Vise and Shadow : Essays on the Lyric Imagination, Poetry, Art, and Culture /

Peter Balakian is a renowned poet, scholar, and memoirist; but his work as an essayist often prefigures and illuminates all three. "I think of vise and shadow as two dimensions of the lyric (literary and visual) imagination," he writes in the preface to this collection, which brings togeth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Balakian, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2021]
Temas:
Lyric poetry - History and criticism.
Lyric poetry > History and criticism.
Poetry > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
humanities, english literature, literary studies, criticism, poems, poetry, art, culture, cultural analysis, lyric, imagination, visual, clarity, knowledge, language, pressure, shadow, wb yeats, hart crane, joan didion, primo levi, bob dylan, elia kazan, robert rauschenberg, arshile gorky, painter, paintings, history, witness, avant-garde, armenian genocide, abstract expressionism, graphic artist, songwriter, film director, holocaust, survival.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • 1. Poetry as Civilization: Primo Levi and Dante at Auschwitz
  • 2. The Poem as History
  • 3. Ingesting Violence: Th e Poetry of Witness Problem
  • 4. Theodore Roethke's Lost Son and the Confessional Era
  • 5. Hart Crane's Broken Tower
  • 6. Poet from Kars: Yeghishe Charents and Armenia's Modern Age
  • 7. Collage and Its Discontents
  • 8. Arshile Gorky: From the Armenian Genocide to the Avant- Garde
  • 9. The Anatolian Embrace: Greeks and Armenians in Elia Kazan's America, America
  • 10. Siamanto's Bloody News
  • 11. Bob Dylan in Suburbia
  • 12. Writing Horizontal: Notes Toward the Poem as Space
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes

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