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Book Synopsis William Carlos Williams and Transcendentalism by : Ron Callan
Download or read book William Carlos Williams and Transcendentalism written by Ron Callan and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the achievements of William Carlos Williams in the context of the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thorgau and Walt Whitman. The author develops a narrative of sensibilities to enrich the understanding of transcendentalism.
Book Synopsis Ideas in Things by : Donald W. Markos
Download or read book Ideas in Things written by Donald W. Markos and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Carlos Williams' optimism, a counter-current to prevailing twentieth-century pessimism, was more than a matter of temperament. It was grounded in American transcendentalism and English romanticism but expressed in a semi-opaque modernist style - disjunctive, imagistic, symbolic, and both suave and colloquial. Williams' optimism, along with his outgoing contact with people and things, was an essential ingredient of the visionary idealism that was nurtured by Emerson, Whitman, the English romantics, and other sources. Ideas in Things establishes that Williams' worldview is grounded in these sources (Coleridge, Keats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Whitman, and especially Emerson), and describes the organic-idealist assumptions that underlie Williams' poetry. Williams' vision of organic unity undercuts the alienating dualism that has prevailed since Descartes and the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In Williams' view, mind and nature, though distinct, are interrelated because both have their source in a common ground, the ultimate and living source of all things. This vision of the world as "charged with the grandeur of God" - or of some value that escapes scientific and common-sense scrutiny - drove him to tireless experimentation with language and form. His aim was to defamiliarize conventional language in order to reveal novel and unexpected qualities in things, and even to discover the permanent universal in the common and ordinary. Williams used free verse and visual prosody, exact diction, word-play, onomatopoeia, and especially metaphor and symbolism to subvert both scientific and stock responses to the world. His cubistic "broken style" freed his imagination by revealing the object or experience in quick, eccentric flashes. For Williams, the all-important imagination, besides defamiliarizing the familiar in order to rediscover the universal, was also a productive power - the counterpart in the human level of the generative forces of nature. An authentic product of the imagination was not merely a copy of reality but a new "object" in itself. Ideas in Things shows that Williams' "objectivism" drew on Aristotle's conception of imitation: a true literary work had its own unique and necessary organization, like an organism, through which it represented the universal in human affairs. To demonstrate how Williams revised in order to create poems that were well-made "objects" - distinct from traditional verse forms as well as from casual free verse - Donald W. Markos examines several poems in progress from rough draft to published poem. These discussions will prove illuminating to critic and scholar as well as to the practicing poet.
Book Synopsis The Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry by : Ian D. Copestake
Download or read book The Ethics of William Carlos Williams's Poetry written by Ian D. Copestake and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet as an inheritor of an Emersonian tradition, and Paterson as an ethical autobiography in progress.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to William Carlos Williams by : Christopher MacGowan
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to William Carlos Williams written by Christopher MacGowan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable introductory guide for students, this Companion features thirteen new essays from leading international experts on William Carlos Williams, covering his major poetry and prose works. It addresses central issues of recent Williams scholarship and considers his relationships with contemporaries as well as the importance of his legacy.
Download or read book Modernism written by Lawrence Rainey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-07-15 with total page 1217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism: An Anthology is the most comprehensive anthology of Anglo-American modernism ever to be published. Amply represents the giants of modernism - James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Samuel Beckett. Includes a generous selection of Continental texts, enabling readers to trace modernism’s dialogue with the Futurists, the Dadaists, the Surrealists, and the Frankfurt School. Supported by helpful annotations, and an extensive bibliography. Allows readers to encounter anew the extraordinary revolution in language that transformed the aesthetics of the modern world .
Book Synopsis The Birth of the Imagination by : Bruce Holsapple
Download or read book The Birth of the Imagination written by Bruce Holsapple and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: A life that is here and now -- Growth of a poet's mind -- The disjointing process, Kora in hell: improvisation -- Getting from sentiment to form -- Painting the wind -- A renaissance twilight with triphammers -- Imagining America -- A new order of knowing -- The verse line -- Form, structure, and vernacular
Book Synopsis Writing the Radical Center by : John Beck
Download or read book Writing the Radical Center written by John Beck and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-10-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing the philosopher John Dewey and the poet William Carlos Williams together—two important figures of twentieth-century American culture—this book examines the ambitions and failings of progressive liberal culture during the first half of the twentieth century. This book shows that, while their work ostensibly shares little in common, Williams and Dewey share the ambition to realize the radical potential of a democratic cultural politics. Including close readings of texts like Williams's Spring and All, In the American Grain, and Paterson, and Dewey's Individualism Old and New and Art as Experience, Beck offers an important contribution to current debates over the relationship between politics and cultural production.
Book Synopsis William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture by : Brian A. Bremen
Download or read book William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture written by Brian A. Bremen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Bremen's innovative re-examination of William Carlos Williams's life and work traces the development of Williams's poetics, focusing in particular on his ongoing fascination with the effects of poetry and prose. In an analysis informed by the insight of contemporary cultural critics, Bremen traces Williams's thought from the confused romanticism of Spring and All to the methodological empiricism of Paterson, examining in the process Williams's correspondence with life-long friend Kenneth Burke and their shared theoretical interests. Through this fresh conceptual frame-work, Bremen shows how Williams's role as poet becomes more congruous with his role as doctor. In addition, Bremen looks closely at Williams's economic and social theories in light of those of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, making a case for the consistency of Williams's thought on medicine, gender, economics, poetry and prose, and history. William Carlos Williams and the Diagnostics of Culture is essential reading for scholars not only of Williams, but also of Modernism, twentieth-century literature, and cultural criticism and history.
Book Synopsis Reader's Guide to Literature in English by : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Download or read book Reader's Guide to Literature in English written by Mark Hawkins-Dady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.
Book Synopsis Guide to the Poetry of William Carlos Williams by : Kelli A. Larson
Download or read book Guide to the Poetry of William Carlos Williams written by Kelli A. Larson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) espoused the ideal that true poetry is rooted in the details of everyday life. He developed the technique of the variable foot, expressing the cadences and rhythms of speech which are documented in this text.
Download or read book William Carlos Williams Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Animal Part written by Mark Payne and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the humanities, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it by exploring the relationship between human beings and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Ranging from ancient Greek poets to modernists like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, Payne considers how writers have used verse to communicate the experience of animal suffering, created analogies between human and animal societies, and imagined the kind of knowledge that would be possible if human beings could see themselves as animals see them. The Animal Part also makes substantial contributions to the emerging discourse of the posthumanities. Payne offers detailed accounts of the tenuousness of the idea of the human in ancient literature and philosophy and then goes on to argue that close reading must remain a central practice of literary study if posthumanism is to articulate its own prehistory. For it is only through fine-grained literary interpretation that we can recover the poetic thinking about animals that has always existed alongside philosophical constructions of the human. In sum, The Animal Part marks a breakthrough in animal studies and offers a significant contribution to comparative poetics.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism by : Joel Myerson
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism written by Joel Myerson and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume includes fifty original essays from a group of renowned scholars as well as a compact chronology and specialized bibliographies. It offers a rich, authoritative, interdisciplinary account, providing scholars with the definitive resource on this seminal movement in American culture."--From the dust jacket.
Book Synopsis William Carlos Williams' Poetic Response to the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike by : Paul R. Cappucci
Download or read book William Carlos Williams' Poetic Response to the 1913 Paterson Silk Strike written by Paul R. Cappucci and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Poetry of Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams by : Harihar Rath
Download or read book The Poetry of Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams written by Harihar Rath and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2003 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Fulfils The Difficult Task Of Quickening, And Elucidating, Fortifying And Enlarging The Poetry Of Two Important Poets Of Our Time: Robert Frost And William Carlos Williams. It Puts Their Creative Act Under Scrutiny By The Common Parameter Of A Critical Canon, Aiming To Place Them As Poets At A Vantage Point Where The Idea Of Man Speaking Out On Behalf Of Man Can Find Its True And Free Expression.Written In A Lucid Style, And With A Content That Remain A Landmark In American Studies By An Indian Academic, The Book Does Also Privilege A Deeper Understanding Of American Poetry In General While Problematizing Its Inherent Opposition Between The Egocentric As Against The Theocentric, Man Without History As Against History Without Man, The Antinomian As Against The Orthodox, Personality As Against Culture And The Adamic As Against The Mythic.
Book Synopsis Identity and Society in American Poetry by :
Download or read book Identity and Society in American Poetry written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Self-Reliance by : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Download or read book Self-Reliance written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 2006-02-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Self-Reliance' by Ralph Waldo Emerson contains the essence of transcendental philosophy. Emerson reflects upon human potential & encourages us to listen to the voice within. He explores & illuminates the concepts of idealism, individualism & spiritualism. His belief in determining ones values from personal insights rather than conforming to societal judgements remains pertinent today. Emerson has inspired classical writers from Thoreau, Whitman & Nietzsche to contemporary authors such as D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams & Ernest Hemingway.
