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Obdurate Brilliance
Peter Baker
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Description for Obdurate Brilliance
Working from a broad knowledge of modern poetry, Baker proposes an original interpretation of the long poem based on the notion of exteriority and examines the relevance of current critical debates on history, subjectivity and politics. Num Pages: 252 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 567.
Working from a broad knowledge of modern poetry, Baker proposes an original interpretation of the long poem based on the notion of ""exteriority"". Readers of the 20th-century long poem must discard the traditional idea of a lyric speaker, or Romantic ""I"", he argues. Modern and postmodern poetry turns outward, toward the experience of others, and deliberately de-emphasizes an inner or personal life. His analysis, informed by postmodern literary theory, focuses on both American and French long poems. ""Obdurate Brilliance"" is the only major critical study in English of the poetry of Saint-John Perse, whose works are examined in depth throughout ... Read more
Working from a broad knowledge of modern poetry, Baker proposes an original interpretation of the long poem based on the notion of ""exteriority"". Readers of the 20th-century long poem must discard the traditional idea of a lyric speaker, or Romantic ""I"", he argues. Modern and postmodern poetry turns outward, toward the experience of others, and deliberately de-emphasizes an inner or personal life. His analysis, informed by postmodern literary theory, focuses on both American and French long poems. ""Obdurate Brilliance"" is the only major critical study in English of the poetry of Saint-John Perse, whose works are examined in depth throughout ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813010649
SKU
V9780813010649
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