Narcissistic Romanticism

Narcissistic Romanticism
Author: Piyush Rohankar
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 150
Release:
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9352062175

"This anthology of poems dive into the realms of dark mystic realism and celebrate the obsessive/possessive/compulsive passions that we all have but turn a blind eye to. Rohankar has imbibed a forcefulness that compels the reader to pause from the daily flux of chronos and inspect the dark revelry that unconsciously dictates and establishes the existing paradigms from an antithetical perspective. The poem abides to the Elioton soul of free verse while subtly flirting with the Edgarion scepticism and pessimistic mysticism. Many of the poems adhere to the classic medieval romanticism but at the same time they foray into projected narcissism. These poems then capitulate the projected narcissism within the framework of God complex within the personification of a woman who is adored, worshiped and glorified. Every verse brutally decimates the societal constructs and embraces one’s psyche with all pervasive absolute darkness. The mystic Sufi touch in the poems are not just borrowed principles but they reiterate the undercurrent of the fading reality of truth and increasing understanding of the absolute. Despite drawing so many parallels to the poems here and trying to summarise them in a verbalised manner, I would unflinchingly hold that this is impossible. The work stands on its own inexplicable organic unity and brings one closer to an intellectual orgasm and perhaps even absolute actualization of the prospects one dares not venture into. "

Lessons of Romanticism

Lessons of Romanticism
Author: Thomas Pfau
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780822320913

Explores how the Romantic period gave birth to a seductive cognitive cultural program that retains far reaching implications for contemporary views on individuality and relationships between the individual and larger groups of identification. Established

Romanticism : Theory : Gender

Romanticism : Theory : Gender
Author: Pinkney Tony Pinkney
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2019-08-07
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1474471676

An examination of the relationship between romanticism, theory and gender.

Romanticism and Gender

Romanticism and Gender
Author: Anne K. Mellor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136040382

Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist perspective.

Romanticism and the Emotions

Romanticism and the Emotions
Author: Joel Faflak
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2014-03-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139868160

There has recently been a resurgence of interest in the importance of the emotions in Romantic literature and thought. This collection, the first to stress the centrality of the emotions to Romanticism, addresses a complex range of issues including the relation of affect to figuration and knowing, emotions and the discipline of knowledge, the motivational powers of emotion, and emotions as a shared ground of meaning. Contributors offer significant new insights on the ways in which a wide range of Romantic writers, including Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Immanuel Kant, Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey and Adam Smith, worried about the emotions as a register of human experience. Though varied in scope, the essays are united by the argument that the current affective and emotional turn in the humanities benefits from a Romantic scepticism about the relations between language, emotion and agency.

Romanticism

Romanticism
Author: Cynthia Chase
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317900081

The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought on Romantic literature, in particular the best of recent feminist, deconstructive, and new historicist writing. They include contributions from critics such as Paul de Man, Mary Jacobus, Marjorie Levinson and Jerome Christensen. The collection, with its substantial introduction and judicious selection of key work, explains the significance of recent critical debate by relating it to fundamental critical questions that define Romanticism. Through the course of their analyses the essays offer answers to perhaps the most essential question posed by the Romantic period: what is the role of language in history?

The Ethics of Romanticism

The Ethics of Romanticism
Author: Laurence S. Lockridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1989-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521352568

Laurence Lockridge argues that a focus on the ethical dimension of literature is the single most powerful strategy for structuring a writer's work as a whole, and that it can even prove congenial. He gives original, interrelated readings of eight major British Romantic writers.

The Second Wave

The Second Wave
Author: Linda J. Nicholson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780415917612

This volume collects many of the major essays of feminist theory of the past 40 years-works which have made key contributors to feminist thought.

Women, Love, and Power

Women, Love, and Power
Author: Elaine Baruch
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 1992-10
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0814711995

Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing, and persuasive. --Diana Trilling A lively mind is at work here and a keen and witty writer too. --Irving HoweThis is a fine collection of essays. . . making many imaginative conjectures and amusing connections. --Times Literary SupplementIn these essays what emerges is a history of romantic love. . . Highly recommended.--Library Journal Arguing that romantic love need not be a tool of women's oppression, feminist critic Baruch. . . contends that unacknowledged male fantasies about love motivate much literature by men. . . rewarding, provocative.--Publishers Weekly Utilizing both Freudian and non-Freudian psychoanalysis as well as feminist criticism, Baruch examines literary works by women and men from medieval and Romantic periods as well as cultural observations on the twentieth century and how they have influenced attitudes toward love.

Narcissism and the Literary Libido

Narcissism and the Literary Libido
Author: Marshall W. Alcorn Jr.
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1997-07-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0814705472

What is it that makes language powerful? This book uses the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and libidinal investment to explain how rhetoric compels us and how it can effect change. The works of Joseph Conrad, James Baldwin, Michael Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Arthur Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Ben Jonson, George Orwell, and others are the basis of this thoughtful exploration of the relationship between language and subject. Bringing together ideas from Freudian, post- Freudian, Lacanian, and post-structuralist schools, Alcorn investigates the power of the text that underlies the reader response approach to literature in a strikingly new way. He shows how the production of literary texts begins and ends with narcissistic self-love, and also shows how the reader's interest in these texts is directed by libidinal investment. Psychoanalysts, psychologists, and lovers of literature will enjoy Alcorn's diverse and far-reaching insights into classic and contemporary writers and thinkers.