Destructive Poetics
Author: Paul A. Bové
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780231046909
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Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead
Author: Shachar Bram
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780838755570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation "Through a detailed and thoughtful study of the impact of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy on Olson's aesthetic theory, this book points out the conceptual unity underlying what seems to be a sprawl of fragments in Olson's major work, The Maximus Poems." "On the one hand, concrete poetic units of The Maximus Poems serve as a starting point for clarifying how different elements are joined together in one unity. On the other hand, the book traces the blending of the whole poem at the macro level, following its course through a temporal progress in which the poem moves from one poetic unit to the next; that is, from a unity (of multiplicity) to a new unity (in which the previous unity is already part of the multiplicity building the new one). Thus the book illuminates Olson's theory of the Long Poem as an "all-containing" corpus, governed by metaphysical principles, equal to life itself, enacted in the process of working on The Maximus Poems."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The Ideology of Imagination
Author: Forest Pyle
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0804728623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo demonstrate his thesis, the author undertakes critical re-readings of four major Romantic authors - Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats - and shows how the legacy of ideology and imagination is reflected in the novels of George Eliot. He shows that for each of these writers, the imagination is neither a faculty that can be presumed nor one idea among others; it is something that must be theorized and, in Coleridge's words, "instituted." Once instituted, Coleridge asserts, the imagination can address England's fundamental social antagonisms and help restore national unity. More pointedly, the institution of the imagination is the cornerstone of a "revolution in philosophy" that would prevent the importation of a more radical - and more French - political revolution.
Atlantic Poets
Author: Maria Irene Ramalho Sousa Santos
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781584652205
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American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge
Author: Ronald E. Martin
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis challenging study of a number of American writers belongs in the tradition of the history-of-ideas approach to literary history. It offers an analysis of American literary developments and the relationship between writers and the philosophical and social thought of their times. Martin examines the works of Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Crane, Frost, Pound, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Stevens, Williams, and several others with a sharp eye for the artistic consequences of changing epistemological assumptions and for the connection of ideas and form. ISBN 0-8223-1125-9: $29.95.
Deconstructive Criticism
Author: Vincent B. Leitch
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780231054737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ideal prelude to the study of deconstructive theory for the as-yet-uninitiated reader. Leitch uses in-depth analyses, surveys of historical background, and helpful overviews to address the questions posed by the major figures -- Saussure, Lacan, Levi-Strauss, Heidegger, Derrida, Barthes Foucault -- then penetrates and displays the subtle intricacies of their answers.
Glossator
Author: Glossator
Publisher: Glossator
Published: 2009-09-05
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1449508375
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Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy
Author: Gül Bilge Han
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 110860501X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy presents a rethinking of modernist claims to autonomy by focusing on the work of Wallace Stevens, one of the most renowned poets of the twentieth century. By showing how multiple socio-political currents underlie and motivate Stevens' version of autonomy, the book challenges the commonly received accounts of the term as art and literature's escape from the world. It provides new and close readings of Stevens' work including poems from different stages of the poet's career. It re-energizes a tradition of historicist readings of Stevens from the 1980s and 1990s. The study of Stevens' work in this book is developed in constant dialogue with current studies in modernism and aesthetic theory, particularly those offered by Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou. The book explores the question of autonomy in Stevens' exploration of the aesthetic and social domains, and the vexed issue of his poetry's relation to philosophical thinking.
The Poetics of the Everyday
Author: Siobhan Phillips
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0231149301
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWallace Stevens once described the "malady of the quotidian," lamenting the dull weight of everyday regimen. Yet he would later hail "that which is always beginning, over and over"--recognizing, if not celebrating, the possibility of fresh invention. Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, Siobhan Phillips positions everyday time as a vital category in modernist aesthetics, American literature, and poetic theory. She eloquently reveals how, through particular but related means, each of these poets converts the necessity of quotidian experience into an aesthetic and experiential opportunity. In Stevens, Phillips analyzes the implications of cyclic dualism. In Frost, she explains the theoretical depth of a habitual "middle way." In Bishop's work, she identifies the attempt to turn recurrent mornings into a "ceremony" rather than a sentence, and in Merrill, she shows how cosmic theories rely on daily habits. Phillips ultimately demonstrates that a poetics of everyday time contributes not only to a richer understanding of these four writers but also to descriptions of their era, estimations of their genre, and ongoing reconfigurations of the issues that literature reflects and illuminates.
Questions of Poetics
Author: Barrett Watten
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2016-07
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 160938430X
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