A Defence of Poetry
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 37,75 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Philip Sidney
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1787
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Sir Philip Sidney
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 1595
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1948
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780841478336
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Author : Paul H. Fry
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780804725316
A Defense of Poetry argues that literature can be defined - pragmatist and historicist arguments notwithstanding - and that in its definition its unique value can be discovered. In qualified opposition to the most sophisticated Formalist definitions involving redundancy or economy of expression, the author identifies literature ontologically as a sign of the preconceptual, as the "ostensive moment" that discloses neither the purpose nor the structure of existence but existence itself, revealed in its nonhuman register.
Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 12,75 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category :
ISBN : 1425048722
A brilliant piece of philosophical discussion that displays Shelley's intellect and imagination. The book asserts the ''ideal nature and essential value'' of poetry and is Shelley's most important prose work. His arguments are vividly and convincingly presented.
Author : Gabriel Gudding
Publisher : Pitt Poetry
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 35,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Dangerous, edgy, and dark, Gudding offers a defense not only against the pretense and vanity of war, violence, and religion, but also against the vanity of poetry itself.
Author : Azar Nafisi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0698170334
A New York Times bestseller The author of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with the next chapter of her life in books—a passionate and deeply moving hymn to America Ten years ago, Azar Nafisi electrified readers with her multimillion-copy bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, which told the story of how, against the backdrop of morality squads and executions, she taught The Great Gatsby and other classics of English and American literature to her eager students in Iran. In this electrifying follow-up, she argues that fiction is just as threatened—and just as invaluable—in America today. Blending memoir and polemic with close readings of her favorite novels, she describes the unexpected journey that led her to become an American citizen after first dreaming of America as a young girl in Tehran and coming to know the country through its fiction. She urges us to rediscover the America of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and challenges us to be truer to the words and spirit of the Founding Fathers, who understood that their democratic experiment would never thrive or survive unless they could foster a democratic imagination. Nafisi invites committed readers everywhere to join her as citizens of what she calls the Republic of Imagination, a country with no borders and few restrictions, where the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.