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!e Calamity Form is interested not in what art writ large can and can- not 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
Aug 12, 2020 · Drawing on Marxism and philosophy of science, this book shines new light on Romantic poetry, identifying a number of rhetorical tropes used by writers to underscore their very failure to make sense of our move to industrialization. The book explores works by Friedrich Hölderlin, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and others to argue that, as the ...
- Anahid Nersessian
Jan 27, 2022 · The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life/Romanticism’s Other Minds: Poetry, Cognition, and the Science of Sociability The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life, by Anahid Nersessian, Chicago, U of Chicago P, 2020, ix ± 213 pp., 10 illustrations.
The full truth may never be known, but Calamity herself stated that they met for the first time in June 1876: “When able to ride I started for Fort Laramie where I met Wm. Hickok, better known as Wild Bill, and we started for Deadwood, where we arrived about June.”54 He led a wagon train of gold seekers into the Black Hills and picked up 20 ...
- Amy Reece
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 ...
Madness and calamity are very disturbing. They directly chal- Jenge our notions of order. Both threaten to be interpreted as ‘a punishment for « disorderly and useless science’ (ibid. p. 32). They can be seen as clear limits to knowledge and power, because they are i ‘a way that seems uncontrollable by society.
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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 ...
