| Description |
ix, 336 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
A prelude to Gnosis -- Agon: revisionism and critical personality -- Lying against time: Gnosis, poetry, criticism -- Catastrophe creation: Gnosis, Kabbalah, and Blake -- Freud and the sublime: a catastrophe theory of creativity -- Freud's concepts of defense and the poetic will -- Emerson: the American religion -- Whitman's image of voice: to the tally of my soul -- Clinamen: towards a theory of fantasy -- The sublime crossing and the death of love -- Wallace Stevens: a poem of our Gnosis -- Hart Crane's Gnosis -- Measuring the canon: John Ashbery's Wet casements and Tapestry -- John Hollander's Spectral emanations: the menorah as the white light of trope -- Free and broken tablets: the cultural prospects of American Jewry -- Coda: the American difference in poetry and criticism |
| Analysis |
American poetry History and criticism Theory, etc |
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Criticism |
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Poetry |
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Western literatures, to 1980. Revisionism - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-60) |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
American poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American poetry -- History and criticism.
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Criticism.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetry.
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| Author |
Lillard, Lee A., 1943-2000.
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| LC no. |
81001062 |
| ISBN |
0195029453 |
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