The ecstatic poetic tradition : a critical study from the ancients through Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson and Tagore /

This work is not only a general inquiry into ecstatic states of consciousness and an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition but also an intensive study of five representative poets--Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, and Tagore. In a refreshingly original, wide-ranging engagement wit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moores, D. J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Temas:
Ecstasy in literature.
Poetry > History and criticism.
Extase dans la littérature.
Poésie > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Ecstasy in literature
Poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Part One: Ecstatic Beginnings
  • 1. The Overture
  • 2. Ecstatic States of Consciousness
  • Part Two: Historical Outline
  • 3. The Ancient Poetics and Aesthetics of Ecstasy
  • 4. Autochthonous, Non-Western and Modern Ecstatic Poetry
  • Part Three: Critical Studies
  • 5. The Whirling Dervish: Rumi
  • 6. The Power of Imagination: William Wordsworth
  • 7. The Body Ecstatic: Walt Whitman
  • 8. The Cracked Mind: Emily Dickinson
  • 9. The Wise Man of the East: Rabindranath Tagore
  • Part Four: Critical Implications
  • 10. Extra-literary Implications
  • 11. Literary Implications: A Problematic Rapture
  • 12. Ecstasy and the Eudaimonic Turn
  • Chapter Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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