Poetic Gesture

Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Desirous Motions of Poetic Language
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93868-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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 unreadable gestures do. Moving between theory and practice, and drawing upon the poetry of Wallace Stevens whose work is embedded with a richness and complexity of gesture, the author shows how the poetic text sustains and embodies an inconvertible, ancient and innately human form of linguistic knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Santilli, Kristine S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?;

Über Autor(innen)

Kristine S. Santilli