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Author : Laura (Riding) Jackson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472069578
Brings together four decades of largely unpublished work by Jackson, exploring the rationale for her renunciation of poetry in 1941 after two decades as a poet
Author : Tom Fisher
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609384807
Writing Not Writing is both a detailed analysis of four individual poets who left poetry behind and a theoretically provocative exploration of the political and ethical possibilities of silence, not-doing, and disavowal. Reading the silences of George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and Bob Kaufman, the renunciation of Laura Riding, and other more contemporary instances and modes of poetic abnegation, Tom Fisher explores silence, refusal, and disavowal as political and ethical modes of response in a time of continuous crisis. Through a turn away from writing, these poets offer strategies of refusal and departure that leave anagrammatical hollows behind, activating the negational capacities of writing and aesthetics to disrupt the empire of sense, speech, and agency.
Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199640256
Provides over 1,700 biographies of influential poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, exploring the influences, inspirations, and movements that have shaped their works and lives.
Author : Katia Pizzi,Roberta Gefter Wondrich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031355462
This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters and individual case studies to examine the cultural and aesthetic complexities of so-called peripheral modernisms. Contributing to research on the ‘transnational turn’ in New Modernist Studies, the volume takes recent scholarship on postcolonial modernisms one step further by exploring a broader geopolitical expanse than the (formerly) colonised regions under global capitalism. It highlights the local and translocal specificities of modernist movements from regions such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Mediterranean to offer new insights into the concept of global modernism.
Author : Avital Ronell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780252030666
Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- xiii Acknowledgments -- xv Introduction -- Photo album follows page xxxvi -- PART I The Call of Technology -- 5 1. Delay Call Forwarding -- 38 2. Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm -- 63 3. Trauma TV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle -- 89 4. State of the Art: Julia Scher's Disinscription of National Security -- PART II Freedom and Obligation: Minority Report on Children, Addicts, Outlaws, and Ghosts -- 101 5. On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested -- 128 6. Toward a Narcoanalysis -- 141 7. Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas -- 145 8. Preface to Dictations -- PART III Psyche-Soma: The Finite Body -- 161 9. A Note on the Failure of Man's Custodianship -- 168 10. The Disappearance and Returns of the Idiot -- 188 11. the Philosophical Code Dennis Cooper's Pacific Rim -- PART IV Danke! et Adieu: On Hookups and Breakups -- 205 12. The Sacred Alien: Heidegger's Reading of Holderlin's "Andenken -- 227 13. On Friendship -- Or, Kathy Goes to Hell -- 240 14. Loving Your Enemy -- PART V The Fading Empire of Cognition -- 259 15. Slow Learner -- 293 16. The Experimental Disposition: Nietzsche's Discovery of America (Or, Why the Present Administration Sees Everything in Terms of a Test) -- 307 17. Koan Practice of Taking Down the Test -- 324 18. "Is It Happening? -- Index -- back cover
Author : Laura (Riding) Jackson,Schuyler B. Jackson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0813916828
Existing only in manuscript since the 1940s but enjoying an underground reputation among friends and advocates, this primary document by one of the most original and influential of American poets and thinkers is now being published as Rational Meaning, Laura (Riding) Jackson's testament of the necessity of living for truth. Begun as a dictionary and thesaurus in the 1930s, the work developed into a fundamental reevaluation of language itself. Riding, in close collaboration with her husband, continued this monumental project over the succeeding decades, completing it after his death in 1968. At the core of Rational Meaning, which aims to restore the truth of language by arguing that meaning inheres in words, stands the idea that a total renovation of the knowledge of language is needed, not to develop mere verbal sophistication and respectability but fundamentally to reinvigorate the intellectual processes of consciousness. The book reveals the disastrous extent to which language has been "unlearned" and shows how it may be learned again. Rational Meaning will be essential reading, not only for students of literature but for radical-minded linguists and lexicographers unhappy with the orthodoxies current in their disciplines.
Author : Moira Fradinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192651594
Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin American studies, classical reception, history, feminist theory, political philosophy, and theatre history. Moira Fradinger tracks the ways in which, since the early nineteenth century, fragments of Antigone's myth and tragedy have been persistently cannibalized and ruminated throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean, quilted to local dramatic forms, revealing an archive of political thought about Latin America's heterogeneous neo-colonial histories. Antígona is consistently characterized as a national mother and, as the twentieth century advances, multiplied on stage, forming female collectives, foregrounding the urgency of systemic change or staging gender politics. Through meticulous examination of classical culture in necolonial contexts, Fradinger explores ways of reading Creole texts from the geopolitical South that disrupt the colonial reading protocols that deracinate texts or lock them into locality. By historicizing Antígona plays and interpreting them with a purpose to address specific colonial legacies, the book reveals how Antígona has ceased being Greek and instead tells stories of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin America. Antígonas rethinks the paradigms through which we understand the presence of ancient cultural materials in former colonial territories, while illuminating an understudied continent in Anglophone reception studies.
Author : Marijeta Bozovic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674294981
The remarkable story of seven contemporary Russian-language poets whose experimental work anchors a thriving dissident artistic movement opposed to both Putin’s regime and Western liberalism. What does leftist art look like in the wake of state socialism? In recent years, Russian-language avant-garde poetry has been seeking the answers to this question. Marijeta Bozovic follows a constellation of poets at the center of a contemporary literary movement that is bringing radical art out of the Soviet shadow: Kirill Medvedev, Pavel Arseniev, Aleksandr Skidan, Dmitry Golynko, Roman Osminkin, Keti Chukhrov, and Galina Rymbu. While their formal experiments range widely, all share a commitment to explicitly political poetry. Each one, in turn, has become a hub in a growing new-left network across the former Second World. Joined together by their work with the Saint Petersburg–based journal [Translit], this circle has staunchly resisted the Putin regime and its mobilization of Soviet nostalgia. At the same time, the poets of Avant-Garde Post– reject Western discourse about the false promises of leftist utopianism and the superiority of the liberal world. In opposing both narratives, they draw on the legacies of historical Russian and Soviet avant-gardes as well as on an international canon of Marxist art and theory. They are also intimately connected with other artists, intellectuals, and activists around the world, collectively restoring leftist political poetry to global prominence. The avant-garde, Bozovic shows, is not a relic of the Soviet past. It is a recurrent pulse in Russophone—as well as global—literature and art. Charged by that pulse, today’s new left is reimagining class-based critique. Theirs is an ongoing, defiant effort to imagine a socialist future that is at once global and egalitarian.
Author : Ewan James Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107068445
This book argues that Coleridge's most important philosophical ideas were expressed not through theoretical argument but through his poems.
Author : Meredith L. McGill
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813542300
The transatlantic crossing of people and goods shaped nineteenth-century poetry in surprising ways. This book focuses on poetic depictions of exile, slavery, immigration, and citizenship and explores the often asymmetrical traffic between British and American poetic cultures.
Author : Jim Curtis
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476636498
Taking readers behind Bob Dylan's familiar image as the enigmatic rebel of the 1960s, this book reveals a different view--that of a careful craftsman and student of the art of songwriting. Drawing on revelations from Dylan's memoir Chronicles and a variety of other sources, the author arrives at a radically new interpretation of his body of work, which revolutionized American music and won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan's songs are viewed as collages, ingeniously combining themes and images from American popular culture and European high culture.
Author : Jane Dowson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521197854
This Companion is aimed at students and poetry enthusiasts wanting to deepen their knowledge of some of the finest modern poets. It provides new approaches to a wide range of influential women's poetry, a chronology and guide to further reading.
Author : Deborah Kapchan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781477318515
Poetic Justice is the first anthology of contemporary Moroccan poetry in English. The work is primarily composed of poets who began writing after Moroccan independence in 1956 and includes work written in Moroccan Arabic (darija), classical Arabic, French, and Tamazight. Why Poetic Justice? Moroccan poetry (and especially zajal, oral poetry now written in Moroccan Arabic) is often published in newspapers and journals and is thus a vibrant form of social commentary; what’s more, there is a law, a justice, in the aesthetic act that speaks back to the law of the land. Poetic Justice because literature has the power to shape the cultural and moral imagination in profound and just ways. Reading this oeuvre from independence until the new millennium and beyond, it is clear that what poet Driss Mesnaoui calls the “letters of time” have long been in the hands of Moroccan poets, as they write their ethics, their aesthetics, as well as their gendered and political lives into poetic being.
Author : Elizabeth K. Helsinger
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813938011
In arguing for the crucial importance of song for poets in the long nineteenth century, Elizabeth Helsinger focuses on both the effects of song on lyric forms and the mythopoetics through which poets explored the affinities of poetry with song. Looking in particular at individual poets and poems, Helsinger puts extensive close readings into productive conversation with nineteenth-century German philosophic and British scientific aesthetics. While she considers poets long described as "musical"—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Emily Brontë, and Algernon Charles Swinburne—Helsinger also examines the more surprising importance of song for those poets who rethought poetry through the medium of visual art: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and Christina Rossetti. In imitating song’s forms and sound textures through lyric’s rhythm, rhyme, and repetition, these poets were pursuing song’s "thought" in a double sense. They not only asked readers to think of particular kinds of song as musical sound in social performance (ballads, national airs, political songs, plainchant) but also invited readers to think like song: to listen to the sounds of a poem as it moves minds in a different way from philosophy or science. By attending to the formal practices of these poets, the music to which the poets were listening, and the stories and myths out of which each forged a poetics that aspired to the condition of music, Helsinger suggests new ways to think about the nature and form of the lyric in the nineteenth century.
Author : Christopher Norris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136971013
Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that offers a much-needed corrective to the pattern of extreme antithetical response which marked the initial reception to de Man's writings. Norris addresses de Man's relationship to philosophical thinking in the post-Kantian tradition, his concern with "aesthetic ideology" as a potent force of mystification within and beyond that tradition, and the vexed issue of de Man's politics. Norris brings out the marked shift of allegiance in de Man's thinking, from the thinly veiled conservative implications of the early essays to the engagement with Marx and Foucault on matters of language and politics in the late, posthumous writing. At each stage, Norris raises these questions through a detailed close reading of individual texts which will be welcomed by those who lack any specialised knowledge of de Man's work.