Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: poetics, poets, fragments, coislinianus, tractatus, reconstruction
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1987-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0872200337
ISBN-13: 9780872200333
Richard Janko’s acclaimed translation of Aristotle’s "Poetics" is accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two other unique features are Janko’s translations with notes of both the "Tractatus Coislinianus", which is argued to be a summary of the lost second book of the "Poetics", and fragments of Aristotle’s "Dialogue On Poets", including recently discovered texts about catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.
Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: poetics, amp, myth, greek, mythology
Number of Pages: 363
Published: 1992-04
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0801480485
ISBN-13: 9780801480485
Author: Marjorie Perloff
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Keywords: poetics, amp, contemporary, modern, pedagogy, poetry, differentials
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-09-26
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0817351280
ISBN-13: 9780817351281
Marjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing today. Regarded as highly accessible, her works are credited by many with creating and sustaining new critical interest not only in the work of major modernist poets such as Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and Williams but also in the postwar tradition of American poetic innovation that ranges from the Black Mountain poets, through the New York School and concrete poetry, to the Language Poets of the 1980s and ’90s. In Differentials, Perloff explores and defends her belief in the power of close reading, a strate
Author: Kevin Crotty
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: poetics, myth, odyssey, homer, supplication, iliad
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1994-12
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0801429986
ISBN-13: 9780801429989
In this penetrating and compelling reinterpretation of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Kevin Crotty explores the connection between the "poetic" nature of supplication on the one hand, and, on the other, the importance of supplication in the structure and poetics of the two epics. The supplicant’s attempt to rouse pity by calling to mind a vivid sense of grief, he says, is important for an understanding of the poems, which invite their audience to contemplate scenes of past grieving. A poetics of supplication, Crotty asserts, leads irresistibly to a poetics of the Homeric epic.
Author: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: poetics, ritual, myth, poetry, islamic, immortals, speak, pre, mute
Number of Pages: 334
Published: 1993-09
List price: $75.50
ISBN-10: 0801427649
ISBN-13: 9780801427640
A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur’an as a twin foundation of Arabo-Islamic literary culture. Throughout the rich fifteen-hundred-year history of classical Arabic literature, the qasidah served as profane anti-text to the sacred text of the Qur’an. While recognizing the esteem in which Arabs have traditionally held this poetry of the pagan past, modern critics in both East and West have yet to formulate a poetics that would provide the means to analyze and evaluate the qasida
Author: T. V. Reed
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: poetics, new, movements, historicism, studies, cultural, social, american, believers, five, literary, politics, fifteen, jugglers
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 1992-12-24
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0520075226
ISBN-13: 9780520075221
T.V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political action--and between political action and literary theory. What can the "new literary theory" learn from "new social movements"; and what can social activists learn from poststructuralism, new historicism, feminist theory, and neomarxism?In strikingly new interpretations of texts in four different genres--Agee and Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Ellison’s Invisible Man, Mailer’s Armies of the Night, and the ecofeminist Women’s Pentagon Actions of the early 1980s--Reed shows how reading literary t
Authors:Sandra Richter, Sandra Richter, Anja Zenk,
Publisher: De Gruyter
Keywords: poetics, international, context, aesthetics, scholarly, german, history
Number of Pages: 455
Published: 2010-02-16
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 3110222442
ISBN-13: 9783110222449
Since the 1990s, following the end of postmodernism, literary theory has lost much of its dynamics. This book aims at revitalising literary theory exploring two of its historical bases: German poetics and aesthetics. Beginning in the 1770s and ending in the 1950s, the book examines nearly 200 years of this history, thereby providing the reader with a first history of poetics as well as with bibliographies of the subject. Particular attention is paid to the aesthetics and poetics of popular philosophy, of the Hegel-school, empirical and psychological tendencies in the field since the 1860s, the
