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University Press of Florida Imagining the End of Life in Post-enlightenment Poetry: Voices Against the Void

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Product Description David Gordon studies the changing conception of one's own death by examining the work of some of the most important poets of the last two centuries. The turn from Enlightenment to Romanticism introduced a new conception of individual death that we would now call existential. As the power of religion waned and with it the consoling belief in an afterlife, writers - especially poets - began to think of death as nothingness, as void. Gordon identifies and analyzes in depth three major modes of literary response to this shifting sensibility that developed in successive waves during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: opposing the void in bold confrontation, modifying the void by recasting some element of Christian tradition, and ultimately turning away from the afterlife as no longer meaningful to focus instead - with a subtler kind of consolation - on the difficult-to-imagine cessation of consciousness. Marginalizing writers with decided stances such as Swinburne and at the opposite extreme Hopkins, Gordon highlights writers in whom the interaction of religious and secular pressures is most apparent. Drawing upon Wittgenstein, Freud, and Burke for his theoretical orientation, Gordon provides close readings of a score of poets from Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, and Dickinson through Yeats, Lawrence, and Stevens to Bishop, Larkin, and Graham. In the process he distinguishes between the familiar form of elegy and his own subject, a more circumscribed, self-reflective poem, and creates telling comparisons and connections across several centuries and cultures. Comprehensive in scope and acute in its readings, Gordon's study will appeal to critics of nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry as well as to intellectual historians. About the Author David J. Gordon is professor emeritus of English at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center. He is author of five books, most recently Literary Atheism.

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Brand: University Press of Florida
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0813028655
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Drama
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 November 2005
Listed Since: 16 February 2007

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