A Poetics of Homecoming

A Poetics of Homecoming
Author: Brendan O’Donoghue
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2011-05-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1443831239

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This investigation addresses a pressing anxiety of our time – that of homelessness. Tersely stated, the philosophical significance of homelessness in its more modern context can be understood to emerge with Nietzsche and his discourse on nihilism, which signals the loss of the highest values hitherto. Diverging from Nietzsche, Heidegger interprets homelessness as a symptom of the oblivion of being. The purpose of the present enquiry is to rigorously confront humanity’s state of homelessness, and at the same time illumine the extent to which Heidegger’s thought engages with this pervasive phenomenon. In questioning the nature of homelessness, Heidegger’s preoccupations with nihilism and modern technology prove crucial. Moreover, his attempts to overcome or prepare for the overcoming of this state of homelessness are also of great import to the current investigation. Adorno and Lévinas offer scathing critiques of Heidegger’s thought as it relates to the motifs of homelessness, homecoming (Heimkunft) and the German Heimat, for they associate it with provincialism, paganism, and a pernicious form of politics. In providing these critiques they bring to light the risks involved in undertaking a homecoming venture, and they also show how a great thinker can err greatly. While acknowledging the importance of these criticisms, the present study reveals how Heidegger’s various discourses on homelessness and homecoming bear fruitful insights that can contribute not just to a Germanic sense of homecoming but to a sense of homecoming that humanity at large can relate to and be enriched by.

A Poetics of Homecoming

A Poetics of Homecoming
Author: Brendan O'Donoghue
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2007
Genre: Homecoming
ISBN:

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The Homecoming (Poems & Illustrations)

The Homecoming (Poems & Illustrations)
Author: Ray Bussard
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0359346669

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In, The Homecoming (Poems & Illustrations), the author takes us on a epic journey through the perils of lost love, despair, loneliness, and heartache, to the healing of his wounds through love and compassion. From the desire for a greater and more fulfilling kind of life the hero-protagonist finally arrives in a blissful state of universal love at the golden flower-strewn shores of paradise. Through wonderful poems and illustrations that explore the healing power of love and of the natural world, the reader comes to understand the process a person goes through in healing themselves and becoming whole. Philosophical, spiritual, and poetic, it is a story that will indelibly imprint itself on your heart and mind.

Homecoming

Homecoming
Author: Victor Contoski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2000
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

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Deft poems about music, dreams, and memories by a master poet of the Midwest.

Postcolonial Odysseys

Postcolonial Odysseys
Author: Maeve Tynan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2011-05-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443830135

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Postcolonial Odysseys: Derek Walcott’s Voyages of Homecoming highlights the importance of the trope of voyaging in Derek Walcott’s poetics, primarily as it pertains to the poet’s engagement with classical verse. Focusing specifically on the engagement with Homeric myth, and The Odyssey in particular, it articulates the manner in which Walcott’s postcolonial reconfigurations of epic verse both highlights the endurance of the classics as well as demonstrating how cultural practices can remake and transform ancient texts. Concomitant with the poet’s presentation of self as divided, this study traces opposing forces in operation within this trope: a centrifugal force that corresponds to the outward journey away from his island home in search of greater publishing opportunities and broader readerships, and a centripetal force corresponding to the return journey, or homecoming. The enabling potential of Greek myth is marked by a similar to-ing and fro-ing in Walcott’s verse as he repeatedly engages with, and simultaneously disavows, Homeric configurations. Insisting on the reciprocal nature of poetic appropriation, the act of rewriting also signalling new ways of rereading, Walcott’s appropriations effectively enter into a critical dialogue with Homeric verse. Further depth to Walcott’s rewriting of Homer is provided by an analysis of the mediating influence of Euro-American modernism. Through an examination of the postcolonial aftermath of modernism, it challenges the perceived exclusivity of each, illustrating this premise through case studies of Walcott’s relation to both Romare Bearden and James Joyce. This study is therefore interdisciplinary and inter-artistic in nature, transgressing the borderline between poetry and prose, and that of literary and artistic disciplines. Highlighting the permeability of such boundaries, it investigates the journey of Odysseus, as prototypical wanderer, through time and space, from oral to print culture, from word to image.

Homecoming

Homecoming
Author: Emabel Fair
Publisher:
Total Pages: 39
Release: 1985
Genre:
ISBN:

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Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice

Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice
Author: Charles Bambach
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013-05-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1438445814

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A new reading of justice engaging the work of two philosophical poets who stand in conversation with the work of Martin Heidegger. What is the measure of ethics? What is the measure of justice? And how do we come to measure the immeasurability of these questions? Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice situates the problem of justice in the interdisciplinary space between philosophy and poetry in an effort to explore the sources of ethical life in a new way. Charles Bambach engages the works of two philosophical poets who stand as the bookends of modernity—Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Paul Celan (1920–1970)—offering close textual readings of poems from each that define and express some of the crucial problems of German philosophical thought in the twentieth century: tensions between the native and the foreign, the proper and the strange, the self and the other. At the center of this philosophical conversation between Hölderlin and Celan, Bambach places the work of Martin Heidegger to rethink the question of justice in a nonlegal, nonmoral register by understanding it in terms of poetic measure. Focusing on Hölderlin’s and Heidegger’s readings of pre-Socratic philosophy and Greek tragedy, as well as on Celan’s reading of Kabbalah, he frames the problem of poetic justice against the trauma of German destruction in the twentieth century.

Homecoming

Homecoming
Author: Everett Hoagland
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781936431212

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A Poetics of Forgiveness

A Poetics of Forgiveness
Author: J. Scott
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010-03-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230106242

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Despite recent interest in forgiveness and reconciliation, relatively little research has been conducted on forgiveness in literary studies. A Poetics of Forgiveness explores the profound links between creativity and forgiveness, and argues that creative production and interpretation can play a vital role in practices of forgiveness. Developing a model of "poetic forgiveness" through the work of Julia Kristeva, Jacques Derrida, and Kelly Oliver, A Poetics of Forgiveness asks how forgiveness is expressed in literature and other art forms, and what creative works can bring to secular debates on forgiveness and conflict resolution. Jill Scott explores these questions in a wide variety of historical and cultural contexts, from Homer s Iliad to 9/11 novels, from postwar Germany to post-Apartheid South Africa, in canonical texts and in diverse media, including film, photography, and testimony.

Booking Passage

Booking Passage
Author: Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2023-12-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520918215

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Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi's sweeping study of modern Jewish writing is in many ways a long meditation on the thematics of geography in Jewish culture, what she calls the "poetics of exile and return." Until the late nineteenth century, Jews were identified in their own religious and poetic imagination as wanderers and exiles, their sacred center–Jerusalem, Zion–fatefully out of reach. Opening the book with "Jewish Journeys," Ezrahi begins by examining the work of medieval Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi to chart a journey whose end was envisioned as the sublime realignment of the people with their original center. When the Holy Land became the site of a political drama of return in the nineteenth century, Jewish writing reflected the shift, traced here in the travel fictions of S.Y. Abramovitsh, S.Y. Agnon, and Sholem Aleichem. In "Jewish Geographies" Ezrahi explores aspects of reterritorialization through memory in the post-Holocaust writing of Paul Celan, Dan Pagis, Aharon Appelfeld, I.B. Singer and Philip Roth. Europe, where Jews had dreamed of return, has become the new ruined shrine: The literary pilgrimages of these writers recall familiar patterns of grieving and representation and a tentative reinvention of the diasporic imagination–in America, of course, but, paradoxically, even in Zion.