The Poetics of Death

The Poetics of Death
Author: Beatrice Martina Guenther
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1996-07-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780791430248

Discusses literary representations of death to explore the relation between writing and death--death understood as both the death of the individual and the death of meaning.

Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop
Author: Susan McCabe
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0271042443

Poetics of Loss

Poetics of Loss
Author: Katharina Lempe
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3643906064

With the removal of death from the public sphere, mourning has become a private matter. At the same time, particularly in poetry, the trend is reversed. An intensely elegiac quality and a focus on absence, death, and loss can be observed in contemporary Anglophone poetry. This study examines the poetry of Andrew Motion in the context of the contemporary elegy, a genre which is at a crossroads between the anti-consolatory refusal to mourn, the inability to move past grief, and the strong wish for redemption from grief. Motion's poetry, which mainly deals with preemptive attempts to cope with loss, can be seen as a typical example for the contemporary melancholy mood in poetry. (Series: Erlanger Studies of English and American Studies / Erlanger Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik - Vol. 15) [Subject: Poetry, Death Studies, Literary Criticism]

Digital Poetics

Digital Poetics
Author: Loss Pequeño Glazier
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0817310754

In Digital Poetics, Loss Glazier argues that the increase in computer technology and accessibility, specifically the World Wide Web, has created a new and viable place for the writing and dissemination of poetry. Glazier's work not only introduces the reader to the current state of electronic writing but also outlines the historical and technical contexts out of which electronic poetry has emerged and demonstrates some of the possibilities of the new medium. Glazier examines three principal forms of electronic textuality: hypertext, visual/kinetic text, and works in programmable media. He considers avantgarde poetics and its relationship to the on-line age, the relationship between web pages and book technology, and the way in which certain kinds of web constructions are in and of themselves a type of writing. With convincing alacrity, Glazier argues that the materiality of electronic writing has changed the idea of writing itself. He concludes that electronic space is the true home of poetry and, in the 20th century, has become the ultimate space of poesis. Digital Poetics will attract a readership of scholars and students interested in contemporary creative writing and the po

The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's "Poetics"

The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's
Author: Walter Watson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2012-06-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226875083

Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical treatise to propound a theory of literature. The author offers a fresh interpretation of the lost second book of Aristotle's "Poetics".

Homoerotic Space

Homoerotic Space
Author: Stephen Guy-Bray
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802036773

Stephen Guy-Bray argues that early modern authors used renditions of Theocritan and Virgilian pastoral, as well as epic poetry, for the exploration and the allusive presentation of homoerotic and homosocial themes.

Immaterial Archives

Immaterial Archives
Author: Jenny Sharpe
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0810141590

In this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyond the idea of art and literature as an alternative archive to the historical records of slavery and its aftermath. Immaterial Archives explores instead the intangible phenomena of affects, spirits, and dreams that Caribbean artists and writers introduce into existing archives. Through the works of Frantz Zéphirin, Edouard Duval-Carrié, M. NourbeSe Philip, Erna Brodber, and Kamau Brathwaite, Immaterial Archives examines silences as black female spaces, Afro-Creole sacred worlds as diasporic cartographies, and the imaginative conjoining of spirits with industrial technologies as disruptions of enlightened modernity.

Signifying Loss

Signifying Loss
Author: Nouri Gana
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2011-01-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611480353

By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida), Signifying Loss studies not only how loss is signified, but also the ethico-political significance of such signifying. First, by examining the dynamics between narrative tropes and mourning, it elaborates a poetics of narrative mourning in which prosopopoeia becomes the master trope of mourning while catachresis the master trope of melancholia and chiasmus of trauma. Second, it develops a situated and flexible theory of mourning, capable of adjusting to diverse contexts in which the ethical and political stakes of mourning are different-in short, Signifying Loss calls for the formulation of geopolitical and differential tactics of mourning and mournability rather that for a clear cut strategy of inconsolability.

The Poetics of Aristotle

The Poetics of Aristotle
Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544217574

In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama - comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play - as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: 1. Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. 2. Difference of goodness in the characters. 3. Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its "first principles," Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions."