Poetics and Praxis, Understanding and Imagination: The Collected Essays of O.B. Hardison, JrUniversity of Georgia Press, 01.01.1997 - 457 Seiten Whether O. B. Hardison Jr. (1928-1990) wrote about government's responsibility to the arts and humanities, film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, Dadaist poetry, or modern and postmodern design and architecture, his chosen form was the essay. Showcasing Hardison's mastery of the essay's power to instruct, persuade, and provoke, the twenty-five selections in this volume range from his earliest works to those completed but still unpublished at the time of his death. The selections reflect the many facets of Hardison's remarkably crowded and productive life and career. Once lionized on the cover of Time magazine, which praised him as one of America's "great teachers" and a "Renaissance man," Hardison was widely known and published as a poet, critic, scholar, administrator, and social and cultural observer. He served as president of the Shakespeare Association of America and Renaissance Society of America, and, perhaps most impressive of his many honors and accomplishments, as the third director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Hardison transformed the Folger from a scholarly retreat into an active research center and established fellowships, residencies, and The Folger Institute. In addition, the Folger grew into a prominent national cultural center that featured musical and dramatic performing groups, a poetry reading series, and an art gallery. Poetics and Praxis, Understanding and Imagination is both a tribute to the essay and to one of its most distinguished modern practitioners, as well as an important survey of humanistic concerns in literature and the arts over the past three decades. |
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In Praise of the Essay | 3 |
Aristotle and Averroes | 21 |
The Dilemma of Humanist | 37 |
Blank Verse before Milton | 47 |
The Two Voices of Sidneys Apology for Poetry | 64 |
Three Types of Renaissance Catharsis | 78 |
Tudor Humanism and Surreys Translation of the Aeneid | 97 |
Perspective and Form in Petrarch | 115 |
Shakespearean Dialogue | 181 |
The Developing Canon | 197 |
Miltons On Time and Its Scholastic Background | 210 |
In Medias Res in Paradise Lost | 222 |
Politics and Beauty | 249 |
Dada the Poetry of Nothing and the Modern World | 260 |
Great Walls and Running Fences | 278 |
At the Top of the Masthead | 302 |
Amoretti and the Dolce Stil Novo | 127 |
Logic Versus the Slovenly World in Shakespearean Comedy | 134 |
The Dramatic Triad in Hamlet | 147 |
Myth and History in King Lear | 164 |
Taking Off | 313 |
Notes and References | 391 |
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