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Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts.Complaining that his age was 'retrospective', Emerson injected enthusiasm into American literature as a way of making it new. 'What,' he asked, 'is a man good for without enthusiasm? and what is enthusiasm but the daring of ruin for its object?' This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers - Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - have modernised and re-modeled Emerson's founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthusiast, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circulation of literature. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on.Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on each of Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O'Hara and Schuyler. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. Lucidly written and combatively argued, the book will appeal to readers of American literature or modern poetry, and to all those interested in the circulation of literary work.
Enthusiasm in literature. --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General --- Literature: history & criticism --- American literature. --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Ezra Pound. --- Frank O'Hara. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Immanuel Kant. --- James Schuyle. --- Marianne Moore. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson. --- Socrates. --- William Penn. --- cultural activism. --- enthusiasm. --- nearer testament. --- polemic. --- transmission of literature. --- unbridled self. --- Enthusiasm in literature
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This Special Issue showcases poets who enhance the breadth of modernist literary practices. The cohering concept is a complex relationship to both gender and modernity through original experiments with language. Leading scholars explore writers who both fit and extend orthodox modernist histories: Marianne Moore, H.D., Edna St Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, and Charlotte Mew were born around the cusp of the twentieth century and flourished during the 1920s and 1930s; Lynette Roberts, Helen Adam and Hope Mirrlees were contemporaries but publishing or recognition came later; the next generation can include Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith and Muriel Spark; Veronica Forrest-Thomson represents a third generation who published into the 1980s, while Frances Presley and M. NourbeSe Philip hinge this group with the contemporary poets Carol Watts and Natasha Trethewey, whose works continue and rejuvenate progressive stylistics. The essays offer new readings of both well-known and unfamiliar poets. They are truly groundbreaking in plundering diverse theoretical fields in ways that disturb any lingering notions of a homogenized women’s poetry. The authors supplant into literary poetic analysis notions of geometry and mathematics, maritime materialities, tourism and taxonomy, architecture, classicism, folk art, Christianity and death, whimsy and empathy.
Literature & literary studies --- H.D. --- Helen in Egypt --- Adorno --- late modernism --- epic --- avant-garde --- Gwendolyn Brooks --- architecture --- modernity --- Chicago --- Katherine Mansfield --- symbolism --- fin-de-siècle --- decadence --- modernism --- poetry --- Arthur Symons --- Stevie Smith --- T.S. Eliot --- The Waste Land --- Greek gods --- female protagonists --- Christianity --- suicide --- death --- Charlotte Mew --- Modernism --- empathy --- Edna St. Vincent Millay --- masculinity --- lyric --- drama --- verse drama --- gender --- genre --- race --- tourism --- taxonomy --- poetics --- Marianne Moore --- Natasha Trethewey --- Thomas Jefferson --- Scotland --- ballads --- kaleidoscope --- Charles Bernstein --- Edwin Morgan --- folk art --- Welsh Modernism --- Feminism --- nationalism --- ethnography --- geomodernisms --- modernist poetics --- Caribbean poetry --- Zong! --- M. NourbeSe Philip --- black poetry --- critical ocean studies --- multispecies --- materiality --- ecocriticism --- Moore --- Parker --- whimsy --- New York --- geometry --- place --- site-specific poetry --- mathematics --- metaphor --- Exmoor --- mid-Wales --- stone settings --- Zeta function --- prime numbers --- pastoral --- H.D. --- Helen in Egypt --- Adorno --- late modernism --- epic --- avant-garde --- Gwendolyn Brooks --- architecture --- modernity --- Chicago --- Katherine Mansfield --- symbolism --- fin-de-siècle --- decadence --- modernism --- poetry --- Arthur Symons --- Stevie Smith --- T.S. Eliot --- The Waste Land --- Greek gods --- female protagonists --- Christianity --- suicide --- death --- Charlotte Mew --- Modernism --- empathy --- Edna St. Vincent Millay --- masculinity --- lyric --- drama --- verse drama --- gender --- genre --- race --- tourism --- taxonomy --- poetics --- Marianne Moore --- Natasha Trethewey --- Thomas Jefferson --- Scotland --- ballads --- kaleidoscope --- Charles Bernstein --- Edwin Morgan --- folk art --- Welsh Modernism --- Feminism --- nationalism --- ethnography --- geomodernisms --- modernist poetics --- Caribbean poetry --- Zong! --- M. NourbeSe Philip --- black poetry --- critical ocean studies --- multispecies --- materiality --- ecocriticism --- Moore --- Parker --- whimsy --- New York --- geometry --- place --- site-specific poetry --- mathematics --- metaphor --- Exmoor --- mid-Wales --- stone settings --- Zeta function --- prime numbers --- pastoral
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This Special Issue showcases poets who enhance the breadth of modernist literary practices. The cohering concept is a complex relationship to both gender and modernity through original experiments with language. Leading scholars explore writers who both fit and extend orthodox modernist histories: Marianne Moore, H.D., Edna St Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, and Charlotte Mew were born around the cusp of the twentieth century and flourished during the 1920s and 1930s; Lynette Roberts, Helen Adam and Hope Mirrlees were contemporaries but publishing or recognition came later; the next generation can include Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith and Muriel Spark; Veronica Forrest-Thomson represents a third generation who published into the 1980s, while Frances Presley and M. NourbeSe Philip hinge this group with the contemporary poets Carol Watts and Natasha Trethewey, whose works continue and rejuvenate progressive stylistics. The essays offer new readings of both well-known and unfamiliar poets. They are truly groundbreaking in plundering diverse theoretical fields in ways that disturb any lingering notions of a homogenized women’s poetry. The authors supplant into literary poetic analysis notions of geometry and mathematics, maritime materialities, tourism and taxonomy, architecture, classicism, folk art, Christianity and death, whimsy and empathy.
H.D. --- Helen in Egypt --- Adorno --- late modernism --- epic --- avant-garde --- Gwendolyn Brooks --- architecture --- modernity --- Chicago --- Katherine Mansfield --- symbolism --- fin-de-siècle --- decadence --- modernism --- poetry --- Arthur Symons --- Stevie Smith --- T.S. Eliot --- The Waste Land --- Greek gods --- female protagonists --- Christianity --- suicide --- death --- Charlotte Mew --- Modernism --- empathy --- Edna St. Vincent Millay --- masculinity --- lyric --- drama --- verse drama --- gender --- genre --- race --- tourism --- taxonomy --- poetics --- Marianne Moore --- Natasha Trethewey --- Thomas Jefferson --- Scotland --- ballads --- kaleidoscope --- Charles Bernstein --- Edwin Morgan --- folk art --- Welsh Modernism --- Feminism --- nationalism --- ethnography --- geomodernisms --- modernist poetics --- Caribbean poetry --- Zong! --- M. NourbeSe Philip --- black poetry --- critical ocean studies --- multispecies --- materiality --- ecocriticism --- Moore --- Parker --- whimsy --- New York --- geometry --- place --- site-specific poetry --- mathematics --- metaphor --- Exmoor --- mid-Wales --- stone settings --- Zeta function --- prime numbers --- pastoral
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