1st Edition
Poetic Gesture Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Desirous Motions of Poetic Language
By Kristine S. Santilli
Copyright 2003
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a phenomenological context, and through a theoretical contemplation of certain myths as embodiments of the tacit 'logic' of poetry, the book argues that poems convey meaning much the way that spontaneous... Read more
Chapter 1 Can Beauty Hold a Plea?; Chapter 2 Two Meditations; Chapter 3 The Necessary Angel; Chapter 4 The Latent Double in the Word; Chapter 5 Whose Spirit is This?;
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Kristine S. Santilli
