Thomas Pounde's long poem gives voice to a member of a minority silenced by the Elizabethan regim... more Thomas Pounde's long poem gives voice to a member of a minority silenced by the Elizabethan regime, a silence maintained by 400 years of a protestant-whig historiography. It points to one of the routes of manuscript circulation from the prison culture in the 1580s, adding to our understanding of the “Catholic community.” And it stretches the envelope of what we have hitherto understood as sixteenth-century poetics, forcing us to reconsider our notions of genres active in the 1580s, specifically subsets of the genre of religious poetry.
To read Hall first as a poet instead of a historian of labor struggles or a purveyor of volatile ... more To read Hall first as a poet instead of a historian of labor struggles or a purveyor of volatile language, we need not only to read the poems together but we would like to have a statement from the author about his poetics and his influences. We gain a greater appreciation of Hall’s work by reading it first in the context of poetry, then of the popular poetry of the labor struggles, then of Hall’s other poems. Though this may seem the stodgiest sort of traditionalism, the cultural reading needs to be preceded by considerations of biography, genre, poetics, and influences, for these too are essential matters of history and culture.
Argues that Samuel Wesley, John's father, is a screen for John Milton, the source of authority. ... more Argues that Samuel Wesley, John's father, is a screen for John Milton, the source of authority. Samuel is also the covering cherub, the Exterminating Angel who guards the Tree of Life and blocks the return of his son to Paradise. Milton is Samuel Wesley's God, and it is Milton whom the son through his textual methodism will emasculate.
Older than Kerouac and Ginsberg, and a more sophisticated thinker than either of them would ever... more Older than Kerouac and Ginsberg, and a more sophisticated thinker than either of them would ever become, Burroughs never adopted the aesthetics of bop prosody. Autobiography enters his novels because of a metonymic and literalist aesthetic for which the genre distinction between fiction and autobiography does not exist, anymore than that between fact and fiction. "Every word is autobiography," says Burroughs, "and every word is fiction."
My title refers to the problem of idealism in contemporary rhetoric, and by "idealism&am... more My title refers to the problem of idealism in contemporary rhetoric, and by "idealism" I mean ideas abstracted from the social matrix, which is always conflictive. This lack of social-historical context is what George Trow, in his critique of the vacuous human image created by corporate ...
On several occasions in his career as a writer Paul Bowles has paid tribute to the influence of P... more On several occasions in his career as a writer Paul Bowles has paid tribute to the influence of Poe on his work, but it is in the stark, reiterated design of Bowles's early fiction that his heritage from Poe seems especially direct and striking. In the novels, The Sheltering Sky (1949) ...
Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, Jan 1, 1981
Dans ces nouvelles B. décrit les fonctions acculturantes de la famille considérée en tant qu&... more Dans ces nouvelles B. décrit les fonctions acculturantes de la famille considérée en tant qu'unité de base de la communauté, comme le lieu précis où la violence intériorisée a rendu impossible toute naissance de l'amour, violence dont la prédation animale est une image. B. met en ...
Two documents in the Paul Bowles collection at the University of Texas at Austin illuminate the a... more Two documents in the Paul Bowles collection at the University of Texas at Austin illuminate the authorial subject in Bowles's develop-ment as a writer and his theory of fiction. By "authorial subject" I mean the structure of the author's subjectivity within the work-conscious-ness, ...
Page 1. WAYNE POUNDS California Polytechnic State University Agents and Actions: ... RhetoricRevi... more Page 1. WAYNE POUNDS California Polytechnic State University Agents and Actions: ... RhetoricReview Wayne Pounds is a migrant member of the faculty proletariat and a survivor of the Midnight Massacre ofthe Lecturers at the University ofTexas at Austin in the spring of 1985. ...
Cover and inside art by Bo McCarver. The subtitle of this chapbook constitutes the abstract. Whil... more Cover and inside art by Bo McCarver. The subtitle of this chapbook constitutes the abstract. While a few bookstores offer this work as a high-priced rare book, it's not rare, just undistributed. If you would like a copy, write to me.
Thomas Pounde's long poem gives voice to a member of a minority silenced by the Elizabethan regim... more Thomas Pounde's long poem gives voice to a member of a minority silenced by the Elizabethan regime, a silence maintained by 400 years of a protestant-whig historiography. It points to one of the routes of manuscript circulation from the prison culture in the 1580s, adding to our understanding of the “Catholic community.” And it stretches the envelope of what we have hitherto understood as sixteenth-century poetics, forcing us to reconsider our notions of genres active in the 1580s, specifically subsets of the genre of religious poetry.
To read Hall first as a poet instead of a historian of labor struggles or a purveyor of volatile ... more To read Hall first as a poet instead of a historian of labor struggles or a purveyor of volatile language, we need not only to read the poems together but we would like to have a statement from the author about his poetics and his influences. We gain a greater appreciation of Hall’s work by reading it first in the context of poetry, then of the popular poetry of the labor struggles, then of Hall’s other poems. Though this may seem the stodgiest sort of traditionalism, the cultural reading needs to be preceded by considerations of biography, genre, poetics, and influences, for these too are essential matters of history and culture.
Argues that Samuel Wesley, John's father, is a screen for John Milton, the source of authority. ... more Argues that Samuel Wesley, John's father, is a screen for John Milton, the source of authority. Samuel is also the covering cherub, the Exterminating Angel who guards the Tree of Life and blocks the return of his son to Paradise. Milton is Samuel Wesley's God, and it is Milton whom the son through his textual methodism will emasculate.
Older than Kerouac and Ginsberg, and a more sophisticated thinker than either of them would ever... more Older than Kerouac and Ginsberg, and a more sophisticated thinker than either of them would ever become, Burroughs never adopted the aesthetics of bop prosody. Autobiography enters his novels because of a metonymic and literalist aesthetic for which the genre distinction between fiction and autobiography does not exist, anymore than that between fact and fiction. "Every word is autobiography," says Burroughs, "and every word is fiction."
My title refers to the problem of idealism in contemporary rhetoric, and by "idealism&am... more My title refers to the problem of idealism in contemporary rhetoric, and by "idealism" I mean ideas abstracted from the social matrix, which is always conflictive. This lack of social-historical context is what George Trow, in his critique of the vacuous human image created by corporate ...
On several occasions in his career as a writer Paul Bowles has paid tribute to the influence of P... more On several occasions in his career as a writer Paul Bowles has paid tribute to the influence of Poe on his work, but it is in the stark, reiterated design of Bowles's early fiction that his heritage from Poe seems especially direct and striking. In the novels, The Sheltering Sky (1949) ...
Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, Jan 1, 1981
Dans ces nouvelles B. décrit les fonctions acculturantes de la famille considérée en tant qu&... more Dans ces nouvelles B. décrit les fonctions acculturantes de la famille considérée en tant qu'unité de base de la communauté, comme le lieu précis où la violence intériorisée a rendu impossible toute naissance de l'amour, violence dont la prédation animale est une image. B. met en ...
Two documents in the Paul Bowles collection at the University of Texas at Austin illuminate the a... more Two documents in the Paul Bowles collection at the University of Texas at Austin illuminate the authorial subject in Bowles's develop-ment as a writer and his theory of fiction. By "authorial subject" I mean the structure of the author's subjectivity within the work-conscious-ness, ...
Page 1. WAYNE POUNDS California Polytechnic State University Agents and Actions: ... RhetoricRevi... more Page 1. WAYNE POUNDS California Polytechnic State University Agents and Actions: ... RhetoricReview Wayne Pounds is a migrant member of the faculty proletariat and a survivor of the Midnight Massacre ofthe Lecturers at the University ofTexas at Austin in the spring of 1985. ...
Cover and inside art by Bo McCarver. The subtitle of this chapbook constitutes the abstract. Whil... more Cover and inside art by Bo McCarver. The subtitle of this chapbook constitutes the abstract. While a few bookstores offer this work as a high-priced rare book, it's not rare, just undistributed. If you would like a copy, write to me.
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