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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Michael John"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Secular Lyric : The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson / / John Michael"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2018"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-8232-8147-7"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-8232-7973-1"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-8232-7974-X"]
[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[First edition.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"811.3"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"American poetry - 19th century - History and criticism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","This edition previously issued in print: 2018."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Front matter -- contents -- Introduction. The Secularization of the Lyric: The End of Art, a Revolution in Poetic Language, and the Meaning of the Modern Crowd -- chapter 1. Poe’s Posthumanism: Melancholy and the Music of Modernity -- chapter 2. Poe and the Origins of Modern Poetry: Tropes of Comparison and the Knowledge of Loss -- chapter 3. Whitman’s Poetics and Death: The Poet, Metonymy, and the Crowd -- chapter 4. Whitman and Democracy: The “Withness of the World” and the Fakes of Death -- chapter 5. The Poet as Lyric Reader -- chapter 6. Dickinson’s Dog and the Conclusion -- acknowledgments -- notes -- Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Secular 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 "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]