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In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis and al-Mansur. Bulletins and interruptions come from brutal elsewheres and from the interior where music puts electrodes on the body to take an EKG. These poems visit high schools, laundromats, motels, films, and dreams in order to measure the American hunger and thirst. They are interested in the things we profess to hold most dear as well as what's unspoken and unbidden. While we're driving, while riding a bus, while receiving a call, while passing through an X-ray machine, the personal is intersected-sometimes violently, sometimes tenderly-with the hum and buzz of the culture. The culture, whether New York or Tuscaloosa, Seattle or Philadelphia, past or present, carries the burden of race and "someone's idea of beauty." The poems fluctuate between the two poles of "lullaby and homicide" before taking a vow to remain on earth, to look right and left, to wait and to witness.

Poetry. --- poetry, desire, america, yearning, wealth, ambition, literature, creative writing, contemporary, history, social commentary, al-mansur, memphis, dreams, films, motels, laundromats, high schools, race, beauty standards, culture, conformity, difference, belonging, poetics, escape, freedom, distance, separation, love, loss, witness, survival, whitman.

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There have been many Spinozas over the centuries: atheist, romantic pantheist, great thinker of the multitude, advocate of the liberated individual, and rigorous rationalist. The common thread connecting all of these clashing perspectives is Spinoza's naturalism, the idea that humanity is part of nature, not above it. In this sophisticated new interpretation of Spinoza's iconoclastic philosophy, Hasana Sharp draws on his uncompromising naturalism to rethink human agency, ethics, and political practice. Sharp uses Spinoza to outline a practical wisdom of "renaturalization," showing how ideas, actions, and institutions are never merely products of human intention or design, but outcomes of the complex relationships among natural forces beyond our control. This lack of a metaphysical or moral division between humanity and the rest of nature, Sharp contends, can provide the basis for an ethical and political practice free from the tendency to view ourselves as either gods or beasts. Sharp's groundbreaking argument critically engages with important contemporary thinkers-including deep ecologists, feminists, and race and critical theorists-making Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization vital for a wide range of scholars.

Spinoza, Benedictus de, --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- naturalism, spinoza, humanity, nature, philosophy, politics, ethics, agency, renaturalization, control, natural forces, race, feminism, deep ecology, hegel, affect theory, reason, utility, nonhuman animals, recognition, butler, desire, glory, cupiditas, conatus, imperceptibility, nonfiction, norms, beasts, beast within, animal affects, elizabeth grosz, impersonal, personal.

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Departing from a refreshing look at the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this book provides a thorough analysis of how both Sarah Kane and Samuel Beckett are indebted to his legacy. In juxtaposing these playwrights, De Vos minutely points out how both in their own way struggle with coming to terms with Artaud. A key concept in Lacanian psychoanalytic theories, desire lies at the root of the Theatre of Cruelty; Kane and Beckett prove that desire and cruelty are inextricably linked to one another, but that they appear in radically different disguises. Relying on Kane and Beckett, this book not only shed

English drama --- Cruelty in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Psychoanalysis and literature. --- History and criticism. --- French influences. --- Kane, Sarah, --- Beckett, Samuel, --- Artaud, Antonin, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Influence. --- Literature and psychoanalysis --- Psychoanalytic literary criticism --- Literature --- English literature --- Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph, --- Arto, Antonen, --- Beckett, Samuel --- Pei-kʻo-tʻe, Sa-miao-erh, --- Beḳeṭ, Samuel, --- Beckett, Sam, --- Беккет, Сэмюэль, --- בעקעט, סאמועל --- בקט, סמואל --- בקט, סמואל, --- بكت، ساموئل --- Bikit, Sāmūʼil, --- Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph --- Arto, Antonen

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How did the Victorians engage with the ancient world? Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity is a brilliant exploration of how the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome influenced Victorian culture. Through Victorian art, opera, and novels, Simon Goldhill examines how sexuality and desire, the politics of culture, and the role of religion in society were considered and debated through the Victorian obsession with antiquity. Looking at Victorian art, Goldhill demonstrates how desire and sexuality, particularly anxieties about male desire, were represented and communicated through classical imagery. Probing into operas of the period, Goldhill addresses ideas of citizenship, nationalism, and cultural politics. And through fiction--specifically nineteenth-century novels about the Roman Empire--he discusses religion and the fierce battles over the church as Christianity began to lose dominance over the progressive stance of Victorian science and investigation. Rediscovering some great forgotten works and reframing some more familiar ones, the book offers extraordinary insights into how the Victorian sense of antiquity and our sense of the Victorians came into being. With a wide range of examples and stories, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity demonstrates how interest in the classical past shaped nineteenth-century self-expression, giving antiquity a unique place in Victorian culture.

History of civilization --- Art --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- English literature --- Art, Victorian --- Art, British --- Opera --- Art, Victorian. --- Civilization. --- Civilization --- English literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Konst --- Antike. --- Künste. --- Rezeption. --- Classical antiquity --- Classical influences. --- History and criticism. --- Viktoriansk --- Influence. --- Waterhouse, John William, --- 1800-1899. --- Great Britain. --- Großbritannien --- Griechenland. --- Römisches Reich. --- Intellectual life --- Culture --- Cultural history --- Großbritannien. --- Civilization, Classical --- Victorian art --- Art, Modern --- Classical influences --- History and criticism --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Britain. --- Charles Kingsley. --- Charlotte Bront. --- Christianity. --- Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck. --- Classics. --- Edward Bulwer Lytton. --- France. --- Fred W. Farrar. --- Hellenism. --- Jews. --- John William Waterhouse. --- Lawrence Alma-Tadema. --- Reception Studies. --- Richard Wagner. --- Roman Empire. --- Sappho and Alcaeus. --- Sappho. --- The Last Days of Pompeii. --- The Ring. --- Victorian culture. --- Victorians. --- ancient Greece. --- ancient Rome. --- antiquity. --- art. --- barbarism. --- biography. --- chorus. --- citizenship. --- classicism. --- composition. --- culture. --- dance. --- desire. --- early Christianity. --- female desire. --- fiction. --- historical fiction. --- historicity. --- history. --- modernity. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- nineteenth-century studies. --- novels. --- opera. --- paintings. --- performance. --- politics. --- racism. --- reception. --- religion. --- religious controversy. --- self-control. --- self-definition. --- sexual identity. --- sexuality. --- social network. --- theater.