Secular Lyric : The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson /
In Secular Lyrics, Michael interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson adapt ancient and renaissance conventions of lyric expression to the developing conditions of their modern context, and especially to the heterogeneity of beliefs and believers in a secular soc...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The secularization of the lyric : the end of art, a revolution in poetic language, and the meaning of the modern crowd
- Poe's posthumanism : melancholy and the music of modernity
- Poe and the origins of modern poetry : tropes of comparison and the knowledge of loss
- Whitman's poetics and death : the poet, metonymy, and the crowd
- Whitman and democracy : the "withness of the world" and the fakes of death
- The poet as lyric reader
- Dickinson's dog and the conclusion.