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Apr 1, 2022 · The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life. April 2022. Genre 55 (1):61-66. DOI: 10.1215/00166928-9720933. Authors: Tom Eyers. To read the full-text of this research, you can request a copy ...
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 ...
Next, Tyler Harper zeroes in on The Calamity Form ’s recourse to analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science to bring the thought of Wilfrid Sellars into dialogue with the book’s central concerns. Harper asks how Sellars’s insistence on the necessary gap between the scientific image and the manifest image of the world might map onto ...
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 ...
Apr 1, 2022 · One could do a serviceable job of narrating the history of professional anglophone literary criticism of the twentieth century by tracing the critical fortunes of Romantic poetry. T. S. Eliot mostly disdained the Romantics, along with their predecessor Milton, as did many of the New Critics. In each case, the baroque stylings and ironies of the Metaphysicals were a better fit. (There are ...
Aug 12, 2020 · The book explores works by Friedrich Hölderlin, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and others to argue that, as the human and ecological costs of industry became clear, Romantic poetry adopted formal strategies—among them parataxis, the setting of elements side by side in a manner suggestive of postindustrial dissonance, and apostrophe, here an ...
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Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a. mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare. common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts. any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
