The Mute Immortals Speak : Pre-Islamic Poetry and the Poetics of Ritual / / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480020703321
• Autore: Stetkevych Suzanne Pinckney
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1993; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021; ©1993
• ISBN: 1-5017-2018-X; 1-5017-2017-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 334 pages)
• Collana: Myth and poetics
• Disciplina: 892/.71109
• Soggetti: Geschichte Anfänge-622; Gedichten; Dichtkunst; Arabisch; Rites and ceremonies in literature; Qasidas - Themes, motives; Arabic poetry; Rites et cérémonies dans la littérature; Arabic poetry - To 622 - History and criticism; Livres numériques.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Appendix of Arabic texts"--Page 287-317.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Foreword / Gregory Nagy -- 1. Voicing the Mute Immortals: The Muallaqah of Labid and the Rite of Passage -- 2. Eating the Dead / The Dead Eating: Blood Vengeance as Sacrifice -- 3. Taabbata Sharran and Oedipus: A Paradigm of Passage Manque -- 4. Archetype and Attribution: Al-Shanfara and the Lamiyyat al-Arab -- 5. The Obligations and Poetics of Gender: Women's Elegy and Blood Vengeance -- 6. Memory Inflamed: Muhalhil ibn Rabiah and the War ofal-Basus -- 7. Regicide and Retribution: The Muallaqah of Imru al-; Qays.
• Sommario/riassunto: A body of Bedouin oral poetry which was collected in the second or third Islamic century, the pre-Islamic qasidah, or ode, stands with the Qur'an as a twin foundation of Arabo-Islamic literary culture. Throughout the rich fifteen-hundred-year history of classical Arabic literature, the qasidah served as profane anti-text to the sacred text of the Qur'an. While recognizing the esteem in which Arabs have traditionally held this poetry of the pagan past, modern critics in both East and West have yet to formulate a poetics that would provide the means to analyze and evaluate the qasidah. Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych here offers the first aesthetics appropriate for this orally composed Arabic verse, an aesthetics that is built on-and tested on-close readings of a number of the poems. Drawing on the insights of contemporary literary theory, anthropology, and the history of religions, Stetkevych maintains that the poetry of the qasidah is ritualized in both form and function. She brings to bear an extensive body of lore, legend, and myth as she interprets individual themes and images with references to rites of passage and rituals of sacrifice. Her English translations of the poems under discussion convey the power and beauty of the originals, as well as a sense of their complex intertextuality and distinctive lexicon. The Mute Immortals Speak will be important for students and scholars in the fields of Middle Eastern literatures, Islamic studies, folklore, oral literature, and literary theory, and by anthropologists, comparatists, historians of religion, and medievalists.

Realizing capital : financial and psychic economies in Victorian form / / Anna Kornbluh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824333203321
• Autore: Kornbluh Anna
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8232-8038-1; 0-8232-5499-2; 0-8232-6112-3; 0-8232-5500-X; 0-8232-5498-4
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (383 p.)
• Classificazione: HL 1091
• Disciplina: 820.9/3553
• Soggetti: Economics and literature - England - History - 19th century; Economics - Psychological aspects - England; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Finance in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: 'A case of metaphysics': realizing capital -- Fictitious capital/real psyche: metalepsis, psychologism, and the grounds of finance -- Investor ironies in Great Expectations -- The economic problem of sympathy: parabasis and interest in Middlemarch -- 'Money expects money': satiric credit in The way we live now -- London, nineteenth century, capital of realism: on Marx's Victorian novel -- Psychic economy and its vicissitudes: Freud's economic hypothesis -- Epilogue: The psychic life of finance.
• Sommario/riassunto: During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice—drawing persistent attention to what they called “fictitious capital.” In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually disappeared by the 1860's, replaced by ; notions of fickle investor psychology and mental equilibrium encapsulated in the fascinating metaphor of “psychic economy. ”In close rhetorical readings of financial journalism, political economy, and the works of Dickens, Eliot, and Trollope, Kornbluh examines the psychological framing of economics, one of the nineteenth century’s most enduring legacies, reminding us that the current dominant paradigm for understanding financial crisis has a history of its own. She shows how novels illuminate this displacement and ironize ideological metaphors linking psychology and economics, thus demonstrating literature’s unique facility for evaluating ideas in process. Inheritors of this novelistic project, Marx and Freud each advance a critique of psychic economy that refuses to naturalize capitalism.