Fallen from the Symboled World: Precedents for the New Formalism
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Book Overview This study evaluates figure and form in contemporary poetry, especially the powers of simile and simile-like structures. Examining the wo...
This study evaluates figure and form in contemporary poetry, especially the powers of simile and simile-like structures. Examining the works of Nemerov, Wilbur, Bowers, Hecht, Justice, Cunningham, Bishop, Van Duyn, Hollander, Pack, Kennedy, Ammons, Creeley, and Wright, Prunty argues that doubts about language, the tradition, and theistic assumptions embedded in the tradition have made simile and various simile-like arrangements into major modes of thought. From Lowell's early interest in the "similitudo" and the "phantasm" of Gilson, to Husserl's "phantasies" and Heidegger's interest in similitude, to the use made by contemporary poets of simile, he shows that metaphor--together with slippage, mimicry, synaphea, conjunctions, anacoluthon, chiasmus, and other simile-like patternings--have proven to be more trustworthy than symbol and allegory. Throughout the study, Prunty demonstrates that as uncertainty about language has changed from a predicament of mind to a new way of thinking, simile and simile-like occurrences have provided poetry with variational thought and constitutive power.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 326 | Language: English | Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR | ISBN: 0195057864
FormatHardcover
Pages326
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0195057864
EAN9780195057867
PublisherOXFORD UNIV PR
Publication Date1990-02-19
Edition1
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.14 Pounds
Length8.58 Inches
Width5.81 Inches
Height1.13 Inches
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