Fins de Siècle: English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990 (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) - Softcover

Fins De Siecle. English Poetry in 1590, 1690, 1790, 1890, 1990 - Parallax: Re-visions of Culture & Society.

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. XIII, 142 Seiten / p. minimal bestoßen, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / minimally bumped, otherwise perfect condition - In Fins de Siècle Elaine Scarry brings together an eminent group of contributors to examine a subject that increasingly occupies our thoughts as this century - and this millennium - approaches an end. Arranged chronologically, the chapters treat English poetry and culture at successive turns of the century. The result is a rich picture of the ways calendar and culture affect each other. Even if we must pass through our own century s turn "unprotected," these pictures from the past provide an array of models that may prove useful: the book shows us portraits of the final decade as a radical invitation to political distribution ( Braudy ) , as a prolonged kiss ( McGann ) , as an assassin ( Vendler ) , and even as an Hegelian reader, "curled . up in a Victorian easy chair" wishing to exempt itself from the rest of the century ( de Grazia ) . The number of great poets who wrote at their century s end - Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare - works to deepen our attention to the poetry now emerging in the 1990s. -- Contents and contributors: Introduction Elaine Scarry, Counting at Dusk ( Why Poetry Matters When the Century Ends ) - 1590s Margreta de Grazia, Fin de Siècle Renaissance England - 1690s Leo Braudy, Unturning the Century: The Missing Decade of the 1690s - 1790s Jerome McGann, The Literal World of the English Della Cruscans - 1890, 1990s Helen Vendler, Fin-de-Siècle Lyric: W. B. Yeats and Jorie Graham. ISBN 9780801849299 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 194 14,6 x 1,3 x 21,6 cm, Broschiert / Paperback. Artikel-Nr. 1210218

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