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Disaster: Literary Form and Catastrophe Instructor: Carly Yingst, ceyingst@g.harvard(Wr. te it!) Disaster: Literary Form and Catastrophe Instructor: Carly Yingst, ceyingst@g.harvard.eduWriting to his students, via the New Yorker, after campus closures due to the coronavirus pandemic, George Saunders asked: “What new forms might you invent, to ...
a) "Imitation" (mimesis) : Contrary to Plato, Aristotle asserts that the artist does not just copy the shifting appearances of the world, but rather imitates or represents reality itself, and gives form and meaning to that reality. In so doing, the artist gives shape to the universal, not the accidental.
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Apr 5, 2020 · Calamity in literature. Writing is an act of creating order out of disorder, coherence out of chaos and an attempt at making absurdity bearable. (Calamity doesn’t occur momentarily, it is a ...
The earliest known use of the noun calamity is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for calamity is from 1490, in a translation by William Caxton, printer, merchant, and diplomat.
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The Calamity Form is interested not in what art writ large can and cannot do but in the peculiar position Romantic literature takes up vis-à-vis history conceived as a mode of explanation—that is, as a narrative form linking effects to their causes. My argument, which concerns poetry, is this: at the same exact moment in time when the ecological and human costs of industry were becoming ...
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CALAMITY definition: 1. a serious accident or bad event causing damage or suffering: 2. a serious accident or bad event…. Learn more.