Author: Douglas KenningPublisher:
ISBN: 9780889469563
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Necessity, Freedom and Transcendence in the Romantic Poets
Author: Douglas KenningPublisher:
ISBN: 9780889469563
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Paradoxes of Freedom
Author: Thomas McFarlandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Paradoxes of Freedom is a study of the historical and philosophical conception of liberty. Centering his argumemt upon the Romantic exaltation of freedom that followed the psychic explosion of the French Revolution, Thomas McFarland identifies freedom as one of the three chief transcendencies, along with love and religion, by which humanity orientates itself. Departing from contemplation of the significance of the revolutionary motto `live free or die', he examines the apotheosis of freedom along with its vicissitudes, and indicates, by an examination ranging from Shakespeare and Luther to the writings of Nietzsche and Wagner, both the reasons for the supreme valuation of freedom and the nature of the hindrances, in theory and in fact, that enmesh the actual realization of freedom. the book concludes with a sombre assessment of the future of freedom as an orientating transcendence.
Necessity, Freedom, and Transcendence in the Romantic Poets
Author: Douglas KenningPublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This study traces a clear and fascinating narrative through the thought of the major British Romantic poets, from its rise in Wordsworth and Coleridge, through Shelley and Keats, to its decline with Byron.
Vocation in the Poetry of the Priest-poets George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and R.S. Thomas
Author: Tim McKenziePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This study examines the theme of vocation in the writing of three poets who were also priests: George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and R.S. Thomas. Although their work spans four centuries, each of these men addressed the vocational conflicts faced by all priest-poets since the Reformation. The a
Forms of Modernity
Author: Rachel SchmidtPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 144269419X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory. Schmidt's discussion covers the views of well-known thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel, José Ortega y Gasset, and Mikhail Bakhtin, but also the pivotal contributions of philosophers such as Hermann Cohen and Miguel de Unamuno. These theorists' examinations of Cervantes's fictional knight errant character point to an ever-shifting boundary between the real and the virtual. Drawing from both intellectual and literary history, Forms of Modernity richly explores the development of the categories and theories that we use today to analyze and understand novels.
Forms of Modernity
Author: Rachel Lynn SchmidtPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442642513
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece as an 'exemplary novel', in turn contributing to the emergence of key concepts within genre theory. Schmidt's discussion covers the views of well-known thinkers such as Friedrich Schlegel, José Ortega y Gasset, and Mikhail Bakhtin, but also the pivotal contributions of philosophers such as Hermann Cohen and Miguel de Unamuno. These theorists' examinations of Cervantes's fictional knight errant character point to an ever-shifting boundary between the real and the virtual. Drawing from both intellectual and literary history, Forms of Modernity richly explores the development of the categories and theories that we use today to analyze and understand novels.
Romanticism and Transcendence
Author: J. Robert BarthPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826262910
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
"Grounded in the thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Romanticism and Transcendence explores the religious dimensions of imagination in the Romantic tradition, both theoretically and in the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge. J. Robert Barth suggests that we may look to Coleridge for the theoretical grounding of the view of religious imagination proposed in this book, but that it is in Wordsworth above all that we see this imagination at work."--Jacket
The Ethics of Romanticism
Author: Laurence S. LockridgePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521352568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Laurence Lockridge argues that a focus on the ethical dimension of literature is the single most powerful strategy for structuring a writer's work as a whole, and that it can even prove congenial. He gives original, interrelated readings of eight major British Romantic writers.
The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism
Author: Manfred FrankPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791485803
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Explores the philosophical contributions and contemporary relevance of early German Romanticism.
Film, Negation and Freedom
Author: Will KitchenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique explores cinema in relation to the critical tradition in modern philosophy and its heritage in Romantic aesthetics. Synthesising a variety of discursive fields and traditions - including Early German Romanticism, Frankfurt School critical theory and the aesthetic philosophy of Jacques Rancière - Film, Negation and Freedom outlines a radical new approach to film by re-examining the work of Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson. A distinction between Light and Dark Romanticism is introduced as a means of interpreting cinema's relationship with capitalism, as well as dualistic concepts such as stillness and motion, passivity and activity, pain and pleasure. Film, Negation and Freedom revitalises our understanding of modern audio-visual media, as well as the aesthetic, philosophical and political conditions of Romantic subjectivity, artistic practice and spectatorship.