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The Rhetoric of the City: Robinson Jeffers and A. R. Ammons

The Rhetoric of the City: Robinson Jeffers and A. R. Ammons

Marcinkiewicz, Pawel

Hardcover

Series: Literary and Cultural Theory, Book 33

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 363159755X
ISBN13: 9783631597552
Publisher: Peter Lang D
Published: Oct 29 2009
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
There are many similarities in the development of urbanism and literature in the last two hundred years, resulting from a correspondence between modes of city-planning and modes of literary expression. The symbolic city, connected to the transcendental sphere of myth, evolved into the allegorical city that was transcendentally disconnected. In literature, initially there was no distinction between the symbol and allegory, but for nineteenth-century writers both were antithetical. Later, the symbol and allegory were merely ornaments, embodying a nostalgic drive for the unity of a subject and the products of its perception. Robinson Jeffers's poetry, like the early twentieth-century city, relies on the symbol while A. R. Ammons's poetry, like the late twentieth-century city, is allegorical in its essence. These similarities are not coincidental, but prove that the city and literature belong to the same socio-cultural sphere.

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