Poetic Gesture

Author : Kristine S. Santilli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136714138
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic Gesture written by Kristine S. Santilli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a phenomenological context, and through a theoretical contemplation of certain myths as embodiments of the tacit 'logic' of poetry, the book argues that poems convey meaning much the way that spontaneous unreadable gestures do. Moving between theory and practice, and drawing upon the poetry of Wallace Stevens whose work is embedded with a richness and complexity of gesture, the author shows how the poetic text sustains and embodies an inconvertible, ancient and innately human form of linguistic knowledge.

Author : Robert E. Stillman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838750858
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sidney's Poetic Justice written by Robert E. Stillman and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of The Old Arcadia as a Renaissance pastoral romance. Stillman focuses attention on the 27 eclogues that Sidney sets within his prose narrative.

Author : Charles Bambach
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438445822
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice written by Charles Bambach and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the measure of ethics? What is the measure of justice? And how do we come to measure the immeasurability of these questions? Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice situates the problem of justice in the interdisciplinary space between philosophy and poetry in an effort to explore the sources of ethical life in a new way. Charles Bambach engages the works of two philosophical poets who stand as the bookends of modernity—Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Paul Celan (1920–1970)—offering close textual readings of poems from each that define and express some of the crucial problems of German philosophical thought in the twentieth century: tensions between the native and the foreign, the proper and the strange, the self and the other. At the center of this philosophical conversation between Hölderlin and Celan, Bambach places the work of Martin Heidegger to rethink the question of justice in a nonlegal, nonmoral register by understanding it in terms of poetic measure. Focusing on Hölderlin's and Heidegger's readings of pre-Socratic philosophy and Greek tragedy, as well as on Celan's reading of Kabbalah, he frames the problem of poetic justice against the trauma of German destruction in the twentieth century.

Author : Layli Long Soldier
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555979610
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WHEREAS written by Layli Long Soldier and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.

Author : Marc Castera
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453578153
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic Gestures written by Marc Castera and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the last time you offer something that makes someone feel truly special?Something no one could discard? Something that positions you in the centerof someones heart? Something that proves you arent afraid toexpress your sentiment? A gift may earn momentary appreciation but, Poetic Gesturesis the type of gestures that triggers sentimental feedback. Through the provision of Poetic gestures therefore, take the opportunity to make a genuine gesture to your loved one.

Author : Alex C. Purves
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190857927
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer and the Poetics of Gesture written by Alex C. Purves and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on studies of movement, gesture, and early film to offer a series of readings on repetition through the body in Homer. Each chapter presents an argument based on a specific posture, action or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and crouching), through which to rethink epic practices of embodiment and formularity.

Author : Jonathan P. Roth
Publisher : NOLO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetic Justice written by Jonathan P. Roth and published by NOLO. This book was released on 1988 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with amusing illustrations, this treasure trove of commentary down the ages draws upon the sayings of those in the legal profession and outside of it--philosophers, psychologists, businessmen, scientists, statesmen, historians, artists, clergymen, and a host of others. 50 line drawings.

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice written by Ellery Queen and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1967 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roman Katsman
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At the Other End of Gesture written by Roman Katsman and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the enchantment and power of gesture in literature and art, using a wide selection of cultural and scientific materials, from the Bible, Quintillian and Buddhism to David McNeil's cognitive psychology, Eric Gans' philosophical anthropology and Richard Sennett's sociology. The author demonstrates that represented gestures, and even those that are not represented, originate a unique cognitive-physical interaction between the reader or viewer and the composition. The discussion focuses mainly on an analysis of gestural poetics in a number of works of modern Hebrew writers, from the beginning of the twentieth to the beginning of the twenty-first century, from Uri Nissan Gnessin and Jacob Steinberg to Meir Shalev and Etgar Keret. In the course of the discussion gesture is shown to be a micro-myth that unites order and chaos, a mechanism that establishes the power of symbolism and visibility in the modern culture of the «fall of public man». The study demonstrates the variety of ways in which a myth of impossible and inevitable touch-non-touch gestures is created.

Author : Alex Purves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190857943
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homer and the Poetics of Gesture written by Alex Purves and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homer and the Poetics of Gesture is the first book of its kind to consider the epic formula in terms that are gestural as well as verbal. Drawing on studies from multiple disciplines, including movement theory, dance studies, phenomenology, and early film, it suggests new approaches for interpreting the relationship between repetition and embodiment in Homer. Through a series of dynamic close readings, Purves argues that the deep-seated habits and gestures of epic bodies are instrumental to our understanding of the Iliad and Odyssey, especially insofar as they attune us to the kinetic structures and sensibilities that shape the meaning of the poems. Each of the chapters isolates a scene in which a specific action, posture, or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and reaching) emerges from the background of its other iterations in order to make larger claims about its poetic significance within the epics as a whole. Beginning from the premise that gestures are shared between characters and often identically repeated within the poems' formulaic system, the book reconsiders long-standing arguments about Homeric agency and character by focusing on those moments when a gesture diverges from its expected course, redirecting the plot or drawing the poem in new and surprising directions. Homer and the Poetics of Gesture not only affords new insights into the nature of epic repetition and poetic originality but also reveals unnoticed connections between Homeric structure and technique and the embodied habits and movements of the characters within the poems.