Shamanic Elements In The Poetry Of Ted Hughes

Author : Ewa Panecka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152751031X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shamanic Elements in the Poetry of Ted Hughes written by Ewa Panecka and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study on religious experience in modern poetry features innovatory and accessible close readings of some of the most beloved authors of English verse. In today’s seemingly secular age, religion still remains a highly contested subject. The selection of texts analysed here is representative of a wide spectrum of attitudes, including a sharply critical refusal to acknowledge Christianity as the basis of civilization. Some poets see national religion as a framework for cultural identity, while others worship nature as the omnipotent Force of Life, trying to create their own gods. Rather than reducing poetry to a background for philosophical analysis or theological deliberation, this book presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture and convey the divine. The chapters provide a range of perspectives on individual experience rendered into poetry as a subtle relationship between faith, perception and language. The text will be of interest to anyone looking for new ways of reading poetry as a spiritual guest.

Author : Shamsad Mortuza
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144386594X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry written by Shamsad Mortuza and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This genealogical study focuses on the work of five contemporary British poets in order to locate them in a counter cultural tradition that is informed by strategic responses to ‘state terrorism.’ It identifies some historical moments of ruptures, such as the persecution of the Celtic druids by the Romans, the killing of the Welsh bards by Edward I, the appropriation of bardic materials by Romantic poets writing in a post-French Revolution era, and the beatnik response to a post-World War bipolar world in order to contextualise and discuss the poets of British Poetry Revival writing under Thatcherism. Drawing on Mircea Eliade’s notion of shamanism as ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy,’ these poets have transformed Eliade’s version of the shaman’s ‘elective trauma’ and enacted a critical rejection of totalitarian tools of the state and society. Categorised as the ‘Technicians of the Sacred’ and the ‘Technicians of the Body’ these shamanic poets include Iain Sinclair, Jeremy Prynne, Brian Catling, Barry MacSweeney, and Maggie O’Sullivan. Their poetic strategy is not a New Age fad; it rather investigates and inventories the ‘hidden’ energies of past and present to wrest spirituality away from the confines of religion and politics, while embodying it in textual praxis.

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137310944
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Ted Hughes written by Sandie Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tributes and assessments of his lifetime achievement. Sandie Byrne explores the criticism relating to key issues such as nature, myth, the Laureateship, and Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath.

Author : Daniel Xerri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ted Hughes' Art of Healing written by Daniel Xerri and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Ted Hughes felt that healing was the most fundamental characteristic of all poetry. This study discuss and interprets the healing quality in Hughes' poetic works and evaluates the poet's notion of its significance for human civilization.

Author : Paul Bentley
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Ted Hughes written by Paul Bentley and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, whose work is concerned with the forces of nature and their interaction with man. It also places Hughes' poems in a theoretical context of significant developments in literary theory that occured during his lifetime, quoting in particular commentary of the French theorists Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes.

Author : Craig Robinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349203572
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ted Hughes As Shepherd Of Being written by Craig Robinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-11-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonard M. Scigaj
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Ted Hughes written by Leonard M. Scigaj and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Sagar
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719009396
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Achievement of Ted Hughes written by Keith Sagar and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stuart Hirschberg
Publisher : Barnes & Noble
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth in the Poetry of Ted Hughes written by Stuart Hirschberg and published by Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonard M. Scigaj
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Psychology in the Poetry of Ted Hughes written by Leonard M. Scigaj and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: