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The Poetics of Difference

Author : Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252052897

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The Poetics of Difference by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Pdf

Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination where black women invent new languages, spaces, and genres to speak the many names of difference. Black women’s literary cultures have long theorized the complexities surrounding nation and class, the indeterminacy of gender and race, and the multiple meanings of sexuality. Yet their ideas and work remain obscure in the face of indifference from Western scholarship. Innovative and timely, The Poetics of Difference illuminates understudied queer contours of black women’s writing.

The Poetics of Difference and Displacement

Author : Min Tian
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789622099074

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Intercultural theater is a prominent phenomena of twentieth-century international theater. This books views intercultural theatre as a process of displacement and re-placement of various cultural and theatrical forces, a process which the author describes as 'the poetics of displacement'.

The Poetics of Gender

Author : Nancy K. Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231063113

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Does gender have a poetics: What difference does gender make? How does it affect writing, reading, and the functions of text in society? The Poetics of Gender is a brilliant assembly of leading feminist critics whose collective effort presents the most up-to-date research on these important issues. The range of techniques and theories represented here are applied across a broad spectrum of texts and cultural forms, extending from women's writing of the Renaissance and the fiction of George Sand to the relation between quiltmaking and nineteenth-century literary forms, the pornography of Georges Bataille, and the theories of Julia Kristeva.

Gender and the Poetics of Excess

Author : Karen Jackson Ford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628468786

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Gender and the Poetics of Excess by Karen Jackson Ford Pdf

The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess vary with each poet, but by conceiving of poetic excess in relation to literary decorum, this study establishes a shared motivation for such a strategy. Literary decorum is one instrument a culture employs to constrain its writers. Perhaps it is the most effective because it is the least definable. The excesses discussed here, like the criteria of decorum against which they are perceived, cannot be itemized as an immutable set of traits. Though decorum and excess shift over time and in different cultures, their relationship to one another remains strikingly stable. Thus, nineteenth-century standards for women's writing and late twentieth-century standards bear almost no relation. Emily Dickinson's do not anticipate Gertrude Stein's or Sylvia Plath's or Ntozake Shange's. Yet the charges of indecorousness leveled at these women poets repeat a fixed set of abstract grievances. Dickinson, Stein, Plath, Jayne Cortez, and Shange all engage in a poetics of excess as a means of rejecting the limitations and conventions of “female writing” that the larger culture imposes on them. In resisting conventions for feminine writing, these poets developed radical new poetries, yet their work was typically criticized or dismissed as excessive. Thus, Dickinson's form is classified as hysterical, and her figures tortured. Stein's works are called repetitive and nonsensical. Plath's tone is accused of being at once virulent and confessional, Cortez's poems violent and vulgar, Shange's work vengeful and self-righteous. The publishing history of these poets demonstrates both the opposition to such an aesthetic and the necessity for it.

The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's "Poetics"

Author : Walter Watson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226875088

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The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's "Poetics" by Walter Watson Pdf

Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. The author offers a fresh interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics".

The Poetics of Philosophy [A Reading of Plato]

Author : David Ross
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443802604

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The Poetics of Philosophy [A Reading of Plato] by David Ross Pdf

The Poetics of Philosophy is my attempt to hear what academic philosophy attempts to silence, namely, how reason resonates with madness. It is thus a stinging of the great steed of academia in order to recover and re-experience what otherwise would be repressed by the exigencies of bureaucratic-commodity life in the late capitalist world. An analysis of Plato’s principal dialogues with a view towards developing the author’s conception of thinking, knowing, and loving, it incorporates the insights of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida. Provoking the world mind to reflect upon its phenomenological possibility for Being dispersed within its daily routines or business, the book argues for the metaphysicality of physical reality articulated through the narrative trope of fractal dialectical logic. The present volume’s more general implications extend the insights of the author’s previous work in the area of social science. I refer to the possibility for world communist revolution, which is predicated on communism’s thorough ridding itself of its naïve materialist perspective, the relics of a Newtonian Universe, and its embracing of a fractal-dialectical logic (or similar) that is better able to incorporate the yearning for immortality, desire to experience beauty, and the need to have a meaningful life that define human species life. To articulate such a framework is the aim of my general research.

Writing and Difference

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226816074

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First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western metaphysics. The book's first half, which includes the celebrated essay on Descartes and Foucault, shows the development of Derrida's method of deconstruction. In these essays, Derrida demonstrates the traditional nature of some purportedly nontraditional currents of modern thought—one of his main targets being the way in which "structuralism" unwittingly repeats metaphysical concepts in its use of linguistic models. The second half of the book contains some of Derrida's most compelling analyses of why and how metaphysical thinking must exclude writing from its conception of language, finally showing metaphysics to be constituted by this exclusion. These essays on Artaud, Freud, Bataille, Hegel, and Lévi-Strauss have served as introductions to Derrida's notions of writing and différence—the untranslatable formulation of a nonmetaphysical "concept" that does not exclude writing—for almost a generation of students of literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Writing and Difference reveals the unacknowledged program that makes thought itself possible. In analyzing the contradictions inherent in this program, Derrida foes on to develop new ways of thinking, reading, and writing,—new ways based on the most complete and rigorous understanding of the old ways. Scholars and students from all disciplines will find Writing and Difference an excellent introduction to perhaps the most challenging of contemporary French thinkers—challenging because Derrida questions thought as we know it.

The Poetics of the Common Knowledge

Author : Don Byrd
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791416860

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The Poetics of the Common Knowledge by Don Byrd Pdf

The Poetics of the Common Knowledge focuses on Descartes, Hegel, Freud, and the information theorists, on the one hand, and the poets of the American avant-garde, on the other. This book is a call literally for a new poetry, a new making that manifests the possibility for sense-making in a postmodern condition without universals or absolutes. In such a poetry, fragmentation bespeaks not brokenness but the richness of the world apprehended without the habits of recognition.

The Poetics of Translation

Author : Geneviève Robichaud
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228021971

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The Poetics of Translation by Geneviève Robichaud Pdf

Translation is a vital method of not just reading but writing and forms the basis of an exciting range of critical, artistic, and literary opportunities. Combining close readings of literary texts alongside astute critical observations from works by Avital Ronell and Walter Benjamin, amongst others, The Poetics of Translation re-examines key translation studies concepts, challenging our sometimes pragmatic understanding of translation and asking what it is that the discipline can make visible. By highlighting the possibilities of translation as an art form in contemporary innovative writing practices, Geneviève Robichaud reveals translation’s creative and critical potential, arguing that even those literary works that are not exactly translations gain in being apprehended as such. The Poetics of Translation values oblique, even unfinished sources of meaning, dwelling in the speculative spaces of texts and drawing attention to translation as poiesis, as creating that which is tangible and valuable. Situated at the juncture of translation poetics and literary studies, the book celebrates the uncertainty of translation, the plasticity of language and ideas, and the desire to interpret rather than reiterate.

The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Author : John D. Kerkering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139440981

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The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by John D. Kerkering Pdf

John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from meter and rhythm to alliteration and melody, provide these writers with evidence of a collective identity, whether national or racial. Through this shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities, Kerkering shows, are related elements of a single literary history. This is the story of how poetic effects helped to define national identities in Anglo-America as a step toward helping to define racial identities within the United States. This highly original study will command a wide audience of Americanists.

Ovid's Lovers

Author : Victoria Rimell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521862196

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A compelling investigation of the question of the male/female relationship, which is central to Ovid's works.

The Poetics of Otherness

Author : J. Hart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137477453

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Using the concept of otherness as an entry point into a discussion of poetry, Jonathan Hart's study explores the role of history and theory in relation to literature and culture. Chapters range from trauma in Shakespeare to Bartolomé de Las Casas' representation of the Americas to the trench poets to voices from the Holocaust.

The Poetics of Imperialism

Author : Eric Cheyfitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216091

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The Poetics of Imperialism by Eric Cheyfitz Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Cheyfitz charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Europeans in a New World open for material and rhetorical cultivation to the violent foreign ventures of twentieth-century America in a Third World judged equally in need of cultural translation. Passionately and provocatively, he reads James Fenimore Cooper and Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, and Edgar Rice Burroughs within and against the imperial framework. At the center of the book is Shakespeare's "Tempest," at once transfiguring the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown and prefiguring much of American literature. In a new, final chapter, Cheyfitz reaches back to the representations of Native Americans produced by the English decades before the establishment of the Jamestown colony.

The Poetics of Intimacy and the Problem of Sexual Abstinence

Author : Michael J. Hartwig
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : 1433107813

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The Poetics of Intimacy and the Problem of Sexual Abstinence by Michael J. Hartwig Pdf

This bold work asks whether traditional Christian sexual morality, with its emphasis on sexual abstinence outside of heterosexual marriage, is harmful. Appealing to sociological studies, anthropological theories, and contemporary theological ethics, Hartwig develops a model of sexual virtue around the concept of a poetics of intimacy and applies this model to particular challenges faced by the divorced, married couples, gay men and lesbians, single adults, and people with mental and developmental disabilities. He concludes that mandated long-term and lifelong sexual abstinence for those outside heterosexual marriage is not only harmful, but compromises many features of Christian morality.

The Poetics of Early Russian Literature

Author : D.S. Likhachev
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739186435

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The Poetics of Early Russian Literature by D.S. Likhachev Pdf

This translation of Likhachev’s Poetika Drevnerusskoy Literatury (The Poetics of Early Russian Literature), is a study of medieval Russian literature, as contrasted with modern literature in its narrative methods, use of symbols, and depictions of time, space and situation. The gradual emergence of realism and the principle of a single author is outlined with examples from medieval and modern literature.