
'Fallen from the Symboled World'
Precedents for the New Formalism
Wyatt Prunty(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 5. April 1990
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-19-505786-7 (ISBN)
Description
Prunty's book is a reading of contemporary American poets using the phenomenological approaches of Heidegger and Husserl. His argument, begun with the reading of the work of Robert Lowell, is that contemporary poets, unlike their modernist predecessors, have adopted a sceptical stance and expressed that stance through the use of literary tropes that liken (simile) rather than tropes that equate (symbol and allegory). Prunty provides close readings of the works of such poets as Ammons, Nemerov, Justice, Cunningham, Creeley, and others.
Reviews / Votes
Remarkable....Prunty's ultimate purpose is to define the basic difference between the poetry of the first half of this century and that of the second. It seems to me that he has achieved much greater success in this enterprise than has any other critic, and that he has in his interpretations of individual poems and poets restored the balance from an excessive concern with meter alone to a full appreciation of all aspects. * Hudson Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
697 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-505786-7 (9780195057867)
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02/1990
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Coleman Professor in The Writing SeminarColeman Professor in The Writing Seminar, Johns Hopkins University