"Fallen from the symboled world" : precedents for the new formalism / Wyatt Prunty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prunty, Wyatt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

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

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study evaluates figure and form in contemporary poetry, especially the powers of simile and simile-like structures. Examining the works of Nemerov, Wilbur, Bowers, Hecht, Justice, Cunningham, Bishop, Van Duyn, Hollander, Pack, Kennedy, Ammons, Creeley, and Wright, Prunty argues thatdoubts about language, the tradition, and theistic assumptions embedded in the tradition have made simile and various simile-like arrangements into major modes of thought. From Lowell's early interest in the ""similitudo"" and the ""phantasm"" of Gilson, to Husserl's ""phantasies"" and Heidegger'sinterest in s

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Symbol, Allegory, Causality, and the Phenomenal Flux; 2 Emaciated Poetry and the Imaginative Diet; 3 Poems That Speak, Poems That Sing; 4 Howard Nemerov: Mimicry and Other Tropes; 5 Patterns of Similitude in the Poetry of Justice, Hecht, Van Duyn, Bishop, Wilbur, Hollander, Pack, and Pinsky; CONCLUSION; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-308) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-536334-5

1-280-52383-2

OCLC:

191924779