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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"negative capability"”.
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Negative capability and the poetry of John Keats
… Instead, Keats had what he cryptically called Negative Capability, a half-articulated criticism of life and poetry which sacrificed the comforts of philosophical order so as to provide for life with all its diversity intact.</p> <p>Through Negative Capability, Keats attempts to capture life as …
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Negative Capability in the Characters of Keats' Magor Poetry
The intention of this thesis is to prove that "negative capability" exists within the characters of Keats' major poetry. But a problem arises in defining "negative capability." In the introductory chapter the term is redefined as a speculation on a style and ideal of life, as opposed to a style of …
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Negative Capability as an Ethic of Empathy: Practicing Narrative Medicine with John Keats in Mind
… medicine theory and John Keats’s quality of negative capability and explores the ways in which an understanding of negative capability can inform narrative medicine practices and guide narrative medicine beyond its present theory. I argue that scholars and practitioners of narrative medicine …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
Albert Glover (b. 1942), professor emeritus at St. Lawrence University (Canton, New York), has finished editing / publishing / printing the epic poem, A Curriculum of the Soul (Institute of Further Studies, 2010). The project was started in the late 1960s when Glover and John “Jack” Clarke …
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CHARLES OLSON AND THE AESTHETICS OF NEGATIVE CAPABILITY: A DRAFTING OF POSTMODERNITY’S “PLAN FOR A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL”
Albert Glover (b. 1942), professor emeritus at St. Lawrence University (Canton, New York), has finished editing / publishing / printing the epic poem, A Curriculum of the Soul (Institute of Further Studies, 2010). The project was started in the late 1960s when Glover and John “Jack” Clarke …
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The Seer's Abacus
Negative Capability is the capacity to subtract the self so that there is room to add the other. Simone Weil, John Keats, Jack Spicer and Emily Dickinson suggest that the poet ought to renounce the self so as to offer up her own voice as a sacrifice to the world. The poet who hopes to speak for …
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Women of the Mere: stories
… but fictionalized through the poetic lens of negative capability, each story takes place in modern Tennessee and follows female protagonists with uncanny, “familiar”-like connections to animals that are stereotypically portrayed as horrifying or dangerous. These women feed giant snakes, chase …
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The Beauty of Rapport: Reading Three Odes by John Keats
… ego, and also that the poet must live in "negative capability,” meaning openness to all experience. For Keats, the world is a "vale of soul-making,” in contrast to the Christian concept of a "vale of tears,” and his spiritual leanings are such that it is in "Poetry” where he finds his …
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(What You Want Hummed Here)
… chiefly based on concepts of translation, negative capability, and being. The preface discusses these concepts in relation to "I" and "Other." The collected poems explore the borderlands of opposing forces such as flesh versus spirit, reality versus dream, arrival versus departure, and …
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Transmedia storytelling : business, aesthetics and production at the Jim Henson Company
… a combination of Barthesian hermeneutic codes, negative capability and migratory cues to guide audiences across multiple media platforms. This thesis examines complex narratives from comics, novels, films and video games, but draws upon the transmedia franchises built around Jim Henson's …
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How do Mothers Perceive their Ability to Influence their Daughters’ Education? A qualitative study of mothers’ capabilities in three rural communities of Punjab, Pakistan
… and Nussbaum’s (2001, 2011 a & b) notions of capability and agency. Capability in the focal context is defined as mothers’ freedom to acquire educational opportunities for their daughters, and agency as their capacity towards achieving these goals. These theoretical concepts are …
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The Pursuit of Divinity: Religious Faith and Fear in Late Victorian Women's Poetry
… dead. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge employs negative capability in Fancy's Following, where she fluidly combines religious and gothic discourse to demonstrate the necessity of tempering faith with a healthy sense of questioning and doubt, as humans are incapable of fully comprehending the …
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The Fiction We Make Between Us
… Keats, and the speakers in these poems, embrace negative capability, the poet’s ability to exist “in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts” because the real, the unquantifiable sum of those external forces, which Lacan says we can never fully perceive, insists we find a symbolic system, a language …