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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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
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
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