On Poetry and Politics

On Poetry and Politics
Author: Jean Paulhan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2008
Genre: History, Modern
ISBN: 0252032802

The first English translation of Jean Paulhan's major essays

Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry

Persuasion, Rhetoric and Roman Poetry
Author: Irene Peirano Garrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107104246

Offers a radical re-appraisal of rhetoric's relation to literature, with fresh insights into rhetorical sources and their reception in Roman poetry.

Writing the English Republic

Writing the English Republic
Author: David Norbrook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1999
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521785693

'[A] marvellously original, densely researched study of the English republican imagination.' Tom Paulin, The Independent

The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric

The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric
Author: Amanda E. Hayes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Appalachian Region
ISBN: 9781946684462

"In exploring the ways that Appalachian people speak and write, Amanda E. Hayes raises the importance of knowing and respecting communication styles within a marginalized culture. Diving deep into the region's historical roots--especially those of the Scotch-Irish and their influence on her own Appalachian Ohio--Hayes reveals a rhetoric with its own unique logic, utility, and poetry. Hayes also considers the headwinds against Appalachian rhetoric, notably the resistance from ideologies about poverty and the biases of the school system. She connects these to challenges that Appalachian students face in the classroom and pinpoints pedagogical and structural approaches for change. Throughout, Hayes blends conventional scholarship with autobiography, storytelling, and language, illustrating Appalachian rhetoric's validity as a means of creating and sharing knowledge"--

Waiting for Rain

Waiting for Rain
Author: Nicholas Gabriel Arons
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780816523306

"Drawing on interviews with artists and poets and on his own experiences in the Brazilian Northeast, Arons has written an account of how drought has impacted the region's culture. He intertwines ecological, social, and political issues with the words of some of Brazil's most prominent authors and folk poets to show how themes surrounding drought - hunger, migration, endurance, nostalgia for the land - have become deeply embedded in Nordeste identity. Through this tapestry of sources, Arons shows that what is often thought of as a natural phenomenon is actually the result of centuries of social inequality, political corruption, and unsustainable land use."--BOOK JACKET.

Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry

Classical Rhetoric in English Poetry
Author: Brian Vickers
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1989
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780809314966

Back in print after 17 years, this is a concise history of rhetoric as it relates to structure, genre, and style, with special reference to English literature and literary criticism from Ancient Greece to the end of the 18th century. The core of the book is a quite original argument that the figures of rhetoric were not mere mechanical devices, were not, as many believed, a "nuisance, a quite sterile appendage to rhetoric to which (unaccountably) teachers, pupils, and writers all over the world devoted much labor for over 2,000 years." Rather, Vickers demonstrates, rhetoric was a stylized representation of language and human feelings. Vickers supplements his argument through analyses of the rhetorical and emotional structure of four Renaissance poems. He also defines 16 of the most common figures of rhetoric, citing examples from the classics, the Bible, and major English poets from Chaucer to Pope.

Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India

Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India
Author: Whitney Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316781054

In this compelling new study, Whitney Cox presents a fundamental re-imagining of the politics of pre-modern India through the reinterpretation of the contested accession of Kulottunga I (r.1070–1120) as the ruler of the imperial Chola dynasty. By focusing on this complex event and its ramifications over time, Cox traces far-reaching transformations throughout the kingdom and beyond. Through a methodologically innovative combination of history, theory and the close reading of a rich series of Sanskrit and Tamil textual sources, Cox reconstructs the nature of political society in medieval India. A major intervention in the fields of South Asian social, political and cultural history, religion and comparative political thought, this book poses fresh comparative and conceptual questions about politics, history, agency and representation in the pre-modern world.

The Music of Time

The Music of Time
Author: John Burnside
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 528
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0691218862

"First published in a slight different form in Great Britain in 2019 by Profile Books Ltd."--Title page verso.

Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority

Horace and the Rhetoric of Authority
Author: Ellen Oliensis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1998-05-28
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521573157

This book explores how Horace's poems construct the literary and social authority of their author. Bridging the traditional distinction between 'persona' and 'author', Ellen Oliensis considers Horace's poetry as one dimension of his 'face' - the projected self-image that is the basic currency of social interactions. She reads Horace's poems not only as works of art but also as social acts of face-saving, face-making and self-effacement. These acts are responsive, she suggests, to the pressure of several audiences: Horace shapes his poetry to promote his authority and to pay deference to his patrons while taking account of the envy of contemporaries and the judgement of posterity. Drawing on the insights of sociolinguistics, deconstruction and new historicism Dr Oliensis charts the poet's shifting strategies of authority and deference across his entire literary career.

Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political Response

Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political Response
Author: Abigail Cloud
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019-12-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1622737520

This volume speaks to the use of poetry in critical qualitative research and practice focused on social justice. In this collection, poetry is a response, a call to action, agitation, and a frame for future social justice work. The authors engage with poetry’s potential for connectivity, political power, and evocation through methodological, theoretical, performative, and empirical work. The poet-researchers consider questions of how poetry and Poetic Inquiry can be a response to political and social events, be used as a pedagogical tool to critique inequitable social structures, and how Poetic Inquiry speaks to our local identities and politics. The authors answer the question: “What spaces can poetry create for dialogue about critical awareness, social justice, and re-visioning of social, cultural, and political worlds?” This volume adds to the growing body of Poetic Inquiry through the demonstration of poetry as political action, response, and reflective practice. We hope this collection inspires you to write and engage with political poetry to realize the power of poetry as political action, response, and reflective practice.