Background
Cook, Albert Spaulding was born on October 28, 1925 in Exeter, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Albert Spaulding and Adele (Farrington) Cook Ventura.
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The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean: A Philosophy of Comedy
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In this sharply angled book of criticism, Albert Cook offers a new approach to comedy in literature. Breaking through narrow traditional categories and concepts, he enables the reader to broaden his range of reference and to examine comedy and comic works from fresh philosophical and critical perspectives. Professor Cook develops his philosophical exploration of comedy from the ideas of the probable and the wonderful. These two profoundly different approaches to human experience imply the related poles of rationalism-idealism, society-individual, concept-symbol, and reason-imagination. In discussing the implications of these symbolic attitudes, Professor Cook casts new light on the nature of both tragedy and comedy, their subjects, goals, and techniques.
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French Tragedy; the Power of Enactment
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The Stance of Plato
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The Stance of Plato addresses Plato's particular fusion of literature and philosophy. Albert Cook examines a number of Plato's major dialogues to ascertain further the bearing of "rhetoric" and the dramatized dialogue on the relationship between literature and philosophy. Using an engaging and occasionally poetic style, Cook studies the implications of Plato's literary form and the historical context of his ideas. The Stance of Plato helps bridge the gap between scholars interested in Plato's arguments and logic and those interested in their literary aspects, suggesting that literature and philosophy may not be separable domains. The book will be an important work for classicists, philosophers, and scholars of literature.
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Changing the Signs: The Fifteenth-Century Breakthrough
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The Burden of Prophecy: Poetic Utterance in the Prophets of the Old Testament
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Albert Cook examines the poetic and scriptural thinking of the Hebrew prophets and wisdom writers, focusing on the details of their thematic concentrations and on the posture they assume to orient themselves in their utterances. Homer, Confucius, the poets of the Confucian anthology, and the authors of the Zend Avesta and the Rig Veda are variously endowed with an authority empowered by the instituted religious thought of their times. Each writer, Cook contends, rests firmly in the reassurances provided by the particular context. Cook argues, however, that the Hebrew prophet comes forward and presents himself as open to the momentary utterances of God. This God is not primarily an image or a symbol; the Hebrew Yahweh is a force that manifests Himself in developing history. In that dangerous situation, the prophet remains open directly to God and gets a continually renewed verbal authority and power from that flow. Since, as Cook demonstrates, the prophet is commenting on the constantly changing flow between God and people, every utterance is essentially a progress report rather than a finally poised formulation, even though the utterance is formulated in reference to the basic values of righteousness and the law and in measured analogy to such defining tribal experiences as the Exodus. Radically distinct from other religious poetry, therefore, Hebrew prophecy rises from and refers to a complex and specific occasion. Most poetry looks toward the past. Keats, Li Po, and Pindar, for example, all offer the profundity of a stocktaking. The poetry of the Hebrew prophet, however, is oriented toward the future. At worst, the prophet’s perception and goal can lead to an informed readiness for the future; at best, they can lead to a restoration of the people's covenant with God. In any case, they will lead to a future whose features are compassed in the articulated vision. In The Burden of Prophecy, Cook explores the implications of these conditions as he examines the Old Testament books of the prophets and their successors: Amos, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Zechariah, and Daniel.
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The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean
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Enactment: Greek Tragedy
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Albert Cook deals with the discrete Greek particulars of time and place which affected these plays, making use of a rich classical scholarship in discussing details of Greek language, politics and culture. Such historical materials provide a setting for his treatment of the transformations of these plays into self-sustaining, moving events that engage us even at our distance from their special classical moments.
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Figural Choice in Poetry and Art
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Dimensions of the Sign in Art
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The Root Of The Thing - A Study Of Job And The Song Of Songs
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Delayed Answers: Poems
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A large book of poems, this collection is written in a semicollagist method. The poems have been selected from the author's work since Adapt the Living (1981). Included is the recent series Plaints and prophecies, based on macro-historical adumbrations.
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The Reach of Poetry (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural) by Cook, Albert (1995) Hardcover
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The Reach of Poetry (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural)
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Poets, deeply imbued in the language and conditions of their society, stand forth to produce an utterance that reveals their constant "exposure" and their resourceful adaptiveness. Albert Cook's wide-ranging study characterizes poetry by testing its reach beyond given points or boundaries of expression. Through an insightful analysis of key poets in various Western traditions, Cook demonstrates that the best poetry rises above these conditions by playing them back against themselves with a freedom whose ineffability is the sign of its ultimate lucidity. Beginning with modern poetry, Cook moves backward in time, aiming at the effect of echoes as much as of cumulations. In each movement forward, the intensities are gathered-by Dante, the troubadours, Catullus, or Alcman. This reach forward is also a reach backward: Alcman's fusions in the seventh century B.C.E. remain permanent within the Western tradition and are accessible in the stream of discourse to modern poets who may never have heard of him. In addition to addressing poems in the short compass of epigram, and ballad, The Reach of Poetry discusses the distinctive achievement of certain lyric poets-among them Wordsworth, Rimbaud, Whitman, Donne, the Shakespeare of the Sonnets, Dante, the troubadours, Catullus, Lucretius, Pindar, and such modern poets as Yeats, Stevens, Rilke, Montale, Follain, Lorca, Char, Celan, and Ashbery.
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French Tragedy: Power of Enactment
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Affability Blues
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This text presents further poems from Albert Cook written according to the collage method of composition. It includes motets, a group of poems focused on individual scenes.
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Reasons for Waking
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As with a collage, this collection of poems use juxtapositions and leaps with the aim of bringing psychological-spiritual and rhythmic perceptions into coherent expressions.
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- The root of the thing;: A study of Job and the Song of songs
- Myth and Language
- Reach of Poetry (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural) (Poets, deeply imbued in the language and conditions of th...)
- Canons and Wisdoms (Book by Cook, Albert Spaulding)
- The Future Invests (The ninth book of poems by Albert Cook, the works include...)
- The Burden of Prophecy: Poetic Utterance in the Prophets of the Old Testament by Professor Emeritus Albert Cook (1997-02-19)
Albert Spaulding Cook
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Albert Spaulding Cook, American Comparative literature and classics educator, writer. Member Modern Language Association, International Association University professors English, American Society Aesthetics, American Comparative Literature Association, International Association Philosophy and Literature.
Education
AB, Harvard University, 1946; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1947; postgraduate, Harvard University, 1947-1948.
Career
Assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1953-1956;
associate professor, then professor, Western Reserve U., Cleveland, 1957-1963;
professor, chairman, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1963-1966;
professor, director comparative literature, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1964-1971;
Professor of English and comparative literature, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1971-1978;
professor comparative literature, Brown U., Providence, since 1978;
professor comparative literature and classics and English, Brown U., Providence, since 1983;
Ford Foundation professor, Brown U., Providence, 1986-1988;
professor emeritus, Brown U., Providence, since 1988. Fulbright professor of University Munich, West Germany, 1956-1957, U. Vienna, Austria, 1960-1961. Senior fellow Center for Advanced Study Behavioral Sciences, 1966-1967.
Visiting professor U. Bologna, 1997.
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The Burden of Prophecy: Poetic Utterance in the Prophets of the Old Testament
( Albert Cook examines the poetic and scriptural thinking...)
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Enactment: Greek Tragedy
(Albert Cook deals with the discrete Greek particulars of ...)
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The Reach of Poetry (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural)
( Poets, deeply imbued in the language and conditions of ...)
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Reach of Poetry (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural)
(Poets, deeply imbued in the language and conditions of th...)
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The Future Invests
(The ninth book of poems by Albert Cook, the works include...)
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Reasons for Waking
(As with a collage, this collection of poems use juxtaposi...)
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Affability Blues
(This text presents further poems from Albert Cook written...)
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The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean: A Philosophy of Comedy
( In this sharply angled book of criticism, Albert Cook o...)
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The Stance of Plato
(The Stance of Plato addresses Plato's particular fusion o...)
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Delayed Answers: Poems
(A large book of poems, this collection is written in a se...)
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Canons and Wisdoms
(Book by Cook, Albert Spaulding)
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Changing the Signs: The Fifteenth-Century Breakthrough
(Book by Cook, Albert)
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Figural Choice in Poetry and Art
(Book by Cook, Albert)
- The root of the thing;: A study of Job and the Song of songs
- French Tragedy; the Power of Enactment
- The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean
- Myth and Language
- Dimensions of the Sign in Art
- The Root Of The Thing - A Study Of Job And The Song Of Songs
- The Burden of Prophecy: Poetic Utterance in the Prophets of the Old Testament by Professor Emeritus Albert Cook (1997-02-19)
- The Reach of Poetry (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural) by Cook, Albert (1995) Hardcover
- French Tragedy: Power of Enactment
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The Burden of Prophecy: Poetic Utterance in the Prophets of the Old Testament
Membership
Member Modern Language Association, International Association University professors English, American Society Aesthetics, American Comparative Literature Association, International Association Philosophy and Literature.
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Married Carol Rubin, June 19, 1948. Children: David, Daniel, Jonathan.
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