Modern Poetry and the Idea of Language

-- 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 04/27/2001
ISBN: 9781564782694
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.54w x 0.69d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 211