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Magnificent Decay

Author : Tom Nurmi
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813945038
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Magnificent Decay written by Tom Nurmi and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Melville beyond the whale? Long celebrated for his stories of the sea, Melville was also fascinated by the interrelations between living species and planetary systems, a perspective informing his work in ways we now term "ecological." By reading Melville in the context of nineteenth-century science, Tom Nurmi contends that he may best be understood as a proto-ecologist who innovatively engages with the entanglement of human and nonhuman realms. Melville lived during a period in which the process of scientific specialization was well underway, while the integration of science and art was concurrently being addressed by American writers. Steeped in the work of Lyell, Darwin, and other scientific pioneers, he composed stories and verse that made the complexity of geological, botanical, and zoological networks visible to a broad spectrum of readers, ironically in the most "unscientific" forms of fiction and poetry. Set against the backdrop of Melville’s literary, philosophical, and scientific influences, Magnificent Decay focuses on four of his most neglected works— Mardi (1849), Pierre (1852), The Piazza Tales (1856), and John Marr (1888)—to demonstrate that, together, literature and science offer collective insights into the past, present, and future turbulence of the Anthropocene. Tracing the convergences of ecological and literary creativity, Melville’s lesser-read texts explore the complex interplay between inanimate matter, life, and human society across multiple scales and, in so doing, illustrate the value of literary art for representing ecological relationships.

Decay and Afterlife

Author : Aleksandra Prica
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022681159X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Decay and Afterlife written by Aleksandra Prica and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether they appear in baroque poetry and drama, Romanticism’s nostalgic view of history, eighteenth-century paintings of classical subjects, or even recent photographic histories of the ruins of postindustrial Detroit. Decay and Afterlife pivots away from our immediate, visual fascination with ruins, focusing instead on the textuality of ruins in works about disintegration and survival. Combining an impressive array of literary, philosophical, and historiographical works both canonical and neglected, and encompassing Latin, Italian, French, German, and English sources, Aleksandra Prica addresses ruins as textual forms, examining them in their extraordinary geographical and temporal breadth, highlighting their variability and reflexivity, and uncovering new lines of aesthetic and intellectual affinity. Through close readings, she traverses eight hundred years of intellectual and literary history, from Seneca and Petrarch to Hegel, Goethe, and Georg Simmel. She tracks European discourses on ruins as they metamorphose over time, identifying surprising resemblances and resonances, ignored contrasts and tensions, as well as the shared apprehensions and ideas that come to light in the excavation of these discourses.

Magnificent Decay

Author : Tom Nurmi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813945026
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Magnificent Decay written by Tom Nurmi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines some of Melville's less-read works in order to place him as an ecological writer"--

Poems, by William Cowper, Esq

Author : William Cowper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems, by William Cowper, Esq written by William Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poetical Works of William Cowper

Author : William Cowper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
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Download or read book The Poetical Works of William Cowper written by William Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life, Letters and Literary Remains of J. H. Shorthouse

Author : Joseph H. Shorthouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Life, Letters and Literary Remains of J. H. Shorthouse written by Joseph H. Shorthouse and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron

Author : Branka Arsic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623563755
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron written by Branka Arsic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of America's leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron has articulated throughout her career, most notably her late work on the question of impersonality. In doing so, it provides responses to questions fundamental to literary criticism, such as: the nature of personhood; the logic of subjectivity in depersonalized communities; the question of the human within the problematic of the impersonal; how impersonality relates to the “posthuman.” Additionally, some essays respond to the current “aesthetic turn” in literary scholarship and engage with the lyric, currently much debated, as well as the larger questions of poetics and the logic of genre. These crucial issues are addressed from the perspective of an American literary and philosophical tradition, and progress chronologically, starting from Melville and Emerson and moving via Dickinson, Thoreau and Hawthorne to Henry James and Wallace Stevens. This historical perspective adds the appeal of revisiting the American nineteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, and even rewriting it.

Cowper: The task, with Tirocinium, and selections from the minor poems, A.D. 1784-1799

Author : William Cowper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cowper: The task, with Tirocinium, and selections from the minor poems, A.D. 1784-1799 written by William Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of Herman Melville

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Herman Melville written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetical Works

Author : William Cowper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetical Works written by William Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alden's cyclopedia of universal literature

Author : John B Alden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Alden's cyclopedia of universal literature written by John B Alden and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems of Places Oceana 1 V.; England 4; Scotland 3 V: Iceland, Switzerland, Greece, Russia, Asia, 3 America 5

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Poems of Places Oceana 1 V.; England 4; Scotland 3 V: Iceland, Switzerland, Greece, Russia, Asia, 3 America 5 written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement

Author : George Benjamin Woods
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book English Poetry and Prose of the Romantic Movement written by George Benjamin Woods and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poems

Author : William Cowper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Poems written by William Cowper and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Living Age

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 055390289X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories written by Herman Melville and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener," his famous story about a Wall Street law clerk who takes passive resistance to a comic—and ultimately disastrous—extreme; and in "Benito Cereno," his dazzling account of oppression and rebellion on a nineteenth-century slave ship. Completing this collection of great tales are the eerie "The Encantados," the beautiful, romantic "The Piazza," and Melville's chilling science fiction parable, "The Bell-Tower."