The Philosophical Mysticism Of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Author : Aakanksha Virkar Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429013829

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The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Aakanksha Virkar Yates Pdf

Through the lens of Hopkins's 'masterwork', The Philosophical Mysticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins readdresses Hopkins's frequently overlooked mysticism as an interior narrative within his corpus. Drawing on a range of religious, literary and visual traditions from Augustine's Confessions to the seventeenth-century spiritual emblem, this book demonstrates the ways in which the Wreck deliberately constructs and conceals a mystical and contemplative narrative. Typology and allegory are some of the important hermeneutic tools used in this re-reading of Hopkins, relating the poet to the discursive tradition surrounding the Old Testament Song of Songs, the philosophical theology of the Greek Fathers, and, perhaps most intriguingly, the meditative and visual tradition of the baroque heart-emblem. On the centenary of the publication of Hopkins’s poems, this book places the writer firmly within a mystical tradition, necessitating a fundamental reconsideration of the legacy of this major Victorian poet.

Author : Colleen Jaurretche
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0299156206

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The Sensual Philosophy by Colleen Jaurretche Pdf

Jaurretche (English, U. of California-Los Angeles) traces the development of the Irish writer's mystical aesthetic through his novels to its supreme culmination and negation in Finnegan's Wake. She also shows how the search to surmount all human categories and sensations in order to encounter the divine, arose and developed in the Middle Ages, and was transmitted into modernism during and just before Joyce's time. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Catholics
ISBN : OCLC:56775827

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Gerard Manley Hopkins by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781594735127

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Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins Pdf

Discover How Hopkins’s Spiritual Life and Vision Can Enlighten Your Own. "Poetry and art and music seize upon the human experience in ways that reveal new possibilities of intimacy with the Divine. In the way they reach out and grab us by the heart at unexpected times, they reaffirm that the Holy will meet us when it chooses ..." —from the Preface by Rev. Thomas Ryan, CSP Gerard Manley Hopkins, Christian mystical poet, is beloved for his use of fresh language and startling metaphors to describe the world around him. Beneath the surface of this lovely verse lies a searching soul, wrestling with and yearning for God. Hopkins writes from a Christian background, and yet his themes speak to people of all faiths who seek a deeper understanding of the presence of God in all of life. This beautiful sampling of Hopkins’s poetry offers a glimpse into his unique spiritual vision that continues to inspire readers throughout the world. The poems unite his two devotions, presenting mystical images of Christ in the natural world, which serve as a window through which you might also begin to see the Divine Presence in the world around you.

Author : Robert M. Wallace
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350082885

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Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present by Robert M. Wallace Pdf

Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more “inner” reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Alfred North Whitehead were, in fact, all philosophical mystics. This book discusses major versions of philosophical mysticism beginning with Plato. It shows how the framework of mysticism's higher or more inner reality allows nature, freedom, science, ethics, the arts, and a rational religion-in-the-making to work together rather than conflicting with one another. This is how philosophical mysticism understands the relationships of fact to value, rationality to ethics, and the rest. And this is why Plato's notion of ascent or turning inward to a higher or more inner reality has strongly attracted such major figures in philosophy, religion, and literature as Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Immanuel Kant, Hegel, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein. Wallace's Philosophical Mysticism brings this central strand of western philosophy and culture into focus in a way unique in recent scholarship.

Author : Dennis Sobolev
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813218557

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The Split World of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Dennis Sobolev Pdf

For the first time in almost half a century, the world of Hopkins is examined as an indivisible whole. The Split World of Gerard Manley Hopkins is a synthetic study of Hopkins's writings, written within a framework of semiotic phenomenology.

Author : Eleanor Jane McNees,Alison G. Sulloway,Lesley Higgins,Kenneth Seib,Jerome Bump,William David Shaw,Jude V. Nixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Christian poetry, English
ISBN : OCLC:74281152

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Gerard Manley Hopkins by Eleanor Jane McNees,Alison G. Sulloway,Lesley Higgins,Kenneth Seib,Jerome Bump,William David Shaw,Jude V. Nixon Pdf

Author : Zeineb Derbali
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527512863

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The Craft of Post-Narratology by Zeineb Derbali Pdf

The collection of articles compiled in this volume ponder narratological aspects, elements, and features and examine the extent to which the coinage “post-narratology” is applicable in contemporary literature, cultural studies, translation, etc. The contributors’ rethinking of narratology in relation to ethnicity, culture, history, and religion lead to significant implications as far as adherence to or departure from Western classical narratology is concerned. The notions of plot, storyline, point of view, voice, characters, narrators, and others, paradigmatically structured in the narratological classical model shaped by the Russian Formalists and polished by Tzvetan Todorov, Roland Barthes, and Gérard Genette, are stretched and modified to fit the cultural contexts of written works in various fields.

Author : Trenton B. Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429640643

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Wordsworth and Evolution in Victorian Literature by Trenton B. Olsen Pdf

The influences of William Wordsworth’s writing and evolutionary theory—the nineteenth century’s two defining visions of nature—conflicted in the Victorian period. For Victorians, Wordsworthian nature was a caring source of inspiration and moral guidance, signaling humanity's divine origins and potential. Darwin’s nature, by contrast, appeared as an indifferent and amoral reminder of an evolutionary past that demanded participation in a brutal struggle for existence. Victorian authors like Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Thomas Hardy grappled with these competing representations in their work. They turned to Wordsworth as an alternative or antidote to evolution, criticized and altered his poetry in response to Darwinism, and synthesized elements of each to propose their own modified theories. Darwin’s account of a material, evolutionary nature both threatened the Wordsworthian belief in nature’s transcendent value and made spiritual elevation seem more urgently necessary. Victorian authors used Wordsworth and Darwin to explore what form of transcendence, if any, could survive an evolutionary age, and reevaluated the purpose of literature in the process.

Author : Sarah Louise Lill,Rohan McWilliam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429557613

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Edward Lloyd and His World by Sarah Louise Lill,Rohan McWilliam Pdf

The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern popular press: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides, Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other 'penny dreadfuls', which became bestsellers. Lloyd's publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens's novels, such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers, such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music.

Author : Alice Crossley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317102120

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Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction by Alice Crossley Pdf

Focusing on works by George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope, Alice Crossley examines the emergence of adolescence in the mid-Victorian period as a distinct form of experience. Adolescence, Crossley shows, appears as a discrete category of identity that draws on but is nonetheless distinguishable from other masculine types. Important more as a stage of psychological awareness and maturation than as a period of biological youth, Crossley argues that the plasticity of male adolescence provides Meredith, Thackeray, and Trollope with opportunities for self-reflection and social criticism while also working as a paradigm for narrative and imaginative inquiry about motivation, egotism, emotional and physical relationships, and the possibilities of self-creation. Adolescence emerges as a crucial stage of individual growth, adopted by these authors in order to reflect more fully on cultural and personal anxieties about manliness. The centrality of male youth in these authors’ novels, Crossley demonstrates, repositions age-consciousness as an integral part of nineteenth-century debates about masculine heterogeneity.

Author : Barbara Barrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780429575204

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Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry by Barbara Barrow Pdf

Barrow’s timely book is the first to examine the link between Victorian poetry, the study of language, and political reform. Focusing on a range of literary, scientific, and political texts, Barrow demonstrates that nineteenth-century debates about language played a key role in shaping emergent ideas about popular sovereignty. While Victorian scientists studied the origins of speech, the history of dialects, and the barrier between human and animal language, poets such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, and Thomas Hardy drew on this research to explore social unrest, the expansion of the electorate, and the ever-widening boundaries of empire. Science, Language, and Reform in Victorian Poetry recovers unacknowledged links between poetry, philology, and political culture, and contributes to recent movements in literary studies that combine historicist and formalist approaches.

Author : Richard Fulton,Peter Hoffenberg,Stephen Hancock,Allison Paynter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429885013

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South Seas Encounters by Richard Fulton,Peter Hoffenberg,Stephen Hancock,Allison Paynter Pdf

South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific, but the effect of those cultures on the Western cultural perceptions of themselves and the wider world, including understanding encounters and exchanges in ways which do not underemphasize the agency and consequences for all participating parties. The essays also provide insights into the causes, unfolding, and consequences for both sides of a series of significant ethnographic, political, cultural, scientific, educational, and social encounters. This volume makes a significant contribution to increasing scholarly interest in Oceania’s place in British and American nineteenth-century cultural experiences. South Seas Encounters investigates these significant interactions and how they changed the ways that Oceanic, British, and American cultures reflected on themselves and their place in the wider world.

Author : Jack Manzi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000996524

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Between Wittgenstein and Weil by Jack Manzi Pdf

This volume explores the relationship between the philosophical thought of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The contributions shed light on how reading Weil can inform our understanding of Wittgenstein, and vice versa. The chapters cover different aspects of Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s philosophy, including their religious thought and their views on ethics and metaphilosophy. They address the following questions: How does Wittgenstein’s struggle with religious belief match up with Simone Weil’s own struggle with organised belief? What is the role of the mystical and supernatural in their works? How much impact has various posthumous editorial decisions had on the shaping of Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s thought? Is there any significance to similarities in Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s written and philosophical styles? How do Weil and Wittgenstein conceive of the ‘self’ and its role in philosophical thinking? What role does belief play in Weil’s and Wittgenstein’s respective philosophical works? Between Wittgenstein and Weil will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in twentieth-century philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, and the history of moral philosophy.

Author : Alison G. Sulloway
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231036450

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Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Victorian Temper by Alison G. Sulloway Pdf