Secular Lyric
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Author | : John Michael |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0823279731 |
Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets’ work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyncratic but related ways, each disrupt conventional expectations while foregrounding language’s material density, thereby revealing both the potential and the limitations of art in the modern age.
Author | : Arthur Keister Moore |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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The scholar of this work has attempted to frame a comprehensive view of medieval secular lyrics, an attempt which includes discussion of songs of satire and protest and the art lyric.
Author | : Arthur Keister Moore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Rossell Hope Robbins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : Arthur K. Moore |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1957 |
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Author | : Frank Allen Patterson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Michael Taft |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1135485992 |
This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form. Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic composistion of blues lyrics. This book gives a step-by-step description of the rules implicit in this formulaic structure and inspires new discussion of lyric structures. A wide array of readers will find this insightful and informative: from students of African-American music, cultural studies, history and linguistics, to Blues fans fascinated by exactly how the lyrics of this influential music style are written.
Author | : Raymond Gay-Crosier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Christianity and literature |
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Author | : Frederic Ives Carpenter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : English poetry |
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Author | : L. Besserman |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2006-02-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1403977275 |
This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.