Experiments with Fiction, Biography, and Poetic Realism, 1883–85

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-125
Keyword(s):  
Poetic Realism

Realism and Poetry

2019 ◽  
pp. 485-505
Author(s):  
Jonathan N. Barron
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
New Science ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Realism ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Sara Teasdale ◽  
Pragmatic Philosophy

American poetic realism still remains a largely unknown and untold story. Although it came to American poetry relatively late by comparison with fiction, the typical American realist poem has a distinctive nexus combining theme, diction, and style. Chief among the first American realists are Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, and Sara Teasdale. Specifically, realist poetry expresses a pragmatic philosophy rejecting the individual’s location in the world as something knowable, fixed, and stable. Realist poets reject as amoral and quietist the commitment to beauty for the sake of beauty and tend toward virtues associated with masculinity. Their poetry rejects generic nouns in favor of particulars and depicts recognizable contemporary landscapes and, above all, contemporary American cities such as Chicago, Boston, or New York. It emphasizes the interior space of the self as revealed by the new science of psychology. It also focuses on the living idiom of talk and speech rather than a “literary” language.

scholarly journals Introduction: What is a Thing

Konturen ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nicholas Reynolds ◽  
Jeffrey S Librett
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Poetic Realism ◽  
Current Special Issue ◽  
Lost Object

As the modern world has seemed an increasingly material one, and so increasingly thingly, the very reality of things has often--and from many different perspectives--seemed to elude us. Questions about what things are, and how they mean, questions about how things are to be circumscribed (for example) in epistemological, ethical, aesthetic, and political terms, have arguably become--across the course of modernity (and beyond)--both increasingly pressing and increasingly vexed. -- In this extremely broad context, the contributions to the current Special Issue examine specific approaches to things from the later nineteenth century to today within the literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytic discourses. The foci range from the descriptive representationalism of nineteenth century German poetic realism to the monumentalization of everyday objects in postcolonial fiction; from the poetics of the Dinggedicht in Rilkean modernism to the Anglo-American imagist doctrine of "no ideas but in things" and the disruptions of this doctrine in contemporary German and American poetry; from Husserl's call "to the things themselves" to the Derridian displacements of the Heideggerian "thing" and on to the most recent developments in "object-oriented metaphysics"; from the Freudian notion of the unconscious as comprising "representations-of-things" to the Lacanian rereading of the lost object as das Ding.

Writing in Times of Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 214-234
Author(s):  
Amir Kalan
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Refugee Camp ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Realism ◽  
Genre Practices

This chapter focuses on a memoir and a film that narrate the experiences of Kurdish writer Behrouz Boochani in an Australian refugee camp in Papua New Guinea in order to show how genres organically develop out of human engagement with social and historical circumstances. The author discusses the novel and the film as examples of how writers' interactions with the world impose rhetorical orientations and nurture genre formation. This chapter illustrates that, as opposed to the dominant view of rhetoric as a means of persuasion, the essence of rhetoric and genre formation is engagement with what the author calls “phenomenological autoethnography.” The author argues that studying writing in times of crisis makes the phenomenological and autoethnographic foundations of writing visible because in crises rhetoric is unapologetically used to resist injustice and build resistance through “poetic realism,” which consists of fluid genre practices that can help capture the complexities of human experience.

Tamayo, Rufino (1899–1991)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Locatelli
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Abstract Expressionism ◽  
American Art ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Diego Rivera ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The World ◽  
Emotional Aspects ◽  
Poetic Realism ◽  
Jose Clemente Orozco

A Mexican painter and muralist of indigenous heritage, Rufino Tamayo was one of the most important representatives of figurative abstraction and poetic realism in 20th-century Latin American art. A supporter of the universalistic approach to art, in the late 1940s he started a controversy—the so called ‘‘polémica Tamayo’’—by positioning himself against the classical Mexican school and its ‘‘Big Three,’’ the muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and Alfaro Siqueiros. Contrary to the stress they put on art as political, Tamayo focused on its poetic and emotional aspects. Tamayo’s art is based both on Mexican figurative traditions (characterized by the rigor and geometry of pre-Hispanic sculpture and its imaginative and magical character), and on the influence of European and North American avant-garde movements, especially Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. His sensibility for nature and spirituality, his interest in ordinary people, and his ability to synthesize different pictorial languages with Mexican folk art and beliefs, have made him a very popular artist, nationally and internationally. Throughout his career Tamayo directed his effort ‘‘towards the salvation of painting, the preservation of its purity and the perpetuation of its mission as translator of the world’’ (Paz 1985: 23).

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