John Donne and Baroque Allegory

John Donne and Baroque Allegory PDF Author: Hugh Grady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107195802
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Provides a new appreciation of John Donne through the lens of Walter Benjamin's critical theory of baroque allegory.

John Donne and Baroque Allegory

John Donne and Baroque Allegory PDF Author: Hugh Grady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107195802
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Book Description
Provides a new appreciation of John Donne through the lens of Walter Benjamin's critical theory of baroque allegory.

Metaphysical and Mid-Late Tang Poetry: A Baroque Comparison

Metaphysical and Mid-Late Tang Poetry: A Baroque Comparison PDF Author: Pengfei Wang
Publisher: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Wishing to expand on the minimal scholarship on the topic of Metaphysical and Mid-Late Tang poets under the general category of Baroque, this book offers a comparative analysis of poems from the Metaphysical poets John Donne, Andrew Marvell and Richard Crashaw and a selection of Tang poetry by Meng Jiao, Li He and Li Shangyin. By following Nietzche’s definition of Baroque as a poetic “style” found in any period and country, and the concept of art as allegory, the author approaches the analysis of these poems using allegorical reading. The application of this non-traditional method of investigation and analysis has produced ground-breaking implications in the area of literary criticism, paving the way for future additions to the growing body of work on Baroque poetry. Therefore, it is likely to hold great appeal to literature researchers and scholars, as well as those studying Tang poetry, Metaphysical poetry and Comparative Studies.

Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope

Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope PDF Author: Hugh Grady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009098098
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Shakespeare was fascinated by power throughout his career but also understood its dangers and limits. Utopian visions were his solution.

“All Will Be Swept Away”

“All Will Be Swept Away” PDF Author: Wit Pietrzak
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000772306
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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The book offers the first comprehensive study of Paul Muldoon’s mourning verse. Considering not only the celebrated elegies like "Yarrow," "Incantata" or "Sillyhow Stride" but also the elegiac impulse as it develops throughout Muldoon’s entire work, All Will Be Swept Away charts a large swathe of Muldoon’s poetic landscape in order to show the complexity with which he approaches the themes of death and mourning. Using archival material as well as a vast array of theoretical apparatuses, the book unveils the psychological, literary and political undertones in his poetry, all the while attending to the operations of the poetic text: its form, its music and its capacity to console, warn and censure.

Spenser and Donne

Spenser and Donne PDF Author: Yulia Ryzhik
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152611738X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 405

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This edited collection of essays, part of The Manchester Spenser series, brings together leading Spenser and Donne scholars to challenge the traditionally dichotomous view of these two major poets and to shift the critical conversation towards a more holistic, relational view of the two authors’ poetics and thought.

Fascinating Rhythms

Fascinating Rhythms PDF Author: John Drakakis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000801667
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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As one of the most adventurous literary and cultural critics of his generation, Terence Hawkes’ contributions to the study of Shakespeare and the development of literary and cultural theory have been immense. His work has been instrumental in effecting a radical shift in the study of Shakespeare and of literary studies. This collection of essays by some of his closest colleagues, friends, peers, and mentees begins with an introduction by John Drakakis, outlining the profound impact that Hawkes’ work had on various areas of literary studies. It also includes a poem by Christopher Norris, who worked with Hawkes for many years at the University of Cardiff, as well as work on translation, social class, the historicist and presentist exploration of Shakespearean texts, and teaching Shakespeare in prisons. The volume features essays by former students who have gone on to establish reputations in areas beyond the study of literature, and who have contributed ground-breaking volumes to the pioneering New Accents series. It concludes with Malcolm Evans’ innovative account of the migration of semiotics into the area of business. This book is a vibrant and informative read for anyone interested in Hawkes’ unique blend of literary and cultural theory, criticism, Shakespeare studies, and presentism.

The Gestalts of Mind and Text

The Gestalts of Mind and Text PDF Author: Chanita Goodblatt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000588866
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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The Gestalts of Mind and Text bridges literary studies and cognitive psychology to provide a unique contribution to the field of Cognitive Literary Studies. The book presents an investigation of metaphor in poetic texts, adopting and developing empirical methods used by Gestalt Psychology, while integrating concepts informed by Gestalt Psychology. The title indicates an intellectual tradition, to be termed the Gestalt of the Mind, that begins with the Würzburg School of Psychology and its subsequent development into Gestalt Psychology, which provides a rich heritage for the field of Cognitive Literary Studies. The title further indicates an intellectual and creative tradition, to be termed the Gestalt of the Text, applied to various literary schools (Medieval, Early Modern, Modernist). Finally, the Gestalt-Interaction Theory of Metaphor delineates the potentialities for different types of readings of poetic metaphor. This book further makes three significant contributions: the first is the focus on the empirical investigation of metaphor in poetic texts; the second is the integration of the aspects of problem-solving, bidirectionality of metaphor, embodied cognition and the grotesque, in analyzing poetic texts and verbal protocols; and the third is the focus on various literary traditions, spanning languages and periods. The goal of this book is to present an interdisciplinary study of the Gestalts of Mind and Text. This will be of interest to a varied audience, including cognitive psychologists, literary scholars, researchers in aesthetics, scholars of metaphor and those with an interest in intellectual history.

The Form of Love

The Form of Love PDF Author: James Kuzner
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823294536
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Can poetry articulate something about love that philosophy cannot? The Form of Love argues that it can. In close readings of seven “metaphysical” poems, the book shows how poets of the early modern period and beyond use poetic form to turn philosophy to other ends, in order not to represent the truth about love but to create a virtual experience of love, in all its guises. The Form of Love shows how verse creates love that can’t exist without poetry’s specific affordances, and how poems can, in their impossibility, prompt love’s radical re-imagining. Like the philosophies on which they draw, metaphysical poems imagine love as an intense form of non-sovereignty, of giving up control. They even imagine love as a liberating bondage—to a friend, a beloved, a saint, a God, or a garden. Yet these poems create strange, striking versions of such love, made in, rather than through, the devices, structures, and forces where love appears. Tracing how poems think, Kuzner argues, requires an intimate form of reading: close—even too close—attention to and thinking with the text. Showing how poetry thinks of love otherwise than other fields, the book reveals how poetry and philosophy can nevertheless enter into a relation that is itself like love.

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 6

The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 6 PDF Author: John Donne
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253318114
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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"Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward. Textual introductions briefly locate the poems in the context of Donne's life or poetic development, outline the 17th-century textual history of the poems, and sketch the treatment of the text by modern editors. A detailed textual apparatus presents variants collated from many sources and traces the lines of textual transmission"--Provided by publisher.

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions PDF Author: John Donne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meditations
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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