Download or read book Radical Elegies written by Eleanor Perry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship has traditionally characterized elegy as a Eurocentric tradition – a genealogy spanning from ancient Greek pastoral poems via the “English elegy” to English and Anglo-American Modernist contemporary poets. Perry examines how these genealogical constructions operate as a means of framing which guides interpretation. This book argues that they reflect a necropoetics – a system of principles, precepts and techniques which serve to establish and maintain ideas about whose lives are worthy of being mourned publicly and whose losses matter. Examining elegies that challenge questions of whose deaths may be grieved; elegies which articulate the various ways in which certain lives are made precarious and disposable; and elegies which interrogate colonial violence, structures of white power, militarized forms of policing, prison-industrial and military-industrial complexes, Perry explores possibilities for radical new ways of understanding elegy beyond established genealogical frames. This study retheorizes some basic terms of analysis of contemporary US poetry and poetics, critical race and ethnic studies, racial capitalism and contemporary theories of comparative and relational racialization.
Download or read book The Zero Elegies written by Pamela Kallimanis and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indexical Elegies written by Jon Paul Fiorentino and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With links to intense poetic works like John Berryman’s Dream Songs, Gilbert Sorrentino’s Corrosive Sublimate and Erin Moure’s Furious, Jon Paul Fiorentino’s new collection is a whip-smart poetic investigation of anxiety in all its many manifestations. Anxiety caused by geography, anxieties of influence and looming worries about loss inform the poems as they weave narrative threads and associations that highlight both the treachery of language and its necessity in shaping human experience: 'All roads, side roads/all text, signage/All seasons, autumn/ all memories, winter.' The poems here build on Derrida’s ideas about the psychological implications of memory and the archival impulse and on philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce’s semiotics of 'the index.' Indexical Elegies is a rich, emotionally charged work that showcases Fiorentino’s talents at their feisty, engaged best. From its Post-Prairie pamphleteering and its comic Montreal musings to its moving elegies, this is provocative poetry that never loses touch with the reader’s pleasure.
Download or read book Bearing the Dead written by Esther Schor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-14 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esther Schor tells us about the persistence of the dead, about why they still matter long after we emerge from grief and accept our loss. Mourning as a cultural phenomenon has become opaque to us in the twentieth century, Schor argues. This book is an effort to recover the culture of mourning that thrived in English society from the Enlightenment through the Romantic Age, and to recapture its meaning. Mourning appears here as the social diffusion of grief through sympathy, as a force that constitutes communities and helps us to conceptualize history. In the textual and social practices of the British Enlightenment and its early nineteenth-century heirs, Schor uncovers the ways in which mourning mediated between received ideas of virtue, both classical and Christian, and a burgeoning, property-based commercial society. The circulation of sympathies maps the means by which both valued things and values themselves are distributed within a culture. Delving into philosophy, politics, economics, and social history as well as literary texts, Schor traces a shift in the British discourse of mourning in the wake of the French Revolution: What begins as a way to effect a moral consensus in society turns into a means of conceiving and bringing forth history.
Download or read book The Elegies of Sextus Propertius written by Sextus Propertius and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Book of Nothingness written by Jose Anthony Gerard Muyco and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the collection as a whole might seem deceptively minimalist in composition, it is by carefully examining each line and stanza that one sees the poet’s depth and sensibility. Each of the poems in this collection, for all their quiet and lyrical musings, are unafraid to confront us with the great mysteries of ordinary life – that of death, longing, the self, and existential dread, among a plethora more. [The Book of Nothingness] is most certainly deserving of your undivided time and attention. Robin Angelo Yankin (aka. Toshiro Hiroshi) Author of 9-5, Absolutely on the Pandemic, and Conversations With A Rat
Download or read book Duino Elegies written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest sequences of poetry in modern European literature, pocket sized with a brilliant (new) cover.
Download or read book The Elegies of Sextus Propertius Translated Into English Verse with Life of the Poet and Illustrative Notes by J Cranstoun written by Sextus Propertius and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Elegies of Sextus Propertius tr into Engl verse with life of the poet and illustr notes by J Cranstoun written by Sextus Propertius and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Duinesian Elegies written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Daughter s Way written by Tanis MacDonald and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daughter’s Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women’s elegies with a special emphasis on the father’s death as a literary and political watershed. The book examines the work of Dorothy Livesay, P.K. Page, Jay Macpherson, Margaret Atwood, Kristjana Gunnars, Lola Lemire Tostevin, Anne Carson, and Erin Mouré as elegiac daughteronomies—literary artifacts of mourning that grow from the poets’ investigation into the function and limitations of elegiac convention. Some poets treat the father as a metaphor for socio-political power, while others explore more personal iterations of loss, but all the poets in The Daughter’s Way seek to redefine daughterly duty in a contemporary context by challenging elegiac tradition through questions of genre and gender. Beginning with psychoanalytical theories of filiation, inheritance, and mourning as they are complicated by feminist challenges to theories of kinship and citizenship, The Daughter’s Way debates the efficacy of the literary “work of mourning” in twentieth-century Canadian poetry. By investigating the way a daughter’s filial piety performs and sometimes reconfigures such work, and situating melancholia as a creative force in women’s elegies, the book considers how elegies inquire into the rhetoric of mourning as it is complicated by father-daughter kinship.
Download or read book W S Merwin written by Cary Nelson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered the definitive English translation of Rilke's brilliant andhaunting masterworks, A. Poulin's edition of Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus provides an essential introduction to some of the most passionate and intensely creative visionary poetry of the twentieth century. With a new foreword by the esteemed poet Mark Doty and a fresh new design, Poulin's revered translation is certain to acquaint a new generation of readers with the works of Rilke.
Download or read book Semiotics and Interpretation written by Robert Scholes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Scholes's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection.-Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement
Download or read book The Play Cycle written by Pete King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after Gordon Sturrock and the late Professor Perry Else’s 'Colorado Paper' introduced the Play Cycle, this theory of play now supports professional playwork practice, training and education. The Play Cycle: Theory, Research and Application is the first book of its kind to explain the theoretical concept of the Play Cycle, supported by recent research, and how it can be used as an observational method for anyone who works with children in a play context. The book investigates the understandings of the Play Cycle within the playwork field over the last 20 years, and its future application. It addresses each aspect of the Play Cycle (metalude, play cue, play return, play frame, loop and flow and annihilation) and combines the theoretical aspect of the Play Cycle with empirical research evidence. The book also provides an observational tool for people to observe and record play cycles. This book will appeal to playworkers, teachers, play therapists and professionals working in other contexts with children, such as hospitals and prisons. It will support practitioners and students in learning about play and provide lecturers and trainers with a new innovative teaching and training aide.
Download or read book The Duino Elegies written by Rainer Maria Rilke and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing page translations, with biographical notes, introduction, and commentaries.
Download or read book Fifteen Years of Darkness NO COMPLAINS AND PAIN written by JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA and published by JUGAL KISHORE SHARMA. This book was released on 2022-10-08 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xiaobo received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, during a lengthy prison sentence for his political opposition. During this detention, he also published the poetry collection June Fourth Elegies (Graywolf Press, 2012) and the essay collection No Enemies, No Hatred (Harvard University Press, 2012). He died, still in custody, on July 13, 2017. In fact, though, Liu had become frustrated with the protesters, whom he found to display authoritarian behavior patterns themselves and who did not much warm to his counsel of pacifism and tolerance. After the June Fourth massacre he blamed himself for taking temporary refuge with a foreign friend in the diplomatic quarter while many other people—mostly workers, not students—remained in danger on the streets, trying to help others. For the rest of his life he felt ashamed of himself for fleeing to safety and haunted by the “lost souls” of people who died that night. . . . Liu Xiaobo’s essays between 1999, when he left the labor camp, and 2008, when he entered prison for the third and final time, show his mature thought and are the heart of his intellectual legacy. He produced this writing under the constant strain of police surveillance and harassment. Police cars parked at his door regularly. Any essay he published on the internet or in an overseas magazine was held against him—and he knew it would be—but he kept writing anyway. Most remarkably, he continually maintained his political activism as well as his writing. He often left home to encourage and aid groups who were protesting, to visit the Tiananmen Mothers, or to promote petitions and open letters including, in his last fateful effort, Charter 08. During the same years most other dissident intellectuals chose to go abroad or, if they stayed in China, to write quietly at home, keeping a distance from the dangers of taking action. Liu Xiaobo went ahead with both writing and activism as if the immense pressures in the environment simply were not there. This characteristic was unique among his peers; it is what people meant by “iron” in calling him the “iron man of democracy.”
