The New Book of Forms by Lewis Turco
Rising Subjects explores the change of the public sphere in Russian Poland during the 1905 Revolution. The 1905 Revolution was one of the few bottom-up political transformations and general democratizations in Polish history. It was a popular rebellion fostering political participation of the working class. The infringement of previously carefully guarded limits of the public sphere triggered a powerful conservative reaction among the commercial and landed elites, and frightened the intelligentsia. Polish nationalists promised to eliminate the revolutionary anarchy and gave meaning to the sense of disappointment after the revolution.This study considers the 1905 Revolution as a tipping point for the ongoing developments of the public sphere. It addresses the question of Polish socialism, nationalism, and antisemitism. It demonstrates the difficulties in using the class cleavage for democratic politics in a conflict-ridden, multiethnic polity striving for an irredentist self-assertion against the imperial power.
Professor Emeritus of English Writing Arts, Lewis Turco took his B. A. from the University of Connecticut in 1959 and his M. A. from the University of Iowa in 1962. In 2000 he received an honorary degree, Doctor of Humane Letters, from Ashland University in Ohio and a second in 2009 from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Founding director of both the Cleveland State University Poetry Center (1962) and the Creative Writing Department of the State University of New York College at Oswego in 1968, Lewis Turco was chosen to write the major essay on Poetry -- as well as a dozen other entries -- for The Encyclopedia of American Literature in 1999 and was himself included in it. Turco's book of history, Satan's Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697 won the Wildcard Category of the 2010 New England Book Festival. Fearful Pleasures, The Complete Poems of Lewis Turco 1959-2007 contains work that earlier received three chapbook publication prizes: The American Weave Award in 1962, the Silverfish Review Chapbook award in 1989, and the Cooper House Chapbook Prize in 1990. A Book of Fears: Poems, with Italian translations by Joseph Alessia, won the first annual Bordighera Bi-Lingual Poetry Prize in 1998.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780874513813 |
| ISBN 10 | 0874513812 |
| Title | The New Book of Forms |
| Author | Lewis Turco |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Upne |
| Year published | 1986-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 292 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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