The ecstatic poetic tradition : a critical study from the ancients through Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson and Tagore / D.J. Moores.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moores, D. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecstasy in literature.

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work is not only a general inquiry into ecstatic states of consciousness and an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition but also an intensive study of five representative poets--Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, and Tagore. In a refreshingly original, wide-ranging engagement with concepts in psychology, religion, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology and history, this book demonstrates that the poetics and aesthetics of ecstasy represent an ancient, ubiquitous theory of poetry that continues to influence writers in the current century.

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Part One: Ecstatic Beginnings; 1. The Overture; 2. Ecstatic States of Consciousness; Part Two: Historical Outline; 3. The Ancient Poetics and Aesthetics of Ecstasy; 4. Autochthonous, Non-Western and Modern Ecstatic Poetry; Part Three: Critical Studies; 5. The Whirling Dervish: Rumi; 6. The Power of Imagination: William Wordsworth; 7. The Body Ecstatic: Walt Whitman; 8. The Cracked Mind: Emily Dickinson; 9. The Wise Man of the East: Rabindranath Tagore; Part Four: Critical Implications; 10. Extra-literary Implications

11. Literary Implications: A Problematic Rapture12. Ecstasy and the Eudaimonic Turn; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1473-3