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1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 514 pages)
ISBN:
9780520340664
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0520340663
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From the Preface:The title for this collection was the title of a course in literary criticism that I gave for many years at Bennington College. And much of the material presented here was used in that course. The title should serve well to convey the gist of these various pieces. For all of them are explicitly concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term ";symbolic action,"; and to show how the marvels of literature and language look when considered form that point of view
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Includes index
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Part I. Five summarizing essays. Definition of man -- Poetics in particular, language in general -- Terministic screens -- Mind, body and the unconscious -- Coriolanus and the delights of faction -- Part II. Particular works and authors. Shakespearean persuasion : Antony and Cleopatra -- Timon of Athens and misanthropic gold -- Form and persecution in the Oresteia -- Goethe's Faust, Part I -- Faust II -- The ideas behind the imagery -- I, eye, ay : concerning Emerson's early essay on "nature" and the machinery of transcendence -- "Kubla Khan," proto-surrealist poem -- Social and cosmic mystery : a Passage to India -- Version, Con -, Per -, and In : (thoughts on Djuna Barnes's novel Nightwood) -- The vegetal radicalism of Theodore Roethke -- William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963 -- Part III. Further essays on symbolism in general. Rhetoric and poetics -- The thinking of the body (comments on the imagery of catharsis in literature) -- Somnia ad Urinandum: more thoughts on motion and action -- What are the signs of what? (a theory of "entitlement") -- Myth, poetry, and philosophy -- Medium as "message" -- A dramatistic view of the origins of language -- Formalist criticism : its principles and limits.
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520001923
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520001923
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993 Language as symbolic action Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1966 ISBN 0520001923
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Amerikanistik
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Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
Schlagwort(e):
Essay
Mehr zum Autor:
Burke, Kenneth 1897-1993
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