Secular Lyric : : The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson / / John Michael.
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 increasingl...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- Introduction. The Secularization of the Lyric: The End of Art, a Revolution in Poetic Language, and the Meaning of the Modern Crowd
- part I. Edgar Allan Poe
- chapter 1. Poe's Posthumanism: Melancholy and the Music of Modernity
- chapter 2. Poe and the Origins of Modern Poetry: Tropes of Comparison and the Knowledge of Loss
- part II. Walt Whitman
- chapter 3. Whitman's Poetics and Death: The Poet, Metonymy, and the Crowd
- chapter 4. Whitman and Democracy: The "Withness of the World" and the Fakes of Death
- part III. Emily Dickinson
- chapter 5. The Poet as Lyric Reader
- chapter 6. Dickinson's Dog and the Conclusion
- acknowledgments
- notes
- Index