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James Merrill, Postmodern Magus

Author : Evans Lansing Smith
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297647
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill, Postmodern Magus written by Evans Lansing Smith and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the unique voices in our century, James Merrill was known for his mastery of prosody; his ability to write books that were not just collected poems but unified works in which each individual poem contributed to the whole; and his astonishing evolution from the formalist lyric tradition that influenced his early work to the spiritual epics of his later career. Merrill's accomplishments were recognized with a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for Divine Comedies and a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 for The Changing Light at Sandover. In this meticulously researched, carefully argued work, Evans Lansing Smith argues that the nekyia, the circular Homeric narrative describing the descent into the underworld and reemergence in the same or similar place, confers shape and significance upon the entirety of James Merrill’s poetry. Smith illustrates how pervasive this myth is in Merrill’s work – not just in The Changing Light at Sandover, where it naturally serves as the central premise of the entire trilogy, but in all of the poet’s books, before and after that central text. By focusing on the details of versification and prosody, Smith demonstrates the ingenious fusion of form and content that distinguishes Merrill as a poet. Moving beyond purely literary interpretations of the poetry, Smith illuminates the numerous allusions to music, art, theology, philosophy, religion, and mythology found throughout Merrill’s work.

Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems

Author : Joe Moffett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611461634
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Mysticism in Postmodernist Long Poems written by Joe Moffett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how postmodernist writers use the long poem as a means of exploring a direct relationship with the divine. They find that the must chart individual paths of spiritual understanding informed by the culture in which they are situated.

The Lyric in the Age of the Brain

Author : Nikki Skillman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674545125
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lyric in the Age of the Brain by : Nikki Skillman

Download or read book The Lyric in the Age of the Brain written by Nikki Skillman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets—caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors—struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.

Gale Researcher Guide for: After the Broken Home: Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and James Merrill

Author : Alan Feldman
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1535848936
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Gale Researcher Guide for: After the Broken Home: Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and James Merrill written by Alan Feldman and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gale Researcher Guide for: After the Broken Home: Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and James Merrill is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Choice

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Choice written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cauda Pavonis

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cauda Pavonis written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Changing Light at Sandover

Author : James Ingram Merrill
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780679747369
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (473 download)

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Book Synopsis The Changing Light at Sandover by : James Ingram Merrill

Download or read book The Changing Light at Sandover written by James Ingram Merrill and published by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Merrill's audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book carries us to the scene of Merrill's Ouija board sessions with his partner, David Jackson--the candlelit Stonington dining room with its flame-colored walls and the famous Willowware cup they used as a pointer in their occult travels. In a shimmering interplay of verse forms, Merrill set down their extended conversations with their familiar and guide, Ephraim (a first-century Greek Jew), W.H. Auden, W.B. Yeats, Plato, a brilliant peacock named Mirabell, and other old friends who had passed to the other side. JM (whom the spirits call "scribe") and DJ ("hand") are also introduced to the lonely eminence God B ("God Biology"), his sister Mother Nature, and a host of angels and lesser residents of the empyrean who are variously involved in the ways of this world. The laughter, the missteps, and the schoolroom frustrations of the earthly pair's gradual enlightenment make this otherworldly journey, finally, an utterly human one. A unique exploration of the writer's role in a postatomic, postreligious age, Sandover has been compared to the work of Yeats, Proust, Milton, and Blake. Merrill's tale of the joys and tragedies of man's powers, and his message about the importance of our endangered efforts to make a good life on earth, will stand as one of the most profound experiences available to readers of poetry. --Alfred A. Knopf.

D.H. Lawrence

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book D.H. Lawrence written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Figuring Poesis

Author : Evans Lansing Smith
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Figuring Poesis written by Evans Lansing Smith and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Figuring Poesis focuses on the interrelations between myth and geometrical symbolism in literature since the end of the Second World War. Detailed readings of a wide range of works contextualize allusions to the myths of the apocalypse, the great goddess, alchemy, the labyrinth, and the descent to the underworld. The geometrical symbols that occur in conjunction with these myths serve as images of poesis and hermeneusis. The conclusion brings postmodernist paintings and architecture into the discussion, and develops an iconography of form.

Allegories of America

Author : Frederick M. Dolan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726234
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Allegories of America written by Frederick M. Dolan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s behavioralist social science, James Merrill, and William Burroughs. The pressing problem, in Dolan's view, is how to find a vocabulary for politics in the absence of European metaphysics. American political thinkers, he suggests, might respond by approaching their own theories as allegories. The postmodern dilemma of the loss of traditional absolutes would thus assume the status of a national mythology—America's perennial identity crisis in the absence of a tradition establishing the legitimacy of its founding. After examining the mid-Atlantic sermons of John Winthrop, the spiritual founding father, Dolan reflects on the authority of the Constitution and the Federalist. He then takes on questions of representation in Cold War ideology, focusing on the language of David Easton and other liberal political "behaviorists," as well as on cold War cinema and the coverage of international affairs by American journalists. Additional discussions are inspired by Hannah Arendt's recasting of political theory in a narrative framework. here Dolan considers two starkly contrasting postwar literary figures—William S. Burroughs and James Merrill—both of whom have a troubled relationship to politics but nonetheless register an urgent need to articulate its dangers and opportunities. Alongside Merrill's unraveling of the distinction between the serious and the fictive, Dolan assesses the attempt in Arendt's On Revolution to reclaim fictional devices for political reflection.

Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy

Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791480305
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy written by David Ray Griffin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the postmodern implications of Whitehead’s metaphysical system.

Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309142393
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scores of talented and dedicated people serve the forensic science community, performing vitally important work. However, they are often constrained by lack of adequate resources, sound policies, and national support. It is clear that change and advancements, both systematic and scientific, are needed in a number of forensic science disciplines to ensure the reliability of work, establish enforceable standards, and promote best practices with consistent application. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward provides a detailed plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity, the National Institute of Forensic Science, to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community. The benefits of improving and regulating the forensic science disciplines are clear: assisting law enforcement officials, enhancing homeland security, and reducing the risk of wrongful conviction and exoneration. Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States gives a full account of what is needed to advance the forensic science disciplines, including upgrading of systems and organizational structures, better training, widespread adoption of uniform and enforceable best practices, and mandatory certification and accreditation programs. While this book provides an essential call-to-action for congress and policy makers, it also serves as a vital tool for law enforcement agencies, criminal prosecutors and attorneys, and forensic science educators.

A Teacher's Introduction to Postmodernism

Author : Ray Linn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Teacher's Introduction to Postmodernism written by Ray Linn and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this overview of intellectual and artistic trends from the seventeenth century to the present, Linn unpacks the logic, assumptions, and philosophical implications wrapped up in what has become the founding statement of modern rationalism: Descartes's "I think, therefore I am." --from publisher description.

A Poetics of Postmodernism

Author : Linda Hutcheon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134986262
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book A Poetics of Postmodernism written by Linda Hutcheon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sacred Mysteries

Author : Evans Lansing Smith
Publisher : Blue Dolphin Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781577331261
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Mysteries written by Evans Lansing Smith and published by Blue Dolphin Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sacred Mysteries" explores the myths and folk tales about marriage bequeathed to society by ancestors. The book retells and analyzes these myths and tales of marriage and relationships which involve a hero's journey to the other world.

The Lyric in the Age of the Brain

Author : Nikki Skillman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970098
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis The Lyric in the Age of the Brain by : Nikki Skillman

Download or read book The Lyric in the Age of the Brain written by Nikki Skillman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science has transformed understandings of the mind, supplying physiological explanations for what once seemed transcendental. Nikki Skillman shows how lyric poets—caught between a reductive scientific view and naïve literary metaphors—struggled to articulate a vision of consciousness that was both scientifically informed and poetically truthful.

Why Democracies Flounder and Fail

Author : Michael Haas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319740709
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Why Democracies Flounder and Fail written by Michael Haas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy is in crisis because voices of the people are ignored due to a politics of mass society. After demonstrating how the French Fourth Republic failed, wherein Singapore’s totalitarianism is a dangerous model, Washington is enmeshed in gridlock, and there is a global democracy deficit, solutions are offered to revitalize democracy as the best form of government. The book demonstrates how mass society politics operates, with intermediate institutions of civil society (media, pressure groups, political parties) no longer transmitting the will of the people to government but instead are concerned with corporate interests and have developed oligarchical mindsets. Rather than micro-remedy bandaids, the author focuses on the need to transform governing philosophies from pragmatic to humanistic solutions.