxism and romanticism before closing with a reflection on more contemporary manifestations of romanticism (for example, surrealism, the events of May 1968, and the ecological movement) as well as its future. Students and scholars of literature, humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies will be interested in this elegant and thoroughly original book.

Author : Rebecca K. Webb
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0739117556

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A Conflict of Paradigms by Rebecca K. Webb Pdf

Social epistemology and English studies education -- Institutionalized romantic humanism and the modern student of Literature -- From romantic humanist to postmodern pedagogy -- How the alien becomes normative in contemporary education -- Postmodern identity politics vs. the romanticized autonomous student -- Postmodern pedagogy vs. the vocationalization of education -- Critical theory, pedagogy, and the postmodern student of English -- Dialogic critical pedagogy as intervention and liberation -- Taking a dialogic critical pedagogy into the classroom -- Story of an evolving pedagogy.

Author : Maksim Hanukai
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299341404

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Tragic Encounters by Maksim Hanukai Pdf

Literary scholars largely agree that the Romantic period altered the definition of tragedy, but they have confined their analyses to Western European authors. Maksim Hanukai introduces a new, illuminating figure to this narrative, arguing that Russia’s national poet, Alexander Pushkin, can be understood as a tragic Romantic poet, although in a different mold than his Western counterparts. Many of Pushkin’s works move seamlessly between the closed world of traditional tragedy and the open world of Romantic tragic drama, and yet they follow neither the cathartic program prescribed by Aristotle nor the redemptive mythologies of the Romantics. Instead, the idiosyncratic and artistically mercurial Pushkin seized upon the newly unstable tragic mode to develop multiple, overlapping tragic visions. Providing new, innovative readings of such masterpieces as The Gypsies, Boris Godunov, The Little Tragedies, and The Bronze Horseman, Hanukai sheds light on an unexplored aspect of Pushkin’s work, while also challenging reigning theories about the fate of tragedy in the Romantic period.

Author : James Rovira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030976224

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David Bowie and Romanticism by James Rovira Pdf

David Bowie and Romanticism evaluates Bowie’s music, film, drama, and personae alongside eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poets, novelists, and artists. These chapters expand our understanding of both the literature studied as well as Bowie’s music, exploring the boundaries of reason and imagination, and of identity, gender, and genre. This collection uses the conceptual apparata and historical insights provided by the study of Romanticism to provide insight into identity formation, drawing from Romantic theories of self to understand Bowie’s oeuvre and periods of his career. The chapters discuss key themes in Bowie’s work and analyze what Bowie has to teach us about Romantic art and literature as well.

Author : James Rovira
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781498553841

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Rock and Romanticism by James Rovira Pdf

Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romantic phenomenon that sheds light, retrospectively, on what literary Romanticism was at its different points of origin and on what it has become in the present. This anthology allows Byron and Wollstonecraft to speak back to contemporary theories of Romanticism through Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Relying on Löwy and Sayre’s Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity, it explores how hostility, loss, and longing for unity are particularly appropriate terms for classic rock as well as the origins of these emotions. In essays ranging from Bob Dylan to Blackberry Smoke, this work examines how rock and roll expands, interprets, restates, interrogates, and conflicts with literary Romanticism, all the while understanding that as a term “rock and roll” in reference to popular music from the late 1940s through the early 2000s is every bit as contradictory and difficult to define as the word Romanticism itself.

Author : Paolo A. Bolaños
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793608031

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Nietzsche and Adorno on Philosophical Praxis, Language, and Reconciliation by Paolo A. Bolaños Pdf

Nietzsche and Adorno on Philosophical Praxis, Language, and Reconciliation: Towards an Ethics of Thinking offers a philosophical notion of an “ethics of thinking,” a kind of thinking that is receptive to the non-identical character of the world of human and non-human objects. Paolo A. Bolaños experiments with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and Theodor W. Adorno, who are presented as contemporary proponents of the Frühromantik tradition. Bolaños offers a reconstruction of the respective philosophies of language of Nietzsche and Adorno, as well as a rehearsal of their critique of metaphysics and identity thinking, in order to develop a notion of philosophical praxis that is grounded in the ethical dimension of thinking. Via Nietzsche and Adorno, Bolaños argues that thinking’s performative participation in uncertainty broadens the domain of reason, thereby also broadening our conceptual capacities and our receptivity to new possibilities of thinking. As an ethical praxis, thinking guards itself from the error of solidification, thereby opening philosophy to a reconciliatory, as opposed to domineering, reception of the world.

Author : Paul Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199696383

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The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism by Paul Hamilton Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism focuses on the period beginning with the French Revolution and extending to the uprisings of 1848 across Europe. It brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements ofEuropean Romanticism. The volume begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Greek, and Polish amongst others. Then follows a second section based on the naturally inter-disciplinaryquality of Romanticism, encapsulated by the different discourses with which writers of the time, set up an internal comparative dynamic. These chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of being written knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or comprehensiveness of understanding,and the Enlightenment encyclopaedic project. Discourses typically push their individual claims to resume European culture, collaborating and trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featuring here are history, geography, drama, theology, language, geography, philosophy,political theory, the sciences, and the media. Each chapter offers original and individual interpretation of individual aspects of an inherently comparative world of individual writers and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject. Together the forty-one chapters provide acomprehensive and unique overview of European Romanticism.

Author : Niculae Gheran,Kristin L. Bone
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781848884052

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Leave the Lights On: Literary and Other Monsters by Niculae Gheran,Kristin L. Bone Pdf

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. The present e-book contains contributions by scholars from all over the world who gathered to present their research, exchange ideas and comments while advancing discourse on the main topic. The purpose of the book is to analyze the meaning behind different representations of monsters and monstrosity in different types of media and cultural contexts. Two main categories have become the basis for the chapters of the volume: Monsters in Literature and the Monsterization of the Other. The various topics approached range from discussions on graphic and dystopian novels, classic monster figures like Medusa or the image of the vampire and zombie. The talks also included discussions of works by great film directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, media representation of police and black bodies in everyday life and authors such as Martin Millar, George Eliot, George Orwell, Alan Moore and Terry Pratchett.

Author : Will Kitchen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798765105566

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Film, Negation and Freedom by Will Kitchen Pdf

Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique explores cinema in relation to the critical tradition in modern philosophy and its heritage in Romantic aesthetics. Synthesising a variety of discursive fields and traditions - including Early German Romanticism, Frankfurt School critical theory and the aesthetic philosophy of Jacques Rancière - Film, Negation and Freedom outlines a radical new approach to film by re-examining the work of Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson. A distinction between Light and Dark Romanticism is introduced as a means of interpreting cinema's relationship with capitalism, as well as dualistic concepts such as stillness and motion, passivity and activity, pain and pleasure. Film, Negation and Freedom revitalises our understanding of modern audio-visual media, as well as the aesthetic, philosophical and political conditions of Romantic subjectivity, artistic practice and spectatorship.

Author : Mark Antliff
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822340348

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Avant-Garde Fascism by Mark Antliff Pdf

An investigation of the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France between 1909 and 1939.

Author : Simon Ferdinand
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496212115

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Mapping Beyond Measure by Simon Ferdinand Pdf

Over the last century a growing number of visual artists have been captivated by the entwinements of beauty and power, truth and artifice, and the fantasy and functionality they perceive in geographical mapmaking. This field of “map art” has moved into increasing prominence in recent years yet critical writing on the topic has been largely confined to general overviews of the field. In Mapping Beyond Measure Simon Ferdinand analyzes diverse map-based works of painting, collage, film, walking performance, and digital drawing made in Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United States, and the former Soviet Union, arguing that together they challenge the dominant modern view of the world as a measurable and malleable geometrical space. This challenge has strong political ramifications, for it is on the basis of modernity’s geometrical worldview that states have legislated over social space; that capital has coordinated global markets and exploited distant environments; and that powerful cartographic institutions have claimed exclusive authority in mapmaking. Mapping Beyond Measure breaks fresh ground in undertaking a series of close readings of significant map artworks in sustained dialogue with spatial theorists, including Peter Sloterdijk, Zygmunt Bauman, and Michel de Certeau. In so doing Ferdinand reveals how map art calls into question some of the central myths and narratives of rupture through which modern space has traditionally been imagined and establishes map art’s distinct value amid broader contemporary shifts toward digital mapping.

Author : Katey Castellano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137354204

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The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism, 1790-1837 by Katey Castellano Pdf

Analyzing Romantic conservative critiques of modernity found in literature, philosophy, natural history, and agricultural periodicals, this book finds a common theme in the 'intergenerational imagination.' This impels an environmental ethic in which obligations to past and future generations shape decisions about inherited culture and land.

Author : Robert Sayre,Michael Löwy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000721768

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Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature by Robert Sayre,Michael Löwy Pdf

Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature examines the deep connections between the romantic rebellion against modernity and ecological concern with modern threats to nature. The chapters deal with expressions of romantic culture from a wide variety of different areas: travel writing, painting, utopian vision, cultural studies, political philosophy, and activist socio-political writing. The authors discuss a highly diverse group of figures - William Bartram, Thomas Cole, William Morris, Walter Benjamin, Raymond Williams, and Naomi Klein - from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. They are rooted individually in English, American, and German cultures, but share a common perspective: the romantic protest against modern bourgeois civilisation and its destruction of the natural environment. Although a rich ecocritical literature has developed since the 1990s, particularly in the United States and Britain, that addresses many aspects of ecology and its intersection with romanticism, they almost exclusively focus on literature, and define romanticism as a limited literary period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This study is one of the first to suggest a much broader view of the romantic relation to ecological discourse and representation, covering a range of cultural creations and viewing romanticism as a cultural critique, or protest against capitalist-industrialist modernity in the name of past, pre-modern, or pre-capitalist values. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecology, romanticism, and the history of capitalism.

Author : Petra Rehling,Elsa Bouet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848884076

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Monstrous Reflection by Petra Rehling,Elsa Bouet Pdf

Author : Evy Varsamopoulou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003808695

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Romantic Futures by Evy Varsamopoulou Pdf

Romantic Futures is a collection which explores the significance of futurity in British Romanticism from a comparative perspective in three defining manifestations: the future as conscious legacy, by which is meant both influences or continuities and the (anticipations of) impact on the future; the future as revealed by prophecy, whether via religious figures or superstitions; and a meditation on the temporality of the future, or the future as a concept. The book brings together a wide range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives: from utopian studies, history, religion, and cultural theory to future studies, neuroscience, video games, and art history. Aiming to increase and diversify current critical engagement and highlight the contemporary relevance of the Romantics’ multivalent preoccupation with the future, this collection renews the dialogue between Romanticism and our critical relation to its contemporaneity, especially as it speaks to current understandings of the future in the sciences, arts, and humanities.