The butterfly hatch : literary experience in the quest for wisdom: uncanonically seating H.D. /

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Author / Creator:	Vytniorgu, Richard, author.
Imprint:	Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, [2019]
Description:	xiii, 179 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	H. D. -- (Hilda Doolittle), -- 1886-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation. H. D. -- (Hilda Doolittle), -- 1886-1961. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11777453

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ISBN:	9781845199371 1845199375
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Some of H.D.'s most oft-quoted lines have to do with the meaning and value of words; they are conditioned to hatch butterflies. Yet rather than seeking merely to understand how H.D. represented the meaning and value of words, this volume uses 'the butterfly hatch' as a metaphor for thinking more broadly about the capacity of literary experience to hatch transformed persons - 'butterflies' in quest of wisdom in university English studies. Dislodging H.D. from her usual modernist context, this book positions her as a thinker and reads her autobiographical prose and recently published work of the 1940s for its ability to offer new insights into such pertinent and interconnected areas as literary contexts, imagination, and personal and social transformation. H.D. has, in her own words, always been 'uncanonically seated', resistant to rigid classification; the texture of her work celebrates internal, existential resonances that evidence the emergence of personality. The author capitalizes on this facet of H.D.'s work and uncanonically seats her in conversation with the neglected literary theorist, Louise Rosenblatt (1904-2005), whose transactional contribution uniquely fuses critical theory, politics, philosophy, and educational vision. This book synthesizes the work of H.D. and Rosenblatt to create an emergent personalist theory of literary experience in the quest for wisdom, crystallizing links between philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, pedagogy, and the politics of human relations. Benefiting from access to unpublished material housed at Columbia, New York, and Yale universities, Vytniorgu combines analysis and theorizing to offer a significant, pedagogically-inflected intervention in literary studies, arguing that university English studies must incorporate critical and pedagogical vantages which open a window on wisdom as well as knowledge"--

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: An Uncanonical Direction
Humanism and Personalism: A Philosophical Inroad
Pathways to Wisdom
Intersecting Contemporary Theories
The Butterfly Hatch
Chapter 1. Foregrounding Individual Experience
Being and Freedom in Paint it Today
Rationale for the Transactional Theory of Experience
Personal Contexts
The Student's Experience
Chapter 2. Personalizing Literary Experience
Aesthetic Reading, Associational Thinking, and Literary Contexts
Associational Consciousness in The Sword Went Out to Sea
Veering Round in The Mystery
Chapter 3. The Palimpsest of Imagination
Literary Imagination: Romantic and Cognitive Perspectives
Palimpsestuous Consciousness and 'The Greek Boy'
Chapter 4. The Role of the Literatus
New Vistas: The Responsibility of the Literatus
Carrying and Spinning in The Walls Do Not Tall: The Activity of the Literatus
Chapter 5. Wisdom in the University
Feeling Like a Knowledge Worker
From Knowledge to Wisdom: Nicholas Maxwell's Cri de C¿ur
Chapter 6. Personalities in Quest
Learning Transformative Languages
Hatching an Existential Self: H.D. in Quest
Conclusion: Literary Studies and (Re)vivification
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

The butterfly hatch : literary experience in the quest for wisdom: uncanonically seating H.D. /

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