Download or read book Wallace Stevens and Pre Socratic Philosophy written by Daniel Tompsett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens' poetry parallel concepts and techniques found in the poetic works of Parmenides, Empedocles, and Xenophanes, and in the fragments of Heraclitus. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic ideas into poetry and philosophy of the post-Kantian period, assessing the impact that the mythologies associated with pre-Socratism have had on structures of metaphysical thought that are still found in poetry and philosophy today. This transition is treated as becoming increasingly important as poetic and philosophic forms have progressively taken on the existential burden of our post-theological age. Tompsett argues that Stevens' poetry attempts to 'play' its audience into an ontological ground in an effort to show that his 'reduction of metaphysics' is not dry philosophical imposition, but is enacted by our encounter with the poems themselves. Through an analysis of the language and form of Stevens' poems, Tompsett uncovers the mythology his poetry shares with certain pre-Socratics and with Greek tragedy. This shows how such mythic rhythms are apparent within the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, and how these rhythms release a poetic understanding of the violence of a 'reduction of metaphysics.'

Download or read book The Wallace Stevens Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wallace Stevens Idea of Man written by Timothy Kieth Tollaksen and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art written by Caroline Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Lee, Gloria Naylor, and Martha Southgate are bound to such contemporary, postmodern visual artists as Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, Betye Saar, and Faith Ringgold. While the artists and authors rely on radically different media—photos, collage, video, and assembled objects, as opposed to words and rhythm—both sets of intellectual activists insist on the primacy of the black aesthetic. Both assert artistic agency and cultural continuity in the face of the oppression, social transformation, and cultural multiplicity of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book examines how African-American performative practices mediate the tension between the ostensibly de-racialized body politic and the hyper-racialized black, female body, reimagining the cultural and political ground that guides various articulations of American national belonging. Brown shows how and why black women writers and artists matter as agents of change, how and why the form and content of their works must be recognized and reconsidered in the increasingly frenzied arena of cultural production and political debate.

Download or read book H lderlin s Hymn Der Einzige written by Emery Edward George and published by Bouvier Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modernist Poetics of History written by James Longenbach and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By thoroughly examining T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound collected and uncollected writings, James Longenbach presents their understandings of the philosophical idea of history and analyzes the strategies of historical interpretation they discussed in their critical prose and embodied in their poems including history." Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book American Literature written by Emory Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emory Elliott, one of our outstanding American Literature scholars and critics and his co-editors have assembled an extraordinarily rich, diverse, and iconoclastic anthology. It constitutes a virtual revision of American literary history. -Joyce Carol Oates

Download or read book Exploring Personhood written by Joseph Torchia and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the metaphysical underpinnings of theories of human nature, personhood, and the self. This book moves from the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism, assessing what transpired during the intervening 2500 year period, with a focus on the contributions of the Aristotelian/Thomistic tradition of inquiry.

Download or read book Serial and A priori Form in Postmodern Poetry written by Joseph Mark Conte and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Plato s Symposium written by Frisbee Candida Cheyenne Sheffield and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frisbee Sheffield argues that the Symposium has been unduly marginalized by philosophers. Although the topic - eros - and the setting at a symposium have seemed anomalous, she demonstrates that both are intimately related to Plato's preoccupation with the nature of the good life, with virtue, and how it is acquired and transmitted. For Plato, analysing our desires is a way of reflecting on the kind of people we will turn out to be and on our chances of leading a worthwhile and happy life. In its focus on the question why he considered desires to be amenable to this type of reflection, this book explores Plato's ethics of desire.

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Download or read book Louis Zukofsky and the Poetry of Knowledge written by Mark Scroggins and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a chronological and synchronic approach, poet and editor Scroggins presents an advanced introduction to the poet's thought and writing, first through a brief sketch of the poet's life and works, and then with an in-depth treatment of his entire body of poetic and critical writing. In exploring Zokofsky's poetics, conception of poetic language, and his notion of the relationship between language and knowledge, the author argues that Zukofsky's importance in 20th-century American poetry is equal to that of Pound, Eliot, and Stevens. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Mind Body Politic written by Michelle Maiese and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and the extended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal nation-states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency. Human beings are, necessarily, social animals who create and belong to social institutions. But social institutions take on a life of their own, and literally shape the minds of all those who belong to them, for better or worse, usually without their being self-consciously aware of it. Indeed, in contemporary neoliberal societies, it is generally for the worse. In The Mind-Body Politic, Michelle Maiese and Robert Hanna work out a new critique of contemporary social institutions by deploying the special standpoint of the philosophy of mind—in particular, the special standpoint of the philosophy of what they call essentially embodied minds—and make a set of concrete, positive proposals for radically changing both these social institutions and also our essentially embodied lives for the better.

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Download or read book The Anxiety of Influence written by Harold Bloom and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book remains a central work of criticism for all students of literature.