The Poetics of Disappointment
Author | : Laura Quinney |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780813933559 |
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Author | : Laura Quinney |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780813933559 |
Author | : Kristina Marie Darling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-03-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781949540086 |
A hybrid of poetry, flash essay, and photography, THE DISAPPOINTMENT ACTS charts the limits of what grief can be expressed in language.
Author | : Michael Mack |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501366882 |
Considering the support behind Brexit and Donald Trump's 'America first' policies, this book challenges the idea that they are motivated solely by fear and instead looks at the hope and promises that drive these renewed forms of nationalism. Addressing these neglected motivations within contemporary populism, Michael Mack explores how our current sense of disappointment with our ecological, economic and political state of affairs partakes of a history of failed promises that goes back to the inception of modernity; namely, to Spinoza's radical enlightenment of diversity and equality. Through this innovative approach, Spinoza emerges less as a single isolated figure and more as a sign for an intellectual constellation of thinkers and writers who – from the romantics to contemporary theory and literature – have introduced various shifts in the way we see humanity as being limited and prone to disappointment. Combining intellectual history with literary and scientific theory, the book traces the collapse of traditional values and orders from Spinoza to Nietzsche and then to the literary modernism of Joseph Conrad and postmodernism of Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon.
Author | : Jo Gill |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137340231 |
The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of twentieth-century American literature.
Author | : Micah Mattix |
Publisher | : Fairleigh Dickinson |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2011-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611470471 |
While recent works of criticism on Frank O'Hara have focused on the technical similarities between his poetry and painting, or between his use of language and poststructuralism, Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying 'I' argues that what is most significant in O'Hara's work is not such much his 'borrowing' from painters or his proto-Derridean use of language, but his preoccupation with self exploration and the temporal effects of his work as artifacts. Following Pasternak's understanding of artistic inspiration as an act of love for the material world, O'Hara explores moments of experience in an effort to both complicate and enrich our experience of the material world. On the one hand, in poems such as Second Avenue, for example, O'Hara works to 'muddy' language through which experience is, in part, mediated with the use of parataxis, allusions, and absurd metaphors and similes. On the other, in his 'I do this I do that' poems, he names the events of his lunch hour in an effort, among other things, to experience time as a moment of fullness rather than as a moment of loss. The book argues, furthermore, that O'Hara's view of the self as both an expression of the creative force at work in the world and as the temporal aggregate of finite experiences, places him between so-called 'Romantic' and 'postmodern' theories of the lyric. While it is often argued that O'Hara is a forerunner of a new, critically informed, 'materialist' poetics, this study concludes that O'Hara's work is somewhat less radical in its understanding of poetic meaning than is often claimed. Moreover, while O'Hara is preoccupied with his experience in his poems, the book argues that he espouses, in some respects, a rather traditional view of love. In addition to being a metaphor for the creative act, love, for O'Hara, is the chance coming together of two entities. Yet, one of the ironies of this is that while love is, for O'Hara, a feeling that is the result of movement, or the unexpected coming together of two otherwise separate entities, and is itself characterized in his work as a moving, 'life-giving vulgarity,' it produces a feeling of peace and stillness—a feeling that will not remain because of the fact that the self changes and that love is itself a moving, living thing. Thus, love contains within itself the ominous promise of future loss and is, therefore, the highest feeling that contains within itself the seeds of the lowest.
Author | : David Wray |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139429698 |
This book applies comparative cultural and literary models to a reading of Catullus' poems as social performances of a 'poetics of manhood': a competitively, often outrageously, self-allusive bid for recognition and admiration. Earlier readings of Catullus, based on Romantic and Modernist notions of 'lyric' poetry, have tended to focus on the relationship with Lesbia and to ignore the majority of the shorter poems, which are instead directed at other men. Professor Wray approaches these poems in the light of more recent models for understanding male social interaction in the premodern Mediterranean, placing them in their specifically Roman historical context while bringing out their strikingly 'postmodern' qualities. The result is an alternative way of reading the fiercely aggressive and delicately refined agonism performed in Catullus' shorter poems. All Latin and Greek quoted is supplied with an English translation.
Author | : Disappointment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1825 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ben Lerner |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0865478201 |
"The novelist and poet Ben Lerner argues that our hatred of poetry is ultimately a sign of its nagging relevance"--
Author | : Walter Watson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2012-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226875083 |
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".
Author | : Ben Hickman |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2012-03-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748649220 |
A study of how we should read one of America's most important poets