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OverviewConsiders allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential turmoil affecting the contemporary world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lyn HejinianPublisher: Wesleyan University Press Imprint: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 9780819580856ISBN 10: 0819580856 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 06 February 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsA captivating and daunting work of criticism and theory in aesthetic activism. The writing, and the thinking behind it is, beautiful, coruscating, and ethically compelling. This book will raise your IQ about life, and not just about literature. A breathtaking achievement. --James I. Porter, Stone Professor in Literature at the University of California, Berkeley Hejinian delights in the obduracy of existence--Oppen's 'mineral fact.' Without abridging this otherness, she reveals it as the dialectical complement of her own and her authors' acts of interpretive intelligence. We get it all: 'the stuff of life' (Woolf) and the life--the relational principle, jostling contexts, particularizing contingencies--of stuff. Call to the Everyday = How to Begin Again and Again (Stein). --Marjorie Levinson, author of Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric """A captivating and daunting work of criticism and theory in aesthetic activism. The writing, and the thinking behind it, is beautiful, coruscating, and ethically compelling. This book will raise your IQ about life, and not just about literature. A breathtaking achievement.""--James I. Porter, Stone Professor in Literature at the University of California, Berkeley ""Hejinian delights in the obduracy of existence--Oppen's 'mineral fact.' Without abridging this otherness, she reveals it as the dialectical complement of her own and her authors' acts of interpretive intelligence. We get it all: 'the stuff of life' (Woolf) and the life--the relational principle, jostling contexts, particularizing contingencies--of stuff. Call to the Everyday = How to Begin Again and Again (Stein).""--Marjorie Levinson, author of Thinking through Poetry: Field Reports on Romantic Lyric" Author InformationLYN HEJINIAN (Berkeley, CA) is a feminist avant-garde poet and scholar. She is the author of numerous books including the bestselling My Life and My Life in the Nineties. A native Californian, for many years she was a professor in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley and continues her scholarly and creative work nearby. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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