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From: Internal Resistances: The Poetry of Edward Dorn[(essay date 1985) In the following essay, Wesling discusses the unique aspects of Dorn's shorter poetry, providing an extensive analysis of Dorn's treatment of the concept of attention.] "We are bleached in...
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From: Acta Litteraria[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Slawek and Wesling maintain that Mickiewicz celebrates a mythic, ideal tradition of Poland in Pan Tadeusz.] Pan Tadeusz, written in Paris (1832-34), emerges from a political...
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From: Papers on Language & Literature[(essay date summer 1993) In the following essay, Wesling applies critic Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the social and cultural implications of language to "Unrelated Incidents (3)" and British-Caribbean poet Linton Kwesi...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAll our writing is spun out of our guts, whatever kind of writer we are, but we arrange many codes of indirection to avoid letting our guts be seen in our academic articles and books. This makes those who write about...
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From:New Literary History (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin's book 'Rabelais and His World,' which he wrote in 1935-1936, was a veiled comment on Soviet society. Bakhtin used Rabelais as a vehicle for examining the mix of rejoicing and terror that...
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From: Parnassus: Poetry in Review[(essay date spring/summer 1977) In the following essay, Wesling takes Charles Olson's pamphlet, A Bibliography on America for Ed Dorn, as a starting point for an introduction to the philosophy, politics, and techniques...
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From: Victorian Newsletter[(essay date 1979) In the following essay, Wesling examines Hardy’s strategic use of dialect for literary purposes and compares his approach with Barnes’s. Wesling also discusses Hardy’s attitude toward Barnes’s work.]...
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From: Charles Tomlinson: Man and Artist, Edited by Kathleen O'Gorman[In the following essay, Wesling analyzes Tomlinson's experiments with the prose poem, maintaining that they “must serve in the end to reinforce one's belief that he is after all a traditional poet.”] The prose poem...
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From: The NationRobert Bly's previous book, This Tree Will Be Here For A Thousand Years, a far slighter work than his new one [The Man in the Black Coat Turns], was the occasion for a memorably brutal attack on the poet, his work and...
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From:Papers on Language & Literature (Vol. 29, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn analysis of Tom Leonard's 'Unrelated Incident' and Linton Kwesi Johnson's 'It dread inna Inglan,' based on Mikhail Bakhtin's philosophy of social heteroglossia, reveals the power of dialect in forming cultural...
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From: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Wesling describes what the novel Galileo’s Dream reveals about Robinson’s ideas on science.] On September 10, 2008, physicists at CERN started up for the first time the new...
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From:CLIO (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe philosophy of nature espoused by Michel Serres and foreshadowed by Bruno Latour challenges the concept of periodization. The division of history into periods disrupts the continuity of time and of the human...