Reflexive Poetics

Reflexive Poetics
Author: Ethan Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2013-01-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1443845779

“It is tremendously important that great poetry be written. It makes no jot of difference who writes it.” Ezra Pound’s remark makes some polemic, but still more prescriptive sense, as evaluative of our present situation. Some great poetry (never mind the far larger quantity of trash) is emerging – from countless coteries of devoted artists, quite plausibly in your community. This anthology brings to press fifteen exemplary poets from Springfield, Illinois and its environs. Yet though endorsing their wider popularity, this critical anthology advances an interpretative method. We can garner much from reading the justly famed poets reflexively, with those lesser known in our midst. Any specific poem of the highest quality is informed by, and informs through, comparison with works of like caliber. Indeed, the test of an obscure gem inheres in critical comparison. And relations never run one way. One may well harbor keener appreciation of Wallace Stevens in light of certain works by Corrine Frisch – just as Keats and Stevens mutually inform one another. The central tenet of this text holds, with Eliot and Frost – a not so unlikely coupling as might be thought, hence a perfect pair to introduce the author’s modus operandi – that we read relationally. “No artist . . . has his meaning alone.” “We read C the better to read D; D, the better to go back and get something more out of A. Progress is not the aim, but circulation: to get among the poems where they hold each other apart in their places as the stars do.”

Poetry, Practical Theology and Reflective Practice

Poetry, Practical Theology and Reflective Practice
Author: Mark Pryce
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2019-03-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317076621

This groundbreaking study offers an innovative critical analysis of poetry as a resource for reflective practice in the context of continuing professional development. In the contemporary drive in all professions for greater rigour in education, training, and development, little attention is paid to the inner shape of learning and meaning-making for individuals and groups, especially ways in which individuals are formed for the task of their work. Building on empirical research into the author’s professional practice, the book takes the use of poetry in clergy continuing ministerial development as a case-study to examine the value of poetry in professional learning. Setting out the advantages and limitations of poetry as a stimulant for imaginative, critical reflexivity, and formation within professional reflective practice, the study develops a practical model for group reflection around poetry, distilling pedagogical approaches for working effectively with poetry in continuing professional development. Drawing together a number of strands of thinking about poetry, Practical Theology, and reflective practice into a tightly argued study, the book is an important methodological resource. It makes available a range of primary and secondary sources, offering researchers into professional practice a model of ethnographic research in Practical Theology which embraces innovative methods for reflexivity and theological reflection, including the value of auto-ethnographic poetry.

Poetics in the Poem

Poetics in the Poem
Author: Dorothy Zayatz Baker
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Focuses on poems that address issues of poetics directly, that take them as a primary subject, rather than display them merely by being the particular poem it is. Among the poets considered are Emily Dickinson, Emerson, Harlem Renaissanceers, Archibald Macleish, Karl Shapiro, Robert Lowell, Denise Levertov, Gary Snyder, and Wendell Berry. Other topics include comparisons, rhetoric, and 19th-century reflections. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Self-reflexivity in Literature

Self-reflexivity in Literature
Author: Werner Huber
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9783826032493

Introduction - C. Henke: Self-Reflexivity and Common Sense in A Tale of a Tub and Tristram Shandy: Eighteenth-Century Satire and the Novel - C. Goer: Wie Tyrann Amor seine Meisterin fand: Die Geburt des Individuums aus dem Geist der Musik in Wilhem Heinses Musikroman Hildegard von Hohenthal - H. Breuer: John Keats' Ode To Autumn als Metapoesie - H. Zapf: Structure, Chaos, and Self-Reference in Edgar Allan Poe - U. Böker: "A raid on the inarticulate:" Hawthorne, Hopkins, Hofmannsthal - T. Fischer-Seidel: Archetypal Structures and Literature in Joyce's Ulysses: Aristotle, Frye, and the Plot of Ulysses - P. Freese: Trouble in the House of Fiction: Bernard Malamud's The Tenants - B. Hesse: "The moo's an arrant thief" - Self-Reflexivity in Nabokov's Pale Fire - W. Huber: "Why this farce, day after day?" On Samuel Beckett's Eleuthéria - L. Volkmann: Explorationen des Ichs: Hanif Kureishis post-ethnische Kurzgeschichten - P. Lenz: Talking-Cures oder Tall Stories? The (Dis)Establishing of Reality in Conor McPherson's The Weir - A. Merbitz: The Art of Listing: Selbstreflexive Elemente in Nick Hornbys High Fidelty - A.Nünning: Fictional Metabiographies and Metaautobiographies: Towards a Definition, Typology and Analysis of Self-Reflexive Hybrid Metagenres - M. Middeke: Self-Reflexivity, Trans-/Intertextuality, and Hermeneutic Deep-Structure in Contemporary British Fiction - A. H. Kümmel: Mighty Matryoshka: Zum Konzept der fraktalen Person - M. Markus: Tu put it shortly: Abkürzungen, reflektiert am Beispiel englischer und deutscher Eigennamen - R. Weskamp: Selbstreflexion und Fremdsprachenerwerb

Literary Nuances

Literary Nuances
Author: Ethan Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre:
ISBN: 1527527700

This series of critical pieces is variously structured, with conventional essays, extended meditations, and short analytic notes appealing to differing tastes. Indeed, the diverse format constitutes a secondary thesis: like the artists about whom they write, literary critics are obliged to discover (and execute, of course) the form best suited to convey the content. The material in this case consists of meticulous close readings of authors almost spanning the alphabetical spectrum: from Akhmatova to Yeats; from Blake and Borges to Williams and Wittgenstein – and likewise, ranging over centuries: the sixteenth through the twentieth. Shakespeare and the Modernists largely figure in these musings, which illuminate, entertain, and genuinely engage. As T.S. Eliot remarked, “Our talking about poetry is an extension of our experience of it; and as a good deal of thinking has gone to the making of poetry, so a good deal may go to the study of it.”

Adorno's Poetics of Form

Adorno's Poetics of Form
Author: Josh Robinson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438469853

Adorno's Poetics of Form is the first book-length examination of the elusive deployment of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature, and the first monograph to offer a comprehensive account of the relation of these writings to his broader philosophical project. It examines form within the constellation of concepts that exist around it, considering how it appears when seen in conjunction with and in opposition to content, expression, genre, and material. Illuminated from these angles, form is revealed as the site of a complex web of dynamic conceptual interactions. The book thus offers a resolution to a problem in Adorno's work that has remained unsolved for several decades, and in doing so sets out the consequences of Adorno's poetics for literary and critical theory today.

Poetic Inquiry Atlas Vol. 1: A Survey of Rigorous Poetics

Poetic Inquiry Atlas Vol. 1: A Survey of Rigorous Poetics
Author: Adam Vincent
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2024-10-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This edited volume illustrates various definitions and uses of poetry in research and scholarship, both across disciplines and across the world. The collection offers a worldview of the capacity of poetic inquiry to enhance research and scholarship by showcasing rigorous poetics (which [re]present epistemology and aesthetics as synergistic) in action. Each chapter is intended to highlight diverse perspectives and uses of poetic inquiry, thereby highlighting commonalities and differences in praxis, that include: - Critical discussion around poetry and its uses in each poet-scholar’s diverse practices (e.g., research, writing, personal development, healthcare, mental health, ecology and/or scholarship). - An example of poetry that showcases their approach(es) in action. - Insights into the crafting of their poetry (i.e., what choices were made? why were specific choices made?)
- An exploration of how their poetic work links to the vast rhizomatic array of poetic inquiry. This volume is well-suited for new scholars, looking for ways to integrate poetry into their praxis, and experienced scholars who wish to further their understanding of the capaciousness of poetic inquiry as a valuable method, methodology, tool and/or approach. It also holds insights for those interested in the power of poetry as it relates to mental health, health care, ecology, teaching, qualitative research and identity work.

The Poetics of Personification

The Poetics of Personification
Author: James J. Paxson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1994-02-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521445396

Literary personification has long been taken for granted as an important aspect of Western narrative; Paul de Man has given it still greater prominence as 'the master trope of poetic discourse'. James Paxson here offers a much-needed critical and theoretical appraisal of personification in the light of poststructuralist thought and theory. The poetics of personification provides a historical reassessment of early theories, together with a sustained account of how literary personification works through an examination of narratological and semiotic codes and structures in the allegorical texts of Prudentius, Chaucer, Langland and Spenser. The device turns out to be anything but an aberration, oddity or barbarism, from ancient, medieval or early modern literature. Rather, it works as a complex artistic tool for revealing and advertising the problems and limits inherent in narration in particular and poetic or verbal creation in general.

Theory into Poetry

Theory into Poetry
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2022-05-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9401202516

At the beginning of the 21st century, there is still no generally accepted comprehensive definition of the lyric or differentiated modern toolkit for its analysis. The reception of poetry is largely characterised either by an empathetic identification of critics with the lyric persona or by exclusive interest in formal patterning. The present volume seeks to remedy this deficit. All the contributors ‘theorise’ the lyric to overcome the impasse of an impressionistic and narrowly formalistic critical debate on the genre. Their papers focus on a variety of different questions: the problem of establishing a framework for definition and classification; the search for dynamic and potent critical approaches; investigations of poetry's cultural performance and its fundamental relevance for the construction of group cohesion. The essays collected in this volume offer a consciously polyphonic range of theories and interpretations, suggesting to the reader a variety of theoretical frameworks and practical illustrations of how a discussion of poetry may be firmly grounded in modern literary theory.

Expanding Authorship

Expanding Authorship
Author: Peter Middleton
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2021
Genre: Authorship
ISBN: 082636263X

Expanding Authorship collects important essays by Peter Middleton that show the many ways in which, in a world of proliferating communications media, poetry-making is increasingly the work of agencies extending beyond that of a single, identifiable author. In four sections--Sound, Communities, Collaboration, and Complexity--Middleton demonstrates that this changing situation of poetry requires new understandings of the variations of authorship. He explores the internal divisions of lyric subjectivity, the vicissitudes of coauthorship and poetry networks, the creative role of editors and anthologists, and the ways in which the long poem can reveal the outer limits of authorship. Readers and scholars of Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, George Oppen, Frank O'Hara, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Jerome Rothenberg, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, and Rae Armantrout will find much to learn and enjoy in this groundbreaking volume.