Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 503 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780520966345
Inhalt:
Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more. Beginning with a reassertion of the complexity of poetry among peoples long labeled "primitive" and "savage," many recent poets have sought to base a new poetics over the fullest range of human cultures. The attempt to define an ethnopoetics has been significantly connected with the most experimental and future-directed side of Romantic and modern poetry, both in the Western world and, increasingly, outside it. As a visionary poetics and as a politics, this complex redefinition of cultural and intellectual values has involved a rarely acknowledged collaboration between poets and scholars, who together have challenged the narrow view of literature that has excluded so many traditions. In this gathering, the Rothenbergs follow the idea of an ethnopoetics from predecessors such as Vico, Blake, Thoreau, and Tzara to more recent essays and manifestos by poets and social thinkers such as Olson, Eliade, Snyder, Turner, and Baraka. The themes range widely, from the divergence of oral and written cultures to the shaman as proto-poet and the reemergence of suppressed and rejected forms and images: the goddess, the trickster, and the "human universe." The book's three ethnographic sections demonstrate how various poetries are structured and composed, how they reflect meaning and worldview, and how they are performed in cultures where all art may be thought of as art-in-motion. Among the poetries discussed are the language of magic; West African drum language and poetry; the Huichol Indian language of reversals; chance operations in African divination poetry; picture-writings and action-writings from Australia and Africa; and American Indian sacred-clown dramas and traditional trickster
Inhalt:
Cover -- SYMPOSIUM OF THE WHOLE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Pre-Face -- ONE Preliminary Moves -- NALUNGIAQ: Magic Words -- GIAMBATTISTA VICO: The Age of the Gods and the Origins of Language -- JOHANN GOTTFRIED HERDER: From a Correspondence on Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples -- WILLIAM BLAKE: From The Marriage of Heaven & Hell -- HENRY DAVID THOREAU: In Wildness is the preservation of the World -- KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS: The Rise of Bourgeois Rule and the Origin of World Literature -- ARTHUR RIMBAUD: From "Mauvais Sang" [Bad Blood] -- EMILE DURKHEIM: On Ritual and Theater -- ERNEST FENOLLOSA: From The Chinese Written Character As a Medium for Poetry -- TRISTAN TZARA: A Note on Negro Poetry/Oceanian Art -- PAUL RADIN: Reality at White Heat -- LEO FROBENIUS: Paideuma -- EZRA POUND: The Value of Leo Frobenius -- FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA: The Duende -- AIMÉ CÉSAIRE and RENÉ DEPESTRE: On Negritude -- ROBERT GRAVES: The White Goddess -- CLAUDE LÉVI-STRAUSS: From Tristes Tropiques -- MIRCEA ELIADE: The Epilogue to Shamanism -- CHARLES OLSON: Human Universe -- STANLEY DIAMOND: Plato and the Definition of the Primitive -- GARY SNYDER: Poetry and the Primitive: Notes on Poetry as an Ecological Survival Technique -- JEROME ROTHENBERG: Pre-Face to Technicians of the Sacred -- TWO Workings -- BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI: The Meaning of Meaningless Words and the Coefficient of Weirdness -- HOWARD NORMAN: Bom Tying Knots -- RAMÓN MEDINA SILVA: How the Names are Changed on the Peyote Journey -- LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR: Speech and Image: An African Tradition of the Surreal -- RICHARD DAUENHAUER: Koyukon Riddle-Poems -- TREVOR COPE: Izibongo: Zulu Praise-Poems -- RUTH FINNEGAN: Drum Language and Literature -- NANCY MUNN: Guruwari Designs -- ROLAND BARTHES: The Written Face -- RUTH FINNEGAN: The Divination Poetry of Ifa.
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9780520293113
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Sprache:
Englisch
