Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Secular Lyric – The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson de John Michael

Secular Lyric – The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson

Autor John Michael
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 apr 2018
Examines how Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson sought to situate themselves and their work in relation to a secularized public.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 28769 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 432
Preț estimativ în valută:
5506€ • 5699$ • 4654£

Carte indisponibilă temporar


Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Trimite
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780823279722
ISBN-10: 0823279723
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 153 x 226 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Wiley

Cuprins

Introduction. The Secularization of the Lyric: The End of Art, a Revolution in Poetic Language, and the Meaning of the Modern Crowd

Part I: Edgar Allan Poe
1. Poe's Post-Humanism

2. Poe and the Origins of Modern Poetry: Tropes of Comparison and the Knowledge of Loss


Part II: Walt Whitman
3. Whitman's Poetics: Metonymy and the Crowd

4. Whitman and Democracy: The "Withness of the World," the Reader, and the Fakes of Death


Part III: Emily Dickinson
5. Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Lyric Reader

6. Dickinson's Dog and the Conclusion


Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notă biografică

John Michael is Professor of English and of Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester where he is also Director of American Studies.

Descriere

Secular Lyrics interrogates the distinctivelyindividual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson adapt ancient and renaissanceconventions of lyric expression to the developing conditions of their moderncontext, and especially to the heterogeneity of beliefs and believers in asecular society and to the altered role that literature assumes in a secularage.