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Metrical Claims and Poetic Experience
Shows that analyzing meter as it is discussed and deployed in different historical moments offers crucial insights about language and how human beings use it, and explores how meter illuminates the interplay of culture, cognition, emotion, and embodiment.
The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy
The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy presents a range of chapters written by a highly international group of scholars from disciplines such as literary studies, arts, theatre, and philosophy to analyze the ambitions of avant-garde artists. Together, these essays highlight the interdisciplinary scope of the historic avant-garde and the interconnectedness of its artists. Contributors analyze topics such as abstraction and estrangement across the arts, the imaginary dialogue between Lev Yakubinsky and Mikhail Bakhtin, the problem of the “masculine ethos” in the Russian avant-garde, the transformation of barefoot dancing, Kazimir Malevich’s avant-garde poetic experimentations, the ecological imagination of the Polish avant-garde, science-fiction in the Russian avant-garde cinema, and the almost forgotten history of the avant-garde children’s literature in Germany. The chapters in this collection open a new critical discourse about the avant-garde movement in Europe and reshape contemporary understandings of it.
Poetry, Politics, and Culture
A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Where the latter advocated a theocentric or reactionary response to the cultural crises of modernity, the former affirmed an essentially humanist and democratic social and aesthetic ethos. In Poetry, Politics, and Culture, Harold Kaplan offers a penetrating comparative study of these representative and distinctively influential poets.All four poets wrote in an atmosphere of cultural crisis following World War I, caught as they were betw...
Teardrops of Time
Focusing on one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, Angkarn Kallayanapong (1926–2012), this book makes a unique contribution to understandings of non-Western literary modernity. Arnika Fuhrmann investigates how the Thai poet adapts Buddhist understandings of time to create a modern Asian aesthetic imaginary. While Angkarn's poetry conjures the image of an early modern Thai cosmopolitanism, it also pioneers a poetics reflective of present-day globalization. The result is an experiment in Buddhist cosmopolitan aesthetic modernity. Teardrops of Time contextualizes the poet's work in the literary history and cultural politics of his time, tracing the transformation of a modern Thai cultural and political imaginary through the political history of the country's authoritarian governance since the late 1950s and the exigencies of an increasingly globalized economy since the 1980s. As Angkarn's work aligns itself with contemporaneous global trends in poetry, the book reads it alongside the work of Paul Celan and Allen Ginsberg.
An Odyssey for Our Time
In her 2007 poem cycle Niemands Frau, Barbara Köhler returns to Homer’s Odyssey, not to retell it, but to take up some of the threads it has woven into the cultural tradition of the West – and to unravel them, just as Penelope, the wife of the hero who called himself Nobody, unravelled each night the web she re-wove by day. Köhler’s return to the Odyssey takes place under the sign of a grammatical shift, from ‘er’ to ‘sie’, from the singular hero to a plurality of female voices – Nausicaa, Circe, Calypso, Ino Leucothea, Helen and Penelope herself – with implications for thinking about identity, power and knowledge, about gender and relationality, but also about the corpor...
Durs Grünbein
»Dichtung versetzt Sprache in einen Traumzustand, in dem sie sich der zudringlichen Realität meditierend vergewissert.« Mit diesem für das dichterische Projekt Durs Grünbeins sowie seine gesamte Ästhetik so zentralen Satz beginnt der Literaturkritiker Michael Eskin seine Einführung in dessen Traumarbeit. Anhand einer akribisch geführten und mit Notizen versehenen Traumkartei erinnert Grünbein eine Vielzahl seiner Träume – von seinen Töchtern, die wie Nixen aus der Wohnung schwimmen, von einem Picknick mit seinen Eltern in der Nähe eines Blutbads in Kamerun, von einer verführerischen Schönen im Flugzeug und einer Kröte mit Gaumenaugen. »Was dem Dasein poetische Dichte verlei...
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Political History and Culture of Russia
Scholarly articles dealing with political events in Russia up to 1991.
