On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry: Nostalgia, Sex, and the Souths of William Alexander Percy

Wise, Benjamin E.

doi:10.1353/scu.2008.0006

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“…Among the studies close to ours, we found several works devoted to the work of individual amateur authors (Knyazev, 2015;Kurochkina, 2014;Maroshi, 2010;Wise, 2008).…”

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Amateur Poem As A Subject Of Philological Research

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2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Among the studies close to ours, we found several works devoted to the work of individual amateur authors (Knyazev, 2015;Kurochkina, 2014;Maroshi, 2010;Wise, 2008).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 59%

Amateur Poem As A Subject Of Philological Research

Gileva¹

2019

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…B.E. Wise wrote articles about naïve and sentimental poetry by William Alexander Percy, a lawyer, planter, "sexual freethinker" and amateur poet [8,9]. Amateur poetry often translates an unofficial assessment of social phenomena and stereotypes.…”

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Images of Siberia in the Poems of Amateur Poets

Gileva¹

2019

Proceedings of the Internation Conference on "Humanities and Social Sciences: Novations, Problems, Prospects" (HSSNPP 2019)

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This article is devoted to the study of various images of Siberia in the amateur poetry by authors who were born in Siberia or lived in Siberia. For the purposes of this essay, the term "amateur poetry" is taken to mean poetry without poetic harmony and artistic value. Unlike high-quality fiction, amateur poetry contains a different set of interpretations of images of Siberia. As a result of the study, we made five main conclusions. First, the theme of Siberia helps understand the genesis of self and describe the phenomenon of own existence in the system of knowledge about the world. Second, there is a tendency to comprehend the fact of their own existence using the assertion of involvement in a small motherland or a global project. Third, there is a trend towards an idealized description of Siberia. Fourth, the description of Siberia in amateur poetry can become a way of social manifestation. Fifth, we give comments on the peculiarities of the use of geographical names in amateur poetry by Siberian authors. Sixth, we have identified the most frequent words mentioned about Siberia in amateur poetry and came to the conclusion that poets often described Siberia more in summer than in winter. Keywordsamateur poetry, dilettantish poetri, Siberia, image, written folk art "Image of Siberia in the Russian classical literature represents its country of cold-winter-night (moon), that is, death in its mythological understanding", "Siberia is a country of deserted and limitless space" [17, p. 28].

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Gender and Theatrical Realism: The Problem of Clyde Fitch

Sehat

2008

J. gilded age prog. era

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Clyde Fitch was the most famous playwright of the early twentieth century, but today no one studies him. The disconnect between his fame in his lifetime and his obscurity after death points to a major historiographical problem, a problem that began in Fitch's own day. Fitch's numerous contemporary critics, many of whom were early proponents of theatrical realism, criticized his plays as effeminate, bound by the narrow conventions of the legitimate theater that relied on women as its predominant patrons. By contrast, realism, as the critics under-stood it, was masculine, bringing the gritty reality of what contemporary commentators regarded as the real world to the stage. Criticizing Fitch's feminine dramatic sensibilities became a way of prodding him toward a strained realism in his own plays. Fitch's story illustrates the close connection of realism to the gendered hierarchy that became an unconscious element in the determination of literary value. In dismissing Fitch as worthy of scholarly attention, current theatrical historians have followed Fitch's contemporary critics. Even as they have eviscerated the gendered standards of the early twentieth century, present-day scholars have retained the critical judgments and the generic categories that the gendered standards produced.

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On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry: Nostalgia, Sex, and the Souths of William Alexander Percy

Cited by 3 publications

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Amateur Poem As A Subject Of Philological Research

Amateur Poem As A Subject Of Philological Research

Images of Siberia in the Poems of Amateur Poets

Gender and Theatrical Realism: The Problem of Clyde Fitch

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