Rarity and the Poetic - The Gesture of Small Flowers

Informationen zum Autor Harold Schweizer is Professor of English at Bucknell University, USA, where he teaches literary theory and poetry. He has co-edited the 12 volume series The Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory; he is the author of Suffering and the Remedy of Art, On Waiting, and a volume of poetry, The Book of Stones and Angels. Klappentext Rarity is a quality by which things flowers, leaves, light, sound fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed. Each of the nine chapters in this book pursues such intimations of rarity in poetic ideas, images, and silences. Zusammenfassung Rarity is a quality by which things flowers! leaves! light! sound fleetingly appear and disappear! leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed. Each of the nine chapters in this book pursues such intimations of rarity in poetic ideas! images! and silences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Rarity of Shade 2. The Rarity of the Gesture of Small Flowers 3. Rarity of Attention 4. The Rarity of Dying 5. The Density of Suffering 6. The Rarity of One's Own Death 7. The Rarity of Things 8. The Rarity of Accidents 9. The Rarity of the Beautiful Coda Notes Bibliography ?

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Rarity of Shade 2. The Rarity of the Gesture of Small Flowers 3. Rarity of Attention 4. The Rarity of Dying 5. The Density of Suffering 6. The Rarity of One's Own Death 7. The Rarity of Things 8. The Rarity of Accidents 9. The Rarity of the Beautiful Coda Notes Bibliography ?

Product details

• Authors: Harold Schweizer
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781137589286
• ISBN: 978-1-137-58928-6
• No. of pages: 106
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Europa, C, Europe, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Rainer Maria Rilke, Poetry, Silence, Shade, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Rarity, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets, The Beautiful, Suffering