Author: Ewa Panecka
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152751031X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
This study on religious experience in modern poetry features innovatory and accessible close readings of some of the most beloved authors of English verse. In today’s seemingly secular age, religion still remains a highly contested subject. The selection of texts analysed here is representative of a wide spectrum of attitudes, including a sharply critical refusal to acknowledge Christianity as the basis of civilization. Some poets see national religion as a framework for cultural identity, while others worship nature as the omnipotent Force of Life, trying to create their own gods. Rather than reducing poetry to a background for philosophical analysis or theological deliberation, this book presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture and convey the divine. The chapters provide a range of perspectives on individual experience rendered into poetry as a subtle relationship between faith, perception and language. The text will be of interest to anyone looking for new ways of reading poetry as a spiritual guest.
Shamanic Elements in the Poetry of Ted Hughes
Author: Ewa Panecka
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152751031X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
This study on religious experience in modern poetry features innovatory and accessible close readings of some of the most beloved authors of English verse. In today’s seemingly secular age, religion still remains a highly contested subject. The selection of texts analysed here is representative of a wide spectrum of attitudes, including a sharply critical refusal to acknowledge Christianity as the basis of civilization. Some poets see national religion as a framework for cultural identity, while others worship nature as the omnipotent Force of Life, trying to create their own gods. Rather than reducing poetry to a background for philosophical analysis or theological deliberation, this book presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture and convey the divine. The chapters provide a range of perspectives on individual experience rendered into poetry as a subtle relationship between faith, perception and language. The text will be of interest to anyone looking for new ways of reading poetry as a spiritual guest.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152751031X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
This study on religious experience in modern poetry features innovatory and accessible close readings of some of the most beloved authors of English verse. In today’s seemingly secular age, religion still remains a highly contested subject. The selection of texts analysed here is representative of a wide spectrum of attitudes, including a sharply critical refusal to acknowledge Christianity as the basis of civilization. Some poets see national religion as a framework for cultural identity, while others worship nature as the omnipotent Force of Life, trying to create their own gods. Rather than reducing poetry to a background for philosophical analysis or theological deliberation, this book presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture and convey the divine. The chapters provide a range of perspectives on individual experience rendered into poetry as a subtle relationship between faith, perception and language. The text will be of interest to anyone looking for new ways of reading poetry as a spiritual guest.
The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry
Author: Shamsad Mortuza
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144386594X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This genealogical study focuses on the work of five contemporary British poets in order to locate them in a counter cultural tradition that is informed by strategic responses to ‘state terrorism.’ It identifies some historical moments of ruptures, such as the persecution of the Celtic druids by the Romans, the killing of the Welsh bards by Edward I, the appropriation of bardic materials by Romantic poets writing in a post-French Revolution era, and the beatnik response to a post-World War bipolar world in order to contextualise and discuss the poets of British Poetry Revival writing under Thatcherism. Drawing on Mircea Eliade’s notion of shamanism as ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy,’ these poets have transformed Eliade’s version of the shaman’s ‘elective trauma’ and enacted a critical rejection of totalitarian tools of the state and society. Categorised as the ‘Technicians of the Sacred’ and the ‘Technicians of the Body’ these shamanic poets include Iain Sinclair, Jeremy Prynne, Brian Catling, Barry MacSweeney, and Maggie O’Sullivan. Their poetic strategy is not a New Age fad; it rather investigates and inventories the ‘hidden’ energies of past and present to wrest spirituality away from the confines of religion and politics, while embodying it in textual praxis.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144386594X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This genealogical study focuses on the work of five contemporary British poets in order to locate them in a counter cultural tradition that is informed by strategic responses to ‘state terrorism.’ It identifies some historical moments of ruptures, such as the persecution of the Celtic druids by the Romans, the killing of the Welsh bards by Edward I, the appropriation of bardic materials by Romantic poets writing in a post-French Revolution era, and the beatnik response to a post-World War bipolar world in order to contextualise and discuss the poets of British Poetry Revival writing under Thatcherism. Drawing on Mircea Eliade’s notion of shamanism as ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy,’ these poets have transformed Eliade’s version of the shaman’s ‘elective trauma’ and enacted a critical rejection of totalitarian tools of the state and society. Categorised as the ‘Technicians of the Sacred’ and the ‘Technicians of the Body’ these shamanic poets include Iain Sinclair, Jeremy Prynne, Brian Catling, Barry MacSweeney, and Maggie O’Sullivan. Their poetic strategy is not a New Age fad; it rather investigates and inventories the ‘hidden’ energies of past and present to wrest spirituality away from the confines of religion and politics, while embodying it in textual praxis.
The Poetry of Ted Hughes
Author: Sandie Byrne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137310944
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137310944
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.
Ted Hughes' Art of Healing
Author: Daniel Xerri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry. This study discuss and interprets the healing quality in Hughes' poetic works and evaluates the poet's notion of its significance for human civilization.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry. This study discuss and interprets the healing quality in Hughes' poetic works and evaluates the poet's notion of its significance for human civilization.
The Poetry of Ted Hughes
Author: Paul Bentley
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This text provides an introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, whose work is concerned with the forces of nature and their interaction with man. It also places Hughes' poems in a theoretical context of significant developments in literary theory that occured during his lifetime, quoting in particular commentary of the French theorists Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes.
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
This text provides an introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, whose work is concerned with the forces of nature and their interaction with man. It also places Hughes' poems in a theoretical context of significant developments in literary theory that occured during his lifetime, quoting in particular commentary of the French theorists Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes.
Myth in the Poetry of Ted Hughes
Author: Stuart Hirschberg
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Poetry of Ted Hughes
Author: Leonard M. Scigaj
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Achievement of Ted Hughes
Author: Keith Sagar
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719009396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719009396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Ted Hughes As Shepherd Of Being
Author: Craig Robinson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349203572
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349203572
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Myth and Psychology in the Poetry of Ted Hughes
Author: Leonard M. Scigaj
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description