The early poetry of Robert Graves [[electronic resource] ] : the goddess beckons / / Frank L. Kersnowski
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| Autore: |
Kersnowski Frank L. <1934->
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| Titolo: |
The early poetry of Robert Graves [[electronic resource] ] : the goddess beckons / / Frank L. Kersnowski
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| Pubblicazione: | Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 821/.912 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Authors, English - 20th century |
| World War, 1914-1918 - Veterans | |
| Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain | |
| Soldiers - Great Britain | |
| War neuroses - Patients | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-169) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 THE LUNATIC, THE LOVER, AND THE POET CHAPTER 2 THE LUNATIC: WAR CHAPTER 3 THE LUNATIC: AFTER THE WAR CHAPTER 4 THE LOVER IN THE NURSERY CHAPTER 5 THE LOVER CHAPTER 6 THE POET. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Like many men of his generation, poet Robert Graves was indelibly marked by his experience of trench warfare in World War I. The horrific battles in which he fought and his guilt over surviving when so many perished left Graves shell-shocked and disoriented, desperately seeking a way to bridge the rupture between his conventional upbringing and the uncertainties of postwar British society. In this study of Graves's early poetry, Frank Kersnowski explores how his war neurosis opened a door into the unconscious for Graves and led him to reject the essential components of the Western idea of reality-reason and predictability. In particular, Kersnowski traces the emergence in Graves's early poems of a figure he later called "The White Goddess," a being at once terrifying and glorious, who sustains life and inspires poetry. Drawing on interviews with Graves's family, as well as unpublished correspondence and drafts of poems, Kersnowski argues that Graves actually experienced the White Goddess as a real being and that his life as a poet was driven by the purpose of celebrating and explaining this deity and her matriarchy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The early poetry of Robert Graves |
| ISBN: | 0-292-79639-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777512103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Literary modernism series.