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Lyric History: Temporality, Rhetoric, and the Ethics of Poetry
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The authors argue that the meaning of lyric and its engagement with the world exists in the futurity of its reader, the unpredictable phenomenology of its reception, and that history itself has a lyrical aspect.Abstract:
In this essay, I am less interested in the specifics of the on-going polemics around the "new lyricism," than I am in the problematics of historical engagement and ethical implication that subtend them and open onto more general problematics of textuality, history, and interpretation that lyrics often foreground. These problematics do not obviate the importance of historical considerations in lyrical reading, nor do they undermine the crucial importance of history itself in our social and political lives. To refocus critical attention on poetry's connection with its readers and the world, as in the new lyric studies, also reminds us that lyric has a rhetorical aspect and that the indeterminacies of lyric's representation of a recollected moment of being or experience cannot be resolved by appeals to history as a ground for interpretation. The meaning of lyric and its engagement with the world exists in the futurity of its reader, the unpredictable phenomenology of its reception. Paradoxically, the historicization of lyric reminds us that history itself has a lyrical aspect. It combines recollection and projection, a statement of a past experience or state of being addressed to the subjectivity of a future reader or audience whoseread more
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Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre.
Edwin S. Fussell,Sharon Cameron +1 more
TL;DR: Cameron as mentioned in this paper suggests that the temporal problems of Dickinson's poems are frequently exaggerations of the features that distinguish the lyric as a genre, and that it is precisely the distance some of her poems go toward the far end of coherence, precisely the outlandishness of their extremity, that allows us to see, magnified, the fine workings of more conventional lyrics.
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Mary Wroth, Ovid, and the Metamorphosis of Petrarch
TL;DR: The Spring Now Come att Last (SWL) from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1621) as discussed by the authors explores parallels between Wroth's poem and the metamorphosis of the Heliades, who turn into poplars while mourning their brother Phaeton in book 2 of the Metamorphoses.
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Regarding the Pain of Others
TL;DR: Regarding the Pain of Others as mentioned in this paper is a searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror, from Goya's Disasters of War to news footage and photographs of the conflicts in Vietnam, Rwanda and Bosnia, pictures have been charged with inspiring dissent, fostering violence or instilling apathy in us, the viewer.
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
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The rules of art : genesis and structure of the literary field
Pierre Bourdieu,Susan Emanuel +1 more
TL;DR: Bourdieu as discussed by the authors develops an original theory of art conceived as an autonomous value and argues powerfully against those who refuse to acknowledge the interconnection between art and the structures of social relations within which it is produced and received.
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Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism
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Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology
TL;DR: Mitchell as mentioned in this paper explores the nature of images by comparing them with words, or more precisely by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language, and the most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read".