Productive Digression

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311048496X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis Productive Digression by : Anselm Haverkamp

Download or read book Productive Digression written by Anselm Haverkamp and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term poetics: as a practice of theory. The products produced in the mode of poiesis are ‘digressive’ in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in various respects. Mostly, they are explained historically, relative to historical contexts and, that is, contrary to what they are meant to resist. Instead, this book investigates the modes of resistance, their epistemology of production, in short, the logic of digression. The method addresses the singular exemplarity of art and literature; it elucidates the impact of poiesis as an epistemological challenge and redefines the analysis of literature and art as branches of an Historical Epistemology. Proceeding from the state of affairs in 20th century criticism and aesthetics (Benjamin, Adorno, Blumenberg, Merleau-Ponty), the epistemology of representation (Whitehead, Canguilhem, Bachelard, Rheinberger) is revised in, and with respect to critical consequences (Derrida, Marin, de Man, Agamben). From literary criticism and critical legal studies to the scenario of the life sciences, the essays collected here redirect the logic of research towards the epistemological grounds of an aesthetics underneath the hermeneutics of every day life.

A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810828629
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (286 download)

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Book Synopsis A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point by : Rose Hobart

Download or read book A Steady Digression to a Fixed Point written by Rose Hobart and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hobart writes about the first 45 years of her life, including her childhood in New York, the start of her theatrical career in Chautauqua, her adventures as a Hollywood actress, the demise of three marriages, and her efforts to clear her name after being blacklisted in Hollywood. Of special interest is the sane perspective that Hobart, now 89, brings to her story and her attention to the connections that pull these seemingly disjointed events together into a coherent story of a life. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429929030
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara by : Joe LeSueur

Download or read book Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara written by Joe LeSueur and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2004-04-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented eyewitness account of the New York School, as seen between the lines of O'Hara's poetry Joe LeSueur lived with Frank O'Hara from 1955 until 1965, the years when O'Hara wrote his greatest poems, including "To the Film Industry in Crisis," "In Memory of My Feelings," "Having a Coke with You," and the famous Lunch Poems—so called because O'Hara wrote them during his lunch break at the Museum of Modern Art, where he worked as a curator. (The artists he championed include Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell, Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, Joan Mitchell, and Robert Rauschenberg.) The flowering of O'Hara's talent, cut short by a fatal car accident in 1966, produced some of the most exuberant, truly celebratory lyrics of the twentieth century. And it produced America's greatest poet of city life since Whitman. Alternating between O'Hara's poems and LeSueur's memory of the circumstances that inspired them, Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara is a literary commentary like no other—an affectionate, no-holds-barred memoir of O'Hara and the New York that animated his work: friends, lovers, movies, paintings, streets, apartments, music, parties, and pickups. This volume, which includes many of O'Hara's best-loved poems, is the most intimate, true-to-life portrait we will ever have of this quintessential American figure and his now legendary times.

Three Rings

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681376393
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Book Synopsis Three Rings by : Daniel Mendelsohn

Download or read book Three Rings written by Daniel Mendelsohn and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers—Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon, and W. G. Sebald—and their relationship with the classics, from Homer to Mimesis. In a genre-defying book hailed as “exquisite” (The New York Times) and “spectacular” (The Times Literary Supplement), the best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own—works that pondered the nature of narrative itself: Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul; François Fénelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus—a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for a hundred years—resulted in his banishment; and the German novelist W.G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggle to write two of his own books—a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father—that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.

Digression

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Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105502
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Digression by : Olivia Santovetti

Download or read book Digression written by Olivia Santovetti and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the workings of digression in the novels of five major Italian authors - Manzoni, Dossi, Pirandello, Gadda and Calvino - from the birth of the modern novel in the early 19th century to the era of postmodernist experimentation.

Narratives Unsettled

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810128179
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Narratives Unsettled by : Samuel Frederick

Download or read book Narratives Unsettled written by Samuel Frederick and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives Unsettled argues by way of close readings of three very different German-language writers that only if we conceive of narrativity unburdened by plot can we properly account for radical forms of digression.

Rhetoric of Digressions

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498200567
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Book Synopsis Rhetoric of Digressions by : Peter S. Perry

Download or read book Rhetoric of Digressions written by Peter S. Perry and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelation 7:1-17 occurs between the opening of the sixth and seventh seal and Rev 10:1-11:13 between the sixth and seventh trumpet blasts. Interpreters often explain these passages as "interludes," "parentheses," or "expansions," but not in terms of ancient communication. Peter S. Perry analyzes these interruptions in the seals and trumpets in light of digressions in ancient rhetorical theory and practice. Digressions are described by Hermagoras, Cicero, and Quintilian and widely used, including in Josephus' works, Jubilees, Sibylline Oracles I/II, Zechariah, and Exodus. As with other ancient digressions, Rev 7:1-17 and 10:1-11:13 are unessential to the logical flow but essential to the book's impact. These passages excite the emotions, shape character, and give insight into John's rhetorical strategy and goals.

Digressions in Classical Historiography

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111320901
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis Digressions in Classical Historiography by : Mario Baumann

Download or read book Digressions in Classical Historiography written by Mario Baumann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although digressive discourse constitutes a key feature of Greco-Roman historiography, we possess no collective volume on the matter. The chapters of this book fill this gap by offering an overall view of the use of digressions in Greco-Roman historical prose from its beginning in the 5th century BCE up to the Imperial Era. Ancient historiographers traditionally took as digressions the cases in which they interrupted their focused chronological narration. Such cases include lengthy geographical descriptions, prolepses or analepses, and authorial comments. Ancient historiographers rarely deign to interrupt their narration's main storyline with excursuses which are flagrantly disconnected from it. Instead, they often "coat" their digressions with distinctive patterns of their own thinking, thus rendering them ideological and thematic milestones within an entire work. Furthermore, digressions may constitute pivotal points in the very structure of ancient historical narratives, while ancient historians also use excursuses to establish a dialogue with their readers and to activate them in various ways. All these aspects of digressions in Greco-Roman historiography are studied in detail in the chapters of this volume.

The Digressions in Beowulf

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Digressions in Beowulf by : Adrien Bonjour

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Digressions in European Literature

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230292526
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Digressions in European Literature by : A. Grohmann

Download or read book Digressions in European Literature written by A. Grohmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day.

Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191532061
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature by : Anne Cotterill

Download or read book Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature written by Anne Cotterill and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digressive Voices in Early Modern English Literature looks afresh at major nondramatic texts by Donne, Marvell, Browne, Milton, and Dryden, whose digressive speakers are haunted by personal and public uncertainty. To digress in seventeenth-century England carried a range of meaning associated with deviation or departure from a course, subject, or standard. This book demonstrates that early modern writers trained in verbal contest developed richly labyrinthine voices that captured the ambiguities of political occasion and aristocratic patronage while anatomizing enemies and mourning personal loss. Anne Cotterill turns current sensitivity toward the silenced voice to argue that rhetorical amplitude might suggest anxieties about speech and attack for men forced to be competitive yet circumspect as they made their voices heard.

Digressions and the Human Imagination

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040033539
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Digressions and the Human Imagination by : Morten Nielsen

Download or read book Digressions and the Human Imagination written by Morten Nielsen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digressions and the Human Imagination makes a significant contribution to our anthropological knowledge about human creativity. The creative force of the human imagination is widely considered as a key ingredient in understanding how social and cultural transformations occur. And yet, what we know about the nature of creative processes is surprisingly limited. Taking their cue from literary studies, the contributors to this volume explore digression as human creativity’s main impulse. They offer a series of experimental explorations of digression in different arenas of social life – literature, conversations, myths, humour, art, and wayfinding. In their examination of the relationship between creativity and digressive processes, the contributions challenge and eventually collapse conventional distinctions between ‘artistic’ and ‘scientific’ imaginaries. This book articulates with clarity the freedom and joy of wandering off in new directions, but also the potentially transgressive and even revolutionary character that digression has when it is put to work through the creativity of the human imagination. It will be relevant for anthropologists and other scholars from across the humanities and social sciences with an interest in creativity.

The Individualist

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ISBN 13 : 9780997205657
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)

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Book Synopsis The Individualist by : Todd Rundgren

Download or read book The Individualist written by Todd Rundgren and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of one-page personal reminiscences and commentaries about events throughout his life by rock musician Todd Rundgren, accompanied by images from both his personal and professional lives.

Drawings and Digressions

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Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Drawings and Digressions by : Larry Rivers

Download or read book Drawings and Digressions written by Larry Rivers and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 1979 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers is considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grand Father" of Pop art, because he was one of the first artists to really merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction. This is a collection of his works from his long career.

Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004398996
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Book Synopsis Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism by : Mauro Bonazzi

Download or read book Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism written by Mauro Bonazzi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism aims to offer a fresh perspective on the correlation between epistemology and ethics in Plato and the Platonic tradition from Aristotle to Plotinus, by investigating the social, juridical and theoretical premises of their philosophy.

Loiterature

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803263925
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (639 download)

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Book Synopsis Loiterature by : Ross Chambers

Download or read book Loiterature written by Ross Chambers and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fabric of the western literary tradition is not always predictable. In one wayward strand, waywardness itself is at work, delay becomes almost predictable, triviality is auspicious, and failure is cheerfully admired. This is loiterature. Loiterature is the first book to identify this strand, to follow its path through major works and genres, and to evaluate its literary significance. ø By offering subtle resistance to the laws of "good social order," loiterly literature blurs the distinctions between innocent pleasure and harmless relaxation on the one hand, and not-so-innocent intent on the other. The result is covert social criticism that casts doubt on the values good citizens hold dear?values like discipline, organization, productivity, and, above all, work. It levels this criticism, however, under the guise of innocent wit or harmless entertainment. Loiterature distracts attention the way a street conjurer diverts us with his sleight of hand.øøø If the pleasurable has critical potential, may not one of the functions of the critical be to produce pleasure? The ability to digress, Ross Chambers suggests, is at the heart of both, and loiterature?s digressive waywardness offers something to ponder for critics of culture as well as lovers of literature.

Packing My Library

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235496
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Packing My Library by : Alberto Manguel

Download or read book Packing My Library written by Alberto Manguel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Packing up his enormous, 35,000†‘volume personal library, choosing which books to keep, store, or cast out, Manguel found himself in deep reverie on the nature of relationships between books and readers, books and collectors, order and disorder, memory and reading. In this poignant and personal reevaluation of his life as a reader, the author illuminates the highly personal art of reading and affirms the vital role of public libraries. Manguel’s musings range widely, from delightful reflections on the idiosyncrasies of book lovers to deeper analyses of historic and catastrophic book events, including the burning of ancient Alexandria’s library and contemporary library lootings at the hands of ISIS. With insight and passion, the author underscores the universal centrality of books and their unique importance to a democratic, civilized, and engaged society.