How can poetry embrace morality through focusing on metaphrasts? What is the relation between an allummette and the alpha rhythm? How come that money has turned into a metonym of goodness? And above all is it still possible to think of the human subject as a viable category in late modernity? These are some of the questions that J. H. Prynne's poetry deals with. "Levity of Design" voices a critique of the present-day society very much from within and demonstrates how Prynne has contrived to single-handedly overcome the impasse created by the legacy of poststructuralism. In a milieu of avant-garde linguistic experiment developed from modernist techniques of Pound and Olson, but also the early Eliot as well as Velimir Khlebnikov, and against the background of the writings of Heidegger and Adorno, these poems are demonstrated to seek a language in which the notion of man can be restituted.
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Towards the Concept of Modernist Art |
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The Poet-Philosopher: Heidegger as a Modernist |
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Chapter One Delimiting the Space of the Mythical Hermeneutics |
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Chapter Two Yeats and the Mythical Hermeneutics |
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Chapter Three "We never come to thoughts. They come to us": The Tower and the Paradox of Modernism |
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Chapter Four "The splendour of the simple": Deploying the Artefacts of Eternity |
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Chapter Five The Eternal Returns of Being |
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Chapter Six The Tragic Joy of Pursuit |
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PART II Wallace Stevens and the Language of Modernism |
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Chapter One On the Way to a Vision of Language |
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Chapter Two The First Shining of Being: Harmonium |
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Chapter Three The Deconstructive Dimension |
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Chapter Four A First Idea and the Order of Change |
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Chapter Five The Active Perception of the Supreme Fiction |
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Chapter Six The Plain Sense of Being in the Thing Itself |
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PART III T. S. Eliot and Tradition |
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Chapter One The Overcoming of Tradition |
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Chapter Two The Overcoming of Fragmentation |
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Chapter Three Approaching the Word-Origin |
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| Conclusion The End is where to Begin |
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| Bibliography |
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Wit Pietrzak is an Assisstant Professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture at the University of ód, Poland. He has published essays on the various aspects of the interdependence of literature and philosophy as well as articles and reviews for Polish magazines, popularizing contemporary literatures of the English-speaking countries. He is also the author of Myth, Language and Tradition. A Study of Yeats, Stevens, and Eliot in the Context of Heidegger's Search for Being.
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