Fettered Genius
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Fettered Genius
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Author : Keith D. Leonard
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2006
Fettered Genius written by Keith D. Leonard and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Fettered Genius, Keith D. Leonard identifies how African American poets' use and revision of traditional poetics constituted an antiracist political agency. Comparing this practice to the use of poetic mastery by the ancient Celtic bards to resist British imperialism, Leonard shows how traditional poetics enable African American poets to insert racial experience, racial protest, and African American culture into public discourse by making them features of validated artistic expression. As with the Celtic bards, these poets' artistry testified to their marginalized people's capacity for imagination and reason within and against the terms of the dominant culture. In an ambitious survey that moves from slavery to the cultural nationalism of the 1960s, Leonard examines numerous poets, placing each in the context of his or her time to demonstrate the antiracist meaning of their accomplishments. The book offers new insight on the conservatism of Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the genteel members of the Harlem Renaissance, how their rage for assimilation functioned to refute racist notions of difference and, paradoxically, to affirm a distinctive racial experience as valid material for poetry. Leonard also demonstrates how the more progressive and ethnically distinctive poetics of Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, and Melvin B. Tolson share some of the same ambivalence about cultural achievement as those of the earlier poets. They also have in common the self-conscious pursuit of an affirmation of the African American self through the substitution of African American vernacular language and cultural forms for traditional poetic themes and forms. The evolution of these poetics parallels the emergence of notions of ethnic identity over racial identity and, indeed, in some ways even motivated this shift. Leonard recognizes poetic mastery as the African American bardic poet's most powerful claim of ethnic tradition and of social belonging and clarifies the full hybrid complexity of African American identity that makes possible this political self-assertion. The development that is traced in Fettered Genius illustrates nothing less than the defining artistic coherence and political significance of the African American poetic tradition.
Humor In Modern American Poetry
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Author : Rachel Trousdale
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-11-16
Humor In Modern American Poetry written by Rachel Trousdale and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Modern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing. But as Humor in Modern American Poetry shows, modern poetry is full of humorous moments, from comic verse published in popular magazines to the absurd juxtapositions of The Cantos. The essays in this collection show that humor is as essential to the serious work of William Carlos Williams as it is to the light verse of Phyllis McGinley. For the writers in this volume, the point of humor is not to provide "comic relief,†? a brief counterpoint to the poem's more serious themes; humor is central to the poems' projects. These poets use humor to claim their own poetic authority; to re-define literary tradition; to show what audience they are writing for; to make political attacks; and, perhaps most surprisingly, to promote sympathy among their readers. The essays in this book include single-author studies, discussions of literary circles, and theories of form. Taken together, they help to begin a new conversation about modernist poetry, one that treats its lighthearted moments not as decorative but as substantive. Humor defines groups and marks social boundaries, but it also leads us to transgress those boundaries; it forges ties between the writer and the reader, blurs the line between public and private, and becomes a spur to self-awareness.
The Unpublished Letters Of Lord Byron Ed With A Critical Essay By H S Schultess Young
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Author : George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
The Unpublished Letters Of Lord Byron Ed With A Critical Essay By H S Schultess Young written by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with categories.
Carl Maria Von Weber
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Author : J. Palgrave Simpson
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Carl Maria Von Weber written by J. Palgrave Simpson and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. The Life of an Artist. From the German of his son Baron Max Maria von Weber. In two Volumes.
The Quarterly Review Of The Methodist Episcopal Church South
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Author : Methodist Episcopal Church, South
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
The Quarterly Review Of The Methodist Episcopal Church South written by Methodist Episcopal Church, South and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1855 with Church and the world categories.
American Bards
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Author : Edward Whitley
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2010-10-11
American Bards written by Edward Whitley and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Walt Whitman has long been regarded as the quintessential American bard, the poet who best represents all that is distinctive about life in the United States. Whitman himself encouraged this view, but he was also quick to remind his readers that he was an unlikely candidate for the office of national poet, and that his working-class upbringing and radical take on human sexuality often put him at odds with American culture. While American literary history has tended to credit Whitman with having invented the persona of the national outsider as the national bard, Edward Whitley recovers three of Whitman's contemporaries who adopted similar personae: James M. Whitfield, an African American separatist and abolitionist; Eliza R. Snow, a Mormon pioneer and women's leader; and John Rollin Ridge, a Cherokee journalist and Native-rights advocate. These three poets not only provide a counterpoint to the Whitmanian persona of the outsider bard, but they also reframe the criteria by which generations of scholars have characterized Whitman as America's poet. This effort to resituate Whitman's place in American literary history provides an innovative perspective on the most familiar poet of the United States and the culture from which he emerged.
The Christian Observer Afterw The Christian Observer And Advocate
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865
The Christian Observer Afterw The Christian Observer And Advocate written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865 with categories.
Macmillan S Magazine
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Author : Sir George Grove
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Macmillan S Magazine written by Sir George Grove and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with categories.
Macmillan S Magazine
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Author : David Masson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Macmillan S Magazine written by David Masson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with English periodicals categories.
Discovering North Carolina
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Author : Jack Claiborne
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-11-01
Discovering North Carolina written by Jack Claiborne and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with History categories.
This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines--to show how North Carolina's rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across economic and racial lines in often surprising ways. There are selections by or about some of the state's best-known sons and daughters, from Daniel Boone and Andrew Jackson to Ava Gardner, Doris Betts, and Tom Wicker; and topics covered include politics, sports, business, family life, education, race, religion, and war.