The Self And The Sonnet

Author : Rajan Barrett
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443825412

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The Self and the Sonnet by Rajan Barrett Pdf

The Self and the Sonnet is an interdisciplinary study which considers the sonnet, a near eight hundred year old form, and looks at the historical meanderings and the popularity of the form among cultures that are far removed from the location of its origin in Italy. The book tracks the notion of the self from its Platonic beginnings to the Postmodern, using insights from Charles Taylor, Brian Morris and Calvin O. Schrag so as to work out a model of the self. Jan Patočka’s phenomenological notions of the self and Chaos Theory are important cohesive elements in the composition of this model. A limit point in Mathematics is a point that is not in the set around which all the points cluster. The book looks at the self from the limit points of the body, mind, world and language. It analyzes sonnets which predominantly show a tendency to one of these limit points. However, it keeps in mind the other limit points as possibilities of a comprehensive analysis. The motivation for this body of research comes primarily from the notion of the sonnet being a form that initially exists along with the epic as canonical writers of literary epics also write sonnets. The historic and narrative moment of self in sonnet form calls for a questioning of both the self and the sonnet. The book tries to address the questions: ‘What changes in the notion of self prompt the origin and persistence of the sonnet across cultures?’ and ‘Why and how is this form compatible with a self that is postmodern and global?’ The Anglo-American sonnet, for the most, is addressed but cultures and their attendant forms are also addressed when considering the sonnet. The Arabic zajal, the Persian ghazal, the Chinese sonnet and the Korean Sijo-sonnet are forms that are touched upon along with the Indian postcolonial versions like the forms of the sonnet in Modern Indian Languages such as Bangla, Gujarati and Marathi.

Author : Philip Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521144639

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Shakespeare's Sonnets by Philip Martin Pdf

This study closely analyses sonnets to bring out what they can tell us of different kinds of love, particularly self-love, the relation of these to the world of natural growth and temporal succession, and finally the ways in which art can properly be defined as a form of love.

Author : Paul Oppenheimer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195363470

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The Birth of the Modern Mind by Paul Oppenheimer Pdf

This revolutionary study presents new facts and an original theory about the origin of the thought and literature that may be considered "modern." Using fifty-one new translations of sonnets from four languages spanning seven centuries, Oppenheimer argues that "modern" thought and literature were born with the invention of the sonnet in 13th-century Italy. In revealing the sonnet as the first lyric form since the fall of the Roman Empire meant not for music or performance but for silent reading, the book demonstrates that the sonnet was the first modern literary form deliberately intended to portray the self in conflict and to explore self-consciousness. The wide-ranging essay of Part I traces the influences of the sonnet, as invented by Giacomo da Lentino, combining historical fact with the history of ideas and literary criticism. Part II illustrates, in bilingual format, the sonnet's growing appeal and variety during the centuries that followed with translations from Italian, German, French, and Spanish. The selection presents sonnets by more than thirty-five poets, among them Dante, Petrarch, Goethe, Rilke, Ronsard, Val'ery, Ibarbourou, and Lorca. The concluding section discusses previous scholarship, offers proofs of the sonnet's introspective and silent inventions, and for the first time establishes the source of the form, in Platonic-Pythagorean mathematics.

Author : John Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351946339

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Late Victorian Sonnet Sequence by John Holmes Pdf

In 1870, Dante Gabriel Rossetti published the first version of his sonnet sequence The House of Life. The next thirty years saw the greatest flourishing of the sonnet sequence since the 1590s. John Holmes's carefully researched and eloquent study illuminates how leading sonneteers, including the Rossettis, John Addington Symonds, Wilfrid Blunt and Augusta Webster, and their early twentieth-century successors Rosa Newmarch and Rupert Brooke, addressed the urgent questions of selfhood, religious belief and doubt, and sexual and national identity which troubled late Victorian England. Drawing on the heritage of the sonnet sequence, the poetic self-portraits they created are unsurpassed in their subtlety, complexity, courage, and honesty.

Author : Stephen G. H. Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113038454

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The Self-adjusting Sonnet by Stephen G. H. Roberts Pdf

Author : Philip Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:463282878

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Shakespeare's Sonnets by Philip Martin Pdf

Author : Timo Müller
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Modernism (Literature)
ISBN : 9783826043529

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The Self as Object in Modernist Fiction by Timo Müller Pdf

Author : Michael R. G. Spiller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134882885

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The Development of the Sonnet by Michael R. G. Spiller Pdf

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Stephen Regan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192893079

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The Sonnet by Stephen Regan Pdf

The Sonnet provides a comprehensive study of one of the oldest and most popular forms of poetry, widely used by Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth, and still used today by poets such as Seamus Heaney, Tony Harrison and Carol Ann Duffy. This book traces the development of the sonnet from its origins in medieval Italy to its widespread acceptance in modern Britain, Ireland and America. It shows how the sonnet emerges from the aristocratic courtly centres of Renaissance Europe and gradually becomes the chosen form of radical political poets such as Milton. The book draws on detailed critical analysis of some of the best-known sonnets written in English to explain how the sonnet functions as a poetic form, and it argues that the flexibility and versatility of the sonnet have given it a special place in literary history and tradition.

Author : N. Distiller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230583832

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Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition by N. Distiller Pdf

This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women from 1621-1931. It connects this tradition to ways of speaking desire in public in operation today, and to the development of theories of subjectivity in Western culture.

Author : A. D. Cousins,Peter Howarth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825399

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The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet by A. D. Cousins,Peter Howarth Pdf

Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets - Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004407114

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Self-reflection in Literature by Anonim Pdf

Self-reflection in Literature provides the first diachronic panorama of genres, forms, and functions of literary self-reflexivity and their connections with social, political and philosophical discourses from the 17th century to the present.

Author : Samantha Zighelboim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Obesity
ISBN : 1938247302

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The Fat Sonnets by Samantha Zighelboim Pdf

Poetry. Women's Studies. Samantha Zighelboim's debut collection conducts a radical re-examination of what we mean by body. In these poems, body is noun, verb and adverb; body is dearly beloved and fiercely rejected; it is by turns a singularly beautiful process and a frightening object. Zighelboim takes the sonnet form as a loose premise, a la Bernadette Mayer, but then explodes, expands, defies and otherwise grows out of supposed formal limits, making language into a living embodiment of the refusal of (institutional, patriarchal, cultural) control. The poet's refusal of the social invisibility of fat bodies is essential. "I am a perfect fucking blossom," Zighelboim writes, and also "I am entitled to the loneliness of my interminable appetite." Offering felt registers as subtle as "The oblique / correspondence between / a soft body / and a thin / layer of / pulp," this is the writing of a sharp and observant world-eater: a cosmophage in the truest sense.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783168972

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The Spanish Golden Age Sonnet by Anonim Pdf

The sonnets written during the Spanish Golden Age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are among the finest poems written in the Spanish language. This book presents over one hundred of the best and most representative sonnets of that period, together with translations into English sonnets and detailed critical commentaries. Garcilaso de la Vega, Góngora and Quevedo receive particular attention, but other poets such as Aldana, Lope de Vega and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz are also well represented. A substantial introduction provides accounts of the sonnet genre, of the historical and literary background, and of the problems faced by the translator of sonnets. The aim of this volume is to provide semantically accurate translations that bring the original sonnets to life in modern English as true sonnets: not just aids to the comprehension of the originals but also lively and enjoyable poems in their own right.

Author : Robert Bates Graber
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1607032244

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Plutonic Sonnets by Robert Bates Graber Pdf

Sonnets, chiefly on astronomy and the former planet Pluto.