Share

Close Calls with Nonsense

2009-03-31 Literary Criticism
Download Close Calls with Nonsense PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2009-03-31
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Close Calls with Nonsense by : Stephanie Burt

Download or read book Close Calls with Nonsense written by Stephanie Burt. This book was released on 2009-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, "the finest critic of his generation" (Lucie Brock-Broido) Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, C. D. Wright, and other contemporary poets whose complexities make them challenging, original, and, finally, readable. Burt's intelligence and enthusiasm introduce both tentative and longtime poetry readers to the rewards of reading new poetry. As Burt writes in the title essay: "The poets I know don't want to be famous people half so much as they want their best poems read; I want to help you find and read them. I write here for people who want to read more new poetry but somehow never get around to it; for people who enjoy Seamus Heaney or Elizabeth Bishop and want to know what next; for people who enjoy John Ashbery or Anne Carson but aren't sure why; and, especially, for people who read the half-column poems in glossy magazines and ask, ‘Is that all there is?'"

Advice from the Lights

2017-10-03 Poetry
Download Advice from the Lights PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2017-10-03
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 815/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Advice from the Lights by : Stephanie Burt

Download or read book Advice from the Lights written by Stephanie Burt. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The brightest and most inviting of Burt’s collections for readers of any, all, and no genders.”—Boston Review Advice from the Lights is a brilliant and candid exploration of gender and identity and a series of looks at a formative past. It’s part nostalgia, part confusion, and part an ongoing wondering: How do any of us achieve adulthood? And why would we want to, if we had the choice? This collection is woven from and interrupted by extraordinary sequences, including Stephanie poems about Stephen’s female self; poems on particular years of the poet’s early life, each with its own memories, desires, insecurities, and pop songs; and versions of poems by the Greek poet Callimachus, whose present-day incarnation worries (who doesn’t?) about mortality, the favor of the gods, and the career of Taylor Swift. The collection also includes poems on politics, location, and parenthood. Taken all together, this is Stephen Burt’s most personal and most accomplished collection, an essential work that asks who we are, how we become ourselves, and why we make art.

The Poem Is You

2016-09-12 Literary Criticism
Download The Poem Is You PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2016-09-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 873/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis The Poem Is You by : Stephanie Burt

Download or read book The Poem Is You written by Stephanie Burt. This book was released on 2016-09-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, he presents 60 poems, each with an original essay explaining how the poem works, why it matters, and how it speaks to other parts of art and culture.

Nonsense on Stilts

2010-05-15 Science
Download Nonsense on Stilts PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2010-05-15
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 871/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Nonsense on Stilts by : Massimo Pigliucci

Download or read book Nonsense on Stilts written by Massimo Pigliucci. This book was released on 2010-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent polls suggest that fewer than 40 percent of Americans believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, despite it being one of science’s best-established findings. More and more parents are refusing to vaccinate their children for fear it causes autism, though this link can been consistently disproved. And about 40 percent of Americans believe that the threat of global warming is exaggerated, despite near consensus in the scientific community that manmade climate change is real. Why do people believe bunk? And what causes them to embrace such pseudoscientific beliefs and practices? Noted skeptic Massimo Pigliucci sets out to separate the fact from the fantasy in this entertaining exploration of the nature of science, the borderlands of fringe science, and—borrowing a famous phrase from philosopher Jeremy Bentham—the nonsense on stilts. Presenting case studies on a number of controversial topics, Pigliucci cuts through the ambiguity surrounding science to look more closely at how science is conducted, how it is disseminated, how it is interpreted, and what it means to our society. The result is in many ways a “taxonomy of bunk” that explores the intersection of science and culture at large. No one—not the public intellectuals in the culture wars between defenders and detractors of science nor the believers of pseudoscience themselves—is spared Pigliucci’s incisive analysis. In the end, Nonsense on Stilts is a timely reminder of the need to maintain a line between expertise and assumption. Broad in scope and implication, it is also ultimately a captivating guide for the intelligent citizen who wishes to make up her own mind while navigating the perilous debates that will affect the future of our planet.

Fashionable Nonsense

2014-01-14 Philosophy
Download Fashionable Nonsense PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2014-01-14
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 408/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Fashionable Nonsense by : Alan Sokal

Download or read book Fashionable Nonsense written by Alan Sokal. This book was released on 2014-01-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. More generally, they challenge the widespread notion that scientific theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions.

You may also like...