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Poetic Gesture: Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Desirous Motions of Poetic Language

Poetic Gesture: Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Desirous Motions of Poetic Language

Santilli, Kristine S.

Hardcover

Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0415938686
ISBN13: 9780415938686
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 20 2002
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a phenomenological context, and through a theoretical contemplation of certain myths as embodiments of the tacit 'logic' of poetry, the book argues that poems convey meaning much the way that spontaneous unreadable gestures do. Moving between theory and practice, and drawing upon the poetry of Wallace Stevens whose work is embedded with a richness and complexity of gesture, the author shows how the poetic text sustains and embodies an inconvertible, ancient and innately human form of linguistic knowledge.

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