The poetics of the everyday : creative repetition in modern American verse

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Label

The poetics of the everyday : creative repetition in modern American verse

Title remainder

creative repetition in modern American verse

Statement of responsibility

Siobhan Phillips

Creator

• Phillips, Siobhan, 1978-

Subject

• American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Bishop, Elizabeth (Schriftstellerin)
• Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Technique
• Frost, Robert
• Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 -- Technique
• Geschichte 1890-1990
• Komparation
• Lyrik
• Alltag (Motiv)
• Merrill, James, 1926-1995 -- Technique
• Repetition (Rhetoric)
• Repetition in literature
• Rhetorische Figur
• Stevens, Wallace
• Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Technique
• USA
• Wiederholung
• Merrill, James Ingram

Language

eng

Summary

"Focusing on the poems of Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill, Siobhan Phillips positions everyday time as a vital category in modernist aesthetics, American literature, and poetic theory. She eloquently reveals how, through particular but related means, each of these poets converts the necessity of quotidian experience into an aesthetic and experiential opportunity. In Stevens, Phillips analyzes the implications of cyclic dualism. In Frost, she explains the theoretical depth of a habitual "middle way." In Bishop's work, she identifies the attempt to turn recurrent mornings into a "ceremony" rather than a sentence, and in Merrill, she shows how cosmic theories rely on daily habits." "Phillips ultimately demonstrates that a poetics of everyday time contributes not only to a richer understanding of these four writers but also to descriptions of their era, estimations of their genre, and ongoing reconfigurations of the issues that literature reflects and illuminates."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

• DLC
• DLC

Dewey number

811/.009

Index

index present

LC call number

PS310.R45

LC item number

P55 2010

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography