Shudong Chen

Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based closely in spirit upon the most recent development in prosodic studies, Verbal Transformation, Despair, and Hope in The Waste Land attempts another round of "philosophical investigation". The book demonstrates how The Waste Land could be read afresh in terms of the hidden verbal transformation that reveals the overlooked performative and collaborative nature of language. This verbal transformation makes The Waste Land flow naturally as truly "rhythmical creation of [meaningful] beauty" the way Poe defines poetry, especially through what Eliot calls "auditory imagination" or what Herder calls "intermediary sensation" that makes the poetry "the first language" of humanity or "the dictionary of the soul." The verbal transformation also serendipitously makes sounds of despair the sounds of hope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666907636
• Artikelnr.: 63747910

Autorenporträt

By Shudong Chen

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface: Challenge and Choice
Chapter One: The Performative Nature of Language
Chapter Two: The Revelation of the Performative Power and Verbal
Functionalism of Language
Chapter Three: Futility and Hope: Retaining the Unretainable Life in Art as
in Real World
Chapter Four: Turbulent Emotion that Still Moves as Sculpted in Perpetual
Tranquility
Chapter Five: Sounds of Words and Sounds of Thunder and Hope
Bibliography
Index