Schweizer Rarity and the Poetic

The Gesture of Small Flowers
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-58929-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 107 Seiten, eBook

Rarity is a quality by which things flowers, leaves, light, sound fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed. Each of the nine chapters in this book pursues such intimations of rarity in poetic ideas, images, and silences.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schweizer, Harold

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Rarity of Shade 2. The Rarity of the Gesture of Small Flowers 3. Rarity of Attention 4. The Rarity of Dying 5. The Density of Suffering 6. The Rarity of One's Own Death 7. The Rarity of Things 8. The Rarity of Accidents 9. The Rarity of the Beautiful Coda Notes Bibliography ?

Über Autor(innen)

Harold Schweizer is Professor of English at Bucknell University, USA, where he teaches literary theory and poetry. He has co-edited the 12 volume series The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory; he is the author of Suffering and the Remedy of Art, On Waiting, and a volume of poetry, The Book of Stones and Angels.