Ben-Merre Figures of Time

Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6834-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Literature... in Theory

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ben-Merre, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: On “Timeliness”
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Figuring Anachrony
Kurt Gödel and Other Liars: The Metaleptic Methods of Modernity

Part I. Figures of Opposition

1. Paradox
“Inherent Opposites, Of Essential Unity”: Wallace Stevens’s “Connoisseur of Chaos”

2. Revision
“The Brawling of a Sparrow in the Eaves”: Revision and the Romantic Imagination in W. B. Yeats

Part II. Figures of Recollection

3. Memory
Shellfish Readings: On H.D., Nachträglichkeit, and Anagrammatic Wanderings

4. Tradition
“Strange Spars of Knowledge and Dimmed Wares of Price”: Ezra Pound, “Portrait d’une Femme,” and the Literary Anthology

Part III. Figures of Self

5. Voice
We’re, Like, Talking on the Page: Sound, Simile, and the [Langston] Hues of African American Verse

6. Lyric Identity
“The Patient Is No Longer Here”: T. S. Eliot’s Late Lyric Moment

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Ben-Merre is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College, State University of New York.