Comparative Literature
/ Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing
Maryann P. DiEdwardo (Lehigh University)
Social Movements initiated by literature
include The Beat Generation of the 1940’sand 1950’s which questioned the
existence of certain society elements identified with Jack Kerouac from
a 1948 conversation with fellow beat poet and author
John Clellon. Other social movements by luminaries such as Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King ask
us to re-imagine literary works as social criticism: writers are agents
of change. As such, our panelists recognize the
writing of Luminaries as daily writing practice paramount to a writer’s
ethic. To understand we acknowledge the work of Jacques Derrida in
"White Mythology." Derrida’s passage refers to “reverse metaphorization
of concepts.” The reversal is such that there
can be no final separation between the linguistic-metaphorical and the
philosophical realms
The poet Frank Bidart uses narrative strategies.
His works of poetry embody flow of human emotions . The pathos appeal to
emotions and feelings to persuade an audience. Bidart’s dramatic
monologues are in intrapersonal lens into the inner
pain innate in the human emotional experience. Frank Bidart was born in
Bakersfield, California on May 27, 1939. His recent works include
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 published in 2017. This book won
the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
He is a messenger of hope for us. His writing is prophetic,
motivational, and steadily charges forward with exceptional and
theoretical foundations. One can see that the poet Frank Bidart uses
mythological theory. He mindfully embraces situations of courage
and despair in his conversational poetry. As part of the LGBTQIA
community, Bidart inspires equality. Therefore, through
student-directed pedagogical model, with the models of Kerouac, Hurston,
and Bidart, our panel writing engage writers who possess qualities
of memory. Accordingly, these three patterns compose voice on the
written page. But, writing is an essential like skill needed for human
dignity.
Social Movements initiated by literature
include The Beat Generation of the 1950’s which questioned the
existence of certain society elements identified with Jack Kerouac and others. Other social movements in writing (Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King) ask
us to re-imagine literary works as social criticism: writers are agents
of change and writing as the practice of ethics.