The Perversity of Poetry
Title | The Perversity of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Dino Franco Felluga |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0791483975 |
Once the dominant literary form, poetry was gradually eclipsed by the realist novel; indeed, by 1940 W. H. Auden was able to note, "Poetry makes nothing happen." In The Perversity of Poetry, Dino Franco Felluga explores the cultural background of poetry's marginalization by examining nineteenth-century reactions to Romantic poetry and ideology. Focusing on the work of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, as well as periodical reviews, student manuals, and contemporary medical journals, the book details the period's two contending (and equally outrageous) claims regarding poetry. Scott's poetry, on the one hand, was continually represented as a panacea for a modern world overtaken by new principles of utilitarianism, capitalism, industrialism, and democracy. Byron's, by contrast, was represented either as a cancer in the heart of the social order or as a contagious pandemic leading to various pathological symptoms. The book concludes with a coda on Alfred Lord Tennyson, which illustrates how the Victorian reception of Scott and Byron affected the most popular poetic genius of midcentury. Ultimately, The Perversity of Poetry uncovers how the shift to a rhetoric of health allowed critics to oppose what they perceived as a potent and potentially dangerous influence on the age, the very thing that would over the course of the century be marginalized into such obscurity: poetry, thanks to its perverse insistence on making something happen.
Perversity and Ethics
Title | Perversity and Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | William Egginton |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780804752596 |
Perversity and Ethics argues that a psychoanalytic reading of the phenomenon of perversity is crucial to understanding contemporary philosophical ethics.
Perverse Subsidies
Title | Perverse Subsidies PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Myers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Much of the global economy depends on large scale government intervention in the form of subsidies, many of which are perverse in that they damage economies and environments. This study offers a view of subsidies world-wide with focus on the extent, causes and consequences of perverse subsidies.
Perversity
Title | Perversity PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Carco |
Publisher | |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Brothers and sisters |
ISBN |
"A mystery story involving a pimp, a prostitute and her sexually immature brother set in the Paris slums and underworld."--Google.
Idols of Perversity
Title | Idols of Perversity PDF eBook |
Author | Bram Dijkstra |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
This is a book filled with the dangerous fantasies of the Beautiful People of a century ago. It contains a few scenes of exemplary virtue and many more of lurid sin.
Perverse Romanticism
Title | Perverse Romanticism PDF eBook |
Author | Richard C. Sha |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0801890411 |
At the nexus of Kantian aesthetics, literary analysis, and the history of medicine, Perverse Romanticism makes an important contribution to the study of sexuality in the long eighteenth century.
Visual Perversity
Title | Visual Perversity PDF eBook |
Author | Alina M. Luna |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780739108703 |
Through her reading of Euripides'Bacchae, Colridge's Christabel, de Sade'sPhilosophy in the Bedroom, and Hitchcock'sPsycho author Alina M. Luna finds precedent for a destructive impulse lurking beneath the maternal gaze.