Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead: An Essay on PoetryBucknell University Press, 2004 - 164 páginas Through a detailed and thoughtful study of the impact of Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy on Olson's aesthetic theory, this book points out the conceptual unity underlying what seems to be a sprawl of fragments in Olson's major work, The Maximus Poems. It is a systematic analysis of the specific ways in which Whitehead's philosophy offered Olson a way to combine a scientific and mythopoeic view of time and space. From this, Olson constructed a poetic that could renew human contact with the external world and rid poetry of the traditional western imperial ego. The author uses Olson's philosophical investment in Whitehead in order to explain not only the content of Olson's verse, but its formal, structural elements. It illuminates Olson's theory of the Long Poem as an all-containing corpus, governed by the metaphysical principles, equal to life itself, enacted in the process of working on The Maximus Poems. Shahar Bram teaches at the Department of Hebrew & Comparative Literature at Haifa University. |
Índice
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Experience | 30 |
Concrescence | 42 |
Fluency | 67 |
Story History Myth | 91 |
Stance | 111 |
Failure? | 133 |
Epilogue | 143 |
Notes | 144 |
References | 156 |
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Charles Olson and Alfred North Whitehead: An Essay on Poetry Shachar Bram Visualização de excertos - 2004 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 22 - I should say, of our management of daily reality as of the daily work) get on with it, keep moving, keep in, speed, the nerves, their speed, the perceptions, theirs, the acts, the split second acts, the whole business, keep it moving as fast as you can, citizen. And if you also set up as a poet, USE USE USE the process at all points, in any given poem always, always one perception must must must MOVE, INSTANTER, ON ANOTHER!