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In the Age of Prose
Author | : Erich Heller |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0521254930 |
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The guiding theme of these essays is the fate of the imagination and the condition of art in the modern world, where both appear to be enfeebled by scientific hubris, undermined by psychological self-questioning and compromised by political disaster. Erich Heller traces this predicament with subtlety and profundity, from Hegel's and Nietzsche's diagnoses to the various truces and manoeuvres through which remarkable victories have nonetheless been achieved - such as the comic triumphs of Wilhelm Busch. As elsewhere in Professor Heller's work, Thomas Mann's attempt to outwit and redeem his circumstances through art - 'despite' them, as he said himself - occupies a central place. Three of the present essays are devoted to him. Others consider Kleist, Fontane, Hamsun, Karl Kraus and the crucial figures of Hölderlin (who plays such a central role in Heidegger's later philosophical writings) and Rilke. Written with feeling, and the distinctive elegance and wit that have characterized all of Professor Heller's work, the essays here reaffirm the vital interdependence of literature and human values.
The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose
Author | : Mary Kinzie |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1993-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226437361 |
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The role of the poet, Mary Kinzie writes, is to engage the most profound subjects with the utmost in expressive clarity. The role of the critic is to follow the poet, word for word, into the arena where the creative struggle occurs. How this mutual purpose is served, ideally and practically, is the subject of this bracingly polemical collection of essays. A distinguished poet and critic, Kinzie assesses poetry's situation during the past twenty-five years. Ours, she contends, is literally a prosaic age, not only in the popularity of prose genres but in the resultant compromises with truth and elegance in literature. In essays on "the rhapsodic fallacy," confessionalism, and the romance of perceptual response, Kinzie diagnoses some of the trends that diminish the poet's flexibility. Conversely, she also considers individual poets—Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, Seamus Heaney, and John Ashbery—who have found ingenious ways of averting the risks of prosaism and preserving the special character of poetry. Focusing on poet Louise Bogan and novelist J. M. Coetzee, Kinzie identifies a crucial and curative overlap between the practices of great prose-writing and great poetry. In conclusion, she suggests a new approach for teaching writers of poetry and fiction. Forcefully argued, these essays will be widely read and debated among critics and poets alike.
In an Age of Prose
Author | : Tamara Cohn Eskenazi |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105038499161 |
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The Victorian Age in Prose
Author | : Alan W. Bellringer,C. B. Jones |
Publsiher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9051830505 |
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Macmillan s Magazine
Author | : David Masson,George Grove,John Morley,Mowbray Walter Morris |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924065545083 |
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Macmillan s Magazine
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:555068688 |
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The Living Age
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112110962773 |
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Littell s Living Age
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : American periodicals |
ISBN | : UOM:39015030089273 |
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