Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language - A Critical and Historical Study

Informationen zum Autor Gerald L. Bruns is William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern and Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth, and Poetry in the Later Writings. Klappentext -- Gerald Bruns's ground-breaking analysis compares two contrasting functions of language: the hermetic! where language is self-contained and self-referencing! and the Orphic! which originates from a belief in the mythical unity of word and being. Bruns lucidly depicts the distinctions and convergences between these two lines of thought by examining the works of Mallarme! Flaubert! Joyce! Beckett! and others. Zusammenfassung -- Gerald Bruns's ground-breaking analysis compares two contrasting functions of language: the hermetic, where language is self-contained and self-referencing, and the Orphic, which originates from a belief in the mythical unity of word and being. Bruns lucidly depicts the distinctions and convergences between these two lines of thought by examining the works of Mallarme, Flaubert, Joyce, Beckett, and others.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald L Bruns, Gerald L. Bruns, Professor Gerald L Bruns
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2009
• EAN: 9781564782694
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-269-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Scholarly Series; American Literature (Dalkey Ar; American Literature (Dalkey Ar; American Literature; American Literature (Dalkey Archive)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics