Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy

tering of mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and values of all persons and groups. Do the arts and humanities foster diversi ...

given by the likes of Jaroslav Pelikan, C. Vann Woodward, Vincent Scully, Caroline Walker Bynum, and Emily T. Vermeule—all of th ...

nator that came into use only in the eighteenth century,^6 whereas discus- sions of the poetic have a much more ancient and cros ...

and an Emerson essay. At the same time, the focus on the rhetorical dimen- sion of a given text inevitably downplays the cogniti ...

practical skill and for the systematic knowledge or experience that underlies it. “The resulting range of application,” Stephen ...

in the Formalist tradition would today concede that the distinction between literary and ordinary language is not hard and fast, ...

We might begin by noting that the treatment of poetry as a branch of history or culture is based on the assumption that the poet ...

with the poetic my th of Er, as if to let us know that despite all the good reasons to the contrary, for Plato, poetry is ¤nally ...

ti¤cation between Conrad and the notorious Kurtz. But in its zeal to un- mask the hidden ideologies of these and related novels, ...

poetics altogether. Studies of consumerism, for example, can be based on the analysis of shopping malls or Home Depot layouts; n ...

of Beckett scholarship, and a good selection of the texts themselves online. And a third Beckett site—this one devoted to the sc ...

What, then, of the “crisis” in the humanities? Given the astonishing in- terest in artworks and poetries manifested on the Inter ...

®ow of things; he took a poetic technique of reproduction, as it were, that corresponded to the industrial age and applied it to ...

of a legal brief or the newspaper or even of an Internet ad, takes training. And that the methods learned, applied to one’s own ...

Pleasure was paramount for Aristotle, as it was for Plato, who banished the poets from the Republic because their work produced ...

basic human instinct to make poetry—the German verb Dichten is apposite here—and to enjoy the poetry making of others: indeed, t ...

“Gerontion,” written in the summer of 1919 and originally intended as the prelude to The Waste Land,^1 was ¤rst published in T. ...

of life. We must not dwell too literally on the phrases by which he builds up the impression of sinister dilapidation and decay. ...

tion of Europe at the time of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles doesn’t work. The modern political theme, which affects th ...

And the Jew squats on the window sill, the owner, Spawned in some estaminet of Antwerp, Blistered in Brussels, patched and peele ...