| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Inscription and Modernity; 1. Lifeless Things: Being and Structure in 39Romantic Inscription; 2. Empty and Full: Poetry, Self, and Society in 94Lamartine, Baudelaire, and Poncy; 3. Kernels of the Acropolis: Poetry and Modernization 140in Blok, Kliuev, and Khlebnikov; 4. Unkind Weight: Mandelstam, History, and 170Catastrophe; 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
European poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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European poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
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Inscriptions.
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European poetry.
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Inscriptions.
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Lyric poetry.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253112033 |
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0253112036 |
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