John Michael

Secular Lyric

The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson

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Produktbeschreibung

Secular Lyrics interrogates the distinctivelyindividual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson adapt ancient and renaissanceconventions of lyric expression to the developing conditions of their moderncontext, and especially to the heterogeneity of beliefs and believers in asecular society and to the altered role that literature assumes in a secularage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780823279715
• ISBN-10: 0823279715
• Artikelnr.: 50906508

Autorenporträt

John Michael is Professor of English and of Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester where he is also Director of American Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Secularization of the Lyric: The End of Art, a Revolution
in Poetic Language, and the Meaning of the Modern Crowd
Part I: Edgar Allan Poe
1. Poe's Post-Humanism
2. Poe and the Origins of Modern Poetry: Tropes of Comparison and the
Knowledge of Loss
Part II: Walt Whitman
3. Whitman's Poetics: Metonymy and the Crowd
4. Whitman and Democracy: The "Withness of the World," the Reader, and the
Fakes of Death
Part III: Emily Dickinson
5. Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Lyric Reader
6. Dickinson's Dog and the Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index