Poetics of Relation

Poetics of Relation
Author: Édouard Glissant
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1997
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780472066292

A major work by this prominent Caribbean author and philosopher, available for the first time in English

Poetic Relations

Poetic Relations
Author: Constance M. Furey
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-06-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 022643429X

What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M. Furey probes this question through a suggestive literary tradition: early Protestant poems in which a single speaker describes a solitary search for God. As Furey demonstrates, John Donne, George Herbert, Anne Bradstreet, and others describe inner lives that are surprisingly crowded, teeming with human as well as divine companions. The same early modern writers who bequeathed to us the modern distinction between self and society reveal here a different way of thinking about selfhood altogether. For them, she argues, the self is neither alone nor universally connected, but is forever interactive and dynamically constituted by specific relationships. By means of an analysis equally attentive to theological ideas, social conventions, and poetic form, Furey reveals how poets who understand introspection as a relational act, and poetry itself as a form ideally suited to crafting a relational self, offer us new ways of thinking about selfhood today—and a resource for reimagining both secular and religious ways of being in the world.

Literary Relations

Literary Relations
Author: Jane Spencer
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2005-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191532355

Literary Relations argues that kinship relations between writers, both literal and figurative, played a central part in the creation of a national tradition of English literature. Through studies of writing relationships, including those between William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Henry and Sarah Fielding, Frances and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, it shows that kinship between writers played a significant role not just in individual lives but in the formation of generic traditions. As writers looked back to founding fathers, and hoped to have writing sons, the literary tradition was modelled on the patriarchal family, imagined in tropes of genealogy and inheritance. This marginalized but did not exclude women, and the study ranges from the work of Dryden, with its emphasis on literature as patrilineal inheritance, to the reception of Austen, which shows uneven but significant progress towards understanding the woman writer as an inheriting daughter and generative mother.

Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations

Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations
Author: Lucia Boldrini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2001-03-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521792762

Boldrini examines how Dante's literary and linguistic theories helped shape Joyce's radical narrative techniques.

Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations 1430-1550

Anglo-Scottish Literary Relations 1430-1550
Author: G. C. Kratzmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1980
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0521226651

This book is a study of Anglo-Scottish literary relations in the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. It attempts to show how those poets who have frequently been called 'Scottish Chaucerians' (James I, Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas) drew upon English writing. In the best Middle Scots poetry we see an order of invention and technical mastery that is comparable with that of Chaucer's work, and this is sometimes accompanied by shrewd commentary on Chaucer's art. Evidence of such an independent and critical view of Chaucer is strikingly absent in contemporary English poetry, and the book accounts for some of the differences between Northern and Southern poetry in the later Middle Ages. Above all, this study reveals that the poetry of the fifteenth and early sixteenth century in Scotland is a rich and extremely varied body of literature, ranging from the carefully wrought philosophical comedy of 'The Kingis Quair' to the tragic grandeur of Henryson's 'The Testament of Cresseid', from the pointed satires and grotesqueries of Dunbar to Douglas' vigorous and sensitive translation of the Aeneid.

Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere

Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
Author: Anna Brickhouse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2004-09-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139456539

This wide-ranging comparative study argues for a fundamental reassessment of the literary history of the nineteenth-century United States within the transamerican and multilingual contexts that shaped it. Drawing on an array of texts in English, French and Spanish by both canonical and neglected writers and activists, Anna Brickhouse investigates interactions between US, Latin American and Caribbean literatures. Her many examples and case studies include the Mexican genealogies of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the rewriting of Uncle Tom's Cabin by a Haitian dramatist, and a French Caribbean translation of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley. Brickhouse uncovers lines of literary influence and descent linking Philadelphia and Havana, Port-au-Prince and Boston, Paris and New Orleans. She argues for a new understanding of this most formative period of literary production in the United States as a 'transamerican renaissance', a rich era of literary border-crossing and transcontinental cultural exchange.