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Author : Hugh McFadden
Release : 2005
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Elegies & Epiphanies by : Hugh McFadden
Download or read book Elegies & Epiphanies written by Hugh McFadden. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Doyle
Release : 2007
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Rating : 046/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Epiphanies & Elegies by : Brian Doyle
Download or read book Epiphanies & Elegies written by Brian Doyle. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Epiphanies & Elegies is a collection of delightful, accessible poems shot through with wonder, humor, faith, and Irish Catholic heritage. Brian Doyle illuminates seemingly ordinary, everyday events in poems that will immediately touch with the reader with their truth. These warm and insightful pieces are sometimes funny, sometimes poignant takes on the small wonders and inevitable tragedies of life.
Author : Rainer Maria Rilke
Release : 2023
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 980/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Duino Elegies by : Rainer Maria Rilke
Download or read book Duino Elegies written by Rainer Maria Rilke. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Rilke's great work with close readings of each of the ten elegies elucidating how their poetic attributes constitute their meaning. Rilke continues to be the most read and discussed German poet of the modern period. The Duino Elegies, together with the Sonnets to Orpheus, remain his greatest achievement. The themes of the ten elegies - and the conceptual world unique to Rilke from which they emerge - can best be understood through their poetic form: their imagery and neologistic formations, their angular syntax, their abrupt changes of tone and linguistic register, their use of multiple personae and speaking voices, and the often-ironic self-presentation of the author. Commentators, however, have often treated these features as mere formal devices that we can somehow see through to get to what really matters, that is, to what Rilke has to say about the human condition or the meaning of life, to his philosophy or worldview. On the contrary, they are constitutive of meaning in the elegies, and understanding them is crucial to our experience of reading Rilke's work. The purpose of this book is to make such features visible and to explain them to the reader as clearly as possible. This is the first full-length book in English devoted to the elegies in over thirty years. It offers an entirely new translation of each elegy, paired with the original German text, and a close reading of each.
Author : Karen E. Smythe
Release : 1992-11-09
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Figuring Grief by : Karen E. Smythe
Download or read book Figuring Grief written by Karen E. Smythe. This book was released on 1992-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title, Figuring Grief, refers to the narrative process whereby mourning is depicted. In her textual analysis, Smythe explores various connections between representation and consolation. Drawing on genre and narratological theory, she outlines the development of the "fiction-elegy" as a sub-genre and suggests that the modernist writings of Woolf and Joyce are paradigmatic examples of the form. She then uses these paradigms as suggestive "reading models" for the interpretation of works by Gallant, Munro, and other contemporary fiction-elegists. Figuring Grief offers new readings of specific works and suggests that new ways of reading are both demanded and rewarded by a poetics of elegy.
Author : Michael Lipka
Release : 2021-12-06
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism by : Michael Lipka
Download or read book Epiphanies and Dreams in Greek Polytheism written by Michael Lipka. This book was released on 2021-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While modern students of Greek religion are alert to the occasion-boundedness of epiphanies and divinatory dreams in Greek polytheism, they are curiously indifferent to the generic parameters of the relevant textual representations on which they build their argument. Instead, generic questions are normally left to the literary critic, who in turn is less interested in religion. To evaluate the relation of epiphanies and divinatory dreams to Greek polytheism, the book investigates relevant representations through all major textual genres in pagan antiquity. The evidence of the investigated genres suggests that the ‘epiphany-mindedness’ of the Greeks, postulated by most modern critics, is largely an academic chimaera, a late-comer of Christianizing 19th-century-scholarship. It is primarily founded on a misinterpretation of Homer’s notorious anthropomorphism (in the Iliad and Odyssey but also in the Homeric Hymns). This anthropomorphism, which is keenly absorbed by Greek drama and figural art, has very little to do with the religious lifeworld experience of the ancient Greeks, as it appears in other genres. By contrast, throughout all textual genres investigated here, divinatory dreams are represented as an ordinary and real part of the ancient Greeks' lifeworld experience.
