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Transferential Poetics presents a method for bringing theories of affect to the study of poetics. Informed by the thinking of Silvan Tomkins, Melanie Klein, and Wilfred Bion, it offers new interpretations of the poetics of four major American artists: Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Andy Warhol. The author emphasizes the close, reflexive attention each of these artists pays to the transfer of feeling between text and reader, or composition and audience— their transferential poetics. The book’s historical route from Poe to Warhol culminates in television, a technology and cultural form that makes affect distinctly available to perception. The peculiar theatricality of these four artists, Frank argues, can best be understood as a reciprocal framing relation between the bodily means of communicating affect (by face and voice) and technologies of graphic reproduction.

Poetics --- Semiotics. --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- History. --- Andy Warhol. --- Edgar Allan Poe. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Henry James. --- Melanie Klein. --- Silvan Tomkins. --- Wilfred Bion. --- affect. --- television. --- theatricality.

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Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address. Central to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential "Two Stein Talks," as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings.

Literature --- Poetics --- Poetry --- Technique --- Hejinian, Lyn --- Aesthetics. --- Poetics. --- academic. --- american literature. --- american poetry. --- american poets. --- autobiographical. --- collected works. --- consciousness. --- contemporary poetry. --- creative writing. --- enlightenment. --- essay collection. --- faust. --- female poets. --- gertrude stein. --- knowledge. --- language poets. --- literary analysis. --- literary criticism. --- literary culture. --- martin heidegger. --- modern poetry. --- perception. --- philosophy. --- poetry. --- political. --- politics. --- scheherazade. --- scholarly. --- sir francis bacon. --- time.

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This surprising global history of an indispensable document reveals how the passport has shaped art, thought, and human experience while helping to define the modern world. Narrow escapes and new starts, tearful departures and hopeful arrivals, unwanted scrutiny in the backrooms of officialdom: some of our most memorable experiences involve a passport. In License to Travel, Patrick Bixby examines the passports of artists and intellectuals, ancient messengers and modern migrants to reveal how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state authority. This concise cultural history takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, the book connects intimate stories of vulnerability and desire with vivid examples drawn from world cinema, literature, art, philosophy, and politics, highlighting the control that travel documents have over our bodies as we move around the globe. With unexpected discoveries at every turn, License to Travel exposes the passport as both an instrument of personal freedom and a tool of government surveillance powerful enough to define our very humanity.

Passports --- History. --- Ai Weiwei. --- Elon Musk. --- Frederick Douglass. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Global studies. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Langston Hughes. --- Marc Chagall. --- Paul Robeson. --- Slavoj Žižek. --- Sun Ra. --- Willa Cather. --- abroad. --- adventure. --- citizenship. --- continent. --- country. --- cultural history. --- culture. --- explore. --- identity. --- mobility. --- new places. --- state. --- tourist. --- travel. --- visit.

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Opening up readings of writers in the growing field of transatlanticism, this text discusses diverse and innovative interventions in the field of Anglo-American literary relations, revealing previously unresearched connections between writers on both sides of the Atlantic.

American literature. --- American literature - History and criticism. --- English literature. --- Literature, Comparative. --- American literature --- English literature --- Comparative literature --- English Literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- American and English --- English and American --- English influences --- American influences --- Literature [Comparative ] --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Alfred North Whitehead. --- Bolton Whitman Fellowship. --- Britain's foreign policy. --- British governments. --- George Eliot. --- Gertrude Stein. --- Harriet Beecher Stowe. --- Henry James. --- Highland Clearances. --- Mark Twain. --- New England farm life. --- Picasso. --- Sarah Orne Jewett. --- Walter Scott. --- hegemonic US. --- post-Second World War British governments. --- transatlantic literary network. --- working-class portrait. --- History and criticism. --- American and English. --- English and American. --- English influences. --- American influences.

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Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the "poet." What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but banal. "This book has the lucidity and the intelligence we have come to expect from Marjorie Perloff.-Linda Munk, American Literature "[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein's conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry."-Linda Voris, Boston Review "Wittgenstein's Ladder offers significant insights into the current state of poetry, literature, and literary study. Perloff emphasizes the vitality of reading and thinking about poetry, and the absolute necessity of pushing against the boundaries that define and limit our worlds."-David Clippinger, Chicago Review "Majorie Perloff has done more to illuminate our understanding of twentieth century poetic language than perhaps any other critic. . . . Entertaining, witty, and above all highly original."-Willard Bohn, Sub-Stance

Literature --- Criticism. --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Theory --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, Lu-te-wei-hsi, --- Wittgenstein, L. --- Vitgenshteĭn, L., --- Wei-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Pitʻŭgensyutʻain, --- Vitgenshteĭn, Li︠u︡dvig, --- Weitegenshitan, --- Wittgenstein, Ludovicus, --- Vitgenshtaĭn, Ludvig, --- ויטגנשטיין, לודוויג --- 维特根斯坦, --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann, --- ordinary language, philosophy, modernism, poetry, gertrude stein, tractatus, repetition, thomas bernhard, philosophical investigations, notes on logic, ingeborg bachmann, avant garde, german poets, god, the self, mystical, mundane, classics, literary criticism.