02854nam 2200589Ia 450 991079223350332120230331011026.00-19-536334-51-280-52383-2(CKB)2560000000295585(EBL)270836(OCoLC)191924779(SSID)ssj0000279396(PQKBManifestationID)11227269(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279396(PQKBWorkID)10261305(PQKB)11425357(StDuBDS)EDZ0000034453(MiAaPQ)EBC270836(Au-PeEL)EBL270836(CaPaEBR)ebr10142121(CaONFJC)MIL52383(OCoLC)936848253(EXLCZ)99256000000029558519890214d1990 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccr"Fallen from the symboled world"[electronic resource] precedents for the new formalism /Wyatt PruntyNew York Oxford University Press19901 online resource (335 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-505786-4 0-19-985512-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-308) and index.CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Symbol, Allegory, Causality, and the Phenomenal Flux; 2 Emaciated Poetry and the Imaginative Diet; 3 Poems That Speak, Poems That Sing; 4 Howard Nemerov: Mimicry and Other Tropes; 5 Patterns of Similitude in the Poetry of Justice, Hecht, Van Duyn, Bishop, Wilbur, Hollander, Pack, and Pinsky; CONCLUSION; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZThis study evaluates figure and form in contemporary poetry, especially the powers of simile and simile-like structures. Examining the works of Nemerov, Wilbur, Bowers, Hecht, Justice, Cunningham, Bishop, Van Duyn, Hollander, Pack, Kennedy, Ammons, Creeley, and Wright, Prunty argues thatdoubts about language, the tradition, and theistic assumptions embedded in the tradition have made simile and various simile-like arrangements into major modes of thought. From Lowell's early interest in the ""similitudo"" and the ""phantasm"" of Gilson, to Husserl's ""phantasies"" and Heidegger'sinterest in sAmerican poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.811/.54/09Prunty Wyatt551247MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792233503321""Fallen from the symboled world"968659UNINA