Poetry’s Appeal
Title | Poetry’s Appeal PDF eBook |
Author | E. S. Burt |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804738736 |
Poetry's Appeal studies the reemergence of a viable poetry in the politicized culture of revolutionary and post-revolutionary France. It finds that poetry addresses history and the political through a disjunction between its illusory status as a song of private, lyrical intent and its actual state as a material inscription, inevitably public in character.
The Dangers of Poetry
Title | The Dangers of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin M. Jones |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2020-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1503613879 |
Poetry has long dominated the cultural landscape of modern Iraq, simultaneously representing the literary pinnacle of high culture and giving voice to the popular discourses of mass culture. As the favored genre of culture expression for religious clerics, nationalist politicians, leftist dissidents, and avant-garde intellectuals, poetry critically shaped the social, political, and cultural debates that consumed the Iraqi public sphere in the twentieth century. The popularity of poetry in modern Iraq, however, made it a dangerous practice that carried serious political consequences and grave risks to dissident poets. The Dangers of Poetry is the first book to narrate the social history of poetry in the modern Middle East. Moving beyond the analysis of poems as literary and intellectual texts, Kevin M. Jones shows how poems functioned as social acts that critically shaped the cultural politics of revolutionary Iraq. He narrates the history of three generations of Iraqi poets who navigated the fraught relationship between culture and politics in pursuit of their own ambitions and agendas. Through this historical analysis of thousands of poems published in newspapers, recited in popular demonstrations, and disseminated in secret whispers, this book reveals the overlooked contribution of these poets to the spirit of rebellion in modern Iraq.
Who Killed American Poetry?
Title | Who Killed American Poetry? PDF eBook |
Author | Karen L. Kilcup |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2019-10-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0472131559 |
Throughout the 19th century, American poetry was a profoundly populist literary form. It circulated in New England magazines and Southern newspapers; it was read aloud in taverns, homes, and schools across the country. Antebellum reviewers envisioned poetry as the touchstone democratic genre, and their Civil War–era counterparts celebrated its motivating power, singing poems on battlefields. Following the war, however, as criticism grew more professionalized and American literature emerged as an academic subject, reviewers increasingly elevated difficult, dispassionate writing and elite readers over their supposedly common counterparts, thereby separating “authentic” poetry for intellectuals from “popular” poetry for everyone else.\ Conceptually and methodologically unique among studies of 19th-century American poetry, Who Killed American Poetry? not only charts changing attitudes toward American poetry, but also applies these ideas to the work of representative individual poets. Closely analyzing hundreds of reviews and critical essays, Karen L. Kilcup tracks the century’s developing aesthetic standards and highlights the different criteria reviewers used to assess poetry based on poets’ class, gender, ethnicity, and location. She shows that, as early as the 1820s, critics began to marginalize some kinds of emotional American poetry, a shift many scholars have attributed primarily to the late-century emergence of affectively restrained modernist ideals. Mapping this literary critical history enables us to more readily apprehend poetry’s status in American culture—both in the past and present—and encourages us to scrutinize the standards of academic criticism that underwrite contemporary aesthetics and continue to constrain poetry’s appeal. Who American Killed Poetry? enlarges our understanding of American culture over the past two hundred years and will interest scholars in literary studies, historical poetics, American studies, gender studies, canon criticism, genre studies, the history of criticism, and affect studies. It will also appeal to poetry readers and those who enjoy reading about American cultural history.
Poetry as Experience
Title | Poetry as Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804734271 |
An analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry, this book addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Lacoue-Labarthe defines the subject as the principle that founds, organizes, and secures both cognition and action, a figure not only of domination but of the extermination of everything other than itself.
The Reliquary ... With a Prefatory Appeal for Poetry and Poets
Title | The Reliquary ... With a Prefatory Appeal for Poetry and Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Barton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 1836 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
The Appeal of Poetry
Title | The Appeal of Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Donald G. French |
Publisher | Toronto, Mcclelland |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Canadian poetry |
ISBN |
Poetry Proscribed
Title | Poetry Proscribed PDF eBook |
Author | James Petterson |
Publisher | Associated University Presse |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780838757017 |
This work opens a different line of inquiry into the stakes of poetry through indepth investigations of the mishearing inherent to poetry's relation to philosophy, history, politics, and the law.