It should be noted, on the other hand, that the “cosmic” imagery employed by the Proletkul’t (Proletarian Cultural and Educational Organization) school of poetry and by leftist deviationists of all kinds, including the poets who relapsed into futurism, was in reality far from true ...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook psychoanalytical criticism an approach to criticism or a critical technique that applies the principles, theories and practices of psychoanalysis to literature, both in the analysis of the work and of the author. See...
I used to read Ashbery when I wanted to gauge the limits of what contemporary poetry could do formally; now I read Muldoon for the same reason. So it’s no big surprise to me that Muldoon has a sestina dedicated to Ashbery in his new book — and that it has the tone of rueful worl...
During the Cultural Revolution, Wu Guanzhong was sent to the countryside of Hebei province for hard labour. For three years, Wu was forbidden to paint in the remote settlement and had to suppress his urge by composing poetry in his head. It was not until 1972 that he was finally allowed ...
In the 1920’s the formalist school emerged in Russia, reacting against intuitionism and biographic impressionism and against the methods that ignored the distinctive features of art (the school of cultural history). The formalists attempted to transcend the dualism of form and content by proposing...
The new interest in formalism itself, spurred by Victor Erlich’s book (Erlich 1955) on the one hand, and the emer-gence of the Lotman-Uspenskii school on the other, drew attention to Bakhtin as a sort of formalist fellow-traveller. The approach was appreciative – Bakhtin was considered ...
While formalists seek to describe the function of a textual whole, anti-formalist ideology-critics look for the artifact’s “cultural work,” treating the text as an expressive source that—if put on the couch and probed for its suppressed depths—reveals “the way a culture thinks about ...
Grand Little Things(GLT) is an online literary journal that embraces versification, lyricism, rhyming and formal poetry submissions…a still rather rare aesthetic focus given the near dominance of free verse and postmodern “experimental” poetry in North America today. And so, I am indeed very gr...
C. Roscoe regretted that Thackeray failed at “the highest distinguishing prerogative of poetry or fiction … the power of delineating the actual interior life and individual character of a living soul.” Marian Evans (as she then was) made a similar objection to Dickens, couched in celebration ...
However, this is also the source of Aristotle's anxiety when it comes to genres devoted to long exposition. In Aristotle's philosophy, nothing is more detrimental to truth than leaving the mind to its own devices; moreover, long expositions (rhetorical speeches, public addresses, epic poetry,...