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Things in Poems
From the Shield of Achilles to Hyperobjects
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Things in Poems
From the Shield of Achilles to Hyperobjects
About this book
An exploration of the place of material objects in modern poetry.
In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic tradition. From there, the focus shifts to things and objects in the poetry of the twentieth and the twenty-first century, examining the work of Czech, Polish, and Russian poets alongside other key figures such as Rilke, Francis Ponge, William Carlos Williams, and Paul Muldoon. Along the way, the reader gets an introduction to key terms and phrases that have been associated with things in the course of poetic history, such as ekphrasis, objective lyricism. and hyperobjects.
In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects in the Chinese poetic tradition. From there, the focus shifts to things and objects in the poetry of the twentieth and the twenty-first century, examining the work of Czech, Polish, and Russian poets alongside other key figures such as Rilke, Francis Ponge, William Carlos Williams, and Paul Muldoon. Along the way, the reader gets an introduction to key terms and phrases that have been associated with things in the course of poetic history, such as ekphrasis, objective lyricism. and hyperobjects.
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Table of contents
- Introduction: Things in Words
- The Projected Heart: Ekphrasis, Material Imagination, and the Shield of Achilles
- Navigating Poetry as Object and Object as Poetry: Optatian Porfyry and the Ancient History of Dinggedichte
- Beautiful Stones and Exotic Objects: The Symbolism of Things in Early Medieval China
- The Poetics of Things in the Didactic Poetry of Early German Enlightenment: Barthold Heinrich Brockes
- Francis Ponge’s Objective Lyricism
- In Mandelstam’s Kitchen
- Two Polish Poems about Things
- “Time’s Seconds Prominent Arise / Trembling in the Façade”: A Look Back at Roman Architecture. “Il Gesù” by Milada Součková
- The Poem as a Rotary Object: On Texts by H. M. Enzensberger and H. C. Artmann
- Words Turned into Objects: Things in Visual Poetry
- Things on an Island
- The Brazenness of Things in Czech Surrealism of the 1960s
- The Thing in Modern Lithuanian Poetry: From Social Imprint to Metaphor of Subjectivity
- Two Ekphrastic Strategies in Russian Poetry of the Latter Twentieth Century: “Emptiness” in the Works of Andrei Monastyrski and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko
- Paul Muldoon’s Hyperobjects
- Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index