The Forgèd Feature : : Towards a Poetics of Uncertainty, New and Selected Essays / / Ben Belitt.
The scope of The Forged Feature is two-fold: to bring together a representative selection of critical essays bearing on Belitt's interests as poet, critic, teacher, and translator; and to furnish an on-going review of his concern with the encoding of languages and the exigencies of their imagin...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- I. The Forged Feature: Pursuits and Predicaments
- A. Pursuits
- 1. Literature and Belief: Three "Spiritual Exercises"
- 2. Meaning and the Sonal Imagination
- 3. In Search of the American Scene: "Demographic Vistas"
- B. Predicaments
- 4. The Enigmatic Predicament: Some Parables of Kafka and Borges
- 5. The Heraldry of Accommodation: A House for Mr. Naipaul
- 6. The Depth Factor: Saul Bellow
- 7. Memoir as Myth: The Odysseys of Pablo Neruda
- C. Translation: Grammars and Consciences
- 8. The Translator as Nobody in Particular: Faiths and Fidelities
- 9. Lowell's Imitations: Translation as Personal Mode
- 10. The Vanishing Original: Transvaluations
- II. Toward a Poetics of Uncertainty: Trial Balances
- Preface
- 11. Toward a Poetics of Uncertainty
- 12. Sight: Second or Sudden-Versions of Witness
- 13. Hopkins Observing: "Rehearsals"
- 14. Hopkins Transforming: "It Changed Beautiful Changes"