The Grove of the Eumenides: Essays on Literature, Criticism, and Culture.
Earthrise Press, 2007. 340 pages. Cloth, ebook editions. ISBN-13: 9780967042183. ISBN-10: 0967042186. eISBN: 9780982677841
Frederick Glaysher invokes a global vision beyond the prevailing postmodern conceptions of life and literature that have become firmly entrenched in contemporary world culture.
East and West meet in a new synthesis of a global vision of humankind ranging over classic literature, ancient and modern, both Western and non-Western, from the dilemmas of modernity in Yeats, Eliot, Milosz, Bellow, Dostoevsky, to Lu Xun, Ryuichi Tamura, Kenzaburo Oe, Naguib Mahfouz, R. K. Narayan, among others, from mimesis and deconstruction to the United Nations, with extensive essays on Chinese, Japanese, and South-Asian literature.
Clearly the work of a poet-critic attempting to embrace a larger portion of human experience than the personal postmodern self, The Grove of the Eumenides reaches toward an epic vision of the twenty-first century. All the muck and glory of American and international experience and history mix in the complex tension of a mind struggling with itself and its Age. Acutely perceptive of the spiritual and moral nuances of literature, criticism, and culture, Glaysher confronts the loss of religious faith in the modern world and breaks through to a vision of the unity of the human longing for transcendence.Much of The Grove of the Eumenides forms the background study for Glaysher's epic poem, The Parliament of Poets.
"Poet Frederick Glaysher in these essays comments on a variety of literary and social issues, ranging from the plays of Sophocles, and the major works of Japanese literature, to the loss of religion and spirituality in modern society and literature." —“New Titles Elected for Essay and General Literature Index,” September 2007, H. W. Wilson Co.
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Contents
The Function of Criticism PDF
Meditations in an Old Barn
The American Journey into the Land of Ulro
Postmodern American Poets: Debauchees of Dew
Mimesis
Poetry in the Nuclear Age PDF
Yeats’s "Vision of Evil"
T. S. Eliot and "The Horror! The Horror!"
At the Dark Tower [Robert Browning]
Sophocles and the Plague of Modernity
Czeslaw Milosz’s Mythic Catholicism
Saul Bellow’s Soul
The Dialectic of Chinese Literature
Japan’s Floating Bridge of Dreams
India’s Kali Yuga
Robert Hayden in the Morning Time
Isaac and Peter: [Isaac Bashevis Singer and Walker Percy]
The Victory of World Governance PDF
Epopee
