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Tyrants Writing Poetry
Author | : Albrecht Koschorke |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2018-02-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789633862025 |
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As conventional understanding would have it, the sometimes brutal business of governing can only be carried out at the price of distance from art, while poetic beauty best fl ourishes at a distance from actions executed at the pole of power. Dramatically contradicting this idea is the fact that violent rulers are often the greatest friends of art, and indeed draw attention to themselves as artists. Why do tyrants of all people often have a particularly poetic vein? Where do terror and fi ction meet? The cultural history of totalitarian regimes is unwrapped in ten case studies, in a comparative perspective. The book focuses on the phenomenon that many of the great despots in history were themselves writers. By studying the artistic ambitions of Nero, Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Saparmurat Nyyazow and Radovan Karadzic, the studies explore the complicated relationship between poetry and political violence, and open our eyes for the aesthetic dimensions of total power. The essays make an important contribution to a number of fields: the study of totalitarian regimes, cultural studies, biographies of 20th century leaders. They underscore the frequent correlation between tyrannical governance and an excessive passion for language, and prove that the merging of artistic and political charisma tends to justify the claim to absolute power.
The Descent of Alette
Author | : Alice Notley |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1996-04-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0140587640 |
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The Decent Of Alette is a rich odyssey of transformation in the tradition of The Inferno. Alice Notley presents a feminist epic: a bold journey into the deeper realms. Alette, the narrator, finds herself underground, deep beneath the city, where spirits and people ride endlessly on subways, not allowed to live in the world above. Traveling deeper and deeper, she is on a journey of continual transformation, encountering a series of figures and undergoing fragmentations and metamorphoses as she seeks to confront the Tyrant and heal the world. Using a new measure, with rhythmic units indicated by quotations marks, Notley has created a "spoken" text, a rich and mesmerizing work of imagination, mystery, and power.
Poetry and the Language of Oppression
Author | : Carmen Bugan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198868323 |
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A first-hand account of the creative process that engages with the language of oppression and with politics in our time. How does the poet become attuned to the language of the world's upheaval? How does one talk insightfully about suffering, without creating more of it? What is freedom in language and how does the poet who has endured political oppression write himself or herself free? What is literary testimony? Poetry and the Language of Oppression is a consideration of the creative process that rests on the conviction that poetry is of help in moments of public duress, providing an illumination of life and a healing language. Oppression, repression, expression, as well as their tools (prison, surveillance, gestures in language) have been with us in various forms throughout history, and this volume represents a particular aspect of these conditions of our humanity as they play out in our time, providing another instance of the communion, and sometimes confrontation, with the language that makes us human.
Writing Under Tyranny
Author | : Greg Walker |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 2005-10-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199283330 |
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Greg Walker examines the impact of tyrannical government on the work of poets, playwrights and prose writers in the early English Renaissance.
My Favorite Tyrants
Author | : Joanne Diaz |
Publsiher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2014-03-28 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780299297831 |
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Winner of the 2014 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye The word “tyrant” carries negative connotations, but in this new collection, Joanne Diaz tries to understand what makes tyranny so compelling, even seductive. These dynamic, funny, often poignant poems investigate the nature of tyranny in all of its forms—political, cultural, familial, and erotic. Poems about Stalin, Lenin, and Castro appear beside poems about deeply personal histories. The result is a powerful exploration of desire, grief, and loss in a world where private relationships are always illuminated and informed by larger, more despotic forces. Winner, Midwest Book Award for Poetry, Midwest Independent Publishers Association
Confronting Tyranny
Author | : Toivo Koivukoski,David Tabachnick |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 074254401X |
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Motivated by the reentry of tyranny into political discourse and political action, this new work compares ancient and contemporary accounts of tyranny in an effort to find responses to current political dilemmas and enduring truths. In our globally interconnected world, tyrants are no longer dangerous solely to their subjects and neighbors, but to all. This is where the debate begins as the lessons of classical political philosophy are thrown into the present political crisis of understanding and action.
Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram
Author | : Manuel Baumbach,Andrej Petrovic,Ivana Petrovic |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2010-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521118057 |
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This book explores dialogue between Archaic and Classical Greek epigrams and their readers, and argues for their often-unacknowledged literary and aesthetic achievement.
A Revolution in Rhyme
Author | : Fatemeh Shams |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021-01-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780192602480 |
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A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic framework, Shams presents fresh insights into the emerging lexicon of coercion and unrest in the modern Persian canon. Analysis of the lives and work of ten key poets traces the evolution of the Islamic Republic, from the 1979 Revolution, through to the Iran-Iraq War, the death of a leader and the rise of internal conflicts. Ancient forms jostle against didactic ideologies, exposing the complex relationship between poetry, patronage and literary production in authoritarian regimes, shedding light on a crucial area of discourse that has been hitherto overlooked.