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Epic Ambition
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Author : Jessica Blum-Sorensen
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2023
Epic Ambition written by Jessica Blum-Sorensen and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Literary Criticism categories.
By the time the Roman poet Valerius Flaccus wrote in the first century CE, the tale of Jason and his famous ship the Argo had been retold so often it was a byword for poetic banality. Why, then, did Valerius construct his epic Argonautica? In this innovative analysis, Jessica Blum-Sorensen argues that it was precisely the myth's overplayed nature that appealed to Valerius, operating in and responding to a period of social and political upheaval. Seeking to comment obliquely on Roman reliance on mythic exempla to guide action and expected outcomes, there was no better vessel for his social and political message than the familiar Argo. Focusing especially on Hercules, Blum-Sorensen explores how Valerius' characters--and, by extension, their Roman audience--misinterpret exemplars of past achievement, or apply them to sad effect in changed circumstances. By reading such models as normative guides to epic triumph, Valerius' Argonauts find themselves enacting tragic outcomes: effectively, the characters impose their nostalgic longing for epic triumph on the events before them, even as Valerius and his audience anticipate the tragedy awaiting his heroes. Valerius thus questions Rome's reliance on the past as a guide to the present, allowing for doubt about the empire's success under the new Flavian regime. It is the literary tradition's exchange between triumphant epic and tragedy that makes the Argo's voyage a perfect vehicle for Valerius' exploration: the tensions between genres both raise and prohibit resolution of anxieties about how the new age--mythological or real--will turn out.
Pound S Epic Ambition
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Author : Stephen Sicari
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Pound S Epic Ambition written by Stephen Sicari and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Poetry categories.
This book is both an introductory overview of The Cantos and a detailed analysis advancing the knowledge of even the most sophisticated specialist. Sicari's analysis gives a clear orientation to the often bewildering but ultimately rewarding world of this difficult epic poem and shows that beneath the surface of the poem is the classical figure of the epic wanderer whose journey provides the "plot" of the poem. Non-specialists will appreciate Sicari's synthesis of a wide range of material. Sicari explores how Dante and the epic tradition informs The Cantos; those interested in the epic should find Sicari's study an important contribution to the field. Those studying modernism in general will see in Sicari's definition of the modern epic useful ways to study the other great achievements of high modernism, especially those of Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce. Those interested in the relation between literature and politics will find this book especially informative, for Sicari is one of the few critics on Pound who does not ignore Pound's politics, or simply castigate him for the unfortunate views he adopts and advocates. The analysis of Pound's fascism is a sub-theme that sheds new light on how politics enters a great modernist poem and affects its shape and intention.
Epic Ambitions In Modern Times
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Author : Robert Crossley
language : en
Publisher: Anthem World Epic and Romance
Release Date : 2022-08-16
Epic Ambitions In Modern Times written by Robert Crossley and has been published by Anthem World Epic and Romance this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Epic Ambitions in Modern Times examines how artists, in various forms and media, have reinvented the epic in the past three centuries.
Epic Ambition
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Author : Jessica Blum-Sorensen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Epic Ambition written by Jessica Blum-Sorensen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Electronic books categories.
Pound S Epic Ambition
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Author : Stephen Sicari
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1991-09-27
Pound S Epic Ambition written by Stephen Sicari and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-09-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is both an introductory overview of The Cantos and a detailed analysis advancing the knowledge of even the most sophisticated specialist. Sicari's analysis gives a clear orientation to the often bewildering but ultimately rewarding world of this difficult epic poem and shows that beneath the surface of the poem is the classical figure of the epic wanderer whose journey provides the "plot" of the poem. Non-specialists will appreciate Sicari's synthesis of a wide range of material. Sicari explores how Dante and the epic tradition informs The Cantos; those interested in the epic should find Sicari's study an important contribution to the field. Those studying modernism in general will see in Sicari's definition of the modern epic useful ways to study the other great achievements of high modernism, especially those of Yeats, Eliot, and Joyce. Those interested in the relation between literature and politics will find this book especially informative, for Sicari is one of the few critics on Pound who does not ignore Pound's politics, or simply castigate him for the unfortunate views he adopts and advocates. The analysis of Pound's fascism is a sub-theme that sheds new light on how politics enters a great modernist poem and affects its shape and intention.
Ambition And Anxiety
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Author : Line Henriksen
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2006
Ambition And Anxiety written by Line Henriksen and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott's Omeros and Ezra Pound's Cantos through Dante's Divina Commedia to the epic poems of Virgil and Homer, and identifies and discusses in detail a number of recurrent key topoi. A fresh definition of the concept of genre is worked out and presented, based on readings of Homer. The study reads Pound's and Walcott's poetics in the light of Roman Jakobson's notions of metonymy and metaphor, placing their long poems at the respective opposite ends of their language poles." "Although there has already been an intermittent critical focus on the 'classical' (and 'Dantean') antecedents of Walcott's poetry, the present study is the first to bring together the whole range of epic intertextualities underlying Omeros, and the first to read this Caribbean masterpiece in the context of Pound's achievement." --Book Jacket.
E E Cummings Modernism And The Classics
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Author : J. Alison Rosenblitt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-22
E E Cummings Modernism And The Classics written by J. Alison Rosenblitt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume is a major, ground-breaking study of the modernist E. E. Cummings' engagement with the classics. With his experimental form and syntax, his irreverence, and his rejection of the highbrow, there are probably few current readers who would name Cummings if asked to identify 20th-century Anglophone poets in the Classical tradition. But for most of his life, and even for ten or twenty years after his death, this is how many readers and critics did see Cummings. He specialised in the study of classical literature as an undergraduate at Harvard, and his contemporaries saw him as a 'pagan' poet or a 'Juvenalian' satirist, with an Aristophanic sense of humour. In E.E. Cummings' Modernism and the Classics, Alison Rosenblitt aims to recover for the contemporary reader this lost understanding of Cummings as a classicizing poet. The book also includes an edition of previously unpublished work by Cummings himself, unearthed from archival research. For the first time, the reader has access to the full scope of Cummings' translations from Horace, Homer, and Greek drama, as well as two short pieces of classically-related prose, a short 'Alcaics' and a previously unknown and classicizing parody of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. This new work is exciting in its own right and essential to understanding Cummings' development as a poet.
The Queen
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Author : Hugh Hewitt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Queen written by Hugh Hewitt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with POLITICAL SCIENCE categories.
National broadcast journalist Hugh Hewitt warns how a Clinton "reign" would damage the fundamental, foundational traditions upon which America is built. In THE QUEEN, Hugh Hewitt's in-depth examination of the career and accomplishments -epic failures, really- of the real Hillary Clinton will show you why-after her decades of working so hard, after surviving Bill and his antics, after losing to an upstart in 2008, submerging her boiling anger and wounded pride, and after enduring the real predations of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that has been dogging her throughout-Hillary is on the brink of achieving it all. Not since the publication of The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 500 years ago has a member of the political opposition written so candidly about the strengths and weaknesses of the strongest member of his opposing political party. Brilliant and insightful, THE QUEEN is simply unique among political books of our era.
The Cambridge History Of English Poetry
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Author : Michael O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-29
The Cambridge History Of English Poetry written by Michael O'Neill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
A literary-historical account of English poetry from Anglo-Saxon writings to the present.
Literature And Encyclopedism In Enlightenment Britain
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Author : Seth Rudy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-10-02
Literature And Encyclopedism In Enlightenment Britain written by Seth Rudy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary works from the early modern era and British Enlightenment.