The Defective Art of Poetry

Sappho to Yeats
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-38187-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 3698 g

Treating the work of Sappho, Goethe, Blake, Hölderlin, Verlaine, George, Mörike, and Yeats in detail, Bennett makes the provocative argument that the nature of lyric poetry in the West has an element of defectiveness. This study delves into the irresolvable conflict between a poem's guise as quasi-architectural stasis and quasi-musical kinesis.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction PART I: ELEMENTAL POETRY 1. Sappho and the Wordsworth Problem 2. The Poem as Hieroglyph: Goethe's 'Über allen Gipfeln' PART II: METER AND MEANING 3. The Voices of Experience in Blake 4. Meter and Metaphysics: Hölderlin's 'Hyperions Schicksalslied' PART III: THE SYMBOLIST MOVE 5. A Song to Worry about: Verlaine's 'Chanson d'automne' 6. Stefan George and the Construction of a Poetic Idiom PART IV: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION 7. Criticism as Wager: The Politics of the Mörike-Debate and Its Object 8. The Things on Yeats's Desk Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Bennett is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of German at the University of Virginia, USA.