Sophia Lethe Talks Doxodox Down

Author : Robert Oventile,Sandy Florian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1637528515

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Sophia Lethe Talks Doxodox Down by Robert Oventile,Sandy Florian Pdf

There's a long history of dialogue-poems: Sir Philip Sidney, William Butler Yeats, Sylvia Plath, and Emily Dickinson. Oventile and Florian are working that side of the street today but with a lot more octane. In love with language and blessed with a sense of humor, these two poets entertain, enlighten, and expand everyone's horizons. --Ron Koertge, author of more than a dozen books of poetry, has poems in two volumes of Best American Poetry and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize winner. Koertge is also the author of the poem "Negative Space," short-listed for a 2018 Oscar in Animated Short Films. --- Sophia Lethe Talks Doxodox Down tells of Doxodox's not quite requited amorous entanglement with Sophia Lethe. The story takes the form of brief poetic dialogues between the two. Each dialogue exercises a specific trope, the name of which lends the given dialogue its title. Doxodox implores; Sophia Lethe demurs. Though their standoff becomes infernal, the two maintain their mordant and sometimes lewd humor as they muse on the possibilities and impossibilities of desire, life, and fate. Doxodox persists to the end, but does Sophia Lethe ever actually fall for him? Sophia Lethe Talks Doxodox Down by Robert Savino Oventile and Sandy Florian conducts the reader on a boisterous tour of tropes to the heart of a vertiginous folie à deux.

Author : Jon Hegglund,John McIntyre
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498555395

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Modernism and the Anthropocene by Jon Hegglund,John McIntyre Pdf

Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the natural world.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525520894

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Possessed by Memory by Harold Bloom Pdf

In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood. Gone are the polemics. Here, instead, in a memoir of sorts--an inward journey from childhood to ninety--Bloom argues elegiacally with nobody but Bloom, interested only in the influence of the mind upon itself when it absorbs the highest and most enduring imaginative literature. He offers more than eighty meditations on poems and prose that have haunted him since childhood and which he has possessed by memory: from the Psalms and Ecclesiastes to Shakespeare and Dr. Johnson; Spenser and Milton to Wordsworth and Keats; Whitman and Browning to Joyce and Proust; Tolstoy and Yeats to Delmore Schwartz and Amy Clampitt; Blake to Wallace Stevens--and so much more. And though he has written before about some of these authors, these exegeses, written in the winter of his life, are movingly informed by "the freshness of last things." As Bloom writes movingly: "One of my concerns throughout Possessed by Memory is with the beloved dead. Most of my good friends in my generation have departed. Their voices are still in my ears. I find that they are woven into what I read. I listen not only for their voices but also for the voice I heard before the world was made. My other concern is religious, in the widest sense. For me poetry and spirituality fuse as a single entity. All my long life I have sought to isolate poetic knowledge. This also involves a knowledge of God and gods. I see imaginative literature as a kind of theurgy in which the divine is summoned, maintained, and augmented."

Author : Robert Savino Oventile
Publisher : Davies Group Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : PSU:000066232384

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Impossible Reading by Robert Savino Oventile Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Random House
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812997835

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The Daemon Knows by Harold Bloom Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWS Hailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and explaining why it matters. Now he turns at long last to his beloved writers of our national literature in an expansive and mesmerizing book that is one of his most incisive and profoundly personal to date. A product of five years of writing and a lifetime of reading and scholarship, The Daemon Knows may be Bloom’s most masterly book yet. Pairing Walt Whitman with Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson with Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne with Henry James, Mark Twain with Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens with T. S. Eliot, and William Faulkner with Hart Crane, Bloom places these writers’ works in conversation with one another, exploring their relationship to the “daemon”—the spark of genius or Orphic muse—in their creation and helping us understand their writing with new immediacy and relevance. It is the intensity of their preoccupation with the sublime, Bloom proposes, that distinguishes these American writers from their European predecessors. As he reflects on a lifetime lived among the works explored in this book, Bloom has himself, in this magnificent achievement, created a work touched by the daemon. Praise for The Daemon Knows “Enrapturing . . . radiant . . . intoxicating . . . Harold Bloom, who bestrides our literary world like a willfully idiosyncratic colossus, belongs to the party of rapture.”—Cynthia Ozick, The New York Times Book Review “The capstone to a lifetime of thinking, writing and teaching . . . The primary strength of The Daemon Knows is the brilliance and penetration of the connections Bloom makes among the great writers of the past, the shrewd sketching of intellectual feuds or oppositions that he calls agons. . . . Bloom’s books are like a splendid map of literature, a majestic aerial view that clarifies what we cannot see from the ground.”—The Washington Post “Audacious . . . The Yale literary scholar has added another remarkable treatise to his voluminous body of work.”—The Huffington Post “The sublime The Daemon Knows is a veritable feast for the general reader (me) as well as the advanced (I assume) one.”—John Ashbery “Mesmerizing.”—New York Journal of Books “Bloom is a formidable critic, an extravagant intellect.”—Chicago Tribune “As always, Bloom conveys the intimate, urgent, compelling sense of why it matters that we read these canonical authors.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Few people write criticism as nakedly confident as Bloom’s any more.”—The Guardian (U.K.)

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Shelley's Mythmaking by Harold Bloom Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015005900249

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Agon by Harold Bloom Pdf

Expands on the controversial theory of revisionism presented in The Anxiety of Influence and A Map of Misreading. Bloom's 'theory' is based on a dialectic or contest involving opposing artistic and moral views which he particularly examines in relation to Romanticism, the American poetic tradition, Freud's theories, and what the author calls the 'American religion of competitiveness' that he sees best exemplified by contemporary Jewry.

Author : Suzanne Farrell Smith
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684481477

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The Memory Sessions by Suzanne Farrell Smith Pdf

Suzanne Farrrell Smith's father was killed by a drunk driver when she was six, and a devastating fire nearly destroyed her house when she was eight. She remembers those two--and only those two--events from her first nearly twelve years of life. Her entire childhood was, seemingly, erased. In The Memory Sessions, Smith attempts to excavate lost childhood memories. Rather than recount a childhood, this memoir creates one from research, archives, imagination, and the memories of others.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226897646

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The Artist as Critic by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, [1969]

Author : Sandy Florian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 193481928X

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Boxing the Compass by Sandy Florian Pdf

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. "This novella of compressed, accreting, hungry paragraphs is full of sparkling diction and pinching rhythms; mysteriously, it silhouettes its interlocking motifs. Geography, family sadness, facts about the Old and New Worlds come into play. A real pleasure of a book." Stacey Levine "Sandy Florian's gorgeous meditation, BOXING THE COMPASS, begins with kinds of unfolding, a sort of anti-origami of intention and desire: like love letters or lovers' bodies, exposing and withholding simultaneously. Any reader who opens herself, himself to this book is risking a special kind of pleasure. But the presiding engagement is not pleasure itself, but experience of unfolding, which can also be violent an earthquake is a cosmic origami, and an accurate account of the mind awakening in this extraordinary book." Bin Ramke"

Author : Matthew Schneider-Mayerson,Brent Ryan Bellamy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452961521

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An Ecotopian Lexicon by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson,Brent Ryan Bellamy Pdf

Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation As the scale and gravity of climate change becomes undeniable, a cultural revolution must ultimately match progress in the realms of policy, infrastructure, and technology. Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts to describe or respond to our environmental crisis, An Ecotopian Lexicon is a collaborative volume of short, engaging essays that offer ecologically productive terms—drawn from other languages, science fiction, and subcultures of resistance—to envision and inspire responses and alternatives to fossil-fueled neoliberal capitalism. Each of the thirty suggested “loanwords” helps us imagine how to adapt and even flourish in the face of the socioecological adversity that characterizes the present moment and the future that awaits. From “Apocalypso” to “Qi,” “ ~*~ “ to “Total Liberation,” thirty authors from a range of disciplines and backgrounds assemble a grounded yet dizzying lexicon, expanding the limited European and North American conceptual lexicon that many activists, educators, scholars, students, and citizens have inherited. Fourteen artists from eleven countries respond to these chapters with original artwork that illustrates the contours of the possible better worlds and worldviews. Contributors: Sofia Ahlberg, Uppsala U; Randall Amster, Georgetown U; Cherice Bock, Antioch U; Charis Boke, Cornell U; Natasha Bowdoin, Rice U; Kira Bre Clingen, Harvard U; Caledonia Curry (SWOON); Lori Damiano, Pacific Northwest College of Art; Nicolás De Jesús; Jonathan Dyck; John Esposito, Chukyo U; Rebecca Evans, Winston-Salem State U; Allison Ford, U of Oregon; Carolyn Fornoff, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Michelle Kuen Suet Fung; Andrew Hageman, Luther College; Michael Horka, George Washington U; Yellena James; Andrew Alan Johnson, Princeton U; Jennifer Lee Johnson, Purdue U; Melody Jue, U of California, Santa Barbara; Jenny Kendler; Daehyun Kim (Moonassi); Yifei Li, NYU Shanghai; Nikki Lindt; Anthony Lioi, Juilliard School of New York; Maryanto; Janet Tamalik McGrath; Pierre-Héli Monot, Ludwig Maximilian U of Munich; Kari Marie Norgaard, U of Oregon; Karen O’Brien, U of Oslo, Norway; Evelyn O’Malley, U of Exeter; Robert Savino Oventile, Pasadena City College; Chris Pak; David N. Pellow, U of California, Santa Barbara; Andrew Pendakis, Brock U; Kimberly Skye Richards, U of California, Berkeley; Ann Kristin Schorre, U of Oslo, Norway; Malcolm Sen, U of Massachusetts Amherst; Kate Shaw; Sam Solnick, U of Liverpool; Rirkrit Tiravanija, Columbia U; Miriam Tola, Northeastern U; Sheena Wilson, U of Alberta; Daniel Worden, Rochester Institute of Technology.

Author : Marilyn J. McCabe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1944585052

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Glass Factory by Marilyn J. McCabe Pdf

Poetry. Environmental Studies. Chemically speaking, glass is neither a liquid nor a solid; it has properties of both states of being. It is precisely these kinds of ambiguities of experience, internal and external, that McCabe's crisp yet sonically adroit poems seek to reveal. In a world in which all matter is destined for ruin, we find a speaker who again and again not only holds the elusive present in her fierce attention but also praises the very processes that, while ushering new fruit from the trees, erase all that has been, including the familiar self, which is at every moment already "turning, turning" into something other.

Author : Andrew Gaedtke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108418003

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Modernism and the Machinery of Madness by Andrew Gaedtke Pdf

This book shows that a distinct form of technological madness emerged within modernist culture, transforming much of the period's experimental fiction.

Author : Talia Weisz
Publisher : Finishing Line Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 163534185X

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Sisters in Another Life by Talia Weisz Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781604134414

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Enslavement and Emancipation by Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby,Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom Pdf

Provides an examination of the use of enslavement and emancipation in classic literary works.