| Description |
1 online resource (283 pages) |
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature |
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Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature.
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| Summary |
This book studies Wallace Stevens and pre-Socratic poetic philosophy, showing how concepts that animate Stevens' poetry parallel concepts found in the works of Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, and Xenophanes. Tompsett traces the transition of pre-Socratic ideas into poetry and philosophy of the post-Kantian period, assessing the impact that the mythologies associated with pre-Socratism have had on structures of metaphysical thought that are still found in poetry and philosophy today. This transition is treated as becoming increasingly important as poetic and philosophic forms have progressi |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136303890 |
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1136303898 |
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