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Vergleichende Weltliteraturen / Comparative World Literatures: DFG-Symposion 2018
by Dieter Lamping Galin TihanovDas Konzept der Weltliteratur ist über die Komparatistik hinaus zu einem grundlegenden Paradigma für die Erforschung der Literatur avanciert, das sich neben dem lange herrschenden nationalen etabliert hat. Die gerade durch neue literarische Entwicklungen komplexer gewordene Logik des Begriffs ‚Weltliteratur‘ reflektiert die verschiedenen Aspekte literarischer Internationalisierung. Sie verweist auch auf theoretische Differenzen, die zugleich eine historische und kulturelle Signatur haben und die deshalb nur komparativ-differenzierend beschrieben werden können. In diesem Sinn stellt die Pluralität der Weltliteratur als Begriff wie als Sache den Ausgangspunkt der Überlegungen des Symposions dar, die sich als in einem starken Sinn vergleichend verstehen und dabei auch über die europäische Literatur und den europäischen Kontext hinausgehen.
Verlaine: A Study in Parallels
by A. E. CarterThe contradictions of Verlaine's nature are mirrored in his verse, which is alternately mystic, sensuous, exquisite and prosaic. He had extraordinary lyric powers; he was a master of eerie harmonies such as few other poets have achieved, and, in Sagesse, he produced religious verse which challenges comparison with the very best of its kind. Yet here and there can be found a curious weakening in the texture of thought and inspiration: he turns and twists, takes flight, seeks reassurance in platitude and convention – marriage, dogmatic theology, reactionary political creeds. He is even capable of lamenting (as Rimbaud shows him in Une Saison en Enfer) the emotional and poetic experiments which give his work its supreme value. It is almost as though he were afraid of his own talent. The explanation, as far as there is one, lies in a combination of personality and circumstance. This biography attempts to explore the "parallels" (Verlaine's own term) between his life and his poetry. Nearly everything he produced, whether good or bad, was a reflection of some crisis of thought or feeling. No one demonstrates better than Verlaine the antinomies between the artist and his work, between the man and the genius; and in every case we are obliged to admit that the one explains the other. Without the weakness and the squalor we might indeed have had a rational human being and a good husband for Mathilde Mauté, but we should have had no poet, or no poet like Paul Verlaine. Professor Carter concentrates on the combination of Verlaine's personality and experiences that produced some of the most brilliant poetry in the French language. The result is one of the best critical biographies of Verlaine published to date.
Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia: The Bard and the Rag-picker
by Catalin TaranuIn a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms, including Latinate Christian history and the biblical epic. These modes employed the conceit of their participating in a tradition of oral verse for a variety of purposes: from political propaganda to constructing origin myths for early medieval nationhood or heroic masculinity, and sometimes for challenging these paradigms. The more complex of these historical visions actively meditated on their own relationship to truthfulness and fictionality while also performing sophisticated (and often subversive) cultural and socio-emotional work for its audiences. By rethinking canonical categories of historiographical discourse from within medieval textual productions, Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia: The Bard and the Rag-Picker aims to recover a part of the wide array of narrative poetic forms through which medieval communities made sense of their past and structured their socio-emotional experience.
Veronica Forrest-Thomson
by Gareth FarmerThis study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics. Gareth Farmer explores Forrest-Thomson's relationship to the conflicting models of literary criticism in the twentieth century such as the close-reading models of F. R Leavis and William Empson, postructuralist models, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Written by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson's work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson's published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive. Drawing on close readings of Forrest-Thomson's writings, this study argues that her work enables us reevaluate literary-critical history and suggests new paradigms for the literary aesthetics and poetics of the future.
Veronica Franco in Dialogue (Toronto Italian Studies)
by Marilyn MigielSince the late twentieth century, the Venetian courtesan Veronica Franco has been viewed as a triumphant proto-feminist icon: a woman who celebrated her sexuality, an outspoken champion of women and their worth, and an important intellectual and cultural presence in sixteenth-century Venice. In Veronica Franco in Dialogue, Marilyn Migiel provides a nuanced account of Franco’s rhetorical strategies through a close analysis of her literary work. Focusing on the first fourteen poems in the Terze rime, a collection of Franco’s poems published in 1575, Migiel looks specifically at back-and-forth exchanges between Franco and an unknown male author. Migiel argues that in order to better understand what Franco is doing in the poetic collection, it is essential to understand how she constructs her identity as author, lover, and sex worker in relation to this unknown male author. Veronica Franco in Dialogue accounts for the moments of ambivalence, uncertainty, and indirectness in Franco’s poetry, as well as the polemicism and assertions of triumph. In doing so, it asks readers to consider their ideological investments in the stories we tell about early modern female authors and their cultural production.
Versatilidad de la emoción, Ars adivinatoria, Trizas y trazos
by Elena Camacho Rozas<P><P>Emociónate y adivínate en todos estos trazos. Escribir poesía puede ser una forma de llorar sin lágrimas las penas que nos atenazan, pero también de sonreír irónicamente haciéndole un corte de mangas a la muerte, a la vida y a nuestra propia solemnidad. <P><P>El sortilegio de esta comunicación ancestral y mágica compendia, como un oráculo, un manual de supervivencia: sirve de catarsis, explica los entresijos de la psicología humana, aleja del ostracismo y de la incomprensión. <P><P>La poesía no es una simple gragea capaz de aliviar al otro, adormecer su angustia, avivar sus compromisos, comprometer su docilidad, aclarar sus dudas o hacerle dudar de sus certezas; sino un mirador desde el que vernos reflejados, con la concisión de unos trazos caligráficos, en lo que cabalga en el ánimo o vive soterrado en el inconsciente de cualquiera de nosotros.
Verse: An Introduction to Prosody (Princeton Legacy Library #2809)
by Charles O. HartmanVerse is a seminal introduction to prosody for any student learning to read or write poetry, from secondary to graduate school. Discusses iambic pentameter and other kinds of metrical verse, scansion, rhythm and rhyme, free verse, song, and advanced topics such as poetic meter, linguistic approaches to verse, and the computer scansion of metrical poetry Written in a clear, engaging style by a poet and teacher with more than 30 years of experience teaching the subject Supplemented by a user-friendly website with student exercises and additional resources
Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne
by Frances CruickshankInnovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poems, references to their letters, sermons, and prose treatises, and to other contemporary poets and theorists. In demonstrating a relationship between poetics and religious consciousness in Donne's and Herbert's verse, Frances Cruickshank explores their attitudes to the cultural, theological, and aesthetic enterprise of writing and reading verse. Cruickshank shows that Donne and Herbert regarded poetry as a mode not determined by its social and political contexts, but as operating in and on them with its own distinct set of aesthetic and intellectual values, and that ultimately, verse mattered as a privileged mode of religious discourse. This book is an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the nature of literary and cultural study of early modern England, and about the relationship between the writer and the world. Cruickshank confirms Donne's reputation as a fascinating and brilliant poetic figure while simultaneously rousing interest in Herbert by noting his unique merging of rusticity and urbanity and tranquility and uncertainty, allowing the reader to enter into these poets' imaginative worlds and to understand the literary genre they embraced and then transformed.
Verse and Prose
by Horace Elisha ScudderA collection or rhymes, proverbs, and popular saysings for beginnings reader, edited by Horace Elisha Scudder.
Versed (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Rae ArmantroutRae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded view of the arc of her writing. The poems in the first section, Versed, play with vice and versa, the perversity of human consciousness. They flirt with error and delusion, skating on a thin ice that inevitably cracks: "Metaphor forms / a crust / beneath which / the crevasse of each experience." Dark Matter, the second section, alludes to more than the unseen substance thought to make up the majority of mass in the universe. The invisible and unknowable are confronted directly as Armantrout's experience with cancer marks these poems with a new austerity, shot through with her signature wit and stark unsentimental thinking. Together, the poems of Versed part us from our assumptions about reality, revealing the gaps and fissures in our emotional and linguistic constructs, showing us ourselves where we are most exposed.
Verses from the Center
by Stephen BatchelorThe understanding of the nature of reality is the insight upon which the Buddha was able to achieve his own enlightenment. This vision of the sublime is the source of all that is enigmatic and paradoxical about Buddhism. In Verses from the Center, Stephen Batchelor explores the history of this concept and provides readers with translations of the most important poems ever written on the subject, the poems of 2nd century philosopher Nagarjuna.
Verses Sertanejos
by Aldivan Teixeira Torres Luís CostaSertão of the northeast, arid and barren land, Cradle of the greatest droughts, In cycles she delights herself. When they come it causes great damage, For the earth, fauna, flora and the man himself. Everything she consumes. And what to do? Before tremendous tragedy? There are two possibilities: Stay and fight to survive Or get out. Although the second option is more plausible The sertanejo insists for the first one For the love of her land, her own origins. Your attitud is admirable and praiseworthy. I feel proud of this noble character Which is coarse, thick, strong And at the same time simple. Her example shows us where the true force is. A powerful force that is able to fight against the impossible This is something that politicians do not even think about. And so the sertão of the northeast lies/dies forgotten.
Versions of Antihumanism: Milton and Others
by Stanley FishStanley Fish, one of the foremost critics of literature working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Milton. This book brings together his finest published work with brand new material on Milton and on other authors and topics in early modern literature. In his analyses of Renaissance texts, he meditates on the interpretive problems that confront readers and offers a sustained critique of historicist methods of interpretation. Intention, he argues, is key to understanding which pieces of historical data are relevant to literary criticism. Lucid, provocative, direct and inimitable, this new book from Stanley Fish is required reading for anyone teaching or studying Milton and early modern literary studies.
Versos de un joven poeta
by Rainer Maria RilkeVersos de un joven poeta, de la colección «Poesía portátil», es una selección de los versos más representativos del gran poeta en lengua alemana del siglo XX, Rainer Maria Rilke, acompañada de su celebrada carta «Carta a un joven poeta». Abre esta selección la famosa «Carta a un joven poeta», una delicada misiva que Rainer Maria Rilke dirigió a un joven admirador en la que bien podría estar hablándole a todos aquellos movidos por un espíritu creador. Esta antología incluye algunos poemas tempranos, donde se entrevé el intelectual en el que se acabaría convirtiendo y también el amante que erró por toda Europa, enamorando sin promesas y huyendo, incapaz de vivir más allá de sí mismo. Cierra la antología una selección de El libro de horas, dedicado a la poesía, esa vocación total que le abdujo y le cobijó de una realidad en la que nunca llegó a encajar, siempre a la deriva entre lo divino y lo terrenal. Principal exponente de la poesía en lengua alemana del siglo XX, Rilke nació en Praga en 1875, donde estudió letras y filosofía, una carrera que continuaría en Múnich y en Berlín. Un viaje a Rusia en 1899 le inspiraría sus conocidas Elegías de Duino (1922). La leyenda de amor y muerte del alférez Christoph Rilke, incluida en esta antología, atrajo la atención de los críticos en Francia, donde había residido y trabado amistad con el escultor Auguste Rodin y el escritor André Gide. Tras la primera guerra mundial, en la que participó brevemente, viajó por varios países mediterráneos y finalmente se estableció en Suiza, donde publicaría los Sonetos a Orfeo, una de sus obras más conocidas. -------«Cuánto quiero a las pobres palabras, que tan míserasestán en lo diario: a ellas, las invisiblespalabras. De mis fiestas les regalo coloressonríen, y se ponen alegres lentamente.»-------
Versos de un joven poeta (Flash Poesía #Volumen)
by Rainer Maria RilkeVersos de un joven poeta, de la colección «Poesía portátil», es una selección de los versos más representativos del gran poeta en lengua alemana del siglo XX, Rainer Maria Rilke, acompañada de su celebrada carta «Carta a un joven poeta». Abre esta selección la famosa «Carta a un joven poeta», una delicada misiva que Rainer Maria Rilke dirigió a un joven admirador en la que bien podría estar hablándole a todos aquellos movidos por un espíritu creador. Esta antología incluye algunos poemas tempranos, donde se entrevé el intelectual en el que se acabaría convirtiendo y también el amante que erró por toda Europa, enamorando sin promesas y huyendo, incapaz de vivir más allá de sí mismo. Cierra la antología una selección de El libro de horas, dedicado a la poesía, esa vocación total que le abdujo y le cobijó de una realidad en la que nunca llegó a encajar, siempre a la deriva entre lo divino y lo terrenal. Principal exponente de la poesía en lengua alemana del siglo XX, Rilke nació en Praga en 1875, donde estudió letras y filosofía, una carrera que continuaría en Múnich y en Berlín. Un viaje a Rusia en 1899 le inspiraría sus conocidas Elegías de Duino (1922). La leyenda de amor y muerte del alférez Christoph Rilke, incluida en esta antología, atrajo la atención de los críticos en Francia, donde había residido y trabado amistad con el escultor Auguste Rodin y el escritor André Gide. Tras la primera guerra mundial,en la que participó brevemente, viajó por varios países mediterráneos y finalmente se estableció en Suiza, donde publicaría los Sonetos a Orfeo, una de sus obras más conocidas. -------«Cuánto quiero a las pobres palabras, que tan míserasestán en lo diario:a ellas, las invisiblespalabras. De mis fiestas les regalo coloressonríen, y se ponen alegres lentamente.»-------
A Vertical Art: On Poetry
by Simon ArmitageFrom the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures. Questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, he offers sparkling new insights about poetry and an array of favorite poets.Based on Armitage’s public lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, A Vertical Art illuminates poets as varied as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, A. R. Ammons, and Claudia Rankine. The chapters are often delightfully sassy in their treatment, as in “Like, Elizabeth Bishop,” in which Armitage dissects—and tallies—the poet’s predilection for similes. He discusses Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, poetic lists, poetry and the underworld, and the dilemmas of translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Armitage also pulls back the curtain on the unromantic realities of making a living as a contemporary poet, and ends the book with his own list of “Ninety-Five Theses” on the principles and practice of poetry.An appealingly personal book that explores the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the viewpoint of a practicing writer and dedicated reader, A Vertical Art makes an insightful and entertaining case for the power and potential of poetry today.
The Vertical Interrogation Of Strangers
by Bhanu Kapil RiderPoetry. Asian American Studies. THE VERTICAL INTERROGATION OF STRANGERS blends the narratives of the travelog and the coming of age novel. It is written by a young Indian woman whose travels take her between homes in two countries, India and England, and through parts of the United States. These short pieces reveal new ways of belonging in the world and possibilities for an art grounded in a localized cosmopolitan culture.
Vertigo
by Marvin Bell"Marvin Bell has the largest heart since Walt Whitman."-Harvard Review"One of our finest and most acclaimed poets."-Booklist"Charged with making the darkness visible, Bell's 'Dead Man' sometimes glows with an eerily illuminating light."-Publishers WeeklyMarvin Bell is one of America's great poets, and his legacy includes the invention of a startling poetic form called the "Dead Man" poems. The Dead Man is alive and dead at once: not a persona, but an overarching consciousness, embedded in poetics and philosophy. Vertigo is the latest from the Dead Man-a brilliant, enigmatic, wise, and wild book.The dead man stands still, waiting for the boomerang to-you know.He hears the words of philosophers ricochet among chasms and disappear in the far away.His scent goes forth, his old skin, hair and nails, and he spits, too.He leans forward to look backward, and the ancient world reappears.It is the beginning, when mountains, canyons and seas were new,before the moon had eyes, before paper, before belief.Anything he says now are souvenirs of the future...Marvin Bell has published seventeen books of poetry and has received numerous honors, including the Lamont Award and Senior Fulbright appointments to Yugoslavia and Australia. He taught for forty years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and was the first State Poet of Iowa. He lives in Iowa and Washington.
Vertigo & Ghost: Poems
by Fiona BensonNamed a Most Anticipated Book of Spring 2021 by Publishers Weekly Winner of the 2019 Forward and Roehampton Prizes, Vertigo & Ghost offers a searing reimagining of Greek myths of sexual violence that crackles with rage, energy, and empathy. Beginning with a poem about the teenage dawning of sexuality, Vertigo & Ghost pitches quickly into a fierce, electrifying, riveting sequence that exposes Zeus as a serial rapist, for whom women are prey and sex is weaponized. As unflinching, devastating poems of vulnerability and anger confront Zeus with aggressions both personal and historical, his house comes crumbling down. In its place, acclaimed poet Fiona Benson reveals a disturbing contemporary world in which violent acts against women continue to be perpetrated on a daily, even hourly, basis. In the volume’s second half, Benson shifts to an intimate and lyrical document of depression and family life. These moving poems probe the ambivalent terrain of early motherhood—its anxieties and claustrophobias as well as its gifts of tenderness and love—reclaiming the sanctuary of domestic private life and the right to raise children in peace and safety. Together, these two halves form a complex portrait of modern womanhood. Dynamic in its range and risk, Vertigo & Ghost introduces an important British voice to an American audience, a voice that speaks out with clarity, grace, and bravery against abuse of power.
Vértigos y norias
by RuloRulo se atreve por primera vez a ir más allá del universo de sus letras musicales y nos abre las puertas a su mundo interior a través de este libro repleto de textos, poemas y reflexiones. «La infancia es ese hogar que nunca podrás deshabitar». No somos más que niños en un parque de atracciones, un cúmulo de vértigos y norias, una aventura desordenada a la que a veces le falta argumento y otras le sobran giros de guion. Pero en ese imprevisto juego de azar está la gracia: sentir es un deporte de riesgo en el que no hay medidas de seguridad. Estas páginas componen un dibujo perfecto de esa apuesta que es vivir, de esa carrera de obstáculos que es latir cada día, de esa nostalgia y ese deseo que nos hacen caminar hacia delante sin olvidar el laberinto que nos trajo hasta aquí. En este libro, Rulo, cantante, compositor y uno de los grandes exponentes del rock español de las últimas décadas, se atreve por primera vez a ir más allá del universo de sus letras musicales y nos abre las puertas a su mundo interior a través de una gran variedad de textos, poemas y reflexiones fruto de sus experiencias y anécdotas rodadas a lo largo de miles de kilómetros con su furgoneta y tras los escenarios.
Verwurzelungen. Sarah Kirsch (Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft)
by Jana Kittelmann Stephan Pabst Mike RottmannSarah Kirsch (1935-2013) zählt zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Dichterinnen. Erfolgreiche Lyrikbände wie „Zaubersprüche“ und „Erlkönigs Tochter", die Interviewsammlung „Die Pantherfrau“ oder die Erzählung „Allerlei-Rauh“ haben die gesamtdeutsche Literaturlandschaft nachhaltig beeinflusst. Kirsch hinterließ ein vielfältiges Werk, das neben Gedichten auch Briefwechsel, Tagebuchaufzeichnungen, Reiseberichte, Feuilletonbeiträge, kleinere Prosatexte, Übersetzungen, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle umfasst. Der Sammelband arbeitet mehr als zehn Jahre nach dem Tod der Dichterin die fortwährende Brisanz und Aktualität ihres Werks heraus, das von dem unverwechselbaren „Sarah-Sound" (Peter Hacks) ebenso geprägt ist wie von einer präzisen und zugleich visionären Wahrnehmung von Natur und deren Gefährdung.
Very Bad Poetry
by Kathryn Petras Ross PetrasWriting very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter),Very Bad Poetryis sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).