Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language: A Critical and Historical Study

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Dalkey Archive Press, 2001 - 300 pagine
-- Gerald Bruns's ground-breaking analysis compares two contrasting functions of language: the hermetic, where language is self-contained and self-referencing, and the Orphic, which originates from a belief in the mythical unity of word and being. Bruns lucidly depicts the distinctions and convergences between these two lines of thought by examining the works of Mallarme, Flaubert, Joyce, Beckett, and others.

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Introduction Toward a Dialectic of Hermetic
1
Rhetoric Grammar and the Con
11
The Development of
42
From Intransitive Speech to the Uni
71
Language and the Aesthetics of
101
Flaubert Joyce and the Displace
138
The Storyteller and the Problem
164
Negative Discourse and the Moment
189
The Orpheus
206
Conclusion The Orphic and Hermetic Dimen
232
Notes
263
Index 293
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Informazioni sull'autore (2001)

Gerald L. Bruns is William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern and Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings.

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