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"Fallen from the symboled world" : precedents for the new formalism / / Wyatt Prunty



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Autore: Prunty Wyatt Visualizza persona
Titolo: "Fallen from the symboled world" : precedents for the new formalism / / Wyatt Prunty Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
Disciplina: 811/.54/09
Soggetto topico: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-308) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Z
Sommario/riassunto: This 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
Titolo autorizzato: ""Fallen from the symboled world"  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-536334-5
1-280-52383-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813890203321
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