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  1. Secular Lyric :
    The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson /
    Published: [2018]; ©2018
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press,, New York, NY :

    Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the... more

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    Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets’ work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyncratic but related ways, each disrupt conventional expectations while foregrounding language’s material density, thereby revealing both the potential and the limitations of art in the modern age.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823279746
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    Subjects: Dickinson.; History.; Lyric Theory.; Lyric.; Petrarch.; Poe.; Secularism.; Whitman.; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
    Scope: 1 online resource (256 p.)
  2. Secular Lyric :
    The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson /
    Published: [2018]; ©2018
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press,, New York, NY :

    Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the... more

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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    Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets’ work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyncratic but related ways, each disrupt conventional expectations while foregrounding language’s material density, thereby revealing both the potential and the limitations of art in the modern age.

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-8232-8147-7; 0-8232-7973-1; 0-8232-7974-X
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    Edition: First edition.
    Subjects: American poetry
    Other subjects: Dickinson, Emily, (1830-1886); Whitman, Walt, (1819-1892); Poe, Edgar Allan, (1809-1849); Dickinson.; History.; Lyric Theory.; Lyric.; Petrarch.; Poe.; Secularism.; Whitman.
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

    Includes bibliographical references and index.