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Figures of Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Figures of Time

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time. Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets—Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot—David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time, reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality. David Ben-Merre is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College, State University of New York.

Super Schoolmaster
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Super Schoolmaster

Once described by T. S. Eliot as "first and foremost, a teacher and campaigner," Ezra Pound has received no shortage of critical attention. Super Schoolmaster suggests that Pound still has quite a bit to teach readers in the twenty-first century, particularly amid increasing threats to the humanities and higher education. Robert Scholes and David Ben-Merre illuminate Pound's contradictory career of innovative poetics and reactionary politics by following his extensive thinking about teaching and learning within and beyond the academy. Given how scornful Pound could be of institutionalized schooling, the book's title may feel like a misnomer; however, Super Schoolmaster makes clear how wholeh...

Gale Researcher Guide for: Reshaping Crises: H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 9

Gale Researcher Guide for: Reshaping Crises: H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Gale Researcher Guide for: Reshaping Crises: H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Metalepsis in Popular Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Metalepsis in Popular Culture

  • Categories: Art

The product of an international and interdisciplinary conference, Metalepsis in Popular Culture, held from 25 June to 27 June 2009, with the financial support of the Bureau d'egalite and the Faculte des lettres et sciences humaines, at Neuchatel University in Switzerland.

Figures of Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Figures of Time

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time. Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets—Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot—David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time, reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality.

Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture

This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers – Yosa Buson (1716–83), Ema Saikō (1787–1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), and Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) – experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin) tradition, a repertoire of Chinese and Japanese poetry and painting. Their experiments generated a poetics of irony that transformed the lineaments of lyric expression in literati culture and advanced the emergence of modern prose poetry in Japanese literature. Through rigorous close readings, this study changes our understanding of the relationship between lyric form and the representation of self, sense, and feeling in Japanese poetic writing from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. The book aims to reach a broad audience, including specialists in East Asian Studies, Anglophone literary studies, and Comparative Literature.

New Perspectives on Detective Fiction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

New Perspectives on Detective Fiction

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-14
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This collection establishes new perspectives on the idea of mystery, as it is enacted and encoded in the genre of detective fiction. Essays reclaim detective fiction as an object of critical inquiry, examining the ways it shapes issues of social destabilization, moral ambiguity, reader complicity, intertextuality, and metafiction. Breaking new ground by moving beyond the critical preoccupation with classification of historical types and generic determinants, contributors examine the effect of mystery on literary forms and on readers, who experience the provocative, complex process of coming to grips with the unknown and the unknowable. This volume opens up discussion on publically acclaimed,...

World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

World War One, American Literature, and the Federal State

This book shows an empowered federal state as a significant factor in experimental American culture well before the 1930s.

James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-12-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book makes an important intervention in the ongoing debates about modernism, science, and the divisions of early Twentieth-Century print culture. In order to establish Joyce's place in the nexus of modernism and scientific thought, Drouin uses the methods of periodical studies and textual criticism to examine the impact of Einstein's relativity theories on the development of Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Looking at experiments with space, time, motion, and perspective, it rigorously surveys discourse of science and the novel in the print culture networks connected to Joyce, with concrete analysis of avant-garde magazines, newspapers, popular science books, BBC pamphlets, and...

Cybernetic Aesthetics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

Cybernetic Aesthetics

In Cybernetic Aesthetics, Heather A. Love makes a new contribution to ongoing debates about modern communication networks and information culture. This book draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret experimental modernist texts, illustrating how cybernetic approaches to communication emerged long before World War II.