Academic literature on the topic 'Poetry / Single Author / American'

This chapter traces the influence of certain programmatic priorities, philosophies, and strategies on shaping the vision of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the ways in which certain Festival notions of art and cultural equity have since suffused American culture. Tracing the impact of the Festival from a personal vantage point, the author explores the Festival's history, suggesting the under-acknowledged contribution of folklorists to American culture and the way the Festival has become a model for other nationally acclaimed organizations such as City Lore in New York City and Story Corps, events such as the annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, and for media productions such as the Moth Radio Hour.

The relevance of the lifted problem is caused as the interest of a modern philological thought in a phenomenon of the writer emigrant, and attention in aspects of Dionysian attitudes of literary artists. In the article research search is directed to studying of A. Shiryaev's interpretation of the tango phenomenon as the semiosis of passion and the epistem of Argentine culture. The open process represents at this stage the knowledge of the poetic heritage of the modern emigrant poet A. Shiryaev and requires close attention. The subject of analysis was the process of a mythologization by poetic consciousness of the poet emigrant of history of tragic death of the legendary performer of a tango Carlos Gardel. A. Shiryaev is creates the author's version of the myth about an idol of Argentina. The novelty of the presented material is due to the lack of study of strategies for identifying the author's consciousness of A. Shiryaev as an emigrant poet in the framework of the mastery of mythology and epistles of Latin American culture. The methodology of the study was the establishment of the poet's author's myth about the search for self-identification. The purpose of article is to reveal as in poem by A. Shiryaev «The Creole Thrush Sings Better and Better Every Day …» under construction as paraphrases of the glorified and tragic biography of Carlos Gardel. Reading of author's connotations is presented to interpretations of an image of the female phantom – madam Ivonne. The emphasized sexuality of Madame Ivonne is supplemented by the transformation of erotic codes into gastronomic codes. This subtext level is something like the author's comment. In the Shiryaev poetic fantasy, the metaphor of cannibalism is realized almost literally as an opportunity to eat Madame Ivonne the "flesh" of the burned Gardel. This aspect highlights demonic connotations in heroin, emphasizing the theme of vampirism. The study made it possible to draw the following conclusions. Pronounced metaphorical potential of lyrics of A. Shiryaev is the evidence of proximity author's consciousness of the poet emigrant of elements mysteriological Dionysian a discourse. The poetic myth by A. Shiryaev is characterized by proximity to Dionysian type of attitude and the transgressive nature of author's consciousness of the poet emigrant.

This chapter presents a case study of the Lexicon’s treatment of a single author, Hesiod. Early Greek poetry in general, and that of Hesiod in particular, presents certain difficulties for the historical approach which do not arise for texts of later periods. The main body of the chapter is divided into three sections, treating different respects in which Liddell and Scott (LSJ), and the historical principle it adopts, may seem problematic for the modern reader of Hesiod. The first section considers the ways in which LSJ conflicts with current beliefs concerning the text and dating of Hesiod. The second outlines some respects in which the historical principle may be inadequate for dealing with early Greek hexameter in general, given more recent scholarship on the nature and semantics of formulaic verse. The third treats more idiosyncratic features of Hesiod’s poetry that are particularly noteworthy for the lexicographer. Throughout, the main focus is on the Theogony and the Works and Days.

This chapter is a dialogue with and reflection by John A. Coleman, S.J., a trained, well-published sociologist and Jesuit pastor in Northern California. In describing and exploring his own experience as a sociologist and pastor, he models the kind of inquiry raised by previous chapters, applying them in a practical way to a single parish to which the author belongs. Through lived experience and his bipartite role as sociologist and parish priest, Fr. Coleman shares in a personal way his own approach to the study of Catholic parishes. The chapter contains numerous questions and tools for applied sociological parish studies.

This chapter presents the text of a lecture on works of American author Arthur Miller given at the British Academy's 2009 Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American Literature. This text attempts to explore Miller's supposed realism, his language, and his thirst for the poetic. It explains that though Miller may be one of the most distinguished playwrights America has produced, he is also one of the most criticised. His early canonical work was often treated with condescension or political disdain and he was dismissed by a number of influential American critics as prosaic, a simple realist.

In this chapter, the author considers poetry in family expressions, which, along with in-jokes and associations, are packed with alliteration, rhythm, and hyperbole. The author recalls how he was drawn to folklore because, even at an early age, he was aware of the beauty and power of folklore in his own life. The author grew up as an American expat in São Paulo, Brazil. His parents, Shirley and Irv, belonged to that notable group called sojourners—those who immigrate but never fully assimilate. He shares his experience with a song called “Red River Valley,” which he says inspired his love of folk music and also played a part in his becoming a folklorist and meeting his future wife, Amanda, a fellow folklorist. Besides the song, a few other incidents contributed to the serendipity of meeting Amanda. The author remembers a time when a conversation between him and Amanda shifts from prose toward poetry, a moment that highlights the importance of intimacy in language.

Reading the “Sub-Sub librarian” and “consumptive usher” in Moby-Dick as experiments in “virtual biography,” this chapter initially examines how the author-narrator uses these contingent figures to explore the various possibilities that may have otherwise defined his working life. “The Grand Armada” is read as the dramatization of existential retreat from industrial violence towards the security of a “lyric center”. Skepticism towards vocational thinking can be seen in the juxtaposed reactions of Ishmael and Ahab in relation to this lyric security. The chapter then shifts focus to consider Melville’s decision to become an epic poet while holding down a 6-day-a-week job as a deputy customs inspector on the New York docks. While this later phase of Melville’s career has been typically characterized as one of retreat and creative decline, it is argued that Clarel’s form embodies a sustained engagement with the contingencies of his new working context rather than an attempt to escape them.

Chapter 2 examines evaluations of poetic style from the 1830s to the 1860s and argues for the existence of a jewelled style which crosses over the genres of the album-book or anthology, the single-author volume and the periodical review. The intersection of raw economic value with fashionable display and artistic craft that coalesces around the jewel overlaps with the commodification of poetry as it circulates in the literary market. Jewellery becomes an important trope in both reviews and poetry, serving as a metaphor to express and calculate the kind of value that literature could offer. As a material commodity newly subject to mechanical reproduction, jewellery offered an analogy for the material changes to literary production. The chapter analyses poetry from gift annuals which exemplify the jewelled style, followed by a reading of Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s A Drama of Exile.