Simon Jarvis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5964402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Jarvis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Jarvis |
| SIGNATURE | JARVIS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical Rhythm
Diff ering Fates of Some Modernist Poets' Investments of Belief in Sounds
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Swinburne
This article examines Algernon Charles Swinburne’s long poem, Tristram of Lyonesse (1882). The poem strongly reflects Swinburne's hunger for the sea, as evident in the first and last books, which are titled for two sea-voyages; where the poem’s actors are not diving into, swimming in, or sailing calmly across the sea, they are generally looking out over it or at least somewhere close to it; the sea also furnishes an inexhaustible supply of metaph…
Bedlam or Parnassus: The Verse Idea
This essay considers some problems in philosophical approaches to poetry. Philosophers’ accounts of what poetry is are often ill informed. They tend to select, as essential, features that can also characterize prose works: conspicuous metaphoricity, imagination, fictionality, and so on. This essay considers instead a humbler term: verse. It argues that the constraints on language implied by composing in verse are not only a handicap but can also …
Phantasmal Disestablishment
The essay interprets the recent assault on British universities as part of a longer-term process of the pretend marketization of public services in Britain, a process which it names "phantasmal disestablishment." Drawing on the thought of the late British philosopher Gillian Rose, and especially on her book The Broken Middle, it argues that British universities are properly speaking neither "public" nor "private," but part of an equivocal yet nec…
To the letter
The melodics of long poems
Unfree Verse: John Wilkinson's The Speaking Twins
This essay revisits the relationship between philosophy and poetry. It argues that a crucial term, 'verse', is often missing from discussion of that relationship. The broader term, 'poetry', is so difficult to define that it offers insufficient specific resistance to large philosophical schemas. The question is explored here through an analysis of the prosodic microstructures in John Wilkinson's The Speaking Twins. I conclude that Wilkinson's poe…
Wordsworth's Philosophic Song
Wordsworth's Philosophic Song
Wordsworth wrote that he longed to compose 'some philosophic Song/Of Truth that cherishes our daily life'. Yet he never finished The Recluse, his long philosophical poem. Simon Jarvis argues that Wordsworth's aspiration to 'philosophic song' is central to his greatness, and changed the way English poetry was written. Some critics see Wordworth as a systematic thinker, while for others he is a poet first, and a thinker only (if at all) second. Jar…
Musical Thinking: Hegel and the Phenomenology of Prosody
Mock as screen and optic
As its unique approach to the question of generational differences, this essay takes the relationship looks at poetry and modernity; that is, what happens when a style [such as the mock heroic, or the poetically inflated] starts to feel its age, yet doesn't die; and how its readers cope with its resurrections. Moving nimbly from Nigel Slater to Alexander Pope and back, the essay abandons the usual and reduced conception of 'mock' ‐ that it descri…
The Cambridge Companion to Adorno
The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903–69) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. An accomplished musician, Adorno first focused on the theory of culture and art. Later he turned to the problem of the self-defeating dialectic of modern reason and freedom. In this collection of essays, imbued with the most up-to-date research, a distinguishe…
Problems in the Phenomenology of the Gift
Problems in the Phenomenology of the Gift
Prosody as cognition
Adorno: A Critical Introduction
Musical Thinking: Hegel and the Phenomenology of Prosody
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Swinburne
This article examines Algernon Charles Swinburne’s long poem, Tristram of Lyonesse (1882). The poem strongly reflects Swinburne's hunger for the sea, as evident in the first and last books, which are titled for two sea-voyages; where the poem’s actors are not diving into, swimming in, or sailing calmly across the sea, they are generally looking out over it or at least somewhere close to it; the sea also furnishes an inexhaustible supply of metaph…
The melodics of long poems
Prosody as cognition
Adorno: A Critical Introduction
Problems in the Phenomenology of the Gift
Problems in the Phenomenology of the Gift
Mock as screen and optic
As its unique approach to the question of generational differences, this essay takes the relationship looks at poetry and modernity; that is, what happens when a style [such as the mock heroic, or the poetically inflated] starts to feel its age, yet doesn't die; and how its readers cope with its resurrections. Moving nimbly from Nigel Slater to Alexander Pope and back, the essay abandons the usual and reduced conception of 'mock' ‐ that it descri…
The Cambridge Companion to Adorno
The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903–69) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. An accomplished musician, Adorno first focused on the theory of culture and art. Later he turned to the problem of the self-defeating dialectic of modern reason and freedom. In this collection of essays, imbued with the most up-to-date research, a distinguishe…
Musical Thinking: Hegel and the Phenomenology of Prosody
Wordsworth's Philosophic Song
Wordsworth wrote that he longed to compose 'some philosophic Song/Of Truth that cherishes our daily life'. Yet he never finished The Recluse, his long philosophical poem. Simon Jarvis argues that Wordsworth's aspiration to 'philosophic song' is central to his greatness, and changed the way English poetry was written. Some critics see Wordworth as a systematic thinker, while for others he is a poet first, and a thinker only (if at all) second. Jar…
Wordsworth's Philosophic Song
The melodics of long poems
Unfree Verse: John Wilkinson's The Speaking Twins
This essay revisits the relationship between philosophy and poetry. It argues that a crucial term, 'verse', is often missing from discussion of that relationship. The broader term, 'poetry', is so difficult to define that it offers insufficient specific resistance to large philosophical schemas. The question is explored here through an analysis of the prosodic microstructures in John Wilkinson's The Speaking Twins. I conclude that Wilkinson's poe…
To the letter
Bedlam or Parnassus: The Verse Idea
This essay considers some problems in philosophical approaches to poetry. Philosophers’ accounts of what poetry is are often ill informed. They tend to select, as essential, features that can also characterize prose works: conspicuous metaphoricity, imagination, fictionality, and so on. This essay considers instead a humbler term: verse. It argues that the constraints on language implied by composing in verse are not only a handicap but can also …
Phantasmal Disestablishment
The essay interprets the recent assault on British universities as part of a longer-term process of the pretend marketization of public services in Britain, a process which it names "phantasmal disestablishment." Drawing on the thought of the late British philosopher Gillian Rose, and especially on her book The Broken Middle, it argues that British universities are properly speaking neither "public" nor "private," but part of an equivocal yet nec…
Swinburne
This article examines Algernon Charles Swinburne’s long poem, Tristram of Lyonesse (1882). The poem strongly reflects Swinburne's hunger for the sea, as evident in the first and last books, which are titled for two sea-voyages; where the poem’s actors are not diving into, swimming in, or sailing calmly across the sea, they are generally looking out over it or at least somewhere close to it; the sea also furnishes an inexhaustible supply of metaph…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Critical Rhythm
Diff ering Fates of Some Modernist Poets' Investments of Belief in Sounds
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