Secular Lyric

Author : John Michael
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823279731
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secular Lyric written by John Michael and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets’ work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyncratic but related ways, each disrupt conventional expectations while foregrounding language’s material density, thereby revealing both the potential and the limitations of art in the modern age.

Author : Arthur Keister Moore
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secular Lyric in Middle English written by Arthur Keister Moore and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1935 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scholar of this work has attempted to frame a comprehensive view of medieval secular lyrics, an attempt which includes discussion of songs of satire and protest and the art lyric.

Author : John Michael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823279715
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secular Lyric written by John Michael and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Secular Lyrics, Michael interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson adapt ancient and renaissance conventions of lyric expression to the developing conditions of their modern context, and especially to the heterogeneity of beliefs and believers in a secular society and to the altered or emergent role that literature assumes in a secular age. In close readings of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, Michael analyzes how each of these poets registers the pressures and possibilities of thesechanges in the contexts and audiences for poetry within the transformative tropes and rhetorical textures of their poems. Especially Michael shows how each of these poets, in idiosyncratic but related ways, registers the pressures of the modern crowd--which Benjamin rightly identified as nineteenth-century poetry's essential topic--within their poems, where the mass appears as potential readers, as resistant skeptics, as a heterogeneous crowd of contending beliefs and contentious believers. (Here Michael engages Charles Taylor's redefinitions of secularity in his epochal A Secular Age and recent debates about the secularity or post-secularity of literature and criticism in our present moment.) These nineteenth-century poets (unlike their more conventional contemporaries) cannot imagine credibly advising, authoritatively sermonizing, or effectively consoling the mass, heterogeneous audience they confront. For them, the processes of signification rather than the communication of truths become central to their poetry, which in turn becomes an important origin of the modern poetry that in Europe and the United States follows. Each invokes the normative practices that have long characterized Western poetry only to disrupt the audience's conventional expectations and enliven the reader's sense of language's material density and the limits and potentials of modern life. What Kristeva, years ago, identified as a revolution in poetic language begins not with Mallarmé but with Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in their attempts to create a space for literature in the modern, secular era they sensed stirring the atmosphere around them.

Author : Frank Allen Patterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle English Penitential Lyric written by Frank Allen Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Keister Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secular Lyric in Middle English written by Arthur Keister Moore and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rossell Hope Robbins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries written by Rossell Hope Robbins and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : L. Besserman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403977275
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures written by L. Besserman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-02-04 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.

Author : Arthur K. Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secular Lyric in Middle English written by Arthur K. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Taft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135485992
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blues Lyric Formula written by Michael Taft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first rigourous and detailed exploration of exactly how blues singers used formulas to create songs, and it more than amply fills the gap in the the study of the blues, where the structure and content of the lyrics have been less fully explored than the musical form. Focusing on the songs recorded by African-American singers for pre-World War Two commercial recording companies, this is an excellent structural analysis of the formulaic composistion of blues lyrics. This book gives a step-by-step description of the rules implicit in this formulaic structure and inspires new discussion of lyric structures. A wide array of readers will find this insightful and informative: from students of African-American music, cultural studies, history and linguistics, to Blues fans fascinated by exactly how the lyrics of this influential music style are written.

Author : Douglas Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042958881X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric written by Douglas Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1972, Themes and Images in the Medieval English Religious Lyric discusses themes and images in religious lyric poetry in Medieval English poetry. The book looks at the affect that tradition and convention had on the religious poetry of the medieval period. It examines the background of the lyrics, including the Latin tradition which was inherited by medieval vernacular and shows how religious lyric poetry presents, through a rich variety of images, the significant incidents in the scheme of Christ’s redemption, such as the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Passion and the Resurrection. It also considers the lyrics which were designed to assist humanity in the task of living in a Christian life, as well as those which prepared them for death.