For the Tempus-Fugitives
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ISBN13: 9781845198671
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In this latest collection of poems and verse-essays, Christopher Norris revisits many of the topics for which he is best known as a philosopher, literary theorist, and writer on music. Among them are the many-worlds metaphysics of Leibniz, the nature of subjective time-experience, the issue of poetic truth, the function of rhyme in poetry, the theory wars in literary studies, the augmented-fourth interval (or tritone), also known as the devil in music, and musical minimalism approached from a critical or cultural-diagnostic standpoint. There are also some shorter, more occasional pieces including an epithalamion (wedding-poem) for the poet's daughter, a semi-fictive double sestina about police infiltration of activist groups, a savagely bawdy polemic imagined as addressed by the ancient Greek satirist Archilochus to his ex-fiancee Neobule, and a number of shrewdly angled political poems with reference to events from the 1980s to the present. These pieces have the hallmark qualities of intellectual r
| ISBN-13 | 9781845198671 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1845198670 |
| Weight | 0.85 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 8.70 x 0.90 x 6.20 In |
| List Price | $39.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 240 pages |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
| Published On | 2017-03-22 |
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