This critical study is a natural product of Martin Turnell's longstanding fascination with Baudelaire. "I can hardly remember a time during the last fifteen of these twenty-five years," he explains in his foreword, "when I did not have a copy of the Fleurs du mal by my bed or went away for any length of time without slipping a copy into my suitcase. You cannot live with a great poet with impunity. The day came when I suddenly discovered that what was intended to be a chapter in a different book had turned into a book on Baudelaire". For Turnell, author of The Novel in France and The Classical Moment, Baudelaire's reputation rests firmly on his one volume of poetry. If all his other writings had perished, and the Fleurs du mal had survived, Baudelaire's position in world literature would be virtually unaffected. In Baudelaire, then, Turnell seeks to illuminate The Flowers of Evil from every possible angle-presenting background, discussing prosody, imagery, and structure,...
A Russian Doll & Other Stories (Paper)
Вес: **150**
Ширина упаковки: **140**
Высота упаковки: **20**
Глубина упаковки: **210**
Автор на обложке: **A B Casares**
Тип обложки: **Мягкая обложка**
ISBN: **9780811212120**
Год выпуска: **1992**
Количество страниц: ****
Язык издания: **Английский**
It was completed in the summer of 1968, a few months before he set out from Our Lady of Gethsemani monastery in Kentucky on the Asian journey from which he did not return. The text is as he left it. It lacks that final editing that he would have done in proof, but it is substantially a completed, self-contained work. Lograire, as with William Carlos Williams's Paterson, is first of all a country of the imagination, but it is also a person-Merton himself-for its "geography" is the map, the inner choreography, of his mind. The charting in the poem is his search for self-location: where, and even how, does a man find himself in the geography of all men? Sections of personal experience are set against passages re-imagined from anthropological and historical texts, material that Merton chose for its character of myth to illustrate the general experience of mankind. The myths of Lograire form a mosaic of African legends, Mixtecart motifs and Mayan religious customs, the pantheism of the fanatical Ranters in 17th-century England, the records of an early arctic expedition and of Ibn Battuta, the 14th-century Arab traveler, the Cargo Cults of Melanesia and the Ghost Dances of the American Indians. "A poet," Merton wrote in his prefatory note to Lograire, "spends his life attempting to build or to dream the world in which he lives. But more than that he realizes that this world is at once his and everybody’s. It grows out of a common participation which is nevertheless recorded in authentically personal images. I have without scruple mixed what is my own experience with what is almost everybody else's." Many modern poets have used history and myth in their work; what sets The Geography of Lograire apart is the invention of Merton’s method-his process for elevating fact to the level of myth. It is a complex technique of fractured syntax, multiple meanings; the distortion of dream, irony and parody.
Вес: **180**
Ширина упаковки: **130**
Высота упаковки: **20**
Глубина упаковки: **210**
Автор на обложке: **Thomas Merton**
Автор: **Томас Мертон**
Тип издания: **Отдельное издание**
Тип обложки: **Мягкая обложка**
Формат издания: **130x200**
Издательство: **New Directions**
ISBN: **978-0-8112-0098-1**
Год выпуска: **1969**
Количество страниц: **160**
Язык издания: **Английский**
Произведение: **The Geography of Lograire**
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