Academic literature on the topic 'Adam (Personaje literario)'

Gatta, John. "Henry Adams." In American Madonna. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195112610.003.0006.

Shilova, Natalia. "THE PAUSTOVSKY TRAIL: ON KARELIAN MOTIFS IN THE PROSE OF KONSTANTIN PAUSTOVSKY AND YURI KAZAKOV." In Creative Heritage of Konstantin Paustovsky in the XXI century. Volume 1. LCC MAKS Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.29003/m3498.paustovsky_v1/273-285.

"realities they name. Though corrupt, they remain dictions, fissures, discord, repressions, aporias, etc. divinely given and the poet’s burden is to purify the Inasmuch as their response is a product of their language of his own tribe. Words have been ‘wrested time, so is mine for I remain caught up in a vision of from their true calling’, and the poet attempts to the poem I had during my graduate years at the wrest them back in order to recreate that natural lan-University of Cambridge when I began seriously to guage in which the word and its reality again merge. read it. What I had anticipated to be an obscure alleg-Like Adam, he gives names to his creatures which ory that could be understood only by an extended express their natures. His word-play is a sustained study of its background became more clear the more and serious effort to plant true words as seeds in the I read it until I had the sense of standing at the reader’s imagination. In Jonson’s phrase, he ‘makes centre of a whirling universe of words each in its pro-their minds like the thing he writes’ (1925– per order and related to all the others, its meanings 52:8.588). He shares Bacon’s faith that the true end constantly unfolding from within until the poem is of knowledge is ‘a restitution and reinvesting (in seen to contain all literature, and all knowledge great part) of man to the sovereignty and power (for needed to guide one’s personal and social life. In the whensoever he shall be able to call the creatures by intervening years, especially as a result of increasing their true names he shall again command them) awareness of Spenser’s and his poem’s involvement which he had in his first state of creation’ (Valerius in Ireland, as indicated by the bibliographies com-Terminus). Although his poem remains largely piled by Maley in 1991 and 1996a, and such later unfinished, he has restored at least those words that studies as McLeod 1999:32–62, but best shown in are capable of fashioning his reader in virtuous and Hadfield 1997, I have come to realize also the pro-gentle discipline. What is chiefly needed to under-found truth of Walter Benjamin’s observation that stand the allegory of The Faerie Queene fully is to ‘there is no document of civilization that is not at the understand all the words. That hypothesis is the basis same time a document of barbarism’. The greatness of my annotation. of The Faerie Queene consists in being both: while it My larger goal is to help readers understand ostensibly focuses on Elizabeth’s court, it is impos-why Spenser was honoured in his day as ‘England’s sible even to imagine it being written there, or at any Arch-Poët’, why he became Milton’s ‘Original’ and place other than Ireland, being indeed ‘wilde fruit, the ‘poet’s poet’ for the Romantics (see ‘poet’s poet’ which saluage soyl hath bred’ (DS 7.2). in the SEnc), and why today Harold Bloom 1986: If Spenser is to continue as a classic, criticism must 2 may claim that he ‘possessed [mythopoeic power] continue to recreate the poem by holding it up as a . . . in greater measure than any poet in English mirror that first of all reflects our own anxieties and except for Blake’, and why Greenblatt 1990b:229 concerns. It may not be possible, or even desirable, may judge him to be ‘among the most exuberant, to seek a perspective on the poem ‘uncontaminated generous, and creative literary imaginations in our by late twentieth century interests and beliefs’, as language’. Stewart 1997:87 urges, and I would only ask with As I write in a year that marks a half century of my him that we need to be aware of ‘historical voices engagement with the poem, I have come to realize other than our own, including Spenser’s’. As far as the profound truth of Wallace Stevens’s claim that possible criticism should serve also as a transparent ‘Anyone who has read a long poem day after day glass through which to see what Spenser intended as, for example, The Faerie Queene, knows how the and what he accomplished in ‘Fashioning XII Morall poem comes to possess the reader and how it nat-vertues’. Of course, we cannot assume that under-uralizes him in its own imagination and liberates standing his intention as it is fulfilled in the poem him there’ (1951:50). It has been so for me though, necessarily provides a sufficient reading, but it may I also recognize, not for many critics today whose provide a focus for understanding it. Contemporary engagement with the poem I respect. With Mon-psychological interpretation of the poem’s characters trose 1996:121–22, I am aware that ‘the cultural reads the poem out of focus, and the commendable politics that are currently ascendant within the aca-effort to see the poem embedded in its immediate demic discipline of literary studies call forth condem-sociopolitical context, chiefly Spenser’s relation to nations of Spenser for his racist / misogynist / elitist the Queen, fails to allow that he wrote it ‘to liue with." In Spenser: The Faerie Queene. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315834696-38.