Poetics and the Gift

 |  Literary Criticism
Poetics and the Gift

Author: Adam R. Rosenthal

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

ISBN: 9781474488402

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 329

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Using a broad, comparative approach, this study shows how the figure of the gift structures poetic discourse and does so from the age of Homer up through twenty-first century conceptual poetics. Beginning from a new interpretation of Derrida’s writings on the gift, Adam R. Rosenthal argues that this ambivalent figure names at one and the same time poetry’s most extreme aneconomic privilege and the point of its closest contact with the interested exchange of the market. In this way, the gift conducts material relays of patronage and theories of poetic origination, in genius, inspiration, and imagination. Poetics and the Gift capitalizes on this double function in order to read material historical accounts of poetry alongside philosophical and poetic ones. By way of his original reading of Derrida’s work in Given Time and ‘Economimesis’, Rosenthal offers a novel account of ‘gift poetics’ and a new understanding of what makes poetry ‘poetry’.

The Gift of Beauty

1996-01-01
 |  Art
The Gift of Beauty

Author: Stephen David Ross

Publisher: SUNY Press

ISBN: 0791430073

Category: Art

Page: 372

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Traces the history of the idea of art as an ethical movement, interpreting the good as nature's abundance, giving rise to an ethics of inclusion, expressed in art.

The Insistence of God

2013-09-13
 |  Religion
The Insistence of God

Author: John D. Caputo

Publisher: Indiana University Press

ISBN: 9780253010100

Category: Religion

Page: 321

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“A tour de force . . . provocative ideas expressed in Heideggerian, Derridean, and Deleuzian rhetoric . . . for a new wave of Christian theologians” (Bibliographia). The Insistence of God presents the provocative idea that God does not exist—God insists. God’s existence is a human responsibility, which may or may not happen. For John D. Caputo, God’s existence is haunted by “perhaps,” which does not signify indecisiveness but an openness to risk, to the unforeseeable. Perhaps constitutes a theology of what is to come and what we cannot see coming. Responding to current critics of continental philosophy, Caputo explores the materiality of perhaps and the promise of the world. He shows how perhaps can become a new theology of the gaps God opens. “John D. Caputo is at the top of his game, and he is not content to reiterate what he has already expressed, but continues to develop his own ideas further by way of a thorough engagement with the fields of theology, Continental philosophy, and religious thought.” —Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas “For those allergic to theological certainty―whether of God’s existence or of God’s death―Caputo delivers storm-fresh relief: the theopoetics of God’s insistence.” —Catherine Keller, Drew University “In my life I have read no more stimulating book of theology. Buckle your seatbelt!” —Dialog “An excellent text that opens the way into new forms of theological thinking. He puts forward an argument that must be wrestled with and brings to light new avenues for both religious and theological thought. Caputo is not for the faint of heart.” —Reviews in Religion and Theology

Goethe Yearbook 13

2005-10
 |  Literary Criticism
Goethe Yearbook 13

Author: Simon J. Richter

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 1571133100

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 258

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Essays on the Wilhelm Meister novels, Faust, Goethe's early plays, Schiller's Räuber and on Goethe's thought in relation to current debates on cosmopolitanism and postcoloniality.

Blake's Gifts

2010-09-02
 |  Literary Criticism
Blake's Gifts

Author: Sarah Haggarty

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521117289

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 255

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Examines the idea of 'gift-giving' to reassess a wide range of issues in the thought and work of William Blake.

The Gift of Immortality

1997
 |  Literary Criticism
The Gift of Immortality

Author: Stephen Murphy

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

ISBN: 0838636853

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 332

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This book considers the boast of literary power to glorify or immortalize, a topos of enormous popularity. Focusing on representative figures of Renaissance humanism and the roots of the topos in antiquity, author Stephen Murphy elaborates a complex myth of poetic power. This myth, constructed with the help of such theorists as Ernst Cassirer, Giambattista Vico, Marcel Mauss, and Theodor Adorno, includes the elements of nostalgia for a primordial epoch of magical effectiveness and social centrality, the ideal of patronage as gift exchange, and the absorption of these extra-literary circumstances into literary convention.

Michelangelo's Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation

2017-04-07
 |  Literary Criticism
Michelangelo's Poetry and Iconography in the Heart of the Reformation

Author: Ambra Moroncini

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISBN: 9781317096825

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 172

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Contextualizing Michelangelo’s poetry and spirituality within the framework of the religious Zeitgeist of his era, this study investigates his poetic production to shed new light on the artist’s religious beliefs and unique language of art. Author Ambra Moroncini looks first and foremost at Michelangelo the poet and proposes a thought-provoking reading of Michelangelo’s most controversial artistic production between 1536 and c.1550: The Last Judgment, his devotional drawings made for Vittoria Colonna, and his last frescoes for the Pauline Chapel. Using theological and literary analyses which draw upon reformist and Protestant scriptural writings, as well as on Michelangelo’s own rime spirituali and Vittoria Colonna’s spiritual lyrics, Moroncini proposes a compelling argument for the impact that the Reformation had on one of the greatest minds of the Italian Renaissance. It brings to light how, in the second quarter of the sixteenth century in Italy, Michelangelo’s poetry and aesthetic conception were strongly inspired by the revived theologia crucis of evangelical spirituality, rather than by the theologia gloriae of Catholic teaching.

Pro Ecclesia Vol 19-N2

2010-05-16
 |  Religion
Pro Ecclesia Vol 19-N2

Author: Pro Ecclesia

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

ISBN: 9781442229204

Category: Religion

Page: 131

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Pro Ecclesia is a quarterly journal of theology published by the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology. It seeks to give contemporary expression to the one apostolic faith and its classic traditions, working for and manifesting the church's unity by research, theological construction, and free exchange of opinion. Members of its advisory council represent communities committed to the authority of Holy Scripture, ecumenical dogmatic teaching and the structural continuity of the church, and are themselves dedicated to maintaining and invigorating these commitments. The journal publishes biblical, liturgical, historical and doctrinal articles that promote or illumine its purposes. Ways to subscribe: Call toll-free: 800-273-2223 Email: [email protected] For back-issues, please contact [email protected] Editorial inquiries: Joseph Mangina, [email protected] Submissions should be sent by email attachment in Microsoft Word, double-spaced, with identifying marks removed for the purposes of blind peer review. Book review inquiries: Chad Pecknold, [email protected] Advertising inquiries: Charles Roth, Jr., [email protected] Subscription inquiries: [email protected] ISSN: 1063-8512

Paul Ricoeur

2012-08-16
 |  Philosophy
Paul Ricoeur

Author: Richard Kearney

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 9781446233863

Category: Philosophy

Page: 222

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Paul Ricoeur′s work is of seminal importance to the development of hermeneutics, phenomenology and ideology critique in the human sciences. This major volume assembles leading scholars to address and explain the significance of this extraordinary body of work. Opening with three key essays from Ricoeur himself, the book offers a fascinating tour of his work ranging across topics such as the hermeneutics of action, narrative force, the other and deconstruction while discussing his work in the context of such contemporary figures as including Heidegger, L[ac]evinas, Arendt and Gadamer. Paul Ricoeur is also published as Volume 21 Issue 5/6 of Philosophy and Social Criticism.

The Architectonics of Hope

2017-09-19
 |  Religion
The Architectonics of Hope

Author: Kyle Gingerich Hiebert

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781498209427

Category: Religion

Page: 234

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The Architectonics of Hope provides a critical excavation and reconstruction of the Schmittian seductions that continue to bedevil contemporary political theology. Despite a veritable explosion of interest in the work of Carl Schmitt, which increasingly recognizes his contemporary relevance and prescience, there nevertheless remains a curious and troubling reticence within the discipline of theology to substantively engage the German jurist and sometime Nazi apologist. By offering a genealogical reconstruction of the manner and extent to which recognizably Schmittian gestures are unwittingly repeated in subsequent debates that often only implicitly assume they have escaped the violent aporetics that characterize Schmitt's thought, this volume illuminates hidden resonances between ostensibly opposed political theologies. Using the complex relationship between violence and apocalyptic as a guide, the genealogy traces the transformation of political theology through the work of a surprising collection of figures, including Johann Baptist Metz, John Milbank, David Bentley Hart, and John Howard Yoder.

Poetics

1979
 |  Poetry
Poetics

Author: Epifanio San Juan

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

ISBN: 0838622739

Category: Poetry

Page: 148

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A collection of seven essays, six of which are interpretations of major poems by Romantic and modern poets. One other treats two modes of construction--synecdochic and metonymic--in Ernest Hemingway's poems.

The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today

2019-11-15
 |  Literary Criticism
The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today

Author: Judith Nantell

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

ISBN: 9781684481576

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 288

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Drawing on original contributions from four major contemporary Spanish voices--Luis Muñoz, Abraham Gragera, Josep M. Rodríguez, and Ada Salas--The Poetics of Epiphany in the Spanish Lyric of Today argues that for these writers the poem is the fundamental means of exploring the nature of both knowledge and poetry.