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Author MacKay, John (John Kenneth)

Title Inscription and modernity : from Wordsworth to Mandelstam / John MacKay
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 303 pages)
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Inscription and Modernity -- 1. Lifeless Things: Being and Structure in Romantic Inscription -- 2. Empty and Full: Poetry, Self, and Society in Lamartine, Baudelaire, and Poncy -- 3. Kernels of the Acropolis: Poetry and Modernization in Blok, Kliuev, and Khlebnikov -- 4. Unkind Weight: Mandelstam, History, and Catastrophe -- Conclusion -- Coda: In Descending Sizes -- Notes -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Index
Summary This volume carries out a speculative investigation into how, in some corners of a few of the national traditions of European lyric (namely, the English, Russian, German, and French) from roughly 1730 to 1945, a specific if highly flexible lyric form both shapes and enables responses to and reflection upon the changing historical horizon--conventionally termed ''modernity''--in which the poets lived and worked
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-295) and index
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Subject European poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
European poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
Inscriptions.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
European poetry
Inscriptions
Lyric poetry
Lyriek.
Inscripties.
Historische motieven.
Europa (geografie)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780253112033
0253112036
0253347491
9780253347497
1282072854
9781282072855
9786612072857
6612072857