The Role of the Poet in Early Societies - 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 The Role of the Poet in Early Societies write by Morton Wilfred Bloomfield. This book was released on 1989. The Role of the Poet in Early Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bloomfield and Dunn describe the varying roles which "poets" have historically filled within society, whether ancient, medieval, or pre-modern and identify the key functions of the poet figure. He (or sometimes she) supports the ruler and is in turn rewarded for a central service to the tribe; he exercises his authority by an apparently magical understanding of the past, present, and future; and, whenever called upon to perform an official rite, he knows how to wield the appropriate traditional, esoteric utterances. In order to illustrate the ways in which this kind of poetic function can be seen to have been exercised in early Irish literature, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, early Norse and Old English the authors draw on a wide-range of texts. The study concludes with an examination of the implications of their findings for twentieth century readers exploring the utterances of poets remote from them in time or space.
The Role of the Poet in Early Societies
The Role of the Poet in Early Societies - 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 The Role of the Poet in Early Societies write by Morton W. Bloomfield. This book was released on 1992. The Role of the Poet in Early Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study draws on a wide range of texts — early Irish, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, Early Norse, Old English —to illustrate the role of the poet as a tool of power, as seer, and as ceremonial figure.
Maxims in Old English Poetry
Maxims in Old English 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 Maxims in Old English Poetry write by Paul Cavill. This book was released on 1999. Maxims in Old English Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of maxims - what they are, why and when they are used - based on detailed investigation of issues, texts and formulas.
Chicano Timespace
Chicano Timespace - 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 Chicano Timespace write by Miguel R. López. This book was released on 2001. Chicano Timespace available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The premature death of Ricardo Sánchez in 1995 marked the passing of an almost legendary figure in Chicano literature and in the Chicano political movement. A troubadour of Chicano Movement poetry, he established an anti-aesthetic that became the norm. Sánchez's autobiographical poetry forges a link between genres of the past and present and establishes him as the first great tragic figure of contemporary Chicano literature.In a body of work that spanned spatial, temporal, and cultural boundaries, Sánchez dealt with issues of power and of linguistic and cultural barriers between Anglo, Native American, and Mexican American peoples in the United States.While he lived, critics showed reluctance to engage Sánchez's work fully, perhaps in part because of his reputation as a confrontational, even outrageous individual. Focusing on Canto y grito mi liberación and Hechizospells, Miguel R. López examines Sánchez's work and places him in the context of the past, present, and future of Chicano literature. López explains clearly the relation of time and space in Sánchez's prolific work and shows him as a writer committed to his craft as well as to his political stance.In the end, the portrait that emerges is of a poet whose work was linguistically and thematically complex and one who was more passionate, controversial, and forthright in his expression than any other contemporary Chicano writer.
Literature and Power
Literature and Power - 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 Literature and Power write by Zhu Guohua. This book was released on 2023-06-19. Literature and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With references to the theoretical framework of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu, this book offers a critical investigation into such epic issues as the end of art and the inherent laws of literature’s evolution, while conflating the two into one major argumentation. The book proceeds from Hegel's claim of "the end of art" to tackle the universal yet essential problem of literature: its legitimacy in a sociological sense. It invests Bourdieu’s sociological terms -- power, capital, habitus, field, etc. into the study of literature and art while taking on other theoretical enquiries, particularly the Marxist exploration into ideology, as well as aspects of economics and communication studies. This book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the sociology of literature, cultural studies, and those with specific interests in Chinese literature, literary and art theory.
