Fragments of a Poetics of Fire
Title | Fragments of a Poetics of Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Gaston Bachelard |
Publisher | Dallas Institute Publications |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Embedocles |
ISBN | 9780911005189 |
The Poetics of Fire
Title | The Poetics of Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Victor M. Valle |
Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2023-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 082636554X |
In The Poetics of Fire, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and Chicano author Victor M. Valle posits the chile as a metaphor for understanding the shared cultural histories of ChicanX and LatinX peoples from preconquest Mesoamerica to twentieth-century New Mexico. Valle uses the chile as a decolonizing lens through which to analyze preconquest Mesoamerican cosmology, early European exploration, and the forced conversion of Native peoples to Catholicism as well as European and Mesoamerican perspectives on food and place. Assembling a rich collection of source material, Valle highlights the fiery fruit's overarching importance as evidenced by the ubiquity of references to the plant over several centuries in literature, art, official documents, and more to offer a new eco-aesthetic reading--a reframing of culinary history from a pluralistic, non-Western perspective.
The Psychoanalysis of Fire
Title | The Psychoanalysis of Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Gaston Bachelard |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1987-01-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780807064610 |
"[Bachelard] is neither a self-confessed and tortured atheist like Satre, nor, like Chardin, a heretic combining a belief in God with a proficiency in modern science. But, within the French context, he is almost as important as they are because he has a pseudo-religious force, without taking a stand on religion. To define him as briefly as possible – he is a philosopher, with a professional training in the sciences, who devoted most of the second phase of his career to promoting that aspect of human nature which often seems most inimical to science: the poetic imagination ..." – J.G. Weightman, The New York Times Review of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire
Title | Fragments of a Poetics of Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Gaston Bachelard |
Publisher | Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture |
Pages | 163 |
Release | 1990-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780911005172 |
The publication of FRAGMENTS OF A POETICS OF FIRE is a milestone in Bachelard studies that will influence the way we think about his themes & method for a long time to come. Dissatisfied with his earlier attempt to come to terms with the element of fire in "The Psychoanalysis of Fire" (1937), Bachelard returned to this theme in the book he was working on at the time of his death in 1962. Because of delays in &, eventually, the abandonment of a projected edition of his complete works, these FRAGMENTS OF A POETICS OF FIRE remained unpublished & their very existence unknown to all but a handful of Bachelard's readers. The author's daughter, Suzanne Bachelard, edited them for separate publication over a quarter-century later in 1988. For the first time we have an insight into the way Bachelard constructed his remarkable books. Miss Bachelard's introduction & extensive notes are an indispensable guide to the workings of his mind as "he shapes a meandering series of observations on the phoenix, Prometheus, & Empedocles into a coherent & engaging structure that respects the fluidity & openness of a living image - the powerful image of fire."
The Poetics of Space
Title | The Poetics of Space PDF eBook |
Author | Gaston Bachelard |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Imagination |
ISBN | 9780807064733 |
The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. "A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard." -from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe 6473-4 / $15.00tx / paperback
On Poetic Imagination and Reverie
Title | On Poetic Imagination and Reverie PDF eBook |
Author | Gaston Bachelard |
Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill Company |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN |
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
Title | Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Kay Redfield Jamison |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 2018-02-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307744612 |
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the English language and changed the public discourse about private matters. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, and in the process created a new and arresting language for madness. Here Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell’s story, illuminating not only the relationships between mania, depression, and creativity but also how Lowell’s illness and treatment influenced his work (and often became its subject). A bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was—both despite and because of mental illness—a passionate, original observer of the human condition.