The end of the mind : the edge of the intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larkin, Plath, and Glück / DeSales Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, DeSales, 1968-

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Plath, Sylvia.

Larkin, Philip.

Glück, Louise, 1943-2023.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Subjectivity in literature.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955--Criticism and interpretation.

Stevens, Wallace.

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.

Criticism and interpretation.

Glück, Louise, 1943-2023--Criticism and interpretation.

Glück, Louise.

Larkin, Philip--Criticism and interpretation.

Plath, Sylvia--Criticism and interpretation.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Poetic works.

Hardy, Thomas.

Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 276 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible. DeSales Harrison draws a distinction between sites of unintelligibility and sights of difficulty; while much has been said about modernist difficulty, little has been said about the attention that poets give to phenomena that "by definition" arrest, impede, obscure, damage, or destroy the capacity for intelligible representation.

Contents:

Introduction : strange resistances

Thomas Hardy : the broken lyre

Wallace Stevens : a foreign song

Philip Larkin : rather than words

Sylvia Plath : the stars' dark address

Louise Glück : I was here

Conclusion : other ends of the mind.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.

ISBN:

0415970296

OCLC:

56370650