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An Interview with Fanny Howe
No full textFanny Howe, author of the The Needle’s Eye: Passing through Youth, visited the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University on January 22, 2017. Fanny Howe was a finalist for the National Book Award for her book of poetry Second Childhood and her fiction has been considered as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. We were fortunate enough to spend a sunny afternoon in our dining room with Fanny and hear her discuss her thoughts on literature, religion, life, and politics
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"Fanny Howe"
No full textOver the past four decades, Fanny Howe has created a formally innovative and politically committed body of poetry that marks her as an iconoclast even in the context of the avant-garde poetry scene in the United States. While Howe's earlier work was, according to Lynn Keller, characterised by relatively unadventurous poems `often depicting female dependency and despondency', that stayed `largely within the conventions of lyric', each succeeding decade finds Howe becoming increasingly ambitious in terms of both content and form
Fem dikter av Fanny Howe
No full textSwedish translation of five poems by American poet Fanny Howe (b. 1940), followed by a brief introduction to her work in genera
Fem dikter av Fanny Howe
No full textSwedish translation of five poems by American poet Fanny Howe (b. 1940), followed by a brief introduction to her work in genera
Fanny Howe : The Deep North
No full textJaworski Philippe. Fanny Howe : The Deep North. In: Cahiers Charles V, n°29, décembre 2000. États-Unis : formes récentes de l’imagination littéraire (Travaux de l’Observatoire de Littérature Américaine -ODELA) pp. 59-64
Poesin som arbete och nåd - om Fanny Howe
No full textIntroduction to the works of American poet Fanny Howe (b. 1940), icluding translations of five poems
Poesin som arbete och nåd - om Fanny Howe
No full textIntroduction to the works of American poet Fanny Howe (b. 1940), icluding translations of five poems
Pilgrimage to Nowhere: The Spiraling Mysticism of Fanny Howe
No full textM.A.Fanny Howe is one of America's most thought provoking poets, and her "experimental" style often draws comparisons to the avante-garde L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets. This study hopes to dislodge this affiliation by illustrating Howe's affinities to writings in the Christian mystical tradition. To do this, elements of Howe's writing are laid next to Michel de Certeau's Mystic Fable, as well as Jacques Derrida's On the Name. Through close reading and critical analysis, I conclude that Fanny Howe is in fact a modern day mystic writer par excellence
Fanny Kamm Bensinger Collection 1900-1936
No full textThis collection mostly contains correspondence to Fanny Kamm Bensinger. The earliest material are postcards (1918,
1927) from Fanny von Manstein, including English translations. Then there is correspondence and training material from Fanny Kamm
Bensinger's career as a foot care specialist with Deutsche Scholl Werke (Dr. Scholl's), first in Germany then in Israel. Also includes
printout of census sheet showing Mannstein residence (circa 1900).Fanny Kamm was born in Fulda (?), Germany. In the early 1930s she was employed by Deutsche Scholl Werke as a
pedicurist, having been trained by the company. In 1935 she moved to Palestine, joining Scholl Mfg Co, which operated in Cairo,
Alexandria, and Jerusalem. In 1936 she got married, taking on the name Bensinger. The author and housewife Franziska (Fanny) von
Manstein, née Betzold (1850-1941) converted to Judaism before her marriage to the convert Ernst von Manstein. The artist Baron Ernst
von Manstein (1869-1944), scion of an old established gentile German family, converted to Judaism in 1892, leading a Jewish orthodox
lifestyle even under Nazi rule.Processed for digitizatio
Towards a poetics of hope: Simone Weil, Fanny Howe and Alice Walker
No full textThis thesis seeks to develop a poetics of hope based on the writings of Simone Weil, French mystic, philosopher and political activist. In L’Enracinement (The Need for Roots) Weil emphasizes the power of a living cultural heritage able to provide individuals with links to what she terms the ‘reality beyond the world’, or ‘absolute good’. These connections inspire a form of hope that can become a catalyst for actions characterized by love and, ultimately, play a role in the creation of more just societies. Central to this is Weil’s use of the Greek term metaxu, which describes things that act as mediators, or bridges, between the human and the divine. Certain forms of literature, according to Weil, have the potential to become metaxu. Two key themes emerge in this discussion – the significance of roots, both for the individual and his or her community – and Weil’s preference for present-oriented, rather than future-oriented hope. These themes provide the theoretical basis from which a poetics of hope begins to emerge. This poetics is then used to analyse the works of two contemporary American women writers, Fanny Howe and Alice Walker. Weil’s metaxu is able to illuminate the hope expressed in the two primary novels discussed, Howe’s Saving History and Walker’s The Color Purple. Although there are significant differences in Howe’s and Walker’s approaches to language, in the emphasis they each place on reclamation and renunciation of self, and in their conceptions of the divine, the hope expressed in both novels is revealed in acts of love that emerge as the characters focus their attention on different forms of metaxu. Integral to this discussion is the emphasis Weil, Howe and Walker place on cultivating an attitude of attentiveness towards others, towards the beauty of the world, and in the act of writing itself. Not only is this form of attention critical for the characters in Saving History and The Color Purple, the formal qualities of the texts themselves also require an attitude of attentiveness from the reader. As a result, these novels, in addition to revealing the role of metaxu in the lives of the characters, also have the potential to become metaxu in their own right. The poetics of hope developed in this thesis suggests that literature, as metaxu, has the potential to inspire a form of hope able to transform uprooted individuals and societies, and to build communities characterized by beauty, love and justice
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