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1 online resource |
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"How is a poem made? From what constellation of inner and outer worlds does it issue forth? Sarah Kennedy's study of Eliot's poetics seeks out those images most striking in their resonance and recurrence: the 'sea-change', the 'light invisible' and the 'dark ghost'. She makes the case for these sustained metaphors as constitutive of the poet's imagination and art. Eliot was haunted by recurrence. His work is full of moments of luminous recognitions, moments in which a writer discovers both subject and appropriate image. This book examines such moments of recognition and invocation by reference to three clusters of imagery, drawing on the contemporary languages of literary criticism, psychology, physics and anthropology. Eliot's transposition of these registers, at turns wary and beguiled, interweaves modern understandings of originary processes in the human and natural world with a poet's preoccupation with language. The metaphors arising from these intersections generate the imaginative logic of Eliot's poetry"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Epigraph; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; Part I Sea Voices: Eliotâ#x80;#x99;s Tempest; Chapter 1 Immersion: Eliot, James, and Shakespeare; Notes; Chapter 2 â#x80;#x98;Hints of earlier and other creationâ#x80;#x99;; Notes; Chapter 3 â#x80;#x98;This isle is full of noises . . .â#x80;#x99;; Notes; Part II Broken Images: Illuminating Time and Space; Chapter 4 â#x80;#x98;Vacant interstellar spacesâ#x80;#x99;; Notes; Chapter 5 Looking Backwards; Notes; Chapter 6 Luminous Recognitions; Notes. |
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Part III Things Dying and New Born: Gestation and ResurrectionChapter 7 His Dark Materials; Notes; Chapter 8 Dark Doubles: â#x80;#x98;This ghost, this pendulum in the headâ#x80;#x99;; Notes; Chapter 9 Blood for the Ghosts; Notes; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbxHCWW8hhk9Khv3PJqwC |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Kennedy, Sarah, 1980- T.S. Eliot and the dynamic imagination. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018 9781108425216 (DLC) 2017048098 (OCoLC)1006302161 |
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9781108687881 (electronic bk.) |
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1108687881 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108643016 |
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1108643019 |
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9781108425216 |
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1108425216 |
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9781108441346 |
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1108441343 |
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