Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292753462
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.
The Bow and the Lyre
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292753462
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292753462
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.
The Bow and the Lyre
Author: Seth Benardete
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742565963
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In this interpretation of the Odyssey, Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742565963
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
In this interpretation of the Odyssey, Seth Benardete suggests that Homer may have been the first to philosophize in a Platonic sense. He argues that the Odyssey concerns precisely the relation between philosophy and poetry and, more broadly, the rational and the irrational in human beings.
With Lyre and Bow
Author: Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535388207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Far-Shooter. Foreseer. Wolf. Raven. Rat. Swan. Bringer of Health and Plague. Master of Song and Poetry. Lord of Truth and Enlightenment. Olympian God of prophecy and healing, archery and light and music, Apollo was honored throughout the ancient Mediterranean and across the Roman Empire. A paradoxical God, he is associated with both wisdom and virility, with compassion and cruelty, with fatherhood and youth. Twin to the virginal Artemis, he took many mortal lovers, male and female, and sired numerous children - at least one of whom, the healer Asklepios, ascended to godhood himself. Despite the deliberate destruction of His temples, Apollo was never forgotten. Renaissance artists and philosophers found in Him a worthy and willing patron, and in the centuries since his devotees have only grown in number. Among them are the contributors to this anthology, whose poems, essays, artwork, rites, and short fiction celebrate the God in all his wondrous complexity. And so we sing, as they did in ancient days: hail to you, Son of Thunder and Lightning. Io Paean!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781535388207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Far-Shooter. Foreseer. Wolf. Raven. Rat. Swan. Bringer of Health and Plague. Master of Song and Poetry. Lord of Truth and Enlightenment. Olympian God of prophecy and healing, archery and light and music, Apollo was honored throughout the ancient Mediterranean and across the Roman Empire. A paradoxical God, he is associated with both wisdom and virility, with compassion and cruelty, with fatherhood and youth. Twin to the virginal Artemis, he took many mortal lovers, male and female, and sired numerous children - at least one of whom, the healer Asklepios, ascended to godhood himself. Despite the deliberate destruction of His temples, Apollo was never forgotten. Renaissance artists and philosophers found in Him a worthy and willing patron, and in the centuries since his devotees have only grown in number. Among them are the contributors to this anthology, whose poems, essays, artwork, rites, and short fiction celebrate the God in all his wondrous complexity. And so we sing, as they did in ancient days: hail to you, Son of Thunder and Lightning. Io Paean!
Understanding Octavio Paz
Author: Jose Quiroga
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570032639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In this comprehensive examination of the work of Octavio Paz - winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature and Mexico's important literary and cultural figure - Jose Quiroga presents an analysis of Paz's writings in light of works by and about him. Combining broad erudition with scholarly attention to detail, Quiroga views Paz's work as an open narrative that explores the relationships between the poet, his readers and his time.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570032639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In this comprehensive examination of the work of Octavio Paz - winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature and Mexico's important literary and cultural figure - Jose Quiroga presents an analysis of Paz's writings in light of works by and about him. Combining broad erudition with scholarly attention to detail, Quiroga views Paz's work as an open narrative that explores the relationships between the poet, his readers and his time.
Muse & Drudge
Author: Harryette Romell Mullen
Publisher: Singing Horse Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher: Singing Horse Press
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Conjunctions and Disjunctions
Author: Octavio Paz
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559701372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
One of the great minds of the 20th century,explores the duality of human nature in all its,variations in cultures around the world.,Fascinated by the polarity of being, Paz has,boldly attempted to write a |history of man|.,Unlike countless other histories that simply,chronicle civilizations and cultures, Paz's work,explores the human heart, the meaning of human,nature and the duality that exists within all,beings and, it would seem, all things. Ranging,across cultures and centuries, Paz explores,opposites and contradiction through the ages.
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559701372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
One of the great minds of the 20th century,explores the duality of human nature in all its,variations in cultures around the world.,Fascinated by the polarity of being, Paz has,boldly attempted to write a |history of man|.,Unlike countless other histories that simply,chronicle civilizations and cultures, Paz's work,explores the human heart, the meaning of human,nature and the duality that exists within all,beings and, it would seem, all things. Ranging,across cultures and centuries, Paz explores,opposites and contradiction through the ages.
Old Greek Stories
Author: James Baldwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche
Author: Matthew P. Meyer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498560458
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche showcases archery as a metaphor for the fundamental tension at the heart of the human condition. Matthew Meyer develops a theory of subjectivity that incorporates elements from psychoanalysis, Greek literature, philosophy, and Zen archery, bringing together allusions to the bow and archery made by Sophocles, Homer, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Lacan, Nietzsche, and Awa Kenzo. The book weaves together a psychoanalytic account of infant development, the obstacles faced by Greek heroes, and virtue theory to explore the tension between the forces inside and outside of the human that subject the human beingit to conditions beyond its control. Meyer develops this side of the tension through Jacques Lacan’s theory of human drive, illustrating the three parts of drive theory through application to three works in Greek literature and philosophy. He The second part of the text describes the other side of this fundamental tension--the ability to control drive impulses—through Aristotle’s use of the archer as a metaphor in his virtue theory. The book illustrates the productive nature of this tension through an analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas about drives and sublimation, especially his contention that the “highest” types are like “the bow with the greatest tension.”
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498560458
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Archery and the Human Condition in Lacan, the Greeks, and Nietzsche showcases archery as a metaphor for the fundamental tension at the heart of the human condition. Matthew Meyer develops a theory of subjectivity that incorporates elements from psychoanalysis, Greek literature, philosophy, and Zen archery, bringing together allusions to the bow and archery made by Sophocles, Homer, Heraclitus, Aristotle, Lacan, Nietzsche, and Awa Kenzo. The book weaves together a psychoanalytic account of infant development, the obstacles faced by Greek heroes, and virtue theory to explore the tension between the forces inside and outside of the human that subject the human beingit to conditions beyond its control. Meyer develops this side of the tension through Jacques Lacan’s theory of human drive, illustrating the three parts of drive theory through application to three works in Greek literature and philosophy. He The second part of the text describes the other side of this fundamental tension--the ability to control drive impulses—through Aristotle’s use of the archer as a metaphor in his virtue theory. The book illustrates the productive nature of this tension through an analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas about drives and sublimation, especially his contention that the “highest” types are like “the bow with the greatest tension.”
Elegy in a Country Churchyard
Author: Thomas Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Herodotean Inquiries
Author: S. Benardete
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401031614
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Herodotus has so often been called, since ancient times, the father of history that this title has blinded us to the question: Was the father of history an historian? Everyone knows that the Greek word from which 'history' is derived always means inquiry in Herodotus. His so-called Histories are in quiries, and by that name I have preferred to call them. His inquiries partly result in the presentation of events that are now called 'historical'; but other parts of his inquiry would now belong to the province of the anthro pologist or geographer. Herodotus does not recognize these fields as distinct; they all belong equally to the subject of his inquiry, but it is not self-evident what he understands to be his subject: the notorious difficulties in the proemium are enough to indicate this. If his work presents us with so strange a mixture of different fields, we are entitled to ask: Did Herodotus under stand even its historical element as we understand it? Without any proof everyone, as far as I am aware, who has studied him has assumed this to be so.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401031614
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Herodotus has so often been called, since ancient times, the father of history that this title has blinded us to the question: Was the father of history an historian? Everyone knows that the Greek word from which 'history' is derived always means inquiry in Herodotus. His so-called Histories are in quiries, and by that name I have preferred to call them. His inquiries partly result in the presentation of events that are now called 'historical'; but other parts of his inquiry would now belong to the province of the anthro pologist or geographer. Herodotus does not recognize these fields as distinct; they all belong equally to the subject of his inquiry, but it is not self-evident what he understands to be his subject: the notorious difficulties in the proemium are enough to indicate this. If his work presents us with so strange a mixture of different fields, we are entitled to ask: Did Herodotus under stand even its historical element as we understand it? Without any proof everyone, as far as I am aware, who has studied him has assumed this to be so.