American Verse, 1625-1807
Author : William Bradley Otis
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : William Bradley Otis
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : William B. Otis
Publisher : M. S. G. House
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1966-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838306055
Author : William B. Otis
Publisher :
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Leon Kellner
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,82 MB
Release : 1915
Category : American literature
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Author : Jeffrey A. Hammond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2000-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139429779
Jeffrey Hammond's study takes an anthropological approach to the most popular form of poetry in early New England - the funeral elegy. Hammond reconstructs the historical, theological and cultural contexts of these poems to demonstrate how they responded to a specific process of mourning defined by Puritan views on death and grief. The elegies emerge, he argues not as 'poems' to be read and appreciated in a post-romantic sense, but as performative scripts that consoled readers by shaping their experience of loss in accordance with theological expectation. Read in the framework of their own time and place, the elegies shed light on the emotional dimension of Puritanism and the important role of ritual in Puritan culture. Hammond's book reassesses a body of poems whose importance on their own time has been obscured by almost total neglect in ours. It represents the first full-length study of its kind in English.
Author : Perry Miller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486161056
Critically acclaimed compilation includes writings by William Bradford, Increase Mather, William Hubbard, Anne Bradstreet, and other influential figures. "The best selection ever made of Puritan literature." — historian Samuel Eliot Morison.
Author : James Engell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780271018904
During the past century, literary education, often divorced from rhetoric, has grown increasingly distant from the practice of language in statecraft, law, religion, and ethics. Yet literature and rhetoric retain open, independent powers to enhance what Emerson calls &"the conduct of life.&" In these provocative essays, James Engell argues that a more complete literary training can foster a heightened sense of shared social experience, an awareness of diverse views, a love of language, and a more powerful ability to express the values we enshrine or debate. Revealing a set of deep intersections among literature, politics, rhetoric, and the public deliberation of values, he explores how dedicated individuals of different callings resort to heightened language in order to secure knowledge, test beliefs, consider policy, and promote action. Through profiles of Lincoln, Burke, Swift, Hume, Lowth, Vico, and others, Engell explores the political and ethical involvement of writers with their culture in order to reestablish links between literary qualities of language and the means by which we challenge power and secure liberty. He presents a cogent argument for a different, expanded kind of literary education, suggesting that training in rhetoric, now often misunderstood or neglected, can serve the common good without becoming mired in partisan squabbles or academic pedantry. Despite the dominance of visual media in our society, observes Engell, the difficult problems we face must be resolved through language. By presenting writers who use resourceful language to engage political contests and cultural issues, he contributes to ongoing debates in education, politics, and culture without subscribing to easy labels of &"left&" and &"right&" or &"traditional&" versus &"innovative.&" He demonstrates imaginative ways to apply time-tested literary techniques to a changing world, making use of the past yet in a way that the past could not predict. This passionately argued book calls for a shift in the ways we teach and regard literature.
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Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Bibliography
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Page : 928 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Bibliography
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Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 2816 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
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ISBN : 0520321871