The Value(s) of Literature

The Value(s) of Literature PDF Author: James S. Hans
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791402054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Discusses the ethical aspects of literature.

The Value(s) of Literature

The Value(s) of Literature PDF Author: James S. Hans
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791402054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Discusses the ethical aspects of literature.

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens PDF Author: Charles Doyle
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415159432
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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American poet, recognised as an intellectual, enigmatic and elegant writer. Writings include: Harmonium and The Necessary Angel. Volume covers the period 1916-1967. Includes a selection of Steven's letters (1966-67).

Acts of Gaiety

Acts of Gaiety PDF Author: Sara Warner
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472118536
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Against queer theory's long-suffering romance with mourning and melancholia and a national agenda that urges homosexuals to renounce pleasure if they want to be taken seriously, Acts of Gaiety seeks to reanimate notions of "gaiety" as a political value for LGBT activism by recovering earlier mirthful modes of political performance. The book mines the archives of lesbian-feminist activism of the 1960s–70s, highlighting the outrageous gaiety—including camp, kitsch, drag, guerrilla theater, zap actions, rallies, manifestos, pageants, and parades alongside "legitimate theater”-- at the center of the social and theatrical performances of the era. Juxtaposing figures such as Valerie Solanas and Jill Johnston with more recent performers and activists including Hothead Paisan, Bitch and Animal, and the Five Lesbian Brothers, Sara Warner shows how reclaiming this largely discarded and disavowed past elucidates possibilities for being and belonging. Acts of Gaiety explores the mutually informing histories of gayness as politics and as joie de vivre, along with the centrality of liveliness to queer performance and protest.

A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens

A Reader's Guide to Wallace Stevens PDF Author: Eleanor Cook
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691049830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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The Gaiety of Language

The Gaiety of Language PDF Author: Frank Lentricchia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520315634
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Singing the Chaos

Singing the Chaos PDF Author: William Pratt
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826210487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Combining both a historical and a critical approach toward the works of major British, American, French, German and Russian poets, this work surveys a century of high poetic achievement

The Productions of Time

The Productions of Time PDF Author: Michael Dolzani
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228006473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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Myth criticism flourished in the mid-twentieth century under the powerful influence of Canadian thinker Northrop Frye. It asserted the need to identify common, unifying patterns in literature, arts, and religion. Although it was eclipsed by postmodern theories that asserted difference and conflict, those theories proved incapable of inspiring solidarity or guiding social action. The Productions of Time argues for a return to myth criticism in order to refine and extend its vision. With the aim of rehabilitating myth criticism for our time, Michael Dolzani sketches an anatomy of the imagination as demonstrated in the total body of its productions, including literature, mythology, the arts, popular culture, and religious and political texts. Dolzani situates a vast panoply of images, character types, plot structures, themes, and genres to better understand their purposes, their recurrences across broad spans of history, and their interrelations. Illustrating the relationship between mythology and history, The Productions of Time proposes a symbolic language as a way of enabling dialogue across ideological and individual differences. Arguing for the ethical and intellectual necessity of conceiving a unifying pattern that transcends differences, The Productions of Time demonstrates that imagination is part of the human inheritance, common to all, not just to poets and mystics.

The All-Sustaining Air

The All-Sustaining Air PDF Author: Michael O'Neill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199299285
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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Michael O'Neill's impressive study provides sensitive close readings of poets publishing since 1900, including Yeats, Eliot, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney, Muldoon, Mahon, Hill, and Hughes. He shows that Romantic poetry is a dominant presence in their poems. The book will greatly interest those who enjoy the exploration of poetry's attempt to deal with major human and cultural issues.

Encyclopædia

Encyclopædia PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 874

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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres PDF Author: Hugh Blair
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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