Contexts for "Being," "Divinity," and "Self" in Valéry and Edgar Bowers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contexts for "Being," "Divinity," and "Self" in Valéry and Edgar Bowers write by Helen P. Trimpi. This book was released on 1977. Contexts for "Being," "Divinity," and "Self" in Valéry and Edgar Bowers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
American and British Poetry
American and British Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American and British Poetry write by Harriet Semmes Alexander. This book was released on 1984. American and British Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In Search of the Classic
In Search of the Classic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Search of the Classic write by Steven Shankman. This book was released on 2010-11. In Search of the Classic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The &"classical,&" Steven Shankman argues, should not be confused with a particular historical period of Western antiquity, although it may owe its original articulation to the literary and philosophical explorations of ancient Greek authors. Shankman's book searches for and attempts to formulate the shape of the continuing presence&—as embodied in particular literary works mainly from Western antiquity and the neoclassical and modern periods&—of what the author calls a &"classical&" understanding of literature. For Shankman, literature, defined from a classical perspective, is a coherent, compelling, and rationally defensible representation that resists being reduced either to the mere recording of material reality or to the bare exemplification of an abstract philosophical precept. He derives his definition largely from his reading of Greek literature from Homer through Plato, from the history of literary criticism, and from the Greco-Roman tradition in English, American, and French literature. Shankman reveals unsuspected yet convincing connections among authors of such widely disparate times and places. His idea of the &"classic&" that authorizes these connections is presented as normative, thus making possible the evaluation of literary works and, in turn, forthright discussion of what constitutes the &"literary&" as distinct from other kinds of discourse. Shankman's study runs counter to a strong tendency of contemporary criticism that argues precisely against any distinct category of the &"literary.&" He offers a series of interpretations that cumulatively advance theoretical discussion by challenging scholars to rethink the critical paradigms of postmodernism. At the center of the book is a discussion of the quintessentially classic Val&éry poem Le Cimeti&ère marin and the classic qualities it shares with Pindar's third Pythian ode, from which Val&éry derives the epigraph for his poem.
Other Others
Other Others - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Other Others write by Steven Shankman. This book was released on 2011-01-02. Other Others available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In literary and cultural studies today, the term "the Other" appears to have largely lost its moorings in the primacy of the intersubjective encounter, focusing rather on the social construction of the Other. For Emmanuel Levinas, in contrast, the Other is precisely that which eludes construction and categorization. In a study that ranges from literature of ancient China, Greece, and Israel to modern Egypt, Italy, West Africa, and America, Steven Shankman tests Levinas's ideas by reading literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian orbit for figurations equivalent to Levinas's notion of the Other. He also places ethics at the center of intercultural—or, in his words, "transcultural"—comparative literature. In contemporary literary and cultural studies, it is often assumed that culture has the last word. However, as Levinas insists—and as Shankman argues throughout this book—it is ethics that is the "presupposition of all Culture," that is situated "before Culture."
Poetry Explication
Poetry Explication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetry Explication write by Joseph Marshall Kuntz. This book was released on 1980. Poetry Explication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents a comprehensive index of poetry explications printed during the period 1925-1977, inclusive. Poems selected are of fewer than five hundred lines, and arranged alphabetically by author and title. Poets chosen must be generally recognized by the reading public. Explications must concern the whole poem, not the poet or circumstances of composition, and must not be from a source devoted to a single author. Explications are sourced from general critical assessments of currently published poetry and literary periodicals.
