: Modern Poetry and the idea of Language: A Critical and Historical Study by Gerald Bruns is a gem. This stimulating and provocative book is about prose tyle; it is addressed to those who teach, those who are taught, and those interested in writing well.
Author(s): Gerald L. Bruns
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 1974
Language: English
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Pages: 300
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Toward a Dialectic of Orphic and Hermetic Poetries
Part One: The Idea of Language from a Literary Point of View
1. Rhetoric, Grammar, and the Conception of Language as a Substantial Medium
2. Energeia: The Development of the Romantic Idea of Language
Part Two: Literature as a Problematics of Language
3. From Intransitive Speech to the Universe of Discourse: The Formalist Theory of Literary Language
4. Mallarme: The Transcendence of Language and the Aesthetics of the Book
5. Flaubert, Joyce, and the Displacement of Fiction
6. The Storyteller and the Problem of Language in Samuel Beckett's Fiction
Part Three: The Language of Poetry and the Being of the World
7. Negative Discourse and the Moment before Speech: A Metaphysics of Literary Language
8. Poetry as Reality: The Orpheus Myth and Its Modern Counterparts
Conclusion: The Orphic and Hermetic Dimensions of Meaning
Notes
Index
