LEADER 03678nam 22006375 450 001 9910811274103321 005 20210720020945.0 010 $a0-8232-8147-7 010 $a0-8232-7973-1 010 $a0-8232-7974-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823279746 035 $a(CKB)4100000004837260 035 $a(OCoLC)1029634170 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67748 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001921902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5391793 035 $a(DE-B1597)555009 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823279746 035 $a(PPN)233123148 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004837260 100 $a20200723h20182018 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSecular Lyric $eThe Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson /$fJohn Michael 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2018. 311 0 $a0-8232-7971-5 311 0 $a0-8232-7972-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tcontents --$tIntroduction. The Secularization of the Lyric: The End of Art, a Revolution in Poetic Language, and the Meaning of the Modern Crowd --$tchapter 1. Poe?s Posthumanism: Melancholy and the Music of Modernity --$tchapter 2. Poe and the Origins of Modern Poetry: Tropes of Comparison and the Knowledge of Loss --$tchapter 3. Whitman?s Poetics and Death: The Poet, Metonymy, and the Crowd --$tchapter 4. Whitman and Democracy: The ?Withness of the World? and the Fakes of Death --$tchapter 5. The Poet as Lyric Reader --$tchapter 6. Dickinson?s Dog and the Conclusion --$tacknowledgments --$tnotes --$tIndex 330 $aSecular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets? work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyncratic but related ways, each disrupt conventional expectations while foregrounding language?s material density, thereby revealing both the potential and the limitations of art in the modern age. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 610 $aDickinson. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aLyric Theory. 610 $aLyric. 610 $aPetrarch. 610 $aPoe. 610 $aSecularism. 610 $aWhitman. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a811.3 676 $a811.3 700 $aMichael$b John$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01090704 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811274103321 996 $aSecular Lyric$94095979 997 $aUNINA