From popular culture to politics to classic novels, quintessentially American texts take their inspiration from the idea of infinity. In the extraordinary literary century inaugurated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the lyric too seemed to encounter possibilities as limitless as the U.S. imagination. This raises the question: What happens when boundlessness is more than just a figure of speech? Exploring new horizons is one thing, but actually looking at the horizon itself is something altogether different. In this carefully crafted analysis, James von der Heydt shines a new light on the lyric craft of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill and considers how their seascape-vision redefines poetry's purpose. Emerson famously freed U.S. literature from its past and opened it up to vastness; in the following century, a succession of brilliant, rigorous poets took the philosophical challenges of such freedom all too seriously. Facing the unmarked horizon, Emersonian poets capture--and are captured by--a stark, astringent version of human beauty. Their uncompromising visions of limitlessness reclaim infinity's proper legacy--and give American poetry its edge. Von der Heydt's book recovers the mystery of their world.
發表於2024-11-14
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EB的travel/nature poems在mapping/cartography的同時隱含著representation的問題 poetry是不是真的隻能是the residue 當你落筆的瞬間就已經注定要fail 所以poetry就是the product of loss and losing itself(多多少少還是和mimesis的傳統有點關係?或許理論部分追溯到關於literary representation的經典會很有意思)
評分EB的travel/nature poems在mapping/cartography的同時隱含著representation的問題 poetry是不是真的隻能是the residue 當你落筆的瞬間就已經注定要fail 所以poetry就是the product of loss and losing itself(多多少少還是和mimesis的傳統有點關係?或許理論部分追溯到關於literary representation的經典會很有意思)
評分EB的travel/nature poems在mapping/cartography的同時隱含著representation的問題 poetry是不是真的隻能是the residue 當你落筆的瞬間就已經注定要fail 所以poetry就是the product of loss and losing itself(多多少少還是和mimesis的傳統有點關係?或許理論部分追溯到關於literary representation的經典會很有意思)
評分EB的travel/nature poems在mapping/cartography的同時隱含著representation的問題 poetry是不是真的隻能是the residue 當你落筆的瞬間就已經注定要fail 所以poetry就是the product of loss and losing itself(多多少少還是和mimesis的傳統有點關係?或許理論部分追溯到關於literary representation的經典會很有意思)
評分EB的travel/nature poems在mapping/cartography的同時隱含著representation的問題 poetry是不是真的隻能是the residue 當你落筆的瞬間就已經注定要fail 所以poetry就是the product of loss and losing itself(多多少少還是和mimesis的傳統有點關係?或許理論部分追溯到關於literary representation的經典會很有意思)
At the Brink of Infinity 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載