Figures of Time: Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry
David Ben-Merre
ISBN 10: 1438468326 ISBN 13: 9781438468327
Published by State University of New York Press, 2019
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Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.
Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets-Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot-David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time, reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality.
About the Author: David Ben-Merre is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College, State University of New York.
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Title: Figures of Time: Disjunctions in Modernist ...
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: Paperback / softback
Condition: New