| Mystical Discourse in Wordsworth and Whitman: A Transatlantic Bridge Contributor(s): Moores, Dj (Author) |
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ISBN: 9042918098 ISBN-13: 9789042918092 Publisher: Peeters OUR PRICE: $53.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2007 Annotation: This volume contains a lucid analysis of the connections between William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. As the author demonstrates, the "transatlantic bridge" between both poets lies in their privileging of a type of mystical language he calls "cosmic" rhetoric, which served the function of ideological resistance, as it enabled them to rebel against Enlightenment modes of thinking and being. In a thorough engagement with the work of these poets, Moores shows that the cosmic rhetoric of both writers involves a subversive reorientation towards self and society, nature and God, and knowledge and religion, as well as a radical revisioning of language and poetics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.7 |
| LCCN: 2006045797 |
| Series: Studies in Spirituality Supplements |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.42" W x 9.23" (0.96 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Mystical Discourse D.J. Moores builds on the work of current transatlantic scholarship in a lucid analysis of the connections between William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. As he demonstrates, the "transatlantic bridge" between both poets lies in their privileging of a type of mystical language he calls "cosmic" rhetoric, which served the function of ideological resistance, as it enabled them to rebel against Enlightenment modes of thinking and being. In a thorough engagement with the work of Wordsworth and Whitman, Moores shows that the cosmic rhetoric of both writers involves a subversive reorientation towards self and society, nature and God, and knowledge and religion, as well as a radical revisioning of language and poetics. |