Format:
VII, 254 S.
,
23 cm
ISBN:
9780786478163
Content:
"This work is a critical study in four parts: a general inquiry into ecstatic states; an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition; an intensive study of the five representative poets; and a discussion of critical implications, especially those bearing on psychology, sociology, and religion, as well as an analysis of ecstatic poetics and aesthetics in literary studies"..
Content:
"This work is a critical study in four parts: a general inquiry into ecstatic states; an historical outline of the ecstatic poetic tradition; an intensive study of the five representative poets; and a discussion of critical implications, especially those bearing on psychology, sociology, and religion, as well as an analysis of ecstatic poetics and aesthetics in literary studies"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Ecstatic beginningsThe overture -- Ecstatic states of consciousness -- Historical outline -- The ancient poetics and aesthetics of ecstasy -- Autochthonous and modern ecstatic poetry -- Critical studies -- The whirling dervish : Rumi --The power of imagination : William Wordsworth -- The body ecstatic : Walt Whitman --The cracked mind : Emily Dickinson -- The wise man of the East : Rabindranath Tagore -- Critical implications -- Extra-literary implications -- Literary implications : a problematic rapture -- Ecstasy the Eudaimonic turn.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781476614731
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
English Studies
Keywords:
Literatur
;
Lyrik
;
Ekstase
;
Geschichte
