{"product_id":"archeologies-of-invective-9781433101649","title":"Archeologies of Invective","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Horst Daemmrich | Robert Eisenhauer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on specimens of discourse where criticism assumes a flagrantly bucolic persona, \u003ci\u003eArcheologies of Invective\u003c\/i\u003e investigates hitherto little acknowledged contexts of irony, aggressivity, and vilification. After considering briefly Lucilius and Horace, the author evaluates such diverse figures as Poggio Bracciolini, Quevedo, Dunbar, Poe, and Mencken before proceeding to sustained discussion of Goethe's \u003ci\u003eItalian Journey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWerther\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Invektiven. In terms of prime-time satiric virtuosity, Byron's \u003ci\u003eDon Juan\u003c\/i\u003e recycles pastoral animus, acting as a rogue-like mirror-text of the Schiller\/Goethe \u003ci\u003eXenien\u003c\/i\u003e of the late 1790s. Sidney's double sestina and Villon's Ballad of the Women of Paris are seen inaugurating the modern age, while, at the dawn of the avant-garde, Verlaine's Invectives sample Goethean and Villonesque attitude at a new level of recherché vulgarity. Low- and Highbrow, outlaw and Philistine resurface in Wyndham Lewis's Arcadian perspective on the artist-intellectual. Poets Robert Frost and Theodore Enslin are seen reinvigoratoring the edgily agrest scene of invective in America. \u003ci\u003eArcheologies of Invective\u003c\/i\u003e situates itself also with respect to a psychohistorical terrain - altered states of consciousness reflecting Faustian transition: the dislocation of the peasant class, the empowerment of women as a heterological state within a state, the advent of modern weaponry, and the rise of alcohol - whose genealogy becomes nothing short of a gin-eology. Stable notions of character give way to impersonal, pantomimic terms of art, such as caliber; the hero is displaced by the wanderer, thief, madman, and clown. Not limiting itself to the literary canon, \u003ci\u003eArcheologies\u003c\/i\u003e includes analyses of gangster films and sports legends in the context of Arcadian motivation. Finally, Eisenhauer places Philip Roth's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e within the arc of 19th-century pastoral fiction, locating a prosaic Nowadays in which criticism is still inscribed, as evidenced by Fish's explication of pastoral in the context of professional correctness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47612580200599,"sku":"9781433101649","price":7916.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781433101649.webp?v=1775078998","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/archeologies-of-invective-9781433101649","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}