From Dickinson to Dylan : visions of transcendence in modernist literature / Glenn Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Glenn, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 232 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Glenn Hughes examines the ways in which six literary modernists-Emily Dickinson, Marcel Proust, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Bob Dylan-have explored the human relationship to a transcendent mystery of meaning. Hughes argues that visions of transcendence are, perhaps surprisingly, a significant feature in modernist literature, and that these authors' works account for many of the options for interpreting what transcendent reality might be"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Emily Dickinson: Transcendence, Love, and Terror

ch. Two Marcel Proust: In Between World and Eternal Being

ch. Three Unsought Revelations of the Eternal: T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and Proust

ch. Four History and Transcendence in Ezra Pound's Cantos and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets

ch. Five Mystic Without Faith: Samuel Beckett and the Ghost of Love in Krapp's Last Tape

ch. Six Bob Dylan's Evocations of Mystery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hughes, Glenn, 1951- From Dickinson to Dylan

ISBN:

9780826222206

082622220X

OCLC:

1151815507