LEADER 02888nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910465366503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-536334-5 010 $a1-280-52383-2 035 $a(CKB)2560000000295585 035 $a(EBL)270836 035 $a(OCoLC)191924779 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000279396 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11227269 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279396 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10261305 035 $a(PQKB)11425357 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000034453 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC270836 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL270836 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10142121 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL52383 035 $a(OCoLC)936848253 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000295585 100 $a19890214d1990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a"Fallen from the symboled world"$b[electronic resource] $eprecedents for the new formalism /$fWyatt Prunty 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1990 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-505786-4 311 $a0-19-985512-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 301-308) and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; 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; Z 330 $aThis 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 s 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a811/.54/09 700 $aPrunty$b Wyatt$0551247 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465366503321 996 $a""Fallen from the symboled world"$9968659 997 $aUNINA