Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Life is Elsewhere the hero (Jaromil) is an overprotected, mother's only beloved boy who discovers and embraces at the same time, live, revolution, poetic strength, political intolerance and impotence. Youth, poetry, revolution and sexual immaturity fit together for Kundera...
...glasses, Daniel Beckhard gives rich expression to David's terror and alienation. His presence on stage is as disturbing to us as it is to his family, though our distance keeps our horror, unlike theirs, from turning into hatred. Beckhard is not always at home with Rabe's more poetic passages; but his performance is riveting when he rises to a fever pitch of outrage, denouncing the cruelty he sees and hating himself for listening to voices not his own, or when he subsides into a hurt, despairing sarcasm that admits the futility of his denunciations...
...Even the heavens are weeping for President Chiang." That was the poetic phrase used by many Chinese in Taipei last week to describe the incessant downpour that accompanied the paying of respects to the late President Chiang Kai-shek (TIME, April 14). For many-especially the veteran Nationalists who followed Chiang to Taiwan after the Communists took control of the mainland in 1949-his passing was a wrenching emotional experience...
...nationality, from men of high distinction and preferably of international reputation," a lecturer on poetry. But this didn't mean poetry in the narrow sense of verse, meter and rhyme. The bequest explicitly states that "Poetry shall be interpreted in the broadest sense, including, together with Verse, all poetic expression in Language, Music, or the Fine Arts, under which term Architecture may be included...
Frye's first major work was a study of William Blake. Fearful Symmetry, published in 1947. In it he attempted to demonstrate that Blake, often considered to be an inspired psychotic in the staid world of letters, is actually a "typical poet" and that his thinking was "typically poetic thinking." Frye's thesis hinges on the same notion of unity or archetype. And that is, most simply, the body of myths shared by the Western tradition as they have been expressed in its ancient rituals, and in all of its art down through the ages. In his conclusion to this...