Shamanic Elements In The Poetry Of Ted Hughes
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Author | : Ewa Panecka |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2018-04-18 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 152751031X |
This study on religious experience in modern poetry features innovatory and accessible close readings of some of the most beloved authors of English verse. In today’s seemingly secular age, religion still remains a highly contested subject. The selection of texts analysed here is representative of a wide spectrum of attitudes, including a sharply critical refusal to acknowledge Christianity as the basis of civilization. Some poets see national religion as a framework for cultural identity, while others worship nature as the omnipotent Force of Life, trying to create their own gods. Rather than reducing poetry to a background for philosophical analysis or theological deliberation, this book presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture and convey the divine. The chapters provide a range of perspectives on individual experience rendered into poetry as a subtle relationship between faith, perception and language. The text will be of interest to anyone looking for new ways of reading poetry as a spiritual guest.
Author | : Shamsad Mortuza |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2014-08-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 144386594X |
This genealogical study focuses on the work of five contemporary British poets in order to locate them in a counter cultural tradition that is informed by strategic responses to ‘state terrorism.’ It identifies some historical moments of ruptures, such as the persecution of the Celtic druids by the Romans, the killing of the Welsh bards by Edward I, the appropriation of bardic materials by Romantic poets writing in a post-French Revolution era, and the beatnik response to a post-World War bipolar world in order to contextualise and discuss the poets of British Poetry Revival writing under Thatcherism. Drawing on Mircea Eliade’s notion of shamanism as ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy,’ these poets have transformed Eliade’s version of the shaman’s ‘elective trauma’ and enacted a critical rejection of totalitarian tools of the state and society. Categorised as the ‘Technicians of the Sacred’ and the ‘Technicians of the Body’ these shamanic poets include Iain Sinclair, Jeremy Prynne, Brian Catling, Barry MacSweeney, and Maggie O’Sullivan. Their poetic strategy is not a New Age fad; it rather investigates and inventories the ‘hidden’ energies of past and present to wrest spirituality away from the confines of religion and politics, while embodying it in textual praxis.
Author | : Sandie Byrne |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137310944 |
This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.
Author | : Daniel Xerri |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry. This study discuss and interprets the healing quality in Hughes' poetic works and evaluates the poet's notion of its significance for human civilization.
Author | : Paul Bentley |
Publisher | : Addison Wesley Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Poetry, English |
ISBN | : |
This text provides an introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, whose work is concerned with the forces of nature and their interaction with man. It also places Hughes' poems in a theoretical context of significant developments in literary theory that occured during his lifetime, quoting in particular commentary of the French theorists Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes.
Author | : Stuart Hirschberg |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leonard M. Scigaj |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Keith Sagar |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1983 |
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ISBN | : 9780719009396 |
Author | : Craig Robinson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1989-11-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349203572 |
Author | : Leonard M. Scigaj |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1977 |
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