The Poetics of Inconstancy

The Poetics of Inconstancy
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Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015042046238
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Synopsis The Poetics of Inconstancy by : Hoyt Rogers

The transformation of Late Petrarchism from earlier stages reflects a profound shift in cultural values--a 'crisis of the Renaissance' that generated new perspectives in poetic theory and practice. Broadly, this book identifies a distinctive 'poetics of inconstancy' that came to the fore at the end of the sixteenth century and pervaded the love verse of the age. At the same time, as a study based on the inductive method, the book takes as its point of departure a single poet: Etienne Durand. Because of his frequently anthologized 'Stances a l'Inconstance,' Durand is often singled out as 'the poet of inconstancy.' This study, however, identifies the theme of universal change as a hallmark of Durand's contemporaries as well--a signal of a stylistic revolution that heralded the end of Renaissance verse.

Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea

Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 538
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ISBN-10 : 9789401539609
ISBN-13 : 940153960X
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Poetics of the Elements in the Human Condition: The Sea by : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

The Poetics of Slavdom

The Poetics of Slavdom
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 500
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ISBN-10 : 0820481351
ISBN-13 : 9780820481357
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Synopsis The Poetics of Slavdom by : Zdenko Zlatar

Between 1400 and 1878, the majority of Southern Slavic peoples endured several centuries of Ottoman rule. In the nineteenth century there was a movement among both the Croats and the Serbs to set aside regional, ethnic, religious, and cultural differences in order to work together toward the liberation of all the Southern Slavs from the Ottoman yoke. These volumes explore how the masterpieces of two leading poets among the Croats and Serbs - Ivan Mazuranić (1814-1890) and Petar II Petrović Njegos (1813-1851), who was Prince-Bishop of Montenegro from 1830-1851 - dealt with the Southern Slavs' relationship to Islam in their greatest poetic works, The Death of Smail-agha Čengić and The Mountain Wreath, respectively.

The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England

The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9781317021049
ISBN-13 : 1317021045
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Synopsis The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England by : Hassan Melehy

Examining both familiar and underappreciated texts, Hassan Melehy foregrounds the relationships that early modern French and English writers conceived with both their classical predecessors and authors from flourishing literary traditions in neighboring countries. In order to present their own avowedly national literatures as successfully surpassing others, they engaged in a paradoxical strategy of presenting other traditions as both inspiring and dead. Each of the book's four sections focuses on one early modern author: Joachim Du Bellay, Edmund Spenser, Michel de Montaigne, and William Shakespeare. Melehy details the elaborate strategies that each author uses to rewrite and overcome the work of predecessors. His book touches on issues highly pertinent to current early modern studies: among these are translation, the relationship between classicism and writing in the vernacular, the role of literature in the consolidation of the state, attitudes toward colonial expansion and the "New World," and definitions of modernity and the past.

The Poetics of the Common Knowledge

The Poetics of the Common Knowledge
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 0791416860
ISBN-13 : 9780791416860
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Synopsis The Poetics of the Common Knowledge by : Don Byrd

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 Plot

The Poetics of Plot
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 1452902100
ISBN-13 : 9781452902104
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Synopsis The Poetics of Plot by : Thomas G. Pavel

The Fugitive's Properties

The Fugitive's Properties
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9780226241111
ISBN-13 : 0226241114
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Synopsis The Fugitive's Properties by : Stephen M. Best

In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of antebellum laws, circulating through key nineteenth-century works of literature, and informing cultural forms such as blackface minstrelsy and early race films. Best also argues that legal principles dealing with fugitives and indebted persons provided a sophisticated precursor to intellectual property law as it dealt with rights in appearance, expression, and other abstract aspects of personhood. In this conception of property as fleeting, indeed fugitive, American law preserved for much of the rest of the century slavery's most pressing legal imperative: the production of personhood as a market commodity. By revealing the paradoxes of this relationship between fugitive slave law and intellectual property law, Best helps us to understand how race achieved much of its force in the American cultural imagination. A work of ambitious scope and compelling cross-connections, The Fugitive's Properties sets new agendas for scholars of American literature and legal culture.

The Zen of Ecopoetics

The Zen of Ecopoetics
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 213
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ISBN-10 : 9781003837848
ISBN-13 : 1003837840
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Synopsis The Zen of Ecopoetics by : Enaiê Mairê Azambuja

This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets: William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E.E. Cummings. Bringing together a range of texts and perspectives and using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on Eastern and Western philosophies, including Zen and Taoism, posthumanism and new materialism, this book adds to and extends the field of ecocriticism into new debates. Its broad approach, informed by literary studies, ecocriticism, and religious studies, proposes the expansion of ecopoetics to include the relationship between poetic materiality and spirituality. It develops ‘cosmopoetics’ as a new literary-theoretical concept of the poetic imagination as a contemplative means to achieving a deeper understanding of the human interdependence with the non-human. Addressing the critical gap between materialism and spirituality in modernist American poetry, The Zen of Ecopoetics promotes new forms of awareness and understanding about our relationship with non-human beings and environments. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students in ecocriticism, literary theory, poetry, and religious studies.

Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne

Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 9781317002437
ISBN-13 : 1317002431
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Synopsis Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne by : Frances Cruickshank

Innovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poems, references to their letters, sermons, and prose treatises, and to other contemporary poets and theorists. In demonstrating a relationship between poetics and religious consciousness in Donne's and Herbert's verse, Frances Cruickshank explores their attitudes to the cultural, theological, and aesthetic enterprise of writing and reading verse. Cruickshank shows that Donne and Herbert regarded poetry as a mode not determined by its social and political contexts, but as operating in and on them with its own distinct set of aesthetic and intellectual values, and that ultimately, verse mattered as a privileged mode of religious discourse. This book is an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the nature of literary and cultural study of early modern England, and about the relationship between the writer and the world. Cruickshank confirms Donne's reputation as a fascinating and brilliant poetic figure while simultaneously rousing interest in Herbert by noting his unique merging of rusticity and urbanity and tranquility and uncertainty, allowing the reader to enter into these poets' imaginative worlds and to understand the literary genre they embraced and then transformed.

The Poetics of Ancient and Classical Arabic Literature

The Poetics of Ancient and Classical Arabic Literature
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781317520498
ISBN-13 : 1317520491
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Synopsis The Poetics of Ancient and Classical Arabic Literature by : Esad Durakovic

Through analysing ancient and classical Arabic literature, including the Qur'an, from within the Arabic literary tradition, this book provides an original interpretation of poetics, and of other important aspects of Arab culture. Ancient Arabic literature is a realm of poetry; prose literary forms emerged rather late, and even then remained in the shadow of poetic creative efforts. Traditionally, this literature has been viewed through a philologist’s lens and has often been represented as ‘materialistic’ in the sense that its poetry lacked imagination. As a result, Arabic poetry was often evaluated negatively in relation to other poetic traditions. The Poetics of Ancient and Classical Arabic Literature argues that old Arabic literature is remarkably coherent in poetical terms and has its own individuality, and that claims of its materialism arise from a failure to grasp the poetic principles of the Arabic tradition. Analysing the Qur’an, which is known for confronting the poetry of the time, this book reveals that "post Qur’anic" literature came to be defined against it. Thus, the constitution and interpretation of Arabic literature imposed itself as a particular exegesis of the sacred Text. Disputing traditional interpretations by arguing that Arabic literature can only be assessed from within, and not through comparison with other literary traditions, this book is of interest to students and scholars of Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies and Literary Studies.