Poetry and Bondage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Brady
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Phillis Wheatley ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Freedoms ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Poetry and Bondage is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the history of poetic constraint. For millennia, poets have compared verse to bondage – chains, fetters, cells, or slavery. Tracing this metaphor from Ovid through the present, Andrea Brady reveals the contributions to poetics of people who are actually in bondage. How, the book asks, does our understanding of the lyric – and the political freedoms and forms of human being it is supposed to epitomise – change, if we listen to the voices of enslaved and imprisoned poets? Bringing canonical and contemporary poets into dialogue, from Thomas Wyatt to Rob Halpern, Emily Dickinson to M. NourbeSe Philip, and Phillis Wheatley to Lisa Robertson, the book also examines poetry that emerged from the plantation and the prison. This book is a major intervention in lyric studies and literary criticism, interrogating the whiteness of those disciplines and exploring the possibilities for committed poetry today.

“Кazakh people should bow low to her”: Irina Viktorovna Erofeeva (1953 – 2020)

2021 ◽  
pp. 231
Author(s):  
Sergei A. Panarin
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Political History ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Great Demand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Irina Erofeeva won a universal recognition as the best expert in the political history of Kazakhstan of late 15th – early 19th centuries. The President of Kazakhstan responded to her death with a telegram of condolences. Kazakh journalists called her a female batyr, whom Kazakhs should bow deeply to. Her own books and her perfectly adjusted, commented and supplied with notes and indexes publications of sources on the history of Kazakhs, appeared to become in a great demand at the time when the former Soviet Kazakhstan has been transforming itself into an independent state. What is most impressive, in none of her oeuvres did she deviate from the principle of verifying her conclusions with a critically tested empirical evidence. In the focus of her interest were also the history of Russians and Germans in Kazakhstan and the monuments of Buddhism dating back to the Dzungarian expansion in the Kazakh steppe. She became one of the initiators of a comprehensive study on the remnants of the Buddhist monastery Ablai-Hit and one of the authors for a corresponding collective monograph. Yet, the masterpiece of her scholarly career is two-volume edition of the letters of the Kazakh ruling elite in the period from year 1675 to year 1821. She came up with the very idea of a unique collection that absorbed 811 messages, of which four-fifths were never published; wrote biographies of the authors of the letters and several research articles for the supplement; prepared the introduction and comments; edited 1,800 pages, and, found generous sponsors and sophisticated publishers.

The Ethiop’s Verse

2020 ◽  
pp. 126-169
Author(s):  
Wendy Raphael Roberts
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
The Political ◽  
Phillis Wheatley ◽  
Race Science ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lived Theology ◽  
A Site ◽  
Dynamic Exchange

This chapter argues that Phillis Wheatley engaged and contested the tradition and history of revival poetics that the first three chapters trace. Wheatley’s poetics entail subtle yet poignant critiques of both the limitations of the personae of white women poet-ministers built upon affective espousal devotion and of the political impotence of an anthropology based in evangelical harmony and appeals to the plainest capacity. Wheatley invented a new woman poet-minister persona, the Ethiop, which introduced the tensions of political freedom and chattel slavery into the Calvinist couplet and lived theology. Through her classicalism she practiced a politics of respectability at the same time that her Ethiop persona engaged in a politics of refusal that exposed white feminine sentimentalism and the domestic at the center of revival poetics, which helped structure the capacities of liberal rights-bearing subjects. Recognizing the ways that Wheatley critiqued revival poetry brings into view how enslaved femininity became a site of dynamic exchange between religious and secular aesthetics and epistemologies. A history of revival poetry, then, not only reveals the full import of Wheatley’s poetic choices in relation to slavery, but also how revivalism was integral to the often secularized story of the invention of race science.

scholarly journals K Platónově Ústavě v kontextu spirituální teologie Michal Altrichter

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-232
Author(s):  
Michal Altrichter
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Current State ◽  
Spiritual Theology ◽  
History Of

The text commenting on Plato´s Republic in the context of spiritual theology reflects the current state of critical studies of Plato´s Politeia and situates it to the context of spiritual theology. It makes use of the methodology of topic genesis and prefers pure Plato´s message to the analysis of interpretations of various schools in the history of Christian spirituality. It emphasizes spiritual mood of the contemporary human being in relation to recurring problems that are similar to those in Plato´s times: the spiritual ontology is prior to the political situation. The author of the text tries to connect the basic ontology of Plato to political descriptions. He avoids the evaluation of „anomalies“ intentionally, such as the communism of women, etc., because commenting on such particulars could conceal real Plato´s contribution to the history of spirituality.

scholarly journals El problema del Estado y la literatura

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Topuzian
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Social History ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Iberian Studies ◽  
History Of Literature

The possibility of Iberian Studies depends on its theoretical inventiveness after disarming the model that unites state, nation and culture in the social history of literature, especially if the complex conformation of the Spanish state in its relation with the territories of the peninsula is taken into account. The political modes in which literature intervenes among government apparatuses outside its official cultural mediations would thus gain prominence. At the same time, it is important to take into account its role in shaping and disseminating a State ideology. This implies a reflection on the role of literary criticism and a reconsideration of the notion of form.1

The Political Fallacy

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (5) ◽  
pp. 1214-1219
Author(s):  
Sandra Macpherson
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Modes Of Life ◽  
Extended Discussion

What kind of action is literary criticism? In literary criticism: a concise political history, Joseph North tells us up front: it's political action. His history “is explicitly motivated by present concerns: one has something like a goal, and something like a plan for reaching it,” and his goal is to persuade “readers on the radical left” that there is something at stake for them in “an extended discussion of matters literary, aesthetic, and methodological” (viii, ix, x). Or, rather, his goal is to persuade both readers on the left and “readers within and around academic literary studies” that their interests align: that the “materialist account of the aesthetic” at the root of close reading is “properly understood as part of a longer history of resistance to the economic, political, and cultural systems that prevent us from cultivating deeper modes of life” (x).

The Rights of the Political Opposition in an Islamic Society

2020 ◽  
pp. 246-270
Author(s):  
Mohsen Kadivar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Freedom Fighters ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Freedoms ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Right ◽  
Islamic Society

Using the Ashura movement and the way of Husain b. Ali as case studies, this chapter proves that political freedoms are an integral part of the presence of Islam in the public sphere. The massacre at Karbala was one of the biggest turning points in the history of Islam. This chapter discusses this tragedy from the perspective of human rights, focusing on the rights of political opposition in the shari‘a. Husain b. Ali is the best example of political opposition against unjust rulers in the history of Islam. There are three concepts that should not be confused: political opposition, baghi and muharib. Muharib refers to opposition in the form of terrorists and criminals, while baghi refers to regime changers or freedom fighters. These are the sections of this chapter: Husain b. Ali as the Political Opponent of the Umayyads, The Right to Not Have Allegiance to a State, Accepting the Invitation of the Dissidents to Change the Oppressive Ruler, Baghi and Overthrow, The Crime of Muharabah and Armed Insecurity, The Rights of the Political Opponent, and Imam Husain and the Duty of Forbidding the Wrong.

scholarly journals Influências orientais nas literaturas hispânicas medievais: Jarchas, Calila e Dimna, Libro de Apolonio, El Conde Lucanor

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-162
Author(s):  
José Alberto Miranda Poza
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Arab Culture ◽  
Conde Lucanor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Islam And Christianity ◽  
Americo Castro

This paper presents a review on some of the concepts traditionally developed by History and Literary Criticism regarding the very conception of the Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula, focusing on the political, social and cultural relations that took place between the cultures during this period, in particular, the troubled relations between Islam and Christianity. Based on the classic works of Américo Castro, regarding the history of Spain (2004) and with Maravall's (1954) proposals, it seeks to demonstrate the theory of a not only cultural, but, above all, social and political coexistence between cultures that populated the Peninsula, which opened up the possibility of a tangible influence on literary manifestations of the time, with the subsequent intertextuality. Arab culture also received an undoubted influence from the East, which made that romance literature have another source of inspiration. The medieval peninsular creator was responsible for the task of adapting these references to the spatiotemporal reality of their contemporaneity, especially in the scope of religiousness.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

The problem of periodization of the history of religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.

Essays of a “comparatively progressive” economist (On the 150th birth anniversary of Vladimir Geleznoff)

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-145
Author(s):  
Viktor A. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Working Ability ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
History Of

Deep comprehension of the advanced economic theory, the talent of lecturer enforced by the outstanding working ability forwarded Vladimir Geleznoff scarcely at the end of his thirties to prepare the publication of “The essays of the political economy” (1898). The subsequent publishing success (8 editions in Russia, the 1918­-year edition in Germany) sufficiently demonstrates that Geleznoff well succeded in meeting the intellectual inquiry of the cross­road epoch of the Russian history and by that taking the worthful place in the history of economic thought in Russia. Being an acknowledged historian of science V. Geleznoff was the first and up to now one of the few to demonstrate the worldwide community of economists the theoretically saturated view of Russian economic thought in its most fruitful period (end of XIX — first quarter of XX century).

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document