Format:
XX, 306 S.
Edition:
Orig. print.
ISBN:
9780804750752
,
0804750750
Series Statement:
Verbal art
Content:
The Symbolist background. Who were the Symbolists? -- The legacies of French Symbolism -- Symbolism simplified: three characteristics of Symbolism -- Poetics of the indistinct -- Escape from the earthly world into the otherworld -- The subjective self -- The emergence of tempered modernism -- The collapse of Symbolism and the predecessors of Tempered Modernism. The parallel between Acmeism and Imagism -- The Connection with Rilke -- The relation between Tempered Modernism, Radical Modernism, and Symbolism -- Poetics of hardness -- The alternative traditions. Classical antiquity -- The layers of culture: the poet as architect -- French marble -- Translating China -- The parallel with Japanese Haiku -- Clarity and precision. Imagery: indefinite musicality versus defined precision -- Diction: solemn obscurity versus concise simplicity -- Fragmented words versus clarity of detail -- Collages versus etchings -- The earthly object. Manifestoes of earthliness -- Bringing down the moon -- Seeing the world anew -- The suppression of the self. The self in Radical and Tempered Modernism -- Slices of a society novel: the self becomes a thing -- Thing-poems: the thing becomes the self -- Concise laments: the self absents itself -- A night at the opera: the sardonic commentator -- Subdued love songs. Symbolist and Futurist love songs -- Tempered Modernist love songs
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
The Symbolist background. Who were the Symbolists? -- The legacies of French Symbolism -- Symbolism simplified: three characteristics of Symbolism -- Poetics of the indistinct -- Escape from the earthly world into the otherworld -- The subjective self -- The emergence of tempered modernism -- The collapse of Symbolism and the predecessors of Tempered Modernism. The parallel between Acmeism and Imagism -- The Connection with Rilke -- The relation between Tempered Modernism, Radical Modernism, and Symbolism -- Poetics of hardness -- The alternative traditions. Classical antiquity -- The layers of culture: the poet as architect -- French marble -- Translating China -- The parallel with Japanese Haiku -- Clarity and precision. Imagery: indefinite musicality versus defined precision -- Diction: solemn obscurity versus concise simplicity -- Fragmented words versus clarity of detail -- Collages versus etchings -- The earthly object. Manifestoes of earthliness -- Bringing down the moon -- Seeing the world anew -- The suppression of the self. The self in Radical and Tempered Modernism -- Slices of a society novel: the self becomes a thing -- Thing-poems: the thing becomes the self -- Concise laments: the self absents itself -- A night at the opera: the sardonic commentator -- Subdued love songs. Symbolist and Futurist love songs -- Tempered Modernist love songs
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Slavic Studies
Keywords:
Lyrik
;
Symbolismus
;
Geschichte 1900-1920
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip061/2005028988.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2005028988-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/2005028988-d.html
Bookmarklink