Poetic creation : language and the unsayable in the late poetry of Robert Penn Warren / John C. Van Dyke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dyke, John C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Warren, Robert Penn.

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 242 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2021]

Summary:

"In Poetic Creation, John Van Dyke explores the turn in Robert Penn Warren's poetry toward the problematic nature of language and argues that such an attention to language discloses a shift away from a modernist critical paradigm (that conceives of language as tool) and toward a more postmodern conception of language as an endless play of difference. Such difference is found in Warren in the unresolvable tension between the "sayable" and the "unsayable." Warren's struggle within this tension of language is not articulated within the context of a clearly defined philosophy or theory; rather, it is conceived through the poet's own unrelenting attention to poiesis-the act of poetic creation itself"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Warren's Apophatic Moment p. 17

2 Coleridge, the Mariner, and the Search for Articulation p. 41

3 The Mariner and the Hunter p. 77

4 Participation and the Voice of the World p. 107

5 The Act of Naming p. 137

6 Warren as Witness to the Unpresentable p. 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-234) and index.

ISBN:

9781621906230

162190623X

OCLC:

1221015146