Poetic Authority
Author: John Guillory
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780231055413
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Author: John Guillory
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780231055413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Pía Coira
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781780460031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of medieval and early modern Scottish Gaelic poetry which studies the fixed set of literary conventions by which the court poets gave sanction to their patrons' leadership, an essential task which served to preserve the cohesion of society. This book is the first systematic collection and classification of this rhetoric of leadership.
Author: John Guillory
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780231055406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Antony J. Hasler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-10
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1139496727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.
Author: Katherine H Terrell
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780814214626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombines literary and historiographical scholarship to examine Scottish writers who created a literary-cultural nationalist project by appropriating and subverting English literary models.
Author: Brittany Erin Schorn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2017-07-10
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 3110549794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile there is a long tradition of research into eddic poetry, including the poems classed as wisdom literature, much of this has approached the subject either as a primarily philological commentary or has addressed literary and thematic topics of individual or small groups of poems. This book offers a wide-ranging enquiry into the defining features of Old Norse wisdom, including the representation of wisdom in texts which cross traditional generic boundaries. It builds on recent advances in understanding of pre-Christian religion in Scandinavia, and calls on comparative and supporting work from several different disciplinary backgrounds (including literary theory, other medieval literatures and anthropology). Speaker and Authority interrogates important questions about the concept of knowledge, as well as its role in medieval Scandinavian society and its broader European cultural context.
Author: G Kim Blank
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-19
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1349190209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Griffiths
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2006-02-23
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 019927360X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Skelton and Poetic Authority is the first book-length study of Skelton for almost twenty years, and the first to trace the roots of his poetic theory to his practice as a writer and translator. It demonstrates that much of what has been found challenging in his work may be attributed to his attempt to reconcile existing views of the poet's role in society with discoveries about the writing process itself. The result is a highly idiosyncratic poetics that locates thepoet's authority decisively within his own person, yet at the same time predicates his 'liberty to speak' upon the existence of an engaged, imaginative audience. Skelton is frequently treated as a maverick, but this book places his theory and practice firmly in the context of later sixteenth as well asfifteenth-century traditions. Focusing on his relations with both past and present readers, it reassess his place in the English literary canon.
Author: Mark Maslan
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2003-04-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 080187646X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhitman has long been more than a celebrated American author. He has become a kind of hero, whose poetry vindicates beliefs not only about poetry but also about sexuality and power. In Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority, Mark Maslan presents a challenging theory of Whitman's poetics of possession and his understandings of individual and national identity. By reading his works in relation to nineteenth-century theories of sexual desire, poetic inspiration, and political representation, Maslan argues that the disintegration of individuality in Whitman's texts is not meant to undermine cultural hierarchies, but to make poetic and political authority newly viable. In particular, Maslan explores the social impact of nineteenth-century sexual hygiene literature on Whitman's works. He argues that Whitman developed his ideas about poetry, sexuality, and authority by responding to a prominent argument that desire subjected male bodies to a penetrating and feminizing force. By identifying poetic inspiration with this erotic dynamic, Whitman imbued his poetic voice with a kind of transformative power. Whitman aligned his poetry with an impartial authority hard to find elsewhere and inclined his work as a poet to speak for the voiceless, for the masses, and for an entire nation.
Author: Eric D. Warshaw
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13:
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