The Role of the Poet in Early Societies PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Role of the Poet in Early Societies PDF full book. Access full book title The Role of the Poet in Early Societies by Morton W. Bloomfield. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Morton W. Bloomfield Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 9780859913478 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 182
Book Description
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.
Author: Morton W. Bloomfield Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 9780859913478 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 182
Book Description
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.
Author: Miguel R. López Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 9780890969625 Category : Mexican Americans in literature Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
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.
Author: Jerome Meckier Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster ISBN: 3643901011 Category : English poetry Languages : en Pages : 393
Book Description
Aldous Huxley began as a poet. He perfected the voice of the modern satirical poet of ideas, who used art against itself to produce a parodic poetry of breakdowns, collapses, stalemates, and dead ends best suited to the apparent pointlessness of the post-war era. His cleverest, most irreverent poems are contrapuntal: they, in effect, silence venerable poets and cancel traditional formats. Huxley's poetic personas either fail to preserve conventional forms or purposely sabotage them. By 1920, Huxley became the parodic equivalent of the formative intelligences (i.e., Dante, Goethe, and Lucretius) who once synthesized their respective eras positively. In this book, author Jerome Meckier explicates most of Huxley's poems, including Leda, his masterpiece, an ironical modern myth. Meckier traces Huxley's development in terms of the poets he inserted in five of his eleven novels, along with their poems. These poets mostly fail as poets, their different stances falling apart one after another. But Huxley began to detect a spiritual significance underlying the creative urge. This allowed him to rehabilitate many of the Romantic and Victorian poets he formerly ridiculed as frauds and liars. Eventually, he celebrated mystical contemplation as silent poetry, positing a utopia in which everyone is a poet to the limits of his or her potentiality. Huxley became the perennial philosopher, a neo-Brahmin: the sage-like figure he initially personified parodically. His paradigmatic career took him from a Pyrrhonic silencing of outmoded poems and poets to the advocacy of a poetry of silence. (Series: "Human Potentialities". Studien zu Aldous Huxley & zeitgenossischer Kultur/Studies in Aldous Huxley & Contemporary Culture - Vol. 11)
Author: Zhu Guohua Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000879453 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 382
Book Description
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.
Author: 朱国华 Publisher: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC. ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 347
Book Description
本书分为三个部分：第一部分提出了文学权力的概念，并结合资本的概念，从社会学的角度分析了它的构成条件及其作用方式；第二部分结合传播媒介的历史，考察了文学权力的历史演变，得出文学权力决定于文学作为符号资本在表征领域里所占据的比重的结论；第三部分集中讨论了政治资本和经济资本如何侵入到文学领域，并在何种层面上构成了文学的合法性危机。
Author: George Kaliaden Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524520667 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 251
Book Description
How do our words acquire healing powers? How do words make changes in each others brains? How do special uses of words, poetic or therapeutic, modify our thoughts, alter our feelings and transform our lives? This book introduces helping professionals to the practice of poetry therapy, highlighting the prophetic role of poets and healing professionals in our everyday life.
Author: Michael Swanton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
A new and completely revised edition of this authoritative work, intended to encourage personal appreciation and independent appraisal by students of English. This is a stimulating introduction to the poetry composed in an age that witnessed fundamental cultural developments: the emergence of the English from among the warring tribes of Europe, their conversion to Christianity, the development of feudalism and the chivalric myth, the military adventure of the Crusades, and the growth of a vigorous citizen class in the burgeoning towns of England.
Author: Morton W. Bloomfield
Author: Morton W. Bloomfield
Author: Paul Cavill
Author: Miguel R. López
Author: Bruno Snell
Author: Jerome Meckier
Author: Zhu Guohua
Author: 朱国华
Author: George Kaliaden
Author: Michael Swanton
Author: George Stillman Hillard