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Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics
Joan Faust
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Description for Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics
The work is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. It invites Marvell readers to view the poet and some of his representative lyrics in the context of the anthropological concept of liminality and the in-between aspects of experience. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JD; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. The poet and his work have generally proven enigmatic to scholars because both refuse to fit into normal categories and expectations. This study invites Marvell readers to view the poet and some of his representative lyrics in the context of the anthropological concept of liminality as developed by Victor Turner and enriched by Arnold Van Gennep, Jacques Lacan, and other observers of the in-between aspects of experience. The approach differs from previous attempts to “explain” Marvell in ... Read more
Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. The poet and his work have generally proven enigmatic to scholars because both refuse to fit into normal categories and expectations. This study invites Marvell readers to view the poet and some of his representative lyrics in the context of the anthropological concept of liminality as developed by Victor Turner and enriched by Arnold Van Gennep, Jacques Lacan, and other observers of the in-between aspects of experience. The approach differs from previous attempts to “explain” Marvell in ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611494105
SKU
V9781611494105
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About Joan Faust
Joan Faust is professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Explorations in Renaissance Culture, is the Executive Secretary of the Andrew Marvell Society, and represents the Andrew Marvell Society on the Executive Board of the South-Central Renaissance Conference.
Reviews for Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics
Faust (Southeastern Louisiana Univ.) draws on the anthropological concept of the liminal to analyze 13 of Andrew Marvell's lyric poems. She concludes that appreciation of these poems' liminal nature enables readers to cease seeking definitive understandings of Marvell's life and works and to "revel in Marvell's own appreciation of the process, the potential, the doorway, the space between." The "liminality" ... Read more