| Figures of Time: Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry Contributor(s): Ben-Merre, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438468334 ISBN-13: 9781438468334 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 809.104 |
| LCCN: 2017011556 |
| Series: Suny Series, Literature . . . in Theory |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.90 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets--Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot--David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time, reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality. |
