Riding Westward
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Riding Westward
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Author : Carl Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2014-08-26
Riding Westward written by Carl Phillips and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with Poetry categories.
In Riding Westward, Carl Phillips wields his celebrated gifts for syntax and imagery that are unmistakably his own--speculative, athletic, immediate--as he confronts moral crisis. The singer turning this and that way, as if watching the song itself --the words to the song--leave him, as he lets each go, the wind carrying most of it, some of the words, falling, settling into instead that larger darkness, where the smaller darknesses that our lives were lie softly down." --from "Riding Westward" What happens when the world as we've known it becomes divided, when the mind becomes less able--or less willing--to distinguish reality from what is desired? What is the difference, Phillips asks, between good and evil, cruelty and instruction, risk and trust? Against the backdrop of the natural world, Phillips pitches the restlessness of what it means to be human, as he at once deepens and extends a meditation on that space where the forces of will and imagination collide with sexual and moral conduct.
Challenging Humanism
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Author : Dominic Baker-Smith
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 2005
Challenging Humanism written by Dominic Baker-Smith and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Humanism categories.
Dominic Baker-Smith has been a leading international authority on humanism for more than four decades, specializing in the works of Erasmus and Thomas More. The present collection of essays by colleagues throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States examines humanism in both its historic sixteenth-century meanings and applications and the humanist tradition in our own time, drawing on his work and that of scholars who have followed him. Contributors include Andrew Weiner, Elizabeth McCutcheon, and Germaine Warkentin. Arthur F. Kinney is Thomas W. Copeland Professor of Literary History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ton Hoenselaars is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utrecht.
Self And Symbolism In The Poetry Of Michelangelo John Donne And Agrippa D Aubigne
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Author : A.B. Altizer
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1973-07-31
Self And Symbolism In The Poetry Of Michelangelo John Donne And Agrippa D Aubigne written by A.B. Altizer and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-07-31 with Art categories.
Alienation, ecstasy, death, rebirth: in the poetry of Michelangelo, Donne, and d' Aubigne these archetypal themes make possible the ultimate formulation of new poetic symbolizations of self and world. As their poetry evolves from a primarily rhetorical towards a fully symbolic mode, images of loss of self (in ecstasy or in alienation), of death and rebirth, recur with increasing frequency and intensity. Whether the context is love poetry or religious poetry, the basic problem remains the same; love is the link between the two kinds of poetry. And love is indeed a problem for these three poets, since it involves the self in relation to the "other," the other being either God or another human being. Increasingly, the work of each poet centers on a need to analyze or abolish the gulf separating subject and object, self and other. The dominant mode of most of the three poets' work is neither rhetorical nor symbolic, but expressive. This transitional mode reveals the individual poet's most urgent concerns and conflicts, his sense of self in Its most isolated or burdensome, affirmative or struggling state. Under lying most of their poems is a profound self-consciousness - a heightened awareness of self as a powerful, separate entity, with a corresponding objectification of all reality outside of self. The Renaissance in general is a time of increasing individualism and 1 self-consciousness.
Teaching Particulars
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Author : Helaine L. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Release Date : 2015-05-13
Teaching Particulars written by Helaine L. Smith and has been published by Paul Dry Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Teaching Particulars, Helaine Smith engages her students, grammar school through twelfth grade—and any avid reader—in the questions that great literature evokes. Included are chapters on Homer and Genesis; plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Beckett; poems by Jonson, Donne, Coleridge, Browning, Hopkins, Yeats, Bishop, Hecht, Dove, and Lowell; essays by Baldwin, Lamb, and White; and fiction by Flannery O’Connor, Dickens, Joyce, Poe, Tolstoy, Mann, and Kafka. Whether Helaine Smith is talking to young or older students, she shows how any devoted reader can uncover all sorts of subtle beauty and meaning by reading closely and by assuming that virtually every word and phrase of a great text is deliberate. The question-and-answer form of these jargon-free dialogues creates the feeling of a vibrant classroom where learning and delight are the watchwords. “After her forty years of teaching, Smith’s keen understanding of the literary canon makes her the perfect candidate to write this humorous and insightful book." —Foreword Reviews "Teaching Particulars is an exemplary series of literary conversations by a master teacher on a great variety of important, life-shaping books. The guidance is unfailingly humane, the essays thoughtfully presented by someone who cares as much for the written word as she does about her classroom and her subject matter. Her commentary on Hecht’s ‘Rites and Ceremonies,’ the poet’s complex response to Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land,’ ranks among the very best anywhere, as is true for her reading of Hecht’s ‘Devotions of a Painter,’ which has the further advantage of illuminating that work in light of Elizabeth Bishop’s profound meditation on painting in her ‘Poem.’ Reading Teaching Particulars makes me wish that all of my students could have had Helaine Smith as their teacher.” —Jonathan F. S. Post, Distinguished Professor of English and former Chair of the Department, UCLA “There’s simply nothing else like Teaching Particulars, a book packed with so much wisdom and practical advice about teaching literature that every instructor of grades 6 to 12—and of college classes, too—will want to get a copy right now. Even if you’re not a teacher, I highly recommend it. The love of books pulses through every page Helaine Smith writes, and her passion is infectious. She opens our eyes to the pleasures of reading in a way that few critics can, and she does it all in a book whose style is both elegant and friendly.” —David Mikics, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English, University of Houston, and author of Slow Reading in a Hurried Age “Teaching Particulars is a bounteous resource for all teachers, as well as a pleasure just to curl up with and read away.” —Susan J. Wolfson, Professor of English, Princeton University “Helaine Smith is a genius of a teacher: witty, imaginative, precise, intuitive, and gracefully learned. Now anyone who opens her Teaching Particulars can have the rare privilege of learning from her how to read, in the truest sense. It’s never too late to be startled into delight by the power of language, and that is the experience offered on every page of this book. It’s a book not only for the schoolroom, but for the school of life.”—Rosanna Warren, Hanna Holborn Gray Distinguished Service Professor, The Committee on Social Thought, The University of Chicago
The Work Of Creation
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Author : Luke Hankins
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2016-01-11
The Work Of Creation written by Luke Hankins and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Work of Creation, poet, editor, and translator Luke Hankins explores literature, art, aesthetics, ethics, religion, and the life of the spirit in a number of genres, including literary criticism, meditations on art and aesthetics, personal essays, and interviews. Collected in this volume are pieces that have appeared in such places as Books & Culture, Contemporary Poetry Review, Image, The Writer's Chronicle, and the American Public Media national radio program "On Being."
Reformed Theology And Visual Culture
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Author : William A. Dyrness
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-10
Reformed Theology And Visual Culture written by William A. Dyrness 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 2004-06-10 with Art categories.
William Dyrness examines how particular theological themes of Reformed Protestants impacted on their surrounding visual culture.
The Last Trail Ride
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Author : Roger L. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008-11-21
The Last Trail Ride written by Roger L. Scott and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-21 with Poetry categories.
Being brought up in the early fifties, with the sources of entertainment limited, the battery operated radio that the Scott's owned helped to take Roger into a world of imagination. With stories of the Old West played on a regular basis. He was more than familiar with the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Roy Rogers, and Gene Autrey, along with so many others that captured his fancy in a way to influenced him still to this day. All this adoration of the Wild-West is so obvious in all the poems in this book which is a tribute to those hearty men who rode the West with just their horses and guns, carving out a civilization and establishing laws where none had existed before. You will enjoy re-living life as you read once again like they did. Both the harshness and the joy of being out on the prairie you will find here, as Roger opens up the world of Cowboys, Gunslingers and Lawmen......All to show how the West was won through the blood and sweat of the American cowboy.
Not One Of Them In Place
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Author : Norman Finkelstein
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2001-05-24
Not One Of Them In Place written by Norman Finkelstein and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-05-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores the ways in which Jewish American poetry engages persistent questions of modern Jewish identity.
Theology And Agency In Early Modern Literature
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Author : Timothy Rosendale
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Theology And Agency In Early Modern Literature written by Timothy Rosendale 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 2018-05-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Explores fundamental questions of human will and action in early modern theology and literature.
Scientific Discourse In John Donne S Eschatological Poetry
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Author : Ludmila Makuchowska
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-16
Scientific Discourse In John Donne S Eschatological Poetry written by Ludmila Makuchowska and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-16 with Religion categories.
Scientific Discourse in John Donne’s Eschatological Poetry offers a compelling critique of John Donne’s religious and erotic poetry, focusing on the intersection of two seemingly antithetical discourses: the language of the scientific revolution and of Christian eschatology. Throughout its three chapters, which correspond to three scientific disciplines – cartography, physics and alchemy – the volume examines the ways in which the references to early modern and medieval science in Donne’s poetry contribute to conceptualizing the Christian mystery of death.