Uninterrupted Poetry

Uninterrupted Poetry PDF Author: Paul Éluard
Publisher: Greenwood
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The best of Eluard's poems in a bilingual edition as chosen and arranged chronologically by the editor and translator. Surrealist, resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of Paris, connoisseur of art, litter'ateur, and lover of common people, Eluard exemplifies for many the poet of pure diction.

Uninterrupted Poetry

Uninterrupted Poetry PDF Author: Paul Éluard
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The best of Eluard's poems in a bilingual edition as chosen and arranged chronologically by the editor and translator. Surrealist, resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of Paris, connoisseur of art, litter'ateur, and lover of common people, Eluard exemplifies for many the poet of pure diction.

Uninterrupted Poetry: Selected Writings

Uninterrupted Poetry: Selected Writings PDF Author: Paul Éluard
Publisher:
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Category : French poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Uninterrupted Poetry

Uninterrupted Poetry PDF Author: Paul Éluard
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Selected Writings

Selected Writings PDF Author: Paul Éluard
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Languages : en
Pages : 264

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The Sunday of Life

The Sunday of Life PDF Author: Raymond Queneau
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811206457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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The Sunday of Life, the late Raymond Queneau's tenth novel, was first published in French by Gallimard in 1951 and is now appearing for the first time in this country. In the ingenuous ex-Private Valentin Bru, the central figure in The Sunday of Life, Queneau has created that oddity in modern fiction, the Hegelian naif. Highly self-conscious yet reasonably satisfied with his lot, imbued with the good humor inherent in the naturally wise, Valentin meets the painful nonsense of life's adventures with a slightly bewildered detachment.

Seedtime

Seedtime PDF Author: Philippe Jaccottet
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811206365
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Since 1947, when his work first began to appear, Philippe Jaccottet has published six volumes of poetry, two of criticism, three of prose-poetry, and several translations from the German. Seedtime (''La Semaison'')--the title he has given to his notebook journals written from 1954 through 1967--is an especially good introduction to this leading post-war French author, containing as it does passages in both prose and verse. In explaining the word semaison, Jaccottet has drawn a parallel between his sense of the yearly scattering of seed--the sacredness of the act, the uncertainty of its results--and the sense he has of poetry and the written word. Him, his own description on the jacket of the original French edition (Gallimard, 1971): "The despairing happiness of words, the despairing defense of the impossible, everything which contradicts, denies, mimicks or blasts. At each instant it is like the first and last word, the first and last poem, embarrassed, solemn, without probability and without force, stubborn fragility, an enduring fountain; and again, in the evening, its sound against death, flabbiness, stupidity; again, its freshness, its limpidity against drivel. Again, the star out of the scabbard."

The Dark Room and Other Poems

The Dark Room and Other Poems PDF Author: Enrique Lihn
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811206761
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Selected Writings on Aesthetics

Selected Writings on Aesthetics PDF Author: Johann Gottfried Herder
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400827167
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 467

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A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory. A student of Kant, he spent much of his life striving to reconcile the opposing poles of Enlightenment thought represented by his early mentors. His ideas influenced Hegel, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Dilthey, J. S. Mill, and Goethe. This book presents most of Herder's important writings on aesthetics, including the main sections of one of his major untranslated works, Kritische Wälder (Critical Forests). These notes, essays, and treatises, the majority of which appear here in English for the first time, show this idiosyncratic thinker both deeply rooted in the controversies of his day and pointing the way to future developments in aesthetics. Chosen to reflect the extent and diversity of Herder's concerns, the texts cover such topics as the psychology and physiology of aesthetic perception, the classification of the arts, taste, Shakespeare, the classical tradition, and the relationship between art and morality. Few thinkers have reflected so sensitively and productively on the cultural, historical, anthropological, ethical, and theological dimensions of art and the creative process. With this book, the importance of aesthetics to the evolution and texture of Herder's own thought, as well as his profound contribution to that discipline, comes fully into view.

Guarding the Air

Guarding the Air PDF Author: Gunnar Harding
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985612276
Category : Swedish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Gunnar Harding, perhaps the most prominent living Swedish poet after Tomas Transtromer, has won all the major Swedish literary awards, yet has scarcely been translated for English language readers. Guarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar Harding presents 112 poems drawn from eleven of the thirteen books Harding has published that contain poetry in verse. The book contains a brief introduction by the translator; a useful guide to Harding's poetry in the form of his prefaces to his three Swedish volumes of selected poems; an extensive set of endnotes, many of which include or rely on comments by the poet; and an index to poem titles.

Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness PDF Author: John R. Carpenter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510736549
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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It has been said that during times of war, the Muses fall silent. However, anyone who has read the major figures of mid-twentieth-century literature—Samuel Beckett, Richard Hillary, Norman Mailer, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and others—can attest that it was through writing that people first tried to communicate and process the horrors that they saw during one of the darkest times in human history even as it broke out and raged on around them. In Bearing Witness, John Carpenter explores how across the world those who experienced the war tried to make sense of it both during and in its immediate aftermath. Writers such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Theodore Plievier questioned the ruling parties of the time based on what they saw. Correspondents and writer-soldiers like John Hersey and James Jones revealed the chaotic and bloody reality of the front lines to the public. And civilians, many of who remain anonymous, lent voice to occupation and imprisonment so that those who didn’t survive would not be forgotten. The digestion of a cataclysmic event can take generations. But in this fascinating book, Carpenter brings together all those who did their best to communicate what they saw in the moment so that it could never be lost.