[PDF] The Motive For Metaphor eBook

Author : Henry M. Seiden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 30,78 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429907265

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This book is a small anthology: each chapter a kind of meditation-on poetry and psychoanalysis; on a poem, sometimes two; on poetry in general; on thought itself. The poems are beautiful, some are contemporary, some are classical and well worth a reader's attention. "The motive for metaphor" is the title of a short poem of Wallace Stevens in which he says he is "happy" with the subtleties of experience. He likes what he calls the "half colours of quarter things," as opposed to the certainties, the hard primary "reds" and "blues." To grasp and make sense of what is elusive (and beautiful), that is, for the essential and puzzling condition of poetry, we are obliged to make metaphors. The same is perhaps true of psychoanalysis-this is the essential argument of the book. The chapters were originally poetry columns that the author wrote for Psychologist-Psychoanalyst and Division/Review (both journals of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association).

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,51 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674945753

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In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens' short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological questions alone but are also "words chosen out of desire."

Author : James E. Seitz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822971992

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Despite urgent calls for reform, composition, literature, and creative writing remain territorial, competitive fields. This book imagines ways in which the three English camps can reconnect. Seitz contends that the study of metaphor can advance curriculum reform precisely because of its unusual institutional position. By pronouncing equivalence in the very face of difference, metaphor performs an irrational discursive act that takes us to the nexus of textual, social, and ideological questions that have stirred such contentious debate in recent years over the function of English studies itself. As perhaps the most radical (yet also quotidian) means by which language negotiates difference, metaphor can help us to think about the politics of identification and the curricular movements such a politics has inspired.

Author : Judy Simons
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 1997-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780312173449

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Mansfield Park and Persuasion are both notoriously problematic works that have stimulated diverse and often polarised critical readings. These essays interpret and outline the debate in the light of cultural, historicist and feminist theory.

Author : Professor Northrop Frye
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 2013-05-06
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ISBN : 9781459664852

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'What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?'' Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous style of his public lectures, this remains, of Northrop Frye's many books, perhaps the easiest introduction to his theories of literature and literary education.