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Interpretation and Literature in Early Medieval China
Covering a time of great intellectual ferment and great influence on what was to come, this book explores the literary and hermeneutic world of early medieval China. In addition to profound political changes, the fall of the Han dynasty allowed new currents in aesthetics, literature, interpretation, ethics, and religion to emerge during the Wei-Jin Nanbeichao period. The contributors to this volume present developments in literature and interpretation during this era from a variety of methodological perspectives, frequently highlighting issues hitherto unremarked in Western or even Chinese and Japanese scholarship. These include the rise of new literary and artistic values as the Han declined, changing patterns of patronage that helped reshape literary tastes and genres, and new developments in literary criticism. The religious changes of the period are revealed in the literary self-presentation of spiritual seekers, the influence of Daoism on motifs in poetry, and Buddhist influences on both poetry and historiography. Traditional Chinese literary figures, such as the fox and the ghost, receive fresh analysis about their particular representation during this period.
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Modern American poetry, \echoes and shadows\
Explores modern American poetry, including biographies of twelve poets such as Robert Frost and Langston Hughes; excerpts of poems, literary criticism, poetic technique, and explication.
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Contemporary American poetry : \not the end, but the beginning\
\"Discover some of the poetry of leading contemporary American poets, including: Roethke, Bishop, Stafford, Lowell, Brooks, Wilbur, Ginsberg, Merwin, Rich, Plath, Collins, and Gluck\"--Provided by publisher.
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Explication of Urban Park Narratives: From Land to the La Villette
The ongoing ontological tension between architecture, art, and science is analyzed using semantic tools. This line of analysis addresses the gap in the literature caused by the lack of a systematic and traceable framework for defining the theatrical meaning of the relationship between multiple coding and performative space. The study examines Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette design from Architecture and Disjunction within the critical framework of Roland Barthes and Bertolt Brecht, and is conducted in the MAXQDA environment. Adopting a qualitative structural narrative analysis methodology and structured around three analytical operations (segmentation–inventory–structuring), the study is validated through interdisciplinary triangulation. At the segmentation phase, Tschumi’s text is divided into 19 meaning units under theoretical nodes based on Brecht’s principles of epic theater. These units were analyzed using closed (deductive) coding with a coding table derived from the literature and developed iteratively to ensure reliability through consensus between the two researchers. During the inventory phase, these meaning units were reinterpreted through open (inductive) coding using Barthes’ five codes, yielding 62 productive terms. During the structuring phase, the distribution and relationships between codes were thematized within the park’s 4 spatial configurations, based on evaluative and inferential layers of meaning.
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Reading the Difficulties
The bold essays that make up
Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and
strategies for reading innovative poetry. Definitions of what
constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered
from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative
poetry concerns free association (John Ashbery), others that
experimental poetry is a “re-staging” of language
(Bruce Andrews) or a syntactic and cognitive break with the past
(Ron Silliman and Lyn Hejinian). The tenets of new poetry abound.
But what of the new reading that such poetry demands? Essays in
Reading the Difficulties ask what kinds of stances allow
readers to interact with verse that deliberately removes many of
the comfortable cues to comprehension—poetry that is
frequently nonnarrative, nonrepresentational, and indeterminate
in subject, theme, or message. Some essays in Thomas Fink and
Judith Halden-Sullivan’s collection address issues of
reader reception and the way specific stances toward reading
support or complement the aesthetic of each poet. Others suggest
how we can be open readers, how innovative poetic texts change
the very nature of reader and reading, and how critical language
can capture this metamorphosis. Some contributors consider how
the reader changes innovative poetry, what language reveals about
this interaction, which new reading strategies unfold for the
audiences of innovative verse, and what questions readers should
ask of innovative verse and of events and experiences that we
might bring to reading it. CONTRIBUTORS Charles Bernstein /
Carrie Conners / Thomas Fink / Kristen Gallagher / Judith
Halden-Sullivan / Paolo Javier / Burt Kimmelman / Hank Lazer /
Jessica Lewis Luck / Stephen Paul Miller / Sheila E. Murphy /
Elizabeth Robinson / Christopher Schmidt / Eileen R.
Tabios
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Von der Schulter Gefallen. Über Die Frage, Ob Literatur Heute Noch Kunst Oder Schon Dienstleistung Ist
Die Nordrhein-Westfalische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Kunste ist eine Vereinigung der fuhrenden Forscherinnen und Forscher des Landes. Sie wurde 1970 als Nachfolgeeinrichtung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen gegrundet. Die Akademie ist in drei wissenschaftliche Klassen fur Geisteswissenschaften, fur Naturwissenschaften und Medizin sowie fur Ingenieur- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und in eine Klasse der Kunste gegliedert. Mit Publikationen zu den wissenschaftlichen Vortragen in den Klassensitzungen, zu offentlichen Veranstaltungen und Symposien will die Akademie die Fach- und allgemeine Offentlichkeit uber die Arbeiten der Akademie und ihrer Forschungsstellen informieren.
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Culture, 1922
Culture, 1922traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the twentieth century. With primary attention to how models of culture are created, elaborated upon, transformed, resisted, and ignored, Marc Manganaro works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary, literary critical, and anthropological writing. Tracing two traditions of thinking about culture, as elite products and pursuits and as common and shared systems of values, Manganaro argues that these modernist formulations are not mutually exclusive and have indeed intermingled in complex and interesting ways throughout the development of literary studies and anthropology.
Beginning with the important Victorian architects of culture--Matthew Arnold and Edward Tylor--the book follows a number of main figures, schools, and movements up to 1950 such as anthropologist Franz Boas, his disciples Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neale Hurston, literary modernists T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, functional anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski, modernist literary critic I. A. Richards, the New Critics, and Kenneth Burke. The main focus here, however, is upon three works published in 1922, the watershed year of Modernism--Eliot'sThe Waste Land, Malinowski'sArgonauts of the Western Pacific, and Joyce'sUlysses. Manganaro reads these masterworks and the history of their reception as efforts toward defining culture. This is a wide-ranging and ambitious study about an ambiguous and complex concept as it moves within and between disciplines.
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Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Bharati Mukherjee’s novel Jasmine works well in the multicultural North American classroom because it can inspire playful, mutually contradictory, inherently unstable readings. The novel must not be thought of as inviting one particular reading but as permitting student readers to find the potential for play in categories of identity that implicate them deeply.
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