Author: Marion Thain
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474415679
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it. Setting the focal aestheticist poetry (c. 1860 to 1914) within much broader historical, theoretical and aesthetic frames, it speaks to those interested in Victorian and modernist literature and culture, but also to a burgeoning audience of the 'new lyric studies'. The six case studies introduce fresh poetic voices as well as giving innovative analyses of canonical writers (such as D. G. Rossetti, Ezra Pound, A. C. Swinburne).
Author: Marion Thain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781474426855
Category : Aesthetics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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This study explores lyric poetry's response to a crisis of relevance in Victorian Modernity, offering an analysis of literature usually elided by studies of the modern formation of the genre and uncovering previously unrecognized discourses within it.
Author: Marion Thain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110765288X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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As a study of lyric poetry, in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations. Combining a much-needed historicisation of the concept of lyric with an aesthetic and formal focus, this collaboration of period-specialists offers a new cross-historical approach. Through eleven chapters, spanning more than four centuries, the book provides readers with both a genealogical framework for the understanding of lyric poetry within any particular period, and a necessary context for more general discussion of the nature of genre.
Author: Carrie Noland
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691227543
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things. Noland builds upon close readings to construct a tradition of diverse lyricists--from Arthur Rimbaud, Blaise Cendrars, and René Char to contemporary performance artists Laurie Anderson and Patti Smith--allied in their concern with the nature of subjectivity in an age of mechanical reproduction.
Author: Marion Thain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781107597938
Category : Lyric poetry
Languages : en
Pages :
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As a study of lyric poetry, in English, from the early modern period to the present, this book explores one of the most ancient and significant art forms in Western culture as it emerges in its various modern incarnations. Combining a much-needed historicisation of the concept of lyric with an aesthetic and formal focus, this collaboration of period-specialists offers a new cross-historical approach. Through eleven chapters, spanning more than four centuries, the book provides readers with both a genealogical framework for the understanding of lyric poetry within any particular period, and a necessary context for more general discussion of the nature of genre. Presents the idea of lyric poetry as historically situated and as an evolving and changing concept. Covers a broad historical time-span from the early modern period to the present. Engages with questions recently raised as to the historical character and nature of lyric poetry.--Publisher description.
Author: Angela Leighton
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199551936
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299
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'On Form' assesses both the legacy of Victorian aestheticism and the nature of the literary. It tracks the development of the world 'form' since the Romantics and offers readings of, among others, Tennyson, Yeats and Plath. Original readings of poetry are combined with a powerful argument about the nature of aesthetic pleasure.
Author: Gillian White
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674734394
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. “Lyric” is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems—an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere.
Author: N. V. Raveendran
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788171568741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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N.V. Raveendran...Has Used Stylistics Here As A Means Of Exploring And Explaining The Poetics Of Sensuality Thereby Bridging The Gap Between Language And Linguistics On The One Hand, And Poetry And Stylistics, On The Other...He Thus Bypasses The Usual Charge Against Linguistic Stylistics That It Puts The Cart Before The Horse, And Uses Language Features Only To Validate And Valorize Perceptions Based On Immediate Personal Responses...This Attempt Is Bound To Be Of Value To Scholars As Well As Students Of Poetry, Of Indian English Poetry In Particular. Dr. K. Ayyappa Panicker
Author: James H. Donelan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139471147
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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James H. Donelan describes how two poets, a philosopher and a composer – Hölderlin, Wordsworth, Hegel and Beethoven – developed an idea of self-consciousness based on music at the turn of the nineteenth century. This idea became an enduring cultural belief: the understanding of music as an ideal representation of the autonomous creative mind. Against a background of political and cultural upheaval, these four major figures – all born in 1770 – developed this idea in both metaphorical and actual musical structures, thereby establishing both the theory and the practice of asserting self-identity in music. Beethoven still carries the image of the heroic composer today; this book describes how it originated in both his music and in how others responded to him. Bringing together the fields of philosophy, musicology, and literary criticism, Donelan shows how this development emerged from the complex changes in European cultural life taking place between 1795 and 1831.
Author: Margaret H. Freeman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190080418
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures. Its relation to the worlds of human experience has perplexed writers and readers for centuries, as has the question of evaluation and judgment: what makes a poem "work" and endure. The Poem as Icon focuses on the art of poetry to explore its nature and function: not interpretation but experience; not what poetry means but what it does. Using both historic and contemporary approaches of embodied cognition from various disciplines, Margaret Freeman argues that a poem's success lies in its ability to become an icon of the felt "being" of reality. Freeman explains how the features of semblance, metaphor, schema, and affect work to make a poem an icon, with detailed examples from various poets. By analyzing the ways poetry provides insights into the workings of human cognition, Freeman claims that taste, beauty, and pleasure in the arts are simply products of the aesthetic faculty, and not the aesthetic faculty itself. The aesthetic faculty, she argues, should be understood as the science of human perception, and therefore constitutive of the cognitive processes of attention, imagination, memory, discrimination, expertise, and judgment.
