Byron was -- to echo Wordsworth -- half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die to reality and reconstitute oneself as illusion." But among the readers he seduced, in person and in poetry, were women possessed of vivid imaginations who collaborated with him in fashioning his legend. Accused of "treating women harshly," Byron acknowledged: "It may be so -- but I have been their martyr. My whole life has been sacrificed to them and by them." Those whom he spell bound often returned the favor in their own writings tried to...
Byron was -- to echo Wordsworth -- half-perceived and half-created. He would have affirmed Jean Baudrillard's observation that "to seduce is to die...
This call to restore a sense of beauty to our culture will serve as a bellwether of the future of literary studies.
"Beauty and the Critic "brings together well-known members of the literary academy to reassert the importance of "aesthetic criticism" and the treatment of literature as art.
The contributors are responding to what the editor calls "the banality of partisanship of literary criticism in this country." The common focus is a shared suspicion of critics who are only interested in reducing authors and their works to ideological elements, thereby...
This call to restore a sense of beauty to our culture will serve as a bellwether of the future of literary studies.
This call to restore a sense of beauty to our culture will serve as a bellwether of the future of literary studies.
"Beauty and the Critic "brings together well-known members of the literary academy to reassert the importance of "aesthetic criticism" and the treatment of literature as art.
The contributors are responding to what the editor calls "the banality of partisanship of literary criticism in this country." The common focus is a shared suspicion of critics who are only interested in reducing authors and their works to ideological elements, thereby...
This call to restore a sense of beauty to our culture will serve as a bellwether of the future of literary studies.
In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns-from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed "We are all Greeks," and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of culture and literature since our classical predecessors? Begam and Soderholm's ten dialogues function as a series of dual-meditations that take Plato as an intellectual godfather while presenting a new form...
In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche ...
