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Figures of Time: Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry

Figures of Time: Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry

Ben-Merre, David

Hardcover

Series: Suny Series, Literature...in Theory

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1438468334
ISBN13: 9781438468334
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Feb 1 2018
Pages: 319
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.

Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets-Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot-David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time, reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality.

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