Author: NORTH STARPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The North Star: the Poetry of Freedom, by Her Friends
Author: NORTH STARBlack Prometheus
Author: Jared HickmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190272589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The Prometheus myth, for several reasons became a crucial site for conceptualizing human liberation in the immanent space of a finite globe structured by white domination and black slavery. The titan's defiant theft of fire from the regnant gods was translated through a high-stakes racial coding either as an 'African' revolt against the cosmic status quo that augured a pure autonomy, a black revolutionary immanence against which idealist philosophers like Hegel defined their projects and slaveholders defended their lives and positions. Or as a 'Caucasian' reflection of the divine power evidently working in favor of Euro-Christian civilization that transmuted the naked egoism of conquest into a righteous heteronomy-Euro-Christian civilization's mobilization by the Absolute or its internalization of a transcendent principle of universal Reason.
John G. Whittier, the Poet of Freedom
Author: William Sloane KennedyPublisher: New York : Funk & Wagnalls Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Before Modernism
Author: Virginia JacksonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069123311X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuries Before Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry. Through inspired readings of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley Peters, George Moses Horton, Ann Plato, James Monroe Whitfield, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—as well as the poetry of neglected but once popular White poets William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—Virginia Jackson demonstrates how Black poets inspired the direction that American poetics has taken for the past two centuries. As an idea of poetry based on genres of poems such as ballads, elegies, odes, hymns, drinking songs, and epistles gave way to an idea of poetry based on genres of people—Black, White, male, female, Indigenous—almost all poetry became lyric poetry. Jackson discusses the important role played by Frederick Douglass as an influential editor and publisher of Black poetry, and traces the twisted paths leading to our current understanding of lyric, along the way presenting not only a new history but a new theory of American poetry. A major reassessment of the origins and development of American poetics, Before Modernism argues against a literary critical narrative that links American modernism directly to British or European Romanticism, emphasizing instead the many ways in which early Black poets intervened by inventing what Wheatley called “the deep design” of American lyric.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America
Author: Publisher: Martino Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The Art Collector
Author: Alfred TrumbleLamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States
Author: John Howard BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ...
Author: Rossiter JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
First Editions of Bryant, Emerson, Hawthorne, Holmes, Longfellow, Lowell, Thoreau, Whittier
Author: William Harris ArnoldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description