{"title":"'Doomed from the Start'? Finding the Epistemology in John Ashbery's Three Poems","authors":"W. MacLean","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:John Ashbery's Three Poems uses an idiom of analytic epistemology which invites critics to think about the collection in epistemological terms. The poems contain a style of argument which allows for contingent beliefs to be entertained in certain 'states of mind', and can be found in Emerson in the concept of a 'mood'. This type of argument is present in 'The New Spirit' and 'The Recital' which provide analogies to the processes of belief formation about the subjective basis of truth and logical paradox respectively. Finally, 'The System' is read as an analogy to the process of knowledge formation.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114928784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles Olson's 'The Kingfishers' and Quantum Physics","authors":"Dominic Hand","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Through close readings of both published and draft versions of Charles Olson's 'The Kingfishers', this essay highlights Olson's exploitation of possibilities presented by post-WWII quantum physics and associated science, including in terms of feedback, mutability and reversible time. Qualifying historicist readings, the essay traces the influence of quantum physics on the poem's conceptualisations, metaphorical framework, and phonetic patterning. It then discusses why Olson excised this level of signification from the published version, stresses his pragmatic desire to use science as a means of extending and transforming poetic practice, and argues that he challenged culture-science binarisms more fundamentally than many contemporaries.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128467335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Songs for the West End and Rananim","authors":"R. Jackson","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116814861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whichever Common People Do","authors":"E. Whewell","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfy035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfy035","url":null,"abstract":"NEIL RHODES’S NEW ACCOUNT of the development of literary culture in the sixteenth century feels timely. Perhaps books about teaching always do, to teachers. While English literature holds out, wobblingly, on the Russell Group Informed Choices guide to ‘Facilitating Subjects’ at A-level (entries for English subjects down nearly a fifth since 2015, and 9 per cent in the past year alone), this book thinks historically about literary reach and literary point, what ought to constitute a literary agenda, and what stumps one. It asks whether the ideological – and the world-weary – undergraduates (and the ideological and the world-weary one-time undergraduates) of the English Renaissance thought you could make any money – or anything of yourself – in the big wide commonwealth with an arts degree from Cambridge; and if, indeed, not, what human or spiritual ‘profitability’ might be spun out of it instead. If it was all spin. At the fraught literary intersections and impersonations of ‘for the people’ and ‘of the people’, and between the shaking hands in Horatian negotiations of compromising and conciliating dulce and utile, Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England is a rigorous taxonomy of versions of the word ‘Common’ as defined through early modern writings of literary love and labour – and also, very much, vice versa (Rhodes is clear that, although its impetus is social, this is a book based in texts). Interested in interrogating the soapbox terminologies (ethical, aesthetic, religious, political) of literary-pedagogical undertakings, its most important keywords are ‘Renaissance’, ‘Reformation’, ‘Protestantism’, and ‘Humanism’. Rhodes’s main design is to make these four concerns lock arms – as he argues they too often don’t in early modern scholarship – to answer the question of what prompted the English Renaissance, and what prompted it to be so late.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115199281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple Choice: Terrance Hayes’s Response-Poems and the African American Lyric ‘We’","authors":"Christopher Spaide","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the African American lyric ‘we’, past and present, through the bifocal lenses of the contemporary poet Terrance Hayes. Irreverently responding in verse to Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka, Hayes mines his subject matter from the African American poet’s choices between ‘I’ and ‘we’, between speaking for oneself and speaking for one’s people. Exercising the ‘multiple choice’ of post-Civil Rights generation poets, Hayes strives for all the above. The essay examines three forms of response to the tradition: confrontational ‘talking back’ in Hip Logic, ‘Blue’ ventriloquism in Wind in the Box, and collaboration with the dead in Lighthead.This essay is one of four appearing under the heading ‘Poetry’s We’ in The Cambridge Quarterly vol. 48 no. 3. The four essays evolved as a group and have many shared concerns.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"9 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116862474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sonnets and the First Person Plural","authors":"R. Lyne","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay considers the pronoun ‘we’ in the love sonnets of Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare, in the light of developments in the study of social cognition. Some philosophers and cognitive scientists have developed the idea of an ‘individual we’, a state of the individual mind that is transformed by interaction with others. This idea is parsimonious, in that it does not posit, for example, a group mind, but it also allows for changes in the individual as a result of shared experience. It proves illuminating as a prompt for rethinking pronominal assertions of mutuality (some convincing, some not) in sonnets, and the poems themselves reflect back on what it is to say ‘we’.This essay is one of four appearing under the heading ‘Poetry’s We’ in The Cambridge Quarterly vol. 48 no. 3. The four essays evolved as a group and have many shared concerns.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129184276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Now Let Us Sport Us While We May’: First Person Plural and the Lyric Voice","authors":"Eileen Sperry","doi":"10.1093/camqtly/bfz016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfz016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article briefly explores the history of reading lyric as a singular voice and, in response, proposes reading lyric through the lens of first-person- plural deixis. After surveying major moments in lyric theory, including recent accounts of lyric as a dialectic of ritual/fictional modes, the author then turns to Herrick’s ‘Corinna’s Going A-Maying’ and Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ to explore possibilities for new critical approaches. Reading such works for their use of the lyric ‘we’ can help deconstruct false binaries, remove lyric from the domain of narrative, and sustain a richer and more complex model of the lyric voice.This essay is one of four appearing under the heading ‘Poetry’s We’ in The Cambridge Quarterly vol. 48 no. 3. The four essays evolved as a group and have many shared concerns.","PeriodicalId":374258,"journal":{"name":"The Cambridge Quarterly","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123976261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}