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Achieving Autobiographical Form

A Twentieth Century Perspective

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

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Achieving Autobiographical Form

A Twentieth Century Perspective

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

In Achieving Autobiographical Form Nicholas Meihuizen argues that significant autobiographies achieve significant forms, peculiar to themselves alone. Form, he argues, is not accidental or merely functional. The author arrives at a form through a careful negotiation between the self’s immersion in its world and its ability to distance itself from this world. The quality of the resultant self-scrutiny enables the author to transform everyday reflex into the act of attention that results in formal achievement, a uniquely crafted structure. Meihuizen’s book helps demonstrate how each piece of autobiographical writing under consideration in it (works by Yeats, Conrad, Martin Amis, Frank Kermode, Andrew Motion, Roy Campbell, Richard Murphy, and J.M. Coetzee) discovers a unique form.

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9004311041

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Ordering Empire

The Poetry of Camões, Pringle and Campbell

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

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Ordering Empire

The Poetry of Camões, Pringle and Campbell

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

This book examines the relationship between empire, its representations in poetry, and the principal ways of ordering the world at certain key historical moments as figured in the work of three poets associated with Southern Africa: Luis Vaz de Camões in the sixteenth century, Thomas Pringle in the nineteenth century, and Roy Campbell in the twentieth century. In its consideration of ways of 'ordering the world' the book draws on Michel Foucault's theory of epistemic periodisation. Positing the various consequences of such epistemic vision, yet connately dealing with the poets as specific individuals with their own predispositions, the book engages in analyses of selected passages from Camões' epic Os Lusíadas, along with analyses of various poems by Pringle and Campbell.

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Peter Lang

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3039110233

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Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats

Beyond the Human

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

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Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats

Beyond the Human

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

This book offers detailed readings of relevant works by Blake, Shelley and Keats, to bring together what is loosely termed as Hermetic tradition, British Romantic poetry and responses to the present crises regarding our life on the planet, including those linked to the notion of posthumanism. This conjunction of forces, so to speak, points beyond the boundaries erected by general sociological complacency and the acceptance of humankind as the centre of existence on Earth, to affirm the value of the non-human world and the possibilities inherent in an awareness of its subtler manifestations. Although the idea of spiritual agency might stretch the bounds of credulity, for centuries the inspired imagination has been considered daemonic; that is, it brings to artists and poets (and certain scientists, indeed) a sense of heightened consciousness, seemingly from beyond the self. Whatever causality may be at play here, it is clear that instances of an exalted outlook on life exist in abundance in the poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats. The present book explores them and their implications.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527577562

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Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

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Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

In recent years Yeats scholarship has been, to a large extent, historically-based in emphasis. Much has been gained from this emphasis, if we consider the refinement of critical awareness resulting from a better understanding of the intricate relationship between the poet and his times. However, the present author feels that an exclusive adherence to this approach impacts negatively on our ability to appreciate and understand Yeatsian creativity from within the internally located imperatives of creativity itself, as opposed to our understanding it on the basis of aesthetically constitutive socio-historical forces operative from without. He feels a need to relocate the study of Yeats in the work and thought of the poet himself, to focus again on the poet’s own myth-making. To this end Nicholas Meihuizen examines this myth-making as it relates to certain archetypal figures, places, and structures. The figures in question are the antagonist and goddess, embodiments of conflict and feminine forces in Yeats, and they participate in a lively drama within the places and shapes considered sacred by the poet: places such as the Sligo district and Byzantium; shapes such as the circling gyres of his system. The book should be interesting and valuable to students and scholars of varying degrees of acquaintance with the poet. To long-time Yeatsians it offers fresh perspectives onto important works and preoccupations. To new students it offers a means of exploring wide-ranging material within a few central, interrelated frames, a means that mirrors Yeats’s own commitment to unity in diversity.

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192

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BRILL

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900448504X

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9789004485044

Phylogeny and Ontogeny

By: Nicholas Cohen,M. Michael Sigel

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Phylogeny and Ontogeny

By: Nicholas Cohen,M. Michael Sigel

This comprehensive treatise on the reticuloendothelial system is a project jointly shared by individual members of the Reticuloendothelial (RE) Society and bio medical scientists in general who are interested in the intricate system of cells and molecular moieties derived from these cells which constitute the RES. It may now be more fashionable in some quarters to consider these cells as part of what is called the mononuclear phagocytic system or the lymphoreticular system. Nevertheless, because of historical developments and current interest in the subject by investigators from many diverse areas, it seems advantageous to present in one comprehensive treatise current information and knowledge con cerning basic aspects of the RES, such as morphology, biochemistry, phylogeny and ontogeny, physiology, and pharmacology as well as clinical areas including immunopathology, cancer, infectious diseases, allergy, and hypersensitivity. It is anticipated that by presenting information concerning these apparently heterogeneous topics under the unifying umbrella of the RES attention will be focused on the similarities as well as interactions among the cell types constitut ing the RES from the viewpoint of various disciplines. The treatise editors and their editorial board, consisting predominantly of the editors of individual vol umes, are extremely grateful for the enthusiastic cooperation and enormous task undertaken by members of the biomedical community in general and especially by members of the American as well as European and Japanese Reticuloendothe lial Societies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468441663

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Achieving Autobiographical Form

A Twentieth Century Perspective

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

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A Twentieth Century Perspective

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9004311041

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Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats

Beyond the Human

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

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Beyond the Human

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Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space

By: Nicholas Meihuizen

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Book's by Nicholas Meihuizen

Achieving Autobiographical Form

Achieving Autobiographical Form

Ordering Empire

Ordering Empire

Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats

Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats

Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space

Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space

Phylogeny and Ontogeny

Phylogeny and Ontogeny

Achieving Autobiographical Form

Achieving Autobiographical Form

Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats

Romantic Daemons in the Poetry of Blake, Shelley and Keats

Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space

Yeats and the Drama of Sacred Space

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