Hart Crane - The Contexts of 'The Bridge'

Klappentext Dr Giles shows how Crane was directly influenced by the early work of James Joyce. Zusammenfassung Dr Giles shows how Crane was directly influenced by the early work of James Joyce; how the composition of The Bridge ran parallel to the first serialisation of Finnegans Wake in Paris; and how The Bridge is the first great work of the 'Revolution of the Word' movement! predating the final published version of Finnegans Wake by nine years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Bridge as pun; 2. Relativity; 3. Capitalism; 4. Capitalism and the underworld; 5. Burlesque; 6. Bridge as myth; 7. Abstraction and the city; 8. Music; 9. The new machine and the new word; 10. James Joyce; 11. La Révolution Surréaliste; 12. Surrealism and madness; 13. Pscyhoanalysis and homosexuality; 14. Paradox and oxymoron; 15. Alchemy and the Romantic quest; 16. Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Works cited; Indexes.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Giles
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521107006
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10700-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies