Author: Gyorgyi Voros File Type: epub In the summer of 1903, just before he turned twenty-four, Wallace Stevens joined a six-week hunting expedition to the wilderness of British Columbia. The adventure profoundly influenced his conceptions of language and silence, his symbolic geography, and his sensibilities toward wild nature as nonhuman other. The rugged western mountains came to represent that promontory of experiencegreens green apogeeagainst which Stevens would measure the reality of all his later perceptions and conceptions and by which he would judge the purpose and value of works of the human imagination. Notations of the Wild views his poetry as a radical reimagining of the natureculture dialectic and a reinstatement of its forgotten termNature.Gyorgyi Voros focuses on three governing metaphors in Stevens poemsNature as house, Nature as body, and Nature as self. She argues that Stevens youthful wilderness experience yielded his primary subjectthe relationship between human beings and nonhuman natureand that it spurred his shift from a romantic to a phenomenological understanding of nature. Most important, it prompted him to reject his cultures narrow humanism in favor of a singular vision that in todays terms would he deemed ecological.

Author: Declan Kiberd File Type: epub font face=Segoe UI, serif size=2Ireland is suffering from a crisis of authority. Catholic Church scandals, political corruption, and economic collapse have shaken the Irish peoples faith in their institutions and thrown the nations struggle for independence into question. While Declan Kiberd explores how political failures and economic globalization have eroded Irish sovereignty, he also sees a way out of this crisis. After Ireland surveys thirty works by modern writers that speak to worrisome trends in Irish life and yet also imagine a renewed, more plural and open nation.fontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2After Dublin burned in 1916, Samuel Beckett feared the birth of a nation might also seal its doom. In Waiting for Godot and a range of powerful works by other writers, Kiberd traces the development of an early warning system in Irish literature that portended social, cultural, and political decline. Edna OBrien, Frank OConnor, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Hartnett lamented the loss of the Irish language, Gaelic tradition, and rural life. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Eavan Boland grappled with institutional corruption and the end of traditional Catholicism. These themes, though bleak, led to audacious experimentation, exemplified in the plays of Brian Friel and Tom Murphy and the novels of John Banville. Their achievements embody the defiance and resourcefulness of Irelands founding spiritand a strange kind of hope.fontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2After Ireland places these writers and others at the center of Irelands ongoing fight for independence. In their diagnoses of Irelands troubles, Irish artists preserve and extend a humane culture, planting the seeds of a sound moral economy.fontp Segoe UI, serif 13px**h3 Segoe UI, serif 13pxReviewp Segoe UI, serif 13pxKiberds narrative is so engagingly written that he carries the reader along with him, especially in the literary analysis, which is executed with characteristic bravura and verve ... Magisterial TLS. A major contribution indispensable to contemporary Irish writing Michael D. Higgins. We are indebted to Kiberd for a fascinating exploration of Irish writing read against a palette of socio-political ideas and sometimes surprising insights that connect the work of a disparate selection of authors Books Ireland. A bravura survey of how post-war Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence Tablet. Kiberd is one of the foremost Irish historians of our times, so its a pleasure to see him throw himself headlong into an examination of the ways in which post-war Irish writers have dealt with Irish statehood ... A more academic choice than some on this list, perhaps, but no less worthy or illuminating for all that Sunday Business Post. What makes After Ireland such a thoroughly engaging read is Kiberds enthusiasm for each writers work he is appraising most notably in his brilliant dissection of what I would term the grade-A wordsmiths Irish Independent. Clearly the work of both a major intellectual and a sincere patriot who cares deeply about his country Sunday Business Post. A perceptive, capacious account of life and letters since 1945 John Kerrigans Book of the Year, TLS. h3 Segoe UI, serif 13pxAbout the Author Segoe UI, serif 13px p Segoe UI, serif 13pxDeclan Kiberd is the author of Inventing Ireland, Ulysses and Us and Irish Classics. He has won many literary prizes. He is currently Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame in the USA.

Author: Helma Dik File Type: pdf Helma Dik approaches word order in Greek tragic dialogue from the perspective of language rather than metre. The tragic poets engaged in mimesis of natural dialogue therefore the analysis of the linguistic characteristics of the dialogue precedes exploration of the metrical dimension, on the assumption that poets would not be overly constrained by the iambic trimeter, which, after all, was the most natural speaking verse according to Aristotle. Dik analyses the word order of tragic dialogue in pragmatic terms, arguing that, in sentences, words functioning as Topic (the starting point of an utterance) or Focus (the most salient piece of information) will come early, and that other less important words will follow. Similarly, the position of adjectives within noun phrases is analysed as a function of their relative salience rather than in terms of their semantics. This approach aims to account for word order in sentences generally, but it also allows for a new interpretation of familiar phenomena in Greek, such as postponed interrogatives. The book concludes with a commentary on the word order in four passages of Sophocles Electra.**

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