Emma Gilby reassesses Descartes's writing by bringing his philosophical output into contact with the literary treatises, exempla, and debates of his age. She argues that humanist theorizing about poetics represents a vital intellectual context for Descartes's work, and offers re…
Questions of genres as well as their possible definitions, taxonomies, and functions have been discussed since antiquity. Even though categories of genre today are far from being fixed, they have for decades been upheld without question. The goal of this volume is to problematiz…
This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and red…
The essays in Inciting poetics provide a variety of provocative answers to the book's opening question, "What are the poetics now?" Authored by some of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and po…
The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to thebook's opening question, ""What are poetics now?""
Inciting poetics: thinking and writing poetry
by Altieri, Charles, DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, Dowling, Sarah, Frost, Elisabeth A., (Elisabeth Ann), Hejinian, Lyn, Hogue, Cynthia, Mackey, Nathaniel, Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, Place, Vanessa, Reed, Brian M., Schwartz, Leonard, Silliman, Ronald
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The essays in Inciting poetics provide a variety of provocative answers to the book's opening question, "What are the poetics now?" Authored by some of the most important contemporary poets and critics, the essays present new theoretical and practical approaches to poetry and po…
The essays in Inciting Poetics provide provocative answers to the book's opening question, ""What are poetics now?""
"Dazzling collections of flora and fauna were only one of the myriad ways that early American naturalists captured, catalogued, and commemorated America's rich biodiversity. They also turned to writing and art, from John Edward Holbrook's forays into the fascinating world of her…
Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from Joihn Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the artful display of animals in Charles Willson Peale's museum to P.T. Barnum's American Museum, infamously characterized by Henry Jame…
Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from Joihn Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the artful display of animals in Charles Willson Peale's museum to P. T. Barnum's American Museum, infamously characterized by Henry Jam…