Archeologies of InvectivePeter Lang, 2007 - 217 páginas Focusing on specimens of discourse where criticism assumes a flagrantly bucolic persona, Archeologies of Invective investigates hitherto little acknowledged contexts of irony, aggressivity, and vilification. After considering briefly Lucilius and Horace, the author evaluates such diverse figures as Poggio Bracciolini, Quevedo, Dunbar, Poe, and Mencken before proceeding to sustained discussion of Goethe's Italian Journey, Werther, and the Invektiven. In terms of prime-time satiric virtuosity, Byron's Don Juan recycles pastoral animus, acting as a rogue-like mirror-text of the Schiller/Goethe Xenien of the late 1790s. Sidney's double sestina and Villon's Ballad of the Women of Paris are seen inaugurating the modern age, while, at the dawn of the avant-garde, Verlaine's Invectives sample Goethean and Villonesque attitude at a new level of recherché vulgarity. Low- and Highbrow, outlaw and Philistine resurface in Wyndham Lewis's Arcadian perspective on the artist-intellectual. Poets Robert Frost and Theodore Enslin are seen reinvigoratoring the edgily agrest scene of invective in America. Archeologies of Invective situates itself also with respect to a psychohistorical terrain - altered states of consciousness reflecting Faustian transition: the dislocation of the peasant class, the empowerment of women as a heterological state within a state, the advent of modern weaponry, and the rise of alcohol - whose genealogy becomes nothing short of a gin-eology. Stable notions of character give way to impersonal, pantomimic terms of art, such as caliber; the hero is displaced by the wanderer, thief, madman, and clown. Not limiting itself to the literary canon, Archeologies includes analyses of gangster films and sports legends in the context of Arcadian motivation. Finally, Eisenhauer places Philip Roth's American Pastoral within the arc of 19th-century pastoral fiction, locating a prosaic Nowadays in which criticism is still inscribed, as evidenced by Fish's explication of pastoral in the context of professional correctness. |
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... curse on the town that sold him to New York in 1918 , one of the few instances in which history really matters to the American man- or woman - on - the - street . In Ruth's interaction with others , male and female , questions of race ...
... curse on the town that sold him to New York in 1918 , one of the few instances in which history really matters to the American man- or woman - on - the - street . In Ruth's interaction with others , male and female , questions of race ...
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... curse the fidling finders out of Musicke : With enuie I doo hate the loftie mountaines ; And with despite despise the humble vallies : I doo detest night , euening , day , and morning . Klaius . Curse to my selfe my prayer is , the ...
... curse the fidling finders out of Musicke : With enuie I doo hate the loftie mountaines ; And with despite despise the humble vallies : I doo detest night , euening , day , and morning . Klaius . Curse to my selfe my prayer is , the ...
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... curse the cause of their being . With a pestilent curse he infects these sad times A vile abstract of hell and Italia's crimes . ' 7 The son of this Italian " monster " -close in spelling but not yet equivalent to mobster , that which ...
... curse the cause of their being . With a pestilent curse he infects these sad times A vile abstract of hell and Italia's crimes . ' 7 The son of this Italian " monster " -close in spelling but not yet equivalent to mobster , that which ...
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Elegy and Iambus Reason | 11 |
Life and Death | 29 |
Goethe and the Recalibration of Arcadian | 49 |
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