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Provides information on Beat Generation poet Gregory Corso (1930- ), compiled by Levi Asher. Details his writing style and links to a bibliography of Corso's work.
Author : Kirby Olson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release :
Category : Beat generation
ISBN : 9780809389247
Provides information on Beat Generation poet Gregory Corso (1930- ), compiled by Levi Asher. Details his writing style and links to a bibliography of Corso's work.
Author : Kirby Olson
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Beat generation
ISBN :
Provides information on Beat Generation poet Gregory Corso (1930- ), compiled by Levi Asher. Details his writing style and links to a bibliography of Corso's work.
Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1586176854
The highly regarded French philosopher, tienne Gilson, brilliantly plumbs the depths of Thomistic Realism, and false Thomisms as well, in this answer to Kantian modernism. The important work, exquisitely translated by Mark Wauck, brings the essential elements of philosophy into view as a cohesive, readily understandable, and erudite structure, and does so rigorously in the best tradition of St. Thomas. Written as the definitive answer to those philosophers who sought to reconcile critical philosophy with scholastic realism, Gilson saw himself as an historian of philosophy whose main task was one of restoration, and principally the restoration of the wisdom of the Common Doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. Gilsons thesis was that realism was incompatible with the critical method and that realism, to the extent that it was reflective and aware of its guiding principles, was its own proper method. He gives a masterful account of the various forces that shaped the neo-scholastic revival, but Gilson is concerned with the past only as it sheds light on the present. In addition to his criticisms, Gilson presents a positive exposition of true Thomist realism, revealing the foundation of realism in the unity of the knowing subject.
Author : Arland Ussher
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780819602220
Author : María M. Portuondo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 022659226X
In this book, historian María M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the “Spanish Disquiet”—a preoccupation with the perceived shortcomings of prevailing natural philosophies and empirical approaches when it came to explaining the natural world. Foremost among them was Benito Arias Montano—Spain’s most prominent biblical scholar and exegete of the sixteenth century. He was also a widely read member of the European intellectual community, and his motivation to reform natural philosophy shows that the Spanish Disquiet was a local manifestation of greater concerns about Aristotelian natural philosophy that were overtaking Europe on the eve of the Scientific Revolution. His approach to the study of nature framed the natural world as unfolding from a series of events described in the Book of Genesis, ultimately resulting in a new metaphysics, cosmology, physics, and even a natural history of the world. By bringing Arias Montano’s intellectual and personal biography into conversation with broader themes that inform histories of science of the era, The Spanish Disquiet ensures an appreciation of the variety and richness of Arias Montano’s thought and his influence on early modern science.
Author : Kirby Olson
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780896724402
Is comedy postmodern? Kirby Olson posits that no one has been more marginalized than the comic writer, whose irreverent truths have always made others uncomfortable. In a literary age that purports to champion diversity, comic writers remain an underclass huddling at the fringes of the canon. Olson challenges the status quo by inviting the comic writer into the center of literary debate. In the growing discipline of humor studies, Olson is the first to create a substantial link between the fields of comedy and postmodernism, discovering in comic writers a philosophy of oddness and paradox that parallels and extends the work of the major postmodern thinkers. With elegant clarity, Comedy After Post-modernism examines: Edward Lear as he invents a comic picturesque to challenge the sublime of Kant and Ruskin Gregory Corso as he explodes the Great Chain of Being of his early Catholicism Philippe Soupault as a comic surrealist undoing the sacrificial aesthetics of André Breton P.G. Wodehouse as a social thinker with surprisingly deep affinities to anarchist Peter Kropotkin and radical social theorist Charles Fourier Stewart Home, the infamously violent punk author, as a pacifist whose narrative questions Marxist-anarchist terrorism in favor of patience and tolerance Charles Willeford, the maestro of the black humor police procedural, as a postmodern philosopher who deepens the problems of ethical and aesthetic judgment after postmodernism. "An original, splendidly researched, and necessary book. By pointing to the vast excluded literature of 'comic writers, ' Dr. Olson opens the door to a postmodern scholarship capable of greater flexibility. Comedy After Postmodernism evinces a lucid, passionate, and engaging style." --Andrei Codrescu There was an old man on the Border, Who lived in the utmost disorder; He danced with the cat, and made tea in his hat, Which vexed all the folks on the Border. --From The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear
Author : Jean-Michel Rabate
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 1991-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1349214280
Author : William David Spencer
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809318087
A reprint of the first book on the topic of the cleric as a crime-solver in fiction. Mysterium and Mystery by William David Spencer is a primary reference of meticulous scholarship for anyone interested in mystery literature.
Author : Steven Belletto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107184452
This Companion offers an in-depth overview of the Beat era, one of the most popular literary periods in America.
Author : Jason Harding
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199247172
In this detailed study of literary culture in the inter-war period, Jason Harding examines the standing of T. S. Eliot's journal the Criterion in relation to other literary periodicals and, beyond that, to the larger cultural networks of the time. Through his examination of insufficiently known archive material and interviews with living witnesses to the period, Harding significantly alters our understanding of the journal and of Eliot's role as editor.